**Biased Journalism** V3no6 Henson Stealth Picket
Keith Henson
William Barwell (wbar...@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM) wrote:
: In article <sthomsonE...@netcom.com>,
: shelley thomson <stho...@netcom.com> wrote:
: >
: >**Biased Journalism** Volume 3, issue 6 September 26, 1997
snip
: >the cardboard and started spraying my sign with a can of red paint.
: >To put it mildly I was startled. Fortunately, the stick on that sign
: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: >is a short pool cue that was not about to break and I was able to get
: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: >both hands on it while the attacker only had one. The attacker was a
: This kids, is a no no. Don't do this. Why? Because in many states and
: cities, it is illegal to picket using a sign that could be used as a
: weapon. And in many places it ain't, it is illegal to carry something
: like a pool cue that could be used as a weapon. Here in Texas, it could
: get you arrested for carrying a blunt instrument, a club.
: A cop that doesn't like being rousted out of a doughnut shop to check
: out your picket, could if he or she desires, cause you great hassles over
: such a thing as a stout stick, especially a cut down pool cue, an
: old biker's weapon.
Wasn't cut down Pope, just a short one. An I can tell you for sure that
taped in between two thick chunks of cardboard with a mess of packing
tape, it wouldn't be worth squat as a weapon. It would make a fair fan
though. Most of what you said though is good advice.
snip
: This was assault pure and simple.
: Well, when the second clam approached, you should have pulled out the
: pepper spray and held it aloft so he could see what it was.
: You didn't bring pepper spray? Well...
: Make sure you get the fogger kind...
It was an unexpected situation, the clams definately raised the anti.
: >I was more together this time and got photos 12 and 13 of the black
: >paint guy running away and inside.
: You should be filiing charges and giving the cops copies.
More trouble than it is worth. Next time though, there are going to *be*
cops there.
snip
: Break aways. Several signs on a placard done with tape.
: If one gets messed up, remove it and you have one beneath.
: You can change signs several times just for the hell of it.
Good thought.
snip
: Be prepared part XVIII. If you have lots of gear, cameras, water bottles,
: notepads and other gear, use a small back pack or belt pack.
: Leaves your hands free and allows you to carry more gear.
: A belt pack or fanny pack is preferable.
For xenu flyers, a bag on a strap would work just fine.
snip
: Wish Keith had had a Sony Pressman in his shirt pocket running.
Actually, I had one in the car, and I wished I had loaded it up and
carried it that day. But it gets to the point you can be too loaded down
with camera, tape recorder, pepper spray, flyers, etc.
Doing Cedars as a one man show has a lot in common with white water
rafting. Keith Henson
shelley thomson
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**Biased Journalism** Volume 3, issue 6 September 26, 1997
Contents: ARSCC Field Report: Henson Stealth Picket; Narrow Squeak
in DC (Saving the First Amendment--for now), by Declan
McCullagh; Crime of the Week by Benjamin T. Moore Jr.
Read at your own risk. This is **Biased Journalism**!
1. UFOs, Spray Paint, and PIs: Adventures at Cedars
by H. Keith Henson
[Something new: the photographs referenced in the text will be
present at the following url: //www.cedar.net/users/dvanhorn/henson.
If you are putting this issue on your web page, please make links.]
Either the fight with the Internet has *really* hurt scientology, or
the cult was a lot smaller than we thought when the fight started.
Six or seven months ago the TV show Sightings called me to see if I
would make and fly a UFO for them, something I was noted for in my
misspent youth. Eventually we settled on a date and a place, north of
Los Angeles, but within day trip range for the camera crew. I had
been looking for excuses to visit that part of the state for some
time. By a lucky accident, Sightings picked Saturday, September 13,
auditor's day.
I didn't mention Sightings when I posted on the net after the last and
*impressive* Toronto picket reports that I was tired of my comatose
local clams and would go to LA that weekend to find some lively ones.
The adventure started on Friday. Judge Whyte must have put RTC vs
Erlich early instead of his usual just before lunch. So I missed the
hearing but met Darlene Bright (San Jose scn agent) coming out of the
courthouse. She didn't look very happy and was kind of evasive about
what had happened when I asked her so either Judge Whyte ruled against
them, or the ruling was delayed. I mentioned to her that I would try
to get in a short picket that morning since I was in San Jose. She
was not amused. I had something else to do first, so I showed up at
the San Jose org about an hour later, I guess that would have put it
11 to 11:30 am.
Other than it being in a place where there is little foot traffic, the
San Jose org is nearly ideal to picket. The walk is shaded with
trees, and it was a pleasant day, warm but with a nice breeze. The
org building is about 90 feet on a side and two stories tall. It has
parking on all four sides. There is a plowed-over lot to the east of
the org and a drop-in place for the homeless on the west side. The
back of the org is up against the 880 freeway close to First St.
Ted Mayett had asked for a count of parking spaces, so I walked back
through the plowed area to get a count of the ones in back. There are
between 95 and a hundred parking spaces, and 25 cars in the lot that
day--counting one which has not moved in months.
After about half an hour Darlene came out and wearily took two
pictures and wrote down what I had on the sign. For variety I was
using an old sign which read on one side:
Scientology vs the Net
Scientology is a Scam
and on the other:
What happened to Lisa McPherson?
To that I added:
Xenu? Xemu?
Which was it Ron?
After a peevish remark or two about bigotry, Darlene tried to pump me
about how I was going to get to LA by expressing concern that my car
would not make it. I told her tracking me was the private
investigator's problem, not hers. She said that scientology's PIs
would not come clear up to the Bay area to start tracking me. I
reminded her that according to an affidavit filed in Federal court
(Tom Hogan's false bomb threat in the airport) they did just that
before the Miscavige deposition back in May.
MikeSmith3 had left scientology wide open in the last post where he
quoted one of my memetics articles (where do they *get* these
people?). Because it took a while to generate an appropriate reply, I
was later than I liked getting out of town. If any PIs were tailing
me, I never saw them, in spite of considerable looking.
Interstate 5 is a dreadfully dull trip, and even worse at night. The
high point was a hamburger and a coke at McDonald's. I was into LA
before midnight. Won't say where I stayed (except the bed was
comfortable) because I might want to use it again. Heh, my
scientology escort/counter marchers tried to weasel it out of me the
next day by making noises about me sleeping in my car.
My Heaven's Gate/Scientology/Both UFO Cults! sign had "What happened
to Odhran Fortune? on the other side. Figuring Lisa was better
known, I put new paper over the Fortune side and scrawled:
Did "Standard Tech" Kill Lisa McPherson?
And in smaller letters:
Wogs at Cause $360K for a bridge? Knights of Xenu/Xemu.
None of this would have caused a stir in San Jose, but I was expecting
more action out of the headquarters clams. I was not to be
disappointed. With the sign and a 150 copies of Roland's Xemu flyers
I started off for Cedars. Cedars is several blocks to the east of 101
on Sunset.
I would have been there earlier (breakfast was but a sweet roll) but
the directions I had were not clear and I wound up in Beverly Hills.
Doubling back, I arrived about 9:30. Leaving my sign in the car, I
made a one pass around the building with a disposable camera. I might
as well put descriptions in this text about the photos. [The photos
are temporarily at ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hk/henson/cedars.pics/
and more permanently at the url above.]
The first one is the street sign on Sunset, "LRH Way," one of the few
streets in the US named for a person who died as a fugitive from the
law (at least from the IRS).
The area around the block-plus that scientology occupies is going
through a transition from seedy slums to high rises. Kaiser (an old
and very large Health Maintenance Organization) has a number of large
buildings and parking structures to the west. Cedars itself was a
hospital before scientology bought it. Just about every door in the
building is the "main entrance" for some scientology front. Next time
I will make a list.
I picked up an escort even without a sign. A scientology "chaplain"
asked me who I was, and I told him I was scientology's worst nightmare
(slight exaggeration). Photo 2 is the northern most door on the east
side of the main building. The sign in Photo 3 is a little hard to
make out. The escort wouldn't let me go on their property to
photograph it, but way back in a service area the sign says "Sea Org
Recruiting Office." Somehow it seemed appropriate. No rats I could
see but I was too far back to check on the roaches.
Photo 4 of the main entrance to AOLA which is across LRH Way from
Cedars. LRH Way is nicely done with red brick--be interesting to see
how long it lasts. Brick streets break up quickly under heavy traffic
and porous brick is nearly impossible to clean.
Photo 5 is the other LRH Way sign. I caught one of the security
cameras in photo 6. This one is on the southeast corner of the main
building.
After a single pass around the building, I got my sign out of my car.
The content prompted an immediate complaint from the chaplain that I
was causing chaos although he would not say what on the sign offended
him. An enturbulated chaplain and I walked clockwise from the north
side of the building around to the east side. There I picked up two
more escorts. The two dudes in the photo 7 stayed with me most of the
morning. Photo 8 is of their guy taking photos of me. This time they
stayed well back and did not shove the camera in my face like the
security guards did out at Hemet. The guy in the foreground is the
"chaplain." 9 and 10 are closeups of the guys in 7. 11 is the
"Auditor's Day" banner on the wall next to the main entrance. For
being a major scientology holiday, they sure did not have much traffic
of publics in or out--which is why I think the Internet has hurt them
a lot more than we thought. I don't think I saw more than a hundred
and fifty clams the entire time I was there.
After a walk around the whole block and two or three passes back and
forth along the west side of the building (which seemed to have the
most activity) a scientologist maybe in his 20s in a dark suit calmly
walked straight up in front to me, grabbed my sign stick right under
the cardboard and started spraying my sign with a can of red paint.
