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Flagdown 2014: media coverage, etc

Smurf

Smurf

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Ahem.. Marisa Sigmond trying to turn Pete Griffiths straight..

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The great John Sweeney let's Mark have it. "You were not there at the beginning of Flag Down!"

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Magoo

Magoo

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Purple Rain said:
Lol! If anyone could, she could! I also want Pete's sunglasses.
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Ok, Purple Rain.........:) :hug: << to you and All reading this on this M-day week-end :)

I get 1st dibs on his green tie! Hey...we should auction them off....(Providing Pete wants to)...

this could bring in some serious $$$$. LOL

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Tory/Magoo
 
phenomanon

phenomanon

Canyon
Anonycat said:
I think there is an entheta-versary too -- on this date in history: L. Ron Hubbard publishes 'Dianetics' on May 9, 1950.

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I remember the day. My friends and I were awaiting the book that would change Homo Sapien into an enlightened Being.
I've posted this before..maybe in the very early days of ARS....but I'm gonna post it again anyway.
I had this friend named Bobby Sutton, and another friend named "Chubby Crank". Bobby was a record salesman and travelled around. One of his areas was LA. Ca.
It was there that he ran across this guy in Hollywood named L Ron Hubbard.
Bobby was fascinated by the excerpt in " Astounding Science Fiction" ( a pulp mag). and told us, his friends, that he had met this guy and Get A Load of This! and we all read the excerpt, and
were 'hooked' and couldn't wait to get the book ( DMSMH) so that we could do some of this "Dianetics".
The rest is History.
 
Type4_PTS

Type4_PTS

Diamond Invictus SP
Re: "This is not a religion. This is a cult-mafia." Jamie DeWolf

Veda said:
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I'll drop this old (slightly edited) re-post here which was an attempt to "explain" Ron Jr. (also known as 'Nibs') to those puzzled or wondering:


Poor Nibs.

The first "Ron's Org" [Successful Scn spin off group, super loyal to Hubbard] SP Declare I ever read was the one on L. Ron Hubbard Jr. It was in a notebook owned by the person who is currently the Senior C/S [Case Supervisor: person who oversees counseling] for Ron's Orgs in the USA:

"Sector Ethics Order:

"Ron De Wolfe, alias Nibs Hubbard, alias L. Ron Hubbard Junior

"...He has recently come under direct influence of the infamous suppressive implanter known as Xenu, subject of Ethics Order No. 1 (written in 1967 by Elron Elray)...

"Astar Paramejgian

"Deputy Sector Commander"

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Oh, Nibs came under the influence of Xenu.

Well, that explains everything. :duh:


The room suddenly got brighter.

I'm off to write a Success Story. :coolwink::biggrin:
 
Type4_PTS

Type4_PTS

Diamond Invictus SP
Here's a few random pictures I took earlier today:



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Free to shine

Free to shine

Shiny & Free
It seems a long time since I posted an anon picket report. This is from Facebook. :)

Protest Report from the old Tampa critic cell

This was my 2nd protest. My 1st protest was with the old Tampa/Orlando critic cell that protested the org in Ybor City about 8 years ago. That's post LMT but pre Anon.

Since I live in the Tampa area, got there fairly early. Brought my bike with me. What can I say, I love my bike and love riding it. Bicycle commuter by choice Mon to Fri.
Just 3 blocks from flag I spot a city owned building with a parking sign saying "Free public parking on weekends" Perfect, I'm close, in a shaded corner out of view in a safe parking lot. I ride my bike over to flag. Big police presence, gotta car and officer at all 4 corners watching over everything. Well I then proceed to do about 60 slow bike laps around the building being friendly and saying good morning to all the scinos. I also speak to a couple of officers , just to let them know I'm not there to disrupt anything, but to just ride around greeting the scinos and letting them know doubt is ok. I'm not big on confrontation protesting, I prefer to ride my bike slowly speaking to scinos on friendly terms 1 to 1 and let them know doubt is ok.

Well after having my 60 laps of fun, head to Coachman Park. Meet up with the Flagdown protesters. A few of us have a friendly chat with a nearby officer. He's cool with us and we are cool with all the officers watching the festivities. The officer also made it clear that they are not on any side and certainly not in scientology's pocket. We all gather at the side of the park to make signs and get ready. I don't have any anti-scion shirts so I wore my Free Tibet shirt. One of the protesters had free shirts "Scientology Destroys Families" Got one a donated a 20 to her to give to the shirt maker.

Everybody gets going close to noon and we make it over to the front of Flag. After a few minutes at that corner, we work our way to the rear. That's where the action is with the Flag busses emptying people to go into Flag. The orgs around the world maybe empty but unfortunately here its bus after bus full of scientologists. Unlike the front of flag, the back sidewalks where the buses unload were closed to us so most protesters were across the street. Of course they tried to block the view of us but we could still a lot of the scions and many could see us. They actually had 2 boomboxes playing a radio rock station to block us out. Kind of funny because if they don't play music, we will with our boombox. Anyway we did this for awhile protesting bus after bus just to let the poor clams know people on the outside care about them.

Since I have my bike, I do my Flag lap thing slowly finding individual scinos and being friendly. I simply let them know doubt is ok and wogs are not the enemy, we care about them and want them to know there are choices in life. Some will actually be friendly , some (with a security tag) complete silence. sad. unable to communicate. Wandered on my bike into the wrong parking lot. Boy, OSA was on me like white on rice, girl with clipboard rushes over to kick me out. Officer smiled, knew it was an honest mistake. Touchy touchy just wandering into the wrong lot.

Then we moved to the main throughfare nearby to get to the Beach. Tons and tons of traffic with a lot of car honks supporting us. We got a lot of smiles and thumbs up from all the beach goers. It was fun to that support from the general public. Unlike most areas of the country, Clearwater Tampa residents are for the most part very aware of the true reality of scientology. Thank you St Pete Times and especially Joe Childs excellent reporting.
After more walking around protesting, we end up in a Pizza place to rest, surf the internet, rehydrate, eat and talk.
I buy the Large pizza everything on it , have a couple slices and share the rest.

Overall a fun day.
Sametime next year. The Tampa critic cell is back baby.
The cell lives.
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Type4_PTS

Type4_PTS

Diamond Invictus SP
As we were walking Fort Harrison Ave this afternoon many people honked at us and gave us the thumbs up signal.

One of my favorite moments was when a car was driving by and a kid that seemed around 10 years old rolled down the window of the back seat where he was sitting, stuck his head out the window, and screamed "Scientology Sucks!".
 
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