"Friends of Religious Liberty" picket Christopher Wood

Just before the 1998 Clearwater picket, the so-called "Friends of Religious Liberty" picketed my apartment building. I found them when I was returning from a guerilla picket in front of the Toronto Scientology Org. Like most Scientologist revenge picketers, they were non-confront and uncommunicative. I wonder how much they shelled out for those communications courses?

Well, they picketed for a while, and attracted more and more attention from the neighborhood urchins. Once the neighborhood children found out that I lived there and these people came from outside, opinion shifted pretty decisively against the Scientologists. After 30-45 minutes, they called it a night and took off, amid catcalls of "Go home!" and "Get out of our neighborhood!".

It was also a productive night for leaflets, I handed out lots of them to passers-by and enquiring youngsters. As the highlight of this activity, I gave away a handful of Xenu leaflets to one urchin who wanted to spread them around his middle school.

And now, the pictures:

	Some of these are rather blurry, I'm out of practice in taking pictures. Also, in my only photography class all the night subjects stood still. The blond guy seemed to be the ringleader.. He was the only one without a sign, and the only one who brought a camera. Sometimes, he seemed to be directing when the group would turn around and walk the other way. Creepy, no?
	His sign: "A primary trap is to succumb to invitations to hate." L. RON HUBBARD A New Slant On Life Why is it that even when Scientologists counter-picket, they're still trying to flog Scientology books?
	Perhaps a better view of the previous sign. Oh, and the blond guy's head.
	Flash! The sign says: "your neighbor is promoting religious intolerance" Funny, in the US the sign would read "is a religious bigot". Perhaps for once our Canadian Scientologists read the Criminal Harrassment (ie stalking) law we have in Canada? Incidentally, that picture was taken by Bob Minton. Trust the Scientologists to steal pictures from the one guy who has deep enough pockets to sue them for long enough to win. Can you say footbullet?
	Blurrier but more complete view of the sign. The picture they nicked is located here.
	Taking a picture of a guy taking a picture. You notice there's lots of these around the Scientology picket pages?
	More Hubbard. Why couldn't these Scientologists "think for themselves"? Why did they let Hubbard think for them?
	One of the neighborhood urchins. The photo doesn't show it, but he was laughing at "The Way To Happiness" by L. Ron Hubbard himself. That's a copy of my "$cientology Costs A Mint" leaflet behind the Hubspew.
	The Scientologists, picketing. All in a nice row, they walked along in a big theta snail. They turned together, and kept their formation for the whole picket. Definitely a stylistic change from the usual freestyle ARSCC picket...
	He doesn't look happy. Perhaps because he Can't Hide (-30.0 on Scientology's Tone Scale of Human Emotion) from me, so that I don't notice the picket?
	Blurrier picture of the "theta centipede".