To put it mildly I was startled. Fortunately, the stick on that sign
is a short pool cue that was not about to break and I was able to get
both hands on it while the attacker only had one. The attacker was a
little taller than I am but lighter. I dragged him still spraying out
onto the brick roadway (not wishing to get onto Cedars property during
the incident) and kind of scraped him off on a parked car.
Once I broke his grip on the sign, he immediately ran away, going
inside Cedars while I fumbled for my camera but failed to get a photo.
The chaplain and my escorts did not seem surprised, and were clearly
disappointed that the red paint did not do much of a job obscuring the
words.
About 15 minutes later a guy in a red shirt tried it again with black
paint. I ended that try the same way but even faster. It is
interesting to see which words they went after. Xenu I expected, but
they seemed just as upset at Lisa's name and the dollar figure for the
"bridge" Hubbard sold them.
I was more together this time and got photos 12 and 13 of the black
paint guy running away and inside.
I didn't realize it at the time, but the big banner you can see in 13
was to keep people inside from seeing my sign. At one point later
when I was going down to a market for some water, they marched that
banner between me and Sunset. Of course, my pool cue sign stick let
me hold my sign higher than the silly banner.
They picked a conflicting approach, at first not blocking my sign, but
pointing me out with theirs which had big arrows and said "Criminal
SP". Later they gave up and just did their best to block anyone from
seeing my paint-spattered sign. The long stick I was using made this
hard since I could get my sign up over theirs most of the time. There
were a few honks and waves out on Sunset, but very non-scns travel LRH
Way.
At this point (around ten thirty) Lisa Derrick came by. I got her to
take photos 14, 15 and 16. I would like to know the name of the guy
with the purple tie to the left of me in 15. He is a high up I think
since he was the one later screaming in the white PI car. 15a is a
blowup of his face. Photo 17 is a close up of the sprayed sign. After
the altercations with paint, I commented that they were raising the
ante, had they given thought to what that might release? I don't think
they got it at all. But I sure would not be a bit surprised to see a
lot more activity with Xen/mu and spray paint. Make it neat and
literary though. There is a lot to be said for stencils.
Besides walking up and down on the east side of the building, I made
one or two passes around the whole building, enturbulating the RPF
slaves working on the grounds. It was _really hot_. I couldn't find
the extra water I had stashed in the car, so Lisa offered to go pick
up some from a store three blocks to the west of Cedars on Sunset. I
walked slowly after her, giving out an occasional flyer and missed her
at the store because she found a nearer place. The clams exhibited
some really interesting disturbed behavior over Lisa and me missing
contact, trying to goad me with the (untrue) claim that I had given
money to Lisa and she had taken the dollar (shortly raised to five
dollars) and run away from the picket in fear since there were only
two of us. Of course, the clams had their noses rubbed in their
stupidity when Lisa made it back.
On the way down to the store, my clam escort dropped off. When the
three guys who were carrying the large banner got about two blocks
from Cedars they started complaining about how silly it was for me to
be picketing and them to be counter picketing that far from the org.
This may have implications for the December Clearwater picket. It is
possible that a clam who starts feeling silly is on his way out. At
the Clearwater picket last March, two scientologist followed me to a
diner where I bought them lunch. I heard from one of them
subsequently in email indicating that he had left scientology. Be
interesting to see if any of the people who counter picketed me leave.
If one of you happens to be reading this, I will not hold your actions
and words against you. Scientology makes basically nice people into
monsters, but you can recover.
After picking up some water at a convenience store I headed back
toward Cedars on Sunset. My escort clams had mostly dropped off, but
three of them, the two with signs and one other, picked me up again as
I left the store. The one without a sign made an attempt to grab my
Xemu flyers within the first block, but failed because I had a good
grip on them, in spite of also holding a water bottle. I stopped to
rearrange things with my back to a wall.
It was an interesting tableau. If two of them had not been carrying
the big SP signs you would have assumed a mugging was in progress. At
that point a street person came along and rescued me by being a
witness. He let me walk next to his shopping basket keeping the clams
away from the hand holding the Xemu flyers. While he did not want to
get involved in the picket, he had a definite and *low* opinion of
scientology.
Photo 18 is a view east along Sunset from about the location where my
car was parked. Photo 19 is closer to the east corner of the block.
Lisa can be seen over one of the escort signs. Photo 20 is looking at
the north end of the Cedars building from the Sunset side of the
parking lot.
It was getting close to 11:30 by the time I got back from the water
run. Elliot Abelson arrived, you can see how he is decked out in one
of the photos, and he wanted to know how long I would be there. He
admitted that my being out there was making him rich since he was
billing RTC by the hour, but he had other things he wanted to do on a
Saturday.
The clams changed the escort method, using Auditor day posters instead
of the more confusing SP signs, which people could mistake for them
being on *my* side (and Lisa did at first). You can see one next to
Elliot Abelson in photo 21. They later added balloons, which you can
see in phono 23 (which must have been taken by Lisa) to try to screen
my sign from being seen. This too may have implication for the
Clearwater picket. Photo 21 is another picture of the big banner
blocking the door. There is a good view of the "chaplain" on the
left side of photo 24 if someone wants to put a name on him.
Photo 24 must have been taken close to my last pass north on LRH way.
On the last pass, heading for my car, one of the clams (whom Lisa
identifies as an Australian) came up behind me and grabbed maybe a
hundred copies of the Xemu flyer, and sprinted for the main Cedars
entrance. I chased him a short distance, but running with a sign isn't
very efficient.
Elliot was embarrassed about his client's behavior and felt obliged to
apologize, but he didn't offer to recover the flyers stolen from me.
(I should have asked.) I wonder what the obligations are of a lawyer
who observes misdemeanor or possibly felony acts in public by someone
working for his client?
I made it known to Elliot that they had raised the ante in the whole
world wide battle, and that people would now feel much less restrained
in what they did to CoS, especially if it involved flyers and spray
paint. Elliot looked very unhappy, but he did not saying anything.
It was time to leave. My appointment with the Sighting folks was in
the early afternoon. Ableson and about six of the clams walked with
me back to my car. There were more than a few hot words exchanged
about the behavior of the clams, spraying my sign, stealing Xemu
flyers, attempting to get me to walk on Cedars property by suggesting
we cut through the parking lot, and attempting to frame me for
stealing by offering me one of the auditor day posters. I tossed my
sign in the back of my car and departed.
I turned right onto LRH Way and went around Cedars. When I got back
to Sunset, I noticed that most of the clams had headed inside but the
chaplain and Lisa were still out there talking to two female bike
cops.
While Lisa was there to counter the lies I was sure the chaplain was
telling the cops about me I was *not about* to leave under
circumstances where it would look as if I were the party running away.
So, instead of a left, I made a right, and parked a little beyond
where I had started and walked back. You can see the cops in photos
25 and 26. Photo 26 was the last on the roll.
I gave one of the cops a Xemu leaflet, told her about a stack being
stolen from me, and got the other one to take my name so there will be
a record to cite next time someone pickets Cedars. The cops asked me
to stay till they could get a supervisor to come by. More
scientologists wondered across the parking lot to get involved. Elliot
came back, looking unhappy. He wanted his Saturday. The cops really
didn't want to get involved, but there are rules if someone takes a
photo of *them.* The supervisor drove up, inquired if I have any
problems with his officers. I assured him I do not. It was getting
beyond the time I wanted to leave for the Sightings taping.
I went around Cedars again. Rather than go up the west side of Cedars
I went an extra block to the west and made a left turn on Sunset at a
light. I stopped at the first place which looks like I could get some
more water (a service station) and two PI cars, a white one and a
gray/green one pulled in behind me. They parked next to each other.
Damn! I am out of film. I went back and knocked on the windows to
show them I know who they are, got back in my car, made a U turn on
Sunset and headed back to Cedars.
Elliot was still there talking to the cops. I stopped and bitched to
him and the cops about the PIs, I told him I am through with
scientology for the day and going somewhere the PIs are not likely to
be welcome. Will he call them off? Or do I have to ditch this batch
like the last one? Elliot was embarrassed again, says they hire the
best lawyers (Ha!) <fweet> but the PIs they hire leave something to be
desired--I was not supposed to even be aware of them. They are just
assigned to follow me till I leave the area, but he won't say what the
"area" is.
I told Elliot and the cops that I have lost scientology's PIs before
and can do it again. I also mention the Scarff deposition where Scarff
reports being told in Moxon's office to run Cyntha Kisser off the road
and kill her. Elliot says he is sure that did not happen in Moxon's
office. I didn't say it, but Scarff leaves something to be desired in
reliability.
The cops were not particularly sympathetic. Being followed by PIs or
worse comes with the territory if I am going to picket this particular
cult. Elliot insists they *must* keep track of me till I leave the
area because I am considered to be dangerous to them. It seems that I
am at cause over Miscavige again.
So. The cult has to keep track of little ol' dangerous me if I am in
the area. I can work with this, can they?
I laid out how I am going to deal with this to Elliot. I will find a
phone, call and see if the UFO people (Sightings, I did not tell them
who was taping my UFO launches) can put up with two cars full of
scientologists and private investigators. If they can't, I will come
back and picket Cedars all afternoon. Elliot is *not* happy, but the
fees he will collect for staying there all afternoon soften the blow
some. (Or perhaps he worries I will buzz Cedars with a UFO pulling a
big Xemu banner if I go off to fly UFOs.)
I took off, around Cedars again with two PIs cars in tow looking for a
place to make a call and get more water and another camera.
