What Rev. Pedicle fails to mention is that the Bayside Virgin People are
also believers in a grand conspiracy plot. The Church (i.e. their
church, the one with the Chairman and CEO in Rome) refuses to
acknowledge Ms. Leuken's sightings. They are not Church-authorised
hallucinations. So her followers believe that there is a great
conspiracy in Rome to keep her Visions, and the Truth they reveal, from
the church faithful throughout the world. The Pope and his hierarchy
(ever since around Vatican II) *may* be of the Beast. A few more years
in that reality tunnel and we may be able to scoop them up into a SubG
front group.
} Rev. Foo successfully pulled off his planned bit of street theatre, with
} the aid of a spontaneous and unwitting helper in the line. He managed
} to do it before a video camera and may already be famous. The police
} were convinced that he was unstable and asked us to keep an eye on him,
} which we did....
And they did a nice job of it, too. I kept my hands to myself and
everything!
} Revs. Foo, Levity, and myself passed out this pamphlet (Rev. Levity
} dressed in priestly garb, with no apparent ill effects):
}
} *Satan wants you to see this movie!*
}
} Satan's first sin was independent thought. This movie is of Satan! It
} ignores the established image of Jesus in favor of an idiosyncratic,
} individual interpretation. This is dangerous! Satan loves to entrap
} independent thinkers....
An excellent handout. Thank you Rev. Ped. (Thanks also to the Copy Cop
nexto the Paris theatre -- where we were able to produce another 120
copies mid-protest.) I looked sincere and passed the flyer out to
passersby, so they'd understand what the movie protest was about.
It was nicely ambiguous -- it got a mixed reaction from protesters and
spectators. A couple of protesters thought there might be something
fishy about it, but they didn't want to start any dissention in their
own ranks. Among the anti-protesters and disgusted passersby, only
about one-third to one-half of them would even take a copy, and probably
half of them didn't realize it was a hack.
So much for external relations. For stirring things up *within* the
protest ranks, I also had copies of $tang's `Public Service' broadside,
warning about the crazy evil cult called the Church of the SubGenius,
except I put *our* P.O. Box address on it. I gave that one out to my
fellow protesters. I looked them straight in the eye and said, "Please
be sure the mothers in your community see this!"
(By the way, if we actually get any inquiries or checks to "Stomp Out
Bob", please pass them along to me. I've got a small SubG info packet
already set up. Plus, we can use part of their faith offering to sign
them up with three or four randomly selected groups from "High
Weirdness".)
All in all, a good night's work. "Not bad for a day on the range. Not
bad at all."
Next: A Starry Bob.
-- Rev. Dr. Foo
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