You know, there is so much conversation out there about their being "two sides" to Scientology, that even when believe you know most of the facts and have formed an opinion, you can still think sometimes,"maybe I'm missing something", "maybe there is something valuable in Scientology, and it is just being misapplied."
I should speak for myself, I've had those thoughts. Yet, if I've ever doubted that Scientology is a cult, or that brainwashing occurs, a story like this forces all of us to face the despicable truth.
Posts like Mike, which remind me of Karen de la Carriere's experience, cut through all the bullshit and all the rhetoric. This cult is just evil - and it is wrong what's happened with Mike and his Mom, pure and simple. No one, no matter what the ideology, should have to make a choice like that.
What "church" would work this hard to separate people, and most specifically families? How did this fucking cult do what all the others failed at and become tax-exempt and legitimate in some people's eyes? How can Tom Cruise and John Travolta still have their names attached to an organization this nefarious? Why are we STILL talking about Scientology on the planet?
And no matter how much I've wished Mike would suffer in the past for the things he's done, I would never have wished this experience on him or anyone else. He's paid a very high price and lost his kids and his family.
This story breaks my heart and yet it happens over and over and over again. World, please wake up. The CoS must be stopped.