(If you want to follow the next part in detail pull up a map of east
Hollywood on the net. Try sticking 5500 W Harold Way, Los Angeles, CA
90028 in the Yahoo map function. )
On Sunset at Western, a few block west of Cedars, I found myself
stopped for a light next to an LA cop car. Remembering that you
should always exploit an unexpected opportunity when being tailed, I
hook a thumb back at the white car behind me and tell the two cops
that I think guys in the car tailing me are private investigators, but
they might be scientologists goons. The cops are interested. The
light changes, they drop back and get behind the white car. I turn
right at the next street onto St Andrews, the white car turns, the
cops turn, and the blinking lights go on. The white car pulled over.
The green/gray car is half a block back, but I know they will pass the
cops and the white PI car at high speed when they catch up and be on
my tail again.
I made the next right on Harold Way, and zipped back to Western. Luck
was with me, no traffic. I made a dogleg turn, left, then right into
Carlton Way. Half a block down Carlton, there is a place on the left
where a house was ripped out, making a driveway into a big
construction site (photo 27). (I was still out of film. The photos of
the getaway route were made by mysterious means.)
I pulled in, and parked out of sight behind the wall you can see to
the left of the utility pole. No cars come by, but I reflect that
they might have seen me pull in. Even though it is Saturday, the gate
left of the trailer in photo 28 into the main construction area was
open, and inside offers better concealment. I drove though and
stopped completely out of sight from Carlton.
Well! I seemed to have gotten clean away. There was a gate opening
onto the next street, Hollywood, a major route parallel to Sunset.
Out that gate and they will never see me again. You can get a long
view of the gate in photo 29 and a look through the gate onto
Hollywood in photo 30.
A construction worker who was changing out one of those multi gallon
soda pop canisters can open it for me. Not only was there a way out,
but there was a *pay phone* (photo 31) right next to where I was
parked.
I rooted around a bit and located the directions out to the UFO
shooting site and gave them a call. One of the people I am looking
for was already out there. I asked if the scientologists and PIs can
tag along to the UFO taping.
The producer said for me to bring them along, she will see if they can
work them in. Scientology is, after all, a UFO cult, might fit right
in.
Now I have to find the lost PIs. I don't need the other gate opened,
thanks! I figured the best way to find the PIs is just to go back to
Cedars and have Elliot call them. I headed back toward Cedars, making
a right turn on Serano Ave.--and here they come. I bet they were
happy to find me and will be less than happy to find out I was looking
for them.
I pulled over and stopped near Sunset, walked back and rapped on the
window. The older PI driving (obviously a long retired cop) calmly
rolled down the window. The clam next to him (Purple tie from the
picket) gibbered at me about how siccing the cops on them did not work
(heh). I told them I called and it is ok for them to come to the UFO
shoot, noticed they have a cell phone and asked them to call Elliot
and let him know I will not be back today. Do they want directions?
At this Purple Tie nearly goes nuts, screaming "Get out of here!"
but the calm and sensible PI who wants the directions prevails.
So I went back to my car, got the directions and let him copy down the
route to the UFO shoot. Purple Tie was agitated, but kept quiet. I
wondered whether he calmed down enough to call Elliot so he could go
home. Would it have been the RPF for him if I had given them the
slip? While the PI is writing down the directions, I am looking at a
document on the front seat about me coming to town and what to do when
this calamity comes to pass. I can't tell exactly how many pages,
5-10 would be my guess. My fingers thetans were itching to grab it,
but even though they ripped paper from me I let it pass. Maybe I will
ask for it in the next lawsuit.
A few blocks away I stopped to pick up some more water and another
camera. Then it was off to the UFO shoot, a two hour drive out
Hollywood, 101, 405, 14, and Pear Blossom Highway. I only took one
picture of the white car, and that through the rear view mirror.
(photo 32)
Only one interesting incident on the way out. A really large green
plastic box had fallen off a truck. I swerved around it, the white
car behind me made a violent swerve to get around it. Since I was not
actually in much of a hurry, I turned around, went back, and shoved
the box off the road. It was fairly heavy. I opened it up and found
it to be packed with clothing. There was a car registration or
similar owner identifying slip of paper near the top. The tailing
cars had come back with me and were parked across the roadway. I was
wondering what if anything I should do with this box when a sheriff
patrol car pulled up. The sheriff deputy wondered what all the cars
were doing, especially since the gray/green one pulled out in a hurry,
back toward LA. I guess they did this so that if I got the sheriff to
detain the white car they would still have someone free to tail me.
I told the deputy I had just stopped to shove the big green box off
the road, and that this slip of paper might lead to who it belonged to
and that 1) I was going out to conduct a UFO launch for a TV show, so
watch for one after sunset, and 2) the car across the road plus the
one which just tore off were PIs working for the scientology UFO cult
who were following me out to the UFO launch. The deputy was *quite*
amused, and appreciative I had moved the box off the roadway before
someone hit it. About this time the owner of the box came back, so
the problem of what to do with it was solved.
Now that I think about it, the PI was the only one showing in the car.
I wonder what happened to Purple Tie. Had he bailed out in LA, or was
he huddled down on the floor biting the carpet?
A few miles further down the road was the house where I met the
Sightings video crew. It was on a private road, so the PIs parked
where they could watch the road in. The crew had an interview with
some well known UFO dude who had driven out from the midwest. They
set up on the bank of the nearby California Aqueduct to create an
interesting backdrop for the interview. (Photo 33) After an hour or
two of talking to the owner of the place and some of his friends who
had come over to watch, and filling up/launching a test balloon to see
how bad the wind was, I went looking for the clams and PIs. No luck,
they had split. I guess that being in a UFO TV tabloid was not part
of their game plan.
The TV taping crew broke down the setup on the aqueduct and started
looking for a good place to tape an interview with me and the UFO
launch. They found what I consider to be a rather sub optimal place
because of too much wind on the top of a hill. Photos 34, 35, 36, and
37 are from that site. After a bit of an interview (which was mostly
about nanotech and cryonics rather than UFOs) they taped me building a
UFO (stapling up crepe paper) on the back of a car, and filling a gas
bag.
Of course, I thought of the perfect answer to the question they asked
of "Why do you do this?" about a day later. If nobody did UFO hoaxes,
they wouldn't have any material for their show! We were hoping the
wind would die down after sunset, but there was way too much wind on
the top of the hill to launch. But by going down the hill a ways, we
were able to find a low wind pocket. There I lit up the candles in
the crepe paper bag and let it go into a sky which was nearly indigo
in color with a few stars starting to show. I was too busy to get
photos of the launch or the glowing ball in the sky, but the Sightings
tape of my creation should air sometime in January.
The crew broke the equipment down and we went back to the host's
house. The director and camera guy were really happy with what they
got, and had another shoot early the next day, so they and the sound
guy of them left rather than stick around. They missed a delicious
steak dinner, with all the trimmings, including interesting tales
around the table. I am far from the only person with a number of
wild stories.
After dinner I had enough materials for two more lights and there was
a *lot* of helium left in the tank. So we made a giant two light
version which you can see in photos 38 and 39. We had a fair amount
of problems with it, but we got it launched about 10 pm, giving the
locals two UFOs "sightings" in one evening.
I looked for them on the way out, but no PIs showed up on my radar
screen. I suppose they figured I would go back to San Jose that
night.
[Fade to Black]
Three days later in the early afternoon on I was in Hemet (photo 40).
The state highway department is working on a new bridge over the San
Jacinto river and the route through Gold Base has been detoured (Photo
41) but is still open. The place still looked like a Nazi theme park.
The clams were reroofing some of the buildings in anticipation of
heavy rains this winter. (Photo 42). Some progress has been made on
the big complex on the west end of Gold Base, but no workers were in
sight. (Photo 43) Sadly I just don't have time to picket today.
DISCONTINUITY
Late afternoon, back at Cedars, I turn down LRH Way, stop nearly in
front and give the place a once over. Few clams in evidence. Bike
security guard ignores me as he passes in front of my car. (Photo 44)
Is this a clam? I follow. Yep, he turns in. (Photo 45) I park and
walk back. "Yo dude, you missed me!" I call. He and a guy in a
white shirt look at me but decide to ignore me. I take a picture of
the Sea Org entrance. (Photo 46) Dilemma! Should I get out my
painted up sign and make it *obvious* that I have returned? Or should
I let Miscavige, Rinder, and Ableson find out from the net that a
"dangerous" SP was completely ignored by their "security?"
Its late, I'm tired. RPF the lot of them, I'm going home.
--H. Keith Henson
P.S. Thanks to Lisa Derrick. Solo picketing has a few drawbacks,
among them nobody to take pictures.
And thanks to Shelley Thomson for editing this. What you see is a
major improvement over the first draft. Picketing doesn't take all
that much time. Writing up and editing what happened is the big time
sink.
-----
2. Freedom Fighters in Cyberspace: Narrow Squeak in DC
by Declan McCullagh <dec...@well.com>
Crypto-victory in Commerce; Oxley talks about nuking Congress
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 21:37:56 -0400
To: fight-ce...@vorlon.mit.edu, cyphe...@toad.com
So I'm sitting here in the lobbyist warren of the Capitol
Grille on Pennsylvania Avenue getting sloshed on expensive
beer -- and sick on the clouds of cigar smoke from industry
representatives flush from their victory in the House
Commerce committee earlier this evening.
And they do have cause to celebrate. A week ago, the
outlook in Congress was dismal. The House Intelligence
committee had approved (during a closed hearing) the
first-ever domestic restrictions on what technologies
Americans can use to protect their privacy. The House
Commerce committee seemed certain to follow. Rep. Oxley,
who was pushing the proposal, told me last week he had the
votes sewn up.
The tide changed today when the Commerce committee
overwhelmingly defeated Oxley's amendment. In a 35-16 vote,
members rejected restrictions on manufacturing unapproved
encryption devices and instead approved a modified version
of Rep. Goodlatte's original Security and Freedom through
Encryption (SAFE) bill.
