tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46725769422081021522024-02-20T12:31:45.218-08:00Justice For Kyle BrennanAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247569912019368788noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672576942208102152.post-35775556330562914972013-02-18T09:24:00.001-08:002013-02-18T09:24:46.097-08:00Victoria Britton shocks and moves as she breaks her silence on the Scientology death of her son Kyle Brennan<br />
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By Damian DeWitt, February 18, 2013</div>
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Catholic mother Victoria Britton of Charlottesville,
Virginia, made a stunning debut last Friday evening on a <a href="http://www.goddiscussion.com/" target="_blank">God Discussion</a> radio
show speaking publicly for the first time about the suspicious death of her
20-year-old son Kyle Brennan while visiting his Scientologist father in
Clearwater, FL, six years ago.</div>
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It was the eve of the sixth anniversary of Kyle’s death on
February 16, 2007.<br />
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Listeners were horrified at the treatment Kyle received because of
Scientology's hate-fueled War On Psychiatry simply because he was a mildly
depressed college student.<br />
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Many listeners were moved to tears listening to Mrs. Britton speak, and
particularly at this message she delivered:<br />
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"What I would like to say to people is...I would like to ask them this
question, to the people who may be thinking about leaving the church of
Scientology at this moment,<br />
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or perhaps they're confused whether they should stay or leave, I want them to
ask themselves:<br />
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What kind of a belief system, one that calls itself a church, is going to ask
you to deny the strongest instinct and emotions that make you human,<br />
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and that is to love and protect your children, and that no organization,
especially one that calls itself a church, should ever ask a parent to throw
their child away or to disconnect from them.<br />
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And to think about that, and when you do, don't walk away from this
organization.<br />
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Run, as fast as you can, because your life or your child's life may depend on
that."<br />
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Kyle's estate filed a wrongful death suit in 2007 in a Florida federal court,
and the full might of Scientology's "holy war of litigation" bore
down on the Britton family for the next five years.<br />
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An appeal in the case was denied in September 2012.<br />
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However, a reading of the articles at <a href="http://justiceforkylebrennan.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-death-of-20-year-old-kyle-brennan.html">Justice
For Kyle Brennan</a> and study of depositions in the case, which only became
public a year ago, suggest that obstruction of justice and violation of Kyle's
civil rights have been massive. They cry out for investigation by government
authorities.<br />
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It was heartening therefore to hear Mrs. Britton say the way forward to justice
for Kyle Brennan is to seek re-opening of the case.<br />
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The death of Kyle Brennan is of the greatest significance not only in the US
but around the world wherever Scientology wages its war on society.<br />
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Pre-show announcements were posted in <a href="http://anonymousmontreal.blogspot.com/2013/02/justice-pour-kyle-brennan.html">French</a>
in Montreal, where Kyle's grandmother grew up, and in <a href="http://anonymousdeargentina.blogspot.com/">Spanish</a> in Buenos Aires
where his step-grandmother lives.<br />
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One commenter has posed the following question:<br />
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"Will Kyle Brennan be the 20-year-old David who brings the Scientology
Goliath crashing to the ground?"<br />
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With wide-spread public support for the Britton family and attention from
investigative journalists and the broadcast media this may very well be the
case.<br />
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The first half of the show was dedicated to Victoria speaking out. In the
second half three commenters discussed important aspects of Kyle's life and
death - Canadian psychiatrist Dr. Steve Wiseman; former Scientology executive
Lance Marcor; and David Love, who has led a campaign that has shut down the
operations in Canada of Scientology's Narconon drug rehabilitation front group.<br />
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For readers who missed the show David Love has published an<a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/if-scientology-was-a-country-it-would-probably-be-north-korea-1">
excellent summary</a>, and they can find there a link to the podcast.<br />
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Ed. - We have reproduced the article above posted by Damian DeWitt
on Facebook and have edited it slightly.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247569912019368788noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672576942208102152.post-24874313523241710912013-02-03T13:07:00.001-08:002013-02-13T20:14:00.456-08:00Victoria Britton to speak in live broadcast on the Scientology death of her son Kyle Brennan, Friday, February 15<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The God Discussion Show</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> has announced that Victoria Britton – whose son Kyle Brennan died
in Clearwater, Florida, the Scientology Mecca, under very suspicious circumstances
while visiting his Scientologist father -- will be the featured guest for the
program’s two-hour Friday, February 15, live podcast. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Speaking publicly for
the first time, Victoria will share with radio host <b>Deborah Beeksma</b> her 20-year-old son's story: what he was like
growing up; how Kyle, a non-Scientologist, felt about the Church of Scientology;
and how he became a victim of the church's dictatorial "handling"
mandate and its well-known war against psychiatry and psychotropic medications.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Victoria will also talk
about Narconon, the Scientology-run facility that bills itself as a legitimate
drug rehabilitation center. Victoria's segment will last one hour. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">During the show's second
hour, ex-Scientologist <b>Lance Marcor</b>
will discuss "handling" and "disconnection", two of
Scientology's most injurious policies; <b>Dr.
Stephen Wiseman</b> will talk about the church from a psychiatrist's point of
view; and <b>David Love</b> will talk about
Narconon - how the facility treats illegal drugs and medically approved medications
as being one and the same.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Friday, February 15
show will air at 6pm Pacific/7pm Mountain/8pm Central/9 pm Eastern/times, and 3am
GMT. The show can be accessed through the <a href="http://www.goddiscussion.net/2013/02/09/blind-justice-the-brennan-estate-v-church-of-scientology-friday-february-15/">God Discussion Show</a> page. A podcast will be posted at the site after the
broadcast.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Stephen Wiseman</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> is a psychiatrist and the medical director of the Complex Pain
Centre at St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada. He has researched and
presented on Scientology's relationship with psychiatry for many years,
conducting workshops at both the American and Canadian Psychiatric Association
annual conferences. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Wiseman is a
proponent of evidence-based medicine, and believes that the fear and
mis-information presented by Scientology about psychiatry over the years has
perpetuated the stigma against patients and their families and has been very
destructive to the cause of rational mental health treatment for all who
require it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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who was born on the West Coast of British Columbia, now resides in the Montreal
area. David formed a charitable organization in 1990 and was the director of a
rehabilitation center for substance abuse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">David was both a patient and a
staffer at the Narconon facility in the province of Quebec and is completing a
book on his experience there. He has appeared on several God Discussion shows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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unit comprising the church’s most dedicated members, in 1978. Two years later,
after arriving at “Flag Land Base”, the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater,
Florida, Scientology’s spiritual headquarters, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lance was fully
trained in the church’s “ethics policy”, a bedrock principle <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4672576942208102152" name="_GoBack"></a>of
founder L. Ron Hubbard’s teachings, and put in charge of 300 staff members’
“ethics.” Lance left the church in 2007, and he is uniquely qualified as a
former Scientology insider to speak about the organization’s inner workings and
little-understood doctrine, policies, and procedures. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Kyle Brennan</b> was born on April 2, 1986, and died on February 16, 2007. He was a talented artist and prolific writer of short stories. Though he was only twenty at the time of his death and a sophomore in college, he was a man of international connections.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">His maternal grandmother is from
Montreal. H</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">is step-grandmother is from
Argentina and lives in Buenos Aires. The Brittons' plans to take to him to
visit her were cut short by his death. </span><br />
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Irish-American Catholics. Kyle dreamed of visiting Ireland with his oldest
brother Scott and then returning to open a restaurant in their home town. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Kyle spent a good deal of time
visiting Berlin and other cities in Germany since his older brother Sean was
stationed with the US military there. A visit Kyle made to the great church of
<a href="http://www.kylebrennan.com/angelsbamberg.html">St. Michael in Bamberg</a> left a profound impression on him and strengthened his
resolve to fight against evil.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Victoria Britton</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> has been seeking the truth about Kyle’s death—and fighting for justice for her son, despite tremendous adversity—since his death in 2006. She believes that Kyle’s story is an important one that must be told. It can serve as a warning to others. It can save lives.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Deborah Beeksma</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> is the host at GodDiscussion.com, a news and review service for the growing number of people not affiliated with an organized religion. </span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.goddiscussion.com/">God Discussion</a></span></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a site “for believers who don’t go
to church.” The views expressed on the site are not expressly denominational.
