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Flagdown 2014: media coverage, etc

AnonyMary

Formerly Fooled - Finally Free
I hope you don't mind my highlight there. There might be others who, like me, think that Laura is the COB of Flagdown.

Not at all... I actually only knew of Pete as the organizer until Tony's article on the event the other day and so on, mentioning Laura as being so. She claims to be the organizer as well. But the newspaper quote and link Smurf just provided make it clear that Pete is the organizer and with my previous experience on Facebook about the event, Pete is obviously an organizer as well. So perhaps they are co-organizers? She, to handle the location and set up details and any related Clearwater matters as she lives down that way. He, in Ireland, online to handle promotion and donation requests and the Facebook page, which included invites.

Perhaps we will now more when Pete is able to address all this.
 

sallydannce

Gold Meritorious Patron
Righto we are about ready for Day 2.

According to my very deep inner-circle person, Russel Miller and Jon Atack are at the podium this evening.

Egos off? Yep.
Drama turned down? Yep.
Phones off? Yep.
Comfy undies on? Yep.

Fingers and toes crossed that the speakers are mic'ed this evening so sound clarity is better.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/flag-down-2014
 

TG1

Angelic Poster
well I didn't ask the Q in the first place becuz I didn't want to seem stoopid.
Are you saying that Laura Flynn is a name used by an Anonymous person???!!*#!

What I meant was it wasn't likely you'd have heard her name before because she is a member of Anonymous.
 

AnonyMary

Formerly Fooled - Finally Free
Smurf, has the injunction been contested? Is it like a restraining order where there is a court hearing?

I recall that others, including Mark Bunker, tried to contest it or considered doing so but it was financially prohibitive. Here is part of the text of the permanent injunction- Perhaps someone can locate a link to the actual document and maps referred to.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
IN AND FOR PINELLAS COUNTY, FLORIDA
CIRCUIT CIVIL NO. 99?7430?CI?8

CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY
FLAG SERVICE ORGANIZATION, INC.,
Petitioner,

VS.

LISA MCPHERSON TRUST, INC., a Florida for?profit corporation, JESSE PRINCE, GRADY WARD, ROBERT S. MINTON, JR., STACY BROOKS, JEFF JACOBSON, PATRICIA GREENWAY, PETER ALEXANDER, MARK BUNKER and TORY BEZAZIAN, Respondents.

PERMANENT INJUNCTION

THIS CAUSE came before the Court upon the Petitioner's Verified Amended and Supplemental Complaint for Injunctive Relief. [..]
( see link for full details)

The order
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that:

1. A permanent injunction is entered against the defendants, Robert S.

Minton, Jr., Lisa McPherson Trust, Inc,, Jesse Prince, Grady Ward, Stacy Brooks, Jeff Jacobson, Patricia Greenway, Peter Alexander, Mark Bunker and Tory Bezazian, their members, officers, agents, servants, employees and those persons and entities in actual concert or participation with them who receive actual notice of this injunction, enjoining them from picketing, protesting, and/or demonstrating in the areas designated in BLUE (the "prohibited zones") (picketing, protesting, and/or demonstrating is ALLOWED in areas designated in ORANGE) on the diagrams of certain properties owned and/or operated by the Church (see Composite Exhibit A?1 attached hereto and incorporated into this Order), and from engaging in any of the aforementioned activities within ten feet of any entrance or exit actually used frequently on a daily basis to all Church property listed on Exhibit B and not expressly included in the prohibited zones designated in Exhibit A? I .

2. The foregoing paragraph prohibits picketing, protesting and/or demonstrating in areas designated in BLUE (see Exhibit A?1) ac well as in areas within ten feet of any entrance or exit actually used frequently on a daily basis to Church property that is not expressly included in the prohibited zones designated in BLUE (see Exhibit B). As to all other areas in Pinellas County, Florida, the named defendants, and their officers, agents, servants, employees and those persons and entities in actual conccrt or participation with them, are free to engage in lawful picketing, lawful protesting and lawful demonstrating. "Lawful" picketing means "not contrary to or forbidden by law", provided that at all times while picketing, all persons bound by this injunction shall comply with the anti?noise provisions of this injunction.

