Here is the text of Dear Leader’s speech for the grand re-ribbon cutting in PAC. You will understand the Noah’s Ark image when you have read the speech.
I have included a few comments throughout in square brackets. I have a feeling Mr. Miscavige may be “too busy” to show up at the March 13th event on Friday at Ruth Eckerd Hall and this video will be shown to the adoring masses in his place (there will be another post about March 13 event coming soon).
For those who had heard the report that this was a 3 minute speech, that is incorrect. It is about 12 minutes long. It begins with an introduction by Erin Banks, describing how many sups and auditors there are in ASHO and AOLA. It is quite jarring to hear Shermanspeak come out of the mouth of someone who sounds like she drove straight from the Glendale Galleria….
Funny, with the President CSI Office right there on Hollywood Blvd that Heber was not asked to be the Master of Ceremonies to introduce the great man. Not really funny, we all know why that is, he is in “semi-retirement” (as Warren McShane put it) at Int. But what IS funny is that if they had promoted that Heber Jentzsch was going to speak, or even attend the ribbon pulling, they would have had a larger crowd. Without doubt.
Of course, no ED Int either for this most important day ever in the history of PAC. Even though he is just 90 miles away. And no celebs.
Dear Leader is losing his attraction.
Here is the end of the “intro” by Erin Banks, followed by the words of the great man himself.
…For all I’ve thus far cited, there is one more element that makes this day momentous [momentous?].
Consequently, it is indeed my honor to introduce a special guest for this historic occasion. While international events of late have all taken place at Flag, let it not be thought by anyone that LA would miss out on the action.
For it is now… the moment culminates with this, [gibberish is not corrected, this is an accurate transcription of what was said]
Ladies and gentlemen, Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center, Mr. David Miscavige.
[Much clapping and whistling was heard, everyone knew they were being filmed and did not want to be caught on camera being less than overly enthusiastic for Dear Leader]
Thankyou. Thank you very much. Alright, thankyou. Thankyou.
Well, thank you very much. It’s truly my honor to join you for this spectacular grand opening, on this street on this day, because yes it’s momentous and it’s certainly one for the history books. Of course take in the grand scope of Scientology today, and never has so much significant history been in play. And by that I refer to ideal orgs rising in pivotal points across the planet, dozens in all and most recently at a gateway to the east in Taiwan.
Next I refer to the golden age of knowledge wherein every Scientologist can literally walk in LRH’s footsteps and travel his path of research and discovery.
Then again I refer to the Golden Age of Tech phase 2 wherein progress up the bridge, both sides, can only be described as a whole new world.
And finally let’s not forget the opening of our 21st-century cathedral at Flag, signaling the release and delivery of LRHs long-awaited Cause Resurgence and Superpower rundowns.
So no, in recent history we are certainly not lacking in milestone advances to talk about. Yet nonetheless and make no mistake, today’s opening signifies yet another milestone. A milestone which in years hence will be looked back on as the one responsible for turning the islands into the sea. [Seriously?]
Moreover [first time], take all you’ve seen with Golden Age of Knowledge, Golden Age of Tech phase 2, Flag — you name it. Well here’s the “Done Sir” on the LRH vision and target that pre-dates them all. [Like LA Org, ASHO and AO have not been there for the last 40 years?]
For while Flag will always remain the ultimate destination for personal freedom and immortality LRH charged this “Pacifica Bridge” with a purpose no less significant as regards planetary clearing. Namely to create a single location with organizations that paralleled the bridge itself. And not just any organizations but rather model organizations to be emulated by all others on earth and thus to generate the standard required — for training auditors and making clears in every city planet wide. [He just makes this stuff up as he dreams up stuff to say that makes it appear he is “on Source”]
All which returns us to the historical location that is today. As in, the first time in history we can now say we have fulfilled LRHs intention. From a test center on Hollywood Boulevard, to a Class Five LA org on Sunset Boulevard, yes an American St. Hill to an Advanced Organization Los Angeles, on a street called L Ron Hubbard way and all of them model ideal and all for his birthday 2014. [Again, where have you been, these orgs, and even the test center – until it was demolished – have been there for decades]
So, let there be no doubt, when those ribbons fall and you enter the new ASHO and AOLA, what you will witness is the next phase of ideal.
Yes, both orgs were utterly transformed, and yes, each is magnificent. As for the greater significance of why they are so important, and indeed, crucial to planetary expansion, the answer is twofold:
First, there is what the Golden Age of Tech phase 2 has now triggered in propelling Scientologists up the bridge. Yes, on the training side of the bridge, one can now move from Student Hat to Class V auditor in a matter of months, 100% standard tech guaranteed. And yes, on the processing side of the bridge, one can now move from Purif through the Survival Rundown and straight on through Expanded Grades and New Era Dianetics, likewise in a matter of months, 100% standard tech guaranteed.
But don’t forget, it’s all in the name of what LRH wrote in his executive directive From Clear To Eternity. Namely, one’s ascent from Clear to the top of the Bridge. Hence, with Central Orgs, particularly ideal orgs, now possessing the capability of relentlessly moving multitudes to Clear and the level of Class V auditor, well, that alone makes it imperative that our Sea Org service Orgs – Saint Hills and Advanced Organizations themselves become ideal to accommodate the floods about to cross the threshold to Dukes of the Auditor Elite and Operating Thetan. [This is all about the floods that “are coming” – he is starting to sound like Noah, in a flurry of frantic construction for the coming flood]
But then again, since this is America – hell, since this is Los Angeles – well, nowhere on earth will that flood to the top prove greater than right here. [Would have been ironic if he had delivered these lines during the rainstorm last week]
That’s why ASHO and AOLA were reconfigured, to maximize quantity of delivery, inclusive of a second ASHO HGC, the addition of a third HGC in Solo Tech Division in AOLA, new dedicated Golden Age of Knowledge courserooms in both ASHO and AOLA for preclears between sessions, expanded ASHO courserooms for the greatest SHSBC capacity on earth, not to mention a new Class 7 courseroom for the training of Power auditors, expanded AOLA courserooms likewise for the greatest Solo auditor training capacity on earth, not to mention a new Class 8 courseroom and a brand new Mark 8 electronic internship system.
But why go on? [Well, there is no reason, especially as you have listed every single thing you could think of and apart from the “Mark 8 electronic internship” there is NOTHING new]
This is the Pacifica Bridge and suffice it to say, you’ve now got the biggest and the best Saint Hill and Advanced Organization on earth.
But now let me return to the greater significance of these model service organizations and the second reason they are so crucial for planetary expansion. Because the fact is, we aren’t just making our existing Advanced Orgs and St Hills ideal, although on that count, we did just inaugurate the ideal AOSH Europe in Copenhagen, Denmark, barely 3 weeks ago. All while final plans are now rolling off the line for AOSHUK in England.
However, my real point concerns the all-new Advanced Organizations now at the top of the priority board. Because its not just America, England, Europe and Australia where Scientologists are now flying up the Grade Chart. So that’s why a Sea Org Advanced Organization and St Hill is now a necessity for all continental locations.
