Anti-Religious Extremists Creating Opposition and Hate

Chuck Beatty

When Chuck Beatty “discovered” the internet he immediately hooked up with individuals whose objectives in life are to destroy society in order to create chaos. Some of these individuals are featured in this publication.

Beatty publicly posted the following statements which he said were written by someone he knew:

“I use the net for my work and one day I ran my name in Google and it was with shock that I found that my name was posted in a group…”

“I suspect Chuck Beatty, is the one who wrote about me for no apparent reason.

“I do not normally talk about other people but because Chuck is attacking former friends and people who sincerely tried to help him, for the safety of others, I feel I must warn some people about him.

“He was always in trouble for being involved in perverted sexual activities. Worse, he used to look at child pornography which he admitted to.”

David Touretzky

David Touretzky is a researcher in the Carnegie Mellon Computer Science (CMU) Department. Touretzky is deeply involved in extremist activities possibly sponsored by the president of his University. It must be presumed that Touretzky is paid full salary while he spends hours spreading hate on the internet, a fact that should be of concern the government that fund Touretzky’s considerable research grants, which amount to more than $5,000,000.00, producing, in our opinion, absolutely nothing worthwhile, yet he keeps asking for more money for his “research” on rats. In fact Touretzky admits that he is overpaid and it is to his advantage if taxes are raised by the Federal Government, he stated:

“My money comes mostly from the US govt, not corporations. So if we raise taxes and hike the NSF and NIH and DARPA budgets, that would be to my benefit. … I’m already overpaid.”

*NSF = National Science Foundation
*NIH = National Institute of Health
*DARPA = Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

As a result, almost any evening Touretzky can be found using the resources and facilities of Carnegie Mellon University to preach his racist, bigoted views to anyone from his fellow fanatics to his unsuspecting students, while the taxpayers pay the bills.

As examples of the kind of the sick content he encourages anyone to view, one of these sites uses pornography to mock and desecrate religious practices while another provides detailed instructions on how to build a fertilizer bomb (the kind Timothy McVeigh copied off the internet and used to massacre men, women and children in Oklahoma City).

When called to account for his hate activities, Touretzky is quick to hide behind the banner of “free speech” – a specious argument at best when one considers that Touretzky’s entire anti-religious hate campaign is specifically designed to denigrate the beliefs of others and thereby inhibit their ability to practice their religion and speak freely about their beliefs.

One of Touretzky’s fellow newsgroup members proved this hypocrisy by posting to the internet information about Touretzky’s visits to a local sex shop and the purchases he makes there.

Did Touretzky respect her right to “free speech?” Of course not. On the contrary, he kicked up such a row that the Internet Service Providers in question took the sites down, regardless of the fact that they were violating that individual’s Constitutional rights.

Touretzky’s Own Words

David Touretzky is not a person who makes the occasional discriminatory remark out of ignorance. On the contrary, he is engaged in a dedicated attack on races and religions. Here are a few of his hate statements:

“The black underclass is a very, very sick culture, with terrible internal problems such as high rates of blackon- black murder, teenage pregnancy, educational failure, drug abuse, and so on. AA programs can’t help the black underclass, because those people are so screwed up they’re virtually unemployable….”

“Man, Hispanics are f—-ed up, which is why they’re still working class. Dipshits.”

“F–k the Muslims….. check out the bloody Muslims .. jeez what loons.”

A “chat” with David Touretzky

On February 28, 2005 at 4:49 p.m. Touretzky was advising someone to consult a deprogrammer, Steve Hassan, while working at Carnegie Mellon University on a federally funded project.

“David Touretzky: … If you want expert advice on how to help someone, then Steve Hassan is the guy for you. He counsels families of cult members. He’s published a couple of books on how to deal with friends/family members who have joined a cult…. Yes, he’s currently the #1 anti-cult guy in the country. He’s in the Boston area, but he’s very expensive.”

“[Name Deleted]: How much?

“David Touretzky: 30 minute phone consult is $100. I think is daily rate is $2500/day.”

Let’s now examine the #1 recommended expert Touretzky is referring to.

Steve Hassan

[imgright]http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/images/extremists/steven-hassan-lrg.jpg[/imgright]Steven Hassan has a quarter century history of violence, both directly and through his support of deprogrammers who kidnap and abduct individuals out of their religions.

By demonizing their beliefs through false accusations, Hassan creates a climate of fear and divisiveness within families which he then uses to his financial advantage, charging exorbitant sums to kidnap and physically abuse his targets.

