[Windflier]

Back in the 1980s I found a copy for some friends of mine who were investigative journalists. It was hard to do because Scientology was buying up every copy that they could get to keep the book out of circulation.

I believe it. The church was once very aggressive about hiding their secrets and protecting their manicured public image.

It's funny how that aggression finally backfired on them, as they lost the battle to hide their dirty deeds.

They were once famous for litigating their critics into the ground. Now they just post asinine smear pages on their biggest critics.

[PapaBear3625]

I believe it. The church was once very aggressive about hiding their secrets and protecting their manicured public image. It's funny how that aggression finally backfired on them, as they lost the battle to hide their dirty deeds.

It was the Internet that did it to them. In a centralized environment where they could threaten publishers and TV producers, they could be successful in keeping a lid on negative info about them.

Once the Internet had every pissed off victim able to publish his or her story, there were just too many targets to keep up with. Their heavy-handed attempts to censor information about them then managed to piss off a bunch of computer nerds with nothing better to do than bring down wrath upon Scientology's heads (see "weaponized autism").