I was on the street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one Saturday night in 1970. A hawker passing out half-sheet flyers with a mimeoed paragraph put one in my hand."FREE SCIENTOLOGY LECTURE" time, address, room number--ah ha, within fifteen minutes, right here, upstairs, down the hall.
A room full of folding chairs with a brother in a plaid used-car-salesman jacket at the chalk board. Very jive, very Psych 101.
I asked a few questions; got a few glib brush-offs.
Finally the E-meter: two washed-out soup cans sans labels, wired to the mystery meter read by used-car-salesman brother in his wild and crazy jacket.
Questions and response. Stupid questions--
--and, wonder of wonders, Jive Jacket Man told me the dire news--
--I had "negative concepts" and would need work.
I handed him back his cans.
According to the affidavit you linked, these people use techniques familiar to CAIR--which Daniel Pipes indicates faces growing resistance.
Americans favor freedom; generally think control-freaks suck.
That whole "Adolf-in-the-bunker" thing comes to mind.
My brother grabbed the cans, the meter moved, and the woman told him that he had “negative concepts”. He asked her if she was enlightened. She said yes. Then he told her to grab the cans so he could see what happens on the meter.
That was the end of the conversation.