Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 16:56:04 +1000 (EST) From: David Gerard Subject: Australia: cult gets physical?? Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Organization: Prestige Elite(tm) Research Church of the SubGenius Keywords: Cross me and you WILL have trouble. From: Ashraf.Ghebranious@anu.edu.au (Ashraf Ghebranious) :Got back from some friends just then, only to find my mailbox missing. :Firstly, it was raining quite heavily all afternoon in Canberra, so the idea :of a few kids with nothing to do tends to lose a little credence. Unless the :enjoy a good soaking. Further, the mailbox was perched on a pole that was half :buried underground. The force and effort for such an assault would require :men, not boys. There is no sign of a smashed mailbox, so the strong winds dont :appear ro have taken them. Unless the wind could carry off 50lbs of weight and :leave the rather string rose bush beside it. Like the nyah-poo of erasing the house number on the kerb outside Dennis Erlich's house? :It may of course NOT be the cult, but they may have caught wind that David :Gerald was sending me a few copies of XENU, the magazine. Well, I did get ^^^^^^ -- Gerard! Argh! :them. Last friday. Looks like the cult stuff up again. The mailbox was on :private soil and I intend to make inquiries with my neighbours. Maybe they saw :someone materalise, take the box and pole, and exteriorise away. Who can tell. Listen, Ashraf: Go to the police. NOW. Do your best to be an informed and polite citizen, rather than an upset and angry possible-raving-paranoid. This shouldn't be hard, of course. All us critics are kept calm by being Prozaced to the gills :-) If the police have half a clue and hear that Scientologists may be involved, they will take an interest. Like, more than they would otherwise. The police do NOT like the Church of Scientology. The cops here are paranoid of something like the Oklahoma bombing or Waco happening in Australia. There are lots of weird cultish types out in the countryside who are fond of guns (Australia has gun control, but these people disagree with extreme prejudice), for example; cults are watched as closely as they can reasonably manage. The likelihood of an OK bombing or a Waco happening here is, of course, pretty minimal. But they specifically keep an eye on certain groups to make sure about this. Scientology is one they watch. (Our 9/9 protest was all but police-sanctioned. The demonstrator who spoke to the police beforehand did tell them that we didn't expect any violence from the CoS; we haven't been painting them as evil bastards to the cops.) I've just been emailed info on the fellow who came into our office to find out more about me and my workplace. Mike Hanna, roving Sydney SP- spotter; OSA. Slimy bastard too, according to the unfortunates there. (He apparently failed to spot the copy of 'A Piece Of Blue Sky' lying prominently around.) *Damn*, I wish I'd been there now. I'd have used my camera as an evil talisman to ward off Scientologists. And to provide a picture for all Australian critics to keep prominently displayed on their office wall and to hand to Security at their uni or business. Okay, Australians: is the local Church stepping up activity against us troublemakers? Once Uni is out of the way (later this month) I may finally get around to an Australian Critics' Web Page. But hey -- if *anyone else* wants to do one instead, I'll be very happy for you to! (Anything not to take on yet another job ...) I think local Church staffers' pictures would be useful indeed to put on such a page. -- Reverend Doctor David Gerard, KoX, SP 4.04, kOh, RPG-to-be Prestige Elite(tm) Research Church of the SubGenius "Servicing the Prestige Elite(tm) since 1985!" "What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself." -- Abraham Lincoln -- 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. Hello to Mike Hanna. 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.