In article <id1ji0t3d2tp7ppt9va2mga3msocif1b9l@4ax.com>, Gerry Armstrong says...

>Webbed with photo gallery at:
>http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/media/our/picket-2004-08-14.html
>
>I was in Vancouver on Friday the 13th to see a writer about a story,
>and the way things worked out I had a bunch of time to do something
>else. I scoped out buying a ticket for Manchurian Candidate and then
>watching Collateral, at a Granville Street cineplex, but thought
>better of it, and walked instead to the Vancouver Public Library,
>where the action is nonstop and free, and disappointment virtually
>impossible.
>
>I approached the library from the Homer and Robson Streets corner of
>Library Square, where a street level granite brick plaza leads to a
>wide set of formed granite steps that rise up to the library building
>entrance. http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/rooms/plazas.html
>Low and behold, there occupying pretty well the whole plaza, was a
>Scientology anti-psychiatry display. The cult had a set of display
>modules with panels about seven feet high and ten feet wide of
>gruesome, sensational black PR against the mental health field. As
>far as I can tell, they’re the same modules and panels that the cult
>has been using on its "Traveling Exhibit: "Psychiatry Exposed.""
>http://www.cchr.org/activities/exhibits/travelling/
>
>I spotted a Scientologist I’d seen at the Vancouver org during pickets
>over the last few years, and I knew from other contacts that he was
>active in the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, an entity the cult
>created and uses in its hate and eradication campaign against mental
>health professionals. I knew he’d almost certainly recognize me if I
>hung around, so I just accepted the CCHR propaganda the cultists were
>handing out at a table in the display, and ambled on through toward
>the library. On the way, I asked one of the Scientologists working on
>the display how long they’d be there, and he said that they’d be back
>the next day, Saturday the 14th, between noon and 6:00 P.M.
>
>It was a great photo op, but drat, I didn’t have my camera, and it was
>a perfect protest opportunity, but I had no handouts or other picket
>paraphernalia. So I continued into the library and began the process
>of officially complaining about the rental of the plaza to the
>anti-intellectual, anti-human rights Scientology cult for this
>inflammatory, black PR hate exhibition. I will include the steps I’ve
>taken in the process, along with the results, in a separate report.
>After taking my complaint as far as was reasonable at the time, I did
>the bit of research I’d come to the library to do, then moved on to my
>next appointment, and then back to the Wack.
>
>Over the next several hours and overnight I gave serious thought to
>returning to Vancouver avec camera to record the display, and to in
>some way, if possible, be a supportive voice for the mental health
>field professionals. These mental health practitioners are, after
>all, a very specific and vital subset of the persecuted and terrorized
>"Suppressive Person" class. http://www.suppressiveperson.org/
>But my sweetheart and fellow concert actor Caroline simply could not
>go because of other commitments, and it would be a violation of the
>number one rule for protesters, demonstrators and picketers against
>Scientology: Don’t go alone! Plus, the $35 it was going to cost just
>in bus fare even for me to go by myself we couldn’t afford.
>
>All rules, it seems, however, as I keep finding myself saying, are
>qualified by safety, courtesy and wisdom, so, in willful breach of the
>protestors’ primary principle plus a couple of the standard qualifiers
>too, I suited up Saturday morning, backpacked some picketing
>essentials, and took a bus back into Vancouver. Serendipity-doodaing
>into Scientology’s CCHR traveling hate show at the Central Library on
>the one day I was in the city since our June 3 picket of the cult to
>celebrate the launch Caroline’s web site, and the one time in way over
>two years since I’d even been near the library, Lord love a duck, it
>had to be a sign.
>http://www.carolineletkeman.org/writings/picket-2004-06-03.html
>http://www.carolineletkeman.org
>
>My plan was to first photograph the display and pick up whatever
>additional materials the Scientologists were giving away, if possible
>without alarming or alerting them, and then to move to the sidewalk
>adjacent to the library plaza where I’d distribute my own handouts. I
>reasoned that although I could be prohibited from handing out flyers
>or otherwise protesting on library property, since the Scientology
>cult had rented the plaza -- for $500 per day, the library complainee
>had said -- I could not be prohibited from a little peaceful activism
>on the sidewalk, which the cult had not rented, and over which the
>library had no authority or control.
