The IAS 15th Anniversary Event Picket

October 30, 1999

I've got to be honest with you.  This was an event I was going to completely ignore.  I saw a banner on L. Ron Hubbard Way a week before the event but felt there was too much going on to spend time on this.

But then I saw this anonymous threat posted on ars:

That peaked my curiosity so I ventured down to Hubbard Way again.  As I pointed my camera at their banner, they turned off the banner light.

 

Lights on

Lights off

Here are are a few pictures from the picket.

Don NOTS with his popular oft-seen sign.

FubarZ reminding us about Lisa McPherson.

Our sole handler for the CC stage of the picket.

Keith Henson waves to a passerby.

My favorite Scientology couple.

This is Tory and Harold Bezazian.  I met them at every L.A. picket and enjoyed my visits with them very much.   We got along well but our relationship fell apart after I put some footage from this event on the net.

Later, Tory would leave Scientology and she has become my very good friend. Unfortunately, Tory's departure from Scientology cost her dearly as she lost her friends and her husband through Scientology's practice of disconnection.