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Tory Christman insists in repeating her twisted version of the facts, but her ex-husband, who tried to salvage their marriage had the following to say about what really happened:
March 8th, 2006
To Religious Freedom Watch:
I was married to Tory Christman for 26 years. She left me in July 2000 while I was away on a business trip.
When I spoke to her the night of July 19, 2000, she said she was leaving for a while and would be home in a week or two. She lied repeatedly about where she was going, and refused to talk to me any further about what was going on. When I asked her why she was leaving, she told me to call our friends and they’d tell me what was happening. She said she had to go and hung up.
I called our friends and they told me that Tory was going to Florida and would be changing planes in Chicago the next morning. I drove to Chicago and stopped at my sister’s house. She said she’d had a long talk with Tory and Tory told her that she was leaving me, saying she was leaving Scientology and was unhappy with our relationship. Tory also told my mother, step-father and brother that she was leaving me, saying it was no big deal as we weren’t getting along anyway. (All this from a woman who told me two weeks earlier that I’d thrown her “the best birthday party ever and that I was the most wonderful husband in the world.”)
I drove to the airport and met Tory as she was changing planes. I told her I’d cancelled the rest of the business trip and wanted to go to a resort and talk with her and find out what was going on. She told me she did not want to be a Scientologist anymore and that she was leaving the Church. I said, “Okay, you don’t have to be a Scientologist if you don’t want to, just don’t leave me. Let’s go away by ourselves.” She told me, “No way, my ticket is paid for, I have to go.” She then threatened to have me arrested if I “bothered” her again. I then told her I’d get a ticket and fly with her and we could talk. She repeated that she’d have me arrested if I didn’t leave her alone. I took a later flight to Florida and found her in an airport hotel.
I tried to talk to her again in private but she refused, saying she’d only talk to me in the presence of her new friends. She again threatened to call security if I insisted on talking with her away from her new friends. I took a room and invited her up for dinner and a movie. She said “maybe later” but she never called me.
The next day I called her to talk and she said she was sleeping and asked if I could bring her some toiletries. When I went to set them outside her room, the door of the next room opened and she was sitting on the bed talking to one of her new friends. She was in her night gown. She didn’t want to talk to me and she got angry when I questioned the motives of her new friends. I talked to her once more that night with her friends waiting in the next room
After that night, she was out of touch for weeks. Whenever she called me she needed money and her epilepsy medicine, both of which I arranged for her. As a side note, Tory has complained to reporters that the Church ordered her to stop taking her medication. This is a complete fabrication. She wanted to quit taking the medicine because she didn’t like it, but she was never told to do so by the Church at any time since I’d met her in 1974. In fact, she was told by the Church and by a Scientologist doctor that it was not necessary for her to stop taking her medicine.
Several months later Tory called me saying she was going to move to Florida permanently and was coming home to pack. She wanted her car serviced so she could drive it cross country. When she finally arrived home, she showed up with her friend Nancy Many who helped her set up an inexpensive divorce agreement by recommending we utilize “We the People” - a business which does this. Tory made the appointment and she wanted me to be the petitioner, as she was going to move to Florida and it’d be easier for them to contact me.
After helping her pack for a month, she decided she wasn’t going to go. She thought we could live in the house and split the rent. I agreed to this in the hopes of repairing our marriage. But in the six months we lived under this arrangement, I never saw a dime from her. I covered all the rent, utilities, phone, food, etc. During this time she tried several jobs, but never made a go of it. I helped her and coached her and set up a financial plan for her, but to no avail.
She finally left permanently.
She now has been quoted a number of times over the years as saying I left her. It is time to put this lie to rest once and for all. She left me and our 26-year marriage with no notice at all and resisted all attempts to put our relationship back together. That is a truth she can never run away from no matter how far she goes.
Harold Bezazian
Report documents how extremists harness the power of the internet
Leo Adler of the Simon Wiesenthal Center tells one small city in Canada’s north that even they are not isolated from the epidemic of hate being generated by internet extremists….
Sudbury not immune from terrorism; One person can create a web of lies, Simon Wiesenthal researcher says
The Sudbury Star
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 - 09:00
Lara Bradley
Local News - Hate websites are becoming increasingly clever at luring in the young, angry or just plain curious, and we should all be vigilant, an expert says.
