Jeff Jacobsen wrote in message <53ei7u4dojjdhpf4eo6aleheuol586lc3b@4ax.com>...

>On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:55:35 GMT, Tanya Lennox Durni
><tdurni@rochester.rr.com> wrote:

>>Wow. Just watched the "Mad Picket" at
>>http://www.lisatrust.net/Media/picket-mad.htm.
>>
>>This has got to be one of the best examples of bull-baiting we have ever
>>seen, and we have seen more than our share.
>'
>The Mad Picket was probably the strangest hour of my life. There were
>about 6 of us just picketing peacefully when suddenly we were
>overwhelmed with Scientologists taunting, pushing, sticking gum in
>camera lenses, screaming, everything they could think of (with police
>watching) to get us to leave.

Don't forget the little American flags The scienos carried Jeff. I couldn't count the number of times I was poked in the sides or back with them. Always with 3-4 sceinos surrounding where you couldn't tell who was poking you. I never imagined anyone, let alone a supposed "religion" using our nations flag as a weapon.

I have often heard of police and others descibing the "tension in the air", that "feeling" just before a riot breaks out. The "mad picket" was when I finally felt that firsthand and understood what it is. Dennis Clarke was the catylist, marching back and forth through the crowd urging the sceinos to fever pitch until the CWPD, (after standing by for nearly an hour watching), finally pulled Dennis aside. The tension dropped considerably almost immediately.

I had never imagined the foul and horrendous language that members of a supposed "religion" would resort to either. Always "side stepping" with you as close as possible jabbering away incessantly, (DeMoss style).

Again, any means to justify an end.

I still wish video had been webbed of one of the "revenge pickets" by the sceinos when they picketed the LMT immediately after one of our pickets. All identical picket signs, parading single file in a circle singing, "We Stand Tall", and making obscene comments to us as they passed and we stood by observing. I will always remember the one dazed and glassy eyed young woman stumbling into the wall and parking meters as her companions guided her around. Most bizzarre. At one point we asked if she need water or help and were promptly told "Not from you".

The contrast is important.

> We stayed until we felt like leaving.
> Again, this is an example where the ends justify the means in
>Scientology. You can attack people in such a way so long as you get
>rid of them, eh?

Randy Enerson SP6

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