Operation Chutney Thunder

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Anonymous Australia's next Operation is on November 22nd 2008.

Be sure to read the Rules of Engagement to learn how we operate.

1 Raid Plan
2 Number Attending
3 Post-Raid Report
4 Sekret Asian Man
5 My eyes, they hurt! Report to be cont'd
6 Raid Photo's & footage

Raid Plan

Meet corner of Castlereagh St, 11AM Saturday 10th August, on corner closest to Starbucks. Flyer raid both sides of Castlereagh St.

Number Attending

Four Anons eventually turning into eight.

Post-Raid Report

Tojo, Fails at BlackOps eh pretty sloppy sekret agent guy and not afraid at being caught doing it everytime

SydAnons styling it up

Our view into the Org, with the No Parking Sign

Operation Chutney Thunder was originally planned to be a straightforward flyer drop raid, but instead this time right under the noses of the Church of Scientology itself; in Castlereagh St. The event was quickly planned a few days earlier with a handful of people attending. Unfortunately (or not as you'll read shortly) the flyers which were supposed to be prepped the day before were not available so upon reaching the meeting point it was agreed to wait for further /b/ackup before moving off to the closest net cafe & cheap photocopy place.

As the first three Anons to arrive waited, we decided to move down the street and take a comfortable seat at a busstop directly opposite the Castlereagh St Org. Sitting there in the masks & having some idle chit chat back and forth, were started to observe the staff walking into the Org. This was the first time we had an opportunity to see how many staff this particular Org had, by our count it was at least 25. We also noted the amount of staff entering who were clearly SeaOrg members (this Org in Castlereagh St is the "Dianetics Stress Test Centre" with the SeaOrg located in Greek St Glebe, a few suburbs over from the location) Eventually, we also got noticed.

Namely by who I consider to be my own Arch Nemesis far as the Anon vs CoS goes, Tojo. Whether Tojo is actually his real name or not (this name was adopted by the SydAnons when someone yelled out the name and he turned around) and what his actual function entails at Castlereagh (he certainly does appear to be "in charge" at the Org but sources tell us otherwise, so who knows), what we do know is this:

Tojo likes to take photos, a lot.
Tojo also likes to think he's a secret agent man, a lot.

Unfortunately for Tojo, he's not as skilled at being a "secret agent man" as he likes to think. But more on that a little later.

Tojo certainly didn't take too kindly to three masked SydAnons sitting across the road from his Org so Tojo kicked in with his OT stare. That's another habit he has, the stare. If you're lucky enough to be caught in his OT stare cross hairs, you can actually make Tojo move around the Org in order to keep the stare going by moving your position across the street. It's pretty fun!

Tojo decided that we were having way too much fun sitting there, having a few laughs, cheering at the buses and cars that went past and beeped their horns at us (keep in mind, we have no signs, we have no flyers, we're just sitting there masked) so Tojo called the police. Considering our position across the road, we can see straight up the stairs to the Org Reception and this is where Tojo stands, arms folded, camera at the ready & phone within his reach. So when he picked it up we knew exactly what he was doing next. Yep didn't see that one coming Tojo. Geez mate get some new moves already.

So the police eventually pulled up and walked over to us. Also a fourth SydAnon rode up on his bike and joined us. The Sydney police force has always been very friendly, understanding & helpful towards us so we knew we wouldn't be in any trouble for what we were doing (which after all, was just sitting in masks at a bus stop for all intended purposes) The conversation went as follows:

Mr Policeman "Good morning guys, so..are you protesting?"
Anon "No - we're just sitting here. Waiting on a few possible other people as well."
Mr P "Oh.. ok. But you are against those guys *points across the road* and are sitting opposite their building..so..."
Anon "That's ok though, right?"
Mr P "Oh look no problem - even if you were protesting. I gotta ask, why the masks?"
Anon *gives quick background on GF mask/bullet proof idea/V for Vendetta/Fair Gaming"
Mr P "I see. Well, ok. Look, long as you keep your noses clean etc. No problem. Have a good one"

Throw in the visual that one of the policeman was casually eating a McDonalds Cheese Burger while he spoke with us. Yeah, the police knew we were well within our rights and that the clams were once again wasting their time. I mentioned to them before they left that they'd be called out again by the CoS today, mark my word.

To fully co operate with the police we also unmasked as requested and handed over ID. As some of us were doing so we noticed across the street Tojo had his camera at the ready and above us a few windows in the Org were opening and cameras also coming out. Unknown to the Org was the fact that a few of us in the small group were already well known to the local CoS so their happy snaps would be useless to them regardless. The police asked a few more questions about the group and seemed genuinely interested (between bites of the cheeseburger), bid us farewell and left.