It honors points of view from many traditions in discussion about God and how
beliefs impact families, government, and culture. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For background we
refer readers to the article at <a href="http://justiceforkylebrennan.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-death-of-20-year-old-kyle-brennan.html">Justice
For Kyle Brennan</a> - <a href="http://justiceforkylebrennan.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-death-of-20-year-old-kyle-brennan.html">The
death of 20-year-old Kyle Brennan as an Enemy of the Church of Scientology.</a>
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<b><u>UPDATE:</u></b> God Discussion has now posted their own full announcement of the show: <a href="http://www.goddiscussion.net/2013/02/09/blind-justice-the-brennan-estate-v-church-of-scientology-friday-february-15/">Blind Justice? The Brennan Estate v. Church of Scientology (Friday, February 15)</a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247569912019368788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672576942208102152.post-21729863417715263652012-09-26T13:00:00.000-07:002012-09-26T13:03:40.612-07:00Appellate judges fail to do justice for Kyle Brennan<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jonny Jacobsen at Infinite Complacency reports that the appellate judges meeting in Jacksonville, Florida, on September 14 have <a href="http://infinitecomplacency.blogspot.com/2012/09/kyle-brennan-arguments-on-appeal.html?utm_source=BP_recent">announced denial of the appeal</a> in Kyle Brennan vs The Church of Scientology a mere two business days after they heard the oral arguments. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">“</span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">After full review and oral argument, we conclude that... [Lirot] has </span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">demonstrated no reversible error in the district court’s order,</span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">”</span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;"> said </span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">the court. </span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">Case dismissed.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">Scientology spokeswoman Pat Harney told <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/appeals-court-upholds-dismissal-of-wrongful-death-suit-against-church-of/1252563" target="_blank">The Tampa Bay Times</a>: </span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">“</span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">The ruling of the U. S. District Court in Tampa and the rapid affirmation of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta both confirm what we have said from the beginning — the evidence is overwhelming that the Brennan lawsuit never had any factual or legal basis.</span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">”</span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;"></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">Leaving aside the preliminary details identifying the case, the actual ruling ran to just five </span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">lines.</span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">In a response to the ruling, Lirot expressed his frustration that</span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;"> the court had not troubled itself to explain where his arguments </span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">had fallen down.</span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;"></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">“</span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">What an incredible disappointment!</span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">”</span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;"> he wrote.</span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 18.899999618530273px;"></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">“</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">We will get no further explanation, no comment, and no articulation </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">of where the arguments I made were inaccurate, insufficient, or wrong.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">“</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">I despise those situations where a Court rules against me, but does </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">not articulate any basis to support their decision.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">“</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">It does not happen often, but this is clearly the worst example of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">that hollow practice.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">“</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">We can go to the Supreme Court, but that is </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">the equivalent of a lottery ticket, since they take less than 3% of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">the petitions filed with them.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">“</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">A sad day for American justice, or the lack thereof.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.899999618530273px;">”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Read the whole thing. </span></span><br />
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The rotten foundation of the decision of Judge Merryday to dismiss the case, which has now been affirmed by the appellate judges, is the travesty of the investigation into Kyle's death by Clearwater Police Detective Stephen Bohling with his cover up and massive lying about Kyle's diagnosis and every important aspect of the case.<br />
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The affair cries out for an independent investigation and re-opening of the case.<br />
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With the end of litigation Victoria Britton is completely free to speak. Once the people of America hear her voice we hope there will be a massive outcry to demand such an investigation that justice may be done and Kyle Brennan vindicated.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247569912019368788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672576942208102152.post-31266738692175346012012-09-11T07:32:00.000-07:002012-09-26T12:36:40.683-07:00Scientology’s false portrayal of Victoria Britton and her quest for justice for the death of her son Kyle Brennan<br />
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<b>The
Church of Scientology has attempted to portray Kyle Brennan’s mother, Victoria
Britton, in a very negative light.</b> Here is
a grieving mother, they say, who in her blind grief is flailing wildly about.
She refuses, they say, to believe that her youngest child—Kyle—committed
suicide, and is hell-bent on getting her ex-husband Thomas Brennan charged with
a crime. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Kyle Brennan
died under highly suspicious circumstances on a visit to his Scientologist
father Tom Bternnan in Clearwater, Florida, in February 2007. Kyle died as a <a href="http://justiceforkylebrennan.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-death-of-20-year-old-kyle-brennan.html">20-year-old
Enemy of the Church of Scientology</a>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2009
Victoria Britton filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Church of
Scientology, Brennan, and his confidant and Scientology celebrity, Denise
Miscavige Gentile, the twin sister of brutal Scientology leader David
Miscavige.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the suit
the Appelees’ Joint Answer states: “Unsatisfied with the conclusions of the
Clearwater Police Department, Victoria Britton complained to the FBI, the
Florida Attorney General, the Justice Department and the Pinellas County State
Attorney’s office insisting that her Scientologist ex-husband be charged with a
crime. As a result, Doug Berry of the State Attorney’s Office for the Sixth
Judicial Circuit conducted a review of the Clearwater Police Department’s
investigation. He also concluded that Kyle’s death was a suicide with no
criminal activity.” <br />
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What is clear is that Victoria Britton could not, <i>and still cannot</i>,
understand (especially after looking closely at the Florida Statutes) the
following: How could a father—after denying his
son access to his much-needed psychotropic medication, and then giving
this same son access to a loaded .357 Magnum—not be charged with a crime? What
kind of place allows people to do this kind of thing, and then walk away
scot-free?<br />
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<b>The defendants falsely claim that
Victoria Britton has repeatedly stated that her son Kyle was murdered. </b>Not
only is this untrue, but it was the defendants themselves who first
mentioned—in documents—that homicide was possibly the cause of Kyle’s death. In
the <b>Answer and Affirmative</b> <b>Defenses of Defendant Thomas Brennan</b> it
states: “Kyle Brennan’s death was either a suicide or homicide constituting an
intervening act.” [<b> Doc: 53,page 3 of 4]</b><br />
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<b>Victoria Britton, in the few conversations she had with Detective Stephen
Bohling, only wanted to find out the truth and to make sense of the numerous
inconsistencies surrounding the death of her son.</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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As to the Clearwater Police
Department’s investigation, it’s difficult to understand how anyone could think
that it was thorough or well-handled. When Officer Jonathan Yuen—the first
policeman at the crime scene—was asked, for example, to describe his interview
with Thomas Brennan, he stated: “A short, short period of time. Anywhere from
20 to 30 minutes, I would say.” <b>[Exhibit
18, Doc. 123, Page 11,</b> <b>Lines 13–14,
Page ID 1817]</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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When asked whether he had further
involvement in the investigation, he answered “No.” Asked if he discussed the
matter with Detective Bohling, he said “No.” <b>(Exhibit 18, Doc:</b> <b>123 page
ID 1818 page 15 lines 18-24)</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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So, in other words, the public is
supposed to consider it comprehensive and thorough police work when a
responding officer interviews the most important person at the crime scene for
only 20 minutes, never returns to the crime scene, simply hands over his report
to the detective taking over the investigation—a detective who, it must be
said, never visits the crime scene—and then destroys the notes of that first
important interview<b>?( Exhibit 1, Doc:119
Page ID 1542 Page 9 lines 23-25 Page 10 line 1) ( Exhibit 1, Doc: 119 Page ID</b>
<b>1579 Page 158 lines 17-23)</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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Consider that question along with the
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Brennan’s .357 Magnum was found near
Kyle’s body, but the police never found the bullet that killed Kyle. </span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">(Exhibit 18 Doc: 123 Page Id 1826 page</b><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">48 lines 1-6)</b></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">They did not find the box of
ammunition for the .357. </span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">(Exhibit1 Doc:
123 Page ID 1563 page</b><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">93 lines 25
Page 94 lines 1-8)</b></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">And they did not find Kyle’s
laptop—it had been removed from the apartment before they arrived</span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">. (Exhibit 1 Doc: 123, Page ID 1547 page 31
lines 11-16)</b></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Kyle’s fingerprints were nowhere to
be found on over 12 separate pieces of evidence at the scene including the
weapon and 10 rounds of ammunition. </span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">(CWPR
SEC: 1 Doc: 170-1 Page 83)</b></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Forensic Investigator Jennifer McCabe
and Medical Investigator Marti Scholl arrived at the scene shortly after Yuen.
McCabe swapped Kyle’s hands for a Gun Shot Residue (GSR) test to see if Kyle
had pulled the trigger on the .357, but Bohling later blocked processing of the
GSR, and lied to Kyle’s family telling them that the GSR test </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">had not</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">
been done. (</span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Exhibit 1 Doc:119 Page</b><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">ID 1590 page 202 lines 1-9)</b><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></li>
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Without fingerprints, without the
bullet, and without a GSR test it is impossible to determine whether Kyle’s
death was actually a suicide—and yet a suicide is what it was ruled. Without
this important evidence it’s also impossible to determine whether Brennan’s
.357 was used to kill Kyle. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This we are supposed to consider a
well-run police investigation? This is what passes for thorough police work in
the state of Florida?<b> <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>The defendants’ claim that Victoria
Britton complaints to the Justice Department and the FBI were because she was
unsatisfied with the conclusions of the Clearwater Police Department in
charging Thomas Brennan with a crime have been fabricated by the defendants’ . <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>The truth is that the complaints were
filed because of concern that the investigation of her son’s death was not
being investigated properly. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>In the deposition of Stephen Bohling he stated “There was a
call to the Justice Department, and I believe the FBI to follow <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4672576942208102152" name="_GoBack"></a>up on, that, you know basically that I was not doing my job
and they believed that the case should be turned over to someone else. (Exhibit 1 Doc:119 Page ID 1551 Page 45 lines
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“ I only wanted to find out the truth
and to make sense of the inconsistencies surrounding the death of my son.
