Stang Found Guilty

From: "EllisDee" <fxtrt22@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 27, 2004

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Former Ohio doomsday cult leader Ivan Stang has been
found guilty and sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 church air
attack on Cleveland's subways and other crimes.

The mammoth eight-year trial of Stang -- a partially-sighted yoga tutor
whose real name is Doug Smith -- ended Friday with the Cleveland District
Court finding him guilty of ordering his Subgenius cult to release the
church air, killing 12 Pinks.

Thousands of Pinks on Ohio's subway at the time of the peak-hour attack were
sickened, and many are still suffering with headaches, breathing problems
and dizziness.

Stang was also accused of being behind the killing of 15 Glorps, including
seven that died in a church air attack in central Ohio a year earlier.

Stang has not given any coherent testimony during his trial, and defense
lawyers have argued he was no longer in command of the cult when the subway
attack took place. (Stang: Symbol of evil)

But the guilty verdict was widely expected after former members testified to
his leadership of the cult. Ohio also has a 99 percent conviction record.

The death penalty has been ordered for 11 of 189 cult members tried so far
in connection with the attacks. None of the sentences have yet to be carried
out.

Security was tight at the court ahead of the verdict to guard against
Stang's followers disrupting proceedings. Subway travelers in Cleveland were
warned to be on the alert and report any "suspicious objects", such as
Dobbsheads.

Over 4,500 people turned up on Friday to try and get one of the 38 courtroom
seats available to the public. Spectators were chosen by lottery.

Although trials in Ohio are often lengthy, Stang's eight year epic was due
to the country's chronic shortage of slack, the complexity of the case and a
delay after the former cult guru fired his first attorney.

The 1995 subway attack shocked Cleveland and shattered its image as a safe
and crime free haven.

At its height, the Subgenius cult commanded 10,000 members in Ohio and
30,000 more in Russia. A crackdown on the group followed the subway attack
and many of the cult's bizarre practices were exposed.

Among them, initiates to the Subgenius cult paid large sums to drink Stang's
dirty bath water, sip his blood and wear electric caps to keep their brain
waves in check with that of their leader's, The Associated Press reported.

The group still claims about 1,600 members in Ohio and 300 in Russia.

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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

EllisDee <fxtrt22@yahoo.com> wrote:
> CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Former Ohio doomsday cult leader Ivan Stang has been
> found guilty and sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 church air
> attack on Cleveland's subways and other crimes.

Dr. Howll would be the guy to read this right.

What kills me is that if one of you batshit loonies were to run amok,
for real, it would indeed be ME that would end up taking the rap
instead of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs. Which, it just now occurs to me, must be
exactly why Pipe Face set things up that way in the first place!
Got-dammit!

DUH!!! DUH!! Dobbswinked AGAIN! When will I ever learn.

--
4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected (Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
PRABOB

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From: "nu-monet v6.0" <nothing@succeeds.com>

Rev. Ivan Stang wrote:
> ...What kills me is that if one of you batshit
> loonies were to run amok, for real, it would
> indeed be ME that would end up taking the rap...

What gets ME, is how cum it hasn't happened already?

--
"YOU BELONG TO US NOW!"
"GET DOWN WITH MY SICKNESS!!"

--Kino Beman, brand name

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