One of Hassan’s deprogramming victims, AR, signed affidavits detailing the severe mental and physical abuse Hassan subjected him to during a deprogramming. AR was forcibly kidnapped, imprisoned, bound by his hands and feet, and deprived of sleep for days at a time. He was not allowed to shave or wash and was denied all privacy, even the simple dignity of urinating in private. Until AR’s escape seven days later, Hassan subjected AR to methods which AR later described as brainwashing and mind control techniques, even threatening to inject AR with a series of shots if AR did not recant his religious beliefs.

Another of Hassan’s victims, CK, signed an affidavit swearing that she was also held against her will by Hassan and his associates who confined her to a room without doorknobs and posted a guard to ensure that she could not escape.

Hassan participated in the attempted deprogramming of another victim, LS. Three men forced their way into a motel room where LS was visiting her sister, physically threw LS from the bed and threatened to break her leg if she called for help or attempted to escape. She was then forced into a car and taken to an isolated house in New Hampshire where, for eight days, her abductors tried to force her to read and listen to materials critical and abusive of her religious beliefs. Like AR, she was consistently harassed and ridiculed by her captors. After nine days of imprisonment, when the attempts of the first team of deprogrammers failed, Hassan was brought in to take over the attempt at faith breaking. After three days of further harassment from Hassan, LS was finally able to negotiate her release.

Hassan falsely presents himself as an “expert” on religions, basing his theories on the work of psychologist Margaret Singer whose theories have been rejected as unscientific by the American Psychological Association and by numerous U.S. Courts. In March of 1996, in the case of Kendall v. Kendall, the United States District Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts also rejected Hassan as an expert witness. Hassan’s testimony in this case shows that he was charging $200 per hour for preparation and $1,500 per day for his “expert testimony” on new religions, yet he had never testified in court before and his only qualification was a night school degree in an unrelated field. Far from being an “expert” and a “help” to families, Hassan’s goal is to destroy religion for profit.

Arnaldo Lerma

[imgright]http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/images/extremists/arnie-lerma-lrg.jpg[/imgright]Arnaldo (Arnie) Lerma attacks religions, harasses and intimidates parishioners with hate mail. He is not an expert on religion. Religious groups are not the only targets of Lerma’s hatred. He is associated with what the Anti- Defamation League (ADL) and the Simon Wiesenthal Center have both condemned: the Neo-Nazi movement of Willis Carto.

Nazi hunter Yaron Svoary, quoted in the Hartford Courant on November 7, 1994, said about Carto, “The most notorious Nazi in the world is not German but Willis Carto.”

Lerma has been on the Board of Policy of Liberty Lobby, an anti-Semitic organization founded by Carto. Carto turned over part of his archives to Lerma to continue his “legacy”.

Lerma is involved in anti-government militia groups, and is a contributor to the alt.conspiracy newsgroup.

Among the most notorious of his militia associates is William White, the PR mouthpiece of the Utopian Anarchy Party, an organization that targets government and law enforcement agencies. White has participated, at Lerma’s invitation, in hate demonstrations against Scientology.

White has a criminal record which includes arrests for battery and the carrying of a concealed weapon.

In January 2002, William White formalized his relationship with Willis Carto by entering into Carto’s paid employment. White’s willingness to “overlook” Carto’s neo-Nazi agenda in favor of a paying job, removes any last shred of credibility he may have enjoyed among like-minded anarchists. And, regardless of his weak denial, it also sheds further light on his true intentions and agenda toward minority races and religions. The only question remaining is whether Arnaldo Lerma, friend to both White and Carto, arranged this meeting in an attempt to bolster support within the anarchist and neo-Nazi movements.

In March 2005, after the murder of the husband and mother of a Federal Judge who had ordered a white supremacist group to stop using the name World Church of the Creator, White wrote on his website, “I don’t feel bad that Judge Lefkow’s family was murdered. In fact, when I heard the story I laughed.” These callous comments were reported in the Roanoke Times.

Robert Clark

Robert Clark, of York, Pennsylvania, has a considerable history of instigating hatred on the Internet. Writing under pseudonym he urged to firebomb Churches of Scientology. He wrote”

“Firebomb it, demolish it with a rented crane and ball, firebomb it again and then salt the ground so that nothing will ever grow there again. And then if you’re up for it, firebomb it again.”

Clark was not happy with his original instigating and continued his terrorist propaganda by to blow up those churches. When identified as the perpetrator of such a terrorist threat Clark lied about it to avoid prosecution.

In 1990, Clark was arrested for hacking into Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) computers. What a strange coincidence that CMU is where David Touretzky conducts his hate activities.

It was also discovered that Clark had illegally accessed computer systems at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was charged with multiple counts of unlawful computer usage and theft of service.

Religious Freedom Watch investigates and exposes individuals who breed racism and anti-religious intolerance through hate speech. Should you observe anything illegal or peculiar from any of the extremists featured in this publication report them to your local authority.