Picket reports

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From: bpetty@primenet.com (BP)
Subject: Pickets as Usual in Mesa, AZ
Date: 20 Oct 1998
Message-ID: 70jem9$70e$1@nnrp02.primenet.com

"Nothing has changed, it's still the same;
I've got plenty to say and it's OK."

After 51/2 hours of legal wrangling the boring outcome is the same as it has been for the last year:
I and anyone else can picket all we want.
I cannot make enough noise to be heard inside the bOrg bilDung.

The Cult Wanted:
500 Yard Buffer Zone.
No Photographs or Movies (I would need a telephoto lens anyway?)
No Discouraging Words.
The above to apply to me and anybody the bOrg deemed to be "in concert" with me.

The judge all but let the cult's attorney know that she was insulted that he thought she was such a sap that she would grant that. She only extended the exact same result as we had in the Superior Court.

So we have the same standoff as before. But they are out a thousand or two in legal fees. Mine was gratis.

I am disappointed that I am still under an injunction, even if I have never violated its terms nor intend to violate its terms; but for the same reason, it is no restriction at all on what I do.

However, I am pissed, so the frequency of pickets will definitely increase (again) and the number of people doing them will probably (based on past experience) increase. And I intend to increase my non-picket anti-Co$ activities significantly.
Foot-Bullet-Bang.

Other notes of Interest:
I got to get the Time Magazine "Cult of Greed and Power" accepted into the record.
I got to testify as to who Xenu was, based on a question from the Co$ counsel.
Smart move.

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From: spartakus@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Mpls. picket 10/21/98
Message-ID: 70lgbt$oee$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com

Another nice day in Minneapolis; must be time for a quick picket. As it was last Thursday, Sue couldn't make it because of her work schedule, so I again soloed for about 1/2 hour. There's a bit more of a chill in the air these days, so pedestrians walked by a little faster. Even so, I got lots of positive reactions from the public and verbal tech like "I agree!" and even a couple of "God bless you!"s.

As before, I had my "SCIENTOLOGY HURTS PEOPLE" sign with "SCIENTOLOGY: RELIGION FOR THE WEALTHY" on the back, and I also brought "Why I Picket Scientology" and the "Rev. Bagley" flyers. I handed out everything I had.

I didn't have any "big win" conversations with the public like I did last Thursday (see "Mpls. Picket -10/15/98" for details), and the sidewalk outside the org wasn't as busy as it was before, but I ran out of flyers anyway. One pedestrian read my flyers on the spot, talked a bit about Lisa McPherson with me, shook his head and then walked into the org! He emerged, said "God bless you" to me, and went on his way. I wish I'd thought to ask him what he said to the scienos.

Interestingly enough, a number of people asked me today if I was opposed to Scientology on theological grounds. I answered by pointing out the contradiction between the Co$'s public claim to be compatible with other religions and Hubbard's derogatory remarks regarding Jesus Christ and Mohammed.

As in the last three pickets, our fearless Minneapolis scienos were non-confront all the way. When I ended my picket to go back to work, a scieno made a half-hearted effort to follow me, but I ditched him.

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From: bpetty@primenet.com (BP)
Subject: Picket Report, AZ, 10-22: Special for jj_craig
Message-ID: 70oo2f$c3u$1@nnrp02.primenet.com

I am soooo gagged, oh yeah. One extra picket, just for el stupido jj.

11 cars in the parking lot, 1 left and 1 arrived during the picket from 4:00 to 5:00 PM. Lots of traffic, lots of support from the drivers.

Leslie Duhrman ( pronounced "dour man"), who testified in court that she uses internet search engines on her name (hi Leslie!), was engaging in her apparently unbeatable addiction to nicotine when I arrived. She quickly went back inside as my sign was raised in victory over the front sidewalk.

My non-picketing backup observer bought a cold drink from the nearby (K) and walked along the canal bank. He reported no activity in back of the bOrg.

The corpse of Scientology is rotting before our eyes:
Bloat, bubble, burble, blechh.

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From: bpetty@primenet.com (BP)
Subject: Picket Report, Mesa AZ 10-24-98
Message-ID: 70tpv8$823$2@nnrp03.primenet.com

Kathy and I joined Jeff Jacobsen for a picket from noon to 1:00 today.
The weather was balmy, almost as balmy as the Co$.

There were only 3 cars in the lot when we arrived. 5 more came during the picket, there apparently is a class around 1 to 1:30.

The traffic was lighter than usual, but we got a good response. People do not like the Co$, that is one thing that is demonstrated whenever we picket.

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From: hkhenson@netcom.com (Keith Henson)
Subject: Picket Report Palo Alto 10/23/98
Message-ID: hkhensonF1BH4w.K8K@netcom.com

About 11:30 about ten minutes, no traffic in or out. Gave away a few flyers.

Other than the scientology sign, they have nothing else out, unlike previous times. Keith Henson

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Subject: Picket report San Jose 10/28/98
From: hkhenson@netcom.com (Keith Henson)
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:50:14 GMT
Message-ID: hkhensonF1LInq.Eut@netcom.com

Two of us, 5:50 to 6:30. 24 cars in the lot when we got there, number grew by perhaps ten over the time we were there. What with the time of year and daylight saving time going away, it was nearly dark when we started.

Seemed to be mostly people who had been in for some time. Darlene came out and took my most recent handouts, clkates's affidavit and the story from Jesse Prince about Miscavige ripping Mary Sue Hubbard off for $400 million.

With the lights on inside and it being dark outside, it was obvious what a stir we were causing inside. Keith Henson

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Subject: Picket Report San Jose 10/30/98
From: hkhenson@netcom.com (Keith Henson)
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 01:40:12 GMT
Message-ID: hkhensonF1o4n0.Jpo@netcom.com

2:30-2:45 26 cars in the lot. Saw the body router John M leaving, but he vanished entirely (and would not even look at me). Little else going on. Keith Henson

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Subject: Picket Report, 10-31 Xenu Visits AZ Org
From: bpetty@primenet.com (BP)
Message-ID: 71fo98$coq$1@nnrp02.primenet.com

Xenu paid a Halloween visit to the Mesa Culthouse today. Tastefully dressed in all black ( except for green gym shoes), Big Gray picketed from 10-11 AM, accompanied by Jeff Jacobsen and KP.

