ugh, scientology.
I read an extremely long and incredibly thorough article about scientology written in the mid '80s, or so, and published, I believe, in Time magazine. It was pretty terrifying.
Before I read the article, I pegged scientology as a group of wackos who suckered people out of some money and went on their way. Unfortunately, this is not the case - the description I read was of a group which, after a recruit sold everything he owned to pay their fees and finally quit, hounded him until he committed suicide.
Then a whole group of them stalked his family until his funeral.
Police are apparently powerless to do anything, because individual officers are so intimidated - any individual who comes to their attention is gradually and methodically destroyed. And without 'real' crimes committed, the will to hold the organization accountable isn't there.
As far as I'm concerned, wikileaks is right, and more. Scientology, as far as I'm concerned, is a criminal organization, and I'd lose no sleep over violating their copyright, and more than I would over violating the Mafia's copyright. And I mean that in every sense.