As the police drove away we gave Tojo a happy wave. He looked none too impressed. Another call is made on the reception phone and to our amusement, a truck pulls up right in front of the Org blocking our view with two smug drivers giving us a look of "How'd ya like them apples eh?" This is something the Castlereagh St Org is very well known for. But for them to do it to only four of us not even actively protesting across the street from them made us very happy. Effectively, we had enturbulated them as much as a group of 100-200 protesters does on a monthly protest. No signs, no flyers. Just a known presence.

This is a truck. Behind it is a cult

Dianetics. It's an adventure.

The young clam. Not so smug now are you hmm?

It was then we all decided we didn't need to go and get the flyers today. This was working way too well to stop.

Knowing that the truck was parked illegally in a no parking zone in front of the Org, we decided to give them a few minutes to realize that we'd take the opportunity to call it in. Ten minutes passed with the two smug idiots sitting in cab of the truck trying to stare us down. To help push across the point that we could easily cost the Org some more dollars in parking fines, one of us crossed the road, greeted the drivers and proceeded to take photos of the truck and the no parking sign. Quickly followed up by a group photo opportunity beside it as well. This seemed to sink it in and soon enough, the truck drove off leaving us once again a view of Tojo looking none too happy with us still sitting in clear view.

Having used both the usual tricks up his sleeve, Tojo and his fellow clams were starting to show signs of true enturbulation. So as to calm them an Anon pulled out his mobile, pushed the buttons and we treated the Org to a vocal Rick Roll with much gutso & enthusiasm. Our rewards for this sign of friendship was a Sea Org member walking up to the entrance of the Org and giving us the finger. Thats twice in the past month a Scientologist has done that. Don't you guys know that it's just putting out the fire with gasoline? And by fire I mean us being even more friendly towards you. And by friendly I mean Rick Rolls.

While we reeled from this disgusting display of disdain towards our angelic vocal chords - a bus pulled up, and after passengers disembarked/bordered (and one of us stopped admiring our reflection in the bus window) and the bus pulled away, we found we were looking at a Dianetics Van which had pulled up. This isn't something you see that often outside Castlereagh St so once again a photo opportunity was taken advantage of.

The van eventually also left, leaving again with the Tojo OT stares. We noticed a few cars coming and going throughout the day, a few of noted:

A ute pulling up with the driver doing her best to ignore us and unloading a delivery of milk/bread. Least it wasn't rice and beans.
A car pulling up with a young man bolting out into the Org and back into back seat of said car, slumping down as far as he could when we realized who he was. It was the young guy I had enturbulated during Operation: Sea Arggh who we busted attempting to hand out an armful of Black PR Anti Anon flyers. Obviously he's remembered the consequence and with some luck learnt from it.

We'd been at it for a good 3 hours now and our collective stomachs were rumbling. A lunch break was agreed on & location chosen. We'd realized we'd be followed and this was acceptable. So off to HJ we went. Much doughy sugar was digested and patting on each others backs was had for the amazing day we were having so far.

Sekret Asian Man

After we satiated our stomachs we headed back to Castlereagh but this time approaching from the other side of the block. As we walked up towards the street from the other direction, we stopped for a brief toilet break in a conveniently placed fast food place just around the corner. As one of the Anons attended to his business, we looked up the straight towards Castlereagh and through the crowd I noticed a familiar face pop out with a camera and then pop back behind it again. Theres way it could be him I thought, surely he wouldn't be making that obvious. When the other Anon joined us and we restarted up the street I explained what I had just seen and as we approached the traffic lights, I saw him again. Tojo was out with his camera. I quickly told the other Anons to head down the street towards the Org while I walked up behind where Tojo was situated. This would keep him distracted as he would pop his head out again to see where we'd gone. And it worked like a charm. I came up within 2 feet of Tojo and another young Asian man I hadn't seen before and quietly said "Hey Tojo"

Tojo's Asian friend ran one way and Tojo instantly walked around from behind his poorly chosen "Seckret Asian Man" spot and pretended that this was nothing out of the ordinary (which lets face it, for him it isn't) and stopped at the lights to cross the road. Myself and another Anon came up beside him and said "That was pretty poor Tojo - I could see you a good block away! Surely you can do better then that mate?" Tojo remained silent, even choosing to look the other way when a photo was attempted to be taken.

He crossed the lights back across the Org side of the road and we walked back down to our busstop laughing.