Hi all, On Sunday a colleague and I picketed the Canberra Co$.

Actually, I did the picketing and the other fellow was my "bodyguard" in case things grew nasty. Ten minutes and six flyers later, there was still no activity from inside the Org.

I was beginning to conclude that the lights upstairs were on for security reasons. So, I pointed the camera aloft and said "Come out and be on Xenu TV! Xenu TV for you!". That drove them into action. At first a side-burned man in Sea Org uniform started scrutinising me inside the Org doorway for thirty seconds, then quickly disappeared after I trained the camera on him. I was getting really scared. I mean, I'm not a seasoned picketer like you and Mark Bunker! To quote George Orwell's 1984 "<my> bowels turned to water."

He emerged later and started the "Nazi Germany" argument, implying that I'm a Nazi. Interesting, his answer to a totalitarian regime is to belong to one himself! Most of my footage is of his hands as he refused to be filmed. Is this unusual? I complied with his wish not to be filmed, as our libel / defamation laws are much stricter here in Australia than the USA (God bless your First Ammendment). So the Co$ answer to a totalitarian regime is to create one for themselves?

Shortly afterwards a woman dressed in a leather trenchcoat, armed with a camera and a JVC camcorder, took at least four photographs of me (without my permission). "Why do you want pictures of me?" I asked. "They're for my gallery." she replied. She engaged me in a relatively civilised conversation, though I refused to disclose any personal details. My colleague and I left, and discovered her stalking us. We hid in a niche between two office blocks and surprised her, camera rolling.

You should've seen her face turn into a tomato! She even CONFESSED to stalking us. However, the batteries on my camera ran out just before her confession. :-( Overall, a productive day. I'm pretty scared though. The Church knows my first name. It won't be long before they start harassing me and picketing outside my house.

My parents are very worried about my welfare. Dad doesn't believe in activism. Mum simply believes that if we leave them alone, they'll leave us alone.

Find pictures of the Org from
http://www.thingy.apana.org.au/~fun/scn/orgs/canb/ Cheers,
"Lynton"

P.S. I'm very interested in meeting fellow Canberra Org picketers. Please feel free to contact me.

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