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Subject: CW Picket report: One High Light:
From: bpetty@primenet.com (Bruce Pettycrew)
Date: 7 Dec 1999 04:21:04 GMT
Message-ID: <82i1vg$oc6$1@nnrp03.primenet.com>


...and I do mean a High Light:

I was driving for a very determined ex-OSA SP who had created 
a mobile high wattage slide projector powered by my car's battery 
via the cigarette lighter socket and a 12 volt to 115 volt converter.  
The idea was to enhance the start of the candlelight vigil 
for Lisa McPherson.  

We stopped at the corner of the Ft. Harrison building that 
was next to the vigil site.  The mad wizard projected a 12 foot 
circle of light on the side of the Co$ property; 
the slide read "We will never forget you, Lisa".

When the traffic light changed, I drove around the block 
behind the Ft. Harrison and we repeated the message a second time. 
On the third trip around we picked up an OSA follower car, 
and as we came to the stop sign on the road behind the building, 
we discovered another OSA vehicle stopped and not moving.  
Luckily, I stopped short of the second car, so that even though 
our tail pulled up almost to my rear bumper, I was able to drive 
around the front car and pull up to the Ft. Harrison for
one more slide projection.

Then we parked and joined the vigil.

More picket stories later.

Bruce Pettycrew





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Subject: Picket Report:  Welcome to Clearwater
From: bpetty@primenet.com (Bruce Pettycrew)
Date: 8 Dec 1999 03:43:35 GMT
Message-ID: <82kk57$8j5$1@nnrp03.primenet.com>



I spent Saturday picketing on several locations on Ft. Harrison Street.
I brought my own sign, a foam board about 3 feet by 2 feet with black
2 1/2 inch letters:

	  $CIENTOLOGY
	     HURTS
	    PEOPLE 

I wore it with a ribbon around my neck to allow me to handle my
cell phone and video camera while picketing.

The people in cars on Ft. Harrison and Cleveland streets were
_overwhelmingly_ in favor of the pickets.  Almost 80% of the the
drivers/passengers were giving us thumbs-up or honking as
they drove by.  

I positioned myself behind the Co$ building on Ft Harrison,
across from the ex-bank building at the Cleveland street
intersection.   The cult had parked two U-Haul trucks
in the parking lot to try to block the view of the students
that were constantly being bussed around Clearwater between
the various Co$ buildings.  As the vans arrived at the back
of the building, the guards would unlock the doors and cultists
would hurry from the building to the vans or vice versa.  
They kept their heads down or turned away from me.
I would then lift up my sign and yell "Don't look at the
sign, don't look at the sign!".  About 3/4 of them would then
glance up at me:  Score:  Reactive minds 3 - Tech 1.