3. The defendants, Robert S. Minton, Jr., Lisa McPherson Trust, Inc., Jesse Prince, Grady Ward, Stacy Brooks, Jeff Jacobson, Patricia Greenway, Peter Alexander, Mark Bunker and Tory Bezazian, their officers, agents, servants, employees and those persons and entities in actual concert or participation with them who receive actual notice of this injunction are permanently enjoined: (1) from coming within ten (10) feet of any member of the Church; (2) from blocking the path of any member or any motor vehicle of the Church; and (3) from physically or by any other means inhibiting any Church member, any member of the general public, or any motor vehicle, from entering or leaving any Church properties that are listed in the schedule of properties that is Exhibit B to this order.

4. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it shall not be a violation of this permanent injunction for any person otherwise engaged in lawful conduct to move without interruption through a prohibited zone en route from one non?prohibited zone to another non?prohibited zone, so long as that person keeps any pickets or other signs held below the waist and upside down or otherwise covered or obscured or held horizontally in such a way that the writing on the pickets or other signs is not obviously displayed, and so long as the person complies with the prohibition on excessive noise making set forth in paragraph S below. This provision applies to all persons and entities who are subject to the terms of this injunction.

5. The defendants, Robert S. Minton, Jr., Lisa McPherson Trust, Inc., Jesse Prince, Grady Ward, Stacy Brooks, Jeff Jacobson, Patricia Greenway, Peter Alexander, Mark Bunker and Tory Bezazian, their officers, agents, servants, employees and those persons and entities in actual concert or participation with them who receive actual notice of this injunction, are permanently enjoined from making any loud and raucous noise such as, but not limited to yelling, shouting, whistling or singing (whether by natural or amplified voice), or by the employment of any mechanical device such as a horn, whistle, or other noisemaker that creates a loud and raucous noise that can be heard inside any of the Church properties that are listed in the schedule of properties that is Exhibit B to this order. A "loud and raucous noise" is any sound which because of its volume level, duration, and character, annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, health, peace or safety of reasonable persons of ordinary sensibilities.

6. The defendants, Robert S. Minton, Jr., Lisa McPherson Trust, Inc., Jesse Prince, Grady Ward, Stacy Brooks, Jeff Jacobson, Patricia Greenway, Peter Alexander, Mark Bunker and Tory Bezazian, their officers, agents, servants, employees and those persons and entities in actual concert or participation with them who receive actual notice of this injunction, are permanently enjoined from entering upon any of the Church properties that are listed in the schedule of properties that is Exhibit B to this order.

7. The defendants, Robert S. Minton, Jr., Lisa McPherson Trust, Inc., Jesse Prince, Grady Ward, Stacy Brooks, Jeff Jacobson, Patricia Greenway, Peter Alexander, Mark Bunker and Tory Bezazian, their officers, agents, servants, employees and those persons and entities in actual concert or participation with them who receive actual notice of this injunction, are permanently enjoined from committing any acts of harassment or violence against any member of the Church, including, without limitation, any UNSOLICITED physical, verbal or written contact with any Church staff or parishioner. Videotaping from a distance of more than 10 feet shall not be considered harassment.

8. A permanent injunction is entered against the Church and its officers, agents, employees and those persons and entities in actual concert or participation with it who receive actual notice of this injunction enjoining them from picketing, protesting, and/or demonstrating in the areas designated in BLUE on the diagram of the Lisa McPherson Trust, Inc. property. (See Exhibit A?2 attached hereto and incorporated into this order.)

9. The foregoing paragraph prohibits picketing, protesting, and/or demonstrating in areas designated in BLUE as well as in areas within ten feet of any entrance or exit actually used frequently on a daily basis to the Lisa McPherson Trust, Inc. property that is not expressly included in the prohibited zones designated in BLUE. As to all other areas in Pinellas County, Florida, the named plaintiff, and its officers, agents, servants, employees and those persons and entities in actual concert or participation with it who receive actual notice of this permanent injunction, are free to engage in lawful picketing, lawful protesting and lawful demonstrating. "Lawful" picketing means "not contrary to or forbidden by law", provided that all times while

picketing, protesting, and/or demonstrating, all persons bound by this injunction shall comply with the anti?noise provisions of this injunction.

