And most certainly not in the numbers they claim, claim, claim to have sent there. Hell, they sent more people to populate the BBC Live message board just to attempt to defend NarCONon after they were wisely prevented from using Trafalgar Square for a sales/rally.

Last week BBC ran the film shot by two French brothers who happened to be with Company No.1 on Sept. 11, 2001 - heartbreaking and riveting at the same time. They started out filming a rookie starting out with the Company - and ended up filming nearly everything these poor, brave souls in the NYFD went through that day, and following. (In case you didn't know they were the crew filming the gas leak on the street, when the first plane hit).

I taped this unbelievable show. Later I went through it again, as I'd been unable to sit through the whole thing in one painful stretch. And I watched very carefully for signs of any bloodsucking "Volunteer Ministers" anywhere.

Guess what! There were ABSOLUTELY NONE to be seen. Not even a yellow t-shirt. What a bloody surprise, huh?

-- Rev. Norle Enturbulata "Church" of Cartoonism * "Scientology...is not a psycho-therapy nor a religion."

- LRH's "Creation of Human Ability" p251

From: referen@bway.net (Diane Richardson)
Subject: Re: VMs Not at Ground Zero After All!
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On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:52:20 +0000 (UTC), "Rev Norle Enturbulata"

<notearthlight2k@norhotmail.com> wrote:

>And most certainly not in the numbers they claim, claim, claim to have sent
>there. Hell, they sent more people to populate the BBC Live message board
>just to attempt to defend NarCONon after they were wisely prevented from
>using Trafalgar Square for a sales/rally.
>
>Last week BBC ran the film shot by two French brothers who happened to be
>with Company No.1 on Sept. 11, 2001 - heartbreaking and riveting at the same
>time. They started out filming a rookie starting out with the Company - and
>ended up filming nearly everything these poor, brave souls in the NYFD went
>through that day, and following. (In case you didn't know they were the
>crew filming the gas leak on the street, when the first plane hit).
>
>I taped this unbelievable show. Later I went through it again, as I'd been
>unable to sit through the whole thing in one painful stretch. And I watched
>very carefully for signs of any bloodsucking "Volunteer Ministers" anywhere.
>
>Guess what! There were ABSOLUTELY NONE to be seen. Not even a yellow
>t-shirt. What a bloody surprise, huh?

Nah, it's no surprise at all. According to everything I found out, the CoS volunteers were restricted to two assistance centers near Ground Zero -- they were never actually down in The Pile doing rescue work.

Stuyvesant High School was near the area and served (along with several other places) as a staging area for the rescue workers. I understand the VMs in their yellow shirts worked there, basically as gophers. Stuyvesant closed down as a center quite early. It was cleaned up and went back to being a high school. Untrained volunteers like the CoS VMs were sent home, told their assistance was no longer needed.

I would guess the CoS has spent much more time, energy, and money in publicizing what they did than they ever spent in the rescue work. I live below 14th St in Manhattan, so I saw a lot of what was going on at the time. I never once saw a yellow t-shirted VM. Not one.

Diane Richardson referen@bway.net

From: "Android Cat" <androidcat99@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: VMs Not at Ground Zero After All!
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:58:31 -0400
Organization: Sandor Arbitration Intelligence at the Zoo
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"Diane Richardson" <referen@bway.net> wrote in message news:3d8b05a1.3565276@news.giganews.com...

> On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:52:20 +0000 (UTC), "Rev Norle Enturbulata"
> <notearthlight2k@norhotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >Guess what! There were ABSOLUTELY NONE to be seen. Not even a yellow
> >t-shirt. What a bloody surprise, huh?
>
> Nah, it's no surprise at all. According to everything I found out,
> the CoS volunteers were restricted to two assistance centers near
> Ground Zero -- they were never actually down in The Pile doing rescue
> work.

They have pictures of one VM ("Mr. Bucket") apparently in the pile area.

His absolutely clean yellow shirt is an indication that he was only there for the photo-op. (If he was there at all. Some of the photos look as if they might have been photo-shopped, but I'm no expert on that. Odd lack of shadows in one shot. "We have no heads, yes we have no heads...")