Xenu wore front and back signs that said: U F O C U L T
C U L T Note the implied communication of "OT" by the superposition of the letters in a subliminal fashion, leading to the early demise of the Co$! (Sorry, I got carried away). The passing traffic was bemused, delighted, etc.

Work was proceeding on the new sign in front of the bOrg. They had dug a 3 foot deep excavation, so Xenu pronounced the site "Holey Ground".

There were 5 cars at the start of the picket, one left and one arrived. That's all, folks.

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Subject: Picket Report San Jose 11/3/98
From: hkhenson@netcom.com (Keith Henson)
Message-ID: hkhensonF1wpxE.Dox@netcom.com

5:00 to 5:30 (too dark to see a sign). 34 cars, but at least ten of them were poll workers or voters. Scn's building is used as a polling place! Next time there is an election, I suggest all day pickets. Anyone know if other CoS locations have been used as polling places? Keith Henson

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Subject: Toronto Picket Report, 98/11/04
From: wulfen@NOSPAMtotal.net (Wulfen)
Message-ID: 3640f41d.8307280@news2.lightlink.com

Time: 1800 to 1830 hrs Wednesday November 4th.
Location: Toronto Co$ Org (also the Canadian national Scientology HQ)
SP's: Wulfen and Artemis.
Sign: Only one, Wulfen's - "WWW.XENU.NET" on one side and "$cientology Costs A Mint" on the other side (thanks again, Jour0).
Leaflets: About 15 of Gregg's Xenu/Crimes leaflet, about the same number of my $CAM/Human Cost leaflet (get mine at http://www.total.net/~wulfen/scn/ ).
Body Routers: Mario, the Hubbard Dianetics Foundation Missionholder (yah, we got bodyrouted by the man himself. How about that?)

Comments:
This picket was dedicated to wgert (a Scientologist), specifically his actions in publishing my name and other personal details to this forum. Artemis and me realized that if we see anything on ARS or in EFNET #scientology (the IRC channel) that irritates us, we can be in front of the Toronto Org with 20 minutes notice. Pretty good, eh? Looks like we may be back tomorrow.

Mario body routed by shouting "Prozac and electroshock! These people stand for prozac and electroshock!" Umm... Not a good way to boost your public image, Mario.

Mario told a passer-by that we were saying that Scientology was banned in France. No.. we never said that. We have said that Scientology is banned in Greece, criminally convicted in Canada, under investigation by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Germany, had its president jump bail in Spain, has been briefly banned in certain Australian states, harrasses critics (grr, wgert), and is, um, less than totally honest about its own beliefs and its founder's history, but we have never said that Scientology is banned in France. The only thing that I tell people at pickets about Scientology and France is about how L. Ron Hubbard was convicted of fraud (in absentia, like Carlos the Jackal) in France.

Mario was saying that we get paid time and a half for a Wednesday picket. To Mario: Yes, we do get time and a half of our Saturday pay rate. We also get a percentage bonus of a day's pay based on how many flyers we give out. Not bad, eh?

The weather was cold, but the SP's were warm. Why? I had on a full-body set of long underwear. I highly recommend it for winter pickets. By the end, I was getting positively hot under all that insulation. See you later, cult.
http://www.total.net/~wulfen/scn
Please direct correspondence to:
wulfen [at] total [dot] net

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Subject: Picket Report, Mesa, AZ: Lunch Over the Co$ Corpse, 5 Nov 1998
From: bpetty@primenet.com (BP)
Message-ID: 71qrl9$8uk$1@nnrp03.primenet.com

Two of my cow orkers had a picnic lunch on the lawn across the street from the culthouse while I picketed from 11:00 to 11:45 today.

They were curious about the cult, and agreed to be my backup witnesses for a picket.

It was absolutely glorious weather today, and the site across from the orghut has green grass and trees. My friends ate sandwiches while I played with the lunch hour traffic.

My estimate is that 90% of the people driving by have an unfavorable opinion of Hubbard's spawn. That is why I can't believe that the idiots are putting up a sign! They should hide under a rock, instead! The sign is just a metal pole about 10 feet high, at this time. I will report back this weekend, when it should be completed. It should have the message "Here I am, HIT ME" on it if the reaction that I would expect occurs.

There were just 4 cars in the lot, and during the picket a UPS truck delivered about 8 boxes of lies.

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Subject: Copenhagen picket, 4 Nov 1998
From: "Catarina Pamnell" cpamnell@yahoo.com
Message-ID: 01be08fa$fdb9a1c0$f5f6f482@default

I got one! I got one! Now I'm so happy :-))) In my last picket report I wished for OSA to make a report of their own, since they don't seem to like mine. And look here:

In article 71rji0$8rj$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com,
peter_in_kobenhavn@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> Today's Kobenhavn "picket" :)) , started around 2 pm. Catharina
> was full of hot air - as usual. The dull-eyed followers which
> showed up together with her, looked haggard and confused.

My poor "followers" (hi there followers ;-)) had a really hard time trying to "follow" me to the picket, since I only arrived there at about 3.30 pm. Ake and I got delayed on the way to Denmark, aggravated by some technical problem with our ferry that left us sailing the waves for half an hour longer than usual. Not that it seemed to matter too much, as when we got to the AOSH EU, there were already seven Danish picketters in full swing, Karin, Karsten, Ole and four nice Danish ladies. (Hey, that means our picket team had tripled since last time!)

We did get there just in time for the standard visit of the local cops (called in by whom...?), who politely asked to see our picket permit and found everything to be in order.

