October 18, 1997 - Slippery Jim

Suppressive notes:

On Friday I telephoned (from a payphone of course) Mr. Jim Clearley (sp?) regarding Mr. Ward and the termination of his account with tidepool.com. Mr. Clearley (sp?) told me that he had nothing to do with the termination of Mr. Ward's account and he suggested I phone a Mr. Chris Matern (sp?) at (773) 281-7988. Mr. Matern(sp?) seemed to have made up his mind that the posting(s) of Mr. Ward that he had seen were obscene, and that the account termination would stand. He further noted that Scientology was not an issue in his mind and he went on to claim that Mr. Ward had violated Tidepool's terms of service. I offered the thought (that Mr. Matern reject) that he should be concerned about the perception that his firm is in bed with the Church of Scientology, what with his firm's public offering coming up. To finish off I did offer best wishes on his firm's public offering efforts, and as his firm will I expect need all the help it can get at this point in time.

To explain the next bit you will need to know a bit about the layout around the Co$ in Toronto.

Of further note the north side of the Co$ building is taken up with the Dianetics center, and the south is $cientology stuff.

Traditionally (but not always) pickets of the Co$ in Toronto have started at 1:00 pm on a Saturday. I have attended a few pickets, enough to have been repeatedly photographed by the clams. I was curious as to how much it would take to set off the alarm bells at the clam center. So what I did was go and have lunch at Country Style Donuts (which as the name suggests started out as a chain of donut shops, and has since branched out into light lunches, with a selection of soups and sandwiches). The Country Style Donut shop at 10 St. Mary St. has a patio on the south side giving an excellent view of the Hubbard Dianetics center, and thus was my pick for lunch.

I got down to Yonge and St. Mary at about 12:25, just in time to see some people loading up "A New Slant on Life" poster into a old brown station wagon parked on St. Mary St.. As Rev. Buttnor was with the people loading the poster into the car I thought this worthy of a picture (silly me, I left the flash turned on). At the sight of me and my camera Rev. Buttnor disappeared into the C.o.$. building not to be seen by me again.

No matter, I went into the Country Style Donuts and ordered the soup (in this case cream of potato (had I been asked I would have claimed it was clam chowder :-) )), sandwich, and soft drink lunch special. Once I collected my tray with lunch on it I took up position as far south as I could on the Country Style patio.

I then proceeded to eat lunch, periodically glancing at my watch and looking around as though I was expecting others to show up. As well I spent time making notes in a small note book. A short time after I started eating lunch the brown station wagon (with the "New Slant on Life" poster) drove to Yonge St. and turned south, not to be seen by me again (still I did note the licence plate, so it can be noticed again :-) ). For much of this time I was watched by a woman wearing sunglasses and a long coat standing in front of the Dianetics center, I did take her picture (again I forgot to turn the flash off :-) ).

At about 12:45 I saw a man who had been going back and forth between the C.o.$. building and a red Pontiac Sunfire car, drove off in his car, turning north onto Yonge St. (it's licence plate again noted in my notebook). Just after this I finished up Lunch and went for a walk around the C.o.$ building.

There is a back lane way that goes behind the C.o.$., looking up the lane way from St. Mary St. I counted two broken windows, and some spray painted graffiti that read <<undecipherable>> "suckass". From the looks of things the windows and the graffiti would appear to have been that way for some time. Looking in from Yonge St. there was a poster up about a big event scheduled for next week at Saint Hill England (I hope ARSCC(wdne) members in the UK will see to it that visiting $cientologist will be given a good old-fashioned ARSCC(wdne) welcome).

At this point was quite interesting was the lack of clams, there was one person (acting as security?) behind a desk inside the Co$ lobby and another in the Dianetics center (at the back of the center with the lights turned off).

After this I walked along St. Mary in order to get a better view of the Co$ building. From Bay St. I noticed that the Ronbot building had a floor that I was not previously aware of, the ninth floor of the building is set back from the north, east, and west sides of the building (so as to be effectively invisible from these sides unless one is some distance away from the building or quite high). A large electronic sign largely blocks the view of the ninth floor from the south, making it all a seemingly almost forgotten floor.

Coming back up St. Mary I noticed a red Pontiac Sunfire beside me. For a few moments I considered the possibility that this might be a different car than the one I had seen earlier, but a quick check against my note book, showed that it had the same licence plate as the car I had seen earlier.

I also noticed that the credit card machine in the Dianetics center was from the Bank of Montreal (for the U.S. readers of this, keep in mind that Canadian banks are allowed to set-up branches anywhere in the country, and so they do). Does anyone here have shares in the Bank of Montreal, or would anyone like to buy shares in the Bank of Montreal, so as to ask questions at the Bank's next shareholder's meeting about one of the Bank's least reputable customers?

A clam lady (different from the first one who watched me) came up to me as I was coming back, noting that she had seen me looking into the Dianetics center and she wanted to know if she could help me. I replied no, that I was just looking around (true enough). I did get this conversation on tape (I had been silly enough to leave one of those tiny tape recorders turned on inside my windbreaker, admittedly her voice is somewhat muffled). A few further looks around and by 1:15 pm I saw about a half dozen clams gathered at the corner of Yonge and St. Mary (taking up space where the pickets normally assemble). At this point I figured there was no further point in staying. So I walked away checking for tails, and figured on giving any clams that might have tailed me a possible "oh shit" experience. You see I wound my way back to where Mr. Hagglund (noted local critic) has in the past parked his vehicle before protests :-) . From there I made my way home via a very indirect route.

A very successful lunch, a whole bunch of somewhat steamed clams. I will have to try this again sometime, it seems the clams have a button that needs to be flattened until the whole ARSCC(wdne) donut lovers subcommittee can gather at Country Style and be ignored. In preparing my expense report for lunch for the ARSCC (wdne) do I put my lunch on form E-7 or do I have to do it up in triplicate on an E-762 form?

Other stuff, a few weeks ago the following ad appeared in Eye newspaper (a competitor to Now newspaper, a free weekly entertainment newspaper) announcement classifieds:

TOTAL FREEDOM from Scientology,
L. Ron Hubbard, and Dianetics. Internet
http://www.ex-cult.org/

After this came out I did call up Rev. Buttnor (from a pay phone in a busy location and in a part of the city I am seldom seen in), to tell him about the above ad. After all, good news needs to be shared. I didn't get to speak to the Reverand (he was I gather out at the time), but instead did leave a message with the receptionist. Good help seems to be hard to find for the clams, as the receptionist didn't know what Eye newspaper was, and when I tried to explain, she wanted to write down EVERY word I said, slowly. I hope I was speaking to a new member of the nut cult, otherwise the clams are going to be finished as an organization REAL soon and without much effort.

Finally, people who hate the Co$ but would not be caught dead anywhere near the Co$ are getting involved (boy I would love be a fly on the wall when the local clams figure out what "quiet stuff" is slowly hitting them in the pocketbook :-) ). Sadly, until the clams show that they have a clue on this one, this story will have to wait, but trust me, it will be a great story when it can be told :-) .

I wonder if the Toronto clams have checked their bank balance lately :-). Hey, Rev. Buttnor, run away, the suppressives are coming, the suppressives are coming :-) .

It is so great to be a suppressive in Toronto!

Jim DiGriz
Rat Enterprises Inc.-"Doing suppressive things for over 10 years"