A SURPRISE PICKET

Picketing the Church of Scientology© since May 10, 1997, for Objectionable Management Practises.

Toronto Ontario Canada. June 7, 1997.

On Saturday June 7, 1997 from 2pm to 5pm an Information Picket
was held at the Toronto Org of the Co$ on Yonge St.

The Picket came as a total surprise to the Org.

Subject: Toronto Picket Report
by 'Artemis'.

Part One:

I arrive at the meeting spot at about 12:30, and I stake out the org.
Very little sidewalk activity, no body routers.

Watching the main entrance, there is a guy in his fifties, and in an electric wheelchair, he sits outside the org smoking a cigarette, as he turns to go in, I see the back of his jacket.

He has a Canadian OT logo on it (Canadian maple leaf from the flag with an O & T superimposed over it). I guess that he hasn't reached the right level of control over his BT's yet.

I watch the 'clams'.
A lady sea org in uniform.

A heavyweight bouncer type, in white shirt, pants and suspenders (Smoking, of course).
A guy I've seen before in clerical uniform.

12:50. I see a squirrel! Yes, one of Toronto's famous black squirrels is on the awning above the public area.

12:57 The Reverent Buttnor is spotted! And the first body router, a black guy in his late twenties or early thirties. He brings out the card table, and proceeds to ignore the hundreds of passerbys.

In fact, until we went outside, I didn't see a single person look at the book, take a ticket to the orientation film, or acknowledge the BR at all.

At 2 pm there are 3 picketers, Myself, D'art, Gregg & one observer, Miss U. The three picketers are equipped with Lisa McPherson T-Shirts, and Gregg & myself go off for the picket supplies.

The Metro Toronto Police park a crime prevention unit van conspicuously on the corner nearest the org, and Gregg goes to introduce himself, apparently the police have heard of the violence in London, and wish to ensure there isn't anything similar here.

Note we did not tell them about Roland, they must have done their own research.