The vote came after a last-minute press by a diverse
coalition of industry groups, including some who had never
weighed in on crypto before, including the automobile
companies and the Baby Bells. (In fact, the Bells may have
been the deciding factor in defeating the measure.)
The version of SAFE the Commerce committee approved
includes: criminal penalties (doubled from the original)
for the use of encryption in a crime, a prohibition on
mandatory domestic key escrow, delinking certificate
authorities from key escrow requirements, a "NET" center to
coordinate law enforcement codebreaking, a classfied study
to be conducted by the Attorney General, a NIST study on
crypto, and liability limitations on firms providing key
recovery. It also includes SAFE's original export
relaxation on encryption products that are already
available overseas or are in the public domain.
Many of those changes were proposed by Reps. Markey and
White, who had their amendment approved 40-11. The amended
bill was approved out of the committee by a 44-6 vote.
(One lobbyist just leaned over, martini in hand, and asked
me, "Do you need a quote, Declan?" //sigh//)
Today's discussion before the committee was all about
compromise -- which, after all, shouldn't be surprising.
Washington politicians thrive on it. If politics is the art
of the possible, compromise is its lifeblood. But to the
chagrin of politicans, staffers, and bureaucrats alike, the
politics of encryption doesn't provide one. Either you use
backdoored crypto or you don't. Either you have unalloyed
privacy or you don't. There's no middle ground.
Of course it's one thing to compromise on tax bills or
spending measures. That's not only expected, it's
necessary. But it's another thing entirely to compromise on
a bill that deals with fundamental freedoms. How many
newspapers is it acceptable for the government to review
and censor before publication? How many Americans can be
imprisoned without a public trial? Sometimes, including
now, Americans should stand on principle and reject that
any and all "compromises." A coalition of groups from the
American Civil Liberties Union to the Eagle Forum sent out
just that letter earlier today.
Those groups understand what high tech firms have been slow
to realize: Congress will not, and cannot, approve a bill
that benefits crypto-liberty. Right now there are no
domestic controls on encryption. After Congress passes a
bill, that will surely change. The crypto-in-a-crime
provisions are destined to stay in. When crypto becomes
omnipresent, Congress might just as well punish you for
speaking Spanish in the commission of a crime.
(By now the lobbyists are drunk. One just leaned over,
laughing excitedly, and yelled in my ear: "Cold fusion
still doesn't work!" Huh? Whatever. Seriously, folks, I do not
make this stuff up. Another fellow says the quote of the
day is: "The FBI tried to take the country hostage.")
Anyway, today firms saw their arguments used against them.
For years companies have testified before Congress that crypto
was readily available at the corner software store. One
Congressman recently even waved around a shrinkwrapped copy
of Lotus Notes as a prop. At last the techno-impaired
members of the House Commerce committee have realized that
strong crypto was available through a point-and-click
download (or for $19.95). But instead of allowing the
//overseas// distribution of encryption, they instead came
close to banning the //domestic// distribution.
By now even the more censorhappy members of Congress are
sick and tired of hearing about pedophiles and child
pornographers and molesters and such. Even the
druglords-wielding-crypto claims pales after a while -- at
least if you've heard it 17 times in the past few weeks. So
today Rep. Oxley whipped out his trump card: if you don't
vote for my amendment, you'll get blown up! "How about some
terrorist orgainztion acting with impunity because they
have the ability to communicate with impunity gets a hold
of a Russian nuclear device and threatens to blow up the
Capitol of the United States?"
In the end, Oxley's amendment didn't carry the day. It was of
course almost entirely the successful lobbying -- and if
firms can't win in the //Commerce// committee, where can they
win? -- but to their credit, some Congressmen actually talked
about the Constitutional issues involved. "This is about our
liberty and how far we will go in protecting our liberties,"
said Rep. Rogan, a former prosecutor and judge who spoke
against Oxley.
The future, however, is uncertain. The bill now goes to the
House Rules committee, whose chairman said today in a
strongly-worded letter that he'd only allow a bill to go to
the floor if it included Oxley's amendment. Look for a hell
of a lot of behind-the-scenes lobbying on this now...
-Declan
-------
3. Crime of the Week
Robbed By The Indianapolis Police!!!
by
Benjamin T. Moore, Jr.
Yesterday I was contacted by a 74 year old grandmother. She was hurt,
upset and more than a little angry. She called me because one of her
grandsons was robbed by the Indianapolis Police department. I know
this family well and have spent some time trying to mentor this youth
with varying degrees of success. Indeed I'm having considerably more
success with his younger brother who is now almost a straight "A"
student at a high school on the far east side of Indianapolis.
Although this youth, whom I'll call Joe, has had several run-ins with
the law, I have endeavored to hammer home the necessity for doing the
right thing. I've told Joe time and again to tell the truth, be
respectful to rightful authority, go back to school and get his high
school diploma. At times I've seen positive improvement.
This latest situation begain when a vehicle in which Joe was riding
was pulled over in a routine traffic stop one night several months
ago. For those who live in middle class white communities, this may
come as a surprise. However, those who live in lower income minority
communities, will know what I am talking about. What happens is,
after a certain hour of the night, the Indianapolis Police Department
goes on "fishing expeditions" in the minority communities. Any
vehicle with two or more youths in it is targeted and stopped. Under
the aegis of fighting drugs and crime, Police officers look for
anything that might give them probable cause to make a stop. A
profile stop by any other name. If something so much as a light over
the license plate is out, you will be pulled over, your vehicle will
be searched and chances are, you will be searched as well.
Everybody in the car will be ordered out and "run" to see if anybody
has any outstanding warrants.
In the middle class white communities, *IF* you were stopped, the most
you'd get would be a ticket or a warning. Only the driver and not the
passengers would be spoken to. At the end of this foolishness, you'd
be on your merry or not so merry way.
On this night, Joe, who doesn't have a car, needed a ride over to a
friend's home. He accepted a ride with several friends who were going
that way. As you might have guessed, their car was stopped and
everyone was ordered out and to the curb. Everyone was searched,
checked for warrants, and then the vehicle was searched. There were
four people in the vehicle. Joe was sitting in the back seat. A
handgun was found under the front seat. Because Joe had a previous
record, the officers arbitrarily assigned the firearm to Joe. He was
arrested and the $300.00 he had in his pocket were taken into
evidence. What $300.00 is evidence of regarding a firearms charge is
beyond me. Nevertheless it was taken and booked into evidence. This
is a subtle distinction. Normally, had Joe been white, it would have
just been considered ordinary property which could have been retrieved
by either himself or a designee. It is also important to note, there
were no drugs found, no evidence of drugs found and no drug related
charges or allegations.
Joe was kept in jail for several months during which time depositions
were obtained from the other occupants of the car. Eventually the
gun charges were dropped. It might have had something to do with
the fact that Joe's fingerprints were not on this gun and nobody in
the car who had been with Joe that night had seen him with a gun.
Add to this the fact that the vehicle didn't belong to Joe and he
wasn't driving it, and one could make a case for false arrest and
harassment. I don't wish to muddy waters already grown opaque by
going into that.
After the charges were dropped, Joe's grandmother who had secured an
attorney to represent Joe on her fixed and limited income, contacted
the Indianapolis Police Department to retrieve Joe's property and
specifically his $300.00 which was taken. When she got through to a
live person who handles these arrangements she was first informed the
money was evidence and could not be released. When Joe's grandmother
pointed out that the charges had been dropped, this person checked her
computer and verified this was indeed the case. She then informed
Joe's grandmother the money couldn't be returned because several
months had elapsed and Joe hadn't come in to retrieve it soon enough.
Joe's grandmother pointed out, that Joe couldn't very well have come
in to get it because he was locked up in the Marion County Jail. This
person then said the money would be considered drug money
and kept under the drug confiscation laws. Joe's grandmother pointed
out, that no drug charges were filed and there were no allegations
regarding drugs whatsoever. Like an evil Walter Cronkite this
person told Joe's grandmother, "well that's the way it is," and
ended the call.
What have we come to? I try to instruct my children and the children I
mentor that stealing is wrong. To those youths who have run afoul of
the law, who I'm trying to get back on the right path, what can I say?
When those charged with enforcing the law, break the law, then there
is no law! How can I tell Joe that stealing is wrong when the
Indianapolis Police Department can stop you with no probable cause,
single you out and assign a bogus charge to you, take your money,
incarcerate you for months, drop the charges and keep your money? Is
Joe the only person this has happened to? No he isn't. This happens
all the time in the minority communities. How then do we as parents
tell our children crime is wrong, when Law Enforcement Officers
regularly break the law? How do we teach our children that violence
is not the answer when Law Enforcement Officers regularly use
violence merely to get the respect that comes from fear? Something
has got to be done!!!
__B.T. Moore <btm...@iquest.net>
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In article <sthomsonE...@netcom.com> stho...@netcom.com (shelley thomson) writes:
>**Biased Journalism** Volume 3, issue 6 September 26, 1997
>
> by H. Keith Henson
>
>[Something new: the photographs referenced in the text will be
> present at the following url: //www.cedar.net/users/dvanhorn/henson.
> If you are putting this issue on your web page, please make links.]
> [The photos
>are temporarily at ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hk/henson/cedars.pics/
>and more permanently at the url above.]
That's ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hk/hkhenson/cedars.pics/ (or use
the more permanent http://www.cedar.net/users/dvanhorn/henson ).
>The first one is the street sign on Sunset, "LRH Way," one of the few
>streets in the US named for a person who died as a fugitive from the
>law (at least from the IRS).
What is that sign's blue background in Pantone-talk? Maybe in the 270s or
280s? Copies might make nice gifts. I guess I can ask the LA city
signage folks.
