Clearwater, December 1998

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Subject: CLEARWATER PICKET: City denzines support the picketers
From: shy_david@nospam.org (Shy David)
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 22:57:29 GMT
Message-ID: 366dabc9.16718523@nntp.lightlink.com

During Friday, Saturday, and Sunday pickets, the number of supporters who drove past or walked past was nearly 100% supportive of the picket. Out of the thousands of cars that drove by, hundreds cheered, yelled out things like "Yeah! Good for you!" "Finally!" and "Thank you!" with their thumbs up and / or honking. I think it is not at all an exageration to say that well over one thousand passers-by expressed their hearty support for the picket and the picketers.

And not just people who passed by the pickets at the crime syndicate's franchises and headquarters. Wherever I went with my SCIENTOLOGY KILLS tee-shirt, people stoped me and expressed their unhappiness at the] crime syndicate. Waiters and waitresses at restaurants; a teller at a bank; people at the airport.

The support for the critics of the crime syndicate from the Clearwater citizens was and is MASSIVE.

While picketing the crime syndicate's "Sandcastle" franchise, one car stoped beside me, blocking traffic, just so the driver could run out, shake my hand emphatically, and tell me "God bless you! It's about time! God bless you!" over and over again, before rishing back into her car and driving away.

At the "bank" building, one person driving by canceled his errand, parked his car, and asked me if he could join the pciket (and where to get a sign). He said he had heard there was going to be a picket but didn't know exactly where or when, and he was disheartened because he did not know who to talk to to find out this information. He just happened to be driving past at the time of the picket. I gave him a copy of Roland's flyer.

I am still astonished at the numbers of Clearwater citizens who were very happy to see the crime syndicate picketed. The crime syndicate has done so much to alienate and piss of Clearwater citizens, "pulling in" well-deserved animosity fom the people who live in Clearwater.

The picket was a HUGE SUCCESS.

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Subject: CLEARWATER PICKET: Huh?!
From: shy_david@nospam.org (Shy David)
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 01:54:54 GMT
Message-ID: 366dd7e2.28009368@nntp.lightlink.com

The sign over the Fort Homicide Hotel read:

HAPPY HO!

for a few hours, where the "!" I suppose was supposed to be an "L". What was Helena doing in Clearwater? Why was she happy? Why did the crime syndicate want the city to know da 'ho was happy?

Inquiring minds wanna know!

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Subject: Re: CLEARWATER PICKET: City denzines support the picketers
From: shy_david@nospam.org (Shy David)
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 02:51:48 GMT
Message-ID: 366de44f.31190866@nntp.lightlink.com

On Tue, 08 Dec 1998 19:34:41 -0500, Beverly Rice dbj1120@iag.net wrote:

> I also was amazed at the people who stopped to thank us, who
> stopped to talk with us and tell us how they felt like they
> were being pushed out of their own town, who stopped and joined
> in, and who stated being afraid, and being afraid to say they
> are afraid because they never know who a Co$ member will be as
> they are everywhere and practically ~own~ downtown now.
> I was also told how nice it was that our presence kept all the Co$
> members off the streets, which are ususally cram jammed with them,
> so they felt like it was the ~citizens~ town again rather than
> the Co$'s.

A few minutes after I posted my observation about how the citizens of Clearwater are disgusted with Scientology, I read a SP Times article that quoted a "Scientology spokesperson" claiming that the citizens of Clearwater DO NOT support the pickets---- a clear case of speaking a lie as "what's true for you." I am only aware of three people who objected to the picketing: one may have thought the picketers were =SUPPORTING= the crime syndicate instead of protesting it; another was a very messed up bloke who lives next to the "Sandcastle" building, who threatened one of us with physical violence; I do not know about the third except by hear-say, but he was outside the "One Stoppe[sic] Shoppe[sic]" scientology store.

Is it at all possible that Scientologists actually believe that their neighbors in Clearwater do not resent their illegal, immoral, and unethical activities? Surely they must have seen and heard the yells of support, the thumbs up, and the people who were walking past and paused to hug us and shake our hands.

It seems highly unlikely to me that the crime syndicate is unaware of the animosity they have generated in Clearwater, let alone the world.

Beverly

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Subject: CLEARWATER PICKET: Hostility at "Sandcastle"
From: shy_david@nospam.org (Shy David)
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 03:01:22 GMT
Message-ID: 366de5ce.31573753@nntp.lightlink.com

Only one instance of hostility that I know of, and it was by someone who identified himself as "neither Scientologist or anti-Scientologist."He objected to four critics when their van parked near his residence; he insisted that we pack up and "go home," stating that "Clearwater doesn't want you here." He also gave as his reason for demanding that we leave "I don't want them (Scientologists) shooting their guns this way," which I assume means he claims to believe that we would attract gunfire in his direction.

This guy was clearly either emotionally ill, intellectually deficiant, drugged, or perhaps just trying to mess with our mines. At any rate, he insisted that we not just not picket, but LEAVE TOWN.

One of the protestors (I leave it to him to name himself, since I do not have his permission to name him here), politely declined to leave, stating that his own residence is often the target of pickets by the crime syndicate.

The reply to this? The beligerant bloke said "Don't talk back to me! I'll fuck up your face!" and stepped towards him.

Captain Ahab took a step towards a police car that was parked a few feet away (filled with law enforcement officers, GOD BLESS THEM!), and yelled "We have a problem here!"