On the Internet, you can find games like Border Crossing in which the player shoots Mexican “wetbacks” - pregnant women with toddlers in tow as they scurry across the border.
Then there’s Ethnic Cleansing, where the player gets to custom-tailor the group he or she would like to hunt down; and Kaboom, in which the player gets to be a suicide bomber, earning points based on the size of the crowd taken out.
Leo Adler, director of national affairs for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, presented its 10th annual report on Digital Terrorism and Hate for 2007 to Sudbury media on Monday.
“Sudbury may be small compared to other Canadian cities, but it is not isolated,” Adler said. “All it takes is to attract and recruit one individual. … Sudbury is no further immune than Toronto, New York City or any other place.”
The centre, a human rights organization dedicated to fostering ideas of tolerance and understanding, has been monitoring the Internet since 1995. Back then, there was only one hate crime site called Stormfront, a group promoting white supremacy.
“Hate on Demand chronicles what has taken place,” Adler said. “How extremist groups harness the power of the Internet.”
Now, countless terrorists groups - from the Baby Liberation Army, which targets medical staff who perform abortions, to religious extremists pumping up suicide bombers to hardcore environmental groups promoting violence to achieve their ends - use the World Wide Web to disseminate information to members, as well as market themselves to potential members.
“Things don’t happen spontaneously,” he said. “Terrorism is extremely well organized.”
continued at: The Sudbury Star
For several weeks Chuck Beatty has been talking about how he “heroically” assisted Christian Markert “escape” from Buffalo, NY. When the true story was told that the person Beatty helped escaped appears to have been sent in by a German government official, Ursula Caberta, Beatty came out publicly asserting that Markert is “legit”.
Beatty went on to say, in one of his propaganda pieces, that Markert was now in “Caberta’s competent hands”.
There are several questions that Chuck Beatty should answer.
Did Caberta plan this out with Beatty?
Did Caberta contact Beatty and tell him to go to Buffalo to pick up her asset?
Or was David Touretzky contacted by Caberta?
We don’t expect Christian Markert to tell the truth. He is only capable of making empty legal threats and lying about his background. Who is going to pay for his attorney, Ursula Caberta? However, while Chuck Beatty claims that, in his view, Markert is legit, he should do his homework and find the answer to the following questions:
1.Markert claims that he has been a Scientologist for 7 years and, in some instances, stated that he was in the Church for 15 years. Where was he a member for such a long time?
2.How come Markert engaged in a correspondence with the Church in Buffalo stating that he had no time to go to the Church in Dublin because it was too far away? Markert claimed that he was living in Dublin and had a company there so why would Buffalo be closer than Dublin, especially when he claimed that he was a member of the Church in Dublin and had donated a very substantial amount of money to Dublin?
3.If Markert was such a successful businessman in Ireland and a wealthy one, according to his own words, how come he had to be picked up by Beatty? Why couldn’t he afford to pay for a hotel room but had to remain hidden at Linda Kirkhart’s house in Pittsburgh? Besides, if Markert was so wealthy why did he borrow money from Scientologists in Buffalo, and then pay them back with checks that bounced?
4.Markert stated to the European Court of Humans Rights that he was both German and American, dual citizenship. Why did Markert tell Scientologists in Buffalo that he had to travel to Austria, in April of 2007, to obtain a visa for the United States? If he had U.S. citizenship why did he need a visa?
5.Assuming that Markert lied to the European Court of Human Rights by telling the Court that he was an American citizen when he was not, then did Markert lie to U.S. Immigration authorities when he did not disclose his criminal convictions both in France and Germany?
Finally, Chuck Beatty believes that he will intimidate Religious Freedom Watch by making statements that he has alerted his employer, a local Pittsburgh paper, regarding this story. We are not surprised by Beatty’s intimidating tactics and we are not afraid of such attempting to silence us. What is Beatty hiding that he needs to resort to getting his employer to front for him if RFW continues its investigation into the Markert story?
On June 20, 2007, a press conference was held in the Berlin Parliament House involving speakers Ursula Caberta, Thomas Gandow, and Mr. Schiemann, member of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (German domestic intelligence).
A surprise guest was a man who claimed to be a former long-time Scientologist from the Church of Scientology of Buffalo, New York - Christian Markert. Markert was touted as having information about internal Church matters.
