NOTE: March 2005. There are some duplicate reports in this file. These are posts made to alt.religion.scientology Perhaps one day I will sort them, but for now they are webbed like this. Some of the links listed here will not work. ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Vegas - Broken Vehicles From: Ted Mayett Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 02:13:08 -0800 Update, January 18, 2004. Well, and surprisingly (AFAIK), the filth continues. They were cleaning up a little bit, but now it is terrible again. And, the newest thing is a parked car with a flat tire. The car with no license plates is still there, and... well, here are 4 pictures: http://www.solitarytrees.net/lvorgs/lv3a.htm I know some people will not agree with I'm going to do, but having a car sitting there with a flat tire is just too much to tolerate. In the next day or two I will be calling the proper Authorities on this. The proper Authorities will do something about it. Yeah, that's right. I'm going to call into LA, one of the 800 numbers, and file a complaint about the cars at this org. If I have to speak to Miscavige, I'll do that, but they will fix the broken cars at this org. I'll post results, it should prove interesting. Sigh, I just have to hope to find someone able to talk to an SP. I'll be calling from my own phone, using my name, it may prove interesting. ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: Vegas - Broken Vehicles From: Ted Mayett Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:59:22 -0800 On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 02:13:08 -0800, Ted Mayett wrote: >Update, January 18, 2004. >And, the newest thing is a parked car with a flat tire. The car with >no license plates is still there, and... well, here are 4 pictures: >http://www.solitarytrees.net/lvorgs/lv3a.htm > Well, I tell you people, the situation is worse than you might imagine. I called into LA on an 800 number, got some woman who spoke weak English. She knew what 'wog' meant, but nothing else really. After a few minutes with her I just gave up. She couldn't understand what I was talking about, couldn't put me through to anybody in charge, and didn't know how I could reach David Miscavige. Now I call into AOLA, I pay for this call. I think they had an 800 number at one time, but I couldn't find a toll free number today. Once again I identify myself, say I'm from Las Vegas, that there is a problem with the org on E. Sahara, and could I please be put through to David Miscavige so I can explain the problem. I'm told I cannot be put through to David, she asks what this is about. I explain about the vehicles in the back of the org, what is going on. She starts giving me double talk, because she doesn't know how to handle this call. I explain to her that I'm prepared to call in WOG Law to handle the situation, but that I thought I would try talking to Miscavige or somebody else in charge first. She puts me through to some guy who does not identify himself, actually none of then identify themselves. Once again I patiently explain the situation, after giving this newest guy my name and phone number. He doesn't know what to do either. And so once again I explain about WOG Law, County Zoning, County Services and etc. And that if I call them in, they will write fines and tow the vehicles away. And that maybe we can avoid this if scientology would take care of the mess itself. OK now, this wakes the guy up big time. He wants to put me on hold, I say just call me back, this is long distance and costing me money. He says ok and we hang up. 30 minutes later I'm tired of waiting and call them back. I get that same woman, tell her I'm Ted Mayett, I just called, do you recognize me, you put me through to some guy, I don't know his name, would you put me through to him again. Now I get this nameless guy, ask him what's happening? He says the person I need to speak to is gone for the day. So ok, he don't call me, I got to call him to learn this. I ask him does he know what a web page is. He says, "not really." I say ok, no problem. I need you to write something down and pass on the information, can you do that? He can! I give him my url, tell him pictures have been webbed. I ask him can I write into info@scientology.org with this data? He says "yes". I ask him, but who do I send the information to, so it doesn't just get lost? He say's make it, ATTN: DSA LA Day. So, I've sent an email also. Now I called into AOLA. Doesn't that sound impressive, AOLA. This is not some small time org in a small city somewhere, this is AOLA. You would think that there is a level of competence when you dial into a place like this. And this is what I'm trying to say. The situation is worse than you might imagine. That second time I call into this place, it is about 6 rings on the phone until they answer. I get that a lot also, that it takes 6 and more rings until someone answers the phone. And quite often, just like today calling into AOLA, I get the distinct impression that these people do not get a lot of phone calls from wogs. And I tell you I'm not even sure what to do anymore. The way this is all working out lately is quite amazing. 3 months ago I started with the pictures and the posts, and nothing has been done yet. And now I've already made 3 phone calls on this issue of the parking lot, and I wonder how many more phone calls it will take to get the situation corrected. Maybe the 3 phone calls will be enough, I've got to give them a few days to act on this. But the sad thing is, 3 phone calls and I could not get through to anybody with authority. And this is interesting information. And this shows the scene is worse than we are imagining. I've got to get them to take care of those cars. If I can't get them to take care of the cars in the back of the org, then I can't make them do the next thing I want them to do. Wog Law is not an option either. They have to be made to take care of those broken cars themselves. A few links from some of you with web pages would help. Call it: Scientology in Las Vegas, Nevada http://www.solitarytrees.net/lvorgs/index.htm ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: Vegas - Broken Vehicles From: Ted Mayett Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 03:03:13 -0800 On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:37:31 +0100, Mike Gormez wrote: >No, really, I did find it it strange that they didn't fix that homeless >shelter look the first time you reported here and it has gotten worse. I'd >say they clearly are making a stand for their right to have the dumpster >look and made a commitment. > >Well, okay, I mean this humorously to keep up the spirit. But it remains >strange. > Well it turns out you were more correct, than funny here. :-)) Update: The 18th of this month I posted pictures about a new addition to the parked vehicles at this Vegas org. On the 19th I called into Los Angeles and told them about this. And on the 19th I had sent an email to scientology about this subject. On the 24th, nothing has changed. the car with the flat tire is still parked in the same spot, 5 vehicles in total are still parked in the same spot. I am at a loss over this, don't know what to say or what to do. The pictures and the facts speak for themselves. For over three months now this org is still remaining a disgraceful dump. I've added one new picture, at the bottom of an existing page. Really nothing to look at though, the same filth as you have already seen. http://www.solitarytrees.net/lvorgs/lv3a.htm I'll do updates every now and then on this subject, at least once a month, maybe more than that. There is nothing else to be done about this subject. I will not call in Wog Law on them, I just won't do that. So, there is nothing else to do. A problem I have is this: I feel I have too many pictures webbed, but, I cannot decide which ones to take down. My goal in all of this is to show the world, a filthy and rundown Church of Scientology. And every picture up there is so beautiful in the filth and disrepair it portrays. I just can't decide on which ones to take down. When I go out there I take a lot of pictures, and only the best get webbed. Fortunately, there is no real problem choosing a picture that makes the org look bad. A challenge would be to take a picture, from less than 50 yards away, that makes the org look good. Stay tuned for future developments on the subject of: Scientology in Las Vegas, Nevada http://www.solitarytrees.net/lvorgs/index.htm YO, where is the link to this? You told me you were going to put a link to this. I know you said it. I was there when you said it. So where is the lousy link already? sheesh. :) ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: Vegas - Broken Vehicles From: Ted Mayett Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:52:19 -0800 Update, 02 February 2004. 