The Tampa Tribune is defunct. The only remaining daily in the area is the St. Pete Times, and it’s not doing all that great as far as print media. They do well with their constant attention to the Scientologists in Clearwater, however.
Big dustup with Miscavich and friends recently: The Xenu folks have been slowly taking over Clearwater’s downtown area. They claim to be totally transparent in their dealings, but they’re not. They just bought up a bunch of commercial properties using shell corporations over the last year and got busted doing so (by the Times, I might add.) So the aquarium owns this prime piece of real estate right next to their beloved hotel where they board the Sea Org people and others. It’s worth about $4M in the current market. The aquarium offers to sell it to the City of Clearwater a while back so they can do some things with it, as the aquarium needs bigger digs since they’ve cashed in big time with their crippled dolphin thing. Scientology moves in and wants to buy it. The aquarium says no, they want the City to have first dibs. Miscavich and friends go to work… They pitch all of the City council members individually in his office about the way they’ll resurrect the downtown area if they can buy this land. Yeah, right. We’ve heard that before, haven’t we? Then they go to the press about how they’re willing to offer the aquarium $15M for the property and if they don’t accept the offer the City and aquarium are screwing the taxpayers for not taking this massive windfall. No dice. So a week or two ago the City votes to purchase the property and the aquarium accepts their $4M offer. Miscavich and friends are LIVID. So the Thetan/Xenu attorneys all pile on and go to the State claiming all sorts of terrible wrongdoings on the part of the aquarium, and how they should be sanctioned for misusing taxpayer dollars, their director is a crook for being grossly overpaid, yada, yada, yada. Crickets. The aquarium does a very nice rebuttal in a very pleasant and positive manner in the Times the next day. Game over, David M. So what’s happening now? When you’re in the area around the hotel and other Scientology venues in downtown Clearwater, you see literally hundreds of their members walking around in their getup, black pants, white shirt, gray vest. These are Sea Org recruits stationed at the Fort Harrison (the hotel they own and is their headquarters.) These people have virtually vanished from the streets. Miscavich has ordered his followers to no longer patronize any business in the downtown area, so the word is. This means that all the shops and restaurants in downtown Clearwater that were serving the church members are now hurting. I’m not sure how long this will go on, but it will probably be a while. -D > On May 7, 2017, at 11:28 AM, Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > OK, if not the Star then the Tampa Daily News. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