In view of the fact that renowned hate mongers Ursula Caberta and David Touretzky were connected to Markert’s sudden appearance on the anti-religious scene, Religious Freedom Watch investigated the matter.
We began with “Who is Christian J. Markert?” since only a handful of people in Buffalo had ever heard of him. Markert claims that he was born in Dinslaken, Germany. He also claims that he attended Robert Kennedy University in Los Angeles, California, from 1989 to 1993 and obtained an MBA degree. No such university exists.
Markert claimed he attended a private Junior High School in Los Angeles from 1980 to 1989, called Abitur. However, he also claimed that he attended Gymnasium Voerde in Germany from 1980 to 1989. How could he possibly attend both schools in the same time period in two different parts of the world? These are only a few of the inconsistencies that appear as one gathers up the countless stories Markert told to various people after he landed on Scientology’s doorstep in March of 2007 - stories that smack of a hastily rehearsed background fabricated by someone with something to hide.
Markert had come from overseas and boasted to several people in Buffalo that he was a successful businessman in Ireland, where he managed a company called Creaventure Consulting. To bolster this story, Markert claimed that one of his company’s clients had deposited 3 million Euros into their account to secure his company’s services, but that the Irish Revenue Service thought it was profit, which triggered, according to Markert, a tax investigation into Creaventure Consulting. Markert claimed that Creaventure Consulting went from 200,000 Euros in income to 22 million Euros in just three years, which also prompted a full audit of his company. Markert explained that there were 25 agents from the Irish Revenue Service doing the audit. But when Religious Freedom Watch had their correspondent in Ireland look into Creaventure Consulting, including official public records, there was no such company in existence or previously operating in Ireland.
The only evidence that could be found of Creaventure Consulting was the domain name, creaventure.com, which was registered on the internet in January of 2007, just a few weeks before Christian Markert began his brief involvement in Scientology which ended in June of 2007.
Does Creaventure Consulting only exist in the mind of Christian Markert? Or was it created for him by a few bungling individuals who hoped to place him as a “plant” within a Church for just a few months in the hope of gaining information that could be later spun into something that appeared incriminating? It certainly wouldn’t be the first time such a ploy has been used by would-be extortionists and their like.
Markert made many claims to Buffalo church personnel to try to appear as though he had a history in Scientology. He claimed that he was a member of a Church of Scientology in Ireland but, when inquires were made, not a single record could be found to support Markert’s claim. Markert also claimed that he had donated an exorbitant amount of money to the Church in Ireland. That also proved to be a complete fabrication. In fact, no one in Ireland had ever heard his name.
It appears that, in order to gain acceptance by Church members during his brief few months in Buffalo, Markert gave several entirely fabricated versions of having a history in Scientology. He told some people he was a Scientologist for 15 years, others for 10 years, still others for 7 years. The fact of the matter is that Christian Markert was never a Scientologist, he just infiltrated the Church under false pretenses and he was sent in with specific marching orders.
Who are the “handlers” of this wannabe spy?
Consider the timeline: Markert’s company name “Creaventure” first appears on the internet as a domain name registered on January 21, 2007. Five weeks later, on March 1st, Markert makes his first contact with Scientology at the Buffalo, New York, church. A mere four months after that, German native Christian Markert appears in Berlin at a press conference conveniently arranged by government official, Ursula Caberta, in support of her long-time campaign of slander against the Church of Scientology.
Concurrent with the end of Markert’s “career” as a bookseller in Scientology, a couple of extremists chronicled in the Anti-Religious Extremists section of Religious Freedom Watch began making claims about some dramatic event that was going to occur involving a former Scientology staff member.
Prior to the press conference in Berlin, David Touretzky announced from Carnegie Mellon University, that he was in contact with “an anonymous source” within the Church. Some days later Chuck Beatty, an apostate of Scientology, tried to tell a “dramatic” story of how he helped Christian Markert to “escape” from Buffalo and hid him away at his sister, Linda Kirkhart’s house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, while arrangements were being made to fly him back to Germany.
In fact this was a pre-planned infiltration designed to create a sensational story at that 20th of June 2007 press conference in Berlin - and the perpetrator needed a lift to the airport.