In Africa, where final plans are completing for Kyalami Castle. In Mexico City for an AOSH to service Scientologists from Latin and South America. And in Canada, the same again for our northern neighbors. [This is the grand re-re-ribbon pulling of PAC and he is talking to them about opening new AO’s that are going to take some of their business away? It’s one of the reasons I think this speech was not for PAC but exclusively for the March 13 audience]
Now yes, it is true the technical personnel who will deliver the OT levels as custodians of the upper bridge, meaning Class Auditors and Case Supervisors, well, they’re all trained at Flag. In fact, we already have hundreds of Sea Org auditors in the special tech training corps at Flag and they’re all slated for the tech hierarchy of these new AOSHes.
But now we come to the unique global responsibility of this Pacifica Bridge. To that extent, the reason why LRH called for all the Pacific orgs to be a model. [Note the careful wording — NOT “ideal” – LRH DID talk about using LA Org for internships for executives when the OEC was moved from Flag]. First there is LA Org. If you have been on services any time a new ideal org is on the runway for opening, you will have seen that org’s executives moving through their final apprenticeship here at LA Org.
And in fact, LA Org will now be able to fulfill her entire mission. I am specifically referring to the completion of the Hollywood Inn, now housing a model ideal Test Center. What with a multi-billion dollar development now underway at Hollywood Blvd, our timing couldn’t be better. That new Test Center not only includes the full array of public division displays, but it further includes introductory film rooms, the full testing line, a bookstore for all beginning books and classic lectures, a personal efficiency seminar room, a Dianetics seminar room, a Life Improvement Course room and the course room for Success Through Communication. [What, no mention of the urinals and number of square feet of imported Lithuanian tiles laid by skilled artisans brought in from the RPF?] So, yes, tourists on the Walk of Fame won’t just find out about Dianetics and Scientology, they can actually take their first steps on the bridge. [Oh, THAT was the “grand opening” of the Test Center… Guess they couldn’t get permits once they blew their original date, and probably could not get approval to put up trees to block anyone without an ID card from seeing Noah rambling on about his ark]
But now let’s return to LA Org’s role as the international model ideal org [now it’s a model “ideal” org]. Yes, they can now apprentice Public Division executives from every org in that center.
Moreover [2nd time] , its also where LRH intended graduating auditors from LA Org and ASHO to get their final apprenticeship before planting new flags as groups and mission holders in the field. So yes, with Hollywood Model Ideal Test Center, Los Angeles Org is now indeed a model complete, and yes, the first org on the Pacifica Bridge — Done!
But of course, if we have now extended the parameters for a Class V model org of Los Angeles, the fact is we inaugurate with a model St Hill and Advanced org something entirely new altogether. [Not]
So, lest you imagine ASHO and AOLA exclusively preserved for us “yanks” then prepare yourselves for the canucks, latinos and Afrikaans [he really DID say this and it was not at all amusing, he sounded like the racist he is] who will soon traverse the Pacifica Bridge enroute to new horizons — the establishment of new threshholds to OT in distant lands.
Moreover [3rd time], with the completion of this model ideal St Hill and model ideal Advanced Org, it is now possible for me to say – Model Ideal Pacifica Bridge — Done!
But before we pull down those ribbons, let me once again return to you and the city of Los Angeles as the greatest concentration of Scientologists on earth [and what a pathetic showing this was in light of that]. Because if the news in our world last year was expansion at Flag, well then this year mark the year as unprecedented expansion in every continental zone. And nowhere more so than right here in LA.
First, there’s what remains in this Cedars complex, because now that ASHO and AOLA have moved out of their “temporary” spaces, we can now renovate what remains in the bowels of this building. Namely a new central auditorium for local events – combined PAC graduations – and the construction of a new cafeteria extending across the full wing of the building just behind me.
Moreover [4th time], its all targeted for completion by year end. [Hopefully in time for the flood…]
Then there are the out of town Scientologists who come for the Briefing Course at ASHO and OT levels at AOLA. Well, we want their journey to be as distraction free as possible, most particularly free of MEST universe concerns, and that’s why we finally acquired that Fountain apartment building right at the end of this block. And all designs and construction documents were just completed [construction documents – oh wow what amazing news from COB RTC] to transform those apartments into ideal public accommodations [ideal?] replete with ideal solo auditing rooms [wonder if they will have “ideal” toilets and “ideal” mattresses], and yes, that’s also targeted for completion this year.
Next, for out of towners staying for the longer haul, or simply desirous of more spacious accommodations, there’s the Golden Crest building just behind the Manor. Designs and construction documents are also now complete for those apartments, and yes, the Golden Crest is likewise targeted for opening this year. [I guess the flood is expected at the end of the year sometime]
And finally, if that’s all to service this Pacifica Bridge, don’t think I’ve forgotten what else makes Los Angeles unique in all of Scientology. And an org that is a virtual pillar of the bridge all unto itself — Celebrity Center International. And once again, all designs and all construction documents to transform CC Int to ideal are also now in hand. [In hand? Oh sir, you are so amazing]
Moreover [5th time], when you see the animation we preview just before construction begins, well hold your lids tight lest your eyeballs pop. And that too launches in 2014. [And this is relevant to the ribbon yanking of the Pacifica Bridge because?]
But to place the whole of Los Angeles into complete perspective, you have to consider the whole global view, meaning, where were all Golden Age of Tech phase 2 materials produced? Bridge Publications here in Los Angeles. [Huh?]
And from where came all promotional items, information kits etc? Well, that’s our international dissemination and distribution center, also located here in Los Angeles. [Huh again]
So yes, this so called city of dreams, is indeed a global emanation point, and its about to become all the more so, proliferating dreams across this planet. [Popping eyes at CC was starting to move into hyperspace, now the dreams across the planet is really going off the theetie-weetie diving board into an empty pool]
Because also on Sunset Blvd, just around the corner from where we now assemble, will stand something we’ve never had. Specifically, our own global media center. A Scientology television station, a Scientology radio station, not to mention [why do you keep saying that as you mention things?] production facilities of every type of media from print publications to cutting edge internet media. It’s a 5 acre studio lot replete with two sound stages and 150,000 square feet of production facilities [way smaller than Gold, but never mind, Gold are all out ethics SP’s so they have been relegated to redoing the titanium plates that CST are supposed to do]. It’s the former home of the public broadcasting station KCET. Not to mention Hollywood’s oldest continuously running studio lot. And even that hardly says it all. Because it is also the very address LRH himself wrote motion picture serials, such as the Secret of Treasure Island in the 1930’s. So, yes, it’s a place that’s long been waiting for us. [Come on, this is SOOOO lame – LRH wrote fiction scripts there so we are going to do Scientology media] And in 2014 we will formally inaugurate her as Scientology Media Productions to effectively tell this whole world who we are.
[Somehow in all this discussion about the future of LA, Valley got no mention. But they are going to put more money into CC Int to pop everyone’s eyes out]
But if I have now previewed the future [because there is nothing to say about accomplishments of the past other than vague generalities about GAG II], then let’s turn to the present, because we have now arrived at the moment we formally open those doors and arrive at the last bastions [?] of the model ideal Pacifica Bridge. It completes a physical bridge on this most important street on earth. Thus becomes the living symbol of all who walk here to higher states. It also completes the fact that an LRH dream has indeed come to pass, a dream that is written in the very stone where we now stand and yes, a dream that spells freedom.
It is now my honor to pull down those ribbons, and in so doing, this new model ideal American St Hill Organization and this new model ideal Advanced Organization of Los Angeles and this model ideal Pacifica Bridge complete – are all now dedicated to the spirit of eternity and in the name of L. Ron Hubbard.
Please stand and join me.
