Las Vegas Picket Reports

Subject: Wed 1-2-3
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 23:03:19 GMT

Big org, one hour. Another new monkey came along, and I don't know where all these monkeys are coming from. This one is named James and again this one is not a complete newbie. James came up, introduced himself, extended his arm and we shook hands. Immediately he attempted to treat me as a wog. I pointed out I was a 10+ year veteran. He laughed at my picket sign, said the price was wrong. (I have been waiting for this) So i said along the lines of, "you notice that I wrote down 'does the bridge really cost 360K', I did that because I'm not sure if the price list I have is correct. Can we go over it together and you show me the errors?"

Of course this got a big "NO". In fact, I don't even carry a print out of the price list because I know they will not look at it.

And so we danced for about 6 minutes in the street. Eventually i was able to convince the guy that I was indeed an ex-clam myself. So now I bring up the PTS/sp course. I ask him if he had done it, asked him what courses he had done. He would not answer. So I stepped into him, got really close, and kept asking him what he has done, why he won't admit it, what's the big secret. Things like that.

I was bored so I went to cave him in. About the time his eyes are crossing in his head I tell him I'm an SP and he is not allowed to speak to me, that he should go away. That did it! He was a basket case. I turned my back on him and went back to picketing.

My monkeys don't learn.
They think they can boogie-woogie with the King of Rock and Roll. And it just don't work that way.
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Subject: Sat 1/4/97
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 22:13:15 GMT

Little org, ten minutes. Uneventful.

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Subject: Mon 1/6/97

Big org, a delicious 30 minutes. Had I dressed properly for the weather it would have been a two org kind of day.

This newest sign works well. Again it was commented upon. By two newbie clams and 2 wogs. And the staff reads it over and over.

With one of the clams I pointed out that in 1994 I had put in 12 thousand, and that now I know what the entire price is. I said all of this in a matter-of-fact tone of voice.

The other clam is a 70??? year old guy. A nice enough kind of guy. We spoke a few words. He was carrying a copy of Clear Body so I asked was he starting the Purif. He is. So I'll be back tomorrow at the same time, 5-5:30pm to talk to him again.

How does that make you feel?

The guy does not know enough to not to talk to SP's. You've got less than 24 hours to teach him. Get busy.
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Subject: Tue 1/7/97

A two org kind of day. First, one hour at the little org. Uneventful. Then 15 minutes at the big org. Exciting.

The purif boy was not around. One of the staff, I don't know her name, but she is higher level staff, asked me about the sign.

This is the first time in a year this woman has spoken to me. She said the sign was wrong, said that she only spent $200,000.00 for the Bridge. I asked her what level ot she was and it turns out that she has not done the levels yet. I guess she has just paid for them????

Anyway we were speaking gently, her on the porch and me timing the conversation to my constant walking. I asked her this: "How would you find out if pickets like mine were happening all over the planet?" It caught her by surprise, she did not know. I asked again, "how would you find out if this type of picket were happening elsewhere, who would you ask?" Again she did not know. So now I asked her if pickets like mine were happening at other orgs. About that time she was called in for a phone call. She asked me to wait a minute and she would be right back. She went inside and when she was out of sight I left the picket. The next time she sees me I'll find out just how badly she wants to know things.

But the conversation was real, one of those rare occurrences I refer to as 'making a connection'.
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Subject: Wed 1/8/97

Big org, one hour. The purif boy was not around again. The $200,000.00 lady did not speak to me today. All in all, uneventful.

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Subject: Fri 1/10/97

It was a two org + kind of day. 30 minutes at the big org, 30 min at the little org, then back to the big one for another 30 min.

One of the monkeys at the big org commented on the sign. He said the bridge is a different price for different people. I asked whatever happened to fixed donations. But he was already going into the building. This particular monkey is a nothing type of monkey. Sometimes I say hello to him, sometimes not. The interesting thing is that this sign gets so much comment from them. Except for that, uneventful.
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Subject: Tue 1/14/97

Glorious Day. The most exciting picket so far. There were three of us. Another ARS critic, "his" friend, and myself.

When Kevin was here we made some of them excited. What the three of us did today had them leaping in high-gear, *all* of them. My monkeys must love me, they must really really love me. (smile)

I thought that only two of us would be picketing. It turns out that the third person came along with a movie camera. At one point it was a duel between the movie camera and #4 Mary. Mary had a pocket flash camera and wanted the guy with the camera to put down his camera so she could take a picture of his face. The guy said, "No". Mary had come out with the camera and I quickly blocked the face of the person holding a picket sign. I told Mary that she could not take pictures. Mary tried to dance around me and so the three of us went around and around in a circle, Mary quite serious and the two of laughing out loud. Eventually Mary got her picture, she got all of the pictures she wanted, even some more pictures of me.

