Protests thread 18/19 September 2010

[AnonKat]

Albuquerque 9-18-10

http://forums.whyweprotest.net/283-usa-central-mountain/albuquerque-9-18-10-a-71805/

Everything got kicked off around 11. John B, Capt. Kirk and I. Sorry about the lack of vid, but unfortunately we had no cam. Three Anons, one sign. And it didn’t take long for the three of us to grab some attention, as a woman stopped and asked us what we were protesting and then got us to pose for a picture, of which we were happy to oblige. Damn, I should have asked for a copy. *lol* But as soon as she got the picture, right across the street into the org. Nice. We got ourselves a handler.

We started getting some interest from a couple of passers-by, quite a few honks, good support. Org had a lot of cars in the parking lot, and we saw a few coming and going. But things really got interesting when the police decided to show up. Apparently they’d received a call from the org- someone was feeling intimidated by us. And this time they sent a sergeant. We explained to him that this was pretty much standard Hubbard policy, and he was asking about why we wore the Fawkes masks. He went across the street to talk to the org and when he came out about an hour later, another officer had shown up. That’s when the sergeant we’d spoken with before started talking to JB and I, telling him some of their side of things.

Apparently they showed him that lovely little booklet about Anonymous and started talking all these nasty things about us- straight out of the playbook. I think we convinced him we’re not terrorists, but he was saying that if they ever decided to file a police report, we would no longer be anonymous. Now for some reason, the officer has it in his mind that we’re out here every day, even going so far as to ask why we’re even doing it and if we don’t have anything better to do. Geez, I’d sure like to know what the hell they said to him in there. This shows one thing for sure- we are definitely getting to them. I think we made our point to the cops, though. But JB brought up a good point later- this smells like they might be gearing up to pull a Sparrow here. Even if they’re not, better safe than sorry, ABQ anons.

We had a few really good conversations with people who came by- definitely got the message out as to why we were there. We wrapped up at close to 2- but we weren’t going to leave until the police did. Once again Scientology fails.

 

[AnonKat]

Nashville Sept. 18, 2010 Post Game

Nashville Sept. 18, 2010 Post Game

http://forums.whyweprotest.net/283-usa-central-mountain/nashville-sept-18-2010-post-game-71820/

I was late as usual. Juche, Nixon and Demos (yeah Demos!) were already at the org and inciting large construction trucks and cement mixers to honk. We've noticed fewer cars in the parking lot each time we raid. This time they had an event and judging from the number of cars in the lot it was not well attended. Didn't notice any strange cars and few of the usual.

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Gee Kelly, looks like they couldn't even fake a crowd for you!

The outside of the org is a mess, trash weeds and brown grass. CoS I am disappoint. Did you have to shuttle some of the imported sea org to some of the other empty orgs? How long can you play this shell game with your sea org? It would be sad if it weren't so lulzy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQkNB2dSI8

Nixon and I took a stroll around the org. Damn empty parking lot compared to other events. We spotted a couple of ladies taking a smoke break outside. They spotted us, got up and headed for the door where they waited. And waited. And waited. The poor things had to wait for someone to come to the door to let them in. FFS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXsKkdKszKo

 

[AnonKat]

New York City 09/18/2010 Post-Game

New York City 09/18/2010 Post-Game

http://forums.whyweprotest.net/282-usa-east-coast/new-york-city-09-18-2010-post-game-71824/

It was a tranquil, beautiful September day in New York City . . . the sort of late-summery, just-going-about-your-business day that no one would expect would be rudely violated by a bunch of assholes yelling at a building.

In brief, good times, lots of loud, much tourist love, pizza and anal bundt cake were to be had. Increased NoI traffic was very visible at the NY Org and we had a couple of intriguing interactions, from the passer-by who peeked into the Org then emerged and did a big theatrical crotch-grab to the pimply junior body router who actually briefly engaged us in conversation . . . . pics to follow.

Did anyone get a shot of the horse cop who threw up the horns at us and shouted "ANONYMOUS!!!"?

 

[AnonKat]

September 18th Montreal Post-Raid : Menaced by two hobos

September 18th Montreal Post-Raid : Menaced by two hobos

http://forums.whyweprotest.net/261-canada/september-18th-montreal-post-raid-menaced-two-hobos-71806/

Highlights of the raid:

Public freebie: We spoke to a public person who was really shocked and interested of why we protested today. He then gave all of us free tickets to a Nirvava, Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots homage show.