[And with that, he yanked his ribbon, balloons shot skyward, everyone cheered and in they filed to “tour” the buildings they have been in for 40 years and have been in even while they were being repainted transformed into “ideal.” Though exactly what it was that makes these orgs now “ideal” he never explained]
Phil de Fontenay says
Wow! I cannot read that dribble! Who talks like that?
It’s like some speech from the Middle Ages.
I guess it is meant to be confusing and hypnotic to keep the Koolaid drinkers in line and numb!
David Miscavige sucks!
Hallie Jane says
WTF?? What a bunch of inane prattle. This is evidence of the death of word clearing.
Hallie Jane says
That was a really good laugh Starzstuff. Thanks!
Hallie Jane says
Sorry my replies keep going to the end. This was replying to something much earlier.
divaexmachina says
It must be that the abominably awkward syntax of Sherman’s word salad has hypnotic properties, because it essentially says nothing, as usual.
Over at Tony Ortega’s blog, a oommenter started this list of words for a fun “COB/Shermanspeak Drinking Game” that the whole family can play!
Chug a shot (preferably of McCallans) each time you hear one of these words in a COB speech:
Moreover (Of course!)
Stratospheric
Momentous
Multitudes
Similarly
In Totality
Vis-A-Vis
Accordingly
Rather
As regards
By way of example
Hence
In point of fact
As such
Thus
Therin
Likewise
In totality,
Notwithstanding
In a nutshell
No less than
“And yes, that’s….”
“And not just any….”
Insofar as
All things being equal
Whereupon
Wherein
Nonetheless
Make no mistake
Let there be no doubt
Milestone
Please feel free to add to this growing list!
Mike Rinder says
Ideal — that will have you on the floor in about 5 minutes….
MJ says
After I stop vomiting.
Pepper says
“Yanks, Canucks, Latino’s and Afrikaans”
Is this Walt Kowalski talking, the character played by Clint Eastwood in the film Gran Torino?
Walt used much more deragatory names for ethnic groups but Miscavige is walking a fine line here.
RK says
First; Moreover; Hence; But no; But foremost; But, yes; But, now; Then; So; Next; Now, yes; And, in fact; And, finally… it’s like nails on a chalkboard. I’m still trying to figure out what he means by, “A milestone which in years hence will be looked back on as the one responsible for turning the islands into the sea.” I think that would be called a tsunami (a bad thing for islands).
gato rojo says
Well, I really really tried to read this whole thing. I even played with reading it like His Holiness would have delivered the speech. When I found myself waiting for the applause to stop before I continued reading I freaked and stopped! LOL….
But I bailed instantly when I saw the “canucks” reference. What a friggin’ jerk this guy is. Live in front of however many people, and filmed for all to see for years to come, he says this. I hope this stuck in their minds and as bad PR works, they mentally rejected everything about the whole event. I certainly did. Again, what a friggin’ jerk.
Pepper says
VIP world leaders do not talk like this. Moreover, someone needs to clue Miscavige in.
Moreover, Miscavige needs to get a real sense of humor. Racist jokes and ethnic slurs went out quite a while ago. People don’t speak this way in general anymore, certainly not in a public forum when thy are the “respected keynote speaker.”
It just shows you how arrogant and ignorant he really is and completely out of sync with the real world.
Mike Rinder says
You are absolutely right Pepper. I got to that line and literally gasped. It shocked me and I do not get surprised easily.
jgg2012 says
He didn’t say that the orgs have toilet paper in the bathrooms, or have trained any new auditors in the last 12 months, or that they won any court cases. Guess he didn’t have time.
Cece says
“What with a multi-billion dollar development now underway at Hollywood Blvd, our timing couldn’t be better.”
Do you know what he is talking about? He may have maybe said something.
Maybe this? http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/02/literal_faultfinding_underway_at_millennium_hollywood_site.php
MJ says
It’s on a need to know basis. Even he doesn’t know. He just like to hear himself talk. Pay no heed.
cris says
Thanks Mike….
I got to “…rising in pivotal points across the planet…” At which point I suddenly remembered I hadn’t checked my electricity meter reading since yesterday and a host of other menial tasks that would be more productive then reading another word from The Shermenator’s oxygen starved not so grey matter.
Bon voyage for those braver than I.
Pepper says
“New dedicated course rooms for GAT for preclears in-between sessions.”
Let’s hope that the walls have been made a little thicker in the orgs this time than the last.
I clearly remember studying in the library between sessions at AOLA, when I could hear a SO staff member getting screamed at by the woman who was Captain at the time and a few of her assistants. I heard the staff member (a female) mouth off back to her.
I heard furniture being tossed and a loud thump on the floor, (and wall) followed first by an eerie silence, then by the sound of a woman whimpering. Then I heard the Captain tell her “Look at you, you’re service fac’ing, crying like that!”
I was genuinely concerned because it sounded like the staff member had gotten tossed or flipped out of her chair and was in pain. Just a bit of “entheta” between sessions!
Public aren’t supposed to be aware of this sort of thing but it happens, as I found out first hand.
Mike, thanks for counting out the number of times “moreover” was (overly) used. Can’t this guy find another word or way to articulate what he’s trying to say? Who uses that word over and over again in speech?
MJ says
Moreover, move over.
gorillavee says
“…every type of media from print … to cutting edge internet media” ?
Cutting edge internet?
You’re slipping, Mike. He hangs a pinada like that and you don’t take a swing at it? 😉
plainoldthetan says
“Then there are the out of town Scientologists who come for the Briefing Course at ASHO and OT levels at AOLA.”
Humpf. I thought that the delivery of all OT levels had been moved to Flag.
And we can’t forget the out-of-town Scientologists who come to AOLA for the Clearing Course and Class VIII course. Is there anyone in the Class VIII courseroom any more?
And what of getting Power Processing at ASHO? Or is that not done any longer?
theholedoesnotexist says
In the late 70’s there were more Class 6 auditors made at ASHO in a week than were made last year.
Even in the early 80’s when the BC runway was embedded with every imaginable barrier and the org was close to shutting down, there were more Class 6 auditors made in a month than were made last year.
There were more real artists on lines at Celebrity Centre. There was standing room only in AO’s OT waiting rooms. There were more staff who actually knew policy even if only ethics and admin. There were far fewer bankruptcies, divorces, suicides, cancers, mental breakdowns and far fewer square feet per customer. So naturally he needs more space and more buildings and more furniture now. Not insane at all. And the head of those veteran families that compromise the few remaining customers were witness to all this as well, some on their 3rd recycling spin. They cannot say they don’t know.
The one constant you can always count on is the sudden plunge of one’s conditions date coincident with the latest revolving renovation cycle. Bare bones maintenance conducted on run down, aging buildings overused and misused guarantees the swelling of RPF projects as regular as laundry chores. Were any professionals in hazmat suits seen this year or is asbestos still an approved-for-slaves consumption item?
What I want to know is what will be done with all the blood, sweat and tears and other buried horrors that get dug up when the haunted bowels of Leb Hall gets the treatment? As to his grandiose dreams of TV broadcasts, this is one project I can get behind. Imagine Miscavige on TV for all to see and hear, constantly, relentlessly droning on, a 2014 version of Orwell’s Room 101 with the golden horns of scientology scores blasting in the background. That’s what I’d call The Ideal Swan Song. By the end of the year? It can’t happen soon enough.
zemooo says
So when the new auditorium in the Biggest Blue Building is done they’ll stop closing L Wrong Hubbard Way for each weeks graduation party? The neighbors will applaud that.
jgg2012 says
The Gettysburg address took only about 3 minutes.