>
>With no time to prepare something specific to Scientology’s
>anti-psychiatry insanity, I brought a hundred or so old Xenu flyers,
>which seemed kind of fitting given the Xenuphobic Scientologists’
>outer-space mental health claims.
>http://www.xenu.net/archive/leaflet/xenuleaf.htm
>My flyers were so old they referred people with questions or concerns
>about Scientology to the Lisa McPherson Trust, so on the bus ride to
>Vancouver I blacked out the LMT contact information on all the copies
>and wrote my own info in.
>
>I hid my Wog hat® in my backpack and wore my Audi cap disguise for the
>first couple of operating targets on the project. I brought Erika
>with me, because I’m gunning for as many xenu.net T-shirts as I can
>garner, http://www.xenu.net/archive/picket/
>and because she would never have let me hear the end of it if I’d left
>her home. It was hot, so she stripped down to her white picketing
>T-shirt and her khaki pants, same as me. We looked awesome together,
>but I couldn’t take a chance that some Scientologist would read the
>message on her shirt, or spot her Xenu pendant, at least until the
>photo shoot was over, so I put her in the bottom of the backpack to
>pad it against my spine and told her to keep quiet. I packed up a
>couple of sets of batteries, some writing stuff, a liter of Chilliwack
>water,
>http://www.chilliwacktimes.com/issues03/044203/news/044203nn4.html
>my ID, and a few lawyers’ numbers in case I got framed with a fracas.
>
>I arrived at Library Square around 2:30 P.M., and thankfully the
>Scientologists were there and their anti-psych display set up on the
>library plaza as it had been on Friday. I immediately got to work
>photographing the panels, and my Audi hat disguise worked about as
>well as expected because the Scientologists immediately got to work
>photographing me. We’ve webbed a gallery of images from Saturday
>afternoon including a number of the display panels and some of the
>Scientologists videotaping or photographing me photographing them
>photographing me.
>http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/media/our/picket-2004-08-14-1.html
>Here’s a panorama we stitched together from pics I took from the
>library steps showing much of the plaza, the three modules, the
>Scientologists’ desk area under the patio umbrella, and an OSA babe
>videotaping me.
>http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/media/our/picket-2004-08-14-10.html
>
>The OSA/CCHRers all seemed hatted on video tech, as they passed off
>the video cameras between themselves, and they were obviously prepared
>for photographic subjects just like me because they had at least two
>video cameras and a still camera trained on me at various times. As I
>moved among the modules photographing the panels, and getting
>close-ups of text that might be useful for future activities, the
>Scientologists followed me, and after a few minutes began heckling me.
>I mentioned to someone that the Scientology cult is behind the
>exhibit, and one Scientologist asked me who was behind me. I said,
>"God Himself," which of course is the simple gospel truth, and this
>brought on a wave of Scientological anti-religious hooting.
>
>I took what I thought was a reasonable set of pics, maintained
>friendly relations with the Scientologists, and moved to the desk they
>were manning to get whatever materials they were giving away that I
>didn’t already have. The Scientologists, after all, are largely
>deceived and deluded in their participation in their cult’s hatred of
>mental health professionals, and just as deluded in their acceptance
>and participation in Scientology’s "Suppressive Person" doctrine. And
>I’m basically friendly, and always happy to have expressions of
>opposition to the cultists’ pernicious policies and practices proceed
>peacefully for everyone. As the Scientologists watched and
>videotaped, I picked up a copy of seven of the cult’s standard
>anti-psychiatry hate booklets, all copyright © CCHR, and three of
>their anti-psychiatry pamphlets, and then began my move to the
>sidewalk to start my project’s protest phase.