The “imagineers” of this attempted drama are extremists who spend most of their waking hours slandering the Church in the most vicious of terms with a devotion that only paid agent provocateurs can muster. Unfortunately for them, Markert, their wannabe spy, whom they spirited off to Berlin for this dramatic press conference, had nothing to show for his efforts except Scientology news that any staff member in the world could provide, even though Market did his level best to put an anti-religious spin on it.
“Getaway Driver”
“I drove from Pittsburgh to Buffalo, last Wednesday morning, picked up Christian [Markert], who had blown Buffalo staff and I picked him up and we went up to Niagra Falls for a late lunch, saw the American Falls at least, then came back to Pittsburgh, and he stayed here at my sister’s place for a couple days, then I got him to JFK, and then he got to Germany and to Ursula’s [Caberta] competent hands, etc.” - Chuck Beatty
In the attempt to make their amateurish spy operation seem successful, Chuck Beatty also broadcasted the following statement on the Internet, “Christian [Markert] was already a high level successful consultant (making hundreds of thousands of Euros per year)…He [Markert] became a Scientologist, helped the Dublin Mission, joined Mission staff there, donated tons of money for Dublin to get their building, then he volunteered to even help out at higher levels of staff …”.
It seems Beatty really wanted to ensure that people out there believed the prefabricated story about Markert being a successful businessman who became a Scientologist, doing it in such a way as to leave little doubt in our minds that he and other extremists had a hand in its manufacture.
But let’s go back a couple of months and specifically to April 2007 when Chuck Beatty met with Ursula Caberta in Hamburg, Germany. What was the purpose of the meeting between these extremists and what did Beatty and Caberta plan? It is of interest that Markert infiltrated the Church only a month prior and would soon be in need of someone to help orchestrate his “dramatic” exit from Scientology - or at least give him a ride to the airport just in time for Caberta’s press conference in Berlin. The Church of Scientology there is expanding in greater numbers than ever before, an expansion that Germany’s OPC (Office for the Protection of the Constitution) has worked hard to thwart for decades. Whatever the plan, it seems Beatty, Caberta and Touretzky didn’t think it all the way through. As is usual with a story strung together by lies, eventually it backfires on the perpetrators: David Touretzky, Ursula Caberta and their go-for, Chuck Beatty, used a convicted criminal to infiltrate the Church.
A simple search for Christian Markert on the worldwide web reveals that Markert was convicted in France for fraud and was also extradited to Germany for crimes he committed in that country.
Markert’s Criminal History
Here is a glimpse of Christian Markert’s fraudulent activities in both France and Germany:
12 June 1997, the Trial Court of Meaux (Paris, France) convicts Christian Markert of fraud and sentences him to 18 months in jail.
February 1997, German authorities issue an arrest warrant against Christian Markert, based on a 9 April and 29 November 1996 warrant issued by the court in Essen, Germany. The first warrant cites five instances of Markert’s illegal activities. The second, expanded warrant includes eight counts for various forms of fraud.
18 June 1997, Christian Markert is officially notified of the various outstanding arrest warrants in Germany.
10 July 1997, the German court issues an extradition request against Christian Markert.
June 1998, Christian Markert brings a case before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against France. His case was not accepted by the European Court.
13 August 1998, Christian Markert is officially notified of the extradition request.
3 May 1999, Christian Markert is extradited to Germany.
This is just scratching the surface of the documents easily available on the internet that evidence Markert’s history of fraud and criminality. If Religious Freedom Watch could find this evidence, so could computer expert David Touretzky and government official, Ursula Caberta. One must assume that they did.
It would be hard to believe that Ursula Caberta, with all her government intelligence contacts, did not know Markert was a criminal. Both Ursula Caberta and the OPC are very well aware that it is illegal to spy on a foreign country or a foreign organization. David Touretzky is employed by Carnegie Mellon University and receives US Government funds to supposedly study and experiment on rat brains. Instead he may have used resources funded by taxpayers to aid and abet a German government official and a convicted criminal in their efforts to spy on a US based Church. Chuck Beatty, is an accessory to all this, although he is motivated by hatred for his former religion. It is not known if Linda Kirkhart, Beatty’s sister, played any role in this operation besides innocent host her brother and Markert.