2 pictures: http://www.solitarytrees.net/lvorgs/lv5a.htm -- Ted Mayett OT 1.1 http://www.solitarytrees.net/pickets/links.htm ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Vegas - Flag Event From: Ted Mayett Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 10:37:45 -0800 They are advertising, at least on the door of the big org here, an event for today and tomorrow. Flag Dissemination And Help Convention. To be held at the little org, CC, 10am-5:30pm, today, saturday and tomorrow, sunday. Admission, $20. Sorry to get so wordy again, but the poster on the door is a most unique poster, and I wonder but that it ties in with the last Birthday Game Event. It goes like this... Two orgs here in Vegas, we all know that. But for awhile now they have been combining events for these two orgs. This is odd, a new development. And consider that at the last Birthday Game Event, no org statistics were given. Is it possible they are doing away with competition between orgs? If so, that would be an intelligent step forward. Here is what was unique about this poster... typically posters like this have a space on them, in them, at the bottom, where the org prints in the 'contact' information. Which would be Date Time and Location for the event. Not so this poster, this was a professional print job all the way, *all* the information was printed in at once, never saw them have a poster like this before. Not for local events. Now here is a picture, not that great a picture, but starting at the top, go down to lines 5,6,7. They cannot be read but those 3 lines advertise the Time. Near the bottom of the sign, under the word 'Convention' it say's: Delivered at Celebrity Centre Las Vegas. All of this info is printed in. So, does uplines now send 'personalized' posters to the orgs? Or, did these two orgs do this themselves? Either way, this is something new for them: http://www.solitarytrees.net/lvorgs/temp/nov2702.jpg And the $20 price tag for attendance, and again both orgs combined. So many mixed signals coming in. You want to say, Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Sure, Nero is fiddling, but is Rome really burning? It is all so confusing these days. -- Ted Mayett OT 1.1 http://www.solitarytrees.net/pickets/links.htm ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Vegas - Freewinds OT Ability Tour From: Ted Mayett Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:25:39 -0700 This was the: Freewinds OT Ability Tour. Held 14 and 15 of August 2004. Las Vegas, Nevada. This was held at the big org here. Today I went by and did two different vehicles counts. Sunday service was at 11am, 11:05am vehicles 8-13. And then for the 1pm event I arrive at about 1:15pm, vehicles 16-21. The smaller number were the vehicles parked in the org parking lot. The large number includes vehicles parked alongside the building. Interesting is that the same 5 vehicles were in the same places for both counts. Maybe they were with the org, and maybe not. Now I'm guessing that this was a heavily hyped Event, that lots of phone calls would have been made, over and over in some cases. And so personally, I'm quite pleased with the vehicle count. This is just another pathetic turnout considering that both orgs attended this Event at the same times and location. Here is a post I made about this a few days earlier, and I still have not come up with a logical reason for the event being held at the big org. You see the big org has a parking problem every day except Sunday. And because of this, "large" events have to be held at the little org, the CC. Maybe they are practicing that thing they call Obnosis, and they are finally realizing and admitting that there are no "large" crowds attending these events. I don't think though that they are able to admit this to themselves, and so there is some logical reason for the location of this event. And this stuff bothers me no end, eventually I will figure this out. ----------------- From: Ted Mayett Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Freewinds OT ABILITY TOUR! Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:18:36 -0700 This event is happening in Las Vegas this Saturday and Sunday, August 14-15. It is to be held at , the big org. No rented hall once again. But then the last rented hall here in Vegas was sometime in 1996 as I recall. Here is what info I have at this time: There will be an admission price of $20 per person, the $20 covers all events, or any single event. There will be 5 unique events over this two day period. These are the event times: sat 1pm, 3pm, 5pm sun 1pm, 3pm Now what happened was that the guy I spoke to, thought I was a member. As a result of this, some of what he said I did not understand, and this was compounded by a bad phone connection. The events/lectures have something to do with the following, Dissemination will be the sun 3pm, with Essentials being sat 1pm. 5 essentials to (something) postulates intention and power finance ot dissemination For each of these 5 things the guy said a lot, all I caught were these few keywords though. I'm going to try and make it by there this weekend. But except for Sunday, a vehicle count will not be possible. And from what I gather, both orgs are attending at the big org for this. And why are they not holding this at the little org? I don't understand this at this time, perhaps by Sunday I'll have some logical reasons for why the big org is being used, and not the little org. ---------------------------------- -- Ted Mayett OT 1.1 http://www.solitarytrees.net/pickets/links.htm ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Vegas - Stats - 18.9.04 From: Ted Mayett Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:25:28 -0700 Big org, Las Vegas, Nevada, 18 Sep 04, Saturday, 3:30pm, vehicles 5-6. It didn't occur to me at the time, but maybe I should have called in and asked... maybe they were at an event or something somewhere else. This vehicle count is terribly low, it doesn't make sense somehow. I'm used to counts of 12-16. this is strange. -- Ted Mayett OT 1.1 http://www.solitarytrees.net/pickets/links.htm ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Vegas - Stats - 19.9.04 From: Ted Mayett Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 18:53:35 -0700 Big org, Sunday, 19 Sep 04, 1:15pm, vehicles 10. I've come to a conclusion regarding yesterday's vehicle count of 5, and the count actually was 5 and not 5-6. It was an allowable and valid vehicle count. Given the number of times I do a count, and the overall average, an occasional minimum and maximum of something like 5 - 18 is not out of line at all. But beyond this, if the count of 5 is valid, and I believe it was, then... woo hoo! IIRC, and I don't care to look it up, it is not that important. But the lowest I've ever seen at this big org in the middle of the day was a 4. And this would have been during one of my picketing onslaughts of early 1996 or so. Maybe 1997, I just don't remember. I believe it has been 5 years now since I have bothered them with a picket. And so this count of 5 was especially sweet to me. -- Ted Mayett OT 1.1 http://www.solitarytrees.net/pickets/links.htm ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Vegas - Stats - New Years Event From: Ted Mayett Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:09:56 -0800 woo hoo Doors "opened" at 5pm, event scheduled for 6pm. Held at the big org, and both orgs combined. 