At times the guy with the movie camera would get right next to Mary with it :-) Mary did not like this. So the guy kept doing it. After a while the guy and I went to the back of the building, he wanted some shots of the cars parked there. Of course the monkeys watched us from a distance. One of them, Polly, asked me why he was taking pictures of the cars. I told her the guy wanted a record of the license plates. Polly asked why, I said I didn't know. :-) We had done this purposely.

We leave the back of the building and go to the front where the other person is still picketing. He said they have been running back and forth inside and outside the building.

So now we go to the little org. They did not follow us there ??????? The little org was not ready for us. They too came alive and started running about. Outside they had two people with picket signs and one with a movie camera. #5 Val Garcia tried to stay hidden behind a wall so the camera would not get him. But the photographer caught a good few seconds and one day we will have the face of Val.

And so once again the outside world said hello to my two orgs. These two people never did enter the orgs to play with them, there was not enough time for it. And the photographer had absolutely no interest in doing an OCA anyway. In fact it was a short picket as we got started too late in the day. But what we lacked in time was made up by quality. We shook them hard in those few minutes. I imagine they will be a few days recovering from this.

And me, I have another splendid memory from visiting critics.
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Subject: Wed 1/15/97

Little org, 20 minutes.
An act of defiance occurred. They did not shut the curtains when I arrived. For the past few months they always shut them when I show up to picket. Today there was only the kid Nathan in the courseroom with one staff. The staff was doing that 'stare at the wall' thing. She had her back to me. So the only one in the course room who knew I was out there was Nathan, and he did not shut the curtains. The young fellow is most always flexing his muscles at me. I figure this outrageous act of defiance, was an expression of displeasure, over yesterdays picket.

I get used to the curtains being shut when I show up. Had an adult been moving around the courseroom, the curtains would be shut. Children are so difficult to train.

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Subject: Thur 1/16/97

Little org, 20 minutes. Today they immediately shut some of the curtains, the part of the courseroom where some newbie was sitting. The other part of the courseroom was left open, that part had two staff in it. A third staff came along and for a little while they looked out the window laughing at me. It has been a while since they laughed at me like that, I thought I had wiped the smiles off of their faces. I may be seeing how well they smile in Small Claims court.

Two street guys and I have been exchanging Ape signals for several months now, today they cornered me as I was leaving and I found out what was bothering them. They wanted to know who was paying me to picket. They were looking for work. :-)
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Subject: Sat 1/18/97

A two org kind of day. First one hour at the little org, 9:20-10:20am. Then some errands. Then one hour at the big org. Little one uneventful. But at the big one, action. For about 5 minutes I had 3 of them on the porch laughing at me. This has to be because of Xenu's Sister. And then big action.

There is a #8 I have written of before, this guy is the one who almost lost control one night while I was out there. I thought for sure he was going to attack. Staff had pulled him inside. Today he comes out and he is fuming at me, really mad. So fuck him, I've been up all night and not in the mood for this garbage, and I just ignore the monkey. He leaves, comes back, goes into the building again. Now he comes out with a briefcase in one hand and a camera tripod in the other. He comes right up to me and starts waving the tripod in my face, this monkey is really _mad_. This is what he says, "when you drop that body, and your at the implant station, and they hit you with electricity, remember, you've been warned." I'm listening to this and thinking should I take the tripod away from the fool, and I tell him, "yeah, I read all about it" I say it real low and nasty. And the monkey, lips quivering, walks away.

This guy is named Mitch Travielier. I'm not sure of the last name but I will track it down. [Mitch Talevi]

And I tell you this OSA, next time this idiot bothers me I'm filing an harassment suit against him and the church. I will not tolerate a club waved in my face again. Keep this ot 8 on a short leash.
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Subject: Mon 1/20/96

A two org kind of day. About 35 minutes between them.

New org side picket sign today. It reads:
Lisa
McPherson
Memorial Page
www.primenet.com/~cultxpt/lisa.htm

I didn't have a stencil small enough for the URL so that was done free-hand. But the sign came out looking good.
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Subject: Tue 1/21/97

2 org +, little org, big one, then little one again. 30,30,20 min.

They don't know what Lisa McPherson is about. But, since it has been advertised on TV that Hard Copy will be airing a scientology article tonight, I'll use the sign a few more days. Uneventful.

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Subject: Thur 1/23/97

Big org, 30 minutes, uneventful.
But I still carry the Lisa sign.