I prefer the "L. Ron Hubbard Wy" over the "L. Ron Hubbard Way" -- sounds
more like a good probative question. (But, the second does anagram to
"Rub hard, Lawn Boy.")
--
Hud Nordin <h...@netcom.com> Silicon Valley / The City of Sunnyvale / California
Keith Henson
Tilman Hausherr (til...@berlin.snafu.de) wrote:
: In <sthomsonE...@netcom.com>, stho...@netcom.com (shelley
: thomson) wrote:
: >[Something new: the photographs referenced in the text will be
: > present at the following url: //www.cedar.net/users/dvanhorn/henson.
: > If you are putting this issue on your web page, please make links.]
: Downloading 30 different pictures means making 30 combinations of
: keystrokes. For those who want to spare THAT pain, here a HTML page that
: will download all at one (launch it only if you have lotsof memory on
: your PC)
My old version of Netscape just requires a click on the highlighted
file name to display it. Keith Henson
Dave VanHorn
> Doing Cedars as a one man show has a lot in common with white water
> rafting. Keith Henson
If you're ever out my way, let me know.. Comm gear and taping
devices-r-us. Microwave video too.
Your note on the picket sign handle made me think about something
I've used for antennas.. Aluminum extensible brush handles.
The one I have will go to 10 or 12' high. Held aloft, your sign
can (on a calm day) be 2 stories up! It's not very strong, certainly
a reach to claim it as a weapon, although I'd say anything that
can hold up a picket sign can be an effective weapon. Remember
Friar Tuck?
The fact that it makes a poor club and a giraffe jealous may
be an advantage!
--
According to Ron, calculus is bunk.
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"I think it was one of Newton's practical jokes."
Price does not include taxes.
William Barwell
>
>
>
> by H. Keith Henson
Degrado the Survivalist Clown's survival tips.
>
>After a walk around the whole block and two or three passes back and
>forth along the west side of the building (which seemed to have the
>most activity) a scientologist maybe in his 20s in a dark suit calmly
>walked straight up in front to me, grabbed my sign stick right under
>the cardboard and started spraying my sign with a can of red paint.
>To put it mildly I was startled. Fortunately, the stick on that sign
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>is a short pool cue that was not about to break and I was able to get
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>both hands on it while the attacker only had one. The attacker was a
This kids, is a no no. Don't do this. Why? Because in many states and
cities, it is illegal to picket using a sign that could be used as a
weapon. And in many places it ain't, it is illegal to carry something
like a pool cue that could be used as a weapon. Here in Texas, it could
get you arrested for carrying a blunt instrument, a club.
A cop that doesn't like being rousted out of a doughnut shop to check
out your picket, could if he or she desires, cause you great hassles over
such a thing as a stout stick, especially a cut down pool cue, an
old biker's weapon.
If you want to be legal and stuff, use a cardboard tube.
Art supply stores usually have a good selection, some rather stout but
passing legal muster. Or try stores specializing in boxes, shelving and
packaging materials.
Too, you don't want a stick an out of control clam can use against you if
you do lose control of the stick in a tussle. Unless you have the martial
arts skills to deal with it. Being beaten with a cut off pool cue would
not be a good experience unless you are looking for martydom.
>little taller than I am but lighter. I dragged him still spraying out
>onto the brick roadway (not wishing to get onto Cedars property during
>the incident) and kind of scraped him off on a parked car.
>
If the clam gains control of the stick back off immediately.
If he chases you and hits you, it's a worse legal problem for him.
Make him have to catch you if it comes to that.
>Once I broke his grip on the sign, he immediately ran away, going
>inside Cedars while I fumbled for my camera but failed to get a photo.
>The chaplain and my escorts did not seem surprised, and were clearly
>disappointed that the red paint did not do much of a job obscuring the
>words.
>
No ethics here.
>About 15 minutes later a guy in a red shirt tried it again with black
>paint. I ended that try the same way but even faster. It is
>interesting to see which words they went after. Xenu I expected, but
>they seemed just as upset at Lisa's name and the dollar figure for the
>"bridge" Hubbard sold them.
>
This was assault pure and simple.
Well, when the second clam approached, you should have pulled out the
pepper spray and held it aloft so he could see what it was.
You didn't bring pepper spray? Well...
Make sure you get the fogger kind...
>I was more together this time and got photos 12 and 13 of the black
>paint guy running away and inside.
>
You should be filiing charges and giving the cops copies.
>I didn't realize it at the time, but the big banner you can see in 13
>was to keep people inside from seeing my sign. At one point later
>when I was going down to a market for some water, they marched that
>banner between me and Sunset. Of course, my pool cue sign stick let
>me hold my sign higher than the silly banner.
>
Another good thing about cardboard tubes, you can make telescoping
sections. So it you have a sign with a 3 foot tube, and they have a sign,
you could add another three foot section and have instantly, a six foot
tall sign.
The order goes out, "They are bringing banners! Break out 3 foot
sign extenstions! Fix three foot sign extensions! Charge!"
>blowup of his face. Photo 17 is a close up of the sprayed sign. After
>the altercations with paint, I commented that they were raising the
>ante, had they given thought to what that might release? I don't think
>they got it at all. But I sure would not be a bit surprised to see a
>lot more activity with Xen/mu and spray paint. Make it neat and
>literary though. There is a lot to be said for stencils.
Break aways. Several signs on a placard done with tape.
If one gets messed up, remove it and you have one beneath.
You can change signs several times just for the hell of it.
****************** Deleted ******************
>
>After picking up some water at a convenience store I headed back
>toward Cedars on Sunset. My escort clams had mostly dropped off, but
>three of them, the two with signs and one other, picked me up again as
>I left the store. The one without a sign made an attempt to grab my
>Xemu flyers within the first block, but failed because I had a good
>grip on them, in spite of also holding a water bottle. I stopped to
>rearrange things with my back to a wall.
>
> >Photo 18 is a view east along Sunset from about the location where my
>car was parked. Photo 19 is closer to the east corner of the block.
>Lisa can be seen over one of the escort signs. Photo 20 is looking at
>the north end of the Cedars building from the Sunset side of the >parking
lot. > >It was getting close to 11:30 by the time I got back from the
Xemu flyer, and sprinted for the main Cedars >entrance. I chased him a
short distance, but running with a sign isn't >very efficient. > >Elliot
was embarrassed about his client's behavior and felt obliged to
>apologize, but he didn't offer to recover the flyers stolen from me. >(I
Another illegal act. Shouldhave come back and filed charges.
Abelson should be a good witness.
should have asked.) I wonder what the obligations are of a lawyer >who
observes misdemeanor or possibly felony acts in public by someone >working
for his client? > >I made it known to Elliot that they had raised the ante
in the whole >world wide battle, and that people would now feel much less
restrained >in what they did to CoS, especially if it involved flyers and
spray >paint. Elliot looked very unhappy, but he did not saying anything.
>
Be prepared part XVIII. If you have lots of gear, cameras, water bottles,
notepads and other gear, use a small back pack or belt pack.
Leaves your hands free and allows you to carry more gear.
A belt pack or fanny pack is preferable.
Notepads, as found out by the people here who picket clan rallies and such
over the years, *always* carry pads and pens. Good for taking witnesses
names and address, annoting photograph info, taking license plate and
badge numbers ect. Carry them where you can get to them. Carry extra
pens. It can be a life saver in case of legal hassles. Get used to taking
notes visibly. This makes people who might want to start something
nervous.
It means you are ready and keenly observing what is going on around you.
If it looks like trouble is brewing, start taking obvious notes.
If some fool gets agitated, and several people note that, and he does some
stunt, it will be easier to sort it out when the cops get there if notes
have been taken. It cools agitated cops out too.
Wish Keith had had a Sony Pressman in his shirt pocket running.
Degrado the Survivalist Clown.
William Barwell
In article <342EA911...@cedar.net>,
Dave VanHorn <dvan...@cedar.net> wrote:
>> Doing Cedars as a one man show has a lot in common with white water
>> rafting. Keith Henson
Degrado teh Survivalist Clown's Survial Tips:
>
>If you're ever out my way, let me know.. Comm gear and taping
>devices-r-us. Microwave video too.
>
>Your note on the picket sign handle made me think about something
>I've used for antennas.. Aluminum extensible brush handles.
>The one I have will go to 10 or 12' high. Held aloft, your sign
>can (on a calm day) be 2 stories up! It's not very strong, certainly
>a reach to claim it as a weapon, although I'd say anything that
>can hold up a picket sign can be an effective weapon. Remember
>Friar Tuck?
>
>The fact that it makes a poor club and a giraffe jealous may
>be an advantage!
This would be something you definitely WOULD NOT want to do anywhere
around electric lines. A 12' foot aluminum tube can get you in trouble
in this fashion.
I once was involved in building a model for Houston Lighting and Power.
Pull the knobs and various little men with, long handled pool cleaning
nets, ladders, painter's roller extensions and the like, would
accidentally touch a model electric line and light up as 5000 volts
zapped through a neon bulb imbedded in each model figure. Made a nice
ZAP! too.
It seems that touching lines with aluminum poles is a very popular way for
offing oneself around low hanging high voltage lines.
A 1400 volt high amp shock can ruin a picketting seesion.
This model made a very graphic presentation of how many people managed
to kill themselves with long aluminum poles and electric lines.
I heard a lot of graphic descriptions I did not want to hear from HL&P
engineers on the subject of electrocuting one's self with long aluminum
poles and high voltage lines.
I'd say, stick to cardboard tubes.
And ixnay on 12' aluminum poles.
Degrado the Survivalist Clown.
Tilman Hausherr
>[Something new: the photographs referenced in the text will be
> present at the following url: //www.cedar.net/users/dvanhorn/henson.