Tim-S says
DM is brilliant, even amidst the BS. This is his new SuperPower cash cow, the KCET facility. May the regging begin.
Even you can become a ground breaking, cornerstone, global disseminating, founding humanitarian, civilization building member for just $250,000. Start your donos today. Or better yet, reg your children for it.
Draco says
I have always found it impossible to listen to the twat speak at an event. Two minutes in and my ears are bleeding from the volume. Plus the bass is turned on so strong that it sort of vibrates the words together in one long horrific noise. It was quite interesting to read a speech as I have never been able to actually hear the individual words! And no, it doesn’t make any more sense in the written form!
BTW – Afrikaans is a language, not a group of people. Afrikaners are the people who speak the language.
Mike Rinder says
Draco — yes, I wasn’t going to be too picky and make the point about his condescending references to canucks, latinos and Afrikaans was wrong. I have read enough Wilbur Smith novels to know the difference….
Draco says
Yes – I know Australians are big fans of Wilbur Smith, just like South Africans like Bryce Courtney! The BTW was meant more for the Americans. And I have also read all of WS’s books – good story teller 🙂
plainoldthetan says
Veiled condescension is the hallmark of Miscavige speeches.
Make no mistake about it…
buttons72 says
Draco was right, Mike. It was clear that the Afrikaans comment was meant for people like me (“yanks”, according to Miscavige, or in general, the uneducated), as I did not know what “Afrikaners” was or meant.
Cece says
What an ass-hole. Doesn’t even bother to thank the crew that did all this work and the ones that carried on production while being moved around. Maybe they will get a campaign bar. And the captains didn’t talk to welcome in their customers? I guess the Mayor and local government figures don’t show up anymore…. Says a lot.
He has no respect for SO members or anyone else and it is very apparent.
Thank you for your work on this Mike.
SunnyV says
I was going to comment that DM has NEVER thanked or mentioned the hard work and endless hours labor performed by SO members for next to nothing. These are facilities supposedly built around the services provided by people, and built on the donations of others, yet the SO or staff or donors or volunteers are never mentioned or thanked or acknowledged. Even the worst CEO in the world will profusely acknowledge, even disingenuously, all the employees. It’s incredible and really shows that DM is a selfish, evil, completely oblivious to reality, piece of shit. Hell he doesn’t even thank all the donors for making it possible. It’s surreal, I’ve never heard speeches that totally lack the credit and acknowledgement that is due to people who made the entire thing possible.
The words “thank you” or the concept of gratitude are non-existent in DM’s black, nasty little world – it is only little old black heart himself.
You can only enjoy the fact that someone with so much material wealth and luxury could be so miserable and entirely unloved.
Starman8 says
You guys are ALL brave – I just can’t bring myself to take the time to read THAT!
hiatus57 says
what’s all this crap about “Cathederal” Is it full of money because that’s all they worship in that building.?
Potpie says
A Mark 8 Electronic Internship? Really?
One has to be an interned Mark 8 meter user?
Wonder how much that internship cost?
And does one get a cert for this?
MJ says
Encrypted.
Aeolus says
Gah, I’ve been implanted! I haven’t been to an event in over 10 years but I can’t read the transcript without hearing it in His voice, inside my head. How long will it take to get rid of THAT?
Draco says
Imagine him sucking on a helium balloon just beforehand and then launching into the speech!
tetloj says
Yet nonetheless and make no mistake….
Truly awful prose.
Lest anyone think that this man is a competent leader of a legitimate religious movement…
MJ says
Notwithstanding the enforced attendance and artificial high toned-ness of the remaining followers of his most high hole-iness, needless to say, and make no mistake, this futile exercise in Hollywood showmanship must go the way of the dinosaur.
Anon says
This is so comical, you’d think he was doing an ironic comedy skit.
The building has been there for decades, and there He stood to cut the ribbon for its opening. How can someone not find this hilarious? And he managed the whole skit with a straight face! Damn, he’s had practice.
Building are painted regularly for general maintenance. Renovations and expansions are done, too. David Miscavage is the biggest dupe of them all.
They may have clapped, but his conviction oozed through that speech.
What a moron.
Just Me says
Moreover and notwithstanding, suffice it to say He is cray cray.
scnethics says
LOL!
1subgenius says
I wish I could find the exact reference, but the speech reminds me of one given by Groucho Marx as (I think) Phineas T. Firefly, a lawyer, which ends (something like) “….ergo, to wit, nonetheless, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera….” Crossed with Ellen Degeneres’ great “My point…and I do have one….”
Do they still diagram sentences in elementary school? I defy even a Ph.d in the English language to tackle any given sentence of this speech.
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Teddybear95 says
when he talks about expanding straight uo and vertical he is right : the number of people quitely leaving the church is straight up and vertical :)) The madness of it all is that he is putting these ideal orgs in place for no one . These places are quite empty. I wonder how he is going to pack them up with new public . I mean he is alone, he has to do it all alone , no one can do it better than himself … still orgs and missions are empty …
MJ says
To once again paraphrase Field of Dreams: “If you build it, they probably won’t come.”
Poet13c says
Look out, UK, it’s not Ideal this or St Hill that anymore – you’re going to be hit with ‘Cathedrals’. It’s the ribbon-cutting he likes, it makes him feel important. He’s probably got special scissors in a special case, brought out on an elaborately embroidered cushion carried by a vestal virgin who carefully avoids eye-contact with this Pope of the World.
Paul J says
As I read DM’s speech I recalled, as though it happened yesterday, my wife and I attending an event at the Shrine in the late 80’s and hearing him speak for the first time. At some point I leaned over to my wife and said, “I’ve got a problem with him, he’s out of valence”. Little did I know….
Chuck Beatty says
It’s so easy for protesters to shut down the LA Test Center at the vertical sign (Hollywood Inn, or vertical Scientology sign building).
One or two protesters with protest signs with “Xenu” and “body thetans” written on the protest signs and then test center people who disseminate on the sidewalk will retreat back inside and pull the curtains.
Staff have to be better briefed on Xenu, body thetans, the details of the 4th Dynamic Engram, and be better explained to discuss the fact that OT levels 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 all deal with eliminating body thetans, so that all front-line Div 6 front-line body routing staff know their religion they are street disseminating.
Thanks for the transcribed briefing and for the background history of the LRH orders re Pacifica Bridge and LA Org and LA test center!
I don’t envy body routers or street level disseminators at any org today.
Obnosis says
TLDR (Too long, didn’t read). But gawd, Shermanspeak is even worse when you read it. I could hear both the voice of Miscavage or Sherman as I read. How gawd awful! I can’t even believe Miscavage likes it.
Birgit says
David Miscavige, YSCOHB!!!
And that´s my opinion!
Birgit says
Being a foreigner, I hardly understand any of his babble. Seems like he is mostly talking about the future. Like, NOW all the buildings are there and all the staff are training the “new” tech like crazy, so that they are ready for the first time ever to deliver standard tech to the floods of people who will be flooding like never before into the newly re-re-re- renovated orgs on their way to “TOTAL FREEDOM” the Scientology way.
I´m pretty mad that I have paid so much money over the years for non standard tech the way Ron didn´t want it. What a waste!!! I could have had my own house completely renovated and turned into a castle for that same amount – and felt much better!
