From dbj1120@iag.net Sun Dec 06 20:11:22 1998
Since I am posting from Beverly's computer, and she has been
unfairly singled out by some for attack because of her association
with me, I will post this short review of today's events in
downtown Clearwater. Once I am back at my computer in Los
Angeles on Tuesday, I will post my experiences in Clearwater
during the picket weekend ~ it was as most who were there ~
very interesting and to sum up Scientology's behavior during
the weekend ~ TOTALLY PATHETIC!!
I believe the 45 or so picketers this weekend did more to open
the eyes of the Clearwater community to the REAL SCIENTOLOGY,
reinforced by the ultra-delusional and paranoid responses of
the church members themselves, than in years previous.
Today was Bev and I'd last day in Clearwater. After checking out
of our motel (Best Western), we drove across US 19 to the Holiday
Inn so we could say good-bye to friends. Sitting at a table in the
restaurant were Jeff J., Grady W., Tilman H. and others that I did
not know and Bev spoke to them as I used a courtesy phone at the
front desk to speak to Arnie Lerma who with Frank Oliver, was a
tremendous source of moral and emotional support to me this weekend
as I battled with the emotional pains attributed to the cult
victimization of individual church members. Walking back to
the restaurant area, the board listing the days events at the
hotel caught my eye and I called Bev over to look at the board,
asking her (jokingly) if Stacy Y. had broken up with Bob M. Why?
Because the board listed the wedding party of "Stacy & Jesse".
I found it to be a comical coincidence considering the two people
present with those names. Interesting, too, that Bev asked me if
~ I ~ put the names on the board as a joke? I assured Bev that
it was real and showed her a room nearby where they were setting
up the desserts for the wedding party.
From the Holiday Inn, we drove to downtown Clearwater at 12:00 to
see if there were any picketers. There was none. As we drove a
circuitious route around the Ft. Harrison and the fenced off area,
we drove towards the Ft. H, passing a Flag security guard (the one
that Bev and I spoken to earlier and whom you can see in the German ARD
video ~ filming me and Martin Ottman in Clearwater ~ . As we passed
the guard, I oberved from my back view mirror the guard swinging his
bike around and following us, talking into his walkie-talkie at the
same time. We stopped at a red light and in the 2-3 minutes it took
from us to turn left on Ft. Harrison to drive in front of the church,
we observed church security hurriedly chasing it's EPF and RPF crews
aways from work areas and into the Ft. H. It was truly pathetic to
see dirty, exhausted young people being herded single file at a
running pace into the hotel!
We parked by the County Building and armed only with binoculars,
a camera and a notepad, Bev and I walked to our favorite place
in the bacl of the Ft. Harrison where security guards went ballistic
and shooed staff buses away when we were present and security hid
behind the black tarp at the gate. From our vantage points, it
was very reassuring to have a police car watching us. As we walked
around the back and up the side of the hotel, we were followed by
an OSA guard with a walkie-talkie, watched by a (gorgeous, tanned)
Flag guard on the roof, and the 3 security cameras attached to the
Fort H.
Bev and I decided to play a game to watch the reactions of church
members, so I armed Bev with a notepad and pen while I scanned the
Fort H. with binoculars. From the very top of the hotel, I observed
a staff member hiding behind a post with a telephoto lens trained on
us. I had Bev look in the binocs to witness this. When we were in
the presence of Flag guards, we left the impression with them that
we were going to fly a chopper in to do aerial photography of the
Ft. H. ~ guess which one of us dreamed up this idea ~. From the
side of the hotel, we observed a large satellite dish on the back
cabana of the hotel. I trained my binoculars through cracks in
the wall and the lattice covering church staffers put up to obscure
the view of the courtyard, and I observed staffers ordering people
lounging by the pool to get up and go into the hotel. So sorry,
I ruined the day of Scientology sunbathers.
Bev and I then crossed Ft. Harrison and stood on the corner watching
Flag vas loading and unloading staff and publics into the Ft. H.
The vans were parking within inches of each others and church
security were hugging their bodies together to form a wall between
us and the publics, but a good set of binoculars can do wonders.
At one point, a mother with her 3 young children came walking out
and they were immediately herded back into the hotel by church
security.
Looking up, it was reassuring to see that church staffers finally
got the huge "HAPPY HOLIDAYS" letters up, as last night while
driving from my motel to downtown, it was obvious from a distance
that several letters would not light up and it read "HAPPY HO!"
As we walked around the Ft. H, being followed by a police car and
the ever diligent OSA guard, I had Beverly look at the 4-foot high
clump of boken cement sitting in a pile behind the sign announcing
construction of the new Super Tower ~ the bricks were representative
of the hard work & sweat of young people in the church. I suspect
that we would never see SpongeBrain aka David Miscavige ever hauling
a brick for the church. As I was looking at the front of the church
with the binoculars, a PI in suit, tie and radio came walking up to
me, then sprinted across the street and into the garage, the hiding
place for most wimpy Scienos running from us evil, Eli Whitney
sponsored psychotic/critics this weekend.
After an hour of fun and games, and sorry we could not be around
to watch their reaction to the "planned" helicopter flyover at
4:30, we departed Clearwater for Orlando.
Garry Scarff
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Subject: G. Scarff: Last Day In Clearwater, 12/6/98
From: Garry Scarff <dbj1120@iag.net>
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 23:11:22 -0500
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