Well, you knew this was coming. Scientology loves to turn natural disasters into public relations opportunities, and so with a major hurricane hitting just south of its spiritual mecca, the Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida, there was no question that it would be pouncing on the chance.
Here’s what Scientology itself said about it in a press release:
As hurricane Ian began approaching the west coast of Florida earlier this week, the Volunteer Ministers of Florida sprang into action.
First, 40 Volunteer Ministers took on sandbagging and boarding up 53 buildings for neighbors through four blocks of downtown Clearwater and several properties on surrounding streets. They covered up 280 windows. They wanted to ensure their neighbors survived the storm with as little damage as possible. As Ian was expected to be a category 4 hurricane when it struck, it would have been tremendously destructive. The Church purchased supplies and provided the manpower free of charge to the downtown business owners.
A team of volunteers began creating hundreds of kits containing basic hygiene items, anticipating the needs of those who would be affected by the storm.
A volunteer at the Volunteer Ministers Center in downtown Clearwater published a video on the Church’s Facebook. “We’re preparing for the worst and hoping for the best,” she said. “We have people coming in to put together hygiene kits. We have people coming in to learn how to do shelter work and Red Cross. Anything you can do to help, whether it’s bringing in donations for the kits or coming to volunteer time, everything is needed right now. Let’s just all get this done together.”
With the storm veering a bit south of Tampa Bay, Scientology is dispatching its teams of yellow-shirted volunteers to areas harder hit.
A disaster response team is taking off for Charlotte County, which has suffered at least 14 deaths and catastrophic damage….Whether serving in their communities or on the other side of the world, the motto of the Scientology Volunteer Minister is “Something can be done about it.” The program, created by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard in the mid-1970s, is sponsored by the Church of Scientology International as a religious social service and constitutes one of the world’s most significant independent relief forces.
Well, that’s Scientology’s version. Longtime readers know that we’ve seen plenty of examples over the years demonstrating that Scientology’s disaster troops are more concerned with getting usable photos and video that leader David Miscavige can show at church events. And when they do try to actually lend a hand to first responders, it’s to hand out Scientology pamphlets or offer quack faith healing (“assists”).
Just to cite one example, Quailynn McDaniel told us that she and her husband were using their private plane to rush supplies to disaster sites for the Volunteer Ministers, and among the things they were delivering to people doing the actual work at disaster sites were Scientology pamphlets about marriage counseling.
Well, maybe Floridians dealing with downed power lines and receding flood waters could use a little L. Ron Hubbard wisdom on keeping their marriages together, who knows.
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I wonder how many of those boarded up businesses were actually owned by the CO$ or stealth owned by the CO$?
Yeah, I want my marriage to be just like Hubbard’s marriages:
Married his second wife while still married to his first;
Beat and terrorized his second, then denied he ever married her or that their daughter was his;
Exiled his third wife after she fell on the sword for him and took the blame for his crimes, refusing to speak to her for almost the last decade of his life;
Abandoned children at will.
Yep, that sounds like the kind of life ummmmm no one should aspire to.