October 17, 1998 - Deep Wog

In vague order:

1. Five deeply supressive individuals gathered at Charles St. and Yonge St. at about 09:00. As Gregg and Wulfen went into a McD's for breakfast, Artemis and myself stayed outside and watched the Org rapidly fill up with people. At least 10 people when I lost count.

Seems like someone was expecting a big turn-out. Wonder whatever gave them that impression? ;-)

I spotted a yellow car with black lettering reading "DIANETICS" on the side. I wish I had the photo-gear up; I had no idea such a vehicle existed.

2. We arrived at 10:00 or so and began to supress. I decided to stick with photo stuff (and did so for the entire picket), occasionally engaging in conversation with the public.

Cult response is easily summarized: pathetic. These Orgies were not at "cause" over much of anything, let alone a bunch of "criminal" SP's picketing outside their door.

While they did setup the normal stress test tables, apparently they lacked the E-meters, or someone to man them. Only at the very end of the picket was an E-meter present on one table, and it only got use about 15 minutes before we quit.

Opposition, such as it was, came mainly from leafletting.

Two items.

One was a piece of white paper with the preamble to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the top, and Article 18 below which states:

"Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

All well and good -- in fact, we may well hand out the exact same thing next picket! -- but what if the Co$ is not, as we contend, a religion but merely a business? Surely Article 18 becomes moot re: the Co$ and our objections?

And what can one make jurisprudence in Canada (helpfully supplied by the failed Co$ appeal of their breach of trust conviction) that has it that one can not shield criminal activity by invoking "religious belief".

If the Co$ disagrees, might I suggest it leave Canada and find a more suitable climate for the so-called "religion"?

In any event, a typical non-confront from the Co$. They can't address our points, so they attempt diversion. But then, what else is new, eh?

The other item, handed out with the first, was an amazing little booklet called "The Way to Happiness -- A Common Sense Guide to Better Living".

Forty five (small) pages long, it is a list of little dictums the criminal cult recommend as a means of becoming, and remaining, "happy". The sheer hypocrisy of the criminal cult handing this out demands the full list be presented, with my editorializations in [square brackets]:

1. Take care of yourself.

1.1 Get care when you are ill.

[What about Lisa McPherson? Some help *she* got.]

1.2 Keep your body clean

[Didn't Hubbard have a cleanliness psychosis?]

1.3 Preserve your teeth.

1.4 Eat properly.

[Even for those in the RPF?]

1.5 Get rest.

[Odd. I recall Stacy Brooks Young noting that many Co$ members, at least high-ranking ones she was talking about last month, are regularly denied sleep.]

2. Be temperate.

2.1 Do not take harmful drugs

[What about all the chain-smoking Co$ members at the Toronto Org?]

2.2 Do not take alcohol to excess

[Hm. Considering that virtually all other dictates in this booklet are violated by the Co$ or its members on a regular basis, one does want to form the obvious hypothesis...]

3. Don't be promiscuous

"Sex is the means by which the race projects itself into the future ..."

[Race? This "race" comes up again in other dictates. I guess in addition to being a physics flunk, Hubbard didn't do too good in biology either. Or could there be a more sinister twinge to the use of this word?]

3.1 Be faithful to your sexual partner.

[Of course L. Ron Hubbard, bigamist, was a paragon of faithfulness to his sexual partners!]

4. Love and help children.

[Just like Hubbard did, right? Who was the one who wanted to fly, but was denied this wish (despite ample resources) and eventually killed himself at the end of a runway at an airport?]

5. Honour and help your parents.

[Let me guess ... by disconnecting from them?]

6. Set a good example.

[Yeah, do what the Co$ does: implement flawed physical theories on Lisa McPherson, right to her death, despite all the evidence (cf. FSO logs) more harm than good was being done.]

7. Seek to live with the truth.

"What is true is what is true for you."

[Total, complete, lunacy. An abandonment of all rational thought. A rejection of physical reality.]

7.1 Do not tell harmful lies.

[But non-harmful ones are ok?]

7.2 Do not bear false witness.

[And the Co$ would *never* do that.]

8. Do not murder.

[Here the text makes a fine distinction between 'kill' and 'murder'. The position is that killing is OK, but murder isn't. I'm sure this will come in handy when the Co$ has to carry out Hubbard's order re: "dispose of {those too low on the 'Tone Scale'} quietly and without sorrow". Right, Mr. Rinder? It's all just a matter of self-defence, right? After all, OSA is fighting an 'all out war with supressive elements', as you aver? Hmmm? Presumably folks like myself can be killed in this 'war', correct?]

9. Don't do anything illegal.

[BBAWWWWWWWAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. The >>criminal<< cult speaketh a real good funny!!!]

