Clearwater, Florida: The town Scientology bought
Decades ago, L. Ron Hubbard moved his Cult of Scientology into Clearwater, Florida. The plan, entitled Project Normandy, was to take over Clearwater. Documentation of this comprehensive operation – which included plans to infiltrate government and media organizations, and to identify and “handle” enemies – was discovered in a 1977 FBI raid of Scientology headquarters.
Despite the discovery of Project Normandy, the cult has achieved notable success in carrying out this project. The cult has come to own a very generous proportion of the city, with the total value of owned property estimated at $40 million in 2000. Given the cult’s ambition to continue to expansion in Clearwater, I would be interested in knowing how much land they control now, 8 years later. Some have come to call Clearwater Scientology’s town.
An occupation in progress… In this image you can see Scientology’s Fort Harrison Hotel (where at least 3 mysterious Scientologist deaths took place, most notably that of Lisa McPherson). The large building across from the Fort Harrison is Scientology’s nearly-complete Super Power Building. The Sandcastle is also the property of Scientology. Hopefully their next acquisition will not be the library…
Not only is the cult exerting control over much of the land, as of 2000 they also seemed to be exerting a fair bit of sway with the Clearwater police. In the video below produced by Mark Bunker (also known as Wise Beard Man), we see how the city’s police force (or, at minimum, a proportion of its officers) seem to have established a rather cozy relationship with the ambitious local cult. The relationship became so suspiciously cozy that numerous government and media figures and commentators, including former Clearwater mayor Gabe Cazares, stated that the Clearwater police force was moving dangerously close to becoming Scientology’s private security force.
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how many scientologists are there in clearwater, florida?
There are lots man there all over downtown about 90% of the people that walk around out there are sciontologist
Hay im jacob i live in clearwater Florida and today i went downtown and started taking pictures on my cellphone of all the crazy cameras they had on almost every corner where they had a building that had something to do with there cult….these cameras were head length im 5″11 and the cams were about up to my face in a dark glass bowl and it looks like there put there to catch everyones face that walks by…..but back on topic lol……wile i was taking pics a sciontologist on a bike starts following me for a little bit i was on a bike also …..and as i rode by a bunch of other sciontologist one of them took. My picture which was weird but i just smiled and threw up a piece sign as he took My pic
Should i be worried about this and mabe hide my identity as go back through like put a mask or handkerchief over my face…..i really want to expose these bunch of sidewinders