> Since their picket was so boring, we decided to go out to liven
> things up. This caused Catharina and a guy called Ole something
> or other quite some irritation. It was a display of futility on
> Catharina's part that she didn't know what to do.

Yeah, my remote viewing was off. Actually, I did know pretty well what to do when you got out to join the picket crowd, though I'm afraid it had very little to do with you - I was happily chewing down my lunch onboard the ferry (pasta, BTW).

> Next time a change of clothes on their part is definitely advisable.

I know, I know. When I saw those sparkling new uniforms of your security guards I just about gave up and went home. White shirt, dark pants with a broad golden stripe along the leg, and to top it off: would you believe this? a large golden sheriff star saying "security". If Ake didn't catch this on film, he will promptly be sacked from his present post of Photo I/C.

> They would create a better impression of themselves. I suggest an
> overall clean-up and check out of everyone that comes along. They
> tag themselves as loonies looking the way they did.

How did you like Karsten's clown nose?

> On the other side, we were an uptone group of Scientologists,
> obviously enjoying ourselves, handing out copies of a Danish Freedom
> broadsheet on Jernbanegade.

Now this was the part that I liked: that wonderful Italian public from Sardinia. The cheeriest scientologist leafletter ever seen (I admit it - I'm in love). Unfortunately, he did not speak any English :-( Please don't forget to bring him out next time, OK?

We did miss OSA Marlene, though, who "was to be away for a year or so". Still, we got Danish PR spokeswoman Anette Refstrup keeping us company most of the evening (sorry I didn't talk to you Anette, but I did say I didn't really care for answering questions like "who are you?" to people who already know my name. The other picketers were probably much more interesting to talk to than me anyway, so you hardly missed much. But if you do want to have that cup of coffee with me some day, just drop me a line.)

> The public were very receptive and we
> got a lot of positive responses from people who were happy to receive
> a theta message about religious tolerance.

Then they were even happier to receive an entheta message about Xenu, so they could judge the pros and cons of this particular religion for themselves.

I admit there was one guy who wasn't all too happy about our picket. The first time he passed us he had us confused with the scientologists milling around us, and thus nearly missed out on our leaflets. He was a bit upset at our failure to inform him properly - if he had not happened to come our way again he would not have gotten his Xenu leaflet. We humbly apologised.

> At one point Catharina and her band slumped off.

After handing out all of our 360 Danish leaflets, we went for dinner at a nearby Italian restaurant (thank you very much, Ole!). It was lovely to get warm again after several hours in the compulsory Danish picket rain and a temperature of 4-5 degrees above freezing point. As always, there was a lot of plotting and scheming going on.

> We continued.

I'm sure you did. But when I, Ake, Ole and Karsten went back out at 10 pm for a final round with some left-over fliers in English, you were not there anymore, were you? Took you a few minutes to scramble the troups, but soon 8-10 people were out there again, mostly public it seems. A couple of those who were told to go out were not that enthusiastic, were they...? My man from Sardinia came out again with an expressive pantomime of how ridiculous it was to be out in the cold Danish night, instead of heading home for bed. Another of their brave warriors had a very thin pair of shoes on, and asked Ake if he would consider to take them in exchange for Ake's sturdier pair. I think they should have just asked him to leave instead. That's what I did at 10.30 and he left. See how easy it is to handle an SP?

> Sorry that I do not have the specific statistics but it was an
> excellent out-flow day with lots of promotional materials
> distributed. And we had a great time :))

Hey, we can agree on something :)) Keep up the nice work, Peter!
Catarina - www.medstud.gu.se/~pamnell/lisa.html - varför dog Lisa?

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Subject: San Jose Picket 11/5/98
From: hkhenson@netcom.com (Keith Henson)
Message-ID: hkhensonF21Fz4.G0r@netcom.com

3:30-4:00 29 cars (more than most recent counts). Little interaction with the inmates, little traffic in or out. One likely new guy drives a tractor. It seems that the org has been recruiting from the shelter next door, because there is some traffic between them. Seems unlikely that they will do all that well on homeless women.

I saw a woman leave who looked a lot like I would expect Darlene to look like if she had just come back from the RPF, but I did not get a good enough look to be sure. Hope she is ok. Keith Henson

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Subject: Picket Report: More Objective Methods In Mesa, 7 Nov 1998
From: bpetty@primenet.com (BP)
Message-ID: 723ens$mn4$1@nnrp02.primenet.com

We picketed this AM from about 10:00 to 11:00.
There were only 4 cars at the culthouse, no arrivals or departures.
Scientology is shrinking.

The passing traffic was light, but very appreciative.
By "light", I mean that only (about) 800 cars passed by during the picket, so around 1500 people had a chance to read our signs.

It's the best that we poor SP "villains", caught in the Co$ micro-play can do, I guess........:-)

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Subject: Signtology in Mesa, AZ, 12 Nov 1998
From: bpetty@primenet.com (BP)
Message-ID: 72g6hc$pi6$2@nnrp03.primenet.com

I picketed from 5:00 to 5:30 PM today, and got pictures of the new sign at the bOrg.

The sign is about 5' by 4', white plastic with painted blue letters:

Church of Scientology <----- Letters about 7-8"

and in a small band underneath:

Think For Yourself <----- Letters about 5"

Under the "Church of Scientology" is a small (about 1 foot high) scieno cross in thin black line outline.

The sign is about 9" thick, with illumination inside.

My picket sign is about 3' by 2', with letters larger than the second line of text on the cult's sign.

I am so _glad_ that the idiots put up a sign: Now we can be more creative in the phrases on _our_ signs, since it is now obvious who we are picketing. And, what could be more counter productive for a cult than the words "think for yourself"?

The sign and its post are cheap sheet metal, and the shape and proportions are very ugly. Shrink away, cult - the end is near!

