First of all, as you can probably tell, this is my first post. I post at OCMB as marlysfan. Anyways, someone suggested that I post my picket reports here, so here they are:

Kansas City picket #1

Oh my, it has been a busy, busy day!

First I went to Office Depot to copy fliers (100) and get poster board for my signs. I made three signs reading, "www.xenu.net", "Scientology Kills-www.whyaretheydead.net, and "Scientology is an Alien Cult", and taped them onto barricades that Scientologists put Dianetics posters on. My friend Raven and I were handing out fliers. It was pretty tame; no one came out or anything. Raven soon left; he needed to go help out a friend of his.

So, I decided to step up the effort-here's where it gets juicy, folks!

I went to Office Depot and made a sign reading, "Honk if you Think Scientology is a Cult"-now THAT did the trick! A lady came out of the org. She tried to take my sign! Can you BELIEVE? Then she told me she was calling the cops. I said that was alright in my book.

Cops didn't come, but she must have thought I was real pretty, 'cause she came out and took a picture of me! Then she went inside.

Well, wouldn't you know-another lady came out! She asked me to stop. I politely said, "No, thank you." She said I was upsetting people inside. OK, well, I'm not averse to compromise, so I said, "We'll, I'll go across the street with my sign".

So I did. The honks were plentiful! Huzzah...but two Scios came over to talk to me. One was the lady in the last paragraph, another was a man. They stood in front of me (to block my sign) and asked me for my name and address. I gave them my name, but told them no to the address. They then asked me, "What is a cult?" And I couldn't really define it (damn me!) in dictionary terms. So, they invited me in to word clear it. I took them up on it.

BUT, WHEN I GOT TO THE DOOR OF THE ORG, THERE WERE COPS THERE!! Damn! They tricked me!

But the joke was on them, my friends. The joke was on them. The cops told them that I was on public property and not doing anything outside the bounds of the law, and that there was nothing they could do! HA! HA!

So, I went back to stand in front of the org, since it was OKed by the cops and everything. The horns kept on honking, and I kept handing out fliers. A parade of people were sent out to "handle me". What was I doing there? Who was I with? How much am I getting paid? Protesting, by myself, for free. I did admit my Clambake affiliation, though. Not to worry, I was composed and acted like a true lady. Well, as much as I could, at least.

They must have thought I was GORGEOUS because they sent out more photographers! I yelled, "I love you, OSA!! I feel like a movie star!".

Then, the Scios came up with a plan. I will admit it was pretty good. They made their own signs reading, "Honk for Religious Freedom!" They then proceeded to stand in front of me! Eventually, there were ten in all, blocking my lil sign. Bastards!

I kept up a little bit, handing out fliers, but there were ten of them and one of me. So I rolled up my sign and went home. I am dead tired, sunburnt, and thirsty, but it was worth it! So much happened-I had to leave some of it out for the sake of brevity. So many honks! So much encouragement! The best part of the day was when a guy said, "You're doing a beautiful thing." My heart is so happy! Thank you all! If it wasn't for you Clambakers helping me out with info and encouragement, I would have never had the balls to conduct a one-woman picket. But I did! Thank you thank you thank you!!!

Kansas City Picket #2

OK, so my friend Justin and I went out to picket today. It was really creepy-they actually went up to him and said, "You must be Justin" before he even told them his name. So, I suppose they're probably reading my posts. They were pretty rude to him-someone told him to, "grow up"

Anyways, they called the cops TWICE today. Truly ridiculous. The officers seemed exasperated that the Scios were wasting their time.

I got some nice pictures-they're on a disposable camera, so it's gonna be a little while before I have them up.

To any Scientologist reading this-

I do not hate you. I don't even dislike you. In fact, I'm assuming most of you are all good people with the best of intentions. It's the CoS I have qualms with.

To the K.C. org-

I'll see y'all at the next picket!

Kansas City Picket #3

Hey folks, I just got back from picketing and wanted to post a quick report. It was just Messenger and I, but we got a lot of fliers out. The positive response from the community was astounding-one girl tried to give us money (no, we did not accept it), and several people offered to buy us drinks (not booze) because it was pretty hot outside. One lady brought us bottled water, out of the blue. Evian, at that! Bless her heart.

Here's the interesting thing-we were not handled AT ALL. Maggie (the lady taking a picture of me taking a picture of her in the picket #2 photos) came out and asked for a flier (which we gave her), but other than that, nothing. Nothing at all. Messenger was a tad disappointed we didn't get handled. So was I, actually. I kinda like getting in comm with the Scientologists.

What do y'all think could be the reason we weren't handled? Lack of staff? The day (Sunday)? Have they given up? What's up with that?

I have to go-The Simpsons are coming on...I wonder what Bart would think of my picket.

So, there they are. BTW, just to let you all know, I have never posted in a Usenet group before, so if my posts are coming out weird or not at all, that's why.

<p><hr><p> From: Zinj <zinjifar@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Picket reports
Message-ID: <MPG.1eefc19175c5178a989841@news.day.sbcglobal.net>
Organization: BadCo
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 21:45:37 GMT

In article <1149626554.927501.11660@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>, marlysfan@yahoo.com says...

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> So, there they are. BTW, just to let you all know, I have never posted
> in a Usenet group before, so if my posts are coming out weird or not at
> all, that's why.

No, not at all. You done good.

Excellent picket reports, but, next time, you might want to make sure you mention 'when' and 'where' early in the report.

When you do more pickets, I'd at least like to advise you *not* to picket alone, even in Kansas City, and even despite the benign way the past ones went down. It's highly unlikely that you would be in any direct danger from the 'org' personnel (although it's not unknown), but, it *is* highly likely that, if you are alone, they will escalate to accusing you of 'crimes'; such as stepping on their feet; attempting to trespass etc.

The fact that they're so quick to call the cops suggests that they are very likely to try to generate a better excuse than just 'she was exercising her civil liberties'.

That you were'nt 'handled' probably is due to both it being a Sunday (as 'unholy' a day as that may be in Scientology', and due to the fact that the previous 'handlings' didn't show much effect.

Hopefully you're reading older picket reports to get a better idea of what you'll be up against.

If you get the chance, take pictures of and count cars in the parking lots :)

Teddy likes that, and, it's not a bad 'measure'.

Congratulations!

Zinj -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Cult

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