6:25pm, vehicles 30. Now all this anti-terrorist security stuff, could have cost them few vehicles, this is certainly a possibility. It is not a good evening for traveling by car here in Vegas, new years eve. And maybe some of them did not show up. But even if the count were off by 30% , which would be a lot, even then the count would only be 39 vehicles. It was dark out, nighttime, hard to see much of anything. I did see one male in a suit or sports jacket, another male in black slacks, white shirt and tie. And some females that would have been in pants suits or stuff like that. So at least some of them were dressed well. I'm happy. A decent vehicle count, I'm happy. Using memory alone I would say the average vehicle count for this event here, over the years, would be 35-37 vehicles. So this certainly seems like a reduction. Unbelievable, something else I wanted to type, and I cannot remember. sigh. -- Ted Mayett OT 1.1 http://www.solitarytrees.net/pickets/links.htm ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Vegas - Update - Big org - assorted - 10 January 2005 From: Ted Mayett Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 01:50:52 -0800 I tell you, it gets on my nerves to hear you whine and cry like that. I know you only want the pictures, you don't want to listen to me speak. So here are new pictures with some commentary added. The link to the Report may not be working, for this is the report here. So, here are the pictures, go away and let the rest of us talk: Pictures of chairs: http://www.solitarytrees.net/lvorgs/lvchair1.htm Front of the big org: http://www.solitarytrees.net/lvorgs/lv11a.htm Side of the big org: http://www.solitarytrees.net/lvorgs/lv12a.htm Assorted pictures: http://www.solitarytrees.net/lvorgs/lvrp01.htm Good, they are gone, the rest of us can talk. So, how many still here? Someone? Anyone? NOBODY? Bah, I'll post for the archives. October 2003 I launched into a picture and text story of the big org here in Las Vegas, Nevada. But why? The filth was nothing new, I was looking at filth for years already. Broken cars and long-term parked cars were nothing new, there were in my vehicle counts for years already. The broken down building? Nothing was new to me, I was just keeping it a secret. Well, the goal wasn't the big org at all. I was setting the groundwork for moving the two Missions here. I was thinking at the time that I would move them out of private homes and into commercial rental space. And the big org was only a way to get them focused on me and Vegas again. So I talk this over with my homeboy before I start. What are the possible negatives to doing this picture and text thing, what are the positives. We discuss it all and come up with a solution. New publics, new people that would enter this org for the first time, or maybe even the first few times, would use the front entrance. So, all my pictures, until now, have been only of the back of the org. I had left the front and side of the org alone. Granted, I did web some pictures of the front, but they were closeups, or taken from too far away for the broken building to show. These pictures now webbed of the front and side might seem to some to be anti-climatic. Well to me they are not that at all. For this cheap camera of mine doesn't really photograph well. In person, everything is much worse! And this includes the front and side of the org. SINCE, they have proven repeatedly that they will only fix exactly what we say is broken, and no more than that. I purposely left the front and side alone. And they also left the front and side alone, of course. And today, the Missions are safe, I've lost the passion. And they can fix the org or not, whatever they decide. Meantime... You will note in some of the pictures that same white car from October 2003. They don't move that car, and that is that, and I had stopped mentioning that vehicle in posts. Shortly after I stopped the posts and pictures they went right back to being purely filthy. Although one day, for some reason, they had washed all the windows in the building. Including windows that probably cannot even be opened. And, being a computer genius at times, I have lost my December 2004 pictures that I meant to web, but will close the page/subject off soon with some January 2005 pictures. All the clues and solutions are in my past text reports that are webbed, and I don't feel like looking it up. But the chairs that came along in May 2004. The mystery of the chairs was solved by a post by The Mail Man. It was that post, and my observations of that yellow tent set up on The Strip here, that explained the chairs. It was a Sunday and they had a yellow tent set up in the back of the org, and there was to be an Event that day. Two of the main women of the org were dressed nice, hair done, and make-up. But something went wrong, the event was cancelled. Why the event was cancelled is a pure mystery to me, and I have no clues whatsoever on this cancellation. This all happened 21 March 2004, and it was May 2004 when the chairs appeared in the back of the org. When I first saw them I thought nothing of it, figured they were there for the day and that was all, because they were expensive chairs. Comfortable chairs, quality chairs. And then the weeks passed and the chairs remained??? Well now we know that the chairs were for the yellow tent, and not just any tent, but for that tent on The Strip and Nellis AFB, and wherever else that tent might have set up. More on all this in another post where I try to tie it altogether. That would be Tents and Tables. I'm not even sure how long ago it started, close to a year now I would think. But they took down all the signs in the front of the org. 'Now hiring' 'Sunday services' etc. Everything came down... and nothing went back up! To this very day, this Sunday, yesterday or whatever. They still do not have a 'now hiring' sign and no sign for 'sunday services'. The signs came down because they did a sloppy and short painting project in the front of the org. I had just never posted these details before. In fact as I think about it now, they did this painting project after I had started my pictures text and phone calls campaign. Hmmmmmmmmm. I think they are going to get rid of this building, this big org, and move into something else. This building seems too far gone. It is like if the homeless had to live there, they would still call themselves homeless. Regarding the concrete in the front of the org, and along the side, and the black-top in the parking lot, well... You stand there and you look around, and nowhere else is anything in such bad shape. In fact, I would look as I traveled the city, and nowhere could I find concrete even near as bad as the concrete surrounding that org. It is nasty, and it is dangerous. I've often felt that they are in violation of City laws, but I've never done anything about this as I prefer to not use wogs to get them to do things. But I don't understand how only one spot in entire neighborhood gets away with concrete, and a parking lot, in such terrible shape. So I stand there with my camera, check the focus and worry over the lighting. And I take pictures of chairs with bird shit on the chairs. And ~they~ are the ones who own those chairs. But ~me~ I'm out there taking pictures of those chairs. And I wonder at times which of us, them or me, has a greater need of Repair Auditing. sigh and smile. Meantime, in the great scheme of things, it is always nice if we can get someone out of scientology, or stop them from joining scientology in the first place. These pictures, this web work here, is quite valuable. For this is Las Vegas Nevada, the gambling mecca of the known universe. An adult Disney World. It is spectacular, decadent, opulent, it is awesome, and it is a rich city where they now build what they call mega-resorts at a few billion in costs. And almost the entire world will visit Vegas at least once. And you have guys and girls in Stockholm, Dusseldorf, Edmonton, Sydney, Boston, I don't care where they are. They know what Las Vegas is. Show them the scientology presence in Las Vegas Nevada, for these are modern pictures I have webbed. Some only a little over a year old. These pictures will cost them members. Have no doubts on this. Soon I will include links to other web pages with pictures of orgs. Let this page of mine though be a starting point for it all, put some links to this people, for this is modern. It is not a theory or a 50 year old policy letter or some kid in a chain locker 40 years ago. This is today, this is