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First Photos: Scientologists Invade Virginia Tech Campus
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EASY PRAY The Scientology tent at Virginia Tech
As reported elsewhere earlier this week, Scientology's Volunteer Vultures have descended upon the grief-stricken Virginia Tech campus.

VT senior Christie Weaver, a psychology major, confirmed their presence on Thursday, and was kind enough to send us some photographic evidence.

"Yeah, those fuckers are here," she said, noting that she "has not seen anyone speak to them because they wear these bright yellow shirts that say 'Scientology Volunteer Minister.' They stick out like sore thumbs, especially given that they look very L.A.'d out and we're in the mountains of Virginia."

On Friday, Weaver told Radar, "Yesterday they just walked around campus without being obtrusive, but today they set up a bright yellow tent about 100 yards from the memorial."

The tent, similar to the ones celebrity Scientologist Tom Cruise routinely pitches on movie sets, is situated near another tent where victims' memorial boards are on display, so when aggrieved students come to pay their respects, they get accosted by the culties. "It's sick," says Weaver. "They can leave and take the media with them."

[Full size photos after the jump!]

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TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT (far left) The Scientology recruitment support tent; (far right) the tent where students sign memorial boards for the victims of Monday's massacre.

For more on Scientology's "outreach" efforts at Virginia Tech, read here, and here.

Photos: Christie Weaver

By Mark Ebner   04/20/07 6:43 PM
Related: Scientology, Tom Cruise, Xenuphobia
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