Were I OSA I'd be delighted to have AO protesting at any church event or location. By himself he does an outstanding job of disparaging protesters in the general public's eyes as a pack of irrational cranks & nutcases. The video footage of AO's antics serves to undermine legitimate protests and substantiate the counter-arguments of the church that protesters are nothing but religious bigots, disaffected former members, & obvious nutcases.
Having AO running around like the loose nutter that he has proved himself to be is of no benefit to those who wish to see the many abuses of the Co$ cease.
Mark A. Baker
I have wanted to say for months, I like your Squirrel icon with the patched eye! I was thinking of when I go to LA and protest next, I'll get a Squirrel Puppet and outfit the puppet that way. I thought of having a Squirrel Puppet, and a Xenu puppet, and do "Xenu Meets the Squirrel" puppet shows, near the HGB, on Hollywood Blvd, and sell copies of the books by the recent ex members, etc.
Back to your post, I like ALL protestors and I've tried to look past all their idiosyncrasies since we only have so much time in life, and plucking the important positives that each of the protestor's add to the overall long range "fight", to me, in the long run is what matters and what ends up in the overall flow of history.
Scientology's loser traits will be pruned by society (protestors), and I have no disagreement with AO's contributions to helping prune Scientology's loser traits.
If Scientology wants to hand out free The Way to Happiness booklets, and hand out Xenu dolls, and tell people they have to come into Scientology to learn how to exorcise the "body thetans" that are infesting them, fine by me.
AO gets trashed too much, I think. That he's capable of going to Riverside Country Board of Supervisor meetings and tell the blunt truth he does, that he goes to Twin Peaks, the MOST sacrosanct "secret" site where Hubbard's "original manuscripts" are kept, is unprecedented in Scientology protestor history, bar NO BODY!!!!
As wacky and disagreeable as he and Angry Gay Pope are, they do what noone else does.
Who else in Scientology protestor history ever protested at Twin Peaks!!!!
Protesting at the Int Base, and protesting at Twin Peaks is like protesting at Mt. Olympus, protesting the Greek Gods.
Everything you said and others have said, while true, in the long term history of things, imagine what if Anon Orange had stayed home?
I THANK Anon Orange and Angry Gay Pope for NOT staying home, but for going out and protesting!
And I of course thank everyone else who went out and protested too!