now. This makes a mockery of Tom Cruise, John Travolta, all of them, everything. It is real, it is true, and it is modern. Use this link, it is a hard core link, throws the reader right into the guts of the site. Let them start with pictures: http://www.solitarytrees.net/lvorgs/sitemap.htm ... I might add to this, not an offical report until it is webbed... -- Ted Mayett OT 1.1 http://www.solitarytrees.net/pickets/links.htm ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Vegas - yellow tents - short report From: Ted Mayett Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:53:47 -0800 Somebody sends me an email, Thank You. They are set up on the Strip in the Frontier parking lot. At the edge of the parking lot, closest to the Stardust, and right next to the Strip. It is a three section affair all connected. They have a large yellow truck and a good sized Yahama generator for electricity. I'll have pictures up soon enough. The tent goes down tomorrow, Sunday. And this was the same tent I learned that was at that Nellis Air Show last weekend. The next stop for this tent is Ingelwood, or is it Inglewood? CA. I picked up some useful information, I'll make a more detailed report later. But for now allow me to say this... I called it! Bingo! ALREADY, up close, the tents look like shit. But I knew they would quickly look terrible. They have rips in the tent patched up with tape here and there. Grime is already collecting at the joints where the poles meet, perhaps because some kind of lubrication or silicone or something is used. And, the tops of the tent, well, the soot of car exhaust and pollution in general. That soot/dirt is already forming a shadow or ring around the tops of the tents. We have no reason for a knee-jerk reaction to these tents. IMHO they should not be bothered. They should be allowed to set up without problems anywhere they wish to set them up. In 6 months or sooner these tents will be totally disgusting to look at. Nauseating in fact. They will have extensive brown and black dirt and grime against a filthy yellow color. Enough for now, I just hope the pictures came out well. -- Ted Mayett OT 1.1 http://www.solitarytrees.net/pickets/links.htm ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Vegas Update - Yellow Tent From: Ted Mayett Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 06:08:05 -0800 http://www.solitarytrees.net/lvorgs/lv4a.htm Please excuse this long introduction to this new development. Slightly modified this post of mine here will be webbed, and we have to remember this info is also for people who do not necessarily follow all of my posts on ars. And for people who will stumble across the web page only. Cerri, how did we miss this one? February 1st, 2004. A Sunday, I go that morning to take more pictures of this filth pile called The Church of Scientology Nevada. On the front door is a new poster, it is advertising an Event for January 31st, to be held at this org. (the big org in Las Vegas). Now I read this, and it doesn't register with me at the moment, it doesn't click in my head exactly what it is I am reading. So, I take a few pictures of the poster, and they come out lousy. This camera of mine is just not a good one, it rarely captures text well. So I take a few pictures, get back in the car, and drive around to the back of the org. And there I see a bright Yellow Tent. Wow. This thing is *totally* hidden from view from the main street. You cannot see this tent, or any portion of this tent from the main street. I take some pictures and drive away. This is about 7:30am. About an hour later it occurs to me what is wrong with all of this. And now here are some facts that most people would not notice because you are not the one out there taking the pictures. February 1st was a Sunday. The Saturday before, was January 24th. I had went to this org on the 24th to take pictures. On the 24th, there was no poster on the door advertising this event. I would have noticed such a poster because I ALWAYS look for posters on the door. So there was no poster on the 24th, and the event was held on the 31sth. This means that there was less than one week of advertising for this 'Planetary Salvage Crusade'. hmmm, this is interesting. I do an online search though my local newspapers here and find no advertisements for this Event. So, there were no newspaper advertisements, at least not in the two major newspapers here. And the poster, which we know was up less than a week, was only for foot traffic. The poster is too small to be read from a car passing by. In fact, even if you were walking past this org, you could not read that poster without going right next to it. You could read part of it if you were walking past the org, but not the Date and Location for this Planetary Salvage Crusade. And now it is about 10am, and I call into this org and ask about this event. I ask, "is it over, did I miss it?" I'm told that the event will be held again today (sunday feb 01) after the sunday service is over. I ask when the service will be over. The guy is not sure. I ask when this VM event will start. The guy is not sure. I say, "well sunday service does start at 11am, correct?". The guy says yes. So we discuss it a bit, in a very friendly fashion, and come to an agrement that if this Event does not start at 12pm, then it will surely have started by 12:30pm. I have him mark me down as a Confirmed, and we hang up. I arrive again at the org about 12:15p, vehicle count 11. Cars leave, cars arrive. To sit in plain view of them, on a deserted street, and to not be noticed takes about 30 minutes work. Eventually I am able to walk past the event and they are not paying any attention to me. About 1pm vehicle count is 17, there is a speaker inside the tent standing at a podium, and there are 10 people seated as an audience. In my opinion, everyone there was a member. There were not any new publics, there were not any new people at all. In my opinion, this was a show, a farce, an example of them 'singing to the choir'. Why wasn't this Event advertised at least one week in advance? Perhaps this is because of me. This may be the reason, and then it could just be the typical incompetence we witness in scientology. The table with the two chairs would have been for two people and in theory these two people would have greeted and directed the crowds of people who would arrive. Well nobody arrived. How could they arrive? There was no advertisements for this. Why wasn't this Yellow Tent set up in a Park or a supermarket parking lot, or anyplace where it could have been seen? I think it is because it costs money to rent space. They do not have the money for this, so they hid the tent in the back of the org. And they put up a poster that could not be read except by foot traffic, and not even by foot traffic, not really. A critic and I discussed this on the phone at length, and came to the conclusion that the 17 vehicles represented ALL, or close to all of the current scientologists in Las Vegas, Nevada. We reasoned that they would have demanded that everyone show up for this Event. That if by chance some new public were to come by, that it would be important that there be some people already at the Event. Meantime, orgs in Australia, Germany, Canada, all over the world will hear about, or read about this Planetary Salvage Crusade that was held in the city of Las Vegas, Nevada. They will clap and cheer over the success of this Event. But we know better, we have pictures and my report. This Event was a waste of time, and that is all. A bright Yellow Tent was set up in the back of a filthy and broken down org, on an oil soaked parking lot, and totally hidden from public view. And this org, and this Event, is scientology today. -- Ted Mayett OT 1.1 http://www.solitarytrees.net/pickets/links.htm ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: Vegas Update - Yellow Tent From: exesso96@yahoo.com (Lulu Belle) Date: 4 Feb 2004 18:24:38 -0800 Anonymous-Remailer@See.Comment.Header.gmsociety.org (Cerridwen) wrote in message news:... > NOTE: This message was sent thru a mail2news gateway. > No effort was made to verify the identity of the sender. > -------------------------------------------------------- > >February 1st, 2004. A Sunday, I go that morning to take more