Right on Yvonne,
It is still ALL about DM looking good under the circumstances.
Greta

My hope is for the biggest mass exodus that the church has ever seen. I really want this to be the big “Wakeup Call” for those stuck in the bubble so that the lights truly come on for all of them. Now that would be achieving the goals of Scientology, “A church without insanity, without war, without crime,” because it has no parishioners.

“Right this way folks, to the egress!”

Ax — right on both counts.

Mike,

Thanks for setting that straight for me. IIRC Florida does not have state income tax. They would probably be exempt from that due to the federal income tax exemption, if there was.

He’s already cancelled one Grand Opening, for whatever reason (Keeping Pari$hioner$ at Flag, or perhaps the certain knowledge that, if/when it does open, there’s gonna be a fairly humongous communal WTF from the downshaken.) This’d be a way to kick the can further down the road with some impunity.

I’ve witnessed no indication that ol’ Voldemort* is that canny, but who knows?

Just speculakatin’….

* “Voldemort”. I appreciate the analogy, but really, he’s a lot more like one of Draco Malfoy’s dumbass posse, no?

Axiom — The “religious” areas are exempt from property tax. The “Hotel spaces” including restaurants etc are not. All Scientology churches are fully exempt from federal income taxes.

People from Tony Ortega’s Blog have also been writing.

Not sure if I am totally correct, but I think just the chapel is tax exempt, as far as property taxes are concerned. They are fully tax exempt for income tax purposes. If I am wrong someone will be along shortly to correct me.

As far as this article, all I can say is that this is simply beyond belief! It is so far out there as far as rational thought is concerned, I have no way to make a sensible comment about it. I don’t even know where to begin to try to make sense out of it.

Simply Unbelievable!

I agree. Making enemies is one of the few things that he’s actually good at. I’m sure he’s the one that approved the term “Bitter defrocked apostates.” Your average person probably doesn’t have a good definition for the word “Apostate” so he’s giving M.U.’s to masses of non-scientologists. This is a PR disaster. It’s all about keeping the prisoners in line rather than creating a good public image for new parishioners to come on board. His complete failure in Div 6 assures that Scientology as the organization has little to no future. Scientology will never be as “Cool” as it once was.