Picket Report - Brighton (UK)
The sunniest, hottest day of the year so far, so an ideal day to go
down to
the seaside. After the usual anarchic start, due to rail delays, over a
dozen
UK suppressives managed to congregate outside the Brighton 'org' and
were reinforced by the one and only Gerry Armstrong.. The
scientologists
were conspicuous by their 'non-confront'. One Sea-Orger appeared, took
a
few pictures and disappeared again. One character with a big bag
entered
and exited about two hours later, and a couple with three toddlers
exited.
The 'org' is on the third floor. Outside the ground floor there was the
regular
Peruvian pan-pipe band (If you have never heard 'twinkle, twinkle,
little star'
played on pan-pipes then rush down to Brighton).
We waited until they paused for breath before using our boom-box and
the
usual chant about Scientology being a barmy UFO cult. We handed out
lots of leaflets. May is the time for the annual Brighton Festival, so
the
proceedings were enlivened by stilt-walkers, road-punters and people
pretending to be genetically modified pigs and chickens. We entered
into
the spirit of things by handing out helium balloons marked 'Xemu Loves
You' . Somebody tied two of them to the Scientologists' 'Now Hiring'
sign.
And they were still there when we left, which shows how effective the
Golden Age of scientology's new 'Hiding Tech' has proved,
After a few hours in the blazing sun, we returned to London, passed the
London 'Org' (dead as a dodo) and had a few beers before an excellent
Chinese meal.
--
John Ritson *** "After leaving the sea,the GE spent
a half a million years on the beach. In this state
it needed food from the sea, but also air to breathe.
It would open up to get food and get a wave in the shell.
But as it had to breathe it had to pump sea water out,
hence the name 'the weeper.'" L Ron Hubbard 'History of Man' ***
12 May 2001
John Ritson <john@jritson.demon.co.uk>