An officer climbed out of the police car and walked over and told the abusive bloke that verbal threats were not to be tolerated.

From that point on we had a very, very good picket. The clams inside the franchise shut the blinds on the windows (damn symbolic, that) when they saw us.

The Clearwater police are damn fine folks, and I have already sent a USPS letter to them thanking them for their protection.

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Subject: CLEARWATER PICKET: The money!
From: shy_david@nospam.org (Shy David)
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 03:07:07 GMT
Message-ID: 366de805.32141164@nntp.lightlink.com

When looking around the crime syndicate's property, I was supprised at the very expensive shit they were putting up as PR for Christmas. They must have purchased some 100 Christmas trees just to line the walls of the "Sandcastle" building. Their shaddy, shabby "Winter Wonderland" props must have cost a great deal of money. I kept thinking, as I walked abount and looked at all the squandered money (and the crime syndicate doesn't even believe God exists, nor that Jesus was Christ) that the money could have been spent on people who need it, instead of deceiving people into believing that Scientology is some kind of religion, and a Christian / Christmas-celebrating one at that! Amazing.

My coven this year passed out 180 blankets to the homeless this year in Santa Ana (California) and Garden Grove (California). What has Scientology done to help people? NOTHING: they are ordered NOT TO, because they claim to believe that helping people "rewards" them for being "down-stat." The hungry; the cold; the sick; the desperate---- Scientology does NOTHING to help them with their hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Subject: CLEARWATER PICKET: Pictures
From: shy_david@nospam.org (Shy David)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 04:24:58 GMT
Message-ID: 366f4d07.4212434@nntp.lightlink.com

REPOST: COORRECTED URL
I've posted 13 pictures to alt.binaries.scientology
The pictures are also available at:
http://www.airspeed.com/~shydavid/cw-pict.htm

AT-CAUSE.JPG
Being "at cause" over the crime syndicate, picketing on the sidewalk of the Fort Homicide Hotel. The crime syndicate tried to revoke our Constitutionally recognized right to demonstrate by denying us access to the sidewalks outside the crime syndicate's headquarters.

CPT-AHAB.JPG
Captain Ahab, hunting the Great White Clam, with picketers in the background. Captain Ahab was kind enough to provide most of the finances required for ShyDavid to attend. THANK YOU CAPTAIN AHAB!

HIDEFACE.JPG
This crime syndicate's cameraman tried to hide his face behind his camera. ShyDavid's camera tech was "at cause" over this bashfulness: he hid his camera behind his picket sign until he was standing right next to him, then whipped the sign away and snapped the picture. The question is: why would he not wish his face photographed, when he's filming the good guys?! Talk about a hypocrite! He is pictured with OSA agent Pretty Boy.

LRH-DEAD.JPG
This is a picture of Lafayette Ron Hubbard just before he died. Note the twisted, line-ridden face as he screamed about his body thetans. Note the strange orange pallor; the lack of hair.

OT$300.JPG
Bob Minton performing OT $300 tech. He is pictured here waving three one-hundred dollar bills. Money is what Scientology is all about: it is its primary reason for existing; power is the other reason.

PHONTECH.JPG
Bob Minton performing Phone Tech, trying to call the crime syndicate's store that threw him out. Note the cold drinks machine next to him: the crime syndicate pulled its plug a second after Bob bought a cold drink. Pathetic, eh?

PRETTY01.JPG
Here's Pretty Boy, trying to look like he's earning the rice and beans his masters pay him with. He refused to tell me if he was OSA/GO, or tell me what his "hat" was. There was almost no personality left inside this guy. He is the person who likely removed the McPherson Memorial wreath minutes after the good guys left.

SANDCAST.JPG
Three picketers preparing to picket the "Sandcastle" crime syndicate franchise. The crime syndicate pulled the blinds of the building a few minutes after we got there. The blinding light of the truth was too painful to their eyes.

SIDEWALK.JPG
To prevent the good guys from picketing in front of the Fort Homicide Hotel, some RPF slaves removed a square of sidewalk across the street, and then fenced the entire sidewalk in. This was to prevent picketers from exercising their Constitutionally recognized right to demonstrate. However, the city allowed us to picket on the sidewalk right outside the crime syndicate's building. FOOT BULLET!

SLAVLABR.JPG
Abe Lincoln freed the slaves, right? Well, Hubbard enslaved them again. Here we have some children working on the crime syndicate's Public Relations projects. I suspect many of these kids have parents who wonder where they've ran off to.

THROWOUT.JPG
Bob Minton went into the crime syndicate's "One Stoppe[sic] Shoppe[sic]" to buy a cold drink--- with US$300.00. But for some reason his money was no good here. He was asked if he was a Scienmtologist: Bob waved US$300 in their face and said (paraphrased) "If I were a Scientologist I wouldn't have any money." The male proprietor asked Bob for his name, and when Bob said "Bob Minton", his face blanched.

THROWSD1.JPG
This person threw ShyDavid out of the crime syndicate's store. She was kind enough to hold the door for me, though. I walked in with my picket sign: she averted her eyes so she couldn't see it.

THROWSD2.JPG
The other crime syndicate member in the store who threw ShyDavid out. Bob Minton is in the store (behind the merchandise in this picture) looking for a cold drink: he was thrown out half a minute later.