Bela says
Birgit,
I am not a foreigner, and I hardly understand any of his babble.
MJ says
I wish I were a foreigner and didn’t understand any of it.
plainoldthetan says
Birgit: “hope and change” has been touted by despotic dictators for as long as mankind has kept records. And “hope and change” only works in contrast to the past, as it posits a future without all the bleakness of the past and the present.
morelivesthanacat says
Mike, I recall years ago, when there were still Int speakers at events, how he would sit in the auditorium and puppet direct you guys for hours event after event after event, picking apart your speeches, belittling and invalidating each of the speakers incessantly, interrupting with loud exclamations, walking up to the podium, ripping the speeches out of your hands, to “show how it was done”, etc., ad nauseum during event rehearsals. It went on for a few years, each time with more enturbulation and greater force.
Which is why it is so refreshing to read your blow-by-blow of an otherwise intolerable speech.
Of all the Int speakers, Dave included, the ONLY ones who could deliver a truly interesting speech (even handicapped by Sherman’s writing) were you and Heber.
Do please keep it up.
Also, as you can tell, some of us are fascinated by the developments at Int. This was news to me. It’s true that at least since 2000 after the NY2K event debacle, the forceful threats of shutting down Int and off-loading everyone were relentless.
War Horse says
Can’t wait to see Dave’s Ideal Jail Cell.
The Oracle says
Someone in the Indie Movement is making David Miscavige pinatas for the children to bash at birthday parties.
buttons72 says
I hope that is true, Oracle.
Black Panther says
Wait – one moreover: He’s going to turn the islands into the sea???? Really?? Is he planning another Tsunami somewhere that we don’t know about?? Has he bought off the weather stations AND the CIA???
Black Panther says
6 Moreovers. He sounds like one of those “and that’s not all !!!!! …..You ALSO get……blah blah ” cheapo adverts on TV selling some kind of gizmo that no-one wants, but if they keep throwing in other “free” crap someone might take notice.
Moreover, I don’t know if anyone caught the “plans are now being done for Kyalami Castle – being from South Africa that caught my eye. That Castle has been owned by the Church for years (maybe 6 or 7 – (maybe someone can correct me) and the plans are only being done NOW????
Moreover, the lie behind the Kyalamo Castle and what the public have not been told is that there is a municipal by-law on that property which stipulates the existing building can ONLY be used for hospitality purposes (hotel, event functions etc). So THAT building you keep seeing is NOT going to be the AO – nope. They have to build the AO from the ground-up……….. So there you go South Africans, brace yourself for even more insane IAS fundraising as it’s no longer going to be a case of renovating the existing building to fit our purposes, WE HAVE TO BUILD A WHOLE NEW BUILDING………..
Moreoever, something else people might not know is that the tenants who were in the Castle (and at least bringing in some income for a while) left months ago, taking with them their mega-generators that were running the satellite dishes, TV and Radio broadcasting equipment which all ceased to work (and these guys ALSO pay rental). So no broadcasting = no rental. It was a flap of gargauntuan proportions……….not sure how they handled that one.
Moreover……………….. I’m done.
Gus Cox says
“…Golden Crest building just behind the Manor…”
Huh? WTF is the “Golden Crest building?” And by “Manor,” did He mean the CCI building?
So first, hat’s wrong with staying at the Manor itself?
Second, what building behind the Manor would He be talking about? The ugly one across Bronson where the staff currently live? Or that really ugly vacant one at the corner of Bronson and Yucca (that looks like it used to be a crappy motel)?
I’m mystified!
starzstuff says
Every Building by the manor was a shithole with the exception of the one directly behind it. Maybe it was the Shangri Lodge 🙁 I lived in that death hole for a while so I could be “close” to CC. The only thing that out numbered the cockroaches living there were the failed OT’s.
Basketballjane says
I think the number of Cockroaches and failed OTs may have been a tie actually. There were a lot of both. But I think hey did buy the Shangri Dodgy and almost all the other buildings around CC. The were working on it for a while.
Joe Pendleton says
“And to reward all of the folk who did the actual physical work you will see here today. …. yes … deep in the bowels …. your Pacifica’s New Ideal RPF ….. even darker, danker and more despicable than you ever thought possible …… Heber and Yager will be the new GAT2 Hosts for those who will probably never see sunlight again ….. and now Rev Alfreddie and Minister Farrakhan will join me in ………. “
Basketballjane says
Hahahaha golden Age of RPF. I would LOVE to see what that would entail. I think Mel Brooks should make that movie, “It’s spring time for Miscavige and Scientology . . .” So catchy I can already see the goose stepping now!
Basketballjane says
Two things. Number one. I would LOVE to know how he plans on redesigning CCI. It is a Historical building. There are extremely strict laws regarding their preservation. That is why we had a bajillion gallons of a very specific egg she’ll paint on hand to keep the walls the same shade. You couldn’t even change the chair style. So that should be interesting.
Number two, is EVERYONE on the RPF now? Have they just routed the public directly onto it as a new rundown? I only ask because with all these buildings being completed in mere months in don’t see how it will get done otherwise.
There were 325 of us when I was the RPF and we demoed the Bronson for CC, did renos on the 7th floor Main Building making a hole new layout of rooms up there- totally finished, made a new laundry room, redid the chapel, did the whole entire ABLE building and made all the furniture, restained and re stuccoed the entire exterior of main building and all the while kept up the maintenance and grounds of the whole base and put on all the events. And that was just in the three years I was there.
So pretty much you would have to double that number of people. I don’t even want to imagine any higher bunks than three high. But I am sure they would have to stack these people four high to fit all those people onto the second floor or wherever they have stuck the RPF now.
buttons72 says
Good God, Basketballjane. I’m glad you made it out. That amount of work seems immense to me. I thought leisure, sleep and study were a part of your day. (yeah, right) I surely wish our gov’t would shut down RPF for unfair labor practices. I’d like to see the f***ing speeches COB would make after that! Not a whole lot of re-re-re-re ribbon cuttings to be done then.
Basketballjane says
Buttons72, as long as there are RPFers aka slave labor to do it there will always be another Reno project. A gigantic carrot to keep the slaves going. Making all that furniture, wiring all those buildings for electricity, breaking down those walls and building new ones, that is real. It is something that you can look at and be proud of. It was the only real thing on the RPF. No matter how many rundowns you completed, no matter how many cognitions you had or wins, you were still a piece if shit. You were nothing. You weren’t a Sea Org member, you were less than that, less than a Wog, less than human. But if you made something that “Real” Sea Org members appreciated or used, then you were something. You were real. You mattered. When you are on the RPF, or god forbid the RPFs RPF, which I did 3 times, you are less than nothing. You are less than human. You have no rights, not even to your own private thoughts. You have no free will, you are forbidden from being or acting happy at any time. If you are happy, you are out ethics and you get sec checked. And even when you have jumped through all their hoops you still can’t leave there until you sufficiently beg and grovel enough to be allowed back into the fold, finally a person again. These construction projects, for all RPFers, are kind of the only way to remain sane at all, to remember that you are human. To remember for even just one minute that you have some semblance of control over yourself and your life. It is a dark, sad, and extremely scary place that the RPF takes you to. It takes you to the edge of sanity, the edge of your soul, and pushes you off into the abyss. If you are lucky, you leave, like me, and have a supportive family who will be patient and help you to find yourself again, to wait for you to emerge out of the darkness and back into the light.
outraged says
Do you ever sleep?
