======== Subject: Protest report Copenhagen Nov 13-14 1999 From: "Catarina Pamnell" Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 10:01:20 +0100 Message-ID: <80ok4f$esb$1@zingo.tninet.se> Just a very small report about a very small protest. Saturday, I combined a shopping walk with friends down the Stroeget, Copenhagen pedestrian street, with a little bit of flier distribution. About 50 'Want to pay 1.000.000 kr for spiritual freedom? - try Scientology(tm)' given out. Sunday afternoon, after assorted entheta activities, I decided to give out another 50 fliers in Danish, in front of the AOSH EU. Now, how many times have I told people not to solo picket, esp. not the Sea Org orgs... I'll be the first to admit that it's stupid. Maybe some others of the ex-scientologists can understand the attraction though - when you have been strongly intimidated by a group in the past, it is a great relief to conquer your fears. As expected, the security guy who came up to me (the short, somewhat older Italian) asked me with some disbelief if I was there alone. I told him to go look for the other critics, which he did. Later he came back with the video cam, but didn't bother to use it. I had soon given out the last flier, so I headed towards the Scala for some coffee. Sec guy followed me, he was still looking for the other SPs. Then he came up to me, and I invited him to sit down. We had a nice long chat. When sitting down like that in a cafe to talk to handlers, there is usually a plain clothes person who sits at a nearby table, and tries to look uninvolved. Wonder if they are there primarily to spy on the critics, or on the handlers... Catarina -- http://xenu.just.nu