starting to take control of scientology even while elron is still alive david set up the religious technology center which is a non-profit corporation that oversees the use of all trademarks symbols and texts of scientology elron's estranged son accuses david of embezzling and manipulating elrond whose mental state is allegedly deteriorating i would argue that elrond's mental state was deteriorating when he claimed to have chopped up his daughter and thrown her in the river but anyway interestingly elrond denies this and he said that david was a trusted associate and a good friend and that case got dismissed in NUMBER_TOKEN elrond died and david was the one that announced his death to scientologists thus at NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN hours friday the NUMBER_TOKENth of january a.d NUMBER_TOKEN l ron hubbard discarded the body he had used in this lifetime for NUMBER_TOKEN years NUMBER_TOKEN months and NUMBER_TOKEN days the body he had used to facilitate his existence in this mess universe had ceased to be useful and in fact had become an impediment to the work he now must do outside of its confines there is some controversy about who elrom wanted to take over when he was gone some former members claimed that elrond had written a memo that specified that pat and annie broker who were the couple that had the most contact with elrond after he'd kind of like retreated from the world and shut himself away in his final years were the ones that should become the head of the church following his death but david said that this memo was a forgery and he became the head of the church of scientology we can make anyone into a floodless auditor in any academy in the world and i repeat floodless not pretty good not better than he was before no i'm talking about better than you've ever seen floodless david miscavige also holds the rank of captain of the sea organization which is like the highest ranking member in real world terms again david is the prez that's who he is he's the president and shelley becomes the first lady they are the most powerful and important members in the church of scientology he also likes to call himself chairman of the board whenever i hear the words chairman of the board i just think of that r b band
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