30 YEARS Of INFAMY!

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

PART 2:

After about 30 minutes Al Buttnor showed up and he was not very happy again. His ears go kinda all red and the bags under his eyes puff out.( I think he has high blood pressure and I hope he gets that condition seen to. After all, in Ontario the Health Services are generally free to Ontario Residents.)

He stomped into the Org. and emerged a few minutes later to take a picture of the Banner. Now to do this he backed out into traffic. I spoke up and warned him of his peril and he looked about startled. Fortunately there were no cars at the time. He asked me conversationally to straighten up the Banner and I happily obliged. ( Damn tootin right I am proud of that banner. It took a whole day to manufacture.)

At first we had a sparse number of passersby, probably due to the Film Festival. However, at 3 pm we were joined by Slippery Jim DiGris and his acquaintance 'Karl Marx' and simultaneously the number of passersby significantly increased. 'Karl' took over holding up the banner and I, Jim and Artemis went into high gear.

All told we gave out over 250 flyers and pamphlets to eager hands and many thankyous. We had dozens of verbal and car acks. Even acks from the cast of the live theatre across the street who leaned out to wave and yell encouragement to us from the upper floor windows. I gave them a verbal plug in gratitiude and got a cheer!

Slippery Jim takes the lead.

New Picketer 'Karl Marx'.

One org staff has apparently been assigned to try to comm with me and keep me talking and off the M-Phone.
However, I note the time when he starts talking to me and only give him 10 minutes the first time and only 2 minutes each subsequent time. This guy is the one tall guy I call 'Jeff'. When he approached me to have a cigarette and chat I stunned him by apologising for snapping at him last Picket ( Sept 1). I told him I felt bad about maybe sounding angry at him, but if he would like I could get an audio copy of Hubbard actually saying "there is no Christ" for him.
His jaw dropped and he almost lost his cig. (Kools)
He then thanked me and said I sounded reasonable and then we began a very civilised conversation. The gist of it was he was higher than OT3 and Scientology had a Spiritual 8th Dynamic Belief and then he went on to reply to my assertions of Co$ misconduct that other Churches had done the same in the past etc.
Standard stuff.
Where he slipped up was in agreeing with me that the Churches of old were wrong in misconduct and that 'Raw Meat' were not told of the Xenu and No Christ teachings. In short order I had him agree that this should be corrected. When he admitted that I checked the time and his share was up. I told him I was there to inform the public and I was going to resume that now. I then started back on the M-Phone and he kind of wandered off and joined a group of Cosites who had congregated across the sidestreet from the Org, right beside the Coffee Shop, for the daily 'steam'.

....Continued.