Yesterday, a motorcycle club I frequent held a "tech day." Before you grab the cans, you should know that this is an event dedicated to wrenching on bikes, where everybody helps each other repair, tune, swap lies, eat bbq.

No sooner had I pulled up out front than a guy came up and asked about my xenu.net stickers. "Is that the group from Florida?"

I explained that xenu.net is a Norway based web site. He knows about the takeover of CW by "United Churches of Florida."

What he didn't know, I spend at least an hour filling him in on. He's a firearms instructor, and became interested in Scientology because of the flap about Front Site and Ignatius Piazza last year. He's been to Front Site, and knows Piazza's partner, and he intends to ask him some questions about Front Site and Scientology. He said that, while Piazza doesn't prosyletize to students, if you stick around long enough to achieve crony status, he will start in on you to take courses.

After Piazza had a hissy fit about being labelled a Scientologist last year (isn't it amusing how so many culties hate being identified as such?) he did a Google search and wound up at xenu.net. Still, he had a lot of questions, such as, "how do they get people sucked into this?"

I told him about all the different tactics used by the cult; Narconon, WISE, the unemployed, students and youngsters in the military, on and on.

I told him about Gold Base, and Tabayoyan's declaration. He's intrigued by Eagle, the supposed sniper post in the hills behind Davey's house.

I also told him some stuff he didn't know, like how Scn beat the IRS, how they took over Clearwater and tried to frame the mayor, Lisa McPherson, and, since he rides, I told him all about Doc Wong and Keith Code, and the theory of "safepoints." Doc Wong, as some of you know, is a Scn chiropractor who holds "riding clinics," although he seems to have some trouble being At Cause over gravity and asphalt.

There was quite a bit I was able to fill him in on, Happy Valley, Hollywood, Reed Slatkin, Operation Snow White, Paulette Cooper, Hubbard and his Naval record and phony degree, I just wore myself out going on about this stuff. Fortunately, there was a keg of home brewed beer available, plus an array of exotic fruit juices and the usual sodas, so I kept the pipes from drying out.

When he was finally out of questions, it was with a sigh of relief that I loaded up a plate with bbq and flopped down into a chair to devour it.

This was an unexpected, yet welcome opportunity to spread some entheta.

A few other people drifted in and out of the session, some of whom had their own Scientology stories. It's interesting how so many people have been affected by the cult, yet you almost never meet an active member in social situations such as this.

This is true,
--
barb
Chaplain, ARS

"After over 50 years, what has Scientology given the world? Misery, hopelessness, broken families, desolation, death." - Shydavid

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