Martin Padfield says
Good question, I’ve been wondering too. With the sheer volume of enlightening new blog postings pouring forth, a job and a young family – well, one does wonder.
minorron says
With Captain Davey’s talk about ideal public accommodations I hope he has created ideal sea org accommodations for the crew and staff.
Moreover, an ideal new cafeteria with normal food for crew and staff.
Moreover, ideal working conditions including time for sleep.
Moreover, an ideal health care program for crew and staff.
Moreover, an ideal living wage for same.
Can’t wait for the new global media center material which will only have paid non-scientology actors playing the part of PC’s and Auditors pretending to have achieved results in Scientology.
Moreover, can’t wait for Justice to take place and give Captain Davey his ideal prison cell.
indie8million says
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. +100
starzstuff says
That will never happen. Ideal to davey boy when it comes to staff is those staff held in squalor, poverty and downtrodden concentration camps.
KFrancis says
As soon as I saw that Erin Banks was speaking I knew we were in for some bullshit.
When the Denver Ideal Org opened this is what Erin told the Denver Post newspaper in June 2012, “Church spokeswoman Erin Banks said Denver-area Scientologists number 10,000….”
There are no where near 10,000 Scientologists in Denver or the even five states surrounding Colorado. That number is so bloated that it is really embarrassing. Denver probably has a hard core group of maybe 50 to 60 and that was several years ago.
Bill Lumberg says
A pathetic speech by a pathetic man for a pathetic cult. Actually, I don’t think it can even be called cult because that’s actually insulting to cults. Cults have a mystery about them . . . a luring energy that draws people in thanks to some elusive scripture delivered by a charismatic leader. Scientology is just boring. Thanks to the internet, we know it all. Yawn. And COB is anything but charismatic, he’s a toilet bug. Eh, whatever. Keep on doing your thing Miscavige. You’re a dipshit. We all know you’re a dipshit. What else is there to say? I suppose I could tell you that you’re a miniature version of a man, a starter kit. But you already know that.
Lucy says
DM is such a blockhead!
KFrancis says
When I was a kid I use to love watching Bonanza every Sunday night. Ben Cartwright was always so stable and his hard won experience and wisdom was the anchor that allowed the Ponderosa (a large ranch) to flourish. Little Joe was the youngest son in the family and was always going off half-cocked and Adam and Hoss his older brothers were charged with reining him in one way or another. It was great TV and carried a Christian message.
Anyway, in one episode a traveling salesman pulled into Virginia City selling an elixir out of the back of his fancy wagon. Boy could he talk! This liquid miracle in a bottle could cure anything according to the well dressed, fast talking huckster. Folks couldn’t give him money fast to enough to cure their arthritis, nightmares, the fever, tuberculosis- You name it and this miracle tonic could cure it all.
When I read this speech from Dave I couldn’t help but think of that old man with all the answers in a bottle. Apparently old fellow came back and pulled his tired wagon onto L. Ron Hubbard Way, kicked open the doors and cried “ Step right up folks I have the answer to what ails ya!”
Dave I’m sorry but I recognize you and I just can’t buy what you are attempting to sell at any price.
SadStateofAffairs says
Its getting creepy – Miscavige seemingly is becoming ever more obsessed with renovations. He is transforming the church all right – into the Church of Continuous Re-Re-Renovations.
clergyman says
And yes, moreover, after all these monumental, momentous moments of grand grandiose, we, sir, can say that most indubitably, unequivocally and without duplicity – but with duplication – that we can surely man the challenge of shermanspeak characterizations of the magnamnity of the singular, most solely sourceful, center of the supreme Scientological sunrise of gargantuan gravity directed growth, our own, C. o. B.!!!!
MJ says
Thunderous applause enforced by bayonets. Reminds of a tech film where a scientist announced a small amount of a substance that could blow up the planet. The audience was silent and dumbfounded. The scientist proclaimed: “Start applauding. I do not understand you animals.”
buttons72 says
Clergyman and MJ. Thank you. Fortunately, I decided to drink no more liquids until I got through the comments. LOL!
Alanzo says
This is great.
You’ve actually printed the text of a Poodle Boy speech!
This provides a clear platform for critical scrutiny of the statements that David Miscavige makes.
Because his words are written, his statements can be examined even more closely for the evidence and the reasoning he uses to support the claims he makes.
Thanks.
Alanzo
Bob Dobbs says
Huh? What a wasted effort that would be! “Evidence”? None. “Reasoning”? Zero.
statpush says
Good Gawd man! Examine even more closely?? If you have the stomach for it.
Come to think of it, despite the quantity of verbiage, he doesn’t really say a lot. All he can really be held accountable for is “some more building renovated by the end of the year”…blah, blah, blah.
He is the personification of “Style over Substance”; and like his Ideal Org strategy, orgs simply have to appear to be “upstat” and “expanding” and not really produce anything.
MJ says
A good movie reference is Elmer Gantry.
Annette Chaffee says
All about buildings, nothing about this “religion”. And not one mention of people, humans involved in the faith or the work. There is nothing there, it is truly an empty building religion, worshiping the almighty god of money and power. How can people not see this?
MJ says
After the thousandth gallon of kool-aid, all reasoning shuts down and blind, unwavering adherence kicks in.
Bob Dobbs says
Thank GOD for David Mayo and Mark Jones and Jon Zegel and the rest of the ’80s wave of dropouts and independents. Luckily I got enough info then to keep myself away from the “church”, and to avoid the orbit of this asshole Miscavige. I still think there is much of pragmatic value in Scientology. Dickhead Dave is like one giant turd in the punchbowl.
Poet13c says
Well spotted, Annette. No love for people coming through in this speech, no acknowledgement or thanks to anyone, no shred of humanity or sincere care for any individual, nor even any connection with the audience, and not a single trace of humour, Miscavige might just as well be a SIM talking gobbledygook.
Mat Pesch says
I know what the executives of the PAC orgs were thinking when Chairman of the Bullshit (COB) wrapped up the bla, bla, bla.
“Maybe now we can get the attention of the org back onto production. With the expenses of this “event” over, hopefully we will have enough money at the end of the week to pay the staff their $45 and get some promo mailed out.”
It is what executives of the orgs have thought after every “event” ever held by the Chairman of the Bullshit for the last 3 decades. That is the exact reason why LRH kept Scientologists briefed with a written message rather than holding expensive events every couple of months.
MJ says
If only chairman of the bored would take a clue from Ron. But no; Davey must have his show. Has he ever been on rice and beans?
threefeetback says
He is still “getting even” for the time he had to pick tomatoes with Pat Broeker.
Chris Shelton aka Galactic Patrol says
Mike, thank you so much for publishing this. Your comments are spot-on.
I just thought it might help the general audience who may not have been in the Sea Org before to find out what the SO members in the audience actually heard, because they didn’t hear all that prattle COB was droning on about. Here’s what they heard:
“None of you CSMFOHB are going to be getting any sleep for at least the next eight months because you’re the CSMFOHB who are going to be doing all this work I’m talking about right now. You won’t be working your asses off with no sleep, inadequate food and even more cramped berthing because we need to service the public. Screw the public. There aren’t any public around here. Just look around. You think that’s my fault. Hell no it isn’t. It’s your fault. You CI bastards emptied this place out with all your out-tech and off-policy BS that I’m now here cleaning up for you. So the very least you can do to start making up the damage is work your asses off like never before. That way, at the New Year’s 2015 event, I will be able to announce at least one of these things actually got done.
