Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com Subject: CLEARWATER: SCIENTOLO Message-ID: <9604010813.0BK3R00@support.com> Organization: L.A. Valley College Public BBS (818)985-7150 X-Mailer: TBBS/PIMP v3.35 Distribution: world Date: Mon, 01 Apr 96 08:13:39 -0800 Lines: 123 henri@netcom.com (henry) >SCIENTOLOGY WANTS BREAK ON HOUSING >St. Petersburg Times >February 16, 1994 >By Wayne Garcia > >CLEARWATER - The Church of Scientology wants to loosen city housing >codes to allow more Scientologists in Hacienda Gardens, an apartment >complex that is home to hundreds of the church's students and staff. > >typical scientologists. the laws that are good enough for the rest >of us yet again aren't good enough for them, and they have the gall >to demand the right to crush their abused sea org suckers into even >more cramped quarters than before. > > The change would cut in half the required living space and > >in HALF! jeez, dennis, they want to DOUBLE the occupancy. When I was at the Fort Harrison, they'd pack 4 five-high bunk beds into a tiny hotel room so that the only space in the room was an isle down the middle. Those rooms always smelled so vile. >eventually provide homes for the 300 new Scientology staff members >needed for the ""Super Power'' facility, said Richard Haworth, a >spokesman for Scientology's Clearwater-based Flag Service >Organization. > >"super power" my ass. they can't even give their 'elite' morons >a decent place to live as it is, and now they're cramping them >even more. how downstat! what a pathetic cult! > >they're CLAMS, poodleboy. not SARDINES! > > The $24-million Super Power building, a six-story counseling >center, is scheduled to be built on the site of the former Gray Moss >Inn on N Fort Harrison Avenue. Groundbreaking is set for March, but >Scientology has yet to submit its construction plans to the city. > >typical scientology. they'll probably just try to mock it up >out of twigs and sticks like a rat warren. > > The Hacienda Gardens request is set to be heard today by the city's >Board of Adjustment and Appeal on Building/Flood Control. > > Hacienda Gardens, 551 N Saturn Ave., has 200 units populated, in >large part, by members of Scientology's Sea Organization, who wear >Navy-style uniforms and sign billion-year contracts to devote >themselves to Scientology. > >the st. petersburg times NEVER mentions the sea org without bringing >up what a pack of loons it is. i guess they know scientology well, >having been constantly harassed by the cult before and after their >pulitzer prize-winning 14-part expose on the cult. > > Sea Org members, as they are called, spend 10 to 14 hours on the >job daily. That unusual work schedule, and the fact that they eat >their meals at Scientology dining halls and not at home, means that >the city's normal living standards aren't necessary in Hacienda >Gardens, Haworth said. > >in other words, this cultist shill is saying that because they >ALREADY deprive them sleep with cruel and bizarre work schedules, >and the fact that they get fed subsistence gruel and rice and >beans, that they also ought to be allowed to turn the place into >a concentration camp, too. what GALL! Precisely. The staff don't have enough free time to mind. > ""The units are used primarily for sleeping and are seldom used for >cooking, entertaining, etc.,'' > >that's for sure. who'd show up for a rice and beans meal and >a videotaped l. ron hubbard lecture in a room the size of a shoebox >anyway? sea orgers wouldn't own a VCR anyway. TV is not allowed. >the Scientology request said. ""If this >variance is not granted, then, among other results, the applicant will >be required to acquire additional property for housing purposes, which >property will then be removed from the tax rolls.'' > >in other words, if you don't knuckle under, we'll cheat on our >taxes even more than we usually do. more scientology blackmail. Got that right. > Haworth said the change would affect housing only for single >Scientologists. Married couples stay in separate apartments. > > Haworth said he did not know how many people live in Hacienda >Gardens but said the complex is about 90 percent full. > >now, evidently, they want to make it 180 percent full. i guess >that's an upstat if you're a bankrupt cult that can't afford >legal housing for its cultists. > > The Scientology request asks that in 120 apartments, the city's >minimum dwelling space requirements be cut in half. For a >700-square-foot apartment, for instance, the change would boost the >number of Scientologists allowed from six to 13. > >700 square feet is 35 feet by 20 feet. i am in a room approximately >that size, and it's _barely_ comfortable with three people in it. >of course it has furniture and stuff like computers and books, which >i guess you'd be unlikely to find in some clam's room. > >13! in a 35 X 25 room! imagine the stench just from bean farts! Don't remind me. If they are admitting 13, they mean to put in 26. Rev. Dennis L Erlich * * the inFormer * *