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Subject: Picket report, Mt View, SJ 11/8/98
From: Keith Henson hkhenson@netcom.com
Message-ID: hkhensonF24JrA.B3I@netcom.com

The power company had the power off this morning, and I was sleeping in when two scientologists came up on my front porch and banged on the door to wake me and let me know I was being picketed. Got some good photos of both of them in spite of one trying to shield his face with his sign. Will get the film developed and posted on the net shortly. They were not using Walkman tech (blasting their ears so they could not hear me) but they split before I found a copy of the Jesse Prince interview and Charolette Kates' affidavit and headed out to read to them.

Someone had called the cops again and they showed up. (The cops are *not* pleased, but I don't think they are mad at me.) I had been slacking off, only doing one or two short pickets a week recently, but this inspired me. Turns out it was a *good thing*.

On the way down to San Jose I stopped in for a short picket 11:55 to 12:05 at the Mt View org. After a while I had about concluded they were shut down. There were cars in the lot, but no other activity there, and the blinds were shut. I walked back on the property next door to get a better look, and two freshly scrubbed high school age kids came out of one door and after a *very* long look at my signs (which included the OT8 cog) went in another door. They stared at OT8 cog sign long enough to have memorized it.

Incidentally, there is a new Mexican food place next to the org which looks like it would be a *fine* place to hold Bay Area ARSCC meetings. The folks who run it seemed amused by my picket.

On to the San Jose org, 11:20-12:20 (Bay area roads are *fast* when the traffic is light). When I got there there were 24 cars, at the time we left there were 38. That is the most I have seen in quite a while, meaning that Sunday is good hunting. A lot of the people who came in stared at my sign (I was using the $360k one).

About 10 minutes after I got there I spotted an Indian couple walking toward the org from the light rail line. Sure enough, they had been called a dozen time to get them to come in. A few minutes talking to them and a few leaflets convinced them that scn was an ugly scam and not for them. They turned around and *left.* They are on the net and said they would check out www.xenu.net, and would warn their friends.

I put out a short notice I was going to picket to the net and as a result Brent Stone showed up about 20 minutes into the picket. We had a fun chat while walking in front of the org as a light rain started. Near the time we quit a guy in a very nice car stopped to check out what was going on. He works in the area and has noted John M. trying to rope in people for the last year, and seen a lot of pickets. He too has a web connection and said that he would check it out today.

I did see one person I thought would not be back. Short, dark, Indian looking guy I had given a Xenu flyer to weeks ago after he drove out and walked back. He was driving erraticly today. I wonder if he is trying for a refund? Lots more pickets in store this week! Keith Henson

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Subject: Picket report SJ & MtView 11/14/98
From: Keith Henson hkhenson@netcom.com
Message-ID: hkhensonF2G29o.n7@netcom.com

I made up a new sign with the indictment wording, Count 1 on one side and Count 2 on the other. Arrived at the San Jose org at 10:40. 30 cars. About ten minutes into the picket a van turned onto Rosemary from the north, saw my sign, and rather than turn in, they stopped on the roadway to talk to me. Turned out they were coming in to see the scn movie. A very few minutes of talking about my sign and the rip off of scientology and they took a Xenu flyer and left. Blue shirt (wearing a white shirt today) came boiling out with a camera and said if I interfeared with another customer he would call the cops. I said go for it, bud.

Shortly before I left my OT 5 John who I had not seen for quite a while came in. Seems he is no longer "handling" me, but he read both sides of my new sign carefully. Lot of action for 20 minutes.

I hit the Mt. View org on the way back for ten minutes. The scientology door was open, the dianetics place has the shades down. One carload of scientologists stopped on their way out and stared at both sides of sign, but they would not take a Xenu flyer. Keith Henson

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(multiple reports, snipped, full reports are (http://xenu.ca/pickets/) here
Subject: PICKET REPORT: Toronto, 11/14/98: Divergent Realities
From: elrond@cgo.wave.ca (Gregg Hagglund)
Message-ID: elrond-1611980248050001@cgowave-44-45.cgocable.net

Toronto Ontario, November 14, 1998
Attendees: AM Shift: Special Guest: Xenubat & Wulfen, Elrond, DeepWog
PM: Xenubat, Wulfen, Elrond, Deep Wog, Seanster and his S.O., Android Cat. +Artemis for the last hour only
Flyer Count: Approx 650 of all types
HiLites: Guest appearance by Xenubat
Debut of Cold Weather SP Sign Tech.
No Trespassing Notice Served on Org by YHN.
Another Org Staffer looks foolish in a failed Confront.
My home Revenge Picketed: Co$hacks get majorly entubulated
by my legal ward, fail when trying to recruit legal minors.
Cops Caution Org to stay off my property.

The morning was a bit slow for foot traffic and the weather brisk and damp. I had not expected more than two or three others to show for this 'Cold Weather' Picket, after all, this is about disseminating factual information, not about risking ones health in bad weather!(grin)

I started off the Picket by entering the Org Lobby and serving Legal Notice declaring my home and property off limits to Scientology Staff, Members and Agents.
My 'service' took about 10 seconds: I walked in the doors and up to the desk and asked the lackey sitting there if he was on staff. He said he was so I then slapped the No Trespassing Notice on the desk and said, "You have been Served!"
Then this guy lamely says "we refuse service", to which I replied, on my way out, "You can't dummy. Wog Law rules."

Next I set up my new Cold Weather Sign Tech. I brought along my artists tripod and afixxed my Picker Sign to it :
"Canada has only one Criminally Convicted 'Church': Scientology!".
Since the sign is a two sider, I was able to add two inside slot/pockets to hold flyers so as to have the flyer tops exposed for access by myself or by the public. And last but not least: a collapsible coffee cup holder on the Picket Handle. This meant my hands were mostly free and I could move about more to stay warm while holding 'the point' at the North end of the Org.