“I know you people specialize in not getting my orders complied with, so I’ve taken extra special care to tell the public what to expect so you won’t have any out. Even though you CSMFOHB won’t get anywhere near all of this crap done, we’ll see to it that you are ‘motivated’ enough to produce some product that I can announce. You people don’t even know what the real definition of work is compared to how hard I work for you and for Scientology’s expansion. You out-ethics CI CSMFs are going to learn new definitions for compliance and Command Intention. And all under the banner of KSW. You’re gonna like it. Oh hell yes you are.” [cue applause]
Mike Rinder says
Chris — remarkably accurate. As anyone who has worked with the guy will attest.
threefeetback says
Chris, This is an incredibly accurate example of how The One is known to ACTUALLY speak to Int staff at Base Briefings.
Gary "Jackson" Morehead says
“So, yes, it’s a place that’s long been waiting for us. (Since I created “The Hole at the Int Base.) And in 2014 we will formally inaugurate her as Scientology Media Productions to effectively tell this whole world who we are.” Welp folks, there it is….. pencilpeckers official subliminal announcement: Golden Era Production’s no longer is the Dissemination Arm of the Church of Scientology International and I’m gonna shut her down!
If any existing Int Base Staff Members were to have heard this announcement their world would crash in around them and the Perimeter Council List would simply be a xerox copy of the morning’s roll call!
What an insult to your own dedicated Sea Org Members Dave (“I’ve gotta hit the tanning bed before I review any submissions on my desk”) Miscaviage!
Expect to see “For Sale” Signs posted on the Int Base fences replacing the No Trespassing signs. In fact, the No Trespassing signs will simply be turned around, only to be read from the inside of the fence to yet further set into the minds of the lost souls at the Int Base that what ever idea they had up to this point of leaving is now …… wait for it……. waaaiiittt for it……. “Moreover (6th time), Majestically and Triumphantly Impossible.
Lets face it, anyone at the Int Base is semi-retired!
You are a Bad Bad man David Miscaviage. Bad man. All the love and caressing from Lou isn’t gonna make your conscience feel any better!!
— Jackson
Mike Rinder says
Jackson — you are right on the money.
The Gold base IS shut down except for two things — “tech” films because Mitch Brisker refuses to try and start over with a new shoot crew out of KCET, and making plates for CST (for about the 6th time as Dave keeps getting the materials progressively on-Sourcier). Manufacturing is no longer done there. Marketing is no longer done. Not even events. And of course “management” was wiped out years ago. Miscavige has threatened to shut down that Base dozens of times over the last two decades. There has been probably 500 million invested in it between buildings and equipment. Maybe even more. But because “they are all SPs” Miscavige decides to buy another studio and start over.
I guess he just has a building fetish. Imelda Marcos bought useless shoes. Miscavige buys useless buildings.
Chris Shelton aka Galactic Patrol says
Mike, this is fascinating on a longer-term view and brings so many questions to mind, especially in regards to what Miscavige’s future plans could possibly be in regards to Int management. No matter how much he revises OEC and LRH ED volumes, he can’t just wipe out 339R entirely. It’s the second most broadly issued reference there is, right behind KSW #1, and it defines ED Int and his staff specifically. Well, I guess he could wipe out 339R and in his brazen-ness, maybe he will try.
But I wonder. We all know that ED Int and his staff have been off-post for years and the sheeple have been blind to it so far but how much longer can that hold true? How much longer can he be a one-man operation and still expect to carry on with the charade?
As far as I know, the staff and Sea Org at lower levels are still getting indoctrinated on the Command Channels and New Era of Management Issues which lay out management structure including WDC, CMO Int, ED Int and his staff, etc. The SO management staff in PAC may be blind to the gross outnesses that Miscavige gets away with but they are very sincere in trying to uphold what they understand to be LRH references and issues. They put a lot of work into trying to do their jobs right, and have to deal with the conflicts between what Miscavige/RTC order versus what Hubbard wrote in various CBOs, FOs and PLs on how management is supposed to operate. My point being that they aren’t all just a bunch of drones. They really do try to think with how the picture is supposed to look. And such a wild disparity as getting rid of 339R entirely would probably be a bit too much for even their cognitive dissonance.
Perhaps this whole thing should be the subject of a separate blog posting, if you or anyone else who’s reading this has more information about it. Since I was never directly on Int lines, most of what I know of this is based on supposition and deduction from the direct observation I did have on the RPF and being around in PAC for so many years. But I’d love to hear your perspective on this, as it has everything to do with the future of RCS. If he’s going to really remove operations entirely from Hemet and divide its functions around the LA area…..hmmmmm….
threefeetback says
Chris, think: outside US boarders and US legal jurisdiction
MJ says
Hey Jackson, I know you can truly say – been there, done that.
buttons72 says
Jackson, COB is a sociopath, I believe. Based upon his power play in the 80’s, actions, speeches and appearance, he does not have a conscience. He is a bad man, but he sees all besides himself (the Precious) as objects. He probably even sees Lou that way, to a lesser degree, at least for now.
Jose Chung says
Islands into the Sea ?
You mean California breaks off into the Pacific Ocean
and we tie the Boats up in Idaho?
The only tech that gets applied is
“Promise Everything and Deliver Nothing”
**** Napolean Bonaparte****
WhiteStar says
I hate way he repeatedly answers a question you weren’t asking, like as if he knows what you’re thinking…………”and yes….” “and no …” “so yes…” “so no…”
On and on
he just keeps on blathering……..
On and on we just keep on trying
and we smile when we feel like dying…..
On and on, on and on, on and on
When this time is the same as the last time
It can make you feel sooo bad
But if you know it, show it
don’t hold on tight
Just turn and say goodnight
On and on
We just keep on trying
And we smile when we feel like dying
On and on, on and on, on and on
starzstuff says
And on a final not if I hadn’t have to have declared every single free thinking Scientologist on the planet we would have possibly had 12 people complete a course in the last year. As it its the independent mission in Riverside run by those declared fucking SP’s have completed more Scientologists on courses that the entire WUS including all missions and orgs.
buttons72 says
As a never-in, I would consider a Golden Rod to be a badge of honor. I’d frame that mofo and put it on my mantle. Declareds have all been through hell. Yes, some more than others, but that SP Declare is to be cherished. It means freedom to pursue whatever philosophy you wish, and to help others to truly follow their hearts.
buttons72 says
My comment sounded supercilious, but it wasn’t intended that way. I admire the people who have escaped and retrieved their lives as Mike has, and other people on this board have.
SILVIA says
So, he also uses this phrase a lot: “make no mistake”…and for that, I will have to add: Make no mistake
Black Heart, this is a lot of blah..blah..blah…and you know it.
As Mike noted the attendance, for the zone with highest Scientologist’s population, was more than pathetic.
I don’t buy anymore all this balderdash, meaningless speech, all full of lies and you know it.
Make no mistake, your apparent empire is drowned, Ark or not Ark, your charade is over.
MJ says
The hyperbole is only matched or exceeded by the paucity of his content. And make no mistake, less there be any doubt. I did not attend this momentous occasion, and moreover, am happy to announce, I will not be attending future canned utterances in the future. This dude is so BORING!
threefeetback says
AKA ‘Puff Daddy’
MJ says
Without the rap. A little hip hop would definitely liven up his sermons on the mount.
