Kady O'Malley

16 March 1999
Ottawa Ca - Just moments ago a duet of representatives of the SPC (a purportedly grassroots Storm Trooper arm of the Church of Scientology) picketed well known cult critic Kady O'malley at her office on The Hill, Canada's parliamentary center.

Dave Mccowan and Edward Vachon said that they were picketing 'more or less' spontaneously against a person whose picture they had, as well as a certainty that she was a religious bigot, but unfortunately did not know her name.

In one of a long series of revenge pickets against critics of the cult of scientology Mccowan and Vachon attempted to avoid answering questions to a group of curious reporters who later characterized them as 'a couple of dolts.'

Ms. O'malley remained in her office, possibly shuddered into silence by the fit of giggles heard to issue from her lips. She however refused to speak to the picketers saying 'I don't want to ack them' which apparently means something in the strange doublespeak of scientology jargon, but exactly what may and possibly should remain a mystery.

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From Canoe newspaper:
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSPolitics9903/16_cleroux.html
SCIENTOLOGY BACKS BACK

There are few more competent, harder-working reporters in the Parliamentary Press Gallery than Hill Times reporter Kady O'Malley.

Last Saturday she attended a free speech protest against outside a Church of Scientology in Toronto.

She was photographed by the Scientologists who traced her back to Ottawa. On Monday they arrived on Parliament Hill and mounted a protest against O'Malley outside the Centre Block.

They carried printed signs, including one which featured a large photograph of O'Malley denouncing her as "The Face of Bigotry."

Scientology members play hard ball. They follow people they don't like and picket them at their place of work. The idea is to embarrass them into silence. It often works.

In O'Malley's case, it didn't work. First because she writes about federal politics not Scientology, and second, because the young, soft- spoken, five-foot something O'Malley, who wears a nose ring, and says "cool" all the time, hardly qualifies as a storm-trooping, neo- fascist intolerant. Fellow reporters saw the whole thing as a farce.

O'Malley didn't. She was too afraid of the nasty bunch outside to even venture from the Buildings.