The Eyes of Scientology

By Jeff Jacobsen

The Church of Scientology owns $40 million of property in Clearwater, much of it downtown. Church properties have security measures much more similar to prisons than what a reasonable person would consider church property would have. Below are photos of security cameras trained on Clearwater public areas taken in 2000. This does NOT include other cameras on Scientology properties that do not point at public areas. The question is, why is Scientology so concerned about Clearwater citizens going past their properties on the public areas? And why are there so many Scientology security people walking around with cell phones, walkie talkies and video cameras?

For contrast, check out your own church or synagogue to see how many cameras are on it. Check out city hall, your bank, Albertson's, or any other organization or business downtown.

Last update 9/5/00

	(1) Hacienda Gardens, on Airport Road, near Saturn overlooking public sidewalk.	(2) Hacienda Gardens, corner of Airport and Keene, overlooking public sidewalk. (note motion sensors on fence.)
(25) Keene Rd. & Airport Rd., N.E. corner, facing north	(23) Airport Rd. and Saturn, N.E. corner.	(24) Airport Rd. and Saturn, N.E. corner. This points exactly where a car license plate would be stopped at the stop sign here.
	(3) Aims at where a driver would be when stopped at the stop sign at Keene and Airport. This was removed after I posted a web page about these cameras.	(4) Aims at where a car's license plate would be when stopped at the stop sign at Keene and Airport. This was removed after I posted a web page about these cameras.
	(5) In this innocent looking junction box is a camera aimed toward the east entrance to the Lisa McPherson Trust at 33 North Fort Harrison.	(6) Facing south on Watterson Street, north of Cleveland street.
	(18) Watterson St. west side near Cleveland (8/16/00 I noticed this was gone)	(19) Ft. Harrison & Cleveland, SE corner
	(7) Facing North on North Fort Harrison East sidewalk, North of Cleveland Street. This is about 10 feet north of #26	(26) facing north on N. Ft. Harrison east sidewalk, north of Cleveland St.
	(8) 118 North Fort Harrison.	(9) 118 North Fort Harrison.
	(10) Back of Fort Harrison Hotel at 210 South Fort Harrison.
	(11) North side of Fort Harrison Hotel, 210 South Fort Harrison. A motion sensor is just to the left of this camera.
	(12) Front of Fort Harrison Hotel, 210 South Fort Harrison.
	(13) Southeast corner of Fort Harrison Hotel, 210 South Fort Harrison.
	(14) Northeast corner of Fort Harrison Hotel, 210 South Fort Harrison.	(15) North side of Fort Harrison Hotel, 210 South Fort Harrison.
	(16) Bayside Motel, 1824 North Fort Harrison.
Video footage 56.6 kbps Play Download Hi-Band Play Download	On the top of the Northeast corner of Fort Harrison Hotel, 210 South Fort Harrison. Is this a camera? We don't know. It is the size and shape of a watchtower and seems to be a good vantage point from which to watch a certain segment of the community. In this video Jeff shows a possible explanation for it's use.

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