The Police Officer, a coloured chap who, it turns out, was somewhat informed on Hubbards rascist writings, was a few minutes late. He steadfastly refused to accept little gratuities like doughnuts and coffee from the Org. Basically he blew off the Org "Suck Up Tech". He was a great guy. We had several good conversations. He remarked that the Co$ staff was only able to heckle and not able to deal with any of the issues we brought to the publics attention. He also kept the Orgies in line and basically out of my hair except near the end of the day. He had asked me why I did not use the Megaphone and I said I only used it if the Org turned on their crappy sound track at 'ultra distort', or if they stood in front of me and blocked my sign and flyers and of course, for the 4 pm reading of OT3, in the original hubbardspew. But more on that later.

Wulfen, Xenubat and I had picked up a 'handler/heckler' in the parking lot while gearing up earlier. She was about 5 foot two, long black wavy hair and looked exhausted. She called us 'insane criminals' and later at the picket she shouted repeatedly ( until the cop told her to back off)"You are making it up as you go along!" " His son sells drugs" ( Nice bit of defamatory work that. Sounds great on tape too!(grin))
She didn't last too long. Just after Deep Wog joined us at 10:30 am, something happened to greatly enturbulate her.
This heckler 'Raven' spent a lot of money on communications courses only to end up running for cover. Some informed Christians, who had heard Hubbards "There was no Christ" claim, lit into her. The Christians had approached me last Picket to get urls on Co$ Anti-Christian spew and had come by this time to thank me and pick up 50 RXSpecials to hand out to their Congregation on Sunday. A passerby heard part of our conversation and asked me if the Co$ believed in God. I said no, but some staffers/publics might.
That is when our Raven Haired Heckler rudely interrupted and loudly proclaimed the Co$ believes in God.
I laughed and quoted Hubbard on Christ.
She said Hubbard never said that, it wasn't true.
I said Hubbard taught that there was no Christ or Religions and gave her the Xenu implant connection and then I added that the Co$ itself had amended the Corporate Charter of the Toronto Org in 1982 to excise the mention of God and insert "Scientology Teachings" and that was one reason why no charity status was going to be granted to the Co$ in Canada.
Raven went ballistic and started shouting Scientology believed in God and that was when the Christians lit into her.
They quoted reams of HubbardSpew at her and even followed her a few feet down the sidewalk as she retreated almost in tears.
Poor thing.
I saw the Officer was going to intervene so I called my Christian acquaintences back. We finished our conversations in peace.
When they left they wished Gods Blessings upon me and I returned the wish. (It may soon be that the local God Revering community may start Picketing the Org for its deceptive marketing practices vis a vis Hubbards anti-Christian bent and Co$ Religious intolerance.)

After that the morning was basically uneventful. Art Beauregard was there but kept away from me all day. We broke for lunch at 1 pm and returned, promptly at 2pm. The officer was not there and as we had promised not to start without him we waited about five minutes and then he showed up, and apologised for being a little tardy. No problem.

Seanster and his Signifigant Other had joined us as had Android Cat. I had had word from Artemis, who was enduring a head cold, he would be showing up for the for last hour, which he did. He has never missed a Picket!

The last action of any significance at the Picket took place just after I read OT3 on the megaphone. One of my previous handlers, whom I will call 'Pixie' showed up. We had never spoken before and I am sure she regrets engaging me now. (grin) Just like Andy Hill, I found she lived in a different reality. Unlike Andy tho' I detected a real person in her, not just some 'thing' moulded by ScienoThink. IMHO she will blow one day.

Pixie acts at Pickets in a manner designed to interfere with and suppress my and my fellow Picketers Freedom of Speech. She blocks the sidewalks, gets in front of picketers so they can not hand out flyers, steers traffic away from us, snatches flyers from the passersby etc. I have mentioned this before and also that Officers have repeatedly had to chide her and other Orgies for this kind of Anti-Free Speech activities at our Peaceful Pickets.

Today Pixie decided to loudly explain to the Officer that I was a Bigot. I was feeling a little devilish today, with the Indictments and all, so I decided to engage her, if she was so foolish.
I laughed and said she was misinformed if she thought I was a bigot. If she wanted to believe in Xenu then that was ok with me, but if I wanted to condemn the Fair Game Practices, and other unethical and illegal activities of the Co$ management and expose Hubbards lies, frauds and deceptions, then not only was I not a bigot, I was actually a consumer advocate, and well within my Charter Rights.

I then told her she should think hard about condoning the anti-Free Speech activites of the Co$, like trying to intimidate my neighbors into pressuring me to stop Picketing the Co$, by Picketing my neighborhood and my home. (They revenge picketed me today again. More later)
Why, I asked her, did she endorse the continued anti-social activities of the Criminally Convicted Corporation of Scientology and in particular the Toronto Org?

She lost it and angrily told me I was lying. She claimed the Ontario Courts had only convicted a few renegades and the Courts had exonerated the Org from any wrong doing.
I laughed at her and told her not to appear so foolish in public. I advised her she should join reality and independently verify the Co$T had been Criminally Convicted and Fined for Breaches of the Public Trust. I asked her if she also believed the staff denials of the Xenu OT3 story? Was she OT3 or better?
She said our OT3 flyer was all lies and she knew what OT3 really was. I challenged her then to compare the Copy of OT3 I had just read on the megaphone with the flyer and see the flyer was an accurate restatement of OT3. She loudly said what I had read was not OT3.
Then I asked her if we had her permission to hand it out to the public in the form of what I had read?
She said sure, go ahead, the public wouldn't care, they wouldn't know what it was.
I then asked her to repeat that for me on tape and in front of the Officer who was watching and listening. I pulled out my taperecorder and she turned away.
Well, I asked, has your tune changed? Why would you not repeat for the record that handing out the orginal OT3 I claimed I had was ok by her? Did she care to explain to me, on the record, how I was lying?Or why the Co$ was so powerless to stop me from 'lying' and handing out what she claimed was 'bigoted hate literature'? She stomped off. (grin)

More than likely Pixie and I will never talk again. No Toronto Org staffer has ever lasted a fact based debate with me, either on the street or the radio. Nor have they ever returned to speak to me again. They all run and hide or keep to the far end of the Picket or cease to be involved in the public counter picket activities at the Org. (grin)
Buttnor hides. George sulks and stays inside, but watches. Mario gets all upset and stays inside the DC. 'Wimpy' avoids the Pickets, Danny the Dip, Andy Hill and now Raven have all had to write KRs and have their doubts and faults accurately reported by me here on ARS.
Now poor Pixie will get the ethics and Sec Checks, just like my informant advised me the others did. All these poor Orgies are good for now is picketing my home and neighborhood, but only if I and my family are not home. Real brave bunch, eh?