Aquamarine says
I have read His speech, and make no mistake, I was quite unimpressed with it as it is indeed a stellar piece of drivel. Moreover, it epitomizes the following line from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, “…a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”, and so, yes, I did become dizzy while attempting to make sense of this, not to mention kind of sick to my stomach, but, no, I did not throw up, in that I had already eaten dinner several hours before. Moreover, having fortified myself with some peppermint drops before reading, not to mention having been buoyed up and heartened by Mr. Rinder’s humorous asides, I passed thru the Valley of Death with no serious physical effects, which, when it comes right down to it, is simply a mystical and metaphorical way of saying, Yes, that’s how I managed to actually read this bullshit”.
DollarMorgue says
Careful there. It’s a slippery slope.
buttons72 says
Aquamarine, I spitteth my Perrier onto the glowing face of my laptop, as I read your prose.
Bravo!
Cindy says
Shakespeare’s Macbeth, “…a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”, Loved that so apt quote, Aqua!
MJ says
W. S. miraculously prophesied the tyrant’s arrival several hundred years before the fact.
Double, double toil and trouble,
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
One Point Won says
An absolutely ideal model of a comment, Aquamarine!
remoteviewed says
Mike,
The only thing that kept me awake during that monumental bloviation was your comments.
Otherwise I would be shouting myself:
Gawd!!!!
Noooooooooo!!!
Please make it stop!!!!!
Are you sure he doesn’t or didn’t work for the CIA?
I mean his speeches could be considered a form of psychological torture.
Gotta admit that I almost spewed coffee on my screen when you said:
“Popping eyes at CC was starting to move into hyperspace, now the dreams across the planet is really going off the theetie-weetie diving board into an empty pool”
Are they now gonna re-re-re renovate CCI yet again?
And they really intend to turn that dump at the end of LRH Way and Fountain into a what……
for…..students.
Are they kidding.
That place makes the main building look like the Waldorf Astoria fer christ sake.
Should change the name of the SO unit responsible from International Land Lord to Slum Lord.
Also as far as I know Ron never set foot in KCET’s Studios. The Secret of Treasure Island was released by Columbia Pictures which was originally where Gower Studios is now:
http://www.serialsquadron.com/reference/bystudio/
KCET was the original home of Monogram Pictures if you look at the listings of movies you won’t the Secret of Treasure Island:
http://www.imdb.com/company/co0025996/
So what kinda drugs is Davy on.
MJ says
Drug is called Adulation, and from what I have observed, it’s VERY addictive.
One Point Won says
Perfect choice of a word, MJ; thank you! I am quite impressed! Adulation — excessive devotion to someone; servile [slave-like] flattery.
GTBO says
Didn’t you know history is re-written to whatever he says it is and the sheeple lap it up and spread the word
Aquamarine says
“Please make it stop!!!!!”
Funny, remote.
starzstuff says
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statpush says
Exactly what I was thinking.
Lars says
LOL!
curveyrivets says
hahaha great!
threefeetback says
Dave, Has it dawned on you that while you thought that you were snookering LRH with false reports, HE snookered YOU into the ‘unenviable’ position of being a rabid zealot? You would be much better off if you had stepped down (as a Cameraman) when he told you to, a long time ago.
Mreppen says
12 minutes of arguably his worst Shermanspeak speech ever. I gotta say once upon a time I would have fallen for it. But taking the viewpoint of one who has been a follower say 10, 15, 20 years at some point you gotta start thinking to yourself after being bussed to sites to hear the same blah, blah, blah “Do you feel lucky punk?” ( Clint Eastwood classic line from Dirty Harry).
Mark Fisher says
Thank God I never had to listen to him drone on and on and on. I know you have mentioned Shermanspeak many times Mike, but reading this speech, it’s like one long run on sentence that says almost nothing.
To boil it down – we just finished renovating these buildings for the 10th time and let’s cut the ribbons again. Aren’t I great? Hip Hip Hooray!!! Congratulations on being suckered again to come see me cut a ribbon.
LDW says
“…the one responsible for turning the islands into the sea.”
WTF? Is he saying that everything is sinking into the ocean?
Yea. I think that’s what he just said.
I think he knows he’s full of shit. I think he really gets a kick out of the fact that a couple of thousand humans watching him spew that meaningless drivel bought it hook, line and sinker.
Very Well Done to whomever taped it for posterity.
Martin Padfield says
That’s funny. A Freudian slip? In any case, surely the greatest irony of all is that if this highly anticipated flood of new people ever did in fact happen, all the ideal-ness in the world wouldn’t even remotely prepare the staff for it. There would much much flapping of arms, and quite probably a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth. Apart from directing people to FART systems the staff would be wholly unable to handle the public. They’ve got no experience of it, inadequate or non-existent routing forms and in all probability there would be highly suspicious DSAs and paranoid MAAs buzzing around wanting to sec check them all. The whole thing would be quite amusing if it wasn’t so pathetic.
thegman77 says
Just a few English lessons in all this pomposity and strangled verbiage:
“That’s why ASHO and AOLA were reconfigured, to maximize quantity of delivery, inclusive of a second ASHO HGC, the addition of a third HGC in Solo Tech Division in AOLA, new dedicated Golden Age of Knowledge courserooms in both ASHO and AOLA for preclears between sessions, expanded ASHO courserooms for the greatest SHSBC capacity on earth, not to mention a new Class 7 courseroom for the training of Power auditors, expanded AOLA courserooms likewise for the greatest Solo auditor training capacity on earth, not to mention a new Class 8 courseroom and a brand new Mark 8 electronic internship system.”
Certainly one of the longest run on sentences I’ve ever seen. We were warned of that in high school English, something obviously missed by Miscavige and, perhaps Sherman? And TWO “not to mentions” in that same sentence? Boorish writing.
“But to place the whole of Los Angeles into complete perspective, you have to consider the whole global view, meaning, where were all Golden Age of Tech phase 2 materials produced?”
Same word used twice in the same sentence, always a no no in any form of good writing.
I could go on and on, but the salad mixed audiences will never cop to any of this, as they are completely enamoured of anything Herr Pompous has to offer. They dare not be otherwise.
Rod Keller says
So CC is next. How long will Saint Hill and AOSH ANZO be allowed to remain in their degraded non-ideal state?
I’m curious about the non-attendees. Is there any recent information about where they are in the Int Base? Is The Hole still active? OGH?
The Oracle says
Great insight there. Saying the Orgs are NOT Ideal yet is like telling the public to stay away! Like telling the staff in those in those Orgs they are an outpoint in the neighborhood instead of a plus point. This “Ideal Org” propaganda in probably the word P.R. to lay out on the table.
“We need to make an ideal Org” is the same as saying, “This Org is an outpoint and out tech”.
The Oracle says
Who the hell wants to sign up for a course or route into the HGC of an Org that is not “Ideal”?
This is just GROSS our P.R. and mismanagement. It is actually slander to promote that an Org is sub standard.
The Oracle says
Even when it appears he is being supportive, he is actually crashing stats and degrading the Churches and the people in them.
Rod Keller says
If your city doesn’t have an ideal org, you don’t get any TV commercials. The leaked video said “we want people to visit ideal orgs, don’t we?” Well, sure they do. But I would think they want people to visit degraded orgs, also.