About F.A.C.T.Net

F.A.C.T.Net, Inc. - Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network
A Nonprofit Electronic Library & Archive

Update: Thanks to Scientology's raid on August 21, most of the services we outline below are TEMPORARILY OFFLINE. We would appreciate your contribution to restore our full services to the Net. With your help we can turn this crisis into an opportunity.

F.A.C.T.Net provides service to all types of independent and professional researchers:

• Victims of destructive groups that use coercive mind control and their families can obtain information to help them understand what happened. They can find resource connections to help them formulate a plan of action, and advice for the challenging recovery process.

• Mental health professionals and clergy can obtain the information and resource connections they need to help victims and families, to network among themselves, and to obtain needed referrals.

• Attorneys and government agencies can obtain the information and resource connections they need to prosecute those individuals or groups who have broken the law or seriously damaged individuals.

• Civil and criminal investigations can be researched inexpensively. Journalists and educators can obtain the information and resource connections they need to expose abuses, forewarn the public, develop preventive educational programs, and give accurate, well-rounded descriptions of this area of human rights abuse.

• Victims' rights advocates and other anti-abuse organizations can access the information and resource connections they need to defend against the sometimes malicious legal and other harassment that destructive groups using coercive mind control often use in an attempt to silence those they perceive as opponents.

Contents of our electronic library and archive

• All types of business, religious, and political cults anywhere in the world
• Information on the growing use of coercive mind control
• Journal, magazine, and news articles
• Professional studies
• Reports of personal experiences by former members
• Summaries of relevant legal decisions
• Government investigations
• Support people & organizations who may be able to provide more assistance

Inclusion of a group in our library does not necessarily mean it is a cult, is destructive, or uses coercive mind control, only that we have received inquiries about it or have accumulated information about it or its activities. F.A.C.T.Net provides information from many perspectives. The individual decides the truth.

Here are a few of the groups we have information on.

F.A.C.T.Net also provides e-mail, special electronic conferences, and electronic database research assistance (using our BBS software), as well as other computer services to support those who are interested in researching cults, their activities, and coercive mind control.

Ways to obtain library documents from F.A.C.T.Net

• You can download them from the F.A.C.T.Net electronic library and BBS or from our Internet ftp site (24 hours/day, 7 days/week).
• We can e-mail them to you. ---(TEMPORARILY offline)---
• We can mail you photocopies. ---(TEMPORARILY offline)---
• We can fax documents to you. ---(TEMPORARILY offline)---
• We can mail documents to you on IBM format diskette, either 3 1/2" (1.44Mb) or 5 1/4" (1.2 Mb). ---(TEMPORARILY offline)---

About our libary contribution fees

Three ways to access our library

1. If you have a computer and a modem (and if you're reading this, you probably do) you can call our electronic library directly at 1-303-530-1942. Update: The bulletin board is out of commission until donations replace the hardware seized by Scientology. Look for bulletins at the "F.A.C.T.Net 3 Defense Home Page." Follow the instructions on the screen. Your first 3 hours of exploration are free. Calling direct with communications software that supports "doorway mode" gives you access to our "database query" feature to do your own searches of our database.

2. You can e-mail F.A.C.T.Net or use anonymous FTP. If you don't use your World Wide Web browser, you will need to enter "anonymous" as your user name your internet e-mail address as the password. When you enter the system, type "cd pub2/factnet". If you use your Web browser, all you need do is click on the previous link and away you go. We suggest your first download is our library document index called "index1.txt".

3. If you don't have a computer and modem, write for our library catalog and our list of mail, fax, and other administrative services. Our address is:
   F.A.C.T.Net, Inc.
   601 16th Street, #C-217
   Golden, CO 80403 USA