The Anonymous Sea ARRRGH answers that age-old question of "What DO you do with a drunken sailor?"

Now I ask you this, what would be a better way to start off a Saturday morning than being greeted by a gang of lovely piratey Anons? As of yet, I can not think of anything, however you must keep in mind that the sun baked me like a clam and I feel rather dehydrated. So I ask you once again to please bare with me for my brain-meats are rather addled at the moment.

The meet up at our usual place and our usual time went the usual way. As the group slowly formed and numbers were counted, we started off our gig with a lofty number of 27 Anons. However around 11:30am our numbers swelled to 33.

A new protester and long time friend of yours truly "Anonymous Spice" and I got caught up in a conversation with a Taxi Driver who was parked on the corner of the Heathman Hotel. When I entered the conversation he was giving advice of how we might be able to get a spai into the cult to help our cause. I piped in and explained to him that we simply could not foot the bill to get one of ours into the high ranks. I gave him a brief history of the fees one must "donate" to the cult to reach the infamous OTlv III. The number I gave him was $100,000 and upon hearing this the poor man just gawked. At first he simply would not believe that a "church" would make their members pay any amount for their help. He was outraged. Dear readers, THIS is why we protest. We are here to inform the public, we are here to shed light on the truth. If we ever come across another "Puppy-Mill" scilon and they ask us why we protest their cult well... that is your answer. To help them and to help the rest of the public. We're here because we care about the crimes against humanity, we are here to stop the abuse and we demand reform of the organization that suppresses it's own members. After giving my little spheel off to taxi man, he went on about how the cult should be more concerned with HELPING their people and not helping themselves to their savings. If there had to be only one win today, then at least we REALLY informed one other individual about the danger. I actually met up with this man again later and he told me that he had asked a friend of his if he knew about these outrageous charges. His friend then told him that they are true, in fact he new a woman that went positively bankrupted because of this church. Now that he knew that we were in fact telling him the truth, the taxi driver and I shook my hand and he gave me his name and number. I'm really not sure what I'm going to do about this at the moment but I'm sure I'll see him at the next protest, I might see about collecting some more information on paper for him (as he explained that he doesn't have time to even go on the internet) so he'll have some more information to absorb in what little spare time he has. I would like to call him up one day, but I'm simply not as brave as some othe Anons.   

12:00pm- Blue Scarf brought a megaphone! Epic win!

An interesting little bit of drama occurred between our dear Anon Hicks and a pedestrian he was having a conversation with. Simon is back ladies and gents and he is larger than life and scared with pimply youth. Oh how we missed you Simon! While Hicks and the pedestrian were having a little chat, Simon stepped out of the Cult Zone and snapped a picture of the two of them. The amusing coincidence was that Hicks had been informing this poor woman about the Fair Game policy and how they deal with Suppressive People. The pedestrian was frantic and followed our lovely door guard into the cult and demanded his picture. She then demanded that the pictures were deleted, which they were. Good job Simon! Hope you don't get sent to ethics for doing the right thing. Hicks informed me that when he went to ask Simon about everything, and Simon was reported to have "felt bad" about the entire thing. Remember dear readers, the Scientologists DO have hearts. We care about them and that's why we are here. but we are all very interested to see what becomes of that. With this new development I'm wondering if this lady will do something to protect herself? Remember Anons, always wear protection... for both protests and other activities.

Now many of us were wondering about a post that Bob_loblaw had made in the PDX Anon forums. Something about the importance of us staying for the long hall. I later asked Blue Scarf about this and the only thing he told me was "It will be epic." Just before 3:00 PM when our noise permit was about to expire something occurred to trump any sort of win we had that day. A pirate brigade marched through our protest to give us support. I didn't get an exact head count, but their numbers were easily 100 strong and reeked of piratey goodness. I'm still not sure how this was organized, but it was one of the coolest things I have ever seen in my life. Way cooler than the time I went to the Zoo for the first time and an orangutan played Simon Says with me (true story.)

I don't really want to make any assumptions about the effect our cause has on our great city, I'd rather be a realist than an optimist. But with the evidence that I have just written, I can't help but think back on the speech Top Hat gave to us: "we are winning."