Pixie made on last attempt to demonstrate how a 'mother of three' could set a good example for her children by acting in a neofascist anti Free Speech manner.
Pixie and another FemStaffer came and stood right in front of me and my sign and interposed themselves so the passersby could not interact with me or read what I had to offer.
I asked them to move or else I would make them move in one of two ways: either I would ask the Officer to move them or I would use the Megaphone until they did.
I said this loud enough for the Officer to hear. He looked our way. Pixie looked at the Officer and when he did not say or do anything, she thought she had won one. Unfortunately for her, the Officer was simply allowing me to choose the option.
I chose the megaphone. I made sure I was at only volume 4 ( of 10) and then I launched into 15 nonstop minutes of one of my favorite harangues. The Public loved it!
People were crossing the street to see what was up and while I was still blocked by Pixies FreeSpeech Suppressing antics, my fellow Picketers did a bofo binge of flyer dispersal!
After 15 minutes of getting sound blasted , but only because they were standing two feet in front of me, Pixies friend complained to the Officer that I was hurting her ears.
He advised her to not stand in front of me then.
Moments later she and Pixie shuffled off into the Org.
Pixie was *very* angy. She was red in the face and shaking. It was upsetting to me to see such a beautiful woman so badly misled and misinformed so as to waste her vitality on supporting Hubbards Mindless Money Machine. *sigh*

Since it was beginning to rain and I had been assured by the Officer that if we chose to quit as early as 4:16pm he would get the full days pay, I conferred with the others and we decided to call it a day.
(The Co$ is ~expending~!)
The Officer wished us well and we departed. He said he would definitely put in for this easy duty again, but in the summertime when we Picket twice a month. He went to get a well deserved coffee and we retired for a boisterous good time at the Duke. There we amused ourselves watching the Orgies across the street. But //\ndroid Cat has mentioned this elsewhere.

Revenge Picket: As I mentioned the Co$ staged a Revenge Picket at my home again.
As per usual the Cos sent two timid and frightened Scntists to amble about in front of my house, but only *after* it appeared no one was at home. Unfortunately for the Co$, my legal ward, was at my home and reported them to me. I called the local Police and informed them I had given the ORg Notice of No Trespassing.
The local Patrol Officer stopped by and apparently advised the Orgies of the consequences if members staff or agents of the Criminal Cult Trespassed on my property.(Arrest and Charge.)
The Revenge Picketers were very upset and entubulated by my ward. She acted on my instructions and wrote down the license plate number of the Crap Yellow rustbucket clunker "Dianetics' mobile they parked on our street. (Left an oil click too.)
She also had to go to considerable effort to see what was on the Revenge Picketers signs as they kept turning the *one* sided things away. They tried to give her some literature, even though she was obviously a minor child.

She refused and told them to leave her and our neighbors alone.
They also tried to give literature to other children.
[The signs read :
"One must act. One must preserve order and decency, but one need not hate or seek vengence" "The road to ruin is paved with false information" Ironic, eh?(grin)]

One of my neighbors came out and talked to them. She wasn't too happy with them apparently. She brought her 10 yr old mentally challenged son out with her. The young fellow would have to be institutionalized except for the drug therapy (IIRC Thorazine) he is on. I am sure she gave them an earful.
After the Revenge Picketers had been marching about for roughly 15 minutes another of my neighbors warned them my wife would be home shorly. Hearing this the Scntists promptly walked to their car, managed to get it started and, in a cloud of oil burning smoke, puttered off and back to the Toronto Org to hide from me and my fellow Demonstrators.
[A 30 minute drive each way and very little time spent picketing. Is it worth the useless effort? Yes you *do* intimidate me, my family and my neighbors, but this still won't prevent me from Peacefully Picketing the Org.]

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Subject: Toronto Picket Report 98/11/14
From: wulfen@NOSPAMtotal.net (Wulfen)
Message-ID: 3650dc71.2097906@news.total.net

Well, a beautiful day for a picket.. It rained a bit, and was cold.. But I was wearing a full set of thermal underwear, so I was warm.

Day started late.. Got down to the rendezvous point at 9:45, saw Gregg and BatChild (AKA Xenubat) hanging around waiting. Introduced myself, and after a bit we headed over to Gregg's car to kit up..

Well, who appeared there but a Scientologist.. Who catcalled in our general direction. What a start to the day... I sometimes think that Scientologists have to be speaking tongue in cheek when they interact with picketers.. But no, she was for real. Her picture:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/2167/rsm025.jpg

Well, we headed over to the Org.. predictably, BatChild had her picture taken by the frizzy-haired Scientologist (all new picketers get this done). Gregg set up his sign.. It rested against a tripod, and had leaflet and coffee-cup holders.. Sheesh. Does he have a licence for that thing?? Gregg also went inside to serve the Org a trespass notice.. I watched Gregg's sign. It loomed.

Well, BatChild got all the sights pointed out to her.. The Dianetics Car (no picture available yet, but you've gotta see this to believe it), the broken Org windows, and other Toronto Co$ attractions. The Org brought out a videocamera, and kept it on her nearly the whole picket.. Seeing as she was standing in one place handing out flyers for hours, this was one waste of videotape. Not only that, the videographer didn't seem to know how to pan smoothly, or even how to focus the thing. Perhaps next time I shall offer some kind hints.. Like: Zoom In, Focus, Zoom Out. Heh.

