The rubber chicken

I walk up to the conference centre, and crossing the road I see two men in broad-rimmed hats standing on a traffic island. Both are wearing red noses, one is swinging a rubber chicken above his head and the other is giving out leaflets. As I walk past, I am asked "Are you normal?" and am told "No, you are not normal", and then one of them points to the centre and says "Nobody in there is normal". The leaflet they give out tells of a man in Minnesota who has had 40 forced electroconvulsive treatments as I find out when I read it later. Actually I am surprised that only those 2 are protesting, I was expecting a whole troop of Scientologists. And I must agree, if the story of the man is true, it makes me feel quite uncomfortable, nobody should have 40 ECT treatments against their will, or even without their will.