> If you are putting this issue on your web page, please make links.]
Downloading 30 different pictures means making 30 combinations of
keystrokes. For those who want to spare THAT pain, here a HTML page that
will download all at one (launch it only if you have lotsof memory on
your PC)
begin 644 HENSON.HTM
<encoded_portion_removed>
end
Tilman Hausherr
In <hkhensonE...@netcom.com>, hkhe...@netcom.com (Keith Henson)
wrote:
>My old version of Netscape just requires a click on the highlighted
>file name to display it. Keith Henson
Yes, but for EACH file. This means one click to display it, and one
click to go back. This means 60 mouse clicks. With my solution you need
just 2 for all.
--
Tilman Hausherr [KoX, SP4]
til...@berlin.snafu.de http://www.snafu.de/~tilman/#cos
Resistance is futile. You will be enturbulated. Xenu always prevails.
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Rod Keller
William Barwell (wbar...@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM) wrote:
: In article <342EA911...@cedar.net>,
: Dave VanHorn <dvan...@cedar.net> wrote:
: >Your note on the picket sign handle made me think about something
: >I've used for antennas.. Aluminum extensible brush handles.
: >The one I have will go to 10 or 12' high. Held aloft, your sign
: >can (on a calm day) be 2 stories up! It's not very strong, certainly
: >a reach to claim it as a weapon, although I'd say anything that
: >Friar Tuck?
:
: This would be something you definitely WOULD NOT want to do anywhere
: around electric lines. A 12' foot aluminum tube can get you in trouble
: in this fashion.
: I'd say, stick to cardboard tubes.
: And ixnay on 12' aluminum poles.
Metal is bad. I haven't used cardboard, but I would think it might break
in the wind. We have used wooden dowels in Clearwater, much less than
1/2". They work fine, and cannot be seen as weapons.
--
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The Lerma Apologist / Merchant of Chaos / Kha Khan countdown: 9 to go
Killer Rod / OSA Patsy / Quasi-Scieno / Mental Bully
Birgitta Dagnell
>In <hkhensonE...@netcom.com>, hkhe...@netcom.com (Keith Henson)
>wrote:
>
>>My old version of Netscape just requires a click on the highlighted
>>file name to display it. Keith Henson
>
>Yes, but for EACH file. This means one click to display it, and one
>click to go back. This means 60 mouse clicks. With my solution you need
>just 2 for all.
2 klicks is what I can afford :)
Thanks Tilman
Bid - The Angel of Xenu
Truthteller
Hud Nordin
>
> by H. Keith Henson
>I didn't realize it at the time, but the big banner you can see in 13
>was to keep people inside from seeing my sign.
> After a bit of an interview (which was mostly
>about nanotech and cryonics rather than UFOs) they taped me building a
>UFO (stapling up crepe paper) on the back of a car, and filling a gas
>bag.
Weird thought: suppose you helped out those folks who deserved to see
your free-speech message by hanging a picket sign from a tethered
(Xenu?) balloon, or a kite. Wind willing, you might be able to float
your sign right past all the upper floor windows, without bodily
trespass.
It would make for a bitch of a hurdle for the spray-paint censors, too.
Cornelius Krasel
Tilman Hausherr (til...@berlin.snafu.de) wrote:
> In <sthomsonE...@netcom.com>, stho...@netcom.com (shelley
> thomson) wrote:
>
> > present at the following url: //www.cedar.net/users/dvanhorn/henson.
> > If you are putting this issue on your web page, please make links.]
>
> keystrokes. For those who want to spare THAT pain, here a HTML page that
> will download all at one (launch it only if you have lotsof memory on
> your PC)
>
> begin 644 HENSON.HTM
Duh. Why uuencoded? It's pretty legibly HTML.
--Cornelius.
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Dave VanHorn
Around here, the wires start at 14' for low voltage.
Most of LA is underground utility.
I was sort of assuming the picketer had a FEW brain cells left,
otherwise he'd be on the OTHER side of the line :)
--
According to Ron:
"The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the
lower bands of the tone scale from the social order would result
in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt
the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered."
(Where have we seen this before kiddies? Think back about 60 years!)
L. Ron Hubbard The Science of Survival, Book I, page 157
http://pharos.uwc.edu/~dcleek/cos/november97quote.html
Tilman Hausherr
Cornelius Krasel (kra...@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de) wrote:
: >
: > begin 644 HENSON.HTM
: Duh. Why uuencoded? It's pretty legibly HTML.
Because this way it appears as attachment in modern newsreaders.
Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine
In art<hudEH9...@netcom.com>, Hud Nordin <h...@netcom.com> writes:
>
>Weird thought: suppose you helped out those folks who deserved to see
>your free-speech message by hanging a picket sign from a tethered
>(Xenu?) balloon, or a kite. Wind willing, you might be able to float
>your sign right past all the upper floor windows, without bodily
>trespass.
>It would make for a bitch of a hurdle for the spray-paint censors, too.
A large, not extra large, latex balloon is about 12" max length.
I suppose weather balloons are 24" = 8 x the volume or 36" = 27 x
the volume---a little over 1/4 a size#1, knee-high, tank of balloon
gas which is 50/50 air+helium. They are expensive and fragile;
a binliner filled with gas and taped up might do as well.
I seem to remember an article in Scientific American which mentioned
3 or 4 binliners (using a full size#1 cylinder of gas) tied together
in order to loft a few Lbs of camera. Also, that might have been
pure helium.
In article <3430ae3a...@news-2.csn.net>, Ted <t...@ibexbsc.com.xenu
.antispam> writes
>If you can get one of those large mylar balloons -- big brother to the
>"happy birthday", "happy anniversary", "happy happy whatever" balloons
>that card and gift shops sell -- to float on it's side, it looks just
>like a little UFO oughta look; they even sport a kinda retro looking
>exhaust nozzle! I figure two should float a banner pretty well. ( I
>could be wrong, it might take an invasion fleet of 4 or even 6
>"craft.")
A nominal 18" flatcushion mylar balloon is about the same on gas
as a 12" round latex balloon. At a political conference, I remember
a lobbyist had the nuclear threat as a hanging 3ft wooden sword
of Damocles, lofted on balloons. I reckon it was about forty 12"
balloons, equivalent to four 36" weather balloons or binliners.
(NB do not blow them close to bursting or they expand and burst
in the heat, 10" of 12" = 2/3 volume is fine).
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Hud Nordin
>forth along the west side of the building (which seemed to have the
>most activity) a scientologist maybe in his 20s in a dark suit calmly
>walked straight up in front to me, grabbed my sign stick right under
>the cardboard and started spraying my sign with a can of red paint.
Another idea. 3M makes a Scotch Stickable Adhesive Glue Stick that
turns any piece of paper into a Post-It note. (It's great for hanging
refrigerator art.) Prep your sign with a half-dozen layers of the same
(or different) message so that one "accidentally" damaged, or
used-enough, could be peeled off to reveal a fresh one beneath. Paper
opaque enough to not let the message beneath to be seen would be
needed, and perhaps some industrial strength paper clips so that some
scientologist slime doesn't remove all your layers for you.
>Once I broke his grip on the sign, he immediately ran away, going
>inside Cedars while I fumbled for my camera but failed to get a photo.
>The chaplain and my escorts did not seem surprised, and were clearly
>disappointed that the red paint did not do much of a job obscuring the
>words.
Well, that is the best result: to have their attempt to censor your
message fail, yet be apparent for all the world to see. (You did save
the result for the ARSCC Protest Poster Museum, so future generations
will see how nasty scientology was?) Bravo.
William Barwell
Cc:
In article <3430ae3a...@news-2.csn.net>,
Ted <t...@ibexbsc.com.xenu.antispam> wrote:
>h...@netcom.com (Hud Nordin) wrote:
>
****************** Deleted ******************
>>
>>Weird thought: suppose you helped out those folks who deserved to see
>>your free-speech message by hanging a picket sign from a tethered
>>(Xenu?) balloon, or a kite. Wind willing, you might be able to float
>>your sign right past all the upper floor windows, without bodily
>>trespass.
>>
>>It would make for a bitch of a hurdle for the spray-paint censors, too.
>
>If you can get one of those large mylar balloons -- big brother to the
>"happy birthday", "happy anniversary", "happy happy whatever" balloons
>that card and gift shops sell -- to float on it's side, it looks just
>like a little UFO oughta look; they even sport a kinda retro looking
>exhaust nozzle! I figure two should float a banner pretty well. ( I
>could be wrong, it might take an invasion fleet of 4 or even 6
>"craft.")
>
Rather a lot actually, they don't have much lift. Occasioanlly
some car dealer or store here in Houston will have a balloon and banner.
Store bought units are exspensive but in some cases you can rent them.
(Not all cities allow them though).
Or you can make one. You need a weather balloon, a nylon
twine tether, and you'd make the banner out of 3 mil
polyethene with vinyl letters from the art store, or you
could use wide tape.
The hanging banner should be pierced at prevent it from
being too much at the mercy of the wind, and taped with wide clear
packaging tape to the twine, with a few strategically placed
dowels taped to the plastic to keep it from curling.
Still, helium is going to be the big cost, and tank rental.
A sixteen inch wide banner should be pretty visible.
Red 2" tape on white plastic. Maybe vinyl might be better, more
opaque.
"Xenu and BTs cost $$$!"
Pope Charles
SubGenius Pope Of Houston
Slack!
William Barwell
In article <eE5jfCBz...@xemu.demon.co.uk>,
Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <da...@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In art<hudEH9...@netcom.com>, Hud Nordin <h...@netcom.com> writes:
>>
>>your free-speech message by hanging a picket sign from a tethered
>>(Xenu?) balloon, or a kite. Wind willing, you might be able to float
>>your sign right past all the upper floor windows, without bodily
>>trespass.
