From: gerdw@cougar.vut.edu.au (David Gerard) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Melbourne: more enturbulation Date: 16 Oct 1995 13:31:13 +1000 Organization: Prestige Elite(tm) Research Church of the SubGenius Lines: 93 Message-ID: <45sjm1$cif@cougar.vut.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: cougar.vut.edu.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Today's call came from Pat Wilson, the 'Pat' referred to in my report on the 9/9 demo. She wanted to talk about this. (Yeah, I made the mistake of answering the phone. Trust me, I will *never* have a mobile.) I told her to speak to the Head of Department only, as the Church has been informed before, and got off the phone. My guess: at last, someone from the US office has sent her a printout of what I wrote. Or a *version* of what I wrote, anyway. We have her sterling performance on the day on video tape, and thirteen witnesses as to her behaviour on the day, should there be legal trouble. Here's every mention of her, from the original file I still have here (with original datestamp): -----begin----- [...] Church representatives handling the demo were a 'nice' PR Officer (Jane, I think -- could be 'June' -- I really want to know who she is, because she was obviously the main handler) and an 'attack' PRO (Pat), plus an older woman helping with flyers. (A little senile, and no doubt soon to be on the receiving end of the Church's charming 'dumping' policies. At least Australia has a welfare system, so she won't starve. But that's hardly an excuse.) [...] Pat started off in 'always attack' mode: Her: "What's your name? Look, WHAT'S YOUR NAME?" Me: "Dennis Erlich." Her: "Dennis. Dennis ... Early?" Me: "Yeah, that'll do." (Later I did tell her my real name and that that was me listed on the flyer. I said I was 'just joking' on the name and didn't explain the joke.) Her: "This man [Cyril] is a KIDNAPPER!" (note: part of DA pack; he isn't.) Us: "So what? It's irrelevant if he is or not." -- then calmed down when it obviously wasn't working. (Also, spouting DA pack in sound and vision range of a video camera would definitely be a sufficient 'smoking gun' to nail her and the Org on slander charges in Australia, should it prove necessary.) Pat was the stereotypical Scientologist: alternately nasty and nice in a completely schizophrenic manner, sort of fried, a bit ill and tired-looking. When she gave up the 'attack, attack', she then tried to be really extremely friendly ... we didn't buy that either, oddly enough. Many of our number came to dislike her thoroughly in mere seconds, though I was happy to chat irrelevantly to her during the demo -- chat to anyone, it's important to charm even the obnoxious people in these situations ... [...] At the end, Pat asked me how someone gets Internet access ... her son had apparently been hassling her to get it, but she was under the impression that you have to pay overseas phone calls to America for it. I explained that you make a local call your Internet access provider, and they work out their international hookup themselves; and that a public-access provider can cost under $100 a year, and one local one (Suburbia -- suburbia.net) even offers a free tryout. Her ears pricked up at that. I gave her all the info she asked for on Suburbia. Of course, this could all have been further investigation concerning Who Sent Us, and maybe Suburbia will get a visit from the cl*ms some time soon ... ----- end ----- -- Reverend Doctor David Gerard, KoX, SP 4.03 (awaiting verification of SP 5) Prestige Elite(tm) Research Church of the SubGenius "Servicing the Prestige Elite(tm) since 1985!" Xenu loves me, yes I know, 'cos the Clam FAQ told me so. -- Please email ALL followups (crappy and thoroughly dysfunctional newsfeed). Personal visits from Scientologists will be greeted with extreme hostility and the vigilant attention of VUT Security, but personal physical violence *only* when appropriate, legal and called-for. gerdw@cougar.vut.edu.au (preferred); fun@suburbia.apana.org.au July 5, 1998, 7 AM. Saucers. End of the world. Your US$30 is your trip ticket. .