I know another reason why the duo came back to Taiwan so soon. Niki Lanik and Dustin McGahee sold their merchandise in schools last December. I can't imagine anywhere else in the world they can sell anything like this. Poster for $1000 (~ US$30), picture for $100 (~ US$3). I can't imagine anywhere else people will actually want to buy it, and school children have the money to do so. So this time they came back for more schools, and a few universities.
Last time Mary Shutterworth, head of YHRI, tried to raise US$10,000 on facebook. All she got was about $100, half her own money plus a few other donors.
So this looks like the end of road for them all.
Niki Lanik was dropped from GT3 racing this year. All he got to drive was one endurance race, and he couldn't finish. So promoting him as a professional racing driver was marginally illegal. Even GT3 was targeting amateur drivers. It's hard to say that he never receive a penny to drive. But along the line, some organizers must be lying. Nobody will buy anything if they know his racing record. Students think that he's Formula One driver! Obvious fraud is committed, the problem is proofing it and by who.
The Dustin case is more difficult. He is only promoted as a singer and creative song writer. People hear him sing before buying his albums, with money. But along the line someone must be saying that he is a popular singer. This is his first (and last) album. No way he can be a popular singer. The net have no record of his popularity so no body in the world will regard him as popular.
The chance of this two clowns coming back is remote. But the fraud angle is too interesting to let it rest. The fraud is committed in front of city head of education and a councilor. Cheating money from school children is intolerable.
Lessons learned from the last university concert. These guys are on Facebook 24/7, socializing or playing games. It only takes 24 hours to make a big dent in the attending audience. We discovered the event on Facebook with 100 attending. Just before the event we have more friends than that.
The power of celebrity. People are sold that LV bags are the greatest bags on earth. It's the same thing. Students are told that these two guys are celebrities. People are looking forward to the event. Perhaps they need something different to get them out of the dorm, out of Facebook and games. A full house is expected but at the end they don't have pictures that they are proud of.
People are still excited after the event. If you tell them you are celebrity, they will accept you as friends with no question asked. They don't check the spelling of your name, don't check anything, and the message you are telling them on the wall. In no time they will upload pictures and tell their friends. At the end of the day you will have a real fans page no matter who you are.
I am sure most of the attendees have no interest in Scientology. So hundreds of people have experienced first hand the LRH tech. It's all about money, no matter how fraudulent they get it. They can brain wash you into accepting anybody as celebrity and hand over your money. The bigger the con the more credible it is. But unlike believers, most will get out of it and hopefully be inoculated.
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