Picket Report - Brighton (UK)

Date: Mon 14 May 2001, In article<kVJBRJBf5b$6Ew...@jritson.demon.co.uk>; 
On Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology, alt.ascii-art, uk.local.london;
Re: Picket Report - Brighton (UK),  John Ritson  writes: [8<..........]

   
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  elliptical balloon for outdoors: more length bursts too  easy  between 
  a cold morning and a hot afternoon,  or when let go to fly a  long way 
  high up. For indoor use you can Vee them down as far as 34 or 35cm/14"   
  We use a valve which is like an inch of pencil-width tube and a "thin 
  dime" on top a bit wider than, and sticks just inside, the neck. The
  gas adapter has a brass tube out the end of the teat -- which is OK 
  with bare neck balloons, but reaches up the valve to push aside the
  top bung -- and there is a 4ft ribbon on the valve. Stick balloon on
  valve, drop down the ribbon, valve onto gas adapter, 1 blown balloon.
  You can get even nicer valves with a top piece the length of about
  eight dimes so it can't possibly slip anywhere in the neck.


>The sunniest, hottest day of the year so far, so an ideal day to go
>down to the seaside. After the usual anarchic start, due to rail 
>delays, over a dozen UK suppressives managed to congregate outside 
>the Brighton org & were reinforced by the one and only Gerry
>Armstrong.. The $cientologists were conspicuous by their 'non-
>confront'. One Sea-Orger appeared, took a few pictures and 
>disappeared again. One character with a big bag entered and exited 
>about two hours later, and a couple with three toddlers exited.


 I was late into London (with the balloons) and met by Damian
 (with the cylinder in a shoulder-bag).  We were about two hours 
 late, asked at the rendezvous pub who had indeed seen "a bunch of
 guys who has a big black cupboard on wheels with four white
 60Watt horns sticking out the top".  They had sat outside 
 about an hour ago. We walked out down Queens Road towards the sea, 
 at the Clock Tower down the twitchel by the Clock Tower real ale bar, 
 and left along Western Road where we found a dozen of our crew in 
 full swing with everything except the balloons and gas, which we 
 immediately set up.


>The 'org' is on the third floor. Outside the ground floor there was the
>regular Peruvian pan-pipe band  (If you have never heard 'twinkle, 
>twinkle, little star' played on pan-pipes then rush down to Brighton).
>We waited until they paused for breath before using our boom-box and
>the usual chant about Scientology being a barmy UFO cult. We handed out
>lots of leaflets. May is the time for the annual Brighton Festival, 
>so the proceedings were enlivened by stilt-walkers, road-punters and 
>people pretending to be genetically modified pigs and chickens. We 
>entered into the spirit of things by handing out helium balloons 
>marked 'Xemu Loves You'. Somebody tied two of them to the Scienos'
>'Now Hiring' sign. And they were still there when we left, which shows 


 And two doors along from the Clams' other shopfront next to Pizza Hut;
 and a few merrily waving on 7ft ribbons from high parts of traffic 
 signs, bus shelters, and so forth. A nice decoration with Xemu's name
 on which should be seen a long way; and a tall passerby thought
"hey, free balloon, I'll grab it" and carry it round with our logo on,
 that's cool too :-].


>how effective the Golden Age of scientology's new 'Hiding Tech' has 
>proved, After a few hours in the blazing sun, we returned to London, 
>passed the London 'Org' (dead as a dodo) and had a few beers before 
>an excellent Chinese meal.


 The same one we went to with Barb, the night before she came down to
 a Brighton demo with us.  Sadly, no fried clams on the menu.


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