Priceless

Clever.

Brilliant 😂❤

Smith-Levin & Streets… Taking back one town at a time! ✌🏼😎✌🏼 Get it ya’ll!!! I may be looking for property down there in the near future 🤗

It’s funny cuz it’s true!

Right!?! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Look, I don't want to be one of those histrionic YT commentators, but what the actual...!? This is both infuriating and heartbreaking. It was the coolest little place once. All those livelihoods - all the fun people could be having. So wish there was something we could do.

They don’t care. Scientology is paying them.

Shame on the Gov for letting them traffick but that's what they do, department of commerce? Literal animal traffickers, Scientology? Human traffickers, music industry sucks ur music of its sauce and puts it on someone else's record so they can groom or do wild sh

Wait until Islam comes, you’ll be begging for Scientology. Besides I don’t think this is because of Scientology but more due to the government not investing in infrastructure and what not.

I remember, i think i was 12, i was on the Hollywood walk of fame and me and my parents came across the scientology bookstore building, and I just went up to one of the recruiters and started quoting Lancaster Dodd from the master to them. Zero reaction from them but i got pulled away by my folks and they told me never to speak to those people again. I already knew about scientology being a cult but my Dad told me about the Billion year contract 😭 it shook me to my core. I was so much more grateful for the freedom I had after all that 😭😭😭

Hahahaaaa✌️😂😂

@@harvest44492 What freedom, though ? Sceintology back then had people barely older than you arrested by the FBI for DDos attacks that had them miffed. much more than protesters against disconnection and sectarian practices very much allowed. There is something rotten in the Kingdom of America..then again, it always has been rotten to the core under a Dream...which is a nightmare for minorities.

They must only call it a "church" to get tax exemption! I think it's such a LIE that they use a symbol that looks like a cross of Jesus! What are they doing using a cross when their organization is not about Jesus? Don't you think that them using a cross is a bold-faced LIE? It is. A cult that reminds you of scammers. Sad & destructive to people's lives. People at the top filling their own wallets off of the virtual slavery of people under them. Heartbreaking.

They have to go

Ocean front area?? It's so sad! Whyyy? I could just picture it bustling.. hopefully soon.❤

​@@Kreepyb5not the oceanfront. This is downtown Clearwater and heartbreaking. I live a few towns over - about 20 minutes away.

It is very pretty, I live on the Bay side of Clearwater and sometimes I wish that when I moved to Clearwater I had moved down there but since there is nothing ever happening it would feel so out of the way

Hope you can help with Mark Bunker's campaign. He seems the only hope.

How is it so beautiful with such huge losses of sales taxes???

@soultheinterrogator ~ Seriously? Someone has actually never heard of them?

I visit Clearwater often and am just finding out about this, granted i go to CLB not the city.@@mcmlxii4419

the only thing weird here is how Clearwater local government allowed scientology to destroy the downtown area.

There was heavy rain and winds just before he filmed this. This street isn't dead because of scientology, it's dead because it's a Tuesday and people stayed home because of this winter front that came through today.

@@BaronFeydRauthathey also don’t want to be near buildings run by a human trafficking cult.

Floridians aren't kept inside post storm. Before or during the storm either...​@@BaronFeydRautha

@@Ieezeca We have been in a government declared state of emergency since 1000 yesterday to 0900 today. Sure, we aren't kept in but I feel like the folks who don't know anything about what happened here today deserve to know. I'm a certified Florida Man and I don't blink for Cat 3s or below. I wouldn't have gone out tonight.

What did they tell you?

Crazy cultists are scary.

@@miriades They don't have to TELL you anything to be intimidating. They just are.

FL is a stand your ground state, they won't do shit

they don't do that anymore. You won't see anyone at all on different streets/

That really sucks

What awesome memories Carol 🫶🏼I have faith! It will comeback

Wow! Thx for sharing. 🍻

Cheaper parking in Indian Shores too, ha. But I assume this is before Clearwater Beach began turning into Malibu with the fancy hotels and restaurants (not that I complain about them!).

@@VisibilityFoggy, This was way back in the late 60s to early 70s when the beaches had tons of mom and pop motels with rooms that included kitchens that the average family could afford.

👍🏻 you are absolutely right!🍻

Absolutely right! Makes you think about why COS was made in the beginning, because LRH wanted to make money and to do that he figured not paying taxes and being a cult leader( with a background in sci-fi )was the way to do it. And now it’s a world wide human trafficking organization.

Saying COS is just a symptom is a bit of a reach tho

@@cobimayes8863 They called that a monday when the Old man was here, but not anymore. Alas, because they would have lost everything if they had kept at it. what remains is a whole lot of illegal work hidden under volunteering/ Church work. It's entirely unacceptable if you ask ME, YOU and most people. THAT is what must be stopped. Big words that can be applied to very few unrelated cases and will condemn individuals for individual choices, that's how the Church operates. The hand caught in the cookie jar takes one for the team. Take it from a European. You need to attack what is systemic. Don't watse time and money on anything else to get a few pawns down.