pictures > >of this filth pile called The Church of Scientology Nevada. On the > >front door is a new poster, it is advertising an Event for January > >31st, to be held at this org. (the big org in Las Vegas). Now I read > >this, and it doesn't register with me at the moment, it doesn't click > >in my head exactly what it is I am reading. > > > >I do an online search though my local newspapers here and find no > >advertisements for this Event. > > > >So, there were no newspaper advertisements, at least not in the two > >major newspapers here. And the poster, which we know was up less than > >a week, was only for foot traffic. The poster is too small to be read > >from a car passing by. In fact, even if you were walking past this > >org, you could not read that poster without going right next to it. > >You could read part of it if you were walking past the org, but not > >the Date and Location for this Planetary Salvage Crusade. > > > >And now it is about 10am, and I call into this org and ask about this > >event. I ask, "is it over, did I miss it?" I'm told that the event > >will be held again today (sunday feb 01) after the sunday service is > >over. I ask when the service will be over. The guy is not sure. > >I ask when this VM event will start. The guy is not sure. I say, > >"well sunday service does start at 11am, correct?". The guy says yes. > >So we discuss it a bit, in a very friendly fashion, and come to an > >agrement that if this Event does not start at 12pm, then it will > >surely have started by 12:30pm. I have him mark me down as a > >Confirmed, and we hang up. > > > >Why wasn't this Event advertised at least one week in advance? > >Perhaps this is because of me. This may be the reason, and then it > >could just be the typical incompetence we witness in scientology. I have another guess about all this. The org has a "program." A "VM Activation Program" or something like this. The program is probably being run by the org's Flag Representative, and the org has certain "targets" that have to be done to complete this program. For the uninitiated, management sends down "programs" for the orgs to do. These programs contain "steps" to (theoretically) get a certain product. These programs are heavily pushed into the org by management. I believe these days the orgs get a lot of Birthday Game points for completing programs. Since the BDG ends in less than two months, the orgs are probably hot and heavy onto doing and completing these programs. Because I'm too lazy to explain it all over again, here's an excerpt I pulled from a earlier post I did on this subject: .......... > My theory was that they hung the banner in the back of the building > because they were told to hang it somewhere by the upline masters. True. It is probably a "target" on their "St. Hill Size Program" run by the Flag Representative. For the uninitiated: Management gives orgs programs that are supposed to be run by staff. Different programs are sent to different staff. Programs are a series of actions or orders or steps that the staff are supposed to do or get done. Then some kind of "proof" that the action is done is sent uplines to show the compliance to the program. It is typical of a "Saint Hill Size Program" that the first action is a banner saying the org is "going Saint Hill Size." The banner is made, it gets hung, and a photo is taken of it which goes uplines. This becomes a "completed target" on a program. This is one of the major statistics of the Flag Rep. As bizzare as it sounds for an org that probably has ten public. The target on the program is still considered to be done. This is how it works. ............. My guess is that LV org (and probably all the other orgs as well) has some kind of a major program to put up these tents and do these tent events. It's very typical of these org programs that they get done in this half assed way. There's a target on the program to get a tent. They scrounge up the money to rent one for a day or two, then put it in a place where no one can see it because they don't want to spend the time or money to pull the permits for it so they can actually put it in visible public place. They then take a picture of the tent, send it uplines, and say they have "complied" to the target. There's a target on the program to promote the events. So they put a sign on the door an hour before the event is supposed to happen, take a picture of it, send it uplines, and say they have "complied" to the target to promote the event. The fact that these things exist in such short duration (the tent, the sign) is a sure indicator of things being staged as "completed program targets." They're around just long enough for someone to take the picture. It's also typical of these programs that half the staff are clueless that it's even being done, or that it has anything to do with them, like the staff member this person talked to about when the event would take place. Personally, I have no doubt that this is the explanation of this whole weird saga. I've seen very similar ones, and ones that are even worse. ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: Vegas Update - Yellow Tent From: Ted Mayett Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:10:01 -0800 Update, Sunday, 15 Feb 2004. Well... maybe they do not own that yellow tent??? The small trailer is gone, and I'm sure that small trailer was holding the yellow tent. Updates for the last two weekends: One of the stationary vehicles was moved to a new spot last weekend, and it is still in that same new spot this weekend. This vehicle was moved after the yellow tent was put up and taken down. Last weekend they had cleaned up the back of the org dramatically. *All* the paint cans were gone, all the garbage had been picked up and thrown away. This weekend I was not able to get next to the place as I was not out there early enough in the day. I'm thinking that the web page, the posts, the emails, and the phone calls are finally doing something. Four months have now passed since I started with the pictures and posts, and they are finally starting to clean up the filth. 10am today, big org, vehicle count was 11 live vehicles, 5 parked/broken vehicles. Last Saturday, about 1pm, I go past the Celebrity Centre. I'm starting to think, have been thinking, that it is now possible to do an accurate vehicle count at this org on the weekends. When this CC first moved to this location I believe that staff would have parked away from the org, and left room for customers to park right in front of the org. But these days I believe that staff park right in front of the org. If they did not park right in front of the org, there would be no vehicles parked at all is what I'm thinking for some time now. I'm starting to feel that an average vehicle count of 3 is the correct number for this CC. -- Ted Mayett OT 1.1 http://www.solitarytrees.net/pickets/links.htm ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Vegas Update - At Cause From: Ted Mayett Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 04:09:58 -0800 Speed Of Particle Flow. That is what they call this. Only 5 months have passed, and already the back of this big org here in Las Vegas, Nevada is clean. I have 4 new pictures. 