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Subject: Fri 1/24/97

Little org for 30 min. Then later the big org for ten.

I suspect that a number of them watched or heard about the Hard Copy and the Inside Edition report on Lisa. They are exceptionally humbled. I chased one of them inside at the big org, he was on the porch having a smoke. I pointed to the sign and started carrying on about, "scientologist, not a wog, and you don't care, isn't that great, you really don't care, etc."

I'll keep the sign working for a few more pickets and then go back to the money sign. They do not comment on this Lisa sign. The only sign that ever got them to talking was the 'money' sign. This is not opinion on my part, simply something I have observed.

Tomorrow I hope to meet up with my #8, done all the L's, most stupid monkey in Las Vegas, Mitch Talevi. I would like to see how this incompetent idiot responds to the sign. You reading this Mitch? There is nothing you can tell me about the Implant station. 1996, 11 times, I won the Employee of the Month Award at the Mars Implant Station. I'll show you shit with electricity you never dreamed of. Yeah buddy, next time your up there I'm waiting for you! Let's have fun this Saturday Mitch, come out and play, I'll be there. Call me if you would like, tell me what time is best for you. Let's dance, you and me working together, we can make this city famous.

Let's do it Mr. ot8 done all the L's, let's party. Show me how bad you are. Impress me.

PS. For new clams on this NG. About a week back this ot8 was waving a tripod in my face while yelling at me. I did not take the tripod away from him. But it was close to happening. Next time it happens I'll have six police cars and a Swat Team called in. Count on it.

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Subject: Sat 1/25/97

Big org, one hour. My new ot sweetheart was not around. I would suppose he has been called to LA by now. They do not like this Lisa sign.
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Subject: Mon 1/27/97

little org for 30 minutes. Uneventful. Then 30 exciting minutes at the big org, it was a night time picket. A new monkey, one I haven't seen before, came out to yell at me. He wanted to know, "don't you have anything better to do?" I told him NO, and gave him a big smile. I think he likes me. :) My new #8 Mitch came out and I gave him a big, loud, cheery hello. He gave me a scowl. I shouted, "Mitch, what's happening, I though we were friends." He went back inside. Another monkey came out, this one I know for ten years now, we have even been roommates twice. I asked him when are we going to have a cup of coffee together. He said, "probably never." I complimented him on his application of ARC, told him he was doing it right. That it was only a checksheet item and nothing to be done in the real world.

It was an exciting thirty minutes. They knew I was there.

I used one of my old signs: Still Not Declared ha ha ha I'm done with the Lisa sign. There is a morbidity to it that I do not relate to. The candlelight memorial planned for Clearwater is proper and has style. Constant parading with a sign does not, IMO. Although I will use it whenever there is exceptional coverage of Lisa.
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Subject: Tue 1/28/97

Big org, one hour. I had planned on 30 minutes but there was so much activity I ended up doing an hour. Night time picket 6:50-7:40pm. No wind, temperature 65 F, 18 C. A beautiful night to be outside.

I yelled various things to the monkeys, but none yelled back. Both orgs, business is up these past few weeks. I believe they really do get new people with every TV show, negative or not. But the people do not last.
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Subject: Thur 1/30/97

Big org, one hour. Some updates.
C-org have landed in Vegas. Both orgs have new full time c-org staff, they have been here for about one month now. They shift back and forth so I don't really know which org they are with. It seems to be four of them, males. There was an initial flurry of new starts when they first landed, this has slowed down and many of the newbies are gone. I suspect they are working the colleges here because most of the new starts were college type kids.

Of the new c-org, one of them is already a problem child, giving me nasty looks, yelling, and macho BS in general. He's a young guy, 22???, I do not know his name. This brings the count of problem children up to 4 between the two orgs. 4 macho monkeys. But i like it, they are getting angry, and that is a sign of life.

And so I had another exciting picket. Because I yell at them. The latest thing I yell out is "ARC". I say it loud and with a big smile. I'm back to the money sign. My newest macho monkey really liked it. :-)

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Subject: Sat 2/1/97

A two org kind of day. One hour between them. Uneventful.

It occurs to me that Las Vegas is being sent sea-org for several reasons. Xenu's Sister of course. But more than that...

Mesa, Chicago, Ann Arbor, and possibly Boston. It seems that my big org, with an average vehicle count of 10-12, is the most populated org. Boston and Chicago are difficult for exact vehicle counts. But my org clearly has Mesa and Ann Arbor beaten.

The cult is merely working on expanding the most populated org, and that is what I think it is.

