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Manual of Justice by L Ron Hubbard, 1959 ===== [...] A practicing Scientologist, [Sky] Dayton graduated at age 16 from the Delphian Academy, a Scientology-affiliated boarding school in Sheridan, Ore. But ambition moved him to choose entrepreneurship over college. His first venture was a money-losing coffeehouse named Cafe Mocha, located on trendy Melrose Avenue in L.A. Dayton's next business was a graphic design shop, started with long-time friend Adam Walker. When another friend introduced him to the Internet, Dayton says he spent more than 60 frustrating hours attempting to establish a TCP/IP connection. The experience sparked an idea for a business: An Internet access provider that would make it as easy as possible for novices like himself to log on. To fund the venture, Dayton talked to anyone who would listen, eventually hooking up with two Scientologists who would become his first angel investors. He raised $100,000 by selling a 40 percent stake to Kevin O'Donnell - the father of a school friend and founder of Government Technology Services Inc., a Chantilly, Va., computer reseller - and Reed Slatkin, a Santa Barbara, Calif., stock trader, financial manager and long-time friend of Walker's family. Equally important, O'Donnell and Slatkin acted as Dayton's management and financial advisors, filling gaps in his limited experience. Both O'Donnell and Slatkin remain on the board, and although EarthLink's subsequent private and public offerings have diluted their stakes, they still hold 7.9 percent and 8.8 percent of the company's shares, respectively. The only shareholders whose stakes are higher are Dayton, who owns approximately 10 percent of EarthLink shares, and billionaire financier George Soros, who has acquired approximately 10 percent through several private placements. [...] http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,436,00.html ===== Earthlink co-founder Reed Slatkin, an unregistered investment manager and ordained Scientology minister, has reportedly defrauded clients of close to 255 million dollars in a Ponzi-type investment scheme. Many of his victims were fellow Scientologists; others were wealthy investors with Hollywood connections. Scientology has a long history of association with financial scams. How much of the money Slatkin took in was funneled to Scientology organizations? And how many of his fellow Scientologists were in on the arrangement? Learn more below. [...] http://www.slatkinfraud.com/index.shtml ===== [...] Has Earthlink stopped promoting Scientology? On 21st November 2001FACTNet posted a Newsletter called "Is Earthlink promoting Church of Scientology in spite of its denials of involvement with the cult?". The gist of the article was: 1. the first 53 results are all pro-scientology. See: http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/EarthlinkScientologyBias.html 2. the first 53 results all seem to be based on a common template. See: http://www.lermanet.com/cos/webspamplan.htm 3. novice or na�ve users of the internet are presented with heavily biased results. Is this not a form of preferential treatment for Scientology and censorship of opposing views to the benefit of the Scientology cult? 4. Sky Dayton ( http://home.earthlink.net/~sky/ ), founder and board member of EarthLink, is a Scientologist. FACTNet would like to announce that at this moment (January 25th 2002) searching on the word "Scientology" brings up ZERO results. We think that this is progress. Even if a little extreme. http://www.factnet.org/letters/FACTNewsNovember2001.html ===== earthlink.net and Scientology: The Links http://www.deirdre.org/scnverses/earthlink.html ===== "THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. 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