2 pictures of the back of the org. What we see is that the broken vehicles are gone. Paint cans are gone, ladders and wood panels and bricks and whatever are all gone. One door has been painted. There are however two vehicles remaining. That white car without license plates, now has plates. And we see that the cardboard has been removed from the windshield of the motor-home. And both these vehicles are clean. They have been washed. To see them now you would not know they were long-term parked vehicles. It looks a lot better in the back of this org, a lot better. Pictures from 29 February 2004. http://www.solitarytrees.net/lvorgs/lv7a.htm ron's birthday event: It is still on March 20th, but at this org the poster for the event has changed: http://www.solitarytrees.net/lvorgs/temp/tempars.htm These last two pictures are only temporary, don't link to them. Well, nice to be at cause over the monkeys here. But it sure did take long enough. But I did get them to move the vehicles and do some cleaning. Now maybe onto phase two. -- Ted Mayett OT 1.1 http://www.solitarytrees.net/pickets/links.htm ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Vegas Update - Mission From: Ted Mayett Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:39:34 -0800 Update. Las Vegas, Nevada. Mission. What follows is from the scientology website: http://www.scientology.org/en_US/world/news/missionary/pg004.html There is a chance this page will disappear. So, I'm making this post now. The page tells us, "The Las Vegas Mission recently opened its doors.. " And in typical scientology fashion, we have no date for this. They are not quite as stupid as we would like them to be, but the pictures do show that they are as deceitful as they have repeatedly shown themselves to be. The only reason I know this is a house, this "Mission", is because I have been to this house to take a picture. What they show us on the web page, is misleading. To look at the pictures they have webbed, you would not really recognize this as a house. Top right picture has them holding a banner, there is NO banner on that house. There is nothing on that house to suggest this is a scientology mission, or anything else. It is a house, just like any other house. It is that bottom picture however that shows just how deceitful they are. And it shows that cults are bad news for the people caught up in them. The page tells us, "Carolyn completed her apprenticeship program and the mission is now delivering Scientology courses." Yet, in this make-believe picture they have given us, Carolyn is pretending to be a student. We know this Carolyn is the boss of the mission, because the web page tells us she is the boss of the mission. The page tells us that Carolyn is trained to run a mission. So, why does she pretend to be a student??? But, Executive Director Carolyn Calley and her husband Don Calley have no problem pretending their home is a mission. So why not just continue lying. Bottom picture on this page is a picture I took of this "mission": http://www.solitarytrees.net/lvorgs/missa.htm What follows is the text from the scientology web page, I want a copy of this archived on the web. "The Las Vegas Mission recently opened its doors to the community under Executive Director Carolyn Calley and her husband Don. Carolyn completed her apprenticeship program and the mission is now delivering Scientology courses. The apprenticeship program provides every new Mission Holder with hands-on experience in an existing mission so they know exactly how to run their mission from day one." -- Ted Mayett OT 1.1 http://www.solitarytrees.net/pickets/links.htm ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Vegas Update, Yellow Tent again, 21.03.04 From: Ted Mayett Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:35:12 -0800 Well, lot's to cover here. The tent was back, but it was a different tent. I realize that now, a different tent. That last one in February was a 2-sections tent, and this one was a 3-sections tent. But even beyond the number of sections, the February tent had "windows", this March tent had none. A picture at the bottom of this page: http://www.solitarytrees.net/lvorgs/lv4a.htm I'm typing this on a Sunday. Saturday was the birthday event for that Hubbard guy. I go by early in the morning, about 6am, to see what might be new. And there is this big yellow tent again. I call into both orgs here in Las Vegas, I'm trying to learn what is happening. I'm told that today, Sunday, at 1pm there would be an FSM type event. I think she said FSM, this one woman did not speak English well at all. But, this was to definitely be a Volunteer Minister, and Planetary Salvage Crusade Event. So I go back about 1:15pm... no event, quite the opposite, the tent is being taken down. Vehicle count was about 15, but.... I watched for awhile, and after thinking it over and discussing it I have come to the conclusion that the org does NOT own the tent. (I think I owe somebody a quarter now :-) I believe that they rented the tent, and the chairs. I estimate about 40-50 chairs is what they had in the 3 sections. The tent was taken down by a 6 person crew of men and women. I'm rather sure this crew were not members. It was a few things that led to this conclusion, but I'm rather convinced the tent was a rental. And the tent crew was an outside crew, and not members. Now questions come to mind. Why was the tent even there? How long had it been there? Why do they even bother with a tent in the back of the org? And the biggest one, why did they say on the phone that there would be an Event in the tent? Now this yellow tent is a VM thing, it has nothing to do with that Hubbard guy and his birthday. So, was the tent set up Saturday? I don't know. Or, did the tent go up and come down in the same day for some reason? We have no way of knowing this. Regarding the vehicle count. If I'm correct and that 6 person crew were not members, then they would have accounted for some of the vehicles parked. And so, the real vehicle count would have been less than 15. Enough for now, there is more but I'd rather not mention it today. -- Ted Mayett OT 1.1 http://www.solitarytrees.net/pickets/links.htm ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Vegas, yellow tents, November, full report From: Ted Mayett Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 03:41:43 -0800 November 16-21, 2004, yellow tents were set up on The Strip, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Volunteer Minister Cavalcade. Now what will follow is long. Personally, I've been fascinated by these yellow tents since they were introduced, which I believe was a few years back somewhere in Europe. (possibly) Today I understand them a lot better, and this report covers my first time ever inside one of these tents. You will notice in the pictures supplied that I had actually taken pictures inside the tent. Not pictures from outside looking in, but actual pictures taken from the inside, and taken in a calm and leisurely manner. And you might wonder how I had accomplished this. To be in one of their tents, while they were there also, and to calmly take pictures of *their* tent. Well, I am one of those OT 1.1's you sometimes hear about, and doing the impossible is what we do. :) Some hard facts: Tents seem to be standard in sizes of 30' x 30' and 15' x 15'. The 15 x's have a special name, runner tent or something, I just don't remember. This particular setup was three 30 x's connected to form a circle on the inside. They can also be connected in a straight line. The big org here has a 30x and a 15x. The little org has only a 15x, and, a van. The big org has no van it seems, but that is explainable as one of the vehicle pictures I have webbed, think it is webbed, shows a small trailer against the wall. And I've often though that this sporadically appearing trailer was for a yellow tent. Setup I don't know. But breakdown I learned, can be done in about 2.5 hours with 10 males working. But typically they only have 8 males for the breakdown and then it takes about 5 hours. The materials for sale, books, are supplied by the local orgs for this traveling tent show. And this particular set up here was a traveling tent show, and not the local tents. The emeters are also supplied by the local org. Well pretty much these are the hard facts, now we enter the world of both theory and actual observations. And somewhere in here is a too long account of a 17 year old male sea org telling me he can kick my ass. And to not blow this out of proportion, I'm partially responsible for him saying that, I kind of led him into that, and then used that remark to turn everything around. And it all worked out well as I ended up, with permission, inside the tent. Remember, I am OT 1.1, and I use TR's that they have no numbers for. :) With all that will follow, there is a question I have no answer for, and maybe together we can find this answer. The question: What do they hope to accomplish with the tent? And now, submitted for your approval: They sit there and wait, they do not use body routers, and least not on this day that I watched them. They have the tables set up, they had 4 of them, and each table has an emeter. And close to the table a sign for a 'free stress test'. They sit there waiting. But it is not that they sit one of them to a table