Today's count: Big org, 12. Little org, 3. at about 2pm.

The big org used to have 2 broken vehicles parked in the lot for over a year. Those two broken cars are now gone. I used to count those vehicles whenever I posted a vehicle count. I'm sorry they are gone, they added a style to the place. However, it makes it easier for me to count now. Less cars.

They were down to an average of 8-10 vehicles for some months. The c-orgs had the average up to 16 for a short time, now it is holding steady at 10-12 again.

The little org goes between zero and 7 with 2-3 being average.

PS. I would DEARLY love vehicles counts for any orgs. I would like to do a weekly post about this. That's for Dublin, for anywhere.
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Subject: Feedback wanted
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 03:52:57 GMT

This is what's happening:
Arrived at the big org about 5pm, the first thing I notice is that they have someone waiting outside for me to show up, a spotter. I've been doing this long enough that I can tell when they do that. And it has been many months since they used a spotter. Second thing I notice, while crossing the street, is that the glass on the door is gone, replaced with a sheet of wood. The spotter, a female, has spotted me by now and is going into the building. I then am close enough to see that the big glass window next to the door is also smashed. But not completely, it is still holding in the frame.

One of the Problem Children, one I have no name for, comes running out the building and takes off down the street. So I forget all about him. While picketing I notice he is across the street and looking into my car. The window is down and the car is unlocked. He sees me looking at him and leaves the car. It turns out that the guy is crossing the street at the approved crosswalk, like one is supposed to do. I always just cross the street illegally. So now I wait until he is across the street and walk away from the building to ask him why he is looking in my car. He is running to the building and I put my hand up in a 'stop' gesture and ask him, "what were you looking for?". He said, "shut-up faggot" and ran around me. I thought for a moment he was going to run through me.

At the little org there was a window that was smashed, I first noticed it 12/1/96. It was replaced about 1/24/97. I had never posted about that broken window because I knew it would be fixed if I did so.

Last year I had posted about the glass on the door of the big org being broken and repaired by the next day.

Now then, I do *not* smash windows. That is not my thing. I've never done anything like that in my life. Stuff like that is not me.

Seeing the windows smashed as they are put a damper on my picket this evening. It upset me so much I did not even feel like staying. But, I remained about 40 minutes, long enough for the police to arrive if they had called them. The police never did arrive.

It occurs to me that they are smashing their own windows to get me in trouble. Yet, the police have not been called. Friends tell me that all that is needed is for a few of them to _claim_ I did the damage and I can be arrested and charged. I live alone and would be hard pressed to prove that I did not do the damage if they knew I was at home at the time. I keep odd hours, at any given time of the day or night I'm liable to be in a casino working. Whenever I am in the casino's I always make enough noise so that some of the employees would be able to verify I was there. I've been doing this for over a year now as a protective measure, it has become an automatic thing. But in the apartment alone, I cannot prove anything. So I'm really getting worried about this. As I've said in other posts, they are getting more angry and aggressive on the whole.

While a clam, on-lines at CCLV, and while I had a scientology roommate, and while various visiting sea org were staying at my apartment, this same apt. At that time CCLV was being vandalized heavily. Movie cameras were stolen, tape decks, money, wallets, other things. The windows were being broken constantly. This all stopped when I started doing drive by's in the early morning hours to catch whoever was doing these crimes. I never did catch anyone, but the vandalism had stopped for a while. I have witnesses to all of this. Some of them ex-clams, some current.

So this breaking of the windows is not a new thing. In fact Kevin had pointed out that some of the windows of the big org had a protective cover to stop them from being broken. I had never noticed it that way.

I may just stop picketing, I've got to decide on this. I've had four threats on my life already. Now that part does not bother me that much. Dead is dead. But the thought of doing time in jail, that part bothers me.

My car is always unlocked. I leave my picket signs in them and figure that if the monkeys want them I don't want them to break a window to get to them. I'll continue to leave my car unlocked, I'm thinking that legally it is safer to do it that way. In fact, it is a hatchback and the trunk lock had a problem so I had just removed the entire mechanism some months back. So the car cannot be locked.

What I would like feedback on is what to do. I'd like suggestions. In the end I will make my own decisions, but I would like to hear different arguments.
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Subject: Wed 2/19/97

I get tired of picketing alone.
At 9:30pm I was going to go picket Jeff's house, I know I would have company there. But, I don't know where Jeff lives. :(

It was a two org kind of day. A short hour between the two of them.

