Dear Fred,

CAN has reorganized into a interdenominational organization which is
dedicated to working for religious tolerance. The Church of Scientology took
over the name and phone number but they have brought in a number of other
people that tend to share the same goals that are expressed on your web site
(at least as far as opposing religious bigotry including attempts to kidnap
and reprogram innocent atheists into Promise Keepers)  .  The anti cult cult
that was the former CAN is definitely reorganizing to spread fear and hatred
towards whatever groups they regard as cults but this is no longer what is
happening with the original CAN. The current President is a Baptist minister
and I'm a Buddhist (a member of a small platinum edged Buddhist computer
cult whose teacher is regularly trashed in the press - see
www.fredericklenz.com ).

I talked to Nancy one of the COS board members about the CAN files.  COS is
definitely going after them and its her belief that the files will provide
evidence of the criminal activities of CAN which I would certainly like to
share with the world by internet posting.  But my real interest in working
with the reorganized CAN is as a Reconciler.  As we receive frantic calls
for deprogrammers, I pick up on some of them and work towards reconciling
families from different religious viewpoints.  I talk to the family, to the
religious group, get agreements from the family not to trash the other
family members religious beliefs and so on - standard mediation type work.

I downloaded Richard's Pagan page on CAN and I am particularly concerned
with assisting followers of the pre-Christian religions with educating
families with the positive benefits of their belief systems.  Most of the
calls we get on the CAN hot line is by people concerned with satanic cults.
The people out at www.religioustolerance.com have interesting things to say
about the cult that doesn't exist - satanic cults.

If you would like to know more about the reformed CAN's activities let me
know or if you have any pagans that would like a Buddhist mediator to help
their family understand that the the 'old time religion is good enough for
me' let me know.  And remember if you meet the Buddha on the street don't
buy his flowers.

Stan
koehler9@popd.ix.netcom.com





At 10:46 PM 6/9/97 -0700, you wrote:
>At 05:04 PM 6/8/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>Dear Fred,
>>What information do you have as far as what the reogranized CAN is
>>doing?  Is it your understanding that the Scientologists are attacking
>>other religions as cults and advocating deprograming?
>
>Sadly I've been unable to find out much of anything which I can verify
>since there is still on-going litigation in this arena.  I have this
>suspicion that the old CAN still has some cards to play.  Of course if
>the last cards fall and they're not enough, all of the organization's
>records will fall into the hands of COS.
>
>CAN _is_ reorganizing.  I had thought that this would be the end of them
>yet the organization's membership are still active and regrouping.  When
>they're ready they'll be announcing their return to business.
>
>One thing I don't know is if they were able to duplicate their records.
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