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Church of Scientology Johannesburg needs to buy an electrical generator.
As always, please go to Mke's blog for his analysis and the analysis of his commentators.
Mike Rinder: Lights Out At Jobur Org
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/lights-out-at-jobur-org/
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From: Church of Scientology JBGD <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 17:32
To:
Reply To: Church of Scientology JBGD
Subject: Eskom hasn’t been kind to our Org lately, Nobody wants to go free in the dark! So Joburg Org has come up with a solution but we need your help!…
Attend our Dark Knight Fundraiser and help Joburg Org buy its own Generator… after all you do need power to go free!
Since the rolling blackouts here in Johannesburg are going to keep on rolling for a long time, we needed to come up with a solution because we cannot deliver our service to our public in the dark, so we have decided to buy our own generator for the Org that will be able to replace Eskom when they switch off the power.
Please come and support Joburg Org at this fundraiser. The generator costs about R500 000. This cause is good for us but even better for you, because why are we here after all? to help you go CLEAR! and nobody wants to go free in the dark!
BE THE LIGHT IN OUR DARKNESS AND DONATE TO OUR GENERATOR!
Time- 7:00 pm
Place- Chapel
Theme- Dress in white and bring the light!
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The e-mail and reference to "rolling blackouts" may be a bit misleading since, as Mike explains:
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First, the org is being dunned by lawyers representing Eskom (the electrical utility company for S. Africa) demanding payment of their 2 million rand (about $200,000) backlogged unpaid electrical bill. They threaten to shut off their service, the church begs and offers a token payment and staves off the inevitable for a little while. As one S. African told me, the only entity with worse administrative inefficiency than the church is Eskom. But sooner or later they will bumble their way into terminating service to the idle org — and THEN the church will pay the bill and Comm Ev the executives, but the shoe will be on the other foot. The advantage of the inefficiency allowing them to continue getting electricity when they havent paid their bill for years will now become a liability as they try to persuade them to turn it back on when they pay the bill….
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The solution? Beg the public to give them money to buy a generator (and if that happens they will be begging them to buy fuel to run it).
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In conclusion Mike notes:
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But it raises some puzzling questions:
1. Are people supposed to fork over their money to buy a generator or support building more “ideal” orgs? Or the IAS? Or Planetary Dissemination? Or the AO Af? Or CCHR?
2. If Joburg is in such financial distress, what about the other orgs in Africa? This after all is the model. The leader. The “continental org.” The Sea Org are all over it. It’s the biggest, baddest org in all the land.
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