>
>During this time, the Scientologist that I had recognized Friday as a
>CCHR functionary, who had participated in videotaping me as I
>photographed the display panels, and who was the most violent of the
>Scientologists throughout the afternoon, came up very close to me and
>snarled, "Why don’t you get your stinking piece of shit body out of
>here!"
>http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/media/our/picket-2004-08-14-11.html
>http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/media/our/picket-2004-08-14-17.html
>I was so struck by this statement that I immediately stopped, took out
>of my pocket a pen and paper that I carried for the purpose of
>recording something quickly, like just this sort of astonishing sound
>bite, knelt down, and wrote down what he said, which was still
>replaying in my consciousness, exactly as this fellow said it. The
>Scientologists crowded around me to see what I was writing, and a
>Scientology videographer or two took some footage of what I wrote, and
>I repeated it out loud for the audio track and added what an amazing
>statement it was.
>
>I had to take off my backpack to tuck away the CCHR booklets and
>pamphlets, and since it was off, pulled out the little bunch of "Who
>is Xenu?" flyers. With no warning, the guy who’d called my body a
>stinking piece of shit leapt at me, grabbed at the flyers and tried to
>rip them away from me. When I held on tight, and protested
>vociferously against their theft and what he was doing, he grabbed my
>arm, and yanked it to free up the flyers. I pulled myself free, and
>kept walking away from him, then he jumped at me again, and another
>bigger guy joined him, and they both grabbed at the flyers and my
>arms, and I again had to wrestle my flyers and myself free.
>
>By this time I was well onto the sidewalk outside the library plaza,
>and a group of the male Scientologists formed a semi-circle close
>around me. They all were belligerent and menacing, and initially the
>stinking piece guy who’d grabbed me twice and tried to rip away my
>flyers did most of the talking and shouting. Other Scientologists
>videoed me as I interacted with the group. A couple of the flyers on
>the top of my little stack had been torn and crumpled, but I still
>held onto all of them.
>
>I had been perfectly courteous and only taken one copy of
>Scientology’s booklets and pamphlets, and these guys had been anything
>but courteous, trying to steal all of mine. It’s just that sort of
>criminal level exchange, and the "thinking" that underlies it, that
>makes reasonable people oppose the totalitarian system of criminal
>exchange and unreason that Scientology seeks to impose on the world,
>and oppose the Scientologists doing the imposing.
>
>I was more than happy to give each of the Scientologists a flyer, and
>throughout the afternoon I offered one to every Scientologist who got
>within voice range. I was simply not happy to give one Scientologist
>all of the flyers. It struck me as very weird then, when, after
>assaulting me twice to steal my flyers, the assaulters refused the
>flyers I offered them. If they couldn’t steal flyers they weren’t
>taking any, even if the flyers were as free as stealing.
>
>One of the Vancouver OSA babes, with whom I’ve had some interaction at
>the org, who knows me by name certainly, and has never tried to grab
>or jump me, did come up and take a flyer. She seemed to immediately
>recognize that it was the standard, globally disseminated and
>available "Who is Xenu?" flyer, which made the assaults to steal them,
>I’m sure she knew, even more embarrassing for Scientology. This same
>OSA babe lady came up to me later in the afternoon and stuck her
>tongue out at me, and I indulged her clear desire and took her photo.
>http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/media/our/picket-2004-08-14-21.html
>A couple of the Scientologists asked if they could expect to see the
>photos I was taking on my web site, and I assured them that I would
>try my best, which I have done.
>
>The stinking piece guy kept ordering me to get out of there, to leave,
>and there was an effort by the whole group by words and by threatening
>motion to move me right off the sidewalk surrounding the library. I
>wouldn’t move, and protested that I had every right to be there on the
>sidewalk, and that neither the Scientologists nor the library
>controlled the sidewalk. I said that I was peaceful, unlike the
>Scientologists who assaulted me, and that I had a right to peacefully
>be there, to peacefully talk to people, and to peacefully hand out my
>flyers. I said that the Scientologists had no right to assault me,
>that I was not causing any disturbance of any kind, and that they had
>no right to try to steal my flyers.
