Message to David Mayo:
Welcome here!
One of the many early "turning points" for me was the moment I read that infamous quote "...darling of the psychs." in the incendiary dead-agent piece that the church released about you.
I thought it an oddly obvious and particularly desperate piece of propaganda. I didn't pay attention to it.
But, not long afterwards I began to hear some Scientologists vengefully parroting the phrase "darling of the psychs" and just stared in slack-jawed amazement that they were so easily able to jump into the new mindset they had been handed and "make it their own".
It wasn't the dead agent pack that alerted me because that was business-as-usual.
It was the SCIENTOLOGISTS FALLING LOCKSTEP INTO FORMATION and blaming you for their NOTS case or failure to go OT that really sounded an alarm.
Many alarms later when the decibel levels grew to unsustainable levels, I departed.
So, I guess I want to say THANK YOU FOR TAKING A BULLET.
It helped to turn on the lights in that coal mine we all worked and played in. If some of your initial posts come coughing out with little black clouds of coal-smoke, nobody much cares.

Because, we're happy to have you hanging out here!