From: Roland Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: UFO style pickets Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 12:42:48 +0100 Organization: Xemu's Church of the Electroconvulsive Liberation Lines: 81 Message-ID: <34001E38.3983@netcomuk.co.uk> References: <33FEC415.39CA@netcomuk.co.uk> <33FF2BAB.136B@netcomuk.co.uk> Reply-To: RolandRB@netcomuk.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-12-46.netcomuk.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0C-NC320UK (Win95; I) Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine wrote: > > In article <33FF2BAB.136B@netcomuk.co.uk>, > Roland writes: > >Not necessarily. Have an interesting product - street theatre and the > >UFO style leaflets - and let the public discover it for themselves. All > >the public needs to do is read it and the job is done. All you have to > >establish is that they are interested in reading it. After all, if they > >read about Scientology in a newspaper it doesn't matter if that > >newspaper were given out in front of the org or there was a headline on > >the front page saying "We are AGAINST Scientology". It is the reading it > >with interest that counts. > > > >> Being outside an Org, or near body routers, does the 1st thing for you. > >> > >> Remember the experience of moving away from the Org and singing anti-Scn > >> stuff in the small 30ft x 30ft open park up the road? People's chief > >> raction was "why is this weirdo singing, what is it all about," and they > >> weren't really interested to stop around long enough to find out. > > > >OK. It was just an attempt. You cannot judge from the one example. Other > >angles need to be tried out. > > > There are many ways to get it wrong and only a few to get it right, > Being around the clams -- so long as you are not swamped -- sets it > up very nicley. People can see it is about this disliked group > and you are against them. If you go "from cold" the biggest > danger is fizzling, people not knowing what it is about or the > message failing to make any impact at all. Don't forget that on that same day after we had given up singing in the 30ft x 30ft patch we just sat outside the "One Tun" pub and gave out leaflets to passers by. We shifted 200 leaflets that day which is an impressive amount for the time we spent. The information in the leaflets is the key thing. It is the leaflets that will sink an org in a town. Especially, especially if it creates a scandal about Scientology and the locals get talking about it. That is why I estimate that 1 good leaflet per 20 head of population can result in the whole town knowing about it. Remember when we went to Poole the second time. After the demo we went back to the designated pub* (*public house - place where people meet and drink alcohol). I went in with my mirror shades and one of the locals starts making fun, pointing out the window and saying "what's that silver disk in the sky?" Then one of them says "no, he's one of those protestors. Take a look at this" He then comes over and asks for one of my leaflets. I said go ahead. He searched through the pile until he found the Xemu leaflet. He knew what he was looking for. I heard him say "this one's in colour". So obviously that leaflet had been doing the rounds as a photocopy. He then reads the part out to his friends that he knows and says "so what this leaflet is saying in effect is that it is all a confidence trick". Now just in case people got lost in all this detail, the point is that a good gossip leaflet will do the rounds in a town. Everybody will get to hear about it. The Xemu leaflet is ideal for that. Much better than a leaflet that focuses on Co$ wrongdoings. What I am saing is a good leaflet, given out in large numbers to those who want to read it, will do the trick and result in an org becoming insolvent. It is that that works. Making a noise outside of an org only brings attention. It could even bring the wrong sort of attention in that people may think we are more loony than the clams. What we have to do is bring attention and give out the leaflets that make our point well. but it is the leaflets that will sink an org. Not the demos. It is getting the correct information out to the public that will win. > >> Protesting next to a visible $cientology sign does that work for you. > > > >But then we get mistaken for the Co$ itself since we would get swamped. > >Think of that last Brighton demo. Ineffective. It got us nowhere except > >perhaps for the Xemu leaflet getting read by the staff. Help Xemu destroy the Co$. Roland -- A The Xemu Leaflet: http://home.sn.no/~aheldall/leaflet/ / \ RealAudio Clips: http://www.coltice.force9.co.uk/ / P \ Scientology compatible with Christianity? Oh Yea? R --- C http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~rolandrb/nochrist.ra