November 20, 1999 - Gregg Hagglund

Picket Hilites:

Gray Overcast, but Lord Xenu stops Rain,
Picket Captain Sleeps In <grin>
Return of Slippery Jim,
Flyer Count: Aprox. 900
Cos Shills Gang Interrogate Gregg
Alan Frustrates Andy Shill
Co$Hack Chorus of Whiners led by Dipsoh Dan

Well the morning dawned grey and overcast and we were promised AM rain but, Lord Xenu intervened, or Our SP-OT PoWerZ prevailed and it stayed dry.

With Chris Wood (Wulfen) out East making an obscene amount of money, //\ndroidCat, aka Ron Sharp volunteered to be Picket Captain. But he slept in ! So I stepped into the Captains hat for the AM.

I met with the Hired Off Duty Officer, who had done a stint last year as well. He knew just what to expect and was not too surprised about Dipsoh Dans proclivity for shoving out of town SPs around. He also knew about Co$ extended property lines claims being as phoney as Dianetics. He knew too that the Co$ had to pay his salary today because they had been 'naughty'.

AM Volunteers: Alan Barclay, Mike Argue and Yours truly, Gregg Hagglund.

Ex Toronto Org members David Palter and Granfalloon provided moral suppport and refreshments.

Mike worked the street opposite the ORg, Alan worked the south end of the Org and I took my old place, in front of the videocamera (tappity tappity tap tap). Traffic was actually quite steady and Mike and Alan went thru 300 flyers by 1: PM.

The usual Co$ suspects were there for the AM plus a few new faces. I parked myself squarely under the projecting sign and right next to the Org and the suckers table.This made the Shill in charge of running the e-meter entertainment upset and he ordered me to move. I asked him what made him think I would do what he wanted? I ignored his TR stare at the back of my head for a few minutes. Then I turned around and smiled at him. He blinked at me convulsively and I mouthed the word 'Flunk".

I turned back to face north and was confronted by 6 Shills who wanted their chance to debate me.

Well, despite my legal advisors advice I did play with them for awhile. Especially Andy Shill.( He is such a failure! He has gone back to smoking again! But proclaims he only smokes for 7 months of the year. So now he has the 30 lb weight gain and the bad habit back. Maybe he will think good thoughts and shed the weight of that mass of flab, eh?)

I won't bore you all with all the details of the routine crap these 6 were eager to tell me all about. (They were so cute, like little puppies, eager to please.)

Included in the performance for the camera were the videographer, Andy Shill, Dipsoh Dan, Velcro Kitty(?) and her friend I'll call Doubting Thomas ( as he has blown at least once and been sucked back in) and a new face who I'll call Whining Willy.

Here are the hilights:

In case you folks don't know according to these CoShills: Scientology is a religion and a Science: There are scads and loads of scientific studies proving the tech works, but no testing can be done except by scientologists and no proof needs be furnished for Hubbards science and technology claims because Scientology is a Religion; Germany will be putting Scientologists in Concentration Camps by January One, ( with the help of Belgium and France); it is *required* I justify my choice to 'hatemonger' at the Org; Xenu is not part of OT3; Canada never prosecutes hatecrimes by individuals, the Hatecrimes Unit of the MTPD are Nazis; Picketers are Brownshirts; ARSCC (whichdoestooExist!) is a hate group funded by Psyches and Bob Minton; even if 'parishoners' do swarm or surround a critic or even threaten or attack , no critic is allowed to ever defend himself, even if punched by Frank Offman first, because SPs are all Hatemongers whom the OSA does not try to intimidate in the least; and Peter Ramsay is not OSA, not ever, ever, ever; whenever SPs picket stats are the best ever and all the local SPs ought to get a life and never picket again; And they have pictures of the graffiti painted on the Halifax mission, so there!

Etc.

For a good 2 hours, to my amusement.

However once they realised I was playing with them while Mike and Alan were flyering at a great rate, they dispersed, a little peeved I didn't take them seriously.

Andy took a run at Alan, trying to get comm going but Alan just wouldn't play.

I must say these folks are definitely boxed into the fantasy world Hubbard made for them. Weird!

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We were joined at lunch by the now wide awake Ron and shortly after we started the afternoon session, Slippery Jim DiGriz showed up ready to join the effort.

So now 5 of us were busy doing brisk flyering and the Org kind of- sort of flyered back, but without any real enthusiasm. Alan had to leave for an appointment late in the afternoon so we finished off the day with 4 of us.

As usual, the 'crack' SP handlers bugged out for the afternoon.

We ran out of flyers just before 5 PM.

Notes:

Despite Peter "Duh Rabid" Ramsays promise to show at the picket and 'BITE BACK', he made no appearance.

If there was a revenge picket at my house, no one seems to have noticed.

Dipsoh Dan promised to be in CW and teach us all a lesson.

There was a great deal of interest and demands by the Shills to know if I was planning to go to CW this year. I declined to let them know exactly what my plans are.

It was a nice, but unrmarkable Picket. Flyering was particularly good on a lower than average but steady flow of pedestrian traffic. As usual the general public, when they did comment, were supportive of our efforts to inform and educate the public on topics the Co$ does not want mentioned.