JULY
2012: Splash News and the London Daily Mail have published the
best, most detailed photos of Gold Base yet! Read their description of
the place
right here. Leave it to the tabloids to get the best plane and the
longest zoom lens!
The Scientologists are so secretive there that the
sight of another flying camera crew buzzing their compound has got to drive
them nuts. Or at least nutser. They are pretty crazy already.
And it's all because one of their most famous members, Tom Cruise, got served
with divorce papers. Preposterous. Only a flock of winged monkeys
could upset them more than the Splash News spy plane.
Bonnie View is a house built for a dead guy ... or is he really dead?
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Baseball diamond - empty - no wear and tear |
The soundstages look like a castle and the ever present lakes say "we
are so rich we can waste desert water." The edge of a sewage
lake can be seen at far left. |
Central Gold Base and main entrance - plantings, curbs and traffic islands
on the public roads are designed to minimize protesting. Hopefully protesters
will get run over. |
Much land on Gold Base is devoted to the public golf course. Another
desert water waster. |
Massacre Canyon Inn is the cafeteria named after the land's previous
owner. |
Break area at the Religious Technology Center building. |
The bar is built to look like a ship and has it's own parrot cage. Probably
for guests like Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman only. |
TThis robotic video camera sits in what is called the "sniper's
nest" |
This storage area is built to look like a church but it is not. The
steeple was recycled from another building. |
Tennis courts - empty - no wear and tear |
Higher elevations of the property would be spared liquefaction if an
earthquake occurred. But they would also be subject to more avalanches
as the the already slide prone terrain gives way. |
For desert dwellers
Scientologists waste a lot of water |
In
September 2011 Scientology protester
Mark
Bunker got an aerial tour of Gold Base in a helicopter to gather material
for the Scientology movie he is putting together at his website
XenuTV.com .
This is a now defunct website he let slide. Stupid!
There are some interesting things to see on Google Earth of the property but
nothing beats what Mark did, buzz the place and send the residents inside!
You'll notice there are very few people visible and not many cars. Gold
Base personnel are forbidden to own cars. Maybe very few people live at
Gold now, or maybe they are all just inside hiding which is standard procedure
during protests and raids.
This demonstrates the difficulty of
guessing what is going on inside a closed compound. How many people are
at the base? There used to be so many Sea Orgers working there they were
bussed in from private housing nearby. No longer. The white busses which
brought them in are long gone. And when protesters arrive everyone
goes inside. Even when randomly driving by the huge compound almost nobody can
be seen. Best guess intuition of what is going on? About 400 people there.
Bunker's trip can do nothing but make them even more paranoid!
Mark Bunker |
"Bonnie
Bell" is the huge mansion built for the return of cult founder L. Ron
Hubbard, whenever that may be. He seems to be taking his time coming
back.
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The massive and lush RTC Building is the office of cult leader David Miscavige.
He has punished so many subordinates that he is just about the only person
in the building now. |
Look closely at this blurry photo and you'll see one of the robotic
cameras placed on the hillside to surveille the property below, especially
the entrances. Also called "the snipers nest." |
Clockwise from left: Bonnie Bell, the RTC Building, various facilities,
the boat shaped "Star of California" bar. Sea Org housing
in blue at upper right. |
A better view of the blue roofed Sea Org housing. |
The two white roofed buildings in the center of this photo is the "SP
Hall". Here cultists who are being punished are kept locked up, perhaps
for years at a time. |
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