Clearwater caves to Scientology again: Mark Bunker on last night's vote
The Clearwater city council voted 3 to 2 last night to vacate S. Garden Avenue, the first step in selling the downtown street to the Church of Scientology for $1.3 million so the church can make it part of their “L. Ron Hubbard Hall” project.
Former council member Mark Bunker went to the meeting to explain to the council why it was a bad idea to give a gift like this to Scientology leader David Miscavige without first getting Miscavige to make some actual progress with the many vacant downtown properties that he controls.
And that message was reflected in council member Lina Teixeira’s own objections, when she explained why she wouldn’t be voting for the ordinance. She was joined by Mayor Bruce Rector, who complained that Scientology hadn’t come up with enough information about the overall project.
But the other three council members — Ryan Cotton, Mike Mannino, and Vice Mayor David Allbritton — voted to pass the measure.
Afterwards, Bunker joined us for a live video segment for subscribers, and we’re posting it here for everyone to see.
We learned a few things about what Clearwater is facing now without Mark on the council, and as ever we have to wonder, when will this town understand what it’s up against?
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Mark is an amazing activist. He is a great example of fighting back against a toxic, criminal organization.
At least two voted against. Re-elect them.
I always look on the bright side, since Scientology is not going to return its money to the people duped by it, then it's money will today go into renoing buildings, which hopefully, when the movement in the decades ahead, collapses, those reno'd buildings go back to the cities for re purposing.
So the best that happens to money wasted on Scientology, would ultimately go into reno'ing cities buildings, which can be repurposed longer range.
Knock the fake cross off the "Superpower Building" and it's some kind of repurposeable building. (And take the ridiculously bad statues in the lobby out.).
The LRH Hall, ah, the public in Clearwater doesn't have to really worry, no body-thetans exist so no worries about it being haunted with Xenu's body-thetans.
Best that can be done is warn people never to join and waste time and money in Scientology. (Read the free Hubbard writings and lectures transcripts which are online, and see what the Hubbard quackery past lives pseudo-therapy and exorcism is all about, if anyone must---in a sentence, Scientology is quack past lives supposedly trauma PTSD talk therapy, and upper Scientology the bulk is exorcism of Xenu's earth dumped bodiless souls called body-thetans, a double whammy scam in total, that's all Scientology is.)
Mark Bunker truly a historically all time important citizen in Clearwater's history!!!! Thankyou Mark.
This blog is priceless, and the Marcabians read Underground Bunker every morning to stay tuned to what Hubbard's nutty Scientologists are doing.