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(DEEP BREATH) Okay, guys...remember in the course of research around, what, 2-3,000 posts ago Scientology came up? Remember? We kept stumbling across them in our research. We all seemed to agree that perhaps Felos was mixed up with them, due to similar viewpoints. Here's an interesting tidbit I came across tonight...

From http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/CoS/timeline.html

1988

St. Pete Times seeks to unseal files in four lawsuits against Scientology that settled in 1986. Although court files are normally open, the judge granted the church's request to seal these cases over the objections of opposing lawyers. The Church wanted to keep them closed.

Times lawyers argued in a motion in October that closing the files violated the First Amendment, interfering with the newspaper's right to gather and publish news. The suits alleged that Scientologists invaded the plaintiff's privacy and abused the courts by filing malicious injunctions.

Earle C. Cooley, national counsel for the Church of Scientology said, in reference to Scientologists opposing the Times' motion to unseal the files, "I don't know where the press gets the idea that it has a right to intervene in an agreement entered into by both parties and approved by the court."

"Mr. Cooley's memory is failing him," responded plaintiff's attorney Walter D. Logan. "We never agreed to seal the court files."

Patricia Fields Anderson, an attorney for the Times, said case law requries that court records be open, "and the burden of proof is on them to show why these cases should be closed."

I just thought it was interesting. If Felos is associated with Scientology, it would certainly explain any animosity on his part toward Pat Anderson.

Thanks for posting the information on PF Anderson's prior experience with the Scientologist's attempts to hide facts.

You're right. Anderson has had dealings with Scientologists before, regarding matters surrounding the Lisa McPherson case.

That prior Anderson-McPherson connection had made me think outloud, in an earlier post, that there might not be a Scientology connection in Terri's case. Because if there was a Scientology connection in Terri's case, Anderson would most likely have recognized it, since she knew the facts surrounding McPherson's death.

Anderson hasn't mentioned the similarities, that seemed apparent to some of us, between Lisa's lack of care and Terri's lack of care.

Maybe Anderson feels there is not a Scientology-Schiavo connection. OR maybe Anderson thinks it is best not to mention there might be a connection. I wish I knew the answer.

At any rate, shortly after I posted my suspicion that FeloSchiavo had a Scientology connection, I was freepmailed by another poster who said they were told by [someone important] that inquiring into a Scientology connection was a waste of time.

Here is a news article, similar to the one that made me think Anderson would have recognized any Scientology-Schiavo connection.

Examiner lied, Scientology lawyer says , 1997

Wood's lawyer, Patricia Anderson, responded, saying, "If calling Dr. Wood names is his idea of a search for the truth, then I guess he doesn't know what the truth is. . . . I'd like to know where Elliot Abelson got his medical degree and how much experience he has as a forensic pathologist."
Anderson said Wood drew her conclusions based on her examination of McPherson's body, physical evidence, lab reports, consultation with other experts and more than 20 years of experience as a medical examiner.
"The fact that her opinions are offensive to the Church of Scientology does not make them invalid opinions," she said.

I'm keeping an open mind about possible Scientology-FeloSchiavo connections, but I haven't been doing any more research into it.