Past Raids

From Anonymoustoronto

Operation Party Hard - March 15th 2008 Raid

Verdict: Epic Win!

Scoreboard: Anon: 2 Scientology: 0

Old March 15th, 2008 Planning Page

11:00 AM, ~70 Anons march from Dundas Square 1.5km north to Co$ under heavy police escort. Epic music and awesome flags contributed to win.

11:15 Dundas Brigade joins Anons at Co$ for a combined force of 200+. Heavy Police presence, approximately 30+ officers as compared with the dozen or so on Feb 10, Crowd Control horses as well. Protesters were restricted to the opposite side of the street, and a lane of traffic was blocked off to provide a buffer zone. Scienos put paper over their windows and hid inside, using windows on upper floors of buildings to tape us.

1:25 PM- A Sysco truck parks in front of the building to deliver a mysterious shipment. The truck leaves about 20 minutes later. We thought the boxes contained documents but we kept our distance due to police. Photographs and phonecalls later revealed the delivery to be a shippment of over 4000 eggs, as well as several boxes of oranges. I guess they buy their eggs annually?

Raid went strong through to 5pm, estimated attendance at ~300 peak. Unfortunately, there was no cake, just some donuts. No violence, no problems with police except that they refused to dance to "YMCA" with us.

Extra win: Wikipedia's Featured Article of March 15, 2008 was about South Park's episode satirizing Scientology!

Deluxe extra win: Wise Hat Man says CoS Toronto only has ~250 members, so we outnumbered them!

March 15th Wrap-Up

Martini Drinker: You forgot your flag afterwards. It is being held by someone who lives in a pineapple under the sea. They will bring it to the next protest if you can't get a hold of them beforehand to get a hold of it. You should be able to contact them via Enturbulation, IRC, or through the tubes.

Unmentioned Trolls: 420Chan Troll harassing people exiting the picket via the subway. Merely yelled profanities, etc. Nothing really intelligable. Was probably jealous because no one lurkes on his site. Boo-Hoo.

March 15th Media

News Coverage:
CTV Toronto (Video) Best coverage so far. (Requires Windows Media Player)

CityTV

Toronto Sun- Article now requires a subscription fee to view. Article text is here

Torontoist.com

NOW Toronto March 20-26 edition; Upfront "V for Scientology"

Photo Albums:

http://flickr.com/photos/alpha88/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23649546@N02/sets/72157604123683510/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/662616@N24/ anonymous toronto group created on flickr .. possible osa photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24685854@N05/sets/72157604124286094/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24750833@N07/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23627868@N02/sets/72157604123895162/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24676148@N07/sets/72157604122663406/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joehowell/sets/72157603887886307/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24709043@N02/sets/72157604123754094/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23642033@N04/sets/72157604138425727/

http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii2/MockerRule/TParty031508/?start=all

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24570664@N08/sets/72157604124659044/

http://s275.photobucket.com/albums/jj320/jonbaker_123/

http://wastemanagement.deviantart.com/gallery/#Messing-with-the-CoS

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24717707@N07/

http://s249.photobucket.com/albums/gg206/anonymoustoronto/2008%20March%2015/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alpha88/sets/72157604173856537/

Epic March from Dundas Square:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=K_q5486nRg4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TxdX7LU3lQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5O5W2dC0X8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tHuvfRxXAo

Other Raid Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05gjX9IPFqU (Official Version of Toronto Scientology Protest video)

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=sXdNVMW9y3E

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=bR8wt1nfKbc

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=O00z8xaI7r4

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=W30mHIivmnM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chdYp2kRQrA

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=TNwhjhHsKWg (Co$ gets a delivery of 4000+ eggs)

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=tX1_SF86-pk

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=tN4LmHaKPGY

Part 1 Part 2 (Interview with former Scientologist) Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9upJO4V8i8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAQ-vfGz8f0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AB6TqeOKYY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYy7wg54KgI (Crazy bullbaiter.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xj8-ZRl5gc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1PpsdaiOJU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUV6gsRDIZk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAr9i3LRPNA (Speech from Anonymous.)

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WdpsmMRDl4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHofOf3xMWo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2L3-KSjh8I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vygK8xDAXsQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiebB8Pw4To

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw1LyvfHhQ8

http://www.youtube.com/user/anonymoustoronto (14 videos)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnmrm-gJvEI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Op9pB0XjMw

Trouble Makers

There were a few troublemakers, but overall nothing bad happened, which is great. The troublemakers are identified in the new troublemakers section. Be on the lookout for these people during the next protest. Keep your distance and point them out to police if anything happens.

