I was wondering when that would happen in the UK and now it has happened and will follow you picketers everywhere in the UK. "Free speech" is all very well in the UK, so long as it doesn't offend anybody who follows you around. I did warn on this newsgroup that this would happen. So the Scientologists are free to spread their deception and lies anywhere they like in the UK and anybody who opposes them vocally or in writing has offended them and will be stopped by the police. Hell, why not arrest them, charge them, take them to court and jail them?

Maybe next time I am in the UK I will walk the main throughfares of London wearing red horns, have a red tail and carry a red trident around as a practising Satanist, escorted by the police, and be offended at anybody who looks at me and points or laughs and have them arrested by the police.

What has happened to the UK in the past few years makes me feel sick.

This newsgroup will be next. If any of you UK critics post anything disparaging at all about Scientology from this day on, remember that even the truth can offend. Expect a knock at the door from PC Plod early one morning. Also expect a big expansion of the *religion* of the *Church* of Scientology in the UK with more fortunes lost, families torn apart, lives ruined and lives lost (Oh sorry! I just thought that it might offend some of you Scientologists. Please accept my apologies and accept my retraction of what I just wrote :o)) ).

Roland

Jens Tingleff <jensting@tingleff.org> wrote in message news:<cjobkm0ac2@news1.newsguy.com>... > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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> Hello There!
>
> Five protesters braved the weather forecast and descended on the Birmingham
> shop of the criminal cult known as the "church" <spit> of $cientology.
>
> We were expecting a nice, normal, demo with the usual lack of confront from
> the clams; little did we know that within minutes we were being called to
> order by the police and required not to cause any "distress" to members of
> the $cientology religion.
>
> Well, now, would we do that??
>
> Why don't you judge for yourself..
>
> http://www.tingleff.org/jensting/duke_tour/index.html
>
> In fact, we strove to comply with the requirements of the police as quickly
> as new demands were made of us - quite a whirlwind tour of policing
> reacting to new and more offended clams by the minute ;-)
>
> In the end, we were moved away from the $cientology recruiting field, down
> to saying "Protesting *AGAINST* scientology" - having had the C word banned
> - - and had stopped distributing the XENU leaflet
> ( http://www.xenu.net/archive/leaflet/xenuleaf.htm ) after police demands.
>
> But I'm jumping ahead.
>
> Five of us, Dave Bird, John Ritson, Neal Clark and New Protester converged
> on Birmingham in order to protest against the offences brought by the
> criminal organisation known as the "church" <spit> of $cientology against
> the human rights of its victims (most of whom are members) and to inform
> about the true nature and cost of the goods innocently masquerading as
> psycho-babble self-help with "church" somewhere in the name of the seller.
>
> We met late because of various traffic related problems and other symptoms
> of the chronic lack of organisation which is the cunning way in which the
> A.R.S.C.C. (wdne) disguises its tight control over our every move. There
> had been a fairly heavy shower half an hour before we met (at one point I
> drove through a puddle and got splash across the entire width of the front
> of the car - pretty good going since the front wheels are a good way back).
> The rain stopped completely after that (whew!) and we had a pleasant day
> out from then on.
>
> We rambled into our usual position on the high street on the corner of their
> shop, and got going with the leaflets and the sound-system, John rolling
> into action with his normal "protesting *AGAINST* the Barmy UFO Cult of
> $cientology!" and the related shpiel. Leaflets were being handed out and no
> clams had shown up. We had declined to bring our ever popular range off
> free XENU LOVES YOU balloons so as to keep everything light and easy to
> handle. So far, so normal.
>
> Then the police showed up and, indeed , turned out to be in our honour (and
> not the much bigger and louder something Palestine something demo on the
> next corner). Before the demo, we had - as usual - agreed with the police
> to play nice. It turned out that "play nice" included not offending any
> religious people, the "Religiously Aggravated Harassment" rules being
> specifically cited.
>
> Hmmm.
>
> As we *do* want to "play nice" (yes, really, we do!!), we agreed to not have
> the word "Cult" and the word "Barmy" on the loudhailer. We went on
> "protesting *AGAINST* the $cientology organisation" and handing out
> leaflets.
>
> After some time, we were informed that we were not welcome within earshot of
> the $cientology shop. We hmm'ed and haw'ed and ambled a few hundred yards
> up to the big square and got ourselves a nice spot (by the Iron Man) where
> passers-by were stopping to look at the "pictures of the world" display.
> Nice, but not our first choice of location... We continued, going back to
> "protesting *AGAINST* the cult of $cientology" and handing out leaflets.
>
> After some time (not so much), a man in a suit was engaging in conversation
> with our two kindly police protectors (you do need protection by the police
> when protesting asgainst the $cientology cult, see
> http://www.tingleff.org/jensting/duke_tour/muslinger/egrinstead0403_a.html ),
> and we were informned that using the word "cult" was not allowed in public,
> in case a member of the cult in question walked by and took offence. Or, as
> in our case, followed us around, taking offence. Guess what? We were
> required to stop with the C-word on the loudhailer.
>
> By this time, we were not surprised to see, after not so much time, the
> offended clam eagerly showing our leaflet to the police. Oh Dear, he might
> have been offended again! OOoops!! It did turn out that we could not hand
> out those leaflets in the centre of Birmingham in case someone was
> offended. We got this in writing, as we felt that this was pretty strong
> stuff and not something we had expected.
>
> So, at the end, we were down to lecturing about the human right abuses by
> the criminal organisation known as the "church" <spit> of $cientology, e.g.
> relating the story of Lisa McPherson and how her family had cause to regret
> that the $cientololy goons were allowed to "care" for her after her nervous
> breakdown. http://www.lisamcpherson.org/
>
> We knocked off after the two hours we'd agreed with the police, and went for
> a light refreshment and a confab. While OSA had achieved more of their
> goals than we had of our goals, the new focus of the law on our activities
> could well be good in the long term in getting us thinking harder about
> what we do, when we do it and where we do it.
>
> So, a different day out was had by all and things won't be the same again...
>
> Best Regards
>
> Jens
>
> PS On the way back from the demo, we passed the clam body-routers in the
> spot we had vacated. They were handing out leaflets. Good job we're not
> easily offended ;-)
>
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<p><hr><p> Subject: How to get terrific expansion in the UK
From: rolandberry@hotmail.com (RolandRB)
Date: 4 Oct 2004 03:44:34 -0700

