Reply #55: Goals of Scientology?

[JMDEM]

Make you a complete zombie. Take all your money. Make the top 1% of the group rich beyond belief. And completely destroy you if you ever come out against the group.

They are enormously wealthy, and will hound any detractors into the ground. They will screw with your life -- sabotage everything in it. File simultaneous court cases in multiple juristictions, so you end up in contempt of court somewhere or the other. Hire PIs to investigate everything about you, then try to get you fired, divorced, run out of town. They will stage fake hit-and-run accidents, as they did to the Mayor of Clearwater. They will have you brought up on federal charges as they did with an early detractor -- Paulette Cooper. They stole letterhead from her apartment, then mailed bomb threats to the government on her letterhead. The only reason she got let off the hook was because an FBI raid in L.A. uncovered the plot. It also uncovered a myriad of blackmail schemes against members of the US government. Unfortunately, this whole search and seizure didn't do much else -- presumably becuase the FBI did not get ALL the blackmail info, and there's still quite a bit of leverage on our politicians.