>>It would make for a bitch of a hurdle for the spray-paint censors, too.
>
>I suppose weather balloons are 24" = 8 x the volume or 36" = 27 x
>the volume---a little over 1/4 a size#1, knee-high, tank of balloon
>gas which is 50/50 air+helium. They are expensive and fragile;
>a binliner filled with gas and taped up might do as well.
>
>I seem to remember an article in Scientific American which mentioned
>3 or 4 binliners (using a full size#1 cylinder of gas) tied together
>in order to loft a few Lbs of camera. Also, that might have been
>pure helium.
>
and it does not have much lift. I have launched tubes made
up of as much as 5 lawn sized polyethelene bags filled with
natural gas. It takes several people to manuveur one out
on the livingroom (where the gas outlet was), outside.
One large balloon has more lift than several seperate ones.
A long balloon does not do well with much wind.
It can be surprisingly hard to get the gas to ignite.
We used cigarette 'fuses' to set off bottle rockets to burn
through the plastic, allow the gas to mix with air and ignite the mix.
Three large leaf bags will lift about a pound, a bit more in hot weather.
Deana M. Holmes (NED for OTs Series)
h...@netcom.com (Hud Nordin) wrote:
>Another idea. 3M makes a Scotch Stickable Adhesive Glue Stick that
>turns any piece of paper into a Post-It note. (It's great for hanging
>refrigerator art.) Prep your sign with a half-dozen layers of the same
>(or different) message so that one "accidentally" damaged, or
>used-enough, could be peeled off to reveal a fresh one beneath. Paper
>opaque enough to not let the message beneath to be seen would be
>needed, and perhaps some industrial strength paper clips so that some
>scientologist slime doesn't remove all your layers for you.
Bulldog clips or black Acco folding clips. I'd recommend the latter.
The silver "handles" fold down nice and flat, but the hold is killer.
Deana
Deana M. Holmes
alt.religion.scientology archivist since February 1995
NEW! 4/97 *and* 4/96 Poster Child for Clueless $cientology Litigiousness
mir...@super.zippo.com
Lee Thompson-Herbert
In article <eE5jfCBz...@xemu.demon.co.uk>,
Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <da...@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>A nominal 18" flatcushion mylar balloon is about the same on gas
>as a 12" round latex balloon. At a political conference, I remember
>a lobbyist had the nuclear threat as a hanging 3ft wooden sword
>of Damocles, lofted on balloons. I reckon it was about forty 12"
>balloons, equivalent to four 36" weather balloons or binliners.
>(NB do not blow them close to bursting or they expand and burst
>in the heat, 10" of 12" = 2/3 volume is fine).
Please don't loft those mylar balloons. Bad things happen when
they hit power lines. They also drive the airforce folks crazy,
since they show up on radar.
[How do I know this? Er....]
--
Lee M.Thompson-Herbert KD6WUR l...@crl.com
Member, Knights of Xenu (1995). Chaos Monger and Jill of All Trades.
"There are some people who will argue whether the flames are blue
or green, when the real question is that their arse is on fire."
wgert
hkhe...@netcom.com (Keith Henson) wrote:
>William Barwell (wbar...@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM) wrote:
>: In article <sthomsonE...@netcom.com>,
>: shelley thomson <stho...@netcom.com> wrote:
>: >
>: >**Biased Journalism** Volume 3, issue 6 September 26, 1997
>snip
>: >the cardboard and started spraying my sign with a can of red paint.
>: >To put it mildly I was startled. Fortunately, the stick on that sign
>: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>: >is a short pool cue that was not about to break and I was able to get
>: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>: >both hands on it while the attacker only had one. The attacker was a
>: This kids, is a no no. Don't do this. Why? Because in many states and
>: cities, it is illegal to picket using a sign that could be used as a
>: weapon. And in many places it ain't, it is illegal to carry something
>: like a pool cue that could be used as a weapon. Here in Texas, it could
>: get you arrested for carrying a blunt instrument, a club.
>: A cop that doesn't like being rousted out of a doughnut shop to check
>: out your picket, could if he or she desires, cause you great hassles over
>: such a thing as a stout stick, especially a cut down pool cue, an
>: old biker's weapon.
>Wasn't cut down Pope, just a short one. An I can tell you for sure that
>taped in between two thick chunks of cardboard with a mess of packing
>tape, it wouldn't be worth squat as a weapon. It would make a fair fan
>though. Most of what you said though is good advice.
>snip
>: This was assault pure and simple.
>: Well, when the second clam approached, you should have pulled out the
>: pepper spray and held it aloft so he could see what it was.
>: You didn't bring pepper spray? Well...
>: Make sure you get the fogger kind...
>It was an unexpected situation, the clams definately raised the anti.
>: >I was more together this time and got photos 12 and 13 of the black
>: >paint guy running away and inside.
>: You should be filiing charges and giving the cops copies.
>More trouble than it is worth. Next time though, there are going to *be*
>cops there.
>snip
>: Break aways. Several signs on a placard done with tape.
>: If one gets messed up, remove it and you have one beneath.
>: You can change signs several times just for the hell of it.
>Good thought.
>snip
>: Be prepared part XVIII. If you have lots of gear, cameras, water bottles,
>: notepads and other gear, use a small back pack or belt pack.
>: Leaves your hands free and allows you to carry more gear.
>: A belt pack or fanny pack is preferable.
>For xenu flyers, a bag on a strap would work just fine.
>snip
>: Wish Keith had had a Sony Pressman in his shirt pocket running.
>Actually, I had one in the car, and I wished I had loaded it up and
>carried it that day. But it gets to the point you can be too loaded down
>with camera, tape recorder, pepper spray, flyers, etc.
>Doing Cedars as a one man show has a lot in common with white water
>rafting. Keith Henson
I heard about this picket from someone who happened to be over at the
complex when Henson was leaving. When he asked one of the
pro-Scientology picketers about what happened, he heard that
apparently there was some claim in a divorce case that Henson had
molested one or more of his daughters. Henson was apparently asked
about this and refused to answer. It is curious that he would leave
this part out of the story as told to Biased Journalism. Now, that
is biased!
wgert
Read the Rogues Gallery of ARS Biggots
www.dancris/~rshaw
Dave VanHorn
> I heard about this picket from someone who happened to be over at the
> complex when Henson was leaving. When he asked one of the
> pro-Scientology picketers about what happened, he heard that
> apparently there was some claim in a divorce case that Henson had
> molested one or more of his daughters. Henson was apparently asked
> about this and refused to answer. It is curious that he would leave
> this part out of the story as told to Biased Journalism. Now, that
> is biased!
>
> wgert
> Read the Rogues Gallery of ARS Biggots
> www.dancris/~rshaw
DEAD AGENT, HEARSAY, "INVESTIGATE THE ATTACKER"...
Ho hum...
and what pray tell does this have to do with the death of lisa,
price of the bridge, or assault on a legal picketer?
David Gerard
On 29 Sep 1997 14:38:04 GMT,
Tilman Hausherr <til...@berlin.snafu.de> wrote:
:Cornelius Krasel (kra...@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de) wrote:
Not in *my* modern newsreader. See header. You've been using Windows too
long. Six months on Unix will fix you up nicely.
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On 28 Sep 1997 00:10:45 -0500, wbar...@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (William
Barwell)
>
>Notepads, as found out by the people here who picket clan rallies and such
>over the years, *always* carry pads and pens. Good for taking witnesses
>names and address, annoting photograph info, taking license plate and
>badge numbers ect. Carry them where you can get to them. Carry extra
>pens. It can be a life saver in case of legal hassles. Get used to taking
>notes visibly. This makes people who might want to start something
>nervous.
A note about notes :)
I seem to recall from my police training that you should get a specific
type of notebook. It should be bound in a manner that makes it obvious if
pages have been removed. NO spiral notebooks, NO perforated paper books,
and NO filler sheet notebooks. This is done so no one can claim you have
"tampered" with your notes by removing pages or editing them later. You
should feel free to clear up ambiguities in your notes in another format or
create online reports from them.. but ALWAYS keep the original notebook
intact.
Also, don't put any personal information in them. If you meet someone at
the picket and they want to give you their phone number or address for you
own private concerns, write it on something else. If you notebook is used
to document a crime, then everything in it will be seem by the attorneys for
the defense. Every phone number WILL be called, every address WILL be
visited and every url WILL be browsed in attempt to find anything that could
be used to impeach your testimony. You can consider yourself forewarned.
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In article <60plj5$6jd$1...@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>,
>>A large, not extra large, latex balloon is about 12" max length.
>>I suppose weather balloons are 24" = 8 x the volume or 36" = 27 x
>>the volume---a little over 1/4 a size#1, knee-high, tank of balloon
>>gas which is 50/50 air+helium. They are expensive and fragile;
>>a binliner filled with gas and taped up might do as well.
>>
>>I seem to remember an article in Scientific American which mentioned
>>3 or 4 binliners (using a full size#1 cylinder of gas) tied together
>>in order to loft a few Lbs of camera. Also, that might have been
>>pure helium.
>>
> Must have been helium. I have launched bags of natural gas
>and it does not have much lift.
Sorry, I meant pure helium as opposed to "balloon gas", which
is 50/50 helium and air. The other thing you can get or make
is "inflatables" (reindeer or whatever :-> ) which are simply
a thicker unstretched PVC skin put together with "plastic cement"
glues and inflated with helium or helium/air to fly. Might be
better than either stretched balloons or binliners for holding gas.
Steven 'GoofY' de Brouwer
In nl.scientology, til...@berlin.snafu.de (Tilman Hausherr) wrote:
> Cornelius Krasel (kra...@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de) wrote:
> : >
> : > begin 644 HENSON.HTM
> : Duh. Why uuencoded? It's pretty legibly HTML.