To UK Scientologists - you want to win the Birthday Game? Now you can because it is illegal for UK critics to picket your orgs. If they do so then it can offend you and you can ask the police to stop them. I guess you were very ofended about the Birmingham picket, and I can't blame you. I think it would be a good idea to write to the police anywhere you have orgs to make sure that pickets do not happen any more. But that won't stop those naughty SPs from leafletting the areas where you have orgs. They have done it before and they will do it again, if they are now prevented from picketing. I think it is best if you all get together and say you are all deeply offended and that these critics must stop their activities. And many of these critics have anti-Scientology web sites located in the UK. Are you offended by these? I bet you are! I think it best if these web sites were removed and maybe all the critics put in jail where they belong. And then it is EXPANSION TIME !!! You can smile and give out leaflets anywhere you like and nobody will oppose you. You can make whatever claims you like and nobody is allowed to offend you by saying it is wrong. Your orgs will be filled to bursting, more orgs will open up in the UK and you will win the Birhday Game and be well on the way to making the UK the first cleared country. Rejoice, for the law of the land in the UK is now firmly on your side and with the police on the streets to help you (and hopefully the UK critics behind bars) your Church can GROW, GROW, GROW !!!

OSA, want to know where the anti-Scientology websites are in the UK? Well look here down the bottom: http://www.xemu.demon.co.uk/clam/lynx/q0.html#ByC

http://www.jritson.demon.co.uk/ http://www.xemu.demon.co.uk/

Oh, only two left. Good work. Let's see how quickly those two disappear.

Roland

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