10. The Church and its officers, agents, servants, employees and those persons and entities in actual concert or participation with it who receive actual notice of this injunction are permanently enjoined: (1) from coming within ten (10) feet of any defendant; (2) from blocking the path of any defendant or any motor vehicle of any defendant; and (3) from physically or by any other means inhibiting any defendant, any member of the general public, or any motor vehicle from entering or leaving any properties owned and/or operated by defendants.

11. The Church and its officers, agents, servants, employees and those persons and entities in actual concert or participation with it who receive actual notice of this injunction are permanently enjoined from making any loud and raucous noise such as, but not limited to, yelling, shouting, whistling or singing (whether by natural or amplified voice), or by the employment of any mechanical device such as a horn, whistle or other noisemaker that creates a loud and raucous noise that can be heard inside the Lisa McPherson Trust, Inc.

property. A "loud and raucous noise" is any sound which because of its volume level, duration, and character, annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, health, peace or safety of reasonable persons of ordinary sensibilities.

12. The Church and its officers, agents, servants employees and those persons and entities in actual concert or participation with it who receive actual notice of this injunction are permanently enjoined from entering upon the Lisa McPherson Trust, Inc. property.

13. The Church and its officers, agents, servants employees and those persons and entities in actual concert or participation with it who receive actual notice of this injunction are permanently enjoined from committing any acts of harassment or violence against any of the defendants, including, without limitation, any UNSOLICITED physical, verbal or written contact with any defendant. Videotaping from a distance of more than 10 feet shall not be considered harassment.

14. The provisions in paragraphs 3 and 10 of this permanent injunction prohibiting certain persons from approaching within ten (10) feet of each other shall not apply during the course of depositions and court hearings in any litigation involving any of the parties or their counsel herein?

15. Before a Party engages in any acts of Picketing, protesting, and/or demonstrating in designated ORANGE areas within the City of Clearwater against the other party, the Party intending to picket, protest, and/or demonstrate will contact the Clearwater Police Department at least one hour in advance of the demonstration event and inform the Clearwater Police Department of their/its intentions.

16. This permanent injunction shall remain in full force and effect unless and until modified by further order of this court.

17. Any violation hereof shall constitute contempt of court, punishable by fine and/or imprisonment.

18. No bond shall be required for the issuance of this Permanent Injunction since the injunction is issued solely to prevent the physical injury, harassment, or abuse of natural persons.

19. This injunction is valid and enforceable in all counties of the State of Florida.

20. Any sworn law enforcement officer may assist in the execution or service of this injunction.

21. Any legal process or other paper required to be served upon any person concerning this permanent injunction shall be served by a duly certified independent process server chosen from a list of such process servers MUTUALLY AGREED UPON by (1) counsel for the parties herein and (2) approved by the court. The list shall contain at least four individuals or agencies and all of them shall be available to serve process on behalf of all parties to this litigation. Any such process server shall be deemed to be an agent of the court and the interference by any person subject to the terns of this permanent injunction with the service of process or notice concerning the injunction or proceedings before the court, including without limitation, the purposeful obstruction of service, shall be punishable as a per se contempt of the court and a violation of this permanent injunction.

22. This Permanent Injunction shall become effective at 0000 hours on the 1st day of August 2001 and remain in full force and effect until further order of this Court. Temporary Injunction #2 and any amendments and orders applicable thereto shall terminate at 0000 hours on the 1st day of August 2001.

DONE AND ORDERED in Chambers at St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, this 27th day of July 2001 at 1400 hours.

Thomas E. Penick, Jr.
CIRCUIT JUDGE

EXHIBIT A?1

DIAGRAMS RE: CHURCH[SIC] PROPERTIES

1. Fort Harrison Hotel and New Pastoral Counseling Building

2. Merrill?Lynch Building and Burnside Property

3. Clearwater Building and Coachman Building

4. Westcoast Building and Annex Building

5. Sandcastle Buildings and Osceola Building

6. Mariner Building

7. Yachtsman Motel

8. Staff Accommodations (Tradewinds, Bayside, & Clipper)

9. Hacienda Gardens

10.Quality Inn

EXHIBIT A?2
DIAGRAM RE: LISA McPHERSON TRUST. INC. PROPERTY

NOTE Picketing, protesting, and/or demonstrating ALLOWED in areas designated in ORANGE.
http://www.holysmoke.org/minton/mintonqh.htm

News on it.
http://www.xenu.net/archive/WIR/wir6-15.html
 

Smurf

Gold Meritorious SP
LOL. More audio/visual problems & poor Pete Griffiths is on stage with a sheepish WTF?? grin on his face. :biggrin:
 

AnonyMary

Formerly Fooled - Finally Free
LOL. More audio/visual problems & poor Pete Griffiths is on stage with a sheepish WTF?? grin on his face. :biggrin:

While you gloat :eyeroll:, we may wind up missing these wonderful speakers...