Traffic: Some accident happened in town which cause a lot of traffic. It was murder.

Bicycle: Just as we left, some guy on a ''double bicycle'' passed by. Epic.

Puppies and long dogs. Lots of them

Threatned by two hobos : While wrapping up to call it quits for today. Two hobos came by and scared a femanon. One took the flier and ATE it, claiming it was cookies. The guy ''Spitter'' spit out the flier and it had blood stains on it. He was also drinking beer in the middle of the street. Spitter then tried to take away an anon's camera and told him he was a faggot to hide his face. The other guy ''Derp Beard Man'' started to threat us that he will kick our asses in five minutes. Spitter also mentioned Tom Cruise for some reason... Then, they both went in the back alley. They came back Spitter spat about 4 times and often got into a fighting position and told an english anon to speak french. Derp Beard Man said he would come back in 5 minutes (Just like the old man who assaulted a femanon months ago) Derp Beard Man also kept mentioning ''his twelve years old son'' who ''had his birthday today''. Then they left, for the moment.

Then, we went to the bus stop and they came back. By then, we dialed 911. Suddenly, they both came back very friendly since we told him we called the cops, except for Spitter who spat on an anon's face. Derp Beard Man told Spitter to calm down. A kind old lady called the cops in front of him. He then decided to make apologies and shook hands with us. He even asked us to take a picture and they fucked off. All was caught on film

Pics and vids coming soon

 

[AnonKat]

Washington DC, September 18th post game

Washington DC, September 18th post game

http://forums.whyweprotest.net/282-usa-east-coast/washington-dc-september-18th-post-game-71811/

Well here be the vidz for post game:
(gonna take 1 hour from the time of this post for it to be processed by vimeo)

http://vimeo.com/15088940

Raid was going alright. Police ordered an Anon to move his car when we had misjudged how far it was parked across the crosswalk. We hoped to use it for sound system. While police chastised the Anon, Scientologists went crazy with cameras to get their footage of it all. Man they are desperate.

More Anons showed up and CF returned with a troll-mini-canon. So musics were provided. Thanks CF!

Raid went smoothly until near the end after Scifags started pouring in and out like roaches. And then they called the police on CF lying about a alleged assault, or rather "bump" into an elderly man. Police arrived, interviewed Scifags, interviewed us, thanked CF for his cooperation, and left being more annoyed with Scientology, and not arresting any Anons sense we were all being lawful in the first place.

So DC Org did some work for us by damaging their trust with the police even further. Thank you again Scifags for your fail.


Raid had fewer Anons than last month.
(see vid here for late late late video on August raid)

August 21st Washington DC on Vimeo

http://www.vimeo.com/15088432

 

[AnonKat]

Dublin Spetember 19 Clear Ireland Event Raid

Dublin Spetember 19 Clear Ireland Event Raid

http://forums.whyweprotest.net/281-europe/dublin-spetember-19-clear-ireland-event-raid-71826/

Scilon numbers were well down on last time with a mere 9 bothering to show up, if they really have 400 members in Ireland (haha) it's a poor do alright

 

[AnonKat]

Berlin, 09/19/2010: The new red carpet

Berlin, 09/19/2010: The new red carpet

http://forums.whyweprotest.net/121-flash-raids/berlin-09-19-2010-new-red-carpet-71829/

So yeah,
what happened in Berlin on the Flashraid on September 19th, 2010? Scientology really managed to number out Anon, with twelve Scifags (at the end) vs. nine Anons. Nicely played (the Org must have been very empty), but... WTF? The public wasn’t pleased about this and did not bought books and so on? More Scifags doesn’t mean that the Scientology-Stats are up? Who would thought.
Okay, seriously: there were a lot of Scifags on the booth, a lot of Anons around it and a lot of public around the Potsdamer Platz, because there was a special market for eco-products on the other side of the street. So yeah, there were some more people who talked with the Scifags, but they don’t bought more. That was kind of funny.

 

[GreyWolf]

I wonder if Scientology has ever heard:

If you keep doing what you have always done, you will keep on getting what you have always got.

 

[Arthur Dent]

Or "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". - Einstein