Non picket picket report.

The last time I was in the area on business, I managed to put a Scientology

cult follower "in session" -- much to my own surprise. It was probably the most bizarre thing I've ever seen and in retrospect I have to wonder just what all I could have ordered the cultist to unthinkingly do while "in session."

The last time I was in the area on Colorado Blvd. the business was completely deserted with only a video tape running and the door unlocked.

Today's visit was the same: the business was completely deserted, all the lights seemed to be on, that same video was playing, and the place was completely deserted. The only difference was that there was no free propaganda rack sitting outside this time and no homeless guy collecting Scientology firewood.

I think it was the well known human rights activist Keith Henson who gave me his "JOHN TRAVOLTA HAS SPACE COOTIES" protest sign. Since I was in the area and since I don't believe this business had ever been picketed before, I set the SPACE COOTIES protest sign out front of the Scientology office and distributed Xenu flyers to some of the businesses along the street.

(There is very little foot traffic, some bicycle.) So they still have not really been picketed in far too many years. They may think we don't care about the homicide of Lisa McPherson, in fact, since I don't think anybody has expressed their displeasure out front by employing their Constitutional guarentee of freedom of speech in years.

From talking with people in the area, the general concensus of the people in the area seems to be that these cultists are "creepy" and one has to make sure one gets paid in advance when selling Scientology something or some service -- the concensus being that nobody in the area gives these crooks credit any more because they often take a long, long time to pay up -- if ever. Other than that the general concensus semmed to be that these cultists don't adversely impact the rest of the businesses in the area simply by being there because there are so few cultists running the Scientology scam out of that office. Those few who do, I was told, used to sit outside to try to sucker raw meat in to swindle but apparently they gave it up long ago.

Oh: I was told that local businesses will some times ask purchase order customers they don't recognize if they're "from across the street" before filling the purchase orders. There was a "wink and a nod" attitude the local businesses employ, it sounded like. Everybody is both amused and horrorfied to have these people among them but the amusement wins over the horror. It looks like these local businesses aren't amused enough to trust these people with any more credit.

One of the businesses almost directly across the street told me some of the horror stories he's witnessed take place across the street and I asked him to write it up and send it to the local police rather than just shake his head and not report it. He said that he personally never saw police arrive so I have to assume that the car dealership next door to the Scientology business doesn't call the cops when some of the incidents he talked about take place. (And no, GO/OSA/Dep20, I won't explain.) The comments rang true, though, and my next post will touch upon one of them.

There was annoyed comments and rumors about the sandwhich shop that used to be on the other side of Scientology. People in the area are annoyed that the sandwhich shop isn't there any more and a few blame Scientology for driving them out. (The shop had apparently been elsewhere in the city, had relocated to Colorado Blvd,. and since has moved on to some other location in the city. They couldn't have liked to be next to the notorious Scientology business so I suspect that when the lease ran out and it didn't look like Scientology was going to be closed down any time soon they simply didn't negotiate a new lease and simply relocated.)

Some people had heard about Xenu, some people knew about the Internet and Scientology's attempts to end freedom of speech on the Internet, and many had heard about "some woman in Florida" being murdered by them and getting away with it. Only one person told me I was going to be killed by the cultists for setting up a protest sign though I got a lot of laughs when I explained why John Travolta has space cooties. Many people told me I was making the story about Scientology -- and Travolta -- thinking that humans are infested with invisible murdered space aliens though I invited them to check out Xenu.NET and do Google searches.

Since it was damned hot I didn't go very far. I had wanted to give flyers to businesses all the way West to the bulk photocopier place to see if I could get them to comment on whether Scientology might owe them for past work. Rumors I've heard years ago was that this copy place was owed a considerable amount of money, was told that they would get paid when "tithes" were "collected" by the "church," and, after five or six years, they've yet to be paid. I wasn't willing to walk that far in the heat to find out whether the rumors were true, obsolete, or false.

I'd like to know why they leave their doors unlocked, all the lights on, a video running, and nobody's ever home. Maybe the last victim woke up, twigged to the fraud, fled the organization, and there's nobody left to inform Miscaviage that the place has been abandoned.

-- Insane nut rant at http://www.linkline.com/personal/frice "Commodore Rimjob" is available at http://crimjob.tripod.com Why did the Scientologist cross the road? - mimus To slug Bob Minton. - Shydavid (See http://www.BobMinton.ORG/ "You can lie about ICR all you want." -- "Jason Daniel Henderson" <jhenderson@icr.org>

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