From hkhenson@home.com Sun Nov 04 01:25:14 2001 Path: sn-us!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!news!news.he.net!news.keyway.net!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!gail.ripco.com!news.lightlink.com!news2.lightlink.com From: hkhenson@home.com (Keith Henson) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: ARSCC(wdne eh?) Report November 3,2001 Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 06:25:14 GMT Organization: Temple of At'L'An Lines: 49 Message-ID: <3be4dca5.260068940@news2.lightlink.com> References: <3BE49C19.20F0B396@sympatico.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.34.12 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.141.40.229 X-Original-Trace: 4 Nov 2001 01:26:31 -0500, 24.141.40.229 Xref: sn-us alt.religion.scientology:999445 On Sat, 03 Nov 2001 20:38:33 -0500, yduzitmatter wrote: >Picketers: Keith Henson, Gregg Hagglund, Kaeli, Zeratul, >Tasha,myself and the Unknown Picketer snip > >Suddenly - not one but two cop cars came out and then four >more cops came up on bicycles. It seems that someone in Al Buttnor >the Org complained about our peaceful picket. The cops >were worried that we were blocking the sidewalk (we were >not) and that we could not be noisy (we weren't) although >they were especially concerned about Gregg's volume but >could not give us an exact definition of how loud was too >loud. Anyway, the bike cops hung out for a while and we >stayed too. It is surprising that 6 cops were needed >to address three picketers. One of the cops complained >that they were pulled from another demonstration at >Queen's Park (capital of Ontario is Toronto). Somehow >we were supposed to feel bad about that. The other >thing to note is that 4 bike cops are the total number >of bike cops out on Sat afternoon. Do we really rate >that much attenion? I am touched. :-) I reviewed Gregg's tape, and it may be that the police commission will be reviewing it too. You can see the cops arriving. Gregg continues his normal patter while the cops confer with Al. Finally with 6 cops there, three of them approach Gregg and ask him to move across the street in what is clearly an attempt at intimidation. Gregg stands his ground and cuts off their fairly obvious plan to arrest him for "interfering with a religion" by mentioning that Revenue Canada has ruled them not to be a religion. They regroup and think about this for a while after telling Gregg they are not his enemy. Finally they give up and all six just leave. One of them gives the group on the far side of the street a supporting horn toot on the way by. The picket goes on for a while and then we leave. All in all, the most news generating picket in the last 11 of them. I am highly tempted to put about a 5 minute segment on the net, but will wait for an opinion by one of the lawyers who advises us. With 4 bike cops and two squad cars on the far side of the street, it is amazing how fast the flyers are taken. Keith Henson