The strangest thing happened while traveling between the two orgs. I had done the big org first, run a quick errand, and then had to pass by the big org again to pick up the back road I use to get to the little org. There was a police car ahead of me traveling slowly with the flashing lights on. So I just stayed behind the car, we had the road to ourselves. The cop pulled off to the side so I passed properly and safely. And now the cop pulls me over. Wants my drivers license, insurance and registration. No problem, everything is in order. He says my brake lights are out and I need to fix it. The odd thing is this, how did he know the brake light was broken from the front, and, the guy never ran my license through the computer. And that is odd behavior. I was not issued a warning or anything. Simply pulled over and let free. I suspect clams.

The big org was exciting. A wonderful first day back. My #3 Holly was walking in and I asked her, very low, soft voice. "Holly, is it true? Did you know that scientologists are encouraged to believe in God? Did you know that you audit each other to gain a better understanding of the supreme being?" The way I smiled, the voice I used, she knew who was claiming that. :-) She did not like it.

While I'm doing the walking thing a car pulls up and drops off two sea orgs, males. One is this bald dude I've been watching for a while. The other is a guy I had not seen before. They had timed leaving the car until I was away from them. But, the bald monkey had traces of macho about him. And I was not going to tolerate any of this shit on my first day back. I spun around and walked quickly at them, walked right next to them, made them walk around me. They want to bring in new trained chimps that's fine, as long as they know who owns the street. It's good to be back!

Little org was uneventful. Vehicles 10am, big 9 - little 4
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Subject: Fri 2/21/97

Arrived at the big org for a quick picket at 11:57am, left 12:10. But it was a jam packed full non-stop never a dull moment 13 minute picket. My #3 Holly was on the porch and watched me arrive, immediately I started in with the God business. She responded with some tripe about the eighth dynamic. Two more clams came out while I shouting about Xenu, so I stopped with that part. The weather was absolutely beautiful, a great day to be outside. The three monkeys tried to ignore me. I'm not even walking now, just standing there shouting at their backs. Asking about Lisa, about being encouraged to believe in God. Just going on and on about things. Some wog male comes by and he is just laughing at this scene. I'm trying to stop him from walking past by saying things like, "look at them, they are operating thetans, that one is a number 3, that one a #5", things like that. This finally chased them inside, they shut the door, and I left. Just another great picket. :-)
I might just do this ten minute hit-and-run thing for a while now. If they do have any pull with the police, I want a car sitting at the lousy org to try and get there in time to hassle me.

Hey internet monkeys, your reading this,
How does it make you feel?
I asked the clams if they had an ARC break with me. :-)
PS, I know the #5 for over ten years now, she will not talk to me, I suppose she does not have permisssion.
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Subject: Sat 2/22/97

Big org, 45 minutes.
They had a van out front, loaded with children. Janne Bjork, the SO from CC was the driver. And all I did was walk back and forth past the van loaded with kids. And because of the children I did not do any shouting this picket. They had music playing in the van, the Freedom tape. I'm listening to the music myself, (can't seem to get away from it :) the song about "trouble" has the slur on psychiatry.

And i got to thinking about how these kids are being brainwashed most every step of the way. And I got to looking at them, and wondering how many of them will end up raped or dead at Flag.

And suddenly the petty garbage on this NG seemed so very unimportant. This stuff about 'critics should do this or should be that', the almost constant posts about petty details of a lousy book, the battle cries of TRUTH, truth, truth. It all seemed so petty looking at a van load of children listening to propaganda.

And it is not like I believe I am saving the world or anything by walking back and forth with a skinny stick with a sign stapled to it. Nothing grand like that, just some guy taking up some of his precious time doing what he believes should be done.

To be fair, statistically, those kids will not wind up raped, or dead in Lisa's room. Most of them will probably never make it to Flag, and of the ones who do, the odds are good that will leave with only emotional scars. Isn't that fucking lovely.

The van left, all the adult clams went back into the org, and I went to leave myself. And I caught a lucky break. Traffic was so heavy I did a few more passes rather than stand still. Some newbie came out. We talked, he may never go back in. A young guy, Black. If I see him again I will tell him he is too stupid for auditing.

Yo, monkeys. I have the references.
How does that make you feel?
And I've changed my mind about Xenu.
The part that is not Trade Secret, the part from the Washington Post, I'll be quoting it out there. And i have that reference also.
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Subject: Mon 2/24/97

Big org, 40 minutes. 4:12pm - 5:50pm

The camera's never did arrive. But, the clams were rallied and waiting. They had a spotter, Richard. Lay back and lazy is Richard. Every now and then he would come out on the porch and act important. But he was the spotter. They had a vehicle count of 17. After about 30 minutes without a news team showing up about 6 of them drove away.