Was Markert promised some sort of a deal by Caberta and/or by the German government in exchange for infiltrating the Church of Scientology in Buffalo, New York, and causing havoc? Is this why Chuck Beatty traveled to Hamburg in the midst of this operation and then had to personally drive Markert from Buffalo to Pittsburgh and hide him away at Linda Kirkhart’s house until he flew off to decorate Caberta’s press conference?
Is Safetran aware of Rice’s activities?
Fredric Rice’s inflammatory lies about such religions as Christianity, Scientology, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, clearly serve no other purpose than to spread intolerance via the internet, the influence of which can be seen in the “The Influence of Hate” section of this site.
It appears that someone is fed up with Touretzky’s racism.
Some people, caught with their pants down, admit the truth. Others avoid the damning evidence, talk about other things, or assert the proof is not sufficiently credible.
In his continuing defense of racist/bigot Touretzky, DeSio either (1) didn’t bother to ask his fellow traveler Touretzky if the chat-room quotes of Touretzky’s disgusting and racist comments are accurate, or (2) asked and got an answer DeSio could not defend.
DeSio reveals that his definition of “credible” is whatever supports his pre-fabricated story. His sources overtly have conflicts of interest and could be expected to say what they said - that is of course, why DeSio quotes them. Its like going to Hamas and asking, “What do you think of Jews?” and then reporting that his intrepid investigation reveals “everyone” dislikes them. Then , when shown that his sources are biased, DeSio whines that the evidence of their bias is not (to him) credible.
And, contrary to DeSio’s protest, we didn’t say he committed crimes against journalism.
We’re saying his “story” got it wrong, it is based upon biased sources, and he demonstrably lacks the courage to admit it. We understand the modus operandi DeSio - his friend Touretzky is the same way. So was Machiavelli’s heroic Prince. Actually, DeSio’s methods closely follow a time-honored practice known as “yellow journalism.” DeSio has a manufactured message to convey and simply won’t let the truth get in the way of that message. We recognize that some journalists eschew information that contradicts their assertions. That’s the way yellow journalism works. But let’s not forget
what it is, and pretend it offers truth. DeSio had a job to do and he did it.
We understand biased people - that was why Religious Freedom Watch was created and that’s why Touretzky is featured. DeSio should carefully read it.
Thank you for the supporting comments and emails regarding the “Methinks you doth protest too much DeSio” article. We have been requested to post samples of the actual chat logs received by RFW showing some of Touretzky’s racial slurs.
Here is a portion of a chat log. Please note that Touretzky’s IP address is “~dst@Hidden_SP-679.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU”. Needless to say, while he was making racist statements, he was logged on from CMU.
Note: In the chat log you will see the initials “dst”, which stands for David Stuart Touretzky.
We seem to have hit a nerve in a comment regarding John DeSio’s unflinching support for bigot David Touretzky. Indeed, DeSio displays a troubling inability to take several sentences of criticism - while uttering all manner of generalities himself. DeSio claims that he was horribly misrepresented by a comment noting that in his inaccurate and biased article based on Touretzky’s opinions, there was no denial of Tourtezky’s abiding racism. DeSio now wants to correct the record to say that he stands behind the failure to note Touretzky’s racism, because it was DeSio himself, not his “source,” who felt the evidence of racism was not strong enough to mention the matter. DeSio whines, “Touretzky did, in fact, deny he was a racist. But since the evidence charging that he was a racist is so flimsy in the first place it was not even worth bringing up.”
