Scientology’s beach party goes into a third day in Clearwater

The party at Sand Key Park in Clearwater that started on Saturday continued into its third day yesterday, and we’ve been checking with experts about what it could be all about.

Once again yesterday, there were official Flag buses shuttling people to the tents, where there was food being served, and also young people and kids jumping on the bouncy houses.

This time, however, our correspondent could make out that the buses were labeled “Hacienda” and “Sherwood.”

“Hacienda and Sherwood are the Sea Org berthing,” former Flag Sea Org officer Peter Nyiri told us. And he said that three days also make sense for the annual Sea Org Day party,

“Sea Org Day is dragged out for three days, with staff taking turns in order to prevent production at Flag from stopping,” he explained.

“Hell hath no fury like stats going down on Sea Org Day week because they shut the place down for a day to celebrate the greatest innovation in the history of mankind,” Mike Rinder quipped when we asked him about the split-squad schedule,

Peter said that when he was at Flag, they would go to Sand Key Park for Sea Org Day festivities, and the timing makes sense.

But with bouncy houses and families and such a big production, Mike thinks this might be something new.

“This is a new thing. Never been done before,” he says. “I suspect the basis of it was for some sort of Sea Org Day activities, but I think they are trying to get more mileage out of the cost of this.”

As evidence of that, he forwarded to us a flier he received that invited “Flag OT Teens” to the party on Saturday evening…

That suggests that Flag public — Scientologists who take services at the Flag Land Base but who don’t work there and aren’t in the Sea Org — are also being invited to the party.

Scientology leader David Miscavige is certainly laying out a pretty penny for the multi-day rager at the beach, and we look forward to hearing more about how much fun everyone had!

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Canadian doctors helping out Scientology get nailed

[Dr. Christian Fortin]

Once again, we heard from Canadian journalist Gaétan Pouliot that there was another startling result from the undercover investigation he helped present last year, exposing how Scientology offers quack cures to people with real health problems.

In the past, we’ve reported that Narconon drug rehabs have relationships with local doctors who clear new patients for the quack sauna-and-vitamins regimen of the program.

But the Canadian program named and shamed the doctors who were helping out Scientology itself, clearing people for its “Purification Rundown” in Quebec, and one of them, Dr. Christian Fortin, was a well known figure. A document signed by Fortin even showed that he was signing off that a patient had stopped his mental health prescription before doing the dangerous Scientology procedure.

Despite that evidence, however, Gaétan reported that Fortin will escape punishment from the Quebec College of Physicians because he had recently changed the focus of his practice.

That’s disappointing, but once again Gaétan and his team has exposed crucial information about how Scientology endangers the public with its quack health programs. and even with the help of local doctors.

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