and patiently wait, it is more that they move around, sit down, move around. Any one of them will sit down to the emeter when customers stop, and they don't each have their own table/meter, but rather whoever is closest to the customer(s) that have stopped, sits at the meter/table and services the customer. This part is casual. And effective IMO, it lends to a relaxed atmosphere. They sit slightly hypnotized though, and this from being in a cult of course, but more than that, from hours and days of dealing with nameless people that come and go without end. For this is The Strip, a lovely day, and lot's of people walking past the tent. They had two women, and about 4 men. Only one of the women worked the tables though. I know both of these women, at one time I had walked next to each of them at different times, close to them, and neither of them recognized me, I was just another pile of meat standing there. One woman is about 50 maybe, at least late 40's, certainly attractive enough, leaning more towards handsome. The other a woman about 60 I would guess, and she has something wrong with her face, always has had this problem, a cancer or something, she always wears a large bandage on her face. Understandable that she would not work the tables. The males all had yellow VM jackets on, and pretty much walked around with an air of Authority, bordering on a macho act. I suspect these were sea org that traveled with the truck, did set up and break down, and were kind of pissed at having to deal with raw meat. That was my impression. The women were in casual clothes, much too casual. It did not look good, by good I mean impressive, it was sloppy in fact. They looked like they were regular sellers at a swap meet, and dressed to get dirty. All the men had sneakers and nasty looking unpressed jeans, and the VM jackets on all of them were wrinkled and dirty. They looked like the kind of guys that work the rides in a traveling carnival. Tourists pretty much move in crowds of 2 and more, not too many lone people walking the Strip, usually families or couples, or a few friends. When a group would stop at an emeter, that would make for a crowd around the small table. And then that crowd inevitably would attract another crowd. And a flurry of excitement would occur, it didn't seem to last long, and I need to do this Stress Test myself one of these times to learn what the routine actually is. I had seen a crowd of up to 8 people form and dissipate within 2-3 minutes at least twice. So I don't know what goes on there. Now, back to an earlier mention of a theory. I figure it goes like this... the tent sets up on that first day at a new location with a burst of energy and excitement. Members from both orgs would be there in abundance, so many of them they are probably tripping over each other. Everyone would be dressed nicely for this first day, rested, fed, all that good stuff. And this might carry to part of day two, but by day three, fatigue has set in. The day is long, the people, nameless and without end keep walking by. And rejection is starting to take a toll on the members doing long shifts on a noisy and smelly street. Remember, this is The Strip, traffic never stops coming by, all day long it is noisy and smelly. And mainly this is about rejection. Scores and scores of people walk by, some few of them stop for the Stress Test or to ask a question. And of those few that stop, not many of those would be interested enough to go inside the tent. And even when they do get in the tent, only a small fraction of those will buy a book or pamphlet and have some major cognition about how wonderful scientology actually is. And we need remember, these are tourists walking by. All of us have been tourists somewhere at some time, we know what the deal is. We are not where we are to conduct business or join something, we are there, well, not there to conduct business. Add to this that the people walking by, naturally, are on foot, walking, not driving. And in no hurry whatsoever to pick up materials that have to carried to wherever they are walking to. And so the whole thing is rejection. And I come along, as I did, on day five. And the rejection shows, and it is obvious. Those members working the tent are tired, bored, lifeless. No enthusiasm whatsoever. No joy, no life, they are in fact depressing people to look at. And they sit there and they go through the motions, and they don't have their hearts in what they are doing. This attitude of course creates an ambience, best seen on the inside of tent. INSIDE: There is no problem with smell, the tent is open enough. The lighting is eerie, it is the sunlight filtered though the yellow tent. The pictures of the inside show this a little. And when you are in the tent long enough, as I was, you start to really see the thing. Boxes stacked haphazardly here and there. Piles of stuff here and there. And the dirt on the inside walls of the tent is noticeable. Places where tape is being used because of a rip in the tent, is not really noticeable from the outside, but from the inside looking up, the tape shows up like a picture on a museum wall. The tape just jumps right out at you, with the yellow tent and you are looking up into the sun so to speak. You notice as you look around, the cheap folding chairs, and you know just by looking at them that they are uncomfortable. And then you realize that standing there is uncomfortable. You look down and notice that you are standing in a parking lot, directly on a parking lot. Uneven, cracked, and oil stained ever so slightly. And you see a few stirps of runner carpet here and there on the floor. And you wonder, why did they put a strip of carpet in that one spot? Why only there? And then if you are me, you realize that a wog operation would have 'astro turf' or something on the floor, that it would not be a bare parking lot that you are standing on. There is a small screen plasma? tv set up, I don't know, maybe 20" wide??? And it is not turned on. And it is so bright in there, you wonder would you even be able to see it if it were turned on? My guide, and I'll get to him soon, tells me the tv is for the Dianetics (something) video, and that the tv is not working. And I think it was a dvd set up, but I wasn't close enough to tell for sure. A quick digression here for a soapbox speech. I still say the tents should be left alone, never bothered. Another argument is that those low vehicles counts of 5 at the big org, are due to these tents. They can't be everywhere at once those local members. They are at the org, or at the tent. Better that they spin their wheels on a busy street in a squalid tent doing a useless activity, then that they are at the orgs. So, my predictions about these tents that I made some months ago have turned out accurate. And I can also juggle. They look bad up close, but I wasn't ready for how the operation actually worked. When you stand there in the streets, doing something like this, and you wait for people to walk up to you, that is hard to do. We forget just how hard that is to accomplish. I've done things like this, and you can't scratch between your legs or pick your nose or anything because you are in public view all the time. And the noise never stops and the hours pass slowly. But you watch them like I did, and you see them staring into space, or wandering in a circle, and they come alive when a human walks up. The human leaves, and they stare into space again. And everything is dirty, and they are dirty. I tell you, it is actually worse than I thought. I worked a carnival once, and we were loud and aggressive and had some fun. But these people/members were dejected, beaten down, and lifeless. Interesting to witness. OK now, macho time. Teddy and the Monkey do a Dance: (this was written earlier) My plan was to show up that Saturday wearing slacks with a crease in them, and a clean shirt that looks like it was ironed. I had planned to pass myself off as a typical tourist, and allow them to "snare" me into a presentation, or whatever it is that they actually do. I had learned of this yellow tent event though email. It had started on a Tuesday, and ended that coming Sunday. But the first time I ever saw it was on a Saturday. My plans fell apart though, my sleep schedule was