Report: London, Tottenham Street 'org'.

Sponge · **Posted:** Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:34 am

Posted on ARS today 31st March 07.... LINK

John Ritson wrote:

A bright spring day. Six picketers turned up outside the Tottenham
Street 'Org' - 5 regulars plus a new picketer who had gone to the
opening of the Queen Victoria Street white elephant, taken a leaflet
from our bedraggled ranks, visited the "org" and recognised it as
'sinister'.

It was a very busy picket as the BBC were there filming. Two besuited
Sea Org characters seemed to be running everything on the Scientology
side. Graeme Wilson was there, looking a picture of misery, knowing
that someone will have to be blamed for the fiasco that is Scientology
PR in the UK these days.

The "org" was pushing "Human Rights" which enabled us to denounce the
hypocrisy of a "religion with its own internal prison system (the RPF)
talking about human rights.

Plenty of passers-by supporting us, plenty of leaflets distributed
(several people said they didn't need the leaflets as they already knew
how bad Scientology was. One lady was confused as to whether the man
with the loudspeaker was pro or anti Scientology. Note for future: say
"AGAINST" more often.

Hartley Patterson wrote:

Both the cult and the BBC had video cameras. The cult had 'Human Rights'
signs in the shop windows, that plus "would you like to sign a petition
on human rights?" made them look daft, since it was so plainly done for
Mr Miscavige's benefit.

We'll be back.

Jolly good show chaps.

What TV program will that be on? (or are the BBC gathering footage for the upcoming Panorama documentary on May 7th?).

hartley · **Posted:** Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:42 am

The 'new' picketer was OCMB's Truthseeker II, whom we had the pleasure of meeting.

We couldn't possibly comment on what the BBC were doing, though evidently OSA knew they were coming and didn't trust the shop staff to handle them. The old London OSA would have done this better, we've had free balloons and the Jive Aces in the past, but I'm sorry guys looking miserable and soliciting signatures for an imaginary 'petition' isn't going to impress the Chairman of the Board.

I gather from ARS that the BBC were just off the plane from the the USA where they had been filming the usual suspects. The dead agenting on ARS has started, and we expect ARS posting stats to be up in May with another flood of spam.

Reports and photos at
http://www.tingleff.org/jensting/duke_t ... 703_a.html

[added]
BBC footage of the picket did indeed appear on their 'Panorama' programme Monday 14th May. Hilariously, the CoS claimed that the BBC had staged the picket.

truthseeker · **Posted:** Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:45 pm

It was nice to meet you all, it was a good picket I had a fun time, we must do it again sometime!

Sponge · **Posted:** Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:15 pm

Did you get any photos guys?

programmer_guy · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:55 am

If the BBC is going to publish any articles or a TV show I'd like to see it.

Please let us know if you hear anything on this.

Thanks for the report.

Sponge · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:06 am

Thanks Hartley for adding the photos link.
Great pics and commentary.

Wieber · **Joined:** Tue May 23, 2006 10:57 pm **Posts:** 8394

The staff members in those photographs look like they are grossly underweight and they have an unhealthy pallor. I think that's a common characteristic of scientology staff members. Those people are really pitiable.

Snow White · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:59 pm

There's been more than one occasion where I was very concerned for the health of certain staff members. They had a deathly pallor at the time-and despite their youth.

There appears to be general nutrition problems.

Sponge · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:37 pm

Snow White wrote:

There's been more than one occasion where I was very concerned for the health of certain staff members. They had a deathly pallor at the time-and despite their youth.

There appears to be general nutrition problems.

Even their presumably well paid lawyers are not immune...

Helena Kobrin: The definition of the word "Gaunt".

There's loads of others similarly wasted and when I was watching the now famous Mary De Moss on her Merry-go-Round (XenuTV) she looked even skinnier than Kate Moss but with sunken eyes which had dark rings around them.
They look bad but imagine how much badder they'd look without the make-up.

Having said that, it is not entirely fair to assume that they are largely malnourished and that it is always because of $cientology. They probably have their fair share of scienobabes and scienohunks too (and I'm sure that there are some critics that would hardly win a beauty contest

). Then again, if you do have health problems for whatever reason then it would be an understatement to say that *Not* being a scientologist helps matters.

I think what probably keeps those regular UK picketers so rosey-cheeked is the healthy post-picket warm english beer (and the fine bracing weather we are so renown for having

).

brownjedi · **Posted:** Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:58 pm

I think that Helena the Kobra is a fine example hubbard's beauties. Put her on a shirt with two others and call them LRon's Angels! These would be unarmed as they can kill with their minds and turn men to stone with a look.

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