Picket in Stockholm Sweden Dec 6. 1997.
Pictures from the picket against Scientology tactics and harassments, and in memory of the tragic death of Lisa McPherson
Well, as I came up from the subway, I spotted this scientologist that was handing out tickets to the Orientation film. I just had to enturbulate him, and ask him why he was pushing the scam of the con man L.Ron Hubbard. He asked me what I knew about LRH, so I just had to give him a short info about who LRH really was. After that, he naturally and as a good and well indoctrinated scientologist asked me for my name. I told him my name was XENU of course. He had obviously heard that name before, since his jaw dropped to the floor. Oh, I also mentioned to him that the org was about to be picketed. He left the station shortly after I had arrived outside the org, and he went inside through the door to their indoctrination and false memory creation laboratory.
When I arrived at the org, I saw that a police car was parked very close to the location. I did of course talk to the cops, told them that I was there to picket and to take pictures. I also told them that my pictures would be used as a proof of any harassments from the scientologists. They were fully aware of the scientology tactics to harass critics, so I didn't need to inform them about that. They were there to make sure that we could use our beloved freedom of speech, no matter what the scientologists thought about that. This was a clear signal to scientology that wog law still applies, no matter what their insane founder thought about that. We are critics of the scientology organization, and its criminal behaviour. It is and will always be our right to express our opinions. I will hereby give my sincere thanks to the Stockholm Södermalm police department for their help in upholding the constitution, and their help in upholding our right to express our opinion, regardless any threats from organizations that couldn't care less about democracy.
This was one of the picket signs that we used. Very appropriate for the occasion. It says: The scientology sect kills. And under Lisa's picture: killed by the $cientologists.
Here we see Christer and Åke with both signs. Unfortunately the big sign is too white. It says though: Sciento.... Kills.
Christer and his picket sign. Look carefully and you'll see a policeman in the org window. I'm sure it enturbulated the scientologists that they had a police inside their org.
While I was across the street from the org to take some pictures, this OSA Goon that turned out to be from the U.S. (Jesus, don't they have any Swedish Goons left) came over to make me into a movie star. He had obviously something to hide, since he didn't want my special OSA camera to see his face. That was later on taken care of.
Well, since the police made it impossible for the OSA Goon to harass us with bullbaiting and TR's, this fellow came up with a brilliant idea. (not so brilliant, as we soon will see.) He thought that since we were handing out Xemu leaflets, and other info about this cult, he should also be besides us and give his papers to the public. I guess he forgot that we had a picket permit, and that tactic would be seen as interfering with our permit. At least when he was at the same spot as we were. Well, the result of this was...
Yes, the police immediately walked up to this OSA fellow, and told him very clearly about how they perceived his tactic. I might say that they read the wog law to him, and no matter how he or his organization looks down upon wog law, they had to play by the rules. Sorry again OSA, your OT-powers doesn't seem to work. Maybe it was too cold in Stockholm, what do I know?
To make it even more clear to this foreign OSA Goon, that he was out in the cold (heh, that was almost funny), he had to confront one more policeman. After that, he didn't want to interfer with our peaceful picket anymore. He went inside into the warm and fuzzy org. Once again, his OT-powers were proven useless...
So, the picket now continued undisturbed by any scientologist. Here we see Åke and someone that passed by. He gave this man a leaflet to read on his way to whatever wog thing he was going to. I might add, that when people were confident that we picketed against scientology, they were more than happy to receive a leaflet. Both the Xemu leaflet that Christer had, and the leaflet that Åke had. I must say, that the general public was very positive towards us being out there in the cold, and they expressed very negative feelings against the scientology cult.
And as the last picture, we see Christer prepared to hand out the Xemu leaflet to the people that passes by. As I mentioned earlier, when people were convinced that we actually was picketing against scientology, they were more than willing to read our leaflets. With that, I'll end this short but hopefully interesting picket report from the cold city of Stockholm, Sweden.
Pictures and text from the March 15, 1997 picket of the Dianetics Center/Scientology Church in Stockholm.
Picket report from the August 1997 picket of the Dianetics Center/Scientology Church in Stockholm.
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