-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In message <3AAA8CB1.3C5A@virgin.net>, Roland <roland.rashleigh- berry@virgin.net> writes >We picketed the Martian Embassy on Tottenham Court Road today (10
>March 2001). There were me (Roland), Hartley, Jens, Shellac, Martin P,
>Steve C-T, John Ritson and Duke the dog in attendence. We had a police
>presence today because the police had got so fed up with being called
>out on previous pickets from false reports from the clams that they
>decided to be there and find out what goes on. The weather spotted
>with rain on occasion. 550 leaflets were given out to public who actually
>wanted to take them. Public support was high, as usual. The clams were
>a bit more active than usual. This might be because Jacques Vollet is
>reportedly retired and they ae not using the "curr dogs" reference any
>more to govern their response. They are likely to get a blow or two
>because of this. John Ritson was a wonder on the boombox. He scored
>his metephorical double-century today.
The highlight was one of the clams lugging out a thick dictionary (Oxford, not the 'Tech Dictionary') to do 'word-clearing' in the middle of the pavement. He had managed to convince himself that 'word-clearing' was the answer to all problems, because if one misunderstood words while in command of nuclear weapons, one could cause a disaster! but had difficulties when it was pointed out that some sentences could contain perfectly simple words but be nonsense (a bit like Scientology).

The sight of the poor soul standing there frantically trying to locate 'enturbulate' was mind-blowing. I am not sure about the double century, my voice coped with a two and a half-hour stint with no problems. Perhaps it was the way I could manipulate one Scientologist into coming out of hiding simply by describing the criminal L. Ron Hubbard.

He would come out and order me not to talk about Hubbard, I would go into detail about Hubbard's use of Vistaril and 'pinks and greys'. He would go back inside again...

Another staffer tried the 'Death Stare' on each picketer in turn, to no effect. Then he tried a bizarre ritual of going up to picketers while holding a clipboard, and then drawing two vertical lines on the paper. Such paper is useful for 'body-routing' as it allows the router to write stuff down and appearing to be interested in whatever the mark replies to the "what are the main things that worry you" question (the paper is thrown away unread whether the mark is taken into the 'org' or not). But why drawing lines in front of people should be thought likely to stop suppression is a mystery known only to Scientology.

Suppressives were at cause again -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.3 iQA/AwUBOqqfQVCD9Dt1KmxLEQL5ywCfS/5k9yY4AMxwMN6Z8Uz9z6DmmqEAoMhS Hno/t9j+E5NgdueMXJ79g2DJ =PHVY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- John Ritson *** "This practice of As-is-ness, by the way, is the reason why people do not consider it polite for other people to stare. People have a hangover in that they know, instinctively, that if they are completely looked at they would disappear." - L Ron Hubbard "Creation of Human Ability"

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