> Because this way it appears as attachment in modern newsreaders.
'File, Launch Binary Attachments' worked good for me! (Free Agent)
And think about the poor fools, who read their news with NetScape,
HTML enabled, when this was included instead of attached...
<very big grin>
Kind regards cq. De groeten,
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Phillip Zadarnowski
hkhe...@netcom.com (Keith Henson) wrote:
>William Barwell (wbar...@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM) wrote:
>: In article <sthomsonE...@netcom.com>,
>: shelley thomson <stho...@netcom.com> wrote:
>: >
>: >**Biased Journalism** Volume 3, issue 6 September 26, 1997
>
>snip
[talking about signs...]
How about covering it with Kling Rap! (Cling Wrap - you know, that
clear stuff). That way you can remove it after a Scieno Spray Job.
The wrap is usually about 300mm wide.
NoScieno
In article <60mehk$n9t$1...@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>,
wbar...@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (William Barwell) writes:
>
>In article <342EA911...@cedar.net>,
>Dave VanHorn <dvan...@cedar.net> wrote:
>>Your note on the picket sign handle made me think about something
>>I've used for antennas.. Aluminum extensible brush handles.
>>The one I have will go to 10 or 12' high. Held aloft, your sign
>>can (on a calm day) be 2 stories up!
>
>This would be something you definitely WOULD NOT want to do anywhere
>around electric lines. A 12' foot aluminum tube can get you in trouble
>in this fashion.
True, so very true. In the case of Cedars though, I believe the power
lines in LRH Way were moved underground as part of the facelift project.
One potential problem with extremely tall picket signs is that they are
harder to defend. Two clams could easily knock it down and do whatever
mischief they wished to the signage -- 10 feet away from you. You'd have
no leverage to regain control.
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Dave VanHorn <dvan...@cedar.net> wrote in article
<34310115...@cedar.net>...
> > I heard about this picket from someone who happened to be over at the
> > complex when Henson was leaving. When he asked one of the
> > pro-Scientology picketers about what happened, he heard that
> > apparently there was some claim in a divorce case that Henson had
> > molested one or more of his daughters. Henson was apparently asked
> > about this and refused to answer. It is curious that he would leave
> > this part out of the story as told to Biased Journalism. Now, that
> > is biased!
> >
> > wgert
> > Read the Rogues Gallery of ARS Biggots
> > www.dancris/~rshaw
>
just a little stupid given Scientology's attempt at PR which they spend
hundreds of thousands of dollars on only by kicking their successes down by
unintelligent overt responses like that. Most people would not have given
much thought to Henson and his lonely sign, but Keith was smart enough to
know that the Scienos would respond in some crazy & melodramatic way.
And Elliot Abelson thanking Keith for requiring him to be there and
increasing his billable hours to Scientology. Uh-uh! Doesn't cut it.
Having been around Elliot enough, I personally think that he's not happy
with his situation in Scientology and doesn't see a way out without a lot
of mess. Having been in communication with him, I know that he work's very
hard on the same schedules as OSA/church members..he is worked 7 days a
week..and whenever I telephoned him in LA and he wasn't in the immediate
vicinity, OSA members would page him and he'd come to the phone panting &
heaving for air having run to the phone. This isn't to say he's not happy
being an attorney for the church, doing his best to represent them as an
attorney, and happy to be making the money he is making. You have to admit
with the dime-a-dozen attorneys in the world scrounging for work, Elliot is
in a very steady and profitable position.
I like Elliot Abelson. He shares the same humor & wit that I am accused
of, and as much as he can flip an insult on someone, he is not bothered
when it is returned. I have seen Elliot Abelson the asshole and a
gentleman of compassion & concern.
I believe in looking for the good in people versus the very bad is going to
make the world a more peaceful & better place to live in than it is now.
Remember, 52 years ago, we were at war with the Germans & Japanese, killing
each other off, and now that times have changed where we have embraced
German & Japanese people, there is still that small minority of people whom
are very expressive of their distrust & dislike for Japs & Krauts. There
is way too much hate in the world.
Ian Mac Lure
David Gerard (f...@thingy.apana.spaaaamtraaaaap.org.au) wrote:
: On 29 Sep 1997 14:38:04 GMT,
: Tilman Hausherr <til...@berlin.snafu.de> wrote:
: :Cornelius Krasel (kra...@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de) wrote:
: :: > begin 644 HENSON.HTM
: :: Duh. Why uuencoded? It's pretty legibly HTML.
: :Because this way it appears as attachment in modern newsreaders.
: Not in *my* modern newsreader. See header. You've been using Windows too
: long. Six months on Unix will fix you up nicely.
Pssst, if you rearrange the letter in UNIX, doesn't it look suspiciously
like the word for U-no-Hooo ( X (i) N U )
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roger gonnet
> I like Elliot Abelson. He shares the same humor & wit that I am accused
> of, and as much as he can flip an insult on someone, he is not bothered
> when it is returned. I have seen Elliot Abelson the asshole and a
> gentleman of compassion & concern.
a gentleman of compassion and concern, defending the scam? concerned by
the fact he could be as well RPFed fort his very bad handling of Lisa's
case? Hum, i don't think we are peaking the same language here.
>
> I believe in looking for the good in people versus the very bad is going to
> make the world a more peaceful & better place to live in than it is now.
Yes, with scamatologists and with "affidavits" continually
contradicting?
> Remember, 52 years ago, we were at war with the Germans & Japanese, killing
> each other off, and now that times have changed where we have embraced
> German & Japanese people, there is still that small minority of people whom
> are very expressive of their distrust & dislike for Japs & Krauts. There
> is way too much hate in the world.
For sure, as long as US govts defend kriminal Kults, and keep on
realizing their aims for power and money, by trying to erase any other
country?
We are not speaking the same word for "hate", do you realize?
R
David Gerard
On Wed, 01 Oct 1997 16:02:18 GMT,
Phillip Zadarnowski <fan...@nilspam.iinet.com.au> wrote:
:[talking about signs...]
:How about covering it with Kling Rap! (Cling Wrap - you know, that
:clear stuff). That way you can remove it after a Scieno Spray Job.
:The wrap is usually about 300mm wide.
Bad idea - would reflect sunlight and the glare would make the sign
unreadable from the wrong angle.
The idea of multiple layers of sign so you could just rip the painted
one off and have the same thing fresh underneath would get them right
*there*, though ;-)
Rob Clark
On 6 Oct 1997 12:09:35 +1000, f...@thingy.apana.spaaaamtraaaaap.org.au
(David Gerard) wrote:
>On Wed, 01 Oct 1997 16:02:18 GMT,
>Phillip Zadarnowski <fan...@nilspam.iinet.com.au> wrote:
>:[talking about signs...]
>:How about covering it with Kling Rap! (Cling Wrap - you know, that
>:clear stuff). That way you can remove it after a Scieno Spray Job.
>:The wrap is usually about 300mm wide.
>Bad idea - would reflect sunlight and the glare would make the sign
>unreadable from the wrong angle.
>The idea of multiple layers of sign so you could just rip the painted
>one off and have the same thing fresh underneath would get them right
>*there*, though ;-)
or even better, have a series of signs on an upward gradient. have
something relatively benign on the first sign. if they wreck that, have
something less benign and more insulting. perhaps the last sign should
say "RON IS XENU"
i still like the idea of this:
As a Scientologist, I pledge myself to the Code of Scientology for the good
of all.
10. To support the freedom of religion.
[. . .]
12. To work for freedom of speech in the world.
[. . .]
15. To set an example of the effectiveness and wisdom of Scientology.
from http://www.scientology.org/p_jpg/wis/wiseng/33/33-scn.htm
"The Code of a Scientologist," final edition 1973.
those three signs would make great ones to bury under each other.
rob
Michael Reuss
> wg...@loop.com (wgert) wrote:
>I heard about this picket from someone who happened to be over at the
>complex when Henson was leaving. When he asked one of the
>pro-Scientology picketers about what happened, he heard that
>apparently there was some claim in a divorce case that Henson had
>molested one or more of his daughters. Henson was apparently asked
>about this and refused to answer.
Let me see if I've got your story straight (FYI, you read this comic
book style, William).
Wgert:
\o/ ...heard from \o/ ...that \o/
| someone who was at | "someone" had |
/'\ Cedars as Keith /'\ apparently made a /'\
(wgert) Henson left there... (someone) a CLAIM... (claimant?)
... that Keith \o/ ...of molesting o o ... of his
H. had been | one or more... /|\ /|\ daughters.
accused... /'\ / \ / \
(accuser?) (one or more
daughters)
Note: notice that all the Scientologists in my depiction are waving
their hands in the air (and are wearing no pants).
Is that your story, gertie? If I got it right, or even close, you have
proved yet again that you personally, as well as the organization you
represent are nothing but a pack of mean, low, despicable,
slimebuckets. But that probably makes you an above average upper level
OSA clam. Congratulations! I'm sure your mother would be very proud of
you (that is, if you haven't disconnected from her).
>It is curious that he would leave this part out of the story
>as told to Biased Journalism. Now, that is biased!
Keep 'em coming, wgert. You ain't gonna scare Keith Henson away with
little comic book tales like this. He understands some of the forces
swirling around every ugly little statement like this. He understands
that the more Scientologists like you, posting this kind of "straight
from the heart of Scientology" sentiment, so obviously laced with
festering, rotting hatred, the fewer newbies and lurkers will fall for
your cult's bullshit claim that Scientology makes you more "ethical."
But on the up side, I'm sure Greta Van Susteren will still like you.
OFB rides again!
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