ยป Scientology vs. the Internets Round 3 Round-up
(Round 2)
March 15 was chosen to observe L Ron Hubbard’s birthday.
- London
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- Won with 700 protesters.
- Rule 34
- Police in Guy Fawkes masks
- A 15m Longcat banner
- Stylish monochomatic Anonymous
- Chant of “WE HAVE CAKE, THEY HAVE LIES”
- LA
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- A random Scientologist comes out with a gun so an Anonymous scrawls a sign saying “this guy has a gun” and apparently followed him around for the rest of the protest.
- Other LAers are fail
- Some are win
- Someone got a plane to fly around with a banner!
- Las Vegas
- The early protest was 3 Anonymous against a bunch of police cars, including an ambulance, because apparently they were expecting an Anonymous-led killing spree. Although more Anonymous showed up later to total 45.
- Biloxi, MS
- Had the police dog squad called on them by the Scientologists.
- Toronto
- Had ~30 police, including mounted cops. Apparently Toronto cops really have nothing to do.
- Boston
- Boston cops hate everyone equally, as they ticketed people for honking at “Honk if you’re against Scientology” signs, and told a Scientologist that he was a freak and they’d get him for harassment if he didn’t stop taking photos of Anonymous.
- Dusseldorf, Germany
- The police here hate Scientology. They ordered Anonymous to make cars honk, even though that’s a misdemeanor in Germany.
- San Francisco
- San Diego
- They can tell the difference between Xenu and a dwarf.
- San Jose
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- Has peanut butter and jelly sandwiches of freedom
- And these guys
- Kansas City
- Some random passerby bought them $125 worth of pizza
- Edmonton
- Is completely useless
- Philadelphia
- Is even worse
- Chicago
- Might have won, because after the police forced them to disband, about a hundred people walked around the nearby streets in single file, singing Rickrolls and apparently played hopscotch. I’m sad I can’t find a video of 100 people playing hopscotch. Another, smaller group had sausages thrown at them.
How does Toronto end up looking like a one street (if not one horse) town? I mean, ignore the skyline and that could be small town Saskatchewan.
Jack
17 Mar 08 at 7:34 pm
Alex: It looks like a small town main street because it probably is. Toronto contains many old “main streets” from small towns that were, one hundred years ago, completely separated from Toronto by farmland and woodland.
Don
17 Mar 08 at 8:07 pm
Update: I looked up the location of the Toronto mounted police photo (based on a search for the “Monster Records” store) and I see that it is very central (and presumably old) Toronto, near Queen’s Park. So what I said about absorbed historical small towns, while true in general, likely doesn’t apply to the section of Yonge Street in the photo.
Don
17 Mar 08 at 8:29 pm
Vancouver’s West Broadway kind of looks like upper Yonge, it’s just not on the other side of the water in Toronto.
Jared
17 Mar 08 at 9:04 pm