Detective Bohling was not interested.” – Victoria Britton. <b>(Exhibit
11 Doc: 170-11 Page ID 2711)</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247569912019368788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672576942208102152.post-12287915078994065732012-09-10T20:20:00.002-07:002013-02-13T22:39:08.024-08:00A reflection on Kyle Brennan as a young Catholic martyr to Scientology's hatred of psychiatry<br />
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The priest at the funeral Mass of Kyle Brennan in Charlottesville,
Virginia, proclaimed that he had died as a martyr.</div>
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Kyle was a 20-year-old Catholic college student who died
under highly suspicious circumstances while visiting his father Tom Brennan in
Clearwater. Florida, in February 2007. Brennan had returned to the practice of
Scientology in 1998 when he and his wife Victoria had separated. He became a
staff member of the Scientology “org” (or church) in West Tampa in 2005.</div>
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While there he fell under the influence of a Scientology
celebrity in Clearwater, Denise Miscavige Gentile, the twin sister of ruthless
Scientology leader David Miscavige. Denise became Brennan’s confidant, close
friend, and “auditor” or Scientology psychotherapist. </div>
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Late on the night of Friday, February 16, Kyle was
discovered dead in the apartment of his father’s apartment in downtown
Clearwater near the Fort Harrison Hotel, the advanced training center for
Scientologists from all over the world.</div>
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Kyle had been shot in the head, and his
father’s .357 Magnum was lying near his body. There is no evidence that Kyle
committed suicide since there was no suicide note, and Kyle’s fingerprints were
found nowhere including the revolver and ammunition found at the scene. </div>
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The investigating detective failed to process a Gun Shot Residue
test, and so there is no evidence that Kyle pulled the trigger on his father’s
weapon. </div>
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Despite all this the detective declared Kyle’s death a
suicide. So suspicious were the circumstances of Kyle’s death that his mother
Victoria Britton filed a wrongful death suit, which is reaching the final stage
of appeal before a panel of three federal judges in Jacksonville, Florida, on
the morning of Friday, September 14.</div>
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Kyle and his family are Catholics. When he was 17 he and
Victoria visited the Church of St. Michael in Bamberg, Germany. Victoria’s <a href="http://www.kylebrennan.com/angelsbamberg.html">remarkable account</a>
reveals that Kyle had committed himself to fight against evil under the banner
of St. Michael and his army of angels who carry on the fight against Satan and
all the evils of the world. His commitment would eventually require that he risk
and lose his life resisting the evils of the Church of Scientology and in
particular its hate-driven war for the “Global Obliteration of Psychiatry.”</div>
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In January 2006 Kyle was diagnosed as a mild depressive by
his psychiatrist in Charlottesville and put on an anti-depressant. When Brennan
discovered in June that Kyle was being treated he deceived Kyle into staying
with him in August solely for the purpose of fulfilling the demands of
Scientology to interfere with Kyle’s treatment and browbeat him into stopping
his psychotherapy and medication.</div>
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Brennan became vehement telling Kyle that his mother was
killing him with psychotherapy and his anti-depressant and that his
psychiatrist would betray him and publish his patient records on the internet. </div>
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Kyle resisted strenuously saying that only an idiot would
believe in L. Ron Hubbard. Kyle overhead Brennan and his Scientologist girl
friend saying that Kyle was “an Enemy of the Church of Scientology.” Brennan later
threatened him with physical violence, and Kyle fled back home. </div>
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In November after Thanksgiving Kyle set out on a two-month
journey to visit schools in Iowa and relatives in California. He decided to
visit his father in Clearwater on his way home arriving on February 7, 2007.</div>
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Brennan and Denise Miscavige resumed their attacks on Kyle,
who once more resisted them.<br />
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They attempted to persuade Victoria to put Kyle into
Scientology’s Narconon Arrowhead drug rehabilitation facility in Oklahoma.
Narconon Arrowhead is a house of death where 4 young people ranging from 24 –
28 <a href="http://rockcenter.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/16/13312825-families-question-scientology-linked-drug-rehab-after-recent-deaths?lite">have
died</a> through medical incompetence in the last three years. </div>
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The Narconon rehabilitation facility is based exclusively on
Scientology teachings, and Brennan and Miscavige hoped to get him there so he
would break all connection with his standard psychiatric care. Their attempt failed when Victoria resolutely
rebuffed them. </div>
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They were forced to try other tactics and so resistant was
Kyle that Brennan was driven to seizing Kyle’s medication and locking it in the
trunk of his car the day before Kyle’s suspicious death.</div>
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Things got even more suspicious after Kyle’s death. When
Brennan returned Kyle’s belongings to Victoria all documents had been deleted
from his laptop as well as everything on his Ipod. </div>
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There should have been dozens of documents since Kyle was a
prolific writer of short stories and a conscientious student who saved
everything he wrote.<br />
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Kyle was a shrewd investor in gold coins with which he
financed his journey. He had most of them amounting to several thousands of
dollars when he arrived in Clearwater. When his belongings were returned all of
them were missing.</div>
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The investigation of his death by the detective over the
next two years was a travesty of police work, and it is clear from court
documents that the detective, Brennan, and Denise Miscavige lied repeatedly about
nearly every important aspect of Kyle’s case including falsifying the diagnosis
of his psychiatrist turning him from a mild depressive into a paranoid
schizophrenic. </div>
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Victoria Britton filed a wrongful death suit against
Brennan, Denise Miscavige, her husband Jerry Gentile, and the organization that
runs Scientology in Clearwater. A federal judge dismissed the case in December
2011 on very dubious legal grounds. Among other things he evidently did not study
the depositions of the defendants. Had he done so the lies and obstruction of
justice by the defendants would have been clear. </div>
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The final stage of the appeal will play out in the Federal
Appeals Court in Jacksonville, Florida, on the morning of September 14 when a
panel of three judges will hear final oral arguments in the appeal. They will
make their decision known probably after Thanksgiving. [Update: The judges <a href="http://justiceforkylebrennan.blogspot.com/2012/09/appellate-judges-fail-to-do-justice-for.html">denied the appeal</a>, but justice for Kyle is being sought on other fronts.]</div>
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Kyle became a young Catholic martyr resisting the attacks on
him by Scientologists merely for being a mildly depressed college student. <a href="http://anonforgreatjustice.blogspot.com/2011/07/canadian-cardinal-marc-ouellets-three.html">Cardinal
Marc Ouellet</a> of Quebec and <a href="http://anonforgreatjustice.blogspot.com/2010/04/archbishop-robert-rivas-denounces.html">Archbishop
Robert Rivas</a> in St. Lucia have warned Catholic families about the dangers
Scientology poses to Catholic young people. </div>
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Jesuit Fr. John Coleman has
described Scientology as a “<a href="http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&entry_id=2193">totalitarian
cult</a>.” Fr. Randy Sly at Catholic Online has reported extensively on Scientology and <a href="http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=35445">has been
attacked</a> by a Scientology spokesman for reporting the truth as a Catholic
journalist. </div>
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We invite Catholics and other Christians to be in prayer on
the morning of September 14 for Victoria and particularly the judges that they
may do justice for Kyle Brennan. Catholics in the Jacksonville area are invited
to come to the appeals court at 8:00 am on Friday morning to serve as court
watchers to manifest to the judges that the death of this young martyr and
justice for him is of profound concern not only to Catholics but to all decent
people who hunger and thirst for justice. <br />
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Update: Victoria Britton will be breaking her silence and speaking out for the first time on a God Discussion radio show on Friday eveningk February 15, which is the eve of the sixth anniversary of Kyler death.<br />
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Our announcement is <a href="http://justiceforkylebrennan.blogspot.com/2013/02/victoria-britton-to-speak-in-live.html" target="_blank">here</a>. God Discussion's announcement <a href="http://www.goddiscussion.net/2013/02/09/blind-justice-the-brennan-estate-v-church-of-scientology-friday-february-15/" target="_blank">Blind Justice? The Brennan Estate v. Church of Scientology (Friday, February 15)</a> provides detailed information on how to listen in and participate in the chat room during the show. </div>
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Kyle at the Church of St. Michael in Bamberg:<br />
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Interior of the Church of St. Michael:<br />
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Kyle's drawing of St. Michael:<br />
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<b>Related reading:</b></div>
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<a href="http://justiceforkylebrennan.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-death-of-20-year-old-kyle-brennan.html">The
death of 20-year-old Kyle Brennan as an Enemy of the Church of Scientology</a></div>
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<a href="http://justiceforkylebrennan.blogspot.com/2012/08/dr-stephen-mcnamara-on-scientologists.html">Dr.
Stephen McNamara on Scientologists’ interference with Kyle Brennan’s treatment</a></div>
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<a href="http://justiceforkylebrennan.blogspot.com/2012/09/kyle-brennan-anybodys-child.html">Kyle
Brennan – Anybody’s Child</a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247569912019368788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672576942208102152.post-25793574137008605192012-09-08T05:34:00.000-07:002012-09-08T05:34:23.751-07:00Kyle Brennan - Anybody's Child<span style="font-family: inherit;">We are re-posting here a beautiful post by former Scientologist Denise Brennan called "Kyle Brennan - Anybody's Child which has been posted on the major Scientology-critical forums. (<a href="https://whyweprotest.net/community/threads/kyle-brennan-anybodys-child.104832/#post-2175027">Why We Protest</a> - WWP, Reaching For The Tipping Point, <a href="http://www.divided-by-zero.com/showthread.php?1661-Kyle-Brennan-Anybody-s-Child&highlight=kyle">Divided By Zero</a>,<a href="http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?28424-Kyle-Brennan-Anybody-s-Child"> Ex-Scientologist Message Board</a> - ESMB), and <a href="http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=105457">Operation Clambake</a> - OCMB)</span><br />
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Denise accurately describes Kyle as "<span style="background-color: #fafafa;">a lovely, innocent and kindly boy, a gentle nerd who would not hurt a fly." She also points out that Scientology does a great deal of damage to <b><u>non-Scientologists</u></b> like Kyle and the recent young victims of its drug rehabilitation front group Narconon Arrowhead in Oklahoma where <a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20120729_11_A1_CUTLIN533677">four young people have died </a>in the last nine months.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa;">She also points out that there is much we do not know and appeals to anyone and particularly former Scientologists to share any information about the case, the Scientologists involved, and Scientology policies and procedures that could help in getting justice for Kyle. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa;">She outlines many ways the general public can help and concludes -</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa;">As a beautiful Anon said in a protest video in 2008:<b> ”It is time for the Church of Scientology to get out of Love’s way”.</b></span>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa;">Read the whole thing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">Most people who read this are already going to know something about Kyle Brennan and his horrible death some five years ago at scientology’s “mecca” in Clearwater, Florida.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">Kyle, a lovely, innocent and kindly boy, a gentle nerd who would not hurt a fly, died from a gunshot wound to the head on February 16, 2007.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">The circumstances surrounding Kyle’s death are highly suspicious.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">Kyle Brennan died at least in part due to the beliefs of scientology and scientologists as his medically prescribed medication was hidden from him with demands that he instead do highly dangerous and unscientific scientology “therapy” such as that done in its front group “Narconon”. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">Scientologists are hardly the only ones in danger of being victims of such quackery. The last year has brought the world tragic news of multiple deaths of innocent people who are not even scientologists who were subjected to highly dangerous practices such as those the scientologists were trying to push onto Kyle as delivered in their front group “Narconon”. