International House Relations Committee Hearing:

Testimonies by Scientologists Anthony Armando (Chick) Corea and Craig Jensen

The following testimonies were presented at a hearing entitled The Treatment of Religious Minorities in Europe, held by the International Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. on June 14, 2000.

These testimonies provide important and revealing information about the nature and extent of governmental religious discrimination in Germany.

German Embargo¹ of American Products

Mr. Chairman, and distinguished members of the House International Relations Committee:

Thank you for holding this hearing on religious intolerance in Western Europe, and for giving me the opportunity to tell you about an embargo of American products by the government of Germany.

My name is Craig Jensen. I am a citizen of the United States of America and a living example of the realization of the American Dream.

I am the founder, owner and chief executive of Executive Software, a company I founded in 1981 in California. Through hard work and ingenuity, my company has grown to be one of the top 200 software companies in the world, earning a great deal of success in the marketplace and numerous awards for the finest products and service in the computer software industry. Our products have been extremely thoroughly tested for safety and effectiveness by the National Software Testing Laboratories and by Veritest, the independent testing company responsible for granting certification of compatibility with Microsoft’s Windows operating system. My company’s products are in use in every sector of the American economy, including right here on Capitol Hill, and are sold extensively abroad as well.

FOOTNOTES:

¹ Embargo: any restriction imposed upon commerce by edict.