I am shocked to see these comparisons!! Thank you Brian!!

Not sure if there is no “Hate Mail” provision at the PO. I believe “Miss Lovely” almost went to prison when the cult sent letters in her name to frame her.

I think that if you questioned anyone in the cult if their mail, phone calls, etc. was spied on, or their mail opened they would deny it per standard, “We will handle it with in the cult.” Only those out of the cult would dare to speak out.

Beth, there is no “hate mail” provision in the U.S. Code. Also, if a person gives permission you can read and open their mail all day long. S.O. members give that permission.

Best to concentrate on what they ARE doing that is illegal. Which is having a non-profit status while not living up to its requirements.

Or that just makes a chill go down your spine doesn’t it? So very similar

This combined words are like a 500 page novel of fear and cruelty. This will happen, if they (this hubbardish demons) have control without getting observed.

When they showed the “Paddle” that they beat the kids with, it brought back a flood of memories of my mid school years.

In 1956 I was in the 8th grade, and we had a math teacher who was made like a brick. You know the type, no neck, huge shoulders, massive arms. One of the fathers of one of the students made a thick solid piece of wood paddle of about a foot long and 8 inches wide to hit the boys if they did something wrong. He used it a couple of times, and then figured out that it needed holes drilled in the paddle (just like the one that was shown on “Aftermath”) so that there was no wind resistance and hit harder.

When it was told that some of the kids would shove toilet paper in their pants to cushion the blow, I understand that completely. The teacher would check to make sure that there was no toilet paper in the pants.

You could hear the whacks very loud down the hall from the classroom to the boys lavatory. There was more than one time that the kid would come back with tears.

What these kids went through is beyond belief, and yes, I do believe that the victims should do a class act suit to the cult.

Thank you Leah, Mike, and the victims of the abuse for showing all of us what has, and still goes on in this deadly cult.

What I don’t understand is, if the Catholic Church can be sued for their crimes, why can’t scientologists??? Why can’t the victims band together and go after the Church and make them pay -literally- for the abuse and atrocities they have covered up and committed???

Show all the tests that were negative then Joe. Tick, tock..

I’ve been closely following this for a decade.

Yes it does. But there is a flaw in your reasoning because I have faith the power of rebellion. Wasn’t it something like only 2 to 4% of the population in the US initially actually took up arms against the British? That’s what I read once on the history of the US revolutionary war while in the America. Those brave souls who against insurmountable odds literally said. “fuck off, liberty or death” and started sticking bayonets into the Poms. Your national anthem tells of the beginning of such a story.
It’s different times now but not the spirit of standing up against the odds in a good and just cause. Your comments alone, although tinged with apathy, gives food to the thought of modern rebellion. Be it through the court of public/media opinion or through the courts themselves. The American spirit and thirst for justice is a sleeping giant. I feel it’s beginning to wake up to see the development of grass roots injustices like the cults who use the social and legal system for their own ends – “what in the fuck has mere size got to do with it,” David said to Goliath.
Leah and Mike are now on stage previously well trodden by a brave few.