You be the judge. DeSio had access to all of the statements from Touretzky quoted below. Is one who makes the following comments (verbatim quotes from Touretzky) a racist?:
“There should be a video game where you can beat Rodney King.” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
“Don’t quote that scumbag Jesse Jackson, Tory, or I’ll puke in your lap.” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
Regarding former California state Senator Diane Watson, now a Member of Congress:
“Oh, she’s a ’state’ senator. Did she get elected to congress after that statement was made? So now she’s their whore in Washington? … She is the former ambassador to Micronesia! and she’s black. I should have known. What are all the really st00000pid congresswomen black?” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
Reagrding Afro-Americans:
“Washington DC is more disgusting than Harlem. .. Disgusting as in rates of illegitimacy, drug abuse, domestic abuse, shootings, prostitution, welfare culture. I think Harlem has gotten better the last few years, but DC has not. White men don’t walk in Harlem at night.” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
“Although, your remark about ‘niggers’ reminds me of an incident I’d been meaning to tell you about. .. Back before we were all posting on Usenet, we had a local bulletin board system here at CMU. And one of those boards was dedicated to no-holds-barred discussion. … I asked on this board why we had no term that was the black equivalent of ‘white trash’. Because, you know, the N-word was totally unsuitable. We needed some other term. A term that would show that the speaker drew a deliberate distinction between people of a certain skin color who behaved decently (as in ‘decent white folk’) and those who behave badly (as in ‘white trash’).” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
“Living in trailers is a white thing. Drive-by-shootings are a black thing etc. Anyway, here’s the interesting part of my story. A colleague of mine, from Texas, took grave offense at my inquiry. He said that the reason people say ‘WHITE trash’ is to distinguish it from ordinary trash, which is ASSUMED to be black. So even “white trash” is an anti-black term. Personally, I think we need a term for ‘black trash’ so that people can express disapproval of a subculture without appearing to denounce an entire ethnic group.” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
“… we have a high infant mortality rate for a developed country, but it’s not because middle class people’s babies are dying. It’s because of crack whores giving birth to high risk premies. …I’m just telling the truth.” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
“Maybe [you] know something about crack whores that I don’t. … but if you want to talk about race…. infant mortality in the US is much higher for blacks than for whites. I have no idea what the racial breakdown of crack whores is. … I’m sure that blacks are over-represented in that profession, but in terms of absolute numbers, I don’t know.” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
“I’m not racist, I’m classist.” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
“Man, Hispanics are fucked up, which is why they’re still working class. Dipshits.” - David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Professor
Methinks you doth protest too much DeSio. Or do you find Touretzky’s racist comments so normal, and your defense of his bigoted statements so necessary to support your own deep hatred, that, as claimed, “it was not even worth bringing up?”
Touretzky was “interviewed” by a New York reporter regarding an issue about which Touretzky has never been able to respond: he’s a racist. Touretzky’s internet postings derogatory of Afro-Americans reveal his hatred for blacks. Touretzky considers blacks to be “really stupid”. He doesn’t like Hispanics either, who are also low-life’s in Touretzky’s opinion.
Asked by the reporter about the charges that he is a racist, Touretzky failed to deny a single one of his bigoted statements made in his favorite chat room, utilizing his typical evasion technique of asserting that his statements could not be found on Lexis-Nexis - as if that proved or disproved anything.
Touretzky’s hate propaganda campaigns are conducted under the imprimatur of Carnegie Mellon University.
“The next day I called her [Tory Christman] to talk and she said she was sleeping and asked if I could bring her some toiletries. When I went to set them outside her room, the door of the next room opened and she was sitting on the bed talking to one of her new friends [Mark Bunker]. She was in her night gown. She didn’t want to talk to me and she got angry when I questioned the motives of her new friends. I talked to her once more that night with her friends waiting in the next room.” - From a letter written by Tory Christman ex-husband.
Last Updated: Monday May 28 2007 | 10:36 AM ET Vandals slashed tires on three vehicles and left notes containing racist slurs in front of a Laotian-Canadian family’s new home in Ottawa’s west end on the weekend. “I was sick to my stomach and I’m still on an emotional roller-coaster right now …. Read the full article.
See article by Eric Heyl.
Interesting incident indeed. Is this the reason why CMU won’t act against David S. Touretzky?
Carnegie Mellon President Jared L. Cohon Reappointed for Third Five-Year Term. It is hoped that he will enforce CMU’s policies with regard to David S. Touretzky.
More discrimination.
Interesting article. David Touretzky is not the only one making racial slurs.
Here is another incident of racial slurs in the home State of Arnaldo Lerma.
If you should ever speak out against some of the anti-religious extremists featured on Religious Freedom Watch you are likely to become their target for exercising your Free Speech rights.
Oliver posted the following comment:
I saw the Glenn Beck interview with David Touretzky last night and after the show I looked him up in Google. Why is he going after a religion? Whether we like it or not it is not the point. Touretzky is obsessed with Scientology and he seems to spend a lot of his time, on our tax dollars, to go after your people.
He did not come across very sincere during that interview and frankly he did not seem to be an expert either. He might be a professor but it doesn’t make him an expert on anything he says.
He is an expert in rat research i.e. he does experiments with rats and studies their behavior and reactions.
