Coastal Town is now awash in Squirrel Busters...

[Smurf]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/loc...rs-1459662.php

[NCSP]

Good article, thanks! It's cool to hear the neighbors' perspective. Scn has taken a town full of people who probably never gave a damn about Scientology, and made them into bitter opponents. Another PR job well done!

[Type4_PTS]

Excerpt from the article:



"And as the conflict has worsened and become better known, public opinion on the bay has hardened against the Squirrel Busters. Orr, who describes the Rathbuns as perfect neighbors, got fed up long ago.
“I've told people I'm thinking of forming a group called the ‘Ass Busters,'” he growled. “We'll block the street, capture them and take 'em all about 50 miles out in the gulf and see if they can swim back.”

[secretiveoldfag]

Another exerpt from the article.

Besides following Rathbun around, the Squirrel Busters have handed out a lurid pamphlet titled “Neighborhood Alert” that describes him as a mentally imbalanced, violent criminal who was expelled from the church.

Their literature also accuses him of “spreading sensational lies to the media and starting and promoting his own cult-like hate group.”

I lolled.

[freethinker]

It looks like some of the local residents have the same impression I've had for a long time.

"It reminds me of kids playing spy, all the little intrigues, and people following each other around with cameras. It's not what we would consider adult behavior.”

[Free to shine]

I love the opening:

INGLESIDE ON THE BAY — The first time Charlie Orr saw the group of men outside his home, wearing odd helmets and sky blue shirts with a “Squirrel Busters” insignia on the chest, he assumed a neighbor had a rodent infestation.

“I thought, ‘Well, we had a termite man out here. Maybe we have a squirrel problem I didn't know about,'” he recalled.

But as Orr, 70, and other residents of this idyllic coastal community of palm trees, elegant white skiffs and pastel-colored homes soon learned — to their continuing regret — the Squirrel Busters had no interest in tree-climbing varmints.

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/loc...#ixzz1RkU1AYue

[FoTi]

Excerpt from article......


"INGLESIDE ON THE BAY — The first time Charlie Orr saw the group of men outside his home, wearing odd helmets and sky blue shirts with a “Squirrel Busters” insignia on the chest, he assumed a neighbor had a rodent infestation.

“I thought, ‘Well, we had a termite man out here. Maybe we have a squirrel problem I didn't know about,'” he recalled."



His neighbor did have a rodent infestation.....they were Scio rats.



Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/loc...#ixzz1Rkdw5ozS

[Lohan2008]

As reported in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, the messy Scientology spat has involved public confrontations and calls to police, and led the city to draft an ordinance to regulate independent filmmakers such as the Squirrel Busters Productions.

With that item on the City Council agenda Tuesday evening, more than 50 people turned out for the meeting, about five times normal. More than three-dozen signed a petition urging that the Squirrel Busters be denied a permit.

That's another 50 people who previously didn't even know about Scientology & now give a damn

[FoTi]

As reported in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, the messy Scientology spat has involved public confrontations and calls to police, and led the city to draft an ordinance to regulate independent filmmakers such as the Squirrel Busters Productions.

With that item on the City Council agenda Tuesday evening, more than 50 people turned out for the meeting, about five times normal. More than three-dozen signed a petition urging that the Squirrel Busters be denied a permit.

That's another 50 people who previously didn't even know about Scientology & now give a damn

If they are denied a permit, they will just change their name and try to get a permit under a different alias and a different lie as to their reason for being there. They will not give up.

[Thrak]

“What's strange to me is them spending all this money on this. How much good works could they do instead? It's supposed to be a church. Why aren't they doing things to help people?” she asked.

Because it's $cientology, it ain't about helping people.