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Scientology Tucson Mission collapse and closure?
From the Independent Scientology blog Possibly Helpful Advice:
Tucson Mission collapse/closure?
http://possiblyhelpfuladvice.com/?p=16160
From the Independent Scientology blog Possibly Helpful Advice:
Tucson Mission collapse/closure?
http://possiblyhelpfuladvice.com/?p=16160
If you’ll recall we covered some enturbulence there in our post on Fear and Loathing in the Tucson Mission back in March 2012.
During the hostile takeover of that Mission, the Class VI auditor, C/S, fully-hatted Mission Executive Director and fully-hatted Mission HCO Secretary (yes, one guy!) was ejected, followed a few months later by the ejection of the fully-hatted Professional Dianetics Auditor/Dianetics Course Supervisor.
There have been no new tech terminals added to the Mission since then, since it was obviously an unsafe and inimical environment. (See Mike Rinder’s survey on which people in Scientology are guaranteed to get Declared.)
What a surprise! One of our undercover operatives sent some e-mails in to us yesterday and today about some actual activity at the “church” of Scientology Inc mission in Tucson.I was driving past the Tucson Mission at 1703 E Fort Lowell Rd in Tucson Wednesday January 15 at 2pm and noticed the front door was ajar.
Knowing the mission hasn’t been open on a Wednesday since before 2011, I was naturally curious.
I stuck my head in the door. No one was visible, but I could see the reception room was stacked five feet high in boxes with only a tiny aisle to walk in. Past the boxes I could see the furniture and wall adornments had been taken down.
I didn’t go in to see if the course room had been disassembled.
I made some calls to some people I know with some remaining ties to the Tucson Mission and found out some stuff.
(1) The Mission’s phone and computer services have been disconnected and reconnected repeatedly over the past year; mostly this was done because of non-payment.
(2) The gullible Scientologists who in 2007 were signed up to make $100/month donations to help the mission pay its rent have largely disappeared, and the lone remaining contributor only donates every two or three months.
(3) Earlier this month, the mission received a notice from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department that the county tax collector had asked for and received a judgment that allows the sheriff’s office to “seize all goods and chattels” in order to pay the mission’s tax bill that is over six months past due.
(4) Reports have been written about the mission’s ED, a brute named Shayne (Steven) Settle, who is openly armed and constantly hitting on any female who comes in, but the church did nothing to fix the problem.
(5) Shayne’s only real products (since being involved in the hostile takeover of the mission orchestrated by David Nagoda) are two new staff members: his wife Cheryl, who has done a less than lackluster job as the mission’s PES (Public Executive Secretary…responsible for getting new public into the mission and onto services), and a former mission public named Richard who came onto mission lines when his suppressive family told him to stay away from Scientology and he had an accident that resulted in the loss of a couple very visible teeth.
(6) The latter is so PTS that he gets his Scientology mail at Shayne’s house so his family won’t find out he’s still got Scientology connections. Shayne provides this “service” for other PTS mission public.
(7) The mission’s credit is so shot that they can’t find new quarters, so it looks like they’re moving the “goods and chattels” into storage. Most believe that Bryant Nodine will service the few remaining students out of his house until there are none are left to deliver to.
(8) The charter under which Scientology Missions International make Mission Holders operate require that (a) the mission is never closed down (which is a Crime) and (b) the Mission Holder will do whatever is necessary to keep the mission out of legal hot water. The Tucson Mission hasn’t had a Mission Holder since Ray Armstrong blew in about 2007, so is in fact has been operating outside the mission charter for seven years.
(9) David Nagoda tried to take over the mission in 2011, but the takeover failed and he hasn’t been seen at the mission since then. The scuttlebutt is that Nagoda tried to orchestrate the takeover in order to get admitted to the OT levels without actually contributing to Scientology in the ways that are normally done, such as training to Grad V auditor, interned.
(10) Without a Mission Holder to hang lower conditions on, it’s likely no one will take the brunt of responsibility for the mission closedown. Either that, or the brute Shayne Settle will get saddled with lower conditions that he will never do and therefore be banned from the OT levels and future Scientology services the rest of this lifetime.
That report was followed up today with this one:Just in case I was mistaken about the situation at the Tucson Mission, I went by today (January 16). The front door wasn’t standing open but I could clearly see through the front window that the reception area with the bookstore had been packed up leaving only empty shelves.
There were still boxes in the reception area.
The door to what used to be an auditing room was open and it was easily observed there was no furniture in it.
The reception area 32” television and cabinet for viewing Scientology videos had been removed.
I went around to the dumpster behind the mission and found scads of Scientology promo in the dumpster, including what looked to be about 10,000 church-provided OCAs.
Tossing the promo would indicate that they’re not planning to set up in new quarters elsewhere.
So there it is: if the Tucson Mission isn’t closing down completely, it’s at least shrunk to unviability and isn’t moving to newer, shinier, bigger quarters.
Remember that it’s a CRIME to permit a section, unit, department, org, zone or Division to collapse (per HCO PL 7 March 1965 III JUSTICE, OFFENSES & PENALTIES).
Letting an SP collapse stats or an org is a shooting offense. (per HCO PL 7 December 1969 ETHICS, THE DESIGN OF).
Wow. The ejection of the two highly-trained auditors from the mission by a brute didn’t expand the mission. Permitting a South African ruffian to be the Executive Director of the mission did precede its collapse.
Will the shrinkage/closure of the Tucson Mission result in Scientology justice actions being taken on the Mission’s Executive Director. Will the people who took part in the hostile takeover get Declared? Will SMI reports to Int reflect the shrinkage/closure of the Tucson Mission?
I am compelled to point out that the collapse takes place only a few months after the GAT II release, and the New Year’s event at which Miscavige claimed “2014 is ours”.
And I would be remiss if I didn’t take this opportunity to point out that the Phoenix Idle Org, which was a drain on the Tucson field since before its grand opening July 17 2012, had something to do with the Tucson Mission closedown less than 18 months later. (The same thing happened to the North Phoenix mission…long-disappeared.)
Could it be that the lack of Arizona-wide promo from the “flourishing” Phoenix Idyllic Org led to the Tucson closedown?
The Idyllic Org program was instrumental in reducing or closing almost all the missions in the LA area, after all.
I wonder if, after this week’s flap about the lies concerning Scientology in Ireland, Miscavige’s next Int Event will tell the truth about how many Missions have closed in 2014.
Whuuuuut? No?
Go figure.
— written by Plain Old Thetan