>
>The guy went on a rant about "copyright materials," which I’ve heard
>from other Scientologists, is just nuts, and is reflective of the
>nutty, hateful way the cult’s leaders indoctrinate them about
>copyrights. The guy said that my flyers were "copyright materials,"
>that I wasn’t allowed to have "copyright materials," that I knew I
>wasn’t allowed to have these "copyright materials, and that the
>Scientologists were justified in grabbing the flyers because they were
>"copyright materials." I explained that this was total hogwash, that
>I have the right to possess and own copyrighted materials, and that so
>does everyone else. The guy flared up like one of Xenu’s volcanoes
>about to blow its top.
>
>I pointed to the library building and said that it is full of
>copyrighted materials, which anyone can possess and even copy. I said
>that Vancouver is full of bookstores that are full of copyrighted
>materials that anyone can buy and own. The copyright to the flyer is
>owned, as far as I know, by Roland Rashleigh-Berry, and he cares about
>enforcing his copyright so much that he’s made a printable version
>available on the Internet and urges people to copy and distribute it
>copiously. It’s kind of funny to think of the Scientologists
>protecting Roland’s copyright by assaulting people and stealing his
>Xenu flyers.
>
>One of the Scientologists, this big younger guy, maybe six five, kept
>loudly insisting that everything in my flyer is lies, even before I’d
>given any copy to anyone. He’s in the photo of the OSA babe doing
>tongue tech ®, and in this photo with the still camera.
>http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/media/our/picket-2004-08-14-14.html
>I asked him how he could possibly know what was in my flyer if he
>hadn’t read it, and offered him a copy. But he declined, and said he
>didn’t have to read it, because he already knew what was in it, which,
>of course was only lies.
>
>He was right in a sense because the Xenu flyer is stuffed with
>Scientology inventor L. Ron Hubbard’s lies, or his delusions. But not
>reading the flyer for that reason would be like a Scientologist not
>reading the OT III materials because he knew everything in them is
>lies. http://sf.irk.ru/www/ot3/otiii-gif.html
>It was pretty clear this Scientologist meant that no matter what I was
>handing out everything in it was lies. I think the Xenu flyer is
>terribly truthful, accurate and literarily worthy, and has stood the
>test of time. Everything else is lies.
>
>During this time, when the Scientologists were trying to 8-C me from
>my chosen spot on the sidewalk, I was asserting my right to be there
>and not being moved, and this somewhat volcanic conversation was
>occurring, someone was dispatched to go get security. It was pretty
>tense because the Scientologists outnumbered me by about ten to one
>and outweighed me about fifteen to one, and I couldn’t know whether
>they had the library security personnel in their pocket, like they do
>the odd police force. Pretty soon a guy in a security uniform showed
>up, I was pointed out to him, and he motioned me to walk with him away
>from the Scientologists. He looked Filipino, and I don’t think I ever
>learned if he could speak at all. Being with him for a minute or two
>I took the opportunity to present my case, but I was left with the
>idea that what was happening was beyond his job description.
>
>Fortunately a guy obviously further up the library security chain of
>command, and who definitely could speak, arrived and my communication
>cycle shifted over to him. He said the Scientologists had told him
>that I was causing a disturbance. I denied this and asked him what
>disturbance. He said, they say you are and there’s one of you and a
>whole bunch of them. I said that the only disturbance was the
>Scientologists assaulting me and trying to steal my property. He said
>he wasn’t interested in whether they had assaulted me, that it was a
>police matter. I said that it sure didn’t sound right to me that
>library security wasn’t interested in assaults on or beside library
>property. He asked if I wanted to press charges, and said that he’d
>call the police right then if I wanted.
>
>We got on to discussing my right to be on the sidewalk and to give out
>my flyers and talk to people on the sidewalk, so I didn’t answer him
>definitively about pressing charges against the assaulters. He ended
>up agreeing with me completely that the Scientologists had only rented
>the library plaza, that the sidewalk was not part of the plaza, and
>that I had the right that every citizen had to be there and peacefully
>protest. When we got back to his offer to call the police to file
>assault charges I declined. The drain of court appearances, with the
>attendant reality that there really were ten or twelve Scientologists
>who would testify like Scientologists, against one victim, with no one
>other than Scientologists as witnesses, was prohibitive.
