After our last Demo/Picket on Aug. 16th I sent a list of
complaints
to the Metro Police about the conduct of the Co$ Toronto staff under
the direction of Al Buttnor during the absence of Police cover.
And as I promised: This time I brought along a MegaPhone......
Buttnor didn't show until almost three and then the Org started to get more active. They sent what turned out to be a series of unfortunates to hand out pamphlets right behind me.
I kept
on blasting out that Hubbard wrote the Xenu story and said that
God and Christ were evil implants by Xenu and who would care
except Scientology didn't tell you this stuff up front.
And one by one those poor pamphleteers would just *have* to chip
in that I was lying. And so I would offer to give him/her an original.
And I would ask him why, if this was not true, that RTC and BPI
claimed it was copyrighted work of 'Source'. And one by one
they would be pulled away by the Lady Flower Cosite. The last
guy 'Jeff', didn't go when he was spoken to by her. He wanted to
argue with me. Poor guy didn't stand a chance. Buttnor
finally personally escorted the guy away and into the org.
A Grim Body Router
Another time a different Lady Cosite marched out the org door
carrying their 'Stress test' table and she plunked it down right
in front of the natural 'discussion' area beside the org. However,
since that is still part of the sidewalk of 700 Yonge street, I picked
the table up and walked it 10 feet up the side street and put it down.
Then I stood in front of the Org. and using my M-phone I said,
"This sidewalk is mine until 5 pm. I signed for it. If you want
to demo your $50 voltmeter in the $5000 casing then stay on Org
property." Then I went back to alternately haranging the crowds
or answering questions.
Co$ MeterMaid
It was a suberb and effective day all round for us.The counterforces were almost all new faces to us. And were just as ineffective and unable. I thought Scientology was supposed to help them with that?
The spoiler on the day, for me though, was one 30 sec
section of time, that occurred right after the cops
split at 4. Buttnor came up to me and complained that
the M-phone was too loud and would I turn it down?
I said : No, you drew it in, live with it.
Then he said something I am not going to repeat. It
was personal and was a 'hot button' (which I have since
filed off. {grin})
And I lost it. Yep. Score one for the Rev. Unfortunately
for him was how I lost it. I quipped back, on the M-Phone
as he was going away, a little bit of the same medicine.
It wasn't nice, even if true, and I was wrong to do it.
It won't happen again. My fellow picketers immediately let
me know, in no uncertain terms, that I had dipped into the Co$
gutter level, if but for a moment, and it was beneath me.
It was also beneath them. So I have apologised to them
and now to you folks, my mentors, on ARS.
( You know who you are.)
The last 45 minutes was all ours.
Buttnors forces
were overwhelmed by our last push ( invigorated
by a little anger). At 4:30 traffic dropped off dramatically
and we called it at 4:45.
Today was especially good for enturbulating staff. They even had to take their 'steaming clams' break a good 150 feet up the side street away from us, instead of the usual spot just 20 feet from the org. I treated them, long distance, to portions of OT3.
Not one shop or store owner complained about the M-phone to me, despite my routinely asking them, once and awhile via the M-phone, to come on down, and tell me if I was too loud and get an RXSecial Xenu the Galactic Overlord flyer.
Well, this was Picket#5 and it was 99% fun and
100% effective.
I think next time we'll do a Hawaiian theme {grin}.
Gregg SP4
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