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">And worse yet, Kyle’s tragic death shows us that the deadly reach of such practices by organized scientology goes even to our children who 1) are not scientologists AND 2) are not even involved with their front groups.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">As what happened with Kyle has shown, all someone has to be is in contact with scientologists that believe in and push such practices to lose their very lives. Thus, Kyle Brennan is indeed “anybody’s child”. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">For five years now organized scientology has done everything it can to ensure that the entire truth surrounding Kyle’s untimely death has been suppressed through use of the police, through use of the courts and otherwise.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">They have ensured that they have to date thwarted every attempt by his grieving mother Victoria Britton to find out what happened to her son that she loved so dearly.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">Let us end this now!</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">Before I suggest what we can do about this, I would like to announce a new a blog prepared by a lovely person, Justin Ross. The site is called: “Justice for Kyle Brennan”. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">A link to it is here: <a href="http://justiceforkylebrennan.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://justiceforkylebrennan.blogspot.com/</a></span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">This is the most comprehensive site on the subject of what happened to Kyle Brennan, what led up to it and what has happened with respect to it in the past five+ years.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">As of this writing, August 29, 2012, you can see two entries on the blog by Justin. The most current entry logged tonight is an amazing read, a write-up really helping to educate anyone to understand what happened.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">The other write-up from a few days ago gives some information about a hearing on the matter in Florida on September 14, 2012.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">Very important is the sidebar of links found on this blog. In the event some people do not read the main posting on this blog, I wanted to quote the sidebar that gives these important links:</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">Documents in the case of Kyle Brennan vs the Church of Scientology have been collected at a Scribd collection of Scientology lawsuits: <a href="http://www.scribd.com/collections/3472618/Scientology-Lawsuits-Kyle-Brennan" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.scribd.com/collections/34...s-Kyle-Brennan</a><br /><br />Among the most important documents is the <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/80488261/Kyle-Brennan-Scientology-Case-VLB-Chronology-Letter-to-Attorney" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Chronology of Victoria Britton</a>, which she compiled from her notes as events unfolded – which can be found at:<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/80488261/Kyle-Brennan-Scientology-Case-VLB-Chronology-Letter-to-Attorney" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.scribd.com/doc/80488261/K...er-to-Attorney</a><br /><br />Detective Bohling's <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/80509671/Kyle-Brennan-Scientology-Case-Clearwater-PD-Law-Enforcement-Retirement-System-Record-2008" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">investigative report</a> (found at:<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/80509671/Kyle-Brennan-Scientology-Case-Clearwater-PD-Law-Enforcement-Retirement-System-Record-2008" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.scribd.com/doc/80509671/K...em-Record-2008</a> ) is the basis of the Scientology defense and raises important questions of the adequacy of his detective work. In his deposition (which can be found at:<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/81877055/Kyle-Brennan-Scientology-Case-Thomas-Brennan-Deposition-Transcript-08-Jun-2010" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.scribd.com/doc/81877055/K...pt-08-Jun-2010</a> ) he admits among other things that he falsified information about Kyle's diagnosis.<br /><br />The depositions of the Scientology defendants Tom Brennan (found at:<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/81877055/Kyle-Brennan-Scientology-Case-Thomas-Brennan-Deposition-Transcript-08-Jun-2010" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.scribd.com/doc/81877055/K...pt-08-Jun-2010</a> ) and <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/80499046/Kyle-Brennan-Scientology-Case-Denise-Miscavige-Gentile-Deposition-Transcript-02-Aug-2010" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Denise Miscavige Gentile</a> (found at: <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/80499046/Kyle-Brennan-Scientology-Case-Denise-Miscavige-Gentile-Deposition-Transcript-02-Aug-2010" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.scribd.com/doc/80499046/K...pt-02-Aug-2010</a> ) contain conflicting alibis and many contradictions in testimony.<br /><br />Seasoned Flag Organization staff member Lance Marcor has laid out in detail how Scientology ideological demands affected the handling and death of Kyle Brennan as an Enemy of Scientology in the <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/80501927/Kyle-Brennan-Scientology-Case-Second-Declaration-of-Lance-Marcor-27-Sep-2010" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Second Declaration of Lance Marcor.</a> ( found at:http://www.scribd.com/doc/80501927/Kyle-Brennan-Scientology-Case-Second-Declaration-of-Lance-Marcor-27-Sep-2010 )<br /><br />The history of litigation is complex. Jonny Jacobsen at Infinite Complacency provides an<a href="http://infinitecomplacency.blogspot.com/2012/03/brennan-case-goes-to-appeal.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> excellent summary</a>. (found at: <a href="http://infinitecomplacency.blogspot.com/2012/03/brennan-case-goes-to-appeal.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://infinitecomplacency.blogspot....to-appeal.html</a> )</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa;"></span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">If our police, courts and other government officials will not stand up to scientology on this matter and if scientologists who know the truth refuse to tell it, then let it be us that take a stand and make a difference despite them.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">Kyle’s mother Victoria Britten has more than once told me that this is about her beautiful boy and not her. It is about a boy who lost his life, who was innocent and who lost everything that a future he deserved to live would have given him. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">And while I weep with her at her almost unbearable loss, to me it is ALSO about a mother fighting for five years to find out what happened to her child. There is NO closure to be had when scientology and scientologists concerned have done everything in their power to hide the truth from Victoria in the name of their barbaric version of “the greatest good”.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">And, without the full truth known Kyle will have died in vain and there will be more of our children similarly lost.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">Victoria wants to tell every mother in America and elsewhere what happened here. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">If our governments will not stand up to them than let it be us mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters and all others of good heart take to a stand.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">Victoria knows more than anyone on earth about the hearings on this matter over the past five years. Did you know that no media have had Victoria on to tell us what she knows and the results of her exhaustive studies into court filings, police reports, depositions and the like? </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">But how can those of us who want to help Victoria help her to do this? And what else might we of little financial or time resources do to make a difference? </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">I can think of a few things offhand and write them here to perhaps help get the ball rolling.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">No one is my or anyone else’s personal army but I ask that all concerned look at the examples below and see if you can find it in your heart to help in one or more ways or perhaps in some other way that I have not listed. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">(1) One very simply thing is to just familiarize yourself with as much as you can on the attached blog or that information contained in links found on that blog. Be better educated about it and then perhaps talk with friends and family about this. If we do nothing else, at least let us let someone else know about this so that their child is not the next to fall prey to scientology’s dangerous practices and greed. Send anyone interested to know more to that blog for information. Once again the link is: </span><a href="http://justiceforkylebrennan.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: #fafafa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://justiceforkylebrennan.blogspot.com</a><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">(2) Keep this alive. Post about Kyle in forums and blogs when you can. Post in comment sections in relevant articles, press, blogs or anywhere else giving links to this blog or any parts that interest you the most.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">(3) See this link on the blog giving the time, place and date of the brief oral arguments happening on Sept 14, 2012 in Florida. If you can make it to show your support please do so. Let press or others you know who might be interested know about this as they may wish to attend. Link = </span><a href="http://justiceforkylebrennan.blogspot.com/2012/08/kyle-brennan-vs-scientology-oral.html" style="background-color: #fafafa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://justiceforkylebrennan.blogspot.com/2012/08/kyle-brennan-vs-scientology-oral.html</a><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">(4) Kyle’s mother Victoria is going to need financial help in order to continue fighting for the truth. There are many legal expenses (even things like costs of transcripts, flights, hotel, meals). And no matter what happens with legal, the fight to get to the truth will go on. We need, for example, to set up Victoria with proper hardware and software in order to be recorded for radio or TV, to do scans, to make copies and to do anything else needed to fight the good fight. In times past there were not public enough requests for help financially as almost none was given. </span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">Well there are two ways to send her money if you are able and willing to do so, no matter how small:</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">(a) </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">If you are comfortable with PayPal, her email is : <a href="mailto:Vbreton2062@aol.com" style="text-decoration: none;">Vbreton2062@aol.com</a></span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">(b) </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">If you would prefer to send a check, cash or money order, her snail mail address is:</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">Victoria Britton</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">c/o Friends of Kyle Brennan</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">3144 Ridgefield Rd</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">Charlottesville, VA 22911-7205</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">(5) This is a special appeal to all public and staff as well as former public and staff who were there in 2007 and who know any details of what happened to Kyle and/or the cover-up of same to please speak out and tell what happened. This includes EX ethics officers at Flag, tech staff at Flag, OSA even up to Mike Rinder who may have been over OSA at the time. For the sake of those this could happen to in the future, for Kyle, for the peace of mind of a grieving mother, for the sake of justice or just for honor’s sake tell what happened. Victoria’s email is above. You can email her directly if you don’t want to go public. But for God’s sake, please tell the truth.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">It should not matter if you are a corporate scientologist who would like to right a wrong, an Indee, an Ex or anyone else. On this matter all of us should be joined at the heart and not have any other agenda but that of truth and justice here.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">(6) If you have any contacts with internet media, radio, TV, press, you name it, tell them of this story. Give them a link to the blog and ask them to interview Victoria. With some quick financial help we could have Victoria ready for interviews in days. She has not been able to tell her story to date. Let’s change that. This is a link to some of her own research that might interest concerned media:</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/80488261/Kyle-Brennan-Scientology-Case-VLB-Chronology-Letter-to-Attorney" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.scribd.com/doc/80488261/K...er-to-Attorney</a></span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">I am very sorry for the length of this post. Plus I do not wish to say that anyone must do any or all of the above. But if you want to help, the above are some simple ways to do so.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">For Kyle, for a Mother’s love and for great justice!</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">As a beautiful Anon said in a protest video in 2008: ”It is time for the Church of Scientology to get out of Love’s way”.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">Thank you for listening.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">w/<3</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">Denise Brennan</span></span>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247569912019368788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672576942208102152.post-5993648071691636852012-09-07T08:02:00.000-07:002012-09-07T08:02:26.439-07:00Kyle Brennan: Names of judges on the Appeals Court panel announced<br />
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The Federal Appeals Court in Jacksonville, Florida, has
announced the names of the three judges deciding the appeal in the
wrongful-death suit of 20-year-old Kyle Brennan, who died under highly
suspicious circumstances on the night of Friday, February 16, 2007. They are judges
Frank M. Hull of Atlanta, Stanley Marcus of Miami, and Emmett Cox of Mobile.
