November 14, 1998 - Gregg Hagglund
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.
Toronto,
November 14, 1998.
The timing could not have been better for the CW DA to Indict the Criminal Corporation of Scientology. We mentioned this at great length and explained about Lisa numerous times at this Picket.
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. One day I expect they will do the same to me. (Until then any verbal whining about me trespassing in order to serve papers their staff on the street refuse to take, is just that: Downstat Whining by morally challenged and ethically bankrupt Hubbardites.)
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 Sigh 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 thatlater.
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 in to 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.
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 form 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 dicided 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 tho 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.]
We will be back at the Toronto Org on Sat. Dec.5,th. Wulfen will be the Picket Host of Record. Since he was outed by wgert he doesn't mind appending his real name and address to public documents concerning legal peaceful pickets at the Org. I and several other local critics will be at the Lisa McPherson Memorial Picket and Clam Roast in Occupied Clearwater.
Our first Picket of 1999 will be in either March or April depending on the weather.
Fair Warning to OSA, and fanatics Buttnor and Hill: Halton Police *will* be watching over my family in my absence.
Wog Law rules!