Touretzky doesn’t appear to be an expert on any religion, so why present such a fake? I really like Beck’s show but when I see such people it makes me want to switch channels. Several of my friends who were watching it with me shared my feelings.
Nothing personal as I like the Glenn Beck show and his style, but he should spare us such nut cases on his show. They have nothing to teach us really. Like Beck I am not a fan of Scientology but I don’t have anything against them either and I grew up with a firm belief that what makes this country such a great nation is the First Amendment. Though Touretzky has his right to say what he thinks he should not come on CNN using his professorial attitude to tell us about something he knows nothing about. He never told us what his field of expertise really is, and on that count he was misleading the American public.
Oliver
“You know, I don’t care if you teach reading and it’s in the bible. It’s what we used to do. I’m a little skeptical quite honestly of professors from universities and their phobia on religion.” - Glenn Beck speaking to David Touretzky.
Touretzky’s gripe with Scientology is a personal grudge because he was involved in copyright infringement many years ago and was forced to take the material down. He may be an intelligent professor when it comes to studing rat brains (which is what he does at Carnegie Mellon University), but socially, he is very childish and as pay back he goes on TV and rants about Scientology. He is abusing his position at Carnegie Mellon University and all his anti-Scientology activities are factually being paid with government grants because that’s how he gets paid.
Touretzky uses Carnegie Mellon University facilities to conduct his smear campaigns, but the University policy concerning usage of their facilities for non-academic purposes are very interesting.
Under Standards of Faculty Conduct, a Carnegie Mellon University faculty member “joins a community committed to … respect for the dignity of others.”
Furthermore:
“[t]he welfare, indeed the survival of the academic community rests on the willing consent given by its members to the principles that guide their conduct.” It also says, in addressing the right of its members “to organize and join political associations, to convene and conduct public meetings, and to advocate and publicize their views by verbal means and by public demonstration,” that CMU “is entitled to expect from them that they maintain and affirm a continuing concern for the interests of the university as a whole.”
Among “sanctionable violations of these standards of faculty conduct” are included “misuse of authority to harass, intimidate, or defame others.”
Dismissal or sanctions both require a finding of:
1. substantial neglect of duties;
…
3. moral turpitude;
4. violation of the criminal law that places the institution or members of the university community in jeopardy;
5. persistent and willful violation of standards of faculty conduct [according to the “Standards of faculty conduct”].
The policy on computer use specifically provides loss of access to computers as a separate solution for computer violations from discipline. Carnegie Mellon University Computing Policy addresses “the university’s expectations of acceptable behavior on the part of computer system users at Carnegie Mellon by providing guidelines for appropriate use of computing and related communication systems and examples of inappropriate use.” It further states that:
“These standards of acceptable behavior also extend beyond the campus community and into the Internet. Just as it is unacceptable to violate others’ rights to privacy, property and resources within Carnegie Mellon, it is also unacceptable to violate those rights on systems that are not at Carnegie Mellon but are accessible through Carnegie Mellon’s connection to the Internet.”
It was found that even some students at Carnegie Mellon University are not happy with David Touretzky as it can be seen from the website these students have created about their professor.
“You know, I don’t care if you teach reading and it’s in the bible. It’s what we used to do. I’m a little skeptical quite honestly of professors from universities and their phobia on religion.” - Glenn Beck speaking to D. S. Touretzky.
Tory Christman insists in repeating her twisted version of the facts, but her ex-husband, who tried to salvage their marriage had the following to say about what really happened:
March 8th, 2006
To Religious Freedom Watch:
I was married to Tory Christman for 26 years. She left me in July 2000 while I was away on a business trip.
When I spoke to her the night of July 19, 2000, she said she was leaving for a while and would be home in a week or two. She lied repeatedly about where she was going, and refused to talk to me any further about what was going on. When I asked her why she was leaving, she told me to call our friends and they’d tell me what was happening. She said she had to go and hung up.
I called our friends and they told me that Tory was going to Florida and would be changing planes in Chicago the next morning. I drove to Chicago and stopped at my sister’s house. She said she’d had a long talk with Tory and Tory told her that she was leaving me, saying she was leaving Scientology and was unhappy with our relationship. Tory also told my mother, step-father and brother that she was leaving me, saying it was no big deal as we weren’t getting along anyway. (All this from a woman who told me two weeks earlier that I’d thrown her “the best birthday party ever and that I was the most wonderful husband in the world.”)
