Howdy!

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Dave, John, Hartley and myself had a cracking day out picketing the clams in Birmingham. The weather service had prepared a gale warning for the Midlands (that would be Birmingham) for Saturday - the main weather event is Sunday - but Xenu smlied on us and we had dry weather which was only occasionally too windy for wearing my Markab standard issue Fedora.

Quite a few kids wanted balloons only for the helium, but there were lots of balloons that people kept (and which stayed in the area throughout the demo), so our XENU logo is getting out there.

When the youngsters queued up for balloons, some of them asked for an explanation and got the shpiel about how $cientology was a self-help therapy combined with a pyramid money-making scheme which dragged members in from the real world to the phony alternative of a cult. Quite a few of them knew that Travolta and Cruise are members, and I offered the theory that some actors need the comfort of bought friends enough to sign up for craziness as bad as the UFO-cult.

John keeps developing his shpiel on the microphone (which he kept up for two hours solid - Lovely Work!), and worked in the message that, unlike most other UFO-cults, $cientology didn't have the courage of their own convictions to admit to being a UFO-cult.

I had two youngsters walk up and say "$cientology stole my brother." At least he got out again, as far as I understood.

We did have a brief visit from a nasty git (either a clam or someone who was just a freelance nasty git). He tore one of our XENU balloons from a girl that had taken it some time ago (and was passing back past the demo). He also threw a few pennies at John's feet which was considered hillarious by the clams.

The clams had four people there permanently, and occasional reinforcements of another three or four. Most were familiar faces.

The "anti-drugs" leaflets handed out by the clams started with a page that did not decribe the drug they purported to discuss but describing how groups who wer etrying to rid society of drugs were often attacked by people and other groups who had some interest in keeping society affected negatively by drugs. Hmm. I wonder what groups they have in mind?

In any case this group will be back to shed the light of uncensored information on the murky activities of the organisation known as the "church" <spit> of $cientology.

Keep Suppressing!

Jens

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