You may be right, although on the high seas in international waters, he may have been more of a tyrant. I knew two messengers who fetched for him on a daily basis, and I heard no mention of any kind of tyrannical behavior. They were young adults, not kids, so it seems they would have occasionally felt his wrath had it been as bad and constant as Bill needs to believe.Nice to see some variety in the participants TK
LRH was certainly an autocrat
What is the measure of a tyrant?
Personally I'd tailor the randy old goat for the adjective, tyrannical rather than the noun
John Mac's description of him was more comical: "the bastards have betrayed me!" (re his crew's lack of piloting skill). Some of John's stories made LRH seem like Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes. For example, he broke his wrist pounding the table in anger, then made his RJ 67 tape about how he barely survived the wall of fire, emerging with a broken wrist