2. Maybe this isn’t an opening, maybe Lafayette is back.

3. I bet permits are pretty hard, maybe impossible, to get to shut Clark (a major street) down for a cult event. I checked out the street closure permits – and nothing for the next 30 days on Clark. The sidewalk is pretty shallow and I believe any loitering from a major group would be broken up as a safety concern seeing that they are neighbors to a college.

4. It is a lovely building. I guess if scientology is going to steal tax payer money, I appreciate them renovating and preserving our buildings, even if they stand empty. In 100 years, that building will still be there even if Scientology wont.

5. This weekend will be “warm” mid 40s and sunny – this is a cool area, I am going to hang out and look for miss cabbages.

Pretty much – except that the crowed might be ina different place, too.

Dave will give his incoherent speech, and enjoy his standing ovation in front of a crowd in another part of the City at a venue that can be secured. Only Scientologists will be let in.

This place will be revealed to the faithful at the last possible moment, and it will all be over in an hour of so.

At previous openings, the rope Dave pulls isn’t connected to anything. Someone else has the fraught task of releasing the ribbon when he does that, so the only difference this time will be that he’s further away.

I’ve watched two of these things, from the outside, one in the UK and one in the ROI. They are really photo/video shoots and don’t last long.

It can all be edited to give the impression he was there, but process servers won’t find him at the ideal Org.

We know where the ideal Org is. Why, then, announce the place that Scientologists have to go to for the ceremony at the last moment – unless it’s somewhere different?

If I were rich, really rich, instead of just reading detective fiction I would amuse myself by hiring a band of dedicated, highly skilled and internet savvy detectives with a sophisticated transportation system at their disposal; armored cars, private jets, on the ground gumshoes, etc. to tail Miscavige everywhere, constantly. All legally. Round the clock surveillance. What a hoot that would be. First, they’d have to locate him, and they would. And then, once they located him, they would follow him, shadow him, gumshoe him, drive behind him, fly in their private jets after him in his private jets, just stay with him wherever he would be, for as long as he would be there; moving or stationary, never lose sight of him, ever, for the rest of his life. All in a completely legal way. If I were endlessly rich I would do this.

Oh, they know, Chris. They know. They just can’t confront it. Too overwhelming.

Smart! So what you’re saying if I understand correctly is that the people who congregate at the actual Chicago Org location will not actually see Miscavige there in person, but instead they’ll watch a video of him, giving the speech at another location, and only a few will know that location – is that correct? And it will get pieced together to look like he’s actually there but he’s actually somewhere else, and (possibly) not even in Chicago at all!
Clever! Except for one thing; the ribbon doesn’t get dropped, it gets cut. So if Miscavige isn’t actually AT the Org, who cuts the ribbon? Or, does the ribbon get PRE-cut (by him and others) with that being part of the video?

A great thing to do would be to locate him at the event and then have him shadowed, but “noisily”. On foot, in cars, in airplaines, just keep on his tail. You know, a la OSA’s own “noisy investigations”. Once on his tail, never let him out of sight! Oh, joy!

I think at this event they are going to present the newly minted exec crew trained at Flap.

Will be a staff recruitment event. Woo hoo!