>
>Plus, I had already won. I could peacefully and lawfully walk up and
>down that sidewalk, hand out flyers, and talk to anyone who wanted to
>listen or not. The Scientologists’ effort to stop me, all their
>cursing, shouting, assaulting, grabbing, postulating, ordering and
>threatening, all were for nothing. Scientologists had assaulted me at
>other peaceful protests, and the assaults were even observed by the
>police -- Daniel Bryenton in Toronto, Ontario in 1999, and Mary DeMoss
>and Dennis Clark in Clearwater, Florida in 2001 -- and in those
>instances too it made strategic and economic sense to not press
>charges. And that afternoon in Vancouver I still had some hours of
>serious demonstrating ahead of me. So I put on my Wog hat®, put away
>my Audi hat, took a swig of Canada’s finest water, and got back to
>work.
>
>What I found produced good results at the CCHR display at the
>Vancouver Library was to make contact with people -- the wogs® -- who
>walked by or between the modules, and simply tell them that the
>Scientology cult was behind the operation. This alone was enough for
>a number of people to register understanding, be warned, and turn
>skeptical. After my initial warning that the display was a
>Scientology operation, and part of the cult’s campaign to eradicate
>the mental health field, install their own system, and grab government
>mental health appropriations, just like the Scientologists tried to
>grab my flyers, some people engaged me in further discussions toward a
>deeper understanding of the cult, its system and its opportunistic
>hatred for mental health professionals.
>
>I also continued to interact with the Scientologists throughout the
>afternoon as was sensible. After a while, the man that the cult had
>counting bodies and marking stats on a notepad on both days I was at
>the display became probably the most civil toward me, which won’t get
>him any brownie shirt points with his cult bosses, but was at least
>nicer for me.
>http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/media/our/picket-2004-08-14-19.html
>He said his name was Hancock, but he could have been nominally pulling
>my leg. He said he was from Vancouver and had been in Los Angeles in
>Scientology in 1969, which was the same year I got into the cult in
>Vancouver. He smoked a lot and I asked him about it, and he admitted
>that nicotine is a drug and addictive.
>
>Towards the end of my protest, "Hancock" came up to me and, rather
>sotto voce, asked me if I’d audited what was in my flyer, which by
>then, in order to ask this question, he must have read. I said I had
>indeed audited OT III, that my conclusion was that it didn’t work and
>was complete quackery, and, most importantly, that the auditing not
>working made me a "Suppressive Person." Declaring OT III to not work
>didn’t win any brownie shirt points with him, of course, and he
>muttered something about my being an SP explaining everything, then he
>wandered away for good.
>
>At one point another Scientologist, who acted like he was OSA
>Vancouver’s solution to the Gerry Armstrong problem, showed up and
>began to engage me. One of his targets, it seemed obvious, was to
>pull me into talking with him and "handling" him instead of engaging
>and warning the wog visitors to the library and the display. I didn’t
>fall for his efforts at engaging conversation, however, but maintained
>a comm line with him as feasible, as I also continued my successful
>action engaging the wogs that the cultists were luring in to their
>anti-mental health display. I didn’t get a really good photo of the
>guy, and he avoided having a really good photo taken, but these pics
>may be helpful for identification purposes.
>http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/media/our/picket-2004-08-14-18.html
>http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/media/our/picket-2004-08-14-15.html
>
>He complained to me at one point that he found my calling
>Scientologists "clams" was insulting. I said that it’s in response to
>Scientology calling us wogs "wogs," and that I use "clams" as a simple
>step in a campaign to get Scientologists to stop their crusade of
>hatred, bigotry and attacks against wogs. I said that when
>Scientology strips from its "scriptures" all mentions of wogs and all
>hatred of wogs, then it would be appropriate for wogs to cease calling
>clams clams. He asked if I knew where the term "wogs" came from, and
>I said I did. He said that "wog" is an insult, and that he never uses
>the term because it is insulting. Having a number of times before
>heard this risible claim, which is itself insulting, that a
>Scientologist never used the term "wog" because it’s insulting, I
>laughed and carried on protesting.
