On Friday night, a number of UK suppressives (plus foreign guests)
foregathered at a Chinese restaurant for an evening of wining, dining
and suppressiveness. Afterwards, being in the neighbourhood of the
Tottenham Court Road 'Org' some of the evil pawns of Xenu decided to
wander past the 'Org' for an impromptu photo session. After the photos
had been taken, the regular receptionist on the weekend and evening
shift emerged to tell us to get off Scientology property (a line about
two feet in front of the window displaying posters for 'What is
Scientology'). After we had all shuffled ourselves across this line, he
smiled triumphantly, turned on his heel and walked straight into the
closed glass door of the 'Org'. Obviously his OT powers should have
enabled him to pass though the door, but his hidden crimes plus the
presence of the massed suppressives caused him to 'pull in' a nasty
nose-door collision in full view of the staff, the suppressives, and the
whole street.
We wandered, full of hilarity, along the road, and were seated outside a
nearby hostelry when who should come past but our old and confused
friend Jacques Vollet of OSA. Clearly he was worried by our appearance,
and sought to demoralise us by explaining that Hubbard's views on Venus
were supported by such a great authority as Immanuel Velikovsky's book
"Worlds in Collision".
After the suppressive Chinese meal followed by enturbulation of the
Tottenham Court Road 'org' in London on Friday night, alert
Scientologists may have deduced that a picket was planned for Saturday
afternoon.
They would have been correct, only the picket was in Brighton, about an
hour away by train.
The Brighton 'org' is located at the edge of a shopping precinct near
the centre of town, but on the top floor of a small office block,
presenting only a blank door and an entryphone to passers-by.
We were rather nonplussed when we first arrived as the space underneath
the org was occupied by a Colombian pan-pipe band, and the Socialist
Workers Party were noisily canvassing for the re-nationalisation of the
railways in front of them.
But we selected a free zone actually in front of the org's door and
stretching down to the 'Lamb and Flag' for placarding and leafleting.
Soon the SWP went away and the pan-pipers took a long break, giving us
the opportunity to raise our voices.
Awareness of the evils of Scientology was very high in Brighton, with
people thanking us for our work and hardly anybody even in doubt as to
how bad Scientology was.
We only saw about half-a dozen Scientologists all afternoon, as they
scuttled in and out of the door. Two did a brief bit of leafleting with
the 'Think for yourself' flyer well away from us, and they were all
totally 'non-confront'. Whatever they paid for their 'Communication
Courses' was wasted and the Course Supervisor needs serious re-training
as the only words uttered to us all afternoon by the Scientologists were
'Why are you here?' and two words suggesting sex and travel.
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