Today a bunch of us gathered in LA to have both a picket, and then a vigil in honor of Lisa McPherson, who died at the hands of Scientology and their medical malpractice.

People had flown in from 3 different states, so we were all happy to meet each other. We met at the Sizzler at noon, and enjoyed lunch together. Mark Bunker joined us for lunch and later helped film our Candlelight vigil.

All in all we were in full about 10 people, from four different states. We decided to begin picketing by the HGB (Hollywood Guarantee Building) where Int Management is.

As we strolled back and forth people gladly stopped and took our flyers.

Many told us they already knew how bad Scientology is, so we suggested they pass on the flyers to others.

A highlight for me was speaking to two 19 year olds for about 20 minutes.

They were amazed, but interested. I told them to read up and find out for themselves, and make up their own minds.

While we were talking, I guess Benetta Slauter Came up to Jeff Jacobson who was holding the big Xenu.net sign. She told him he never really knew Lisa.

He was amazed to see her. I told him later that is always what we used to say to people.

Also a lady who is the head PR for Europe came by. I didn't know her name, but perhaps someone will post it. Apparently Celebrity Center was having a BIG party tonight. We decided not to picket there, as they had their usual HUGE dealies up so no one could see out to the street. How strange to see their antics from the other side.

We stayed out in front of the Int building for two hours, picketing, passing out flyers, and just talking with people. I am always amazed at how many people dislike Scientology. (When you're in, they constantly tell you, and I thought, that most of the world likes them, and it's just a handful of people who do not. Nothing .....NOTHING>>>>could be farther from the truth!)

From there we headed down to the Scientology Testing Center. Barb and Richard had come up from Riverside, and Jeff was here from Phoenix. A few ot hers had come from different areas and this was their first picket. Each one did a great job of talking to people, and exposing the abuses of Scientology. Then there were the regular critics......OH NO!!! I just remembered something> One of them gave me a bag of goodies to give out at my party after...and I got so busy getting things ready for the party, I totally forgot! DOH!! Well, we'll give them out at the next party. Sorry, but I promise I will!

As we walked back and forth, I knew two of the "OT's" handing out flyers promoting the Free Personality test. One used to be (and may still be) the ED of LA org. She and her friend just laughed at me, saying "Oh Tory....."

as I walked up. "Oh Tory?" Do they have ANY clue why I left? Do they even see it as weird that they don't even want to ask why? Naaawwwwww....who needs to? They know it all! Sure.

Kay Connally (head of PR, esp. for L. Ron Hubbard) was there running the Winter Wonderland. She sneered at me.

I finally said, "Hi Kay". She turned around and said, "I thought I told you last year not to hurt the kids". I told her, "I'm not hurting any kids. What you said last year is YOU would get my money back that Scientology owes to me, and you still have not." She ran off while I was saying that. They can always dish it out, but never take it.

Also, Barb and I decided since the sign said, "All public welcome" that we may as well get a shot of us at their Winter Wonderland. It should be posted sometime tomorrow. :)

We stayed there for about one more hour, and then took a break, after cruising up Hollywood Blvd. Many of their neighbors thanked us....and surprisingly many people told us quite seriously that we NEEDED to come do this more often.

Finally as it turned dark, we headed back to the HGB for the Candlelight Vigil for Lisa. We each lit our candles, and said something in honor of this lovely woman who died so needlessly.

May she rest in peace, and hopefully our day of communication will help others not get snagged up in this 'religion' where you can get in, but you can't get out!

As the day ended, I had the gang over to enjoy food and drink. More people arrived to share in the night of chatting, discussions, drinking and eating good food.

In honor of Lisa........PEACE.

Tory/Magoo!

X-Scientologist after 30 years "in"

http://www.xenu.net http://www.lermanet.com/cos/toryonosa.htm http://www.torymagoo.org :)

From: ptsc <ptsc <at> nym <dot> alias <dot> net>
Subject: Re: In Honor Of Lisa....
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 06:32:20 -0500
Organization: Busts Your Rips!
Message-ID: <gba6vukjg355qaof12igpsinpnua7tiufl@4ax.com>

On Sun, 08 Dec 2002 09:40:17 GMT, "Magoo" <magoo44@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>While we were talking, I guess Benetta Slauter Came up to Jeff Jacobson who
>was holding the big Xenu.net sign. She told him he never really knew Lisa.
>He was amazed to see her. I told him later that is always what we used to
>say to people.

I imagine he was amazed, especially if he's familiar with where it seemed she was.

She was also in general a sort of Queen Bee in Clearwater. I wonder if she turned out to be a pain in the wrong ass.

Her pathetic and sordid role in nearly every degraded Scientology scandal of the past few years is probably an embarrassment even to Scientology.

First she was Lisa McPherson's boss, and it is unlikely that having such a complete lunatic for a boss helped Lisa one bit. Then there was her absolutely despicable performance in the Slatkin fraud, which is detailed here: http://www.slatkinfraud.com/slaughter.php

Then she even managed to get into the vulture action after September 11.

But this report made it seem that Bennetta had been shuffled off to Buffalo (or big difference, St. Louis). This seemed to require her physical presence, but no, she's hassling Jeff Jacobsen in LA? WTF? Possibly she was flown in, possibly she is at the corporate offices of Applied Scholastics, which are right here, or were here according to their domain registration.

Applied Scholastics International 7060 Hollywood Boulevard, Suite 200 Los Angeles, CA 90028 213-466-3310

That would seem to mean that Bennetta is doing her work in Los Angeles rather than in the St. Louis area at the "new headquarters." This, or they specially flew this wacko in just to deal with picketers. It wouldn't be surprising, since they've used her against Lisa McPherson related picketers before, specifically Jeff Lee, as detailed in this report:

http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/CoS/visit.html

Note: She also used the "You never knew Lisa" line on Jeff Lee. Considering that this was years ago she might have figured out by now that this line HAS NEVER WORKED. But then she wouldn't be the nasty, loathesome freak she is. The transcript at that link also includes prolific lying by Bennetta.

(From Cerridwen's report on the 18th annual IAS event of 27 Oct 2002 23:04:16 -0000 )

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=T5SCB6IY37556.7112962963%40anonymous.poster&output=gplain

Applied Scholastics

DM announced that Bennetta Slaughter OT 8, former boss of Lisa McPherson and one incredibly ugly woman, was now the ED of Applied Scholastics International. [ASI]. Bennetta then recruited six OT 7's and they are now in St. Louis at the New ASI Int Headquarters at Spanish Lake. They are working on the renovations of their new world headquarters where teachers from all over the world will come and study LRH study tech.

Bennetta and her staff have been doing a lot of safe pointing and have been delivering LRH study tech to teachers in the St. Louis area. I didn't get the really super big win as I was distracted but I believe that the US government provided an all expenses paid trip to Bennetta and her staff to go to Washington DC to meet with US Dept of Education officials. The US Dept of Education was so impressed with the LRH solutions to education that Bennetta was put on the Advisory Board for handling education in the US. I may not that that completely correct but it's very close. DM was very excited about it and stated that this win was of the correct order of magnitude for ASI.

[Everyone now stands and applauds the video]

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