Righto we are about ready for Day 2.

According to my very deep inner-circle person, Russel Miller and Jon Atack are at the podium this evening.

Egos off? Yep.
Drama turned down? Yep.
Phones off? Yep.
Comfy undies on? Yep.

Fingers and toes crossed that the speakers are mic'ed this evening so sound clarity is better.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/flag-down-2014

It's working fine, now. Russell Miller is speaking!
 

aegerprimo

Summa Cum Laude
Russell Miller on now. His book, "Bare-Faced Messiah" was the point of no return for me. I became a definite EX-scientologist when I read it (online PDF format at the time). I would love to be there to shake his hand. I purchased the Kindle version of his book last month when it became available in the USA.... finally.
 

aegerprimo

Summa Cum Laude
Photos from the Underground Bunker for your enjoyment

RussellMillerFlagDown.jpg


FlagDownDay2.jpg
 

AnonyMary

Formerly Fooled - Finally Free
Yup. And Tory was banned too. She's on the injunction.

Yes, and she is not going around posting criticisms about the event. Matter of fact, she supports it!

Tory Christman shared her photo.
Yesterday at 4:50pm

In honor of ALL SPs (and still making fun of $cientology's Declaring of people as SPs when in truth David Miscavige IS the #1 SP right now. SP=Suppressive person, per Hubbard).............ROCK ON FLAG DOWN 2014! Sending lots of support from Burbank, CA

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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...0237556590577.469003.736745576&type=1&theater

https://www.facebook.com/groups/325785144156523/permalink/629852590416442/?stream_ref=3
 

aegerprimo

Summa Cum Laude
Scientology: when you want some crazy with your evil.
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(This is a close-up of the sign next to the podium.)
 

aegerprimo

Summa Cum Laude
Big crowd. Props to Laura for her excellent PR skills. :melodramatic:

This event is being recorded (video and audio) and will be available online.... IMHO, THAT is more important than the current number of people in the audience at this moment.
 

FoTi

Crusader
Guilt by association, much? You should be working on the cult PR team.. they love explaining way bad behavior, too.

As for the utter nonsense that planning an event or protesting in Clearwater is any different than anywhere else (especially here in LA).. keep on playing the denial & blame game. You & Laura Flynn are so good at it. :duh:

Here's video of Tom Smith getting the boot. Notice Laura backing up & allowing the cop to do her dirty work. What a c*nt.

[video=youtube;_xb-hJgfOYU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xb-hJgfOYU[/video]



I suggest that Laura be excluded from any future anti-Scientology events. Anybody coming to an event like this doesn't need the kind of crap that she appears to be dishing out.....they've already had enough of it from the CoS. No excuse for sicing the police on a friendly visitor. I see no difference between the way Laura treated WBM and Tom than the way the CoS would treat them....using the police department against them. She so resembled the way Scientologists act toward picketers, only there was no picket. :confused2:

I don't understand why she had the only say as to whether Mark and Tom could be there or not. :confused2:
 

FoTi

Crusader
I wasn't talking to you, Smurf. I wasn't blaming anyone, either, but if you want to change the narrative and say that I was, go ahead.

I don't see you hosting any 5-day anti-Scientology conferences in SoCal, either.

For someone to host an anti-Scientology event, whether it be 1 day or 5 days, who shuts out some of the people who have done the most work in the anti-Scientology movement, doesn't make any sense. ....It's a huge outpoint.

Smurf may not have set up a 5 day anti-Scientology event, but he has put in a lot of time, in the So Cal area, working to protest, video, post and expose that lousy cult.

You're attacking the wrong person.
 

Smurf

Gold Meritorious SP
How big a crowd came to your 5-day anti-scientology conference in SoCal? Oh wait, that's right, you haven't hosted one yet.

We don't need a 5-day. poorly attended conference, organized by a wingnut, to get the message across here about Scientology. Nice try, Majorfailboat. :duh:
 
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