> Stuyvesant High School was near the area and served (along with
> several other places) as a staging area for the rescue workers. I
> understand the VMs in their yellow shirts worked there, basically as
> gophers. Stuyvesant closed down as a center quite early. It was
> cleaned up and went back to being a high school. Untrained volunteers
> like the CoS VMs were sent home, told their assistance was no longer
> needed.
>
> I would guess the CoS has spent much more time, energy, and money in
> publicizing what they did than they ever spent in the rescue work. I
> live below 14th St in Manhattan, so I saw a lot of what was going on
> at the time. I never once saw a yellow t-shirted VM. Not one.

There's some photos of them handing out food and drink. (Including one with some VM moron wearing a filter and gloves indoors in the lineup. As if that dufus was anywhere near where those would be needed!) Some Pull-My-Finger therapy shots with the subject's face blurred out. (New York does have strict photo use laws, but...)

Ron of that ilk.

Message-ID: <3D8B1EB0.A5B4D032@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 06:12:16 -0700
From: barb <bwarr1@cox.net>
Subject: Re: VMs Not at Ground Zero After All!

Diane Richardson wrote:

>
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:52:20 +0000 (UTC), "Rev Norle Enturbulata"
> <notearthlight2k@norhotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >And most certainly not in the numbers they claim, claim, claim to have sent
> >there. Hell, they sent more people to populate the BBC Live message board
> >just to attempt to defend NarCONon after they were wisely prevented from
> >using Trafalgar Square for a sales/rally.
> >
> >Last week BBC ran the film shot by two French brothers who happened to be
> >with Company No.1 on Sept. 11, 2001 - heartbreaking and riveting at the same
> >time. They started out filming a rookie starting out with the Company - and
> >ended up filming nearly everything these poor, brave souls in the NYFD went
> >through that day, and following. (In case you didn't know they were the
> >crew filming the gas leak on the street, when the first plane hit).
> >
> >I taped this unbelievable show. Later I went through it again, as I'd been
> >unable to sit through the whole thing in one painful stretch. And I watched
> >very carefully for signs of any bloodsucking "Volunteer Ministers" anywhere.
> >
> >Guess what! There were ABSOLUTELY NONE to be seen. Not even a yellow
> >t-shirt. What a bloody surprise, huh?
>
> Nah, it's no surprise at all. According to everything I found out,
> the CoS volunteers were restricted to two assistance centers near
> Ground Zero -- they were never actually down in The Pile doing rescue
> work.
>
> Stuyvesant High School was near the area and served (along with
> several other places) as a staging area for the rescue workers. I
> understand the VMs in their yellow shirts worked there, basically as
> gophers. Stuyvesant closed down as a center quite early. It was
> cleaned up and went back to being a high school. Untrained volunteers
> like the CoS VMs were sent home, told their assistance was no longer
> needed.
>
> I would guess the CoS has spent much more time, energy, and money in
> publicizing what they did than they ever spent in the rescue work. I
> live below 14th St in Manhattan, so I saw a lot of what was going on
> at the time. I never once saw a yellow t-shirted VM. Not one.
>
> Diane Richardson
> referen@bway.net

Yes, well, that was the purpose. Get them on site, snap a few nice PR pics, create some overblown hype about how incredibly well-received they were and how vitally important they were, throw in a few shore stories about accolades from others at the site, and mail the whole happy shiny fabrication to members. They will doubtless eat it up and get that swelling of pride which comes from belonging. Quite effective, when you think that this sort of hype diverts attention away from the doubts people might have about their "church."

I do remember reading one account last year of VMs handing out TWTH in New York City. The reporter noted that the Scientologists seemed inappropriately happy about the whole thing, which makes sense if you read my .sig file below.

-- Barb Chaplain, ARSCC http://members.cox.net/bwarr1/index.htm

"$cientology sees the world this way: One man with a picket sign:

terrorism. Five thousand people dead in a deliberate inferno: business opportunity.

$cientology oozes _under_ terrorists to hide."

-Chris Leithiser

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