The frizzy-haired lady was ragging us.. She's almost as much fun as wgert or Rod Fletcher on EFNET #scientology. :-) She didn't like us telling the world about the indictments in Lisa McPherson's death - kept telling us that we were making it up. It is, of course, entirely possible that the first time she heard it was from us.. And what Scientologist would trust a bunch of SP's, anyway?

The frizzy-haired lady was a great source of entertainment.. When I showed BatChild the Dianeticsmobile the lady said oooh, "dangerous". I pointed out that it was dangerous if the driver was getting restimulated while he drove. ;-) She also catcalled and tried to bait us (well, Gregg mostly). When the camera was on me, I mugged and waved the "http://WWW.XENU.NET" side of my sign.. She said that I wasn't as pretty as I thought.. If I'm not, then why does the camera keep taking my picture? ;-)

Also, I succeeded in performing the same (slightly immature) trick that I did last time with the camera operator.. I turned my sign to the WWW.XENU.NET side, and slowly walked the edge of a circle, with the camera lady at the centre.. She didn't realize that I was toying with her until her camera filmed (it looked like to me) the corner of the Hubbard Dianetics Foundation... HA! Of course, now that I've revealed that trick, I'll have to think up a new one...

Also, I put a new slogan on one side of my sign:
$cientology: BAIT AND SWITCH "Church"
It was pretty eye-catching among passers-by. Even the Scientologists read it. Not bad..

I passed out a few flyers.. Not so many as BatChild or Deep Wog or Android Cat, though.. Argh. I can write them, but not pass them out. Something is odd there..

Deep Wog and Android Cat joined sometime in the morning.. At lunch, we were joined by Seanster and his SO. We finished with 8.. Enough to have a line of picketers in front of the Org, but not enough that we were tripping over each other.

Well, we finished early.. I thought that it was because the officer was being cold as in hostile.. Nope, he was cold as in freezing his butt off in a Canadian November. Can't wait to see what the December picket is like..
http://www.total.net/~wulfen/scn

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Subject: Picket report, Toronto, 11/14/98
From: Xenubat@primenet.com (Bat Child (Sue M.))
Message-ID: 3652bb2c.252132@news.primenet.com

(PRE-PICKET STUFF)
(snipped)

(PICKET DAY)
I went over to our pre-arranged meeting place; as I wasn't sure how long it would take for me to get there, I left earlier and wound up getting there early and being the first one there. I had my flyers and an extra sign that I had used the last time I picketed the San Diego org in April of this year ("SCIENTOLOGY: SPACE ALIEN SCAM!" and "DOES THE BRIDGE REALLY COST $360,000?"), but I didn't have a handle attached as I didn't think it would fit into my tote bag. Gregg met me about 5-10 minutes later, and we were joined shortly afterwards by Wulfen. Wulfen's sign had "WWW.XENU.NET" on one side and, I think, "Scientology: Bait & Switch Religion" on the other. I think Wulfen also had copies of JourO's "True Cost of $cientology" (?) flyers. We went over to Gregg's car to get his sign (along with his tripod sign holder/coffee cup holder), the bullhorn and his Xemu/Criminally Convicted Church flyers. A woman Scieno with dark wavy hair walked by us and said something like "You're insane criminals!" Gregg remarked to me that the Scienos have to get their cheap shots at us before the picket since they have to behave themselves during the picket, what with the police officer standing nearby the whole time! :-)

Right before 10:00 Gregg asked me to go over to the org entrance so I could be an official witness as he went into the org and served them with the No Trespassing Notice. Then at about 10:00 the picket officially started. Gregg stood on the corner in front of the church with his tripod; Wulfen walked back and forth between the corner and the entrance; at first I stood on the corner, then I moved up the street by the entrance, standing in one spot for a while, then moving over a ways to another spot on the sidewalk, being careful not to stand in front of the Brothers Restaurant (what a drag for that restaurant, having to be totally surrounded on both sides by the church!). The dark-haired woman that had insulted us earlier came out to take pictures of me; then they sent out another woman to film us with a video camera (she seemed to be filming me a lot, but she mostly only got footage of me with my back to her). They also had two male Scienos out by the org entrance handing out copies of "The Way to Happiness"; the dark-haired woman also was handing out "The Way to Happiness". The male Scienos basically ignored us; the video operator didn't say anything to us either, just filmed us. Greg started out with his speeches that he gives throughout the picket, like "Scientology, the only criminally convicted church in Canada, for breach of the public trust!", etc., and now he had another announcement to add: "Indicted yesterday on two felony counts in the United States in Clearwater, Florida for the death of Lisa McPherson!" The dark-haired woman's response was to say things like "You're making it all up!" and "This man's son sells drugs!" I thought it was kind of pathetic, actually; my initial reaction was that the Scienos in Toronto have basically been reduced to wailing impotently!

I was mainly handing out the "Scam" flyers but also had the "Insane Cult" flyers to give to people. There wasn't a lot of pedestrian traffic in the morning so I didn't hand out that many flyers at first. People did seem to like my sign, as I got quite a few thumbs-up, smiles and "I agree" comments from pedestrians and motorists. Then "Deep Wog" showed up to join us after a while.