Biographical information is found below.</div>
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Judge Frank Hull is a woman, despite her first name. She and
Judge Stanley Marcus were appointed by President Clinton, and Judge Emmett Cox
by President Reagan. Judges Frank and Marcus were on the Appeals Court panel
that struck down the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act. Judge Hull
joined Chief Judge Joel Dubina in writing the opinion and Judge Marcus wrote a
dissent. </div>
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It would be a travesty of justice for the judges not to
grant the appeal. On the basis on the defective police work of Detective
Stephen Bohling alone Judge Merryday never should have ordered the Scientology
defendants’ motion for summary judgment early last December.</div>
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Bohling falsified Kyle’s diagnosis from his psychiatrist Dr.
Stephen McNamara, whom he had diagnosed as only mildly depressed. In his lie-filled investigative report
Bohling wrote falsely, “The Doctor confirmed that Kyle Brennan had been
exhibiting early signs of Schizophrenia in include paranoia and delusions and
that he did prescribe Lexipro [sic] to Brennan.” In his deposition McNamara
says that he never talked to anyone in Clearwater. </div>
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Oral arguments in the case will be heard in Federal Appeals
Court in Jacksonville, Florida, on the morning of Friday, September 14. For
further details see our post <a href="http://justiceforkylebrennan.blogspot.com/2012/08/kyle-brennan-vs-scientology-oral.html">Kyle
Brennan vs the Church of Scientology: Oral arguments in Jacksonville, September
14.</a></div>
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<b>Emmett Ripley Cox:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Born 1935, nominated by President Reagan in 1981 as judge of
the US District Court for the Southern District of Alabama. Acquired senior
status in 2000. Spent entire pre-judicial career as a private practice
attorney. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Ripley_Cox">Wikpedia bio</a>. <a href="http://judgepedia.org/index.php/Emmett_Cox">Judgepedia bio</a></div>
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<b>Frank M. Hull:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Despite her first name, Judge Hull is a woman. Born 1948 in
Augusta, GA, appointed by President Clinton in 1994 as judge of the US District
Court for the Northern District of Georgia. President Clinton nominated her to
the US Court of Appeals for the 11<sup>th</sup> Circuit in 1997. <a href="http://judgepedia.org/index.php/Frank_Hull">Judgepedia bio</a>. Before
her judicial career she was in private practice in Atlanta, 1974-1984.</div>
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Judge Hull and Judge Stanley Marcus were members of the
three-judge 11<sup>th</sup> Circuit appeals panel that <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/8/us-judges-seem-receptive-health-care-challenge/">questioned
the constitutionality</a> of the Affordable Care Act. The other member was
Chief Judge Joel Dubina, appointed by President George H. W. Bush. </div>
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In their opinion on the 2-1 decision, Hull and Dubina <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/12/appeals-court-obama-health-insurance-requirement/">rejected
the individual mandate</a> of the legislation allowing that the rest of the law
could remain in effect. Judge Stanley
Marcus disagreed in a dissent. Talking Points Memo has a good article on <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/06/06/237386/frank-hull-is-a-woman/?mobile=nc">political
background and judicial philosophy</a> of the judges.</div>
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<b>Stanley Marcus:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Born 1946 in NY. Joined the 11<sup>th</sup> Circuit US
Appeals Court in 1997 after being nominated by President Clinton. Previously
served as judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida
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Marcus served as an Assistant United States Attorney for
the United States Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's
Office for the Eastern District of New York from 1975 to 1978 before
serving as the Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force for
the U.S. Department of Justice based in Detroit,
Michigan from 1978 to 1979. Marcus was the Chief of the Strike Force from
1980 to 1982 before being nominated by President Ronald Reagan to
serve as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida from 1982 to
1985. <a href="http://judgepedia.org/index.php/Stanley_Marcus">Judegepedia bio</a>.</div>
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As noted above Marcus dissented from the opinion of Judge
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247569912019368788noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672576942208102152.post-56352997251318266072012-08-31T09:36:00.000-07:002012-08-31T09:44:10.333-07:00Dr. Stephen McNamara on Scientologists' interference with Kyle Brennan's treatment<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Scientology's attempt to interfere with the medication of 20-year-old Kyle Brennan led to </span><a href="http://justiceforkylebrennan.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-death-of-20-year-old-kyle-brennan.html" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;" target="_blank">his death as an Enemy of Scientology</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;"> in the apartment of his Scientologist father and Scientology staff worker Tom Brennan in Clearwater, Florida, on the night of Friday, February 16, 2007.</span><br />
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Kyle was gentle and talented young artist and writer in his sophomore year of college, who suffered from mild depression and was under under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Stephen McNamara in his home town of Charlottesville, Virginia. </div>
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When Brennan discovered this he tried for seven months to interfere with Kyle's anti-depressant treatment driven by the demands of Scientology's violent hatred of psychiatry and the mental health professions and aided by his "auditor", or Scientology therapist, Denise Miscavige, the twin sister of Scientology leader,<a href="http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/project/part1.shtml" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"> David Miscavige</a>. </div>
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Kyle resisted every attempt, including during the last nine days of his life while he was visiting his father. Five days before his death Tom Brennan and Denise Misavige attempted to convince Kyle's mother Victoria Britton to agree to putting Kyle in Scientology's Narconon Arrowhead drug rehabilitation facility in Oklahoma, but she staunchly rebuffed them. </div>
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Since Kyle's death <a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20120729_11_A1_CUTLIN533677">five people have died at Narconon Arrowhead</a>, four of them young people under the age of 30. The most recent is 20-year-old Stacy Murphy, who died on July 19.</div>
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In the wrongful death-lawsuit filed by Victoria Britton in 2009 , Dr. McNamara was deposed by Scientology lawyers and made the following comment on Brennan's treatment of his son:</div>
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Scientology is not some harmless Hollywood celebrity cult indulged in by Tom Cruise, John Travolta, and Greta Van Susteren. It kills young people. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247569912019368788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672576942208102152.post-25552206158758191842012-08-29T17:07:00.004-07:002012-08-29T22:37:53.040-07:00The death of 20-year-old Kyle Brennan as an Enemy of the Church of Scientology <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">When 20-year-old Kyle
Brennan stepped into the office of psychiatrist Dr. Stephen McNamara in
Charlottesville, Virginia, in early January 2006, he could not have imagined
that his life would end just 13 months later as an Enemy of the Church of
Scientology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle died from a gunshot
wound to the head on Friday, February 16, 2007. (It has been estimated that his
time of death was 11:00 p.m.) Kyle’s body was found in the apartment of his Scientologist
father, Tom Brennan, in Clearwater, Florida, the center of the Scientology
universe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Clearwater Police Department
Officer Jonathan Yuen arrived at the Brennan apartment shortly after midnight
on the morning of Saturday, February 17. Already on the scene, fire department
first responders declared Kyle dead at 12:10 am.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The circumstances
surrounding Kyle’s death are highly suspicious. Kyle was found on the floor of
his father’s bedroom, not his. In Kyle’s bedroom, the bedding was stripped from
the bed. His bags were packed even though, according to his father, he wasn’t
planning on traveling anytime soon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Tom Brennan’s .357 Magnum
was found near Kyle’s body, but Forensic <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Specialist Jennifer McCabe
did not find the bullet that killed Kyle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The police did not find the
box of ammunition for the .357, which they allege was used to kill Kyle. And
they did not find Kyle’s laptop—it had been removed from the apartment before
they arrived. Kyle’s fingerprints were nowhere to be found on over 14 separate
pieces of evidence at the scene including the weapon and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">10 rounds of ammunition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Tom Brennan had moved from
Lehigh Acres near Ft. Myers about 140 miles down the Florida Gulf Coast from
Clearwater, and became a staff member of the West Tampa Scientology org in
2005. (“Org” is short for “organization” and refers to a local center where
Scientologists undergo training.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Within a few months he fell
under the spell of a Scientology celebrity in Clearwater—Denise Miscavige
Gentile, the twin sister of Scientology leader David Miscavige. In May 2006 she
became Brennan’s Scientology “auditor” or Scientology psychotherapist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">On February 16, 2007,
Brennan was working selling Scientology literature at the Florida State Fair in
Tampa. He later told police that he arrived home, found Kyle dead, and—instead
of immediately dialing 911—called Denise Miscavige Gentile first to ask her
what to do. (The 911 call went out just after midnight.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The police report states
that Brennan returned home “near midnight,” but Brennan—since the death of his
only son—has told various stories of that evening, stories with differing
timelines. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">He first told Kyle’s family
in Charlottesville that he got home at 10:30 after having dinner with some
friends. This version, of course, puts him in his apartment at the time of
Kyle’s death. Brennan later changed his time of arrival to 11:20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Denise’s husband Jerry
Gentile—in a report dated the day after Kyle’s death to the international
headquarters in Los Angeles of Scientology’s intelligence agency, the Office of
Special Affairs (OSA)—says that he and Denise both went to Tom’s apartment.
