Being the person who started this thread, I have learned a few things I would like to communicate.
I am pretty newly out of Scientology (about 9 months). I am certainly new to this board though I had lurked here quite a bit before finally posting.
I would like to say, after careful consideration, that:
I wish I hadn't posted this as the drama and the damage seem far greater than the gain from doing so.
My posting this letter was a bit knee-jerk. I had just become a member here and coincidentally (or not, who knows), I received this weird email at around the same time. Though I cringe to have to admit this, I thought to myself "Cool, now I have something really interesting and worth posting there and maybe this will be a popular posting." Well, that is no reason to post something without thoroughly understanding it first.
This mechanics of the OSA dirty tricks and the lurid games that are played is a) New to me and B) Somewhat hard to confront and C) Easy to miss when you don't think that way yourself.
I made a cursory read of the email and got the basic gist (mistake) and just posted it without really understanding the ramifications of the email.
The 'Photobucket" images looked like garbage on my computer and I didn't give that much attention.
If I had known that those images were unjustly incriminating my friend or that it would have caused this much drama without any gain, I would not have posted it at all. I didn't even know there was anything about Heather G, a person I have come to know and love, before I posted.
I have since learned that this email was sent to many, many people in different small groups like it was sent to me. It was even sent to certain people in the regular mail.
I was the only person who published it and for that I feel like a complete tool as obviously that was a needed element for this distracting ploy to work.
For any damage caused, I truly apologize and I vow to
thoroughly understand anything I post, beforehand or to run it by a more experienced person first.