Re: Semi-OT: Hiding your secret organization

Walter Bushell wrote:
In article <3jzsl.1855$%u5.248@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Brenda Clough <clough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Walter Bushell wrote:
In article <7piql.14690$as4.5453@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Rebecca Rice <rebecca_rice@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Ok... I've been watching "Dollhouse" (not entirely sure what I think of it yet), which isn't writeen, but may be SF. Anyway, the basic idea is that you have a house full of people who have had their personalities removed, so that they can be imprinted with the required personality for their "engagement", and then returned to their blank state before the next mission. I'm assuming, based on naming convention, that there are 26 female and 26 male agents. Then there are their handlers (which appear to be a one-to-one ratio), the massage therapists, doctors, lab geek, and security guards.

Now... this spot is located in a city. With a fair amount of traffic in and out of it. And you need to feed everyone, and then there's zoning laws, taxes, etc., to deal with.

If you were running the place, what sort of front would you pick to keep people from figuring out what you were _really_ doing? The ones that come to mind for me are:

1. A boarding school. The agents seem a bit old for that, and you might get people wondering about enrolling their kids.
2. An exclusive luxury spa. You might still have problems with other people wanting to book services, but you might be able to get away with "if you have to ask, you can't afford it."

Any other thoughts?

Rebecca
A monastery and nunnery for a freak cult. Give services and instruction in meditation for the curious. Register as a religion, of course to avoid taxes. You can program the victim with the cult religion and they will be happy to teach, and you need a default personality anyway so they can do grocery shopping and take care of themselves. Absences can be assigned to the God had a role for him to play. You might not even need many handlers. As a bonus anyone who gets to involved with the cult can be "recruited".

It's actually not that easy to get a tax break for being a religion, otherwise anybody could set up the First Church of Me. The IRS is notably unpleasant about it.

Brenda

Anything on this scale should have no problem. You hold services, and seeker events and hand out sandwiches and beer to the homeless on Tuesdays, stuff that Me can't economically do. You have a congregation, and to quote Jubal Harshaw, "If you can sing to glory of God, you can roller skate to the same end." Call yourself "Children of the ***", and publish _The Five Fold Path_, and have one of the acolytes read from it on Wednesday service and you should be good to go. Of course, prostalatize the investigators.

Maybe you spring for some stained glass for the sanctuary.


In that case, originality is actually not your friend. Split off from some main line denomination instead, over some arcine doctrinal point.

Brenda

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