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Subject: Picket Report, London, 4th December [Lisa MacPherson day]
From: Dave Bird <dave@xemu.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 22:05:29 +0000
Message-ID: <h+A6qBApAZS4Ewfa@xemu.demon.co.uk>
Picket Report, London, 4th December [Lisa MacPherson day]
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I was lying in bed thinking odd stuff, dreams I suppose, when the phone rang and I thought O God it's 07:25. I slowly got myself together and gear together, finally arriving 11:45 at the pub in London. We did well for people: Dave, Jens, Roland, Hartley, John R and Peter L, Martin and Shellac, Richard and Bonnie Woods, their mate "Tony", and later Richard Forde. Less well for equipment: Duke was still away in his winter kennels, the P.A. left home fully charged and working but arrived with a flat battery, again, (maybe it should set off with a spare fully charged battery next time?), I forgot the words of a lot of the older songs. Oh well.
We were all having such a nice reunion down the pub it almost seemed a shame to set off and do a cold outdoor demo. But, we arrived and set up on the outside edge of the broad pavement facing the clam counter-pickets outside their shop; yes, they were expecting a visit on Lisa MacPherson day and Jacques was there from the start. This is when we found the PA didn't work, but we got on pretty well with three continuous "shouters" i.e. me, Roland, and John. Tottenham court road is like a wide canyon, and Roland was having immense fun doing "Scientology says... you're full of dead space aliens", with full projection and cupped hand, at about 30Dgr to one wall of buildings so it went across and across and across up to Euston Towers about 800mtrs away at the top crossroads. John was doing my (c) slogan about "imaginary space aliens but you have to pay real money to get rid of them." I did a six verse rendition of Do The ElRon-Ron, and rapping out the Xemu Rap full length full strength. The great thing was the traffic came in slow waves, and every so often the street would actually be more or less silent apart from me blasting away with Xemu Rap. Even Jacques had to admit it was pretty effective. No PA so no Hubbard tapes, but we did pretty well without.
So we went on from about 1pm to 3:30pm when rain stopped play. There was a guy claimed to be a freelance journalist whom I gave my contact details, which OSA already have. Certain things make me suspect he may have been a clam plant which I'll discuss with the other UKSPs. So, we went back down the pub: sunset at 4pm, fully dark at 5pm, which is when we came back to do our candlelight vigil. Shellac had some nice peach-flavoured miniature candles, in small tumblers as windshields; mine kept going out anyway. I hadn't got my glasses as we came back to the Org, but the big blob turned out to be an orange inflatable space alien -- with "Scientology says you're full of dead space aliens" on a label round its neck -- clutched teddybear fashion by Richard Forde, who was chatting away with the clams about OT3.
I thought perhaps a nice respectful candlelight vigil, but Roland carried on full blast with the usual and Richard was also shouting loud political stuff. We also met "Steve" from ARS, another poster, who came back to the pub with us. There was time for about one drink then I set of with Tony for the station: he was talking about a taxi, but in the end we walked the 800mtrs to the top then turned left and another 150mtrs to the station. And so back here, it's 10pm as I finish writing this and am about to log in for the day; probably about 7pm with the vigil just closing in Florida, 4pm with daytime demos continuing on the West Coast. There is lots of video footage though Steve didn't realise about battery capacity [i.e. you have one or preferably two fully charged spare packs for a full afternoon, or use a 3Kg/6Lb motorbike battery with 6AmpHrs in a belt pouch]. That, and a nice sig for Ted Mayett, about sums it up.
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Subject: Picket report - London
From: John Ritson <john@jritson.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 22:17:08 +0000
Message-ID: <miXMhBAkLZS4Ew+K@jritson.demon.co.uk>
On a very cold winter morning, about a dozen suppressives including old friends we had not seen for some time (but minus the loveable toy dog 'Duke' - which had just had a wash and needed time to dry out) gathered at a London hostelry. After some delicious pre-picket snacks, we made our way to the Tottenham Court Road 'org' at about 1.30. Scientology only managed to produce two or three sullen leafleters at any time, although Jacques Vollet was there, and two low-ranking Sea-Orgers peeked through the door but dared not come out and confront us. They will never get any gold braid if they remain so passive.
Many of the passers-by were remarkably well-informed about Scientology and its evils. Some people who we talked to went into the 'org' to wind up the Scientologists. When a 'body-router' was stationed outside with a clipboard, and had no success, one passer-by allowed himself to be routed in, and eventually emerged with the comment 'I've never heard such a load of bollocks'.
After about two hours, it started raining and we retreated into the warmth of a pub, to re-emerge for a candle-light picket between 5 and 5.30 meeting another suppressive who had been picketing on his own from 4.30 armed only with an inflatable purple alien and a loud voice.
John *** "Sequence of Incident II for thetans on ANOTHER planet -
(1) Capture (being shot),
(2) freezing,
(3) transport to Teegeeack (sometimes via a relay point),
(4) being placed near a volcano,
(5) beginning implant up to "the pilot",
(6) various picture sequences,
(7) the 7s and C.C. and OT II materials,
(8) 36 days of picture implants which give a vast array of materials and
three explanations for the bombing,
(9) transport to Hawaii or Las Palmas for packaging up into clusters.
The pictures contain God, the Devil, angels, space opera,
theatres, helicopters, a constant spinning, a spinning dancer,
trains and various scenes very like modern England. You name it,
it's in this implant we call in its entirety "R6". ***
