South Bay Pickets
It was a five org kind of day (one of them twice).
I have been very busy lately with other projects (mostly not scn related)
but the continuing pickets against Kristi and Peaches inspired me. I did
San Jose on Rosemary, Los Gatos (in Campbell), the San Jose mission at
Winchester and Heading, San Jose again, Mt View, and Palo Alto. Half an
hour at each except San Jose which got 45 minutes the first time and 30
the second. With travel it took from noon to almost 6 pm.
At Rosemary there were 30 cars in the lot, which (for a weekend) is down
about 15 from a year ago. The guy I referred to as "blue shirt" came out
and started doing Heil Hitler's at me. I responded that scientology had
made Lisa McPherson look like a concentration camp victim before she died.
No reply to that one. We *really* have to get some contacts active in the
Indian community. A high fraction of the recent recruits are Indian.
Most likely imported programmers.
It was a good day for flyers, I must have given away 50 of the Xenu
flyers, including one to one of the guys who picketed my house last year.
Sorry to say I did not ask him why they don't picket any more, but I did
get him pointed to evolutionary psychology via the Patty Hearst story. He
was really trying to be nasty, but just could not pull it off. A heavy
set older woman with the name of Lisa took a Xenu flyer and was followed
clear around the block by some org dude who was trying to get it away from
her (he might have, but she has the URL). John M took a flyer from one of
the people who drove up as well.
At first I thought the Campbell org was shut--there were no people in the
offices which face out on the street. But two women came out and headed
to the Pruneyard shoping center with stacks of pink personality tests. I
wondered up that direction and supplied the people they gave personality
tests a copy of the Xenu flyer. One of them tried to communicate (Did I
know anything about scn?) but the other let her know that I was not a
person they *could* communicate with. (Heh, so much for the communication
course.)
The mission on Winchester is near one of the highest traffic intersections
in San Jose. I picketed mostly around the crosswalks. The clams called
the cops but the cops didn't stop me and waved me away when I offered them
a flyer.
Once more to Rosemary. Blue shirt gave me another Heil Hitler as I
started. About 15 minutes into the picket 3 cop cars showed up. They
were quite professional about it, would not take a flyer, but did make
note of the URL. I told them of the pickets in SF and San Pablo. They
said that I really should not be loud, but that the clams should not be
heckling me either. I stayed an extra 15 minutes when the cops came, I
like picketing with a mess of cops present
Off to Mt. View. Uneventful as usual. There were a few around, but that
seems to be a relatively downstat org. Palo Alto was even worse, but I
think one of the few at that location saw me. If not, well, you got a
half hour picket.
Keith Henson
PS, they are not picketing me, but are expending a lot of effort to attack
me with flyers posted two blocks from my house on California Ave. Most of
them don't identify who is behind the flyers. Ashamed to put
"scientology" on thoes flyers boys? (And I wonder if it is legal to put
up personal attacks on the communty anouncement boards? If it is . . .
perhaps I should post a few xenu flyers.)
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Keith Henson <hkhenson@netcom.com>
Sun, 16 May 1999 02:04:22 GMT
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