| Tuesday, September 06, 2005 |
 | In the pub on the day after the July 7 bombings - what the media are already beginning to call July 8 - a friend mentioned that he had been a little perturbed to find that the dayglo jackets of the professional-looking men wandering around the scene read not "Police" or "Ambulance", but rather "Church of Scientology Emergency Minister". What, he pondered, the bollocks would emergency Scientologist ministers actually do that they could not do as concerned citizens? Offer free stress tests?
You seem to be very stressed. Now, it may seem right now that this is because your whole leg's off, but perhaps there are other, deeper reasons. Would you like to come downstairs for a longer... oh. Oh well. Stress test, sir?
It turns out that Scientologist emergency ministers are not uncommon - even as we speak a bunch are operating in New Orleans:
Larry Byrnes, who was wearing the distinctive Church of Scientology minister T-shirt, said they had mounted similar operations in New York after September 11, in Sri Lanka after the tsunami and also in Israel and Africa. "We were the first on the scene at Punto Gordo [where the hurricane struck in Florida] last year."
Still doesn't specify what they're actually doing, though, does it?
2 Comments:
They're taking advantage of people's concussed, food-starved state to spread positive PR about Tom and Kate.
We're dayglo. Tom's gay? No!
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