Wesley <wes@wesfager.com> wrote:

> On July 27, 2003 I staged a one-man protest of Flag Hdqrs in occupied Clearwater. Story is here or

> at http://thestraights.com/index.htm#clear_protest072703

Nice job, Wes. Here's the report from the web site.

At approximately 1430 hours on August 27,2003 theStraights dot com roving editor Wesley Fager staged a one-man demonstration against Scientology's east coast headquarters in occupied Clearwater, Florida. His hastily made banner reads L. Ron Hubbard is a Liar! from Virginia though unfortunately you can not read it in the photos as photo quality is very poor.

Photo 2 shows Wes at the side entrance to the courtyard at the former Fort Benjamin Harrison Hotel (now Flag Headquarters). If you look to right of Wesley you see the gates opening into the tree-filled courtyard. The protest started at the side entrance in Photo 1 with Wesley, poster still folded, talking to a space cadet, asking her if he was at the Coast Guard Academy or something because everyone was wearing naval uniforms. She told him he was at the Church of Scientology and if he had some time maybe she could arrange a tour. Wesley said no thanks as he had to catch a plane.

Wesley then walked to left of the building and turned right onto the main drag, positioning himself at the main entrance shown in Photo 3 where his banner was unfurled. The main entrance, as can be seen, was deserted.

Everybody was at the side entrance. Several photos were taken on the main drag as shown in Photos 3, 4 and 5. Several cars passed and gave Wesley a thumbs up. Then he walked to the end of the building and turned back onto the side street, approached the side entrance and held his banner for those in the courtyard to see. The clams in the beehive just stared, but in like 10 seconds a man appeared from nowhere and got in Wesley's face screaming at him to get off their property. Wesley calmly stated that he was an American citizen exercising his Constitutional right to free speech. At that the guard started walking down the street, pointing and ordered Mr. Fager to follow him, at which point Mr. Fager answered, "I'm not following you anywhere." At that point the guard screamed that he was calling the police. As Wesley was walking away to leave, a Clearwater police car passed him and his sign without incident.

-- Rod Keller / rkeller@voicenet.com / Irresponsible Publisher Black Hat #1 / Expert of the Toilet / CWPD Mouthpiece The Lerma Apologist / Merchant of Chaos / Vision of Destruction Killer Rod / OSA Patsy / Quasi-Scieno / Mental Bully

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