Can you imagine at the next Freewinds OT-8 presentation (I forgot what they’re called) the audience storms the stage and dismember DM. So far only in my dreams.

Jere, I’ve read that the money raised for “ideal” orgs is supposed to be set aside until work begins – but I would not count on CofS accounting practices, of course. The funds might even only be maintained on paper, sort of like the infamous money on account for services put down in advance that is not actually held in reserve.

For starters, I wonder if ongoing expenses for properties bought are paid for out of the fund – and in a case like Philadelphia where the long empty building has a 6-figure tax bill and the org seems to be small and not very active, more could come out than goes in many years. And then when (and if) it does come time to get to work, it seems the orgs are charged high prices for things that come through management such as items produced in sea org sweatshops, plus I bet they are assessed overhead like exorbitant project management fees.

They have had so much experience framing innocent people that I would think they could sell frames for a much lower price.

Let us all rejoice that most of our society knows they frame people and we know enough to just reject getting behind any of their “frame ups”.

PeaceMaker, IIRC, ALL the money goes “uplines”; some MAY come back down to pay Org expenses, utilities, and perhaps even some staff pay — the lowest priority since staff don’t actually need to eat or sleep. HEY! they were the first breatharians! But I guess Dwarfenführer® would call that “mixing practices” and squirrel.

And that frame, being separate, is priced as if it were showing off an exquisite art work, easily $1,000 or more. That’s how davey rolls.

I wish I could just upvote your spot-on remark:
““What Do Your Ideal Org Donations Buy?”

“Many barrels of expensive scotch and new hair transplants for Demento.”

And in the case of Toronto it was reported that at one point all the money the locals had raised was ‘regged’ for some international ’emergency’ – they were apparently expected to just start over.

I’ve also seen speculation that money raised ends up getting used up on expenses for the buildings bought but ending up sitting abandoned for a decade or more, such as property taxes (many have been denied exemptions because they’re not in use as ‘churches’), and may even be being tapped to cover the bills of orgs no longer doing enough business to cover expenses of the properties they’re using in the meanting. It seems plausible that the costumed events are in at least some cases being used as an underhanded way to raise money to keep the lights on, which some orgs are known to have had to try to pass the hat for in the past.