Described by Jens Tingleff
In memory of Lisa McPherson, eight international SPs gathered outside the Tottenham Court Rd org
to give the criminal organisation known as the "church"
I had left my camera at home, so I spent the time handing out leaflets. After having had the
attendant police warn off an over-eager Sea Ogre, I distributed probably a good one hundred leaflets.
I found that all I had to do to get rid of leaflets was to say "a-GAINST $cientology," and I'd get a
smile and an occasional taker for the leaflets.
John R did his usual unrelenting stint at the microphone, and we had enough leafletters to hold our
own against the clams.
The clams, lying institutionally as per procedure, were using their usual leafletting tactics of either
standing in people's way and thrusting the free-doom rubbish into their hands, or stand by and
weakly say "free magazine?" Since they've un-learned the ability to communicate with anyone
about anything, it's not surprising that they're incapable of simply stating what the glossy rubbish
being handed out was about.
In spite of the seriously chilly winds, we held out for long enough to pretty much run out of leaflets,
and we repaired to the local pub for some much needed warm flat beer.
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Described by Dave Bird
Quite a nice Lisa McPherson day demo here. Currently my trains
to London run on an indirect route, to a less convenient station
in the capital, and to add insult to injury the time I planned on
was cancelled when I got there so half an hour wait. Still,
I arrived around 1300 at the usual pub. Present were Dave, Jens,
John, Roland, Hartley, Martin Poulter, Peter Lucey, "I P Freeleigh",
Duke the Dog, and last but not least David Gerard who has an English
parent and has come to live and work in London. It was very cold
for this time of the winter, and one or two un-gloved people pressed
for an early finish after two hours. The Org had an xmas tree and
had picked up on our trick of giving out helium balloons... though
they didn't print "Scientology" or "Drug Free Marshalls" or anything
on them, and they weren't very practised (they did the obvious trick
of taking a big bundle by the far ends of the ribbons which looks
very stylish, until you realise you can't separate one from the bundle
to hand it out). Two or three police were present throughout, but
they mostly policed watching from inside the warm slot-machine arcade
and drinking cardboard cups of coffee. One clam was a bit out of order,
he came pushing into our lines and leaning over the sound system:
eventually the police simply told him "your lot on the shop side
of the pavement, picketers on the road side of the pavement." Other
than that it was a fairly mild demo. The clams obviously wanted to
look nice and fluffy with the balloons and a sound system playing
dance music or carols, and I hadn't really got the heart to tear
into them. John did most of the slogans on the mic; I was one
of several leafleters. Obviously we didn't try to make it a festive
event being as we were marking someone's untimely death, but that
issue didn't seem to figure much with the Org. It was nice to get
together and spend a good long time exchanging notes afterwards.
Then by train back to Birmingham. All in all, it was another
grand day out.
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