​@@ellebelle4094 The Church has entered the chat.

The owners are scientology

Maybe Door Dash type delivery services….

Religion is tax exempt? It's also a pay to play religion from what I gather.

@@ellebelle4094 Ok COS agent...

Believe it or not.. so many shut down and others open. Its a vicious cycle. I was born and raised in clearwater (only 5 min from here).. they get business IF there are events like farmers market..or concert or other thing at coachman park by the library. Dunking donuts closed... the bus terminal is down there but that's it

That's because they're either Scientologists or they're owned by Scientologists.

I think there’s been talk of eminent domain, so the city can take back some of the properties.

It’s because they bought most of the town including the police department

I read an article from the past few years of a battle between the city and SCN over a crucial, very coveted piece of land, where the city ended up winning, despite SCN having been willing to pay significantly more for it. So, it could be a money thing, where 1. The city can't afford to buy those properties back and 2. However much they've made from SCN's ownership of them, even if many of buildings go unused.

Yaaas!

😂😂😂

Oh. So you got fancy roaches?

@@dprice3900 🤣

Agree🙋‍♀️

No,it doesn't. I live in Sarasota. We just had a major cold front that rolled in all day and we are in a state of emergency until 0800 tomorrow. This street is not dead because of Tom Cruise. It's dead because we had tornado warnings all day long and are in a tornado watch until tomorrow morning. I like Aaron but sometimes he can be a bit of a dunce. Not his fault, he grew up in a cult.

The only way would be for the government to dismantle it.

@@BaronFeydRautha - I visited there in April, and the place was DEAD. The only good thing about it was that I had the beautiful beach all to myself.

@@tengallonhat2741 I know. It's not a bustling place. I used to go to the aquarium all the time when I was younger. It's never been close to the foot traffic in SRQ St. Armands circle. I just thought that this needed a little context though. He is out and about during a state of emergency, then acts like it's some mystery as to why no one is out. On a Tuesday. During a 24 hour long tornado watch and flooding potential until later this morning. I felt like the folks who don't live on the East Coast of America or in America deserved to know how everyone's day went today. That's all. I like Aaron. He lacks street smarts. Which isn't his fault. I'm not trying to call him out for being deceptive. I saw replies that thought this is what it looks like every night. Are scientologists to blame for some of it? Sure. This much? No. It can be tough to get a person's tone and inflection through plain text.

But you would think the public scientologists would support downtown. Oh wait, there aren't any.

Uhmmmm..... Okay. Wow. First off, I have no idea what ASL is. Ole' Lady from Wyoming here, and I'm pretty sure that I just got insulted by a Shitologist? Maybe not.... I don't really know. But, whatever.......

I literally take everyone who comes to visit me on s tour because it's just so weird

@@cathieknight7464 it looks like an abandoned movie set

@USA1492 omigosh that's it! I could never explain that street where all the store fronts have been redone and look like an abandoned Mayberry.... good point!

The whole of downtown is dead, 24/7, 365. Meanwhile 30 mins away in St.Pete there’s 30 min waits for dinner on a Tuesday night.

@@kirstenmeadowsssFacts

@@paulmark992I’m guessing all their customers are ordering through Grub Hub or Door Dash. No one is eating inside, but they must have customers.

😂

You never know! It would send a message

We do need to do an SP takeover of downtown like once a month at least.

Yea, it looks like a fake Disney town or movie set.

I can’t figure it out either

I'm a former resident: there ARE two things that are always happening Downtown. One is the PSTA bus terminal; the other is the Pinellas probation office (where people on probation report in all day). A lot of folks don't realize the probation office is down there. But, I agree- their could be cafes and bars, etc. We were saying that as kids in 1998. Yet, here they all still stand, empty.

Exactly! When you don't know which businesses are Scn and which aren't you just don't go to any of them

@@pat56458excellent point! I wouldn’t want to accidentally support the Cult either.

The city did to that street what New Orleans did to Bourbon St But Scientology came along and ruined everything. 😢

There has been drama with them for years. From lawsuits to crimes. West TX as in North of Waco, or Weat TX as in oil field country?

@@MikeFL2TX West Texas as in Lubbock

@@HolleeTXnice. Been through there a couple times in a past life lol. It’s near to see other people who have been in the area I grew up in, then live in the same state now. Came across a few that are pretty close to me, outside of the Ft. Hood area.

Since 2000, Clearwater's population has only gone up 8,500. How does that even happen in Florida?

It's seriously so sad. They just take so many buildings and land that could be in use for small businesses and even low income housing. In so many ways scientology devastates. It's a destruction machine. @@Cincinnatijames

@@ellebelle4094 most Florida cities have grown and thrived to a much greater degree than Clearwater. Bustling with restaurants, local businesses and live entertainment nearly every night of the week. Pretty buildings mean nothing if there is no one enjoying them.

@@Cincinnatijamesyou probably already figured it out, but you are talking to a cult member. They keep posting the same responses to many other commenters.