Later they would lie under oath and say that only Jerry went, arriving shortly
after Officer Yuen was at the scene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Around 3:00 p.m. that
afternoon (Saturday, February 17), Clearwater Police Department Detective
Stephen Bohling began his investigation. The police did not seal off Brennan’s
apartment to wait for his inspection. He never went to the apartment to
investigate the scene personally. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Forensic Investigator
Jennifer McCabe and Medical Investigator Marti Scholl had arrived at the scene
shortly 20 – 30 minutes after Jonathan Yuen. McCabe swabbed Kyle’s hands for a
Gun Shot Residue (GSR) test to see if Kyle had pulled the trigger on the weapon
that killed him. Bohling later blocked processing of the GSR, and lied to
Kyle’s family telling them that the GSR test <i>had not</i> been done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Without fingerprints,
without the bullet, and without a GSR test it is impossible to determine
whether Kyle’s death was a suicide or a homicide. Without this evidence it’s
also impossible to determine whether Brennan’s .357 was used to kill Kyle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">In violent deaths such as
Kyle’ - deaths featuring a suspicious lack of evidence - Florida statutes
demand that the police investigation consider the possibility of homicide. But
Detective Bohling ignored statutory requirements and declared Kyle’s suspicious
death a suicide. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Bohling based his
determination of suicide on the finding of Marti Scholl. She, however, said
that she had declared Kyle’s death a suicide because she had <i>been informed</i> that there was a suicide
note [by the police]. Detective Bohling, under oath, later stated that <i>there was no</i> <i>suicide note</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle’s mother Victoria
Britton, his step-father Rick Britton, and his older brother Scott, could not
get straight answers from either Brennan or Detective Bohling to the most basic
questions about what had happened to Kyle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">No one from the police
department called Victoria to inform her, as next of kin, that Kyle had died,
nor did they request her permission to perform an autopsy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The family’s suspicions
deepened when Brennan returned Kyle’s laptop and they discovered that all of
Kyle’s documents—everything—had been deleted. Kyle was a prolific writer and a
conscientious student. He saved everything he wrote.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stonewall Kyle’s family for the next year and a half. He kept the investigation
open. Victoria had to appeal to elected officials to get Bohling to close the
investigation before the expiration of the statute of limitations two years
after Kyle’s death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">In February 2009, Victoria
Britton—as the executor of the Estate of Kyle Brennan—filed a wrongful-death
lawsuit in federal court in Florida. The suit names as defendants Tom Brennan,
Denise Miscavige Gentile and Jerry Gentile, the Church of Scientology, and Flag
(</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">the organization that runs
Scientology in Clearwater).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">In December 2011, US Federal
Court Judge Stephen Merryday dismissed the case and granted the Scientology
defendants’ motion for summary judgment. Victoria’s lawyer Luke Lirot filed an
appeal in February 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">In a comment on Merryday’s
dismissal and Lirot’s appeal, lawyer Scott Pilutik <a href="https://whyweprotest.net/community/bookmarks/?post_id=2061851">writes</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The
essence of Lirot's argument is that Judge Merryday wrongly usurped the jury's
role in deciding matters of fact at the summary judgment stage; a judge may
only decide matters of law in a motion for summary judgment, and Merryday
exceeded his authority at this stage by deciding matters of witness credibility
and rejecting the jury's role in plausibly inferring the defendants' liability
from the evidence presented. … In other words, Merryday conducted the full
trial in his head, rather than letting the jury decide whether, for instance,
Lance Marcor's testimony was credible. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Final oral arguments before
a panel of three federal judges will be heard in the Appeals Court in
Jacksonville, Florida, on the morning of Friday, September 14. The judges’
decision is expected to be announced sometime after Thanksgiving.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Though the public—thanks to
Tom Cruise’s rants—is somewhat aware of Scientology’s opposition to psychiatry,
very few realize the depths of destructive hatred Scientologists bear towards
psychiatry and psychiatric patients. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">For the new millennium,
Denise’s brother David Miscavige set down the following as a prime objective
for all Scientologists: “the total eradication of psychiatry in all its forms.”
He added, “Let’s get rid of psychiatry, and let’s bring Scientology to every
man, woman and child on this planet.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Scientology doesn’t want to
simply reform psychiatry. It wants to destroy psychiatry and the mental health
professions, and replace them with indoctrination into Scientology and the
organization’s own brand of psychotherapy called “auditing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Scientology’s hatred of
psychiatry is extreme and vicious. Scientologists believe that psychiatrists
caused the Holocaust, 9/11 and the killings at Columbine. They believe there is
an epidemic of psychiatrists raping their patients. They believe psychiatric
medications are pure poison.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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McNamara with only mild depression and social anxiety, conditions not uncommon
in college students. He prescribed him the anti-depressant Lexapro and
continued therapy with him. Kyle talked with Dr. McNamara by phone and gave him
permission to discuss anything with his parents. Dr. McNamara met with Kyle—to
see how he was doing on the medication—every three months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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effectively with therapy and medication. He continued his studies as a
second-semester freshman at Piedmont Virginia Community College where he
studied art and took humanities courses. He continued to write short stories,
reflections, and poetry—all of which he saved on his laptop. He particularly
enjoyed writing horror stories. Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King were his
literary mentors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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his future, and discussed with Dr. McNamara his desire to take a trip to visit
schools he could transfer to after his sophomore year. He was eager to travel
on his own for the first time in his life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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until June of 2006 when he received a fateful invitation from Brennan to come
and live with him in Clearwater, Florida, for a semester.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Scientologists live with a
Doomsday worldview. They believe that all of human civilization has passed the
stage of no return and is hurtling towards decay and disaster because
psychiatrists control not only the mental health professions but all societal
institutions, worldwide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">In this bleak outlook,
Scientologists believe themselves under constant attack by persons and
institutions seeking, at every turn, to suppress and thwart Scientology’s
efforts for “planetary salvage.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">They believe these
“Suppressive Persons” (or SPs) are everywhere, including within the Church of
Scientology itself. For this reason the Church’s intelligence and security
agency—the Office of Special Affairs (OSA)—is ever on the alert for internal
sabotage by SPs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">OSA carries out frequent
security checks and interrogations to ensure their members’ loyalty to L. Ron
Hubbard (the Church of Scientology’s founder) and David Miscavige (its current
leader).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">To Scientologists, SPs are
not merely ideological enemies of their Church. Their very being is capable of
contaminating a Scientologist, causing him to make errors, have accidents, and
become sick.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">It doesn’t take much to
become an SP. A grandmother who expresses unhappiness about her granddaughter
becoming a Scientologist, for example, would be considered an SP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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procedures demand that a Scientologist “handle or disconnect” from an SP.
“Handling,” in Scientology jargon, means “removing counter-intention from the
environment and removing other-intention.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">In English, this means
reducing opposition to L. Ron Hubbard—and his teachings—to zero, and then
turning the subject’s interest away from everything else in order to focus on
Hubbard, Scientology, and the interests of the Church of Scientology. If a
Scientologist fails at “handling” an SP, he is then required to
“disconnect”—that is, permanently break off all communication.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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loving mothers have not seen or heard from their children in five, ten, and in
one case thirty-five years. Because of Scientology, these children were forced
to disconnect. To these Scientology-controlled offspring their mothers are
virtually dead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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disconnect he faces a severe penalty: he is forbidden from being audited or
taking courses, and his progress in Scientology is blocked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">When Brennan first learned,
in June 2006, that Kyle was a psychiatric patient, he was faced with the
requirement to “handle” him. Denise Miscavige Gentile had just become his
auditor, and he could not continue his therapy with her unless he handled his
son or disconnected from him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Hubbard had written what’s
called a “fair game” policy for the handling of SPs. According to the founder,
SPs may be “tricked, lied to, sued, or destroyed.” In true Scientology fashion,
Brennan proceeded to lie to Kyle, trick him, and eventually to destroy him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Knowing of Kyle’s plans to
transfer out of Charlottesville to an out-of-state college, Brennan invited
Kyle to live with him in Clearwater for a semester. Denise employed Tom as a
handyman for six of her rental properties and referred him to a realty company
that soon became a major client.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Brennan promised Kyle that
he would have a comfortable place to stay, and a $15-an-hour job working for
him in his handyman business. He also promised he would show Kyle around the
campus of the University of South Florida to see if he wanted to transfer
there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle was overjoyed. Victoria
gave her consent, but told Brennan not to interfere with Kyle’s Lexapro
regimen. She wanted to make sure that Kyle continued taking it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle arrived on August 15,
2006, and spent the next three weeks in the exclusive company of Denise’s
circle of Scientologists. (This included Wendy Jill Borden—a second-generation
Scientologist from New York taking advanced training in Florida—who Denise had
introduced to Brennan. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">They married shortly after Kyle’s
visit.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Immediately after arriving,
Kyle learned that there was no comfortable place to stay. Instead he had to
sleep on a sofa in what he called “a Scientology flop house” on Habana Avenue
in Tampa near the West Tampa Scientology </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Org where Tom worked. There was no job. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle later told his family
that he was duped by Brennan. Brennan had lured Kyle to Clearwater for the sole
purpose of handling him. (This had begun in June. Since that time, back in
Charlottesville, Kyle and Victoria had been inundated with a steady stream of
Scientology anti-psychiatry propaganda.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Tom soon moved from Habana
Avenue into a two-bedroom apartment at 323 Cleveland Street. Kyle stayed in one
bedroom while Brennan and Wendy occupied the other. (It was in this latter
bedroom—Brennan’s bedroom—that Kyle’s body was found six months later during
his second visit to Clearwater.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Downtown Clearwater is
Scientology-occupied territory. Brennan’s apartment building is located near
the corner of Cleveland St. and Ft. Harrison Avenue. The Coachman Building—where
Denise, Wendy, and Tom Brennan took their Scientology training—is located on
another corner. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">A block further south on Fort
Harrison Avenue stands the Fort Harrison Hotel, where well-heeled
Scientologists from all over the world receive their high-priced auditing and
training in a resort atmosphere. The entire Clearwater operation is run by the
Flag Organization, where Denise training as a student auditor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The first attempt to “handle” Kyle<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle—who thought of
Scientologists as damaged people—was subjected to handling the entire three
weeks he was in Clearwater. There was no $15-an-hour job. Instead, Brennan and
Wendy pressured him to take Scientology’s bogus personality test. From this
they hoped to leverage Kyle into taking courses and studying Scientology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle resisted these efforts.
