Picket Report 2001/aug/25LONDON (UK), "What is Scientology"
Picket Report 2001/aug/25 LONDON (UK), "What is Scientology"
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The What-Is-Scientology exhibition runs for over two weeks, and a
bunch of us went to do a second picket this second Saturday of the
exhibition. In all there was me (Dave), Jens, Hartley, Peter Lucey,
a mystery picketer from ARS, and Roland R-B. I had a nice journey
and arrived full of energy at the rendezvous. 1pm we moved out
and took our spot by the Guild Hall; a minor difference, the alleyway
itself was blocked off with a crane hauling portacabins onto the
roof of the conference centre.
Scientology's band the Jive Aces was churning out chunga-chunga jazz
at a somewhat reduced volume and, glory halleliuyah, no trombone
player in the line-up (the trombone player was the barmpot who damn
near assaulted one of our people last time). The policewoman on
that beat came over and checked us out, all very friendly; we were
damn lucky to get any cover, as it was carnival weekend. We had
the boom box set up by the railings, I felt a bit pressured having
to keep up a steady stream of slogans and chants etc for the full
2 1/2 hours as both John and Martin, who substituted last time,
were missing. Lots of nice Xemu Loves You helium balloons for
the kids were given out -- Peter was well impressed with the design.
Everything was very tranquil where we were, but Hartley acquired a
cluster of four clams or barnacles -- it takes about 4 cultists to
add up to the IQ of one critic -- before Jens went over to rescue him.
After three O'clock the two twits, they grey haired guy and the
plump woman, came over and started trying a few of their old tricks,
but with little enthusiasm. They tried to park the blue 'Dianetics'
bus in front of us, on a double yellow line, but decided to move on
even before police came to move them on.
Other than that, it was all pretty routine. Two of us have done
three demos in August, and many of the others done two of the three,
so we'll take a break for a bit before the next one.
26 Aug 2001
Dave Bird <dave@xemu.demon.co.uk>
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