Hey Elizabeth.. Spiker here..

This is my brief post-call report on the call in to 6.30 CHED Edmonton... If you could post it on my behalf, I'd sure appreciate it...

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_____ The Al Stafford show is a local call-in radio show on the station 6.30 CHED here in Edmonton. Today (March 31) Mr.

Stafford interviewed the president of Student's Against Drunk Driving (name Jason).

The local org here in Edmonton is a mere block from the Grant Mcewan Community College, and with the foot traffic going past the cult, there is a real risk of students being duped into the cults scam. I felt that this radio program presented a prime opportunity to share with the province L. Ron Hubbard's great wisdom on Drunk Driving.

I called in and was quickly put through by the call screener. I was the first caller in to the program. I began by mentioning the quote to Mr. Stafford, and he suggested that I had taken the quote out of context. I issued forth the entire quotation (had it handy and ready) and Mr. Stafford said something to the effect of, 'I can tell you right now that that is in very poor taste'. I mentioned my concerns with the cult being very close to a community college, and that perhaps this was something to be concern about.

Mr. Stafford did a good job of remaining unbiased and, though trying to be fair to the "church", he suggested that the cult did not have much pull. Mr. Stafford then went to let Jason give his thoughts on the matter, and Jason said that students are intelligent enough not to be swayed by such obviously silly advice as "A drunk driver is better than no driver at all". At this, I agreed with him.

I didn't, unfortunately, get a chance to give the www.xenu.net address, nor mention that the quote in question was featured on the $cientology web-site. I wanted to refocus the attention to the cults recruitment efforts at universities, but they had to cut to a news break. On the plus side I did get to call them a cult on several occasions. And the best part of the discussion came at the end when Mr. Stafford closed my call-segment with the following.

Mr. Al Stafford, "That quote is in very poor taste, however L.

Ron Hubbard is dead and we can't ask him about it. Maybe that's for the best" [cut to news] So that's my small piece of entheta for today. Too bad I wasn't able to mention xenu. But every step counts.

-Spiker =-=- Later the OSA called: "The Co$ does not advocate drunk driving"... Stafford said "Thats pleasing to hear.. The earlier caller was merely speaking of a quote from L Ron Hubbard where he seemed to do just that.. Good bye" [click]

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