One day—after witnessing Brennan hawking Scientology literature at a local
mall—Kyle called Victoria saying, “Mom, tell me I am not sharing DNA with this
dude! He is making an ass of himself!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Oblivious, Brennan continued
his attempt at handling his son. This led to a heated argument on September 5
that resulted in Kyle fleeing Clearwater in terror on September 7. In this
quarrel, Brennan told Kyle that he was wasting his time with college and that Scientology
was all he needed to succeed in life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Brennan said that Victoria
was destroying him with Dr. McNamara and his medication, and that McNamara
would eventually publish Kyle’s patient records on the Internet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle fought back saying that
only an idiot would believe in anything L. Ron Hubbard had to say. After retreating
to his room, Kyle overheard Brennan and Wendy discussing him. They referred to
Kyle as an SP and an Enemy of the Church of Scientology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Exhausted, Kyle laid down
for a nap. Brennan entered his room and stood next to the bed, holding a heavy
piece of office equipment over Kyle’s head. Startled awake—and seeing heavy
object hovering above him—he was terrified. He called Victoria to get him home
to Charlottesville immediately.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Hurricane Ernesto was
threatening the Florida Gulf Coast so Victoria was unable to book a flight the
following day. Kyle flew home instead on September 7. For his last two nights
in the apartment, Kyle put furniture against his door to protect himself from
Brennan. When he left he did not say goodbye.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle plans for his journey<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">When Kyle returned home to
Charlottesville, he told his family what had happened, saying, “You have no
idea of what Scientology has done to my father.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Victoria had hastily
re-enrolled him in his junior college, and Kyle returned to his normal life. He
continued to write with his usual assiduousness, worked hard on two art
classes, and took meticulous notes for his online Sociology class.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle was an investor—he was
smart about money and conservative in his spending. He continued to invest in
gold and silver coins. He had around $8,000 in savings and coins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Brennan’s vicious attempts
at handling Kyle had come as a shock. In order to interfere with Kyle’s therapy
and medication, Brennan had deceived and betrayed him. Back at home, Kyle asked
Victoria to assure him that she would never do anything to harm him. His
ability to trust Brennan had been shattered. This had shaken his ability to
trust his family as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Over the next two months
Kyle decided that he needed to get away on his own. Getting away would give him
the opportunity to look at other schools. Kyle talked this over with Dr.
McNamara.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Ivy Gardens fire<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Tom Brennan and Victoria had
separated in 1998 when Kyle was twelve. They later divorced. After the
separation, Brennan started over in Scientology and had to retake the basic
courses. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">He would have needed
auditing to sort through his issues with his family and his return to
Scientology. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Brennan had first read L.
Ron Hubbard’s <i>Dianetics</i>—the book that
launched Scientology in 1950—when he was 19 years old. As Scientology’s
fundamental textbook, <i>Dianetics: The
Modern Science of Mental Health</i> established auditing as Hubbard’s
replacement for standard psychotherapy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">In his early twenties
Brennan had worked in Miami as a chef, and had been a member of the Miami org
for two years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Starting over would have
been expensive. Brennan frequently drove the 120 miles up to the Washington,
DC, Founding Church to undergo his re-indoctrination. He even persuaded Kyle to
visit the org when he was 16 years old. Kyle didn’t like it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">While they were together,
Victoria and Tom Brennan had jointly run a lucrative family catering business
called Breton’s. After the separation, Victoria withdrew from operational and
legal involvement. In lieu of alimony she was to receive her regular salary, and
share of the profits, in order to support Kyle until he was 18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sometime after their
separation, Brennan started embezzling money from the company. Alerted to the
embezzlements by the firm’s accountant, Victoria went to the company office and
checked the financial records. Tom responded by moving the business papers to
his apartment in the nearby Ivy Gardens complex.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">In early April of 2000,
Brennan tossed a lit cigarette into a wastepaper basket in his apartment. The
resulting fire gutted the apartment and destroyed the Breton’s business papers.
It also destroyed the apartments occupied by three University of Virginia
first-year law students and <a href="http://www.law.virginia.edu/pdf/vajournal/monahan.pdf">rendered eight
people homeless.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle’s oldest brother Scott,
who was 25 at the time, lived in an apartment in a different part of the
complex. He had done clerical work on the papers in Brennan’s Ivy Gardens
apartment, and had been disturbed to see evidence of Brennan’s wrongdoing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Hearing the fire trucks,
Scott came running. He was sickened when he realized the fire had started in
Brennan’s apartment. Finding Tom Brennan in the crowd of onlookers, Scott asked
him what was going on. Brennan crushed out a cigarette underfoot and walked off
without saying anything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ivy Gardens sued Brennan.
The fire was declared accidental—even though it was determined that it had
originated in Brennan’s wastepaper basket—and the claims were settled through
the insurance company. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle was in high school—he
was 14-years-old—when he learned about Brennan’s embezzling and the Ivy Gardens
fire. Both of these took place while Tom Brennan was furthering his commitment
to Scientology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Preparations for the journey<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle had more than enough in
savings and gold and silver coins to finance his journey. One thing remained:
he had to lay in a supply of Lexapro. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Knowing that Victoria was
going to refill his prescription on the day after Thanksgiving—amid the throng
of Black Friday shoppers—Kyle cleverly went to a different pharmacy and also
refilled the prescription. He now had a two-month supply of his medication.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">And so Kyle set out on his
journey the Friday after Thanksgiving. He departed without telling anyone where
he was going or what he was doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle spent the next two
months working through the cognitive complexities of family trust and their
dense emotions. When he resolved these issues he felt regret at the anguish he
had inflicted on his family, particularly on his mother. (All of this Kyle
later expressed to Victoria’s brother—Gary Robinson of Ft. Myers, Florida—in a
two-and-one-half hour phone conversation.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Iowa and California<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Detective Bohling and the
Scientology lawyers defamed Kyle repeatedly after his death. The lawyers
described Kyle on his cross-country trip as “wandering aimlessly about.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is completely false,
however, as Kyle had carefully planned his journey. His plan was to visit
schools in Iowa—he evidently liked that part of the country because the crime
rate is low—and then take in the San Diego, California, area where Tom
Brennan’s sisters lived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle flew from Charlottesville
to Waterloo, Iowa. There were colleges in the area that interested him. He
established himself in a motel for the month of December. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">He was friendly as he
usually was, and chatted with the motel desk clerk about visiting schools and
weighing alternatives for education and work. Kyle continued to work on his
online Sociology course and completed it before Christmas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Worried about Kyle mainly
because he was traveling with a considerable amount of cash and valuable coins,
Victoria located him three days after he left. (Studying the search history on
the family computer, it was quickly discovered that Kyle had frequently googled
schools in the Waterloo area. Calls to the motels near Hawkeye Community
College proved successful.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Over the phone she told Kyle
that the family was not angry at him and that they loved him. He could take all
the time he needed to think things through. Victoria also told him to buy a
cell phone and have the bills sent home to Charlottesville. (When they arrived,
the family was thus able to see where Kyle had been. From these bills it was
later learned that Kyle had called numerous FBI offices.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Jeff Attwood: </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A
compassionate FBI agent<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">In early January Kyle left
Waterloo and traveled to Des Moines. He walked into the local office of the FBI
and met with Special Agent Jeff Attwood. Kyle talked about Tom Brennan’s
crimes. He also related the struggles he was going through—sorting things out
on his own—and that he needed some help. Attwood gave him the name of a local facility.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">When Agent Attwood asked for
contact information, Kyle gave him the Charlottesville number. He told Attwood
that if something should happen to him the agent should call Victoria and his
brother Sean. Kyle said they were the people closest to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Attwood recognized that Kyle
Brennan was no ordinary runaway. He phoned Victoria and told her that Kyle—who
he described as well-spoken with good manners—was a little rumpled, but
basically okay. Had he thought Kyle was in some sort of psychological crisis he
would have never let him leave his office.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">San Diego: Aunt Carrie’s fight with Brennan about psychiatry<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle had long wanted to
visit California. He spoke with his father, and Brennan arranged for him to
stay with his sister, Carrie Brennan Farrell, and her husband, Jeff Ferrell, in
San Diego. Kyle barely knew them—he hadn’t seen them since he was twelve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">As in Iowa, Kyle talked
about his options for the future, and Carrie wrote down for him the number of a
Coast Guard recruiter. He also talked about the psychologically rough time he
was going through, and how much the Lexapro helped him. Carrie gave him the
name of a local therapist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Carrie talked to Brennan and
told him of her concern that Kyle get competent professional help. Naturally,
this phone conversation brought out Brennan’s ludicrous Scientology-based
dogma. They had the biggest fight of their lives as Brennan went into an
all-out anti-psychiatry hate rant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Maui<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle called his uncle, Gary
Robinson—a man Kyle respected and trusted—when he was in San Diego. Gary
suggested that Kyle vacation in Maui to take in the beaches and check out the
girls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle thought this was a
great idea and booked a flight to Maui. It was the height of the season, and
Kyle was as reluctant as ever to spend money unnecessarily. He spent just one
night in a hotel and then went to Wal-Mart and bought a tent and camping gear
so he could camp out on the beach. The receipts from these purchases Kyle
diligently saved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">When Victoria discovered
Kyle had gone to Maui she got the Maui police to look for him. The police
reported back that he was in good shape. Kyle’s eyes were clear, they said. He
was calm and talkative and had no fear of the police. Kyle told them that he
wanted to call his mother but his cell phone battery had run out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">On February 5, 2007, Kyle
was assaulted by someone trying to steal his backpack. He immediately called
911 and filed a report. He also called the Clearwater Police Department to let
them know he was coming to Clearwater and them to bre informed in case anything
should happen to him while he was there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The importance of Gary Robinson<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The assault caused Kyle to
rethink his plans. The bouncing around had now turned into something of an
ordeal. Kyle decided he was tired of traveling. He wanted to go home and get
back to school. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">He decided to visit Tom
Brennan in Clearwater on his way home to Charlottesville. Over the phone
Brennan agreed, and Kyle bought his ticket.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Unfortunately, Kyle missed
his flight. Needing a friendly voice to talk to, Kyle called his uncle Gary and
spoke with him for two and a half hours. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">During this call, Kyle
expressed his regret at the anguish his journey had caused his family,
particularly Victoria. He spoke at length about his plans for the future. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">He told Gary he still had
all of his gold coins with him. (When, after Kyle’s death, Brennan shipped
Kyle’s belongings to his home in Charlottesville, all of the gold coins were
missing.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Most importantly, Kyle told
Gary he was taking Lexapro every day. He explained that on his journey he had
been spacing out the doses because he was afraid of running out. Gary assured
him he that he need not worry because he could get all the refills he needed
now that he was on his way home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle continued taking the
Lexapro every day until Tom Brennan seized it from him and locked it in the
trunk of his BMW 318i the day before Kyle’s death or perhaps a day earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle arrived in Clearwater
late on the night of Wednesday, February 7, 2007. He died nine days later on
the night of Friday, February 16. Kyle had returned to the apartment where Tom
Brennan and Wendy had tried to “handle” him for being an SP and an Enemy of
Scientology. Kyle was back in the room where Brennan had terrorized him six
months earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to handle Kyle throughout this second visit to Clearwater. Pressure was
mounting on them from Scientology officials to handle Kyle once and for all
since they had failed the previous August.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">From Brennan’s apartment
Kyle called Ivy Gardens in Charlottesville, and continued to call FBI offices.
