Got it, Mike. My hunch confirmed! So he did the same thing at Gilman, huh? Wow, we are talking major paranoia here! And I say this in total awareness of the fact that Vatican City is walled off, heavily guarded with security aside from guided tours virtually impenetrable by the common folk without extraordinary measures.

Yet Pope Francis goes OUT a lot. He SPEAKS to people. He MINGLES – lesses people, takes photos with all and sundry, , not just visiting dignitaries. While Miscavige hides.

And THIS is the man in charge of the religion that’s going to save Mankind from another Dark Age…I don’t think so. With his unclean hands, he can’t even confront and handle answering a subpoena… I’m just musing out loud here. Thanks, Mike 🙂

The simple answer Aqua is that Miscavige wants a “moat” around his “Mecca.” Did the same thing at Gilman Hot Springs. Bought every single property adjacent — many of them homes that were demolished.

It’s why it was such a big deal to get the Aquarium lot — it is next to the Oak Cove and directly across the street from the Ft. Harrison.

Finally, it is leverage when dealing with the city. He learned well from Terl in Battlefield Earth.

Peacemaker, would you, or possibly someone else here very kindly please explain to me what benefit Scientology derives from buying up all this property in Clearwater and keeping the buildings empty and the land vacant?

This is not a rhetorical question, btw. I know how calculating and spiteful Miscavige is.

Except that he has always seemed to be all about MONEY..

On the other hand, perhaps I’m overthinking this.

Could it be that what APPEARS to be the benefit IS the benefit, i.e, that Miscavige has no “long term” strategy at all and is simply paranoid and in permanent bunker mode, “protecting” his little fiefdom from hostile forces and invaders?

Metaphorically speaking could he be gobbling up all thisproperty and keeping it vacant to use for Flag’s “protection” , much as lords in the Middle Ages built stone walls and moats around their castles to keep out enemies and invaders, etc.?

Surely he can’t be so himself deluded as to beiieve that Scientologists will one day somehow occupy these buildings, or build Scientology facilities on these vacant lots.d

Could his “reasoning” spring purely from utter paranoia and pure spite?