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Tilman Hausherr  
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 More options Oct 27 1997, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
From: til...@berlin.snafu.de (Tilman Hausherr)
Date: 1997/10/27
Subject: the Berlin demo

The demo did take place. These people remind of the former communists -
they spoke on the meeting place from 12:00 - 15:00, i.e. three hours.
Nothing really meaningful, only slogans

"what do we want?"
"freedom!"

"where do we want it?"
"in Germany" / "everywhere"

"When do we want it?"
"now!"

then greetings, like "Hello to 100 people from Greece".

Etc, etc. For three hours. When they finally got moving, there was an
incredible chaos. Fotographers and TV teams were jumping on each other
to film the front row of the clam bigots. It was crazy.

Who was there?

The main mouth was (I was told) Andrik Schapers, a singer from The
Netherlands. But here he was rather a shouter. This guy looks like a
lumberjack, really scary. It is exactly the kind of people you need for
propaganda events.

Other people:

 - Mike Rinder
 - Isaac "I was famous once" Hayes
 - Anne Archer (probably, I cannot remember her face, she has no special
look)
 - The head of the celebrity center, Karen Hollander. Her hair looks as
crappy as on the pictures - it looks as if she does it herself.
 - I also saw Götz Brase, the real estate shark
 - Gisela Hackenjos (spokeswoman) was demoted "Ordner", i.e. security
person
 - A mysterious woman in red
 - A camera man that I think I remember from somewhere
 - A grey haired guy who looks like a mafia hitman.
   (hint: "fucking dickhead")
 - Also in the front were two african americans I had seen at the SP
   event

At a moment Mike Rinder was suddenly well ahead in the demo and was left
alone. Seems no one likes that guy??? I could not find anything to ask
him, so I didn't use the opportunity.

The horses, drummers and trumpteers were nowhere to be seen. The plane
with the banner was also not there, but that's because it's a troll.
(Because I had enquired about this, it would have been more than my
entertainment budget allows)

The slogans in the march were still the same, I think they had only
three. (Hey, they are scientologists - what would YOU expect?!) Andrik
Shapers was shouting into the megaphone, so the sound was less "What do
we want" and more "uuhh uuuh uuh uuuuuh".

They were marching real fast, so I got some good exercise.

The concert was at the Brandenburg gate, but at the "wrong" side (the
side where the gate looks like nothing). They did have power generators,
and the sound level was much too high.

I have three rolls of film, now I'll try to get some scanning
arrangements.

Tilman


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