February 10, 2008 Raid (11:00AM EST - 6:00PM EST)

The raid of February 10th 2008 is officially categorized in the books of Anon as: Epic Win

Scoreboard: Anon: 1 Scientology: 0

This raid, along with the other worldwide protest demonstrations, gave the public their first view of Anonymous by means of Media coverage, and got the ball rolling for Anon's series of operations against the CoS to follow

What the Scienos did during Feb 10th

Former Scientologist Tory Christman gave a report given to her by a Scientologist about what THEY were doing during the Raid.

February 10th Media

News Coverage:

By far the best story: CBC news sunday night

The Star

Toronto Sun

Sun Media column by Mark Bonokoski, Copy here

CTV Winnipeg

CITY TV (Toronto)

Torontoist

blogTO

Local Global News

The Varsity University of Toronto newspaper

The Guelph Mercury (February 11, 2008)

Photo Albums:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23649098@N02/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23701029@N06/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23627868@N02/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24853952@N00/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23651599@N05/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23694945@N06/ - kisses from bobnovak: Full quality here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1QIWXVGC

http://s262.photobucket.com/albums/ii111/torontoanonymous/Feb%2010th%20Scientology%20Raid/

http://s249.photobucket.com/albums/gg237/Anonoronto/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cloudsong/sets/72157603887515099/

http://wastemanagement.deviantart.com/gallery/#CoS-Raid

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8890263@N02/sets/72157603888786929/

http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii2/MockerRule/TParty021008/

Videos:

Raid Coverage

More Raid Coverage and interview with ex-scientologist

Even More Raid Coverage: Part 1 Part 2

Short Compilation

Lots of Event Footage

Gregg Hagglund is Wise Beard Man North

Scio try to fake an assault

February 2nd 2008

Mass flyer canvasing took place on February 2nd, 4:00PM, at Dundas Square.

6 Anons attended, and over 9000 flyers were distributed.

Approximately 20 young Anon were recruited.

Minimal trolling from pedestrians. Scientologist observed taping us. There was also another scientologist standing at the corner of Queen St. and Yonge St. wearing urban camouflage pants. He stood there for more than an hour and did not appear to be waiting for anyone. 3 Anons observed this man standing around at 2 different times.

Verdict: Successful.

January 26th 2008

On January 26 at 1:30pm a second raid was attempted. Anon handed out flyers to pedestrians. Level 2 operating anonymous can view footage taken MOAR footage

About MOAR footage...less filming of anon. more filming of Scienos.

Setup

There was difficulty organizing anonymous since we did not meet at the planned location. ~10 Police Officers and two ETF (Emergency Task Force) Tactical Response vans arrived at 1:45pm. At 2:05pm after a camera person went around trying to signal to each stray anonymous they collected in front of a shoppers drug mart and at 2:10 the raid was commenced.

No media attended. Bicycle police and tactical vans showed up. Estimates put it at ~10 officers, 3 officers were also seen inside patrolling.

It is believed the Scientologists called in a bomb threat against themselves to get that many cops to arrive.

Protest

There were ~30 anonymous that attended. Cops were mostly disinterested and seemed to laugh the whole situation off but did not let us put up the longcat banner. An exception to that is a police officer who acted strangely like a Scientologist asking for a card as seen in the video. He also used veiled threats against our members, stating that if the banner was used "the next thing you know, someone's going to get arrested." One of our members asked how the banner would be offensive, and the cop would not answer, and went on to accuse the Anon of arguing with him. The officer is believed to be a scicop. We do not have that officer's badge number and anonymous has decided it's not worth pursuing.

We do not know the extent of the CoS's influence in the Metro Police. However, the police on Saturday were greater in number and showed a bias against protesters not seen during the Friday raid. To observe scicop behavior, see here.

A few anonymous did not have disguises. Public reception was excellent, with the exception of CoS members who darted away once they saw the flyer (as seen in video). Many people stopped to talk with people handing out fliers and ask further questions. Scientologists harassed some anonymous by accepting flyers and ripping them. After 1 hour this stopped as all scientologists were identified and the police took notice. The whole event Lasted from ~2pm to ~6pm.

Some police officers also questioned why anon was doing this. They were given fliers and the impression on them appeared to be good. Tips: one person speaking at a time and only one message.

Conclusion

When Anonymous left, precautions were taken to avoid stalkers such as using the subway system and changing train cars between stations. There are reports that 4 individuals were followed. One was followed as far south as Dundas before disappearing into the Eaton Centre. Other precautions were traveling as a group and then splitting apart at various light stops.

(WTF. Whoever was followed and shows up for the next /r/aids must point out who the fuck followed them. This is unacceptable. We need more cameras for the next /r/aids.)

This raid has been classified as: moderate win.

Fail day raid Jan 25 2008

On January 25 at 4pm, 11 individuals assembled in front of the Toronto Church of Scientology. They handed out flyers with no incident.

Photo of scienos! [1]

This event is classified as: win.