Toronto Picket Report, March 11 2000:

Part Two- "Felske Tried Picket Chicken"

Picketers:

10am to 1pm - Artemis, //\ndroidCat, Gregg Hagglund and exScns Mike Argue and Dave Palter.

2pm to 5pm -//\ndroidCat, DeepWog, Gregg Hagglund, exScns Dave Palter and Nan Maclean.

Weather: Wet cold. Kind of chilly Flyer Count: 550+ Incidents:
Pre-Picket:
Police Called: Ramsay cautioned by Police about possible Criminal Harassment of Hagglund Clan.

{See: Toronto Picket Report March 11 2000: Part One- "Rambo Ramsay" } During Picket:

Hired Duty Officer issues two cautions:

1. Mike Argue cautioned that saying "F---er" very loudly could get him a ticket for disturbing the peace.

2. Dave Palter cautioned about 'unwanted spontaneous hugging' of a Co$ public.

Hired Duty Officer opines Court Order needed to halt Co$ new aggressive 'Picket Chicken' efforts.

SPECIAL NOTE:

Once again the Org is still forced to pay for a Duty Cop while we picket.

*** Toronto Picket Report,
March 11 2000:

"Felske Tried Picket Chicken"

New DSA Pat Felske put in no appearance at the first picket of the fourth year of peaceful street demos in Toronto against the Co$ Administration . Instead she stayed inside and sent her *storm troopers* out to 'handle' the picketers and myself in particular.

The 'new' tactic is to swarm me with no less than two, sometimes up to four goons, goonettes and goon wannabes. And they yammer and yammer personal questions, slurs, attacks and & innuendoes. Mostly they were loud, continuously and deliberately provocative. This would continue for 5 or ten minutes and then they would take a break for a few minutes before coming back at me again.

Moving around gave me no break from this, they would hound my heels or jump in front of me and block my way. When I stopped they would crowd around me thisclose.

Sound familiar?

Yes!

Classic 'Picket Chicken'.

Only I won't play.

They were hoping to find and push a button or cause me to physically react.They were crowding me and yelling in my face incessantly. Many of the things they said were personal, disgusting and they displayed moral bankruptcy in uttering demeaning and defaming things they knew to be untrue in an effort to incite me into precipitous action. I won't easily be provoked that way, if at all.

Two of my erstwhile tormentors were a bit drunk and kept calling me 'Larry'. These guys reeked of booze and Scope. Sick minded pair of goons too..

They were so self degrading that at one point Dave Palter, who knew them form his days in the TO Org, threw a hug around one of them and asked him "Do you hear yourself?"or something like that. Of course unwanted hugging is a no-no. The drunk shouted at Dave not to touch him and ran for the Cop. Dave was embarrassed. He knew it was a mistake. However, the Officer was very fair and given the publicly intoxicated state of the ORg Goon, let Dave off with a warning.

At one point the two drunks were badgering me as I walked and I started to ask questions back, but a little louder. So they got louder. And I got louder, And they got louder. Then I stopped beside the door to the Centre where they were hopelessly trying to sell their pseudo-scientific crap to a few "shoppers" who went in for laughs.

There were also a lot of lower than OT3 staff in there too.

Well of course all the noise these guys were creating just made things impossible for Mario who runs the suckers school.

Mario sends out one of his fellow Flunkies to get the Cop to move me away. But the Cop refuses. Apparently he told them that if they were to stop yelling in my face, or leave me alone he was confident I would not be a problem. Besides the people blocking the door to the Centre were Scientologists right? So the flunky comes back and tries to get the two drunks to shut up and come inside. But they are too sloshed to hear him. Finally Mario comes out and manages to get them to shut up and come inside.

Then I pull out a copy of OT3 and offer to show part of it in Hubbards original handwriting to a pretty young french accented Body router. SHe stuck out her tongue at me and ran inside the Centre.

So I start to read OT3 out loud.

While I am doing so I hear Mario, inside the Centre yelling at someone to go outside and stop me. So the two drunks, looking confused come out and start loudly yammering at me again. Once I finish reading OT3, I stopped talking and these two drunks just keep loudly shouting questions and accusations at me. Which of course just continues to make things impossible for Mario. Even tho' the 'shoppers' weren't buying, Mario and co. couldn't even try to pitch them successfully.

So out comes Mario to drag the inebriated pair back inside.

Such was the day Of course this situation was most uncivilised and highly incitingly. The public peace was certainly in jeopardy of being breached were those of us being so aggressively badgered to respond to some of the 'fighting words' being uttered by the OSA goons. The Co$ were certainly interfering with my Right of Free Speech by drowning me out with sound, verbally assaulting me, and hampering my movements.

Here is a partial list of the topics they touched on in an effort to provoke me:

My brother.

My parents.

My son.

My wife.

My daughter.

My old business venture Mr. Gameways My existing business.

The death of a very close family friend and business partner.

My use of 'psyche' drugs.

The abuse of children.

My sexual orientation.

My religious beliefs.

You can imagine what they had to say or imply, which they intended to get a reaction from me.

Frankly it was nauseating to see these six or eight men and women degrading themselves so badly and publicly.

More than one passerby shouted at them to leave me alone.

Obviously they were trying to make me the issue of the picket. However, as usual, the OSA tactic backfired. They only succeeded in making themselves look like an angry crowd of hooligans And they forgot *I am not alone*. The other picketers did a bang up job of flyering and communications with a very sparse population of passersby. ( It was a bit damp and chilly. ) Most amusing moments in my day came from Dirty Dan. Once more he threatened to sue me if I out his picture up on the Internet without his permission. What a maroon! OSA Goon Craig Brown has my picture up on the CO$ controlled defamation site www.parishioners.org.

I told Dan to get a clue.

Then Dan tries to ask me "seriously what would it take to get you to stop picketing?" We'll stop digging into your life and harassing your family if you'll stop picketing". "I am looking for a solution."

I told him, for starters, I wanted a written retraction and apology from Scientology for all the defaming things they had communicated about me and my fellow picketers. And that would just get me to the table. Mike Argue pointed out that Dirty Dan was just an offlines public 'nothing' with no authority to negotiate or even offer anything. I found that amusing and Dirty Dan responded by threatening to call my father and harass him. (Dan knows my father is old and ill.)

The day was the most disgusting display of contempt for Free Speech I had ever seen from the Toronto Org.

New DSA Pat Felske should be ashamed.

Where was she?

As DSA and PR she should have been out there reigning in her street thugs, instead of ordering their ill conduct or at least condoning it with her absence.

Of course Pat has a history of looking the other way, IIRC.

Was she not one of the Co$ staffers who *knew* the grossly defaming allegations made by the Co$ against Casey Hill were untrue?

Did she not keep silent until her signature was found on a Co$ document which acknowledged Casey Hills proper conduct? A document signed *prior* to the allegations the Co$ made?

Did Pat Felske take a moral and ethical vacation then as well as she did on March 11, 2000?

Has she ever explained her conduct then?

Will she do so now?

We'll be back on April 15th.

I'll bring a thick skin.

They'll bring empty hearts.

Gregg Hagglund SP5 Toronto Picket Reports now at:

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"It's interesting that Scientologists cannot seem to differentiate between: individuals-- picketing an organization to voice their opinion on its behavior, and; an organization-- picketing individuals for voicing their opinion." --- M.C.Pietra

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