It was weird--I saw a man driving a white Mercedes who parked on a side street off the other side of Yonge Street; he sat in the car and stared at us (or maybe just at me) for about a minute. Then he got out and crossed the street and came up to me. He asked for one of my flyers and I gave him a "Scam" flyer. He asked me where I got this information from, and I replied that this information came from former members. He then asked if I was a former member and I said, "No, but I know people who were members." He then went back to his car and drove off. I had initially thought he was a Scieno, because the Scienos have often asked me, "Where did you get this information from?" with regard to the flyers I hand out. So I kept looking to see if this guy would start driving around the block going past us; then a minute later I walked down the sidewalk to see if the white Mercedes might be parked somewhere down the street where it originally was parked, as if this person might be planning to watch/follow us/me. I didn't see that car again, though, so maybe I was just being paranoid! :-/

Shortly before 1 pm (I think), Wulfen came up to me and said, "Xenubat, you've got to check this out!" and he showed me the yellow Dianetics-mobile driving down the street--this garish yellow car with "Dianetics" and an 800 number painted in black along the side! I wondered why, if they had such Sooper OT Powerz, why couldn't they just operate the car telepathically? Why did they still have to use oil and gas and all that other wog-world automotive stuff? :-)

About 1 pm we took a lunch break. Seanster and his friend and Android Cat had joined us. During lunch, Gregg got a phone call from someone informing him that the Scienos were picketing his house! (that's apparently where the Theta-Mobile was going). And apparently the police had been called, and it sounded like the neighbors were not at all impressed with the Scienos! Boy, Scn sure likes to practice that Footbullet Tech, don't they? :-)

It had started drizzling a little bit, but nothing major. The Scns had sent out a blond woman to hand out "Way to Happiness" booklets. Seanster and his friend, Android Cat and Wulfen were going back and forth down the sidewalk where I had previously stood this morning; I had moved over to the corner closer to where Gregg was. A couple of times Gregg had to leave his post (to go get more Xemu/Criminally Convicted Church flyers or to talk with the police officer) so Wulfen would fill in Gregg's place. Pedestrian and auto traffic really started to pick up in the afternoon and I handed out quite a lot of flyers--I think my total of "Scam" flyers handed out was about 100! (I'm not sure how many total "Insane Cult" flyers were handed out--I had handed out some myself and I had given a big handful of them to Wulfen and Seanster and Seanster's friend). On at least two occasions, cars would even pull over to the curb and the driver or passenger would roll down their window and ask us for flyers! Then there was one other car that was going down the side street where Gregg and I were; they were going to make a left-hand turn, I think, and so were in the middle of the street. Then the occupants of the car saw our picket and the passenger rolled down her window and asked us for one of our flyers; Gregg promptly told them that we weren't allowed to walk into the street to the car to give them the flyers, as that would be blocking traffic, that they would have to pull over to the curb so we could hand them the flyers from the sidewalk without us having to walk in the street in front of another car. So see, it's not just the Scienos who have to follow the law to the letter; us picketers have to do the same thing! :-)

I got to hear more of Gregg's "speeches" (which I didn't really hear in the morning); he'd be saying things like "Read about Xenu, Scientology's secret space alien--no, it's not Nintendo, folks, it's Xenu, the evil galactic overlord!" and "John Travolta spent $300,000 for this story--you can get it right here for free!", among many other things. I spent a lot of my time just standing there laughing--I was sort of like Robin Quivers to Gregg's Howard Stern! ;-) When I wasn't laughing then I would stand and smile and hold out my flyers to passersby--I suppose I could refer to that as Dale Humphrey Tech! :-) (I think she does a better job of it than I do, though!) I also got to hear Gregg tell the cop (who was black) about some of LRH's racist gems like about blacks being too dumb to register on the e-meter and things like that, and also about Paulette Cooper and "Operation Freakout". At some point in the afternoon I saw the Theta-mobile had returned and I saw the Scienos who had picketed Gregg's house come out of the car with their picket signs (they only had the message on one side of the sign and of course the side of the sign with message was facing away from me so I had no idea what they said!) and go into the org through the back entrance.

Between 3:00-3:30 (my watch was acting up and running slow all day), Artemis showed up. Apparently he had wanted to picket all day but had come down with a really nasty cold the day before and said he wouldn't be able to do an all-day picket but would try and come for the last hour or so, and he did make it. About 3:40, Gregg announced that at 4:00 there would be the official reading of the first page of OT3 over the bullhorn, probably so any Scienos within earshot who weren't "spiritually prepared" to hear this stuff could go inside to avoid getting pneumonia. Sure enough, at 4:00 he started reading it. Then some other Scieno woman comes out and starts having a discussion with Gregg. I didn't catch all of it, but I did hear her say that the OT3 he read was a fake; then Gregg said something like, "Well if it's fake, then it won't bother you if we distribute copies of it to the public?" and she said, "No, it won't bother us at all,"; then Gregg said, "Do you want to repeat that statement into this tape recorder in front of the police officer?"; then she starts changing her story and gets all flustered and says that he can't distribute it after all! Then she and the blond woman who was handing out "Way to Happiness" booklets stand right in front of Gregg and deliberately start carrying on a conversation in really loud voices. Gregg asked them to stop blocking him and they ignored him, so he asked the police officer for permission to use the bullhorn again since the women won't move and won't shut up; the policeman says OK, so Gregg turns on the bullhorn and starts reciting the same things he was reciting all afternoon about body thetans and Scn being the only criminally convicted church in Canada and Travolta spending $300,000 to learn about Xenu, etc., except now it's amplified through the bullhorn! Finally the women quit yapping shortly afterwards and the one woman left, though the blonde woman was still handing out the "Way to Happiness" books.

About 4:30 or so, the picket officially ended. We all stopped at the "Duke" across the street for a short while, then we all went on our merry way.

(POST-PICKET STUFF)
I was going back to Minneapolis on Sunday afternoon. I had breakfast at the hotel's Accents Restaurant & Bar (as I had every morning during my stay) and the waiter said he had seen me picketing! :-) He asked if Scientology was a cult, and I said that it depends who you asked, and I said that they aren't up-front with the public or their members about what they're really all about, and I also said that people have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Scn. I didn't have any of my flyers on me, and I didn't really want to sit and bend his ear all morning as he had other customers, but I got to fill him in a little bit anyways. Then I checked out and was on my way to the airport.

Toronto is a very nice city; if I do get a chance to go there again, I'll probably stay longer next time, so I can get more sightseeing in. And I have to say Toronto's ARSCC division really knows how to hold a picket!! I had a great time, and I do recommend to you ARS readers, if you feel like taking a trip to Toronto, why not find out when there will be a picket there and plan to take your vacation then? I think it's well worth it! :-) Sue Mullaney
(http://members.cox.net/batchild1/)