>
>The guy said at one point that I appeared to be very knowledgeable
>about Scientology, and that my use of Scientology terms showed that I
>still used Scientology. I explained that his evaluation was wrong,
>and the same black PR of Scientology’s opponents that the cult’s ops
>and dupes run on the Internet. I explained that Scientologese is
>simply another language, and that it’s very helpful to know multiple
>languages, and to use the language of the subject, such as
>Scientology, that a person is criticizing or opposing. I am fluent in
>both English and Scientologese, which is a tremendous asset in
>opposing the war of attrition that Scientology wages upon good people.
>The fact that a person knows German or the terms of Nazism and uses
>this language and argot in his opposition to German Nazism does not
>mean that the person is in a Nazi "mindset." It takes a stupendous
>pile of pretended stupidity, for the purpose of generating a "basis"
>to attack the person, to insist he is in such a "mindset."
>
>I razzed the guy a bit about his patent pretended stupidity on a
>number of topics in which he tried to engage me, and he protested that
>he wasn’t pretending. I also objected to his attempts to patronize
>me, and to some ridiculous questions he asked to try to get some "win"
>against me. He wanted to know if since I objected to Scientology’s
>anti-psychiatry display, was I therefore in favor of forced drugging,
>electro-shocking and brain surgery on people. I said that there is no
>doubt that there are problems and abuses in the wog mental health
>field, but I objected to his cult’s blowing these problems and abuses
>out of proportion, and even inventing them, to divert attention from
>and prevent the addressing and correction of the problems, abuses and
>crimes in Scientology.
>
>What this guy was attempting to do with me, and what Scientology and
>Scientologists are doing with CCHR and their mad vilification and
>eradication campaign against legitimate mental health field
>practitioners, is in compliance with Hubbard’s directives that
>Scientologists fight their war on their victims’ territory.
>
>[Quote]
>
>Experience has shown that defense is only effective when one sorties
>or attacks.
>When we did not give a lot of time and energy and funds to knocking
>out real enemies we came close to losing the lot.
>The errors we have made have been:
>[...]
>2. Defending on Scn ground.
>
>[End Quote]
>http://www.suppressiveperson.org/hate/pubs/pl-1969-02-16-reiss-87-targets-defense-txt.html
>
>[Quote]
>
>It is bad warfare to fight battles on your own terrain, in your own
>subject area. It is not good to fight in the territory of allies.
>Fight battles wherever possible only on enemy terrain, in and about
>his subject and his people, not ours. You can gauge your relative
>success by this. When all your battles are fought on his terrain, you
>are winning.
>
>[End Quote]
>http://www.suppressiveperson.org/hate/pubs/pl-1969-02-16-battle-tactics-reiss.html
>
>Legitimate opposition to Scientology fraud, abuses and criminality
>fights the war on the cult’s terrain, and actions that attack the
>legitimate opposition serve Scientology’s purposes by shifting the
>battlefield to the terrain of the cult’s enemies, its victims.
>
>During our conversation, and in response to my criticisms of
>Scientology abuses and criminality, the guy asked which I considered
>most dangerous, psychiatry or the cult. I appreciated the opening,
>and replied that in the past twenty-two years, Scientology personnel
>or agents have assaulted me multiple times, terrorized me on the
>highway, sued me several times to destroy my civil rights, tried to
>have me prosecuted and jailed on manufactured evidence and charges,
>run covert ops on me, run into me with a car, spied on me, harassed my
>friends and family, threatened my life, and published black propaganda
>on me around the world. On the other hand, not one psychiatrist in
>all that time has assaulted me, or black PRed me, or threatened me, or
>sued me, or done anything to me. There is no doubt, as my irrefutable
>experience shows, that Scientology and Scientologists are more
>dishonest, violent and destructive of human rights than the
>psychiatrists they vilify and attack. The guy had no response.
