I've only read about two thirds of this thread, so forgive me if I am repeating anything already said, but here are some observations from someone who has been off the net for a month or so.
This is great news!
Great news for all the potential new recruits to the cult. It should drastically reduce the number of people who fall into the grip of the cult.
But .....
Concerning Rinder & Rathbun, it seems they are still very much scientologists and I think it is a powerpush to get DM busted. It remains to be seen what such still-cult-believers would do if that ever happened.
Can it actually happen?
Ron set up scn so that everybody was replacable (and were replaced) except himself. DM holds that position on the Scn org board. It's a
non-scientologist position. Hubbard was
not a scientologist, in that he did not apply public scientology to either himself or in his management decisions.
DM is Hubbard's faithful pupil. He is emulating Hubbard's tactics as best he can. He will avoid arrest if possible, just as Hubbard did.
This current tactic of accusing former high execs of being the criminals (assault, in this case) is pure Hubbard. DM learned this from what Ron did to MSH, Kember, etc.
It is a well-proven scn tactic to say criminals had been running the show, but they were cleaned out now and scn was consequently reformed. This tactic has served them well over the years. The Founder/Leader was "uninformed" of these dispicable crimes and once informed took action to clean out the criminals.
It is hard-wired into scn to lie and abuse. Hubbard put these things into the subject itself, while publically putting a "theta" PR face to the subject.
Can scn exist without the hard-wired lies and abuse? That's the question. Can these former execs who are now out come marching back in if DM is deposed? Would their period outside have de-programmed the hard-wired abusive nature of the subject?
Or will DM be replaced by another Hubbard clone/victim who is programmed with Hubbard's abusive personality? The subject of scn is designed to program the Hubbard personality into its victims.
My guess is that DM will not be deposed or arrested, that he will sacrifice anyone else to the authorities, just as his mentor did, and hide away just like Ron.
Historically, no former leaders have succeeded in wrestling power away from "Source" and they have quietly "squirrelled" away in the field or slowly become disaffected with the subject and become inactive. Some cow-tow and stay in scn holding ineffective posts, like Diana and Jane Kember do.
This is all hard-wired into the subject which is called scientology.
I saw all this happen in 1980-82. Historically it also happened in the early 50's and in the sixties. The outcome was always an even tighter iron fist grip on the subject.
It will be interesting to see if it plays differently this time.
Anyway, whatever, this is progress. The great thing is that this info will stay on the internet forever (hopefully) which I think will fatally wound scn. My hope is that the public info will save more people from falling into the cult's grip. I fear the fate of those already in its thrall is not necessarily so good. Some will cow-tow to DM's iron fist, some will blow or be declared and take years to de-program themselves. Some will never manage to de-program themselves. That's what happened in the 80's. That's what I see happening now to people like Rinder and Rathbun.