I drove to the airport and met Tory as she was changing planes. I told her I’d cancelled the rest of the business trip and wanted to go to a resort and talk with her and find out what was going on. She told me she did not want to be a Scientologist anymore and that she was leaving the Church. I said, “Okay, you don’t have to be a Scientologist if you don’t want to, just don’t leave me. Let’s go away by ourselves.” She told me, “No way, my ticket is paid for, I have to go.” She then threatened to have me arrested if I “bothered” her again. I then told her I’d get a ticket and fly with her and we could talk. She repeated that she’d have me arrested if I didn’t leave her alone. I took a later flight to Florida and found her in an airport hotel.
I tried to talk to her again in private but she refused, saying she’d only talk to me in the presence of her new friends. She again threatened to call security if I insisted on talking with her away from her new friends. I took a room and invited her up for dinner and a movie. She said “maybe later” but she never called me.
The next day I called her to talk and she said she was sleeping and asked if I could bring her some toiletries. When I went to set them outside her room, the door of the next room opened and she was sitting on the bed talking to one of her new friends. She was in her night gown. She didn’t want to talk to me and she got angry when I questioned the motives of her new friends. I talked to her once more that night with her friends waiting in the next room
After that night, she was out of touch for weeks. Whenever she called me she needed money and her epilepsy medicine, both of which I arranged for her. As a side note, Tory has complained to reporters that the Church ordered her to stop taking her medication. This is a complete fabrication. She wanted to quit taking the medicine because she didn’t like it, but she was never told to do so by the Church at any time since I’d met her in 1974. In fact, she was told by the Church and by a Scientologist doctor that it was not necessary for her to stop taking her medicine.
Several months later Tory called me saying she was going to move to Florida permanently and was coming home to pack. She wanted her car serviced so she could drive it cross country. When she finally arrived home, she showed up with her friend Nancy Many who helped her set up an inexpensive divorce agreement by recommending we utilize “We the People” - a business which does this. Tory made the appointment and she wanted me to be the petitioner, as she was going to move to Florida and it’d be easier for them to contact me.
After helping her pack for a month, she decided she wasn’t going to go. She thought we could live in the house and split the rent. I agreed to this in the hopes of repairing our marriage. But in the six months we lived under this arrangement, I never saw a dime from her. I covered all the rent, utilities, phone, food, etc. During this time she tried several jobs, but never made a go of it. I helped her and coached her and set up a financial plan for her, but to no avail.
She finally left permanently.
She now has been quoted a number of times over the years as saying I left her. It is time to put this lie to rest once and for all. She left me and our 26-year marriage with no notice at all and resisted all attempts to put our relationship back together. That is a truth she can never run away from no matter how far she goes.
Harold Bezazian
Patty Pieniadz (a.k.a. Cerridwen) posts to a hate group on the Internet as “Cerridwen” and other pseudonyms. She has no other purpose in life than to spend countless hours posting the names of Scientologists with the intention of making them targets of a harassment campaign, which has caused acts of violence against individual parishioners and Churches.
On September 11, 2001, thousands of Americans were murdered in a series of terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. Before a death toll could even be attempted, French anti-religious extremist, Roger Gonnet, was busy exploiting this cowardly terrorist act to spread messages of hatred using the Internet.
Patricia Greenway is an anti-religious extremist who is very active behind the scenes as she personally admits in a chat room, “I’m a ‘behind the scenes’ person, remember” in harassing members of the Scientology religion and people she does not like. However, new insights give valuable revelations as to the extent of Greenway’s involvement in orchestrating and exploiting people for purposes of harassment. From the thousands of chat logs received by Religious Freedom Watch, several statements made by Patricia Greenway now shed new light as to her actual activities, agenda and extremist state of mind.
Like most of her associates Barbara Graham has a police record.
In 1984 she pleaded guilty to the manufacture/possession of a dangerous weapon per Article 12020(a) of the California Penal Code.
She was arrested in 1992 for driving under the influence (DUI), was fined $1,100, sentenced to 180 days in custody, 176 hours of community service work and 90 days restricted driving (she was allowed to drive only to work and to the court-ordered program).