all wrong, and I went there about 11:30am, which was past my bedtime already. I was sleepy, cynical, bored, and testy. Dressed sloppy and having no patience. I park the car, and basically storm the tent. Already I have no patience for this silliness. Some kid makes me immediately, this fires up my blood, I pull cover-maneuvers and fool the kid for a while. Now I'm taking the pictures of the sides of the tents, the kid is gone. To get a good picture of the front I have to cross the street, which is a dangerous and time consuming affair on the Las Vegas Strip. And the kid makes me once again. And this time there is no doubt. He looks at me, I look at him, looks at me... He crosses the street and asks me what I'm doing. "Taking pictures." "Well I see you standing here and looking at our tent." "Taking pictures." "well I see you taking pictures of our tent." "Is there a problem Officer?" "well you are taking pictures." "Is there a problem Officer?" OK, so I don't know what I say eventually, but I have all the pictures I need. The kid is now telling me I cannot take pictures. I tell him he is pulling a stupid bluff, that he doesn't know if I'm part of a swat team or a sting operation, that he has no idea, can't risk anything, and that he is pulling a stupid bluff. This slows him down a bit :) I then tell him I'm done here with the pictures and let's cross the street now because there is a break in the traffic. As we are crossing the street the kid blesses me with the following statement, "I can kick your ass." Now I'm trying to cross a street without getting hit by a car, and protecting this kid from getting hit by a car, and this nimrod wants to tell me he can kick my ass! We are at the center median by now, by the time we crossed the second part of the street I had him totally calmed down. Led him to a spot right in front of the tent, and then tore into him fast and heavy with talk and questions. Turns out he is 17 years old, sea org. I ask him, "why are you wasting your time with this stuff, why aren't you out chasing pussy, why do you waste your time with this?" And this was the proper approach at the time. He is totally confused, and talking in Tongues, if you catch my drift. He tells me he likes doing what he does and etc. And now I start talking Monkey. This gets him lit up! Well anyway, I could almost type forever, but this poor kid, oh my, it was no contest, I owned him totally. And now, a most glorious thing happens. He asks me if I want to go inside the tent. woo hoo! I lit up myself and sprang into the entrance way. And then I stop and smile, and wave him in also. I tell him he has to walk with me, to follow me around, to make sure I don't take anything or bother anything. He complies (of course). And this was how I got inside the tent. As I was being chaperoned by this 17 year old, none of the other members paid us any attention. And now the kid is overcompensating, he is talking a mile a minute, feeding me all kinds of information. It was too much for me to remember (used to have a memory). He just keeps talking and talking and following me around as I walk all over that tent just looking at things. And I took some leisurely pictures, and he never questioned that, nor did any of the other members. He stops talking somewhere, remembering the tech and all no doubt. I ask him will he be attending the New Years Event this year? "yes". I tell him I have heard a few of the announcements that will be mentioned this year, would he like to hear them? "yes". I then go into my patented yearly post about 'this year more people than ever before have reached for the lrh technology' and etc. The poor child, his eyes were crossed when he understood what I meant :) I see I'm losing him, he is rebounding, and I have overstayed my welcome anyway. I zap him with the filthy condition of the tent, ask him how dare he call himself the master of MEST and the tent looks like this. I tell him wogs would never work in filth like this, what is wrong with you? I'm close to an entranceway now, leading him there, and a wog comes up heading for an emeter. He uses that as an excuse to end this affair, but does ask me my name. I tell him 'they' all know me in the orgs, that I am the biggest SP in Vegas. His eyes cross again. So I repeat it, the biggest SP in Vegas. He asks again my name, and I give it to him, my real name, we shake hands, his idea, and I am out of there for the day. Sunday is a day of pure rain, and oddity here in Vegas to have an almost entire day of rain. I go by that afternoon and they have one entrance way open, and nothing set up outside of course. Go back again and it is still raining, and now both entrance ways are closed. I'm confused by the logistics of it all. What will they do? Will they take the tent down in the rain, or wait until the next day? this was about 5pm. I go back 9:30pm because I CAN'T STAND IT, I have to know what they are doing with that tent! The tent is gone, truck is gone, everything is gone, like they were never there. oops, almost forgot, when I went by about 3am that first time on Saturday morning, the generator was running. It made no sense to me, I couldn't figure it out. But then I understood, another riddle was solved, and this is sad. They don't sleep in the truck, nope, they sleep in the tent. And the generator was running at night, because it was cold, and they probably had a heater in the tent. But I sat in the car that Sunday evening, looking at the spot where the tents used to be. And then I realized what a perfect org a tent is. It owns no property, it only sets up with permission. It causes no harm, and then it leaves, and you don't even know it was ever there to begin with. -- Ted Mayett OT 1.1 http://www.solitarytrees.net/pickets/links.htm ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: Vegas, yellow tents, November, full report From: Ted Mayett Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 07:12:28 -0800 OK, a Major Cognition on these tents. It was that realpeach post that made me think of this. And it's funny, I stand there looking at them, and I never noticed... The support mechanism for the central cone(s) on this tent being discussed, is actually quite different than the support mechanism found on that tent set up behind the big org. And the difference is extreme, and I figured out why. This particular tent here, I don't think it could be called the 'grand daddy' tent, I don't think that. But this I would call, 'the big tent' or 'traveling tent'. It is pretty much an entirely different construction than the local tent used here in Vegas. Although I suspect the "little" 30x's here can connect to this 'big tent'. I believe that part is standard. Here is the thing about this, and pictures: Notice here that there are no ropes being used: http://www.solitarytrees.net/lvorgs/lv8a.htm And in these pictures we can see that ropes are used: http://www.solitarytrees.net/lvorgs/lv4a.htm So in the pecking order of things, the 'big tent' or 'traveling tent' is the showpiece. Little local orgs have their flimsy tents that require rope to hold them to the ground. But not the traveling tent, that one needs no rope! It is heavier, and a more solid construction. The traveling tent is the real thing, not a local imitation. This is the ONE, the top of the food chain (possibly), it is WOW, the OFFICIAL VOLUNTEER MINISTER CAVALCADE TENT. It doesn't get any better than this, this is the upper heights of it all where yellow tents are concerned. And already, the tent is starting to look like a piece of shit. Now I don't know about you, but the little things in life make me happy. :) -- Ted Mayett OT 1.1 http://www.solitarytrees.net/pickets/links.htm ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: Vegas, yellow tents, November, full report From: dst@cs.cmu.edu (Dave Touretzky) Date: 25 Nov 2004 15:02:10 -0500 That was an amazing post, Ted. Other people write about Scientology in terms of "evil", or "insanity". But not you. For you, the operative words are "squalor", "boredom", and "malaise". It sure puts things in a different perspective. And the pictures are great! No wonder Scientology hates the Internet. -- Dave Touretzky: "Touch assist? In Vegas??? Do they do outcalls?" http://ScientologyWatch.org http://LisaClause.org