>
>He asked if I thought there was any value in drugs or electro-shock
>treatment for people, and I said that there very well might be. I
>asked him if he thought there was any value in drugs or other mental
>health treatments, and he said that there was none. I asked him, then
>what about Lisa McPherson, who went psychotic, and the Scientologists
>locked up, restrained, force drugged, denied medical help, and killed.
>The guy avoided answering, pretending ignorance of her story. Lisa
>McPherson is the one publicly documented instance of the application
>of Scientology’s "technology" for "treating" psychosis, and the
>Scientologists killed her -- a one hundred percent failure rate for
>the cult’s "tech." http://www.lisamcpherson.org/
>
>Throughout the afternoon, when anyone asked what my grievances were
>with Scientology’s campaign to eradicate the mental health field, in
>addition to the cult’s transparent effort to fight its war of total
>attrition on the "enemy’s" turf so as to evade doing anything about
>its own abuses and criminality, I also pointed out Scientology’s
>policy of blaming psychiatry and medicine for the cult’s own failures.
>Hubbard writes in a confidential policy letter of June 29, 1971:
>
>[Quote]
>
>Policy is that we assign any case or upset in Scientology to past
>damage and interference with the person by medicine or psychiatry.
>[...]
>Use it often. Make it known to the enemy that this is our policy as a
>restraint on their fetid imaginations: "Every time you attack us we
>will disclose more records of your failures".
>
>[End Quote]
>http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/ars/ars-2003-07-09.html
>
>I also expressed some indignation at Scientology’s cruel hypocrisy in
>refusing to accept into its "churches" for "treatment" the very people
>whose mental health care the cult was trying to prevent and destroy.
>Many of the people that psychiatrists are given to treat and care for
>are the most vulnerable in society, and some of them are the most
>dangerous. While attacking wog mental health as "junk science,"
>Scientology proclaims and advertises that its "mental technology" is
>completely scientific and can cure all these mentally ill people and
>all mental illness. The Scientology cultists refuse, however, to
>submit their "mental science" to scientific testing and verification,
>and also refuse to "treat" the mentally ill people that the
>Scientologists claim their "tech" alone can heal. Worse, the
>Scientologists canvass among mentally ill patients for vulnerable
>people they can use, manipulate, fund and bring to "a frenzy of hate"
>against their caregivers, the cult’s mental health practitioner
>"enemies."
>
>My last operating target for the protest was to take a photo of Erika
>in front of Scientology’s anti-mental health display for the
>www.xenu.net T-shirt contest. So I fished her out of my backpack,
>where she had been holding her breath for a good three hours, and held
>her at arms length and snapped a pic. What a trouper she was, bearing
>with all these indignities, grinning broadly and looking positively
>pulchritudinous.
>http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/media/our/picket-2004-08-14-22.html
>And finally, I asked a young man who was passing by on my sidewalk to
>take a photo of Erika and me together.
>http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/media/our/picket-2004-08-14-23.html
>
>I considered the afternoon a smashing success. I talked to dozens of
>people, immunized several, gave out maybe half my Xenu flyers,
>survived two assaults and lots of insults, made a photographic record,
>and earned a T-shirt. I’d say that the Scientologists’ chronic tone
>was covert hostility, although my cheerful presence brought a number
>of them up to overt hostility for a good several minutes. On the bus
>ride back from Vancouver, the excitement and adrenalin began to wear
>off, and I noticed that my left arm where the most aggressive
>Scientologist had grabbed me had a nasty abrasion, probably from his
>finger nails, and my left wrist was quite painful, most likely from
>preventing myself from falling to the ground when they jumped at me.
>The abrasion got even nastier looking for a few days, however is
>healing well now, without a contact assist, but just with Chilliwack’s
>miracle water, and I don’t think the wound will impact my picketing
>schedule through the rest of the summer.
>
>© Gerry Armstrong
>http://www.gerryarmstrong.org

What a great report! I'm glad you made it home safely.

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