More Scientology orgs boarded up, our readers report: What’s going on?
Last week we pointed out what some of our readers had noticed, that some Scientology orgs and missions are boarded up, and we’re not sure why.
A reader sent us a photo of the Silicon Valley org boarded up, for example, and it really seemed puzzling. On social media, Scientologists are celebrating their efforts against the coronavirus, and are making announcements that orgs are re-opening. And the Silicon Valley org is one of those more recent Ideal Orgs that is in a business park and not in a central downtown area. It has no foot traffic and isn’t in an area prone to street protests.
So what gives? We also published photos of DC and Dallas orgs battened down, and also the windows boarded up in Detroit. And since then, we’ve received more dispatches from readers.
A reader in San Francisco let us know that the Ideal Org there is boarded up…
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Chicago’s Ideal Org hasn’t had its grand opening yet, and in the meantime its current location is boarded up…
Denver is sealed up tight…
On the other hand, Columbus is not only unboarded, it seems to be doing a brisk business…
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The Harlem Ideal Org was board-free when our reader went by this week…
…but on closer inspection they noticed a lot of plywood stacked up just inside, so perhaps it’s about to be boarded up as well:
Last week, we reported that Kestrel had found the Dallas org boarded up, but another of our readers received this invitation for an event there…
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We never received a reply to our message to Scientology spokeswoman Karin Pouw about the closed orgs. And we haven’t seen references to it on the Scientologist social media feeds.
What’s happening? There’s no indication on Scientology social media accounts that the church is going out of business. And street protests from earlier this year don’t really explain why orgs are boarded up at this point.
If you have a chance, please go by your local org so we can get some more reports. We’ll just continue to search for some clue to what’s actually going on.
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“As long as religion brings solace to man in any way, shape or form, as long as churches stand in any way for the spiritual freedom of man, psychiatry will not really be able to progress, whatever its end goals are. Therefore, our rebuttal to any such attack is that psychiatry should not be permitted to wipe out a small church and then go on to a bigger church and then go on to a bigger church, and so take it all over. And also that the Minister of Health, as we have just told the press, has no right whatsoever to comment upon religious beliefs or practices. And in addition to that, that they are telling us that we must not do something we are not doing. Now, this is the yickle-yackle that appears in the world. The public at large is in actual fact getting ready to turn. Much of it has already turned. They see something very rotten in this idea of attacking Scientology. They are sick of this, see, because it’s gone on too long. And we hear cross comments of this particular character here and there. And they’ve gone too far and they’ve said too much! And they are now talking to a hostile public on the subject. It’s up to us to make sure that this is the downfall of all suppressive practices in that line.” — L. Ron Hubbard, December 13, 1966
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“Lots of fan mail and FN VGIs from people on the FSO on Valuable Final Products. I hope we can get in any corrections and additions. Send them to LRH Comm Ship. Funny but it’s like gold. Before one sees real gold dust in a miners pan, he can be fooled by anything. He thinks mica, bright rocks, fool’s gold, anything is gold. Then you show him real gold and never afterwards does he fail to recognize it. Can’t be fooled at all. It’s that way about a list of actual valuable final products. Once you see what sort of they are for a department, div or org you can’t ever be fooled.” — The Commodore, December 13, 1970
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“Is the Galactic Federation behind Trump (covering his back), Communists being the Marcab side, what do you think? This news is interesting because it’s mainstream, and the timing of it. ‘This is going to be BIBLICAL’ was Powell’s words about the massive voter fraud now being unwinded. We will also have the ‘Star of Bethlehem’ in the sky for the first time in 800 years. Can this get more interesting than it already is?”
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1996: Stefan Mars posted that his newly created NOTS page has come under attack by Scientology. “CoS has more or less FAX-bombed the University of Linkoping, but so far my page is still up. For those that email me requests the NOTs I am still shipping them, and intend to keep on doing so until the end. Helena Kobrin emailed me at that address btw, I thanked her for her interest in the documents and sent a copy of them to her. She then faxed to the university claiming it was proved that I did send NOTs to people, like I was going to deny it
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