I was yesterday coming to my first "picket", bu a very special, as I was entering a public meeting organized by clams everywhere these days (first in Paris, then in Geneva, then into Marseille, then Lyon. Idunno what comes next). The organization picketed was 200 % clams organized, room paid in dollars, and the "president" is a guy supposed to be the president of the "international commission for human rights" or such a tremendous title. The number of groups supposed to be part of that organization is 52. I presume that these are the 52 signatories of the two paid ads to Chirac, and to the Prime Minister here. That "commission" commanded everywhere some of the most known anti-cultists of the area (the senator bout, Alain Vivien, the Paris Mayor, some persons from the ADFI -the french CAN- etc) None came anyway, but I decided to go there to hear them ranting about the terrible french way to deal with criminal cults. After having walked for some minutes to take a look outside, some people were there, just some tens. There was a blond girl with a yellow star "I'm a cult's member" - she's a Raelian. Some others had this tasteful yellow star as well, despite the fact that at least one jew was there. I walked in, presented myself as a member of "our" last association on human rights defense, the http://www.alt-charlemagne-award.de, and as linked to the ADFI. I took a seat. Some minutes later, I was cornered between scientologists who had been instructed to be all around me. No problem: they were clean ;-)) and one of them was even relatively pretty. [Though I don't care, having only affairs with girls and boys like the IRS commissioner did ;-)) - well!] Now , about half an hour late, they started to speak - less than 80 persons were there, into a cellar, sort like when Lenin was underground, if you see what I mean. There were the "president", Joel Labruyère, a guy who is working against anticultists since some 18 months, and has written a defamation book. The vice-president is Irving Sarnoff, USA, a guy who does not know yet that his friends (he was sort of a communist under Mc Carthy) have had a patron working for Mc Carthysm, denouncing his own staffs who were not communists, as if they were... Sarnoff must be near 80, and founder of a micro NGO called the friends of United Nations (note: there is a word about defending the Sokka Gakkai on its webpage). The others "judges" were: - Me Joseph, an attorney having defended a cult guru called Horus in France (she lost, she had two corpses on the arms). He's also sort of a conspirationist theoretician, mixing lots of other affairs. Also the author of a book called the "radiches of the anger" , in french. probably because his client gurur was supposed to be sort of a paysant planting radiches. - Dr Erik Dietrich, MD supposed to have a speciality into "victimology", while none exist specifically in France, as far as I know. - The singer Nayah, around 30, who was a singer having ran for France in the Eurovision Concours some years ago, but was discovered as a raelian priestess, and she lost her contracts then. Perhaps this could have been a great thing to speak to her, but it has not been possible. She came about one hour late. Then, it started, some of them speaking, saying "ADFI" is bad "The MILS" is bad, all that stuff. They did not speak of Minton, who was in France days ago. We are victims, here it's about human rights, etc, you know. Then, some supposed victims came; some were true victims of the fact that they did not know much about who was behind the scenes! One of them spoke for about 20 minutes of his problems with his chief at work, while nothing was related to cult appartenance... Another, a raelian girl, 31, spoke of the fact that her child had been taken by a judge and given to her ex-husband [supposed to beat her etc]. She went into a delirium and was sent to psychiatrists (laughs from scienos there), was given back to a normal job etc after 3 months. [i did not say that, would she have come to scienos, she would be perhaps suicided now). And also another guru, [thabita's place] who complained from having had problems as a boy of 19 months died in his non-religious-cult, where kids are more or less often beaten as a way to get them doing right. He forgot to say that the boy had not been much sent to the doctor and could probably have been saved. Like Lisa. And another, [la Thébaïde] whose explanations were not much clear, his son [?] having committed suicide after having been jailed for assault [the relationship between cult or possible cult being very unclear even for them]. So, later, we got a speech from the Dr Dietrich, who went so far as to allegate that our CAN - the ADFI - is protecting children sex-abusers. That was too much, I shouted quite clearly that it was a lie. TYhe "judges" spoke some seconds, and he tried to rectify a bit. The scieno behind me menaced me immediatly to get me out of the room, like they had done for one of my friends in Geneva - he had been ousted manu military from the room!! Wanting no such treatment - rather for their own ridicule than by fearing anything from them, I stopped to shout, and waited the next steps: Then it was break time. Smoking a cigarette outside, meeting the famous Danièle Gounord, the scieno PR girl since years, OT 8: she is visibly unflat on DRD and NOTs DRD. Looks the sort "I've blue eyes, and nothing can harm me". I met my old companion Marc Bromberg, now OSA Eu or so, or taking some post like it; he looked absent and quite tired. Said that he was fine... was'nt. I came back into the entrance, and took the doctor "apart", saying him "So, would you say that we ADFI members are pedophiles"? He did not reiterate. So I asked where were the proofs of his defamations: he pretended they were in a judgement being on courts now in Toulon (french south). A girl (OSA or stupid ?) said: Why do you threaten him, we have the right to speak etc"... (the doctor saw I had the same right to speak, and calmed her down). TV was filming this. Then I decided with the TV guys and another journalist that I did not want to continue to hear their rants, and we went to a bar, spoke some minutes there, spied by a old guy (around 65?) who followed us outside, trying to keep on our indications... Whatever, I was not worried, I'm not ashamed of anything I'm doing there. Next we'll try to convoke them in a bar to "judge" them the way they do! Roger

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