When Brennan discovered this—on February 13, three days before Kyle’s death—he
confronted Kyle and demanded to know what he was doing. Kyle refused to tell
him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">By Wednesday, February 14,
Tom Brennan was frantic because now he was in grave trouble. Kyle’s contacting
the FBI constituted a serious threat to Brennan, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Denise
Miscavige, and the Church of Scientology itself. This
was far more serious than Kyle’s use of Lexapro.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kyle was now a double
threat. Kyle’s psychiatric treatment, and use of a psychotropic drug, made him
an obvious SP, an Enemy of Scientology. But Kyle’s whistle blowing to the
FBI—and the uncertainty over what exactly Kyle told the federal agents—must
have infuriated his Scientology-obsessed father. (Later it was learned, through
the Flag documents demanded by the court, that Tom Brennan—that week—had been <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/80489084/Kyle-Brennan-Scientology-Case-Redacted-Sec-Check-Document">ordered
officially</a> to “handle” his son, Kyle Brennan.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">This important case is now
approaching its final stages. In Jacksonville, Florida, on September 14, Luke
Lirot—the attorney for the Estate of Kyle Brennan—will argue an appeal before a
three-judge federal panel. Journalists and the public are <a href="http://justiceforkylebrennan.blogspot.com/2012/08/kyle-brennan-vs-scientology-oral.html">encouraged
to attend</a>. We hope the oral arguments will spark more media and public
interest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">On the fifth anniversary of
Kyle’s death the God Discussion website <a href="https://whyweprotest.net/community/threads/kyle-brennan-lawyer-luke-lirot-to-speak-online-live-thurs-2-16.100232/#post-2060113">interviewed
Lirot</a> regarding the case for an hour and a half on its Thursday night radio
show. In the interview, Lirot stated that the scene of Kyle’s death, and
Detective Bohling’s investigation and police report raise many question marks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Here are but a few: the
fairly obvious evidence tampering that took place after Kyle’s death (these are
felonies); the entanglement of Denise Miscavige Gentile and the lying done to
cover up her involvement (felonies when told under oath); Detective Bohling’s relationship
with Scientology’s intelligence agency, his Scientology-biased investigation
and mendacious police report (more felonies).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">This massive lying has a
single purpose: to isolate Denise Miscavige from any connection with Kyle’s
death and to do so by defaming Kyle Brennan posthumously as a deteriorating,
delusional paranoid schizophrenic instead of the mildly depressed 20-year-old
college student he was, struggling with the trauma inflicted by his father on
him as an Enemy of Scientology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">These are the subject of
Part Two of our series <i>The death of 20-year-old Kyle
Brennan as an Enemy of the Church of Scientology:<u> </u></i><i><u>Detective
Bohling covers up Kyle Brennan’s death for Denise Miscavige.</u><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Help get justice for Kyle Brennan!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Victoria Britton has taken
on the arrogance and power of Scientology to find out the truth about Kyle’s
death so that no mother will ever have to suffer the loss of another child to
Scientology. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Luke Lirot is representing
Kyle’s estate pro bono, but there have many costs she must bear herself
including filing fees and depositions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">You can help get justice for
Kyle by supporting her with messages of encouragement and by sending her money
to help pay for costs of this important case. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">You can contact her and donate
by PayPal using her email address: <a href="mailto:vbreton2062@aol.com">vbreton2062@aol.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Or you can write her and
mail a check to:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Victoria Britton<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">c/o Friends of Kyle Britton<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">3144 Ridgefield Rd<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Charlottesville, VA 22911<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Thank you for your
generosity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">- Justin Ross<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sources<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Court filings and especially
depositions form the primary source for the narrative of Kyle’s targeting as an
Enemy of Scientology and his suspicious death. These are found at <a href="http://www.scribd.com/collections/3472618/Scientology-Lawsuits-Kyle-Brennan">Scientology
Lawsuits: Kyle Brennan</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Foremost in importance is <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/80488261/Kyle-Brennan-Scientology-Case-VLB-Chronology-Letter-to-Attorney">Victoria
Britton’s Chronology</a> written from her notes. They provide crucial
background on Kyle, Brennan’s attack on him for being a psychiatric patient,
the Ivy Gardens fire, and his final journey. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/80501927/Kyle-Brennan-Scientology-Case-Second-Declaration-of-Lance-Marcor-27-Sep-2010">Second
Declaration of Lance Marcor</a> provides detailed explanation of strict
Scientology procedures that Tom Brennan and Denise Miscavige had to comply with
under penalty of punishment. Marcor is a former Flag Organization executive
with 18 years of experience managing Flag personnel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Detective Stephen Bohling’s
investigative report forms the faulty foundation of Brennan and Denise
Miscavige’s defense against their involvement in Kyle’s death. Bohling
falsifies Dr. McNamara’s diagnosis of Kyle, accommodates the Scientology
defendants and lawyers at every turn, and lies repeatedly about critical
events. Bohling’s lies are exposed in <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/80498129/Kyle-Brennan-Scientology-Case-Stephen-Bohling-Deposition-Transcript-22-Jul-2010">his
deposition.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The depositions of <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/81877055/Kyle-Brennan-Scientology-Case-Thomas-Brennan-Deposition-Transcript-08-Jun-2010">Tom
Brennan</a> and <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/80499046/Kyle-Brennan-Scientology-Case-Denise-Miscavige-Gentile-Deposition-Transcript-02-Aug-2010">Denise
Miscavige Gentile</a> reveal essential lies told about the purchase of
ammunition for Tom’s .357 Magnum, the time of Kyle’s death, and Scientology’s
role in his death. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The quote from David
Miscavige commanding the “total elimination of psychiatry in all its forms” is
found in Katharine Mieszkowski’s <i><a href="http://www.salon.com/2005/07/01/sci_psy/">Scientology’s War on Psychiatry</a></i>
and at <i><a href="http://www.scientology-lies.com/faq/society/psychiatry.html">Scientology
and Psychiatry</a></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">For further reading
Wikipedia articles are a good resource.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology"> Scientology</a> is so
controversial that articles give a balanced presentation with a wealth of links
to sources. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">To understand Kyle’s being
targeted as an Enemy of Scientology as a psychiatric patient the following are
useful: The doctrine on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressive_person">Suppressive Persons and
Potential Trouble Sources</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_and_psychiatry">Scientology and
Psychiatry</a>; Hubbard’s infamous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology)">Fair Game</a> policy
to which Kyle was subjected; and the workings of Scientology’s intelligence
agency, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special_Affairs">Office
of Special Affairs</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Jonny Jacobsen at <a href="http://infinitecomplacency.blogspot.com/">InfiniteComplacency</a> has an excellent summary of the <a href="http://infinitecomplacency.blogspot.com/2012/03/brennan-case-goes-to-appeal.html">convoluted
history</a> of the wrongful death suit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247569912019368788noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672576942208102152.post-35696189190424874102012-08-23T02:01:00.000-07:002012-09-07T08:06:12.460-07:00UPDATED: Kyle Brennan vs the Church of Scientology: Oral arguments in Jacksonville September 14UPDATE: This post has been updated with the names of the judges on the appeal panel and a change in the time of the oral arguments. (For details see <a href="http://justiceforkylebrennan.blogspot.com/2012/09/kyle-brennan-names-of-judges-on-appeals.html">Kyle Brennan: Names of judges on the appeal panel announced</a> )<br />
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Oral arguments in the Kyle Brennan wrongful death suit against the Church of Scientology will be heard before a panel of three federal judges in Jacksonville, Florida, on the morning of Friday, September 14.<br />
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The oral arguments are open to the public. The court opens at <strike>8:30</strike> 8:00 am, and Kyle's case will be heard sometime between <strike>9:00</strike> 8:30 am and noon.<br />
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Each side has fifteen minutes. The judges will deliberate and are expected to publish their decision after Thanksgiving. The names of the judges <strike>will be released</strike> were released on August 28: Judges Frank Hull of Atlanta, Stanley Marcus of Miami, and Emmett Cox of Mobile.<br />
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Victoria Britton will be there along with members of the press, former Scientologists and other critics of Scientology abuses.<br />
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Please let your friends in the Jacksonville area to attend. It is important for the judges to see members of every segment of society standing up for justice for Kyle and Victoria against the power and money of the Church of Scientology.<br />
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Details:<br />
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Date: Friday, September 14, 2012<br />
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Court of Appeals case number: 12-10024<br />
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Time: <strike>9:00 am</strike> 8:30 am to noon (Courthouse opens at 8:00 am)<br />
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Place: US Federal Appeals Court in Jacksonville, Florida<br />
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300 North Hogan Street, Court of
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Jacksonville, Florida 32202<o:p></o:p></div>
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