10. Support a Government designed and run for all the people.

[And what finer support can one offer but to infiltrate its judical and law enforcement mechanisms, right Co$?]

11. Do not harm a person of good will.

[Phew! Bob Minton must sleep better at night already!]

12. Safeguard and improve your environment.

12.1 Be of good appearance

[Well ... ok, I won't comment.]

12.2 Take care of your own area.

[The Toronto Org could make use of this advice; the building is wasting away. Broken windows that aren't being fixed. Broken elevator.]

12.3 Help take care of the planet.

13. Do not steal.

[ROTFLMAO. See 9.]

14. Be worthy of trust.

[And the little detail about the Co$ being convicted of Criminal Breach of Trust?]

14.1 Keep your word once given.

15. Fulfill your obligations.

[So when *will* the criminal cult pay Wollersheim?]

16. Be industrious.

17. Be competent.

17.1 Look

17.2 Learn

17.3 Practice

18. Respect the religious beliefs of others

[I'm sure the freezoners are all a-mighty relieved at this pronouncement. NOT!]

19. Try not to do things to others that you would not like them to do to you.

20. Try to treat others as you would want them to treat you.

21. Flourish and prosper.

[Remember, $cientology is expanding!]

I can also quote a number of "definitions" that are found as footnotes on many pages. Rest assured many of them are true howlers. Truly this is a work one best *not* read before going to sleep; the giggles, gawfaws and amazement as you compare the Co$ to the 'commandments' will keep you up for hours.

But the last laugh is, as always, the hardest. Here is some of the small print on the back page of this booklet:

This may be the first nonreligious moral code based wholly on common sense. It was written by L. Ron Hubbard as an individual work and is not part of any religious doctrine. [...]

So one page of the handout -- from a self-described "church" -- tells us about our religious freedom. Yet the next pages are wholly areligious.

Whatever can it mean?

3. We SP's did the usual thing. We created more supperssons. Or maybe enthetons? Whatever the fundamental particle that carries the Suppressive Force. Gregg and Wulfen are amazing. They can belt out, at high volume, their pitches to take a flyer for hours. My vocal cords would have been ground into dust within 20 minutes. I am in awe.

4. I shot 2.5 rolls of film. It was a little dark, so there will probably going to be alot of throw-aways because of motion blur. Two events of some minor note:

4.1. Mario (clam, last name unknown), for some reason [I didn't ask!], began to model DMSH and and other Dianetics publications. I shot off a whole bunch of pictures, encouraging him to look into the lens for better portraits. While he is no professional model [in other words, Mario, don't quit your day job!] I think some of the pictures will be humourous, which was his obvious intent. I hope Mario doesn't get in any trouble for this bit of fun. I offered him prints, but he declined. Mario, the offer is nevertheless still open!

4.2. Some lady clam decides my big lens is too much to take. As I focus on her from close range, she walked up to me and places her hand on the lenshood and gives it (and in turn me) a push and walks away.

I am highly upset, but Gregg cools me down.

Whoever you are, if you do that again, I'm trotting down to College St. to immediately file a complaint [assault?] with a justice of the peace. I will gladly identify myself to the court (and hence the cult) to secure a **CONVICTION** of assault by a member of the Co$ in her duties as a Co$ member, thus making it a conviction *OF* the so-called Church of $cientology.

[Oh dim woman of $cientology, you have probably forgotten the little detail of the >>fingerprints<< you left on my lenshood ... hmmm??]

5. In one particular way, this was the most pathetic response by the cult I have yet witnessed.

In a word: clown.

The cult got one of their members in makeup and vaguely clown attire and inflated a pile of balloons. This "clown" proceeded to wander the picket, and give out the balloons to children.

I have a large number of pictures of this "clown".

Now I've seen clowns before. I've photographed them. And though I've never *been* a clown -- not much of an extrovert -- but I do know there are a few "rules" about the trade. For example, they smile. Almost all the time. Yet this Co$ "clown" had a distinct scowering gaze. In fact, whoever painted the makeup on must have realized the problem (subconciously?) because they painted a smile on the face of the clown. Unfortunately, this only made things *alot* worse. The dichotomy of a 'smile' and a nasty glare on the same face was ... very disturbing at times. And hilarious at others.

This "clown" also had a real problem with cameras. It seemed to be a bit allergic to them -- unlike all other clowns I've come across, which will invariably ham it up for the camera. I guess this is just another way of saying part of being a clown invovles being the center of attention, and to *like* being at such a focus.

Why was the Co$ "clown" was so shy ... ?

Then there is the matter of, as Gregg described it, "street theatre". Wholly absent in this "clown". It just stood there, with that that horrifying/hilarious smile/glower on its face and waited for a kid to show up.

In short, the Co$ deployed an "anti-clown" at today's picket. And I hope to heck they aren't proud of their "achievement".