Part 3: The Urgency Scam
For decades the church has been selling the wonders of the release
of the ultimate answer to planetary clearing – and raising hundreds of
millions of dollars in the process.
Yet, after all this time, after LRH announced Super Power would
be being delivered at the Saint Hills in 6 weeks IN NINETEEN SEVENTY
NINE, there is nothing to show for it other than an unoccupied piece of
MEST. That has to make even the most dedicated church member think. But
that is exactly what David Miscavige cannot afford.
When you tell people in 1993 their money is urgently needed to make
the Super Power rundowns available in 2 years – how do you keep
stringing them along for nearly 20 years now?
First there are pretty pictures. Then stories about planning steps
and re-planning steps and the design steps, redesign steps and final
design steps. Then CGI videos showing what the building will look like.
And then a new one showing what it will look like again – now entirely
different. Then you promote
the “successes” of Opinion Leaders who have complete the rundown (and
even have them interviewed in the media).
But, you sooner or later run out of smoke and mirrors screens and
you have to do something more substantial or even the most indoctrinated
start to doubt the sincerity of your statements.
So 1998 is shovel time:
The ground breaking ceremony.
Now it is truly “going to happen.”
It’s just a matter of a few years before the Super Power Rundowns
are going to be released.
A 1999 story in the
St. Pete Times reports (based
on information provided by the church):
CLEARWATER -- The foundation has been poured and two towering white
cranes reach into the downtown sky.
"Construction is well under way on a 370,000-square-foot Church of
Scientology building that will take two years to build.
"When it opens, Scientology expects to have doubled its uniformed
staff to 2,000. It also projects that the number of Scientology
parishioners visiting Clearwater will increase from 1,500 to as many as
5,000 at any given time..."
What follows next is characterized by the City of Clearwater as a
"shell game".
Official building permits for the outer shell of the building are
finally issued in 2000. The permits expire in 2004. The planned
construction period for the outer shell of the building is scheduled to
be 2-2.5 years.
Surprise, or not as we will learn, the building is not done in 2004
when the permits expire. The City of Clearwater, tired of the delays and
endless excuses why there is a construction site in the middle of
downtown, subsequently issues penalties in excess of $450,000.
The Church claims in 2004 the reason for the work stoppage at the
site is a change of building contractors and rework of the interior
design. In the following 7 years David Miscavige has 10 different
construction projects in Clearwater started and finished, while the
Super power building sat incomplete. This included purchasing and
renovating the Oak Cove behind the Ft Harrison and fully renovating the
entire Ft Harrison itself.
In a hearing before the City of Clearwater, church lawyers asked
the penalties to be reduced to about $40,000. The Review Board declines
the request, but reduced the fines to $415,000. This fine was finally
paid in 2012 – AND THE BUILDING IS STILL NOT OPENED!
So, the construction of the building scheduled to take 2.5 years is
still not done 13 years later. And while many other projects are
completed, David Miscavige would rather pay a $415,000 fine than finish
the building and make planetary clearing possible. Incompetence? Or deception and misrepresentation? Of course, the $415,000 isn’t
significant to Miscavige….
The Super Power expansion project raised in excess of $25 million
per year. How can you continue to demand money to build a building that
is complete? So there is a need to
keep it unfinished. Paying
$415,000 to keep it unfinished is just small change compared to the tens
of millions it generates for every year of delay. And of
course, who REALLY paid the City fees? Those who were convinced to turn over their
money to make Super Power possible. It’s easy to waste other people’s
money. The scammed are paying for the privilege of being scammed.
Miscavige is playing a shell game, and he offers up numerous
distractions to make the suckers who give him their money believe it is
a real game. This is a 2006 promo piece claiming 200 Super Power
Auditors in Training. The training of a Super Power auditor should
take no longer than a year, 2 on the outside. So, by 2008, 200 auditors
should have been ready, willing and able to deliver the Super Power
Rundowns. 4 years later and still not a single hour has been delivered. Incompetence? Or deliberate deception?
All of this charade is for the purpose of extract money from
Scientologists. The pressure is enormous, and sometimes the consequences
are tragic. One big donator, who gave multi millions to the church and
the Super Power expansion project committed suicide when his
construction company began having financial problems. On May 29th 2009
he jumped from a 200 foot high bridge on the Big Sur Coast.
Scientologists in his company lied about the cause of death to cover up
the suicide.
Here is a man who gave enormous amounts of money to what he
believed a worthy and vital cause and then sees no way out other than
suicide.
http://thebluemelreader.blogspot.com/2009/06/rank-and-file-scientologists-cover-up.html
Video of City of Clearwater Building commission hearing
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http://clearwater.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=25&clip_id=1976
