They got shot down today in their attempt to thwart free speech in Riverside County. I believe that the only reason that this got addressed today is because a Los Angeles Times reporter just happened to be at the protest when the cops came to shut down the protestors ....
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-scientology10-pg,0,349984.story?page=1
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/01/riverside-count.html
One of the protestors brought up a sign when it was his turn to speak at the meeting. On it was a man who is apparently a former Scientologist. It is a picture of him with a poster saying that the leader beats his staff.
Apparently, He also just happens to be the ex-husband of someone who was there speaking on behalf of the Scientologists .
Perhaps this is why she is reported to have done such a bad job in the meeting. He knows the truth.
"We prefer to respond with more rather than less people," said Lt. Patty Knudson of the sheriff's Hemet station, which handles the area. "Sometimes Golden Era will contract with us for extra patrols and we assign two deputies for that. They have probably done that four or five times over the past year."
"Fraser got on the phone to the Riverside County counsel's office to see if the demonstrators could be pushed farther down the road."
Sounds a bit contradictory, eh? On one hand they're supposedly not trying to squash free speech....and on the other hand they are blatantly trying to push the protestors as far away as possible. And with no actual proof provided of any of their "staff" having been endangered, much LESS of being attacked by that 'crowd' of three or four people.
Sounds to me like they've got the local law enforcement on their payroll.