April 15, 1999
Picket report; Atlanta, Georgia
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Picket Report - Tax Day in Atlanta
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 05:07:11 GMT
From: ethercat@netcom.com
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Date: April 15, 1999
Time: 7pm - 7:30pm
Car Count: 16 (Thanks Prof!)
Prop: A rubber Xenu doll, the size of an infant, which is actually one of
a pair. We call them "the babies".
People present: Wynot and S. with signs; Susan, our local DSA PR; a
27-year co$ veteran who said his name was John; an observer, who, I later
found out from Wynot and MadCow, is a regular on IRC; and me with the
videocam. A few honks, but no people stopping tonight.
New sign:
Scientology
the Phoney Church
Gained Tax Exemption
Via IRS Harassment
As we walked to the still unmarked Dunwoody org, we were joined by someone
who seemed to know a bit about scientology, and although I was we talked
during the picket (I was filming, and he was standing with me) I became
pretty sure he wasn't a scieno, because he was too familiar with the
internet. Later when I mentioned his name on IRC to wynot, he
recognized the name, and said he had been talking to him the other
night. He was reluctant to picket, just wanted to observe, which was
cool with me but I warned him that the police might come and make him
leave if he wasn't going to walk around. He was willing to take the
chance, which gave him the opportunity to see that these picket reports
are for real, and how the scientologist handlers act - they're such good
advertisement.
As we arrived, Susan and a guy we hadn't seen there before were waiting
in the parking lot for us. The lot was full. I imagime there were
handlers inside the org, for the people inside, to keep them from
looking out and seeing us. Only a couple or three cars left while we
were there tonight.
Susan latched onto wynot immediately, and John attached himself to S. I
think perhaps John was there in case Stacy came with us again, but alas,
they were disappointed tonight. Almost the entire time, these two were
walking back and forth with S. and wynot, which in effect, doubled the
number of picketers. During the picket, we were informed that we were
being directed by Stacy, that we were working for criminals, that Susan
helps 40,000 children in Atlanta stay off drugs, and that John had ordered
the picket at our house the other night, and that thought it was legal. I
wonder how it makes Susan, Bubbles, and the other 2 scn picketers feel,
that we warn them before they did it, this 27 year scientologist would
order them to to do it anyway, and that we would turn out to be right.
I get the feeling that the handlers are trying to wreck our comm with the
public, by keeping us occupied. We may just have to start ignoring them,
they really aren't listening anyway...
Wynot will have more details of the handlers in his report later.
When we ran out of tape, we left, because I am no longer willing to be
out there without some visual documentation. Our Atlanta scienos seem to
have forgotten all about southern hospitality... They were much less
friendly today... Maybe they were just disappointed...
As we left, I filmed Susan and John talking together, and John waved
bye. I said, "Bye, y'all, see ya next time!" and Susan said she'd see us
too.
Oh, yeah, and Susan took our pictures again, but then that's become
routine. I can't imagine why they need so many...
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