.Operation Party Hard/Reports
From Clearwater Florida
Even if they could not see us, they damn sure heard us!
Hey guys, Though I'm sure anyone that was in attendance already knows this, every time Anonymous passed through the large central intersection of Fort Harrison,just about all of the motor vehicles traffic in the area let loose with their horns and engines, volume was absolutely amazing. Between the dozens of horns from cars and trucks, or the invigorating sounds of the motorcycles and muscle cars revving up in support,the deafening wave of public support was VERY noticeable.What does this mean? it means that even though the Scientologists stayed in doors, they were still VERY aware of what was going on outside.
WTF is this shit?
THIS is where we want to hear your stories, tell them here, tell them on IRC. Report in here, tell us everything that happened, any problems you encountered, etc. etc. We want to hear about the win, but we also want to hear about the fail (especially the fine/jail kind)! So get on it!
Lots of support from the public with the honking and such. The only violence that occurred while I was there involved a Scifag barista at Starbucks taking a swing at one of the members of the red protest group. The police didn't interfere whatsoever from what I saw, and the scifags were too scared to confront us. I was actually rather disappointed in the fact that the CO$ biggest efforts at countering us involved renting pretty much every big box truck they could find and parking them all over the streets to try to prevent people from seeing us. It didn't work needless to say, and I don't even want to think of what the rental bill for that many trucks (20+) plus the parking meter fees they had to have paid comes out to. They also hired a mobile advertising van to broadcast video of pro-scientology content, but then decided to park it in a low traffic area. The CO$ did send their teenage children amongst our midst to try to photograph us, but they seemed very uneasy and scared. Lots of photographers everywhere, with about half of them being media and the other half scifags.
I was only able to stay until about 3:00 PM, but when I left, all things looked good for anonymous. Great success!
witnessed, didnt watch
Tried taking a few videos of the chanting and stuff, but using a camera and being dressed normal meant I had anons yelling at me and sci people busting out of random doors in alleys taking my picture, so I stopped. They acted so creepy downtown this time that I may just have to come march the next. Lots of cos people hiding all over downtown and basically eyeing and photographing anyone they didn't know. I wish these could happen every day, I want the COS out of my city. Even the ambulance was honking for y'all :D
wanted to come
but i was sick, i did however drive down there and layed on my horn the whole time XD
- gosh darnit. I wanted to come too, but I felt like shit all day from this cold.
pictures
http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh127/anonclearwater/March%2015/
more pictures
http://s250.photobucket.com/albums/gg246/theanonphotographer/March15th/
even more pictures
http://s261.photobucket.com/albums/ii42/anonsympathizer/March15/
Some more pictures
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23662295@N02/
Includes the two troublemakers by Starbucks.
Briefly harrased.
I was standing infront of the Starbucks (the one where all the scilons were stationed), when a scientoligist stoped me and asked my religion. My answer was atheist. But thats when he started screaming at me to mind my own bussiness and stop telling him what to do. I ignored him and kept walking as he continued to scream at me.
An anon's take on the events (mostly focused on Clearwater)
http://www.kobrascorner.com/rage/scientologists.php
The Music Video
We made an AWESOME music video from the protest footage. Check it out.
Vimeo (better quality): http://www.vimeo.com/794614
VOTE IT UP ON YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrm06oMTEkQ
rapidshare (73mb h.264): http://rapidshare.com/files/1002620...TYHier.mp4.html
mediafire (73mb h.264): http://www.mediafire.com/?5z2dmr0oznm
Scilon Barista
I was the guy the barista swung at. He was yelling at us about our masks, saying we were too afraid to show our face, so I walked up to him and ripped my mask off (stupid, I know). He started yelling at me to "bring it", but I just turned around, and as I was walking away, he lunged at me. Somewhere between 3 and 5 of his coworkers pulled him out of the crowd and into the building as he yelled "This is bullshit! How can you let this happen?".
BTW, the cake was awesome!
Pictures from Ruth Eckerd Hall, 03/14/2008
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these brave Anon from their goal.
http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/eahtaviii/03-15-2008/
