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Re Sunny’s insight into the “handling” done internally in the criminal organisation known as the “church” of $cientology. JD1 was interrupted and instructed to not say “rape.” The order to not use the word which identifies a criminal act (in the outside world) serves very well for the Co$ in its on-going campaign to stop “out-PR,” I.e. prevent accurate information about the Co$ from reaching the proper authorities. The Co$ knows very well that there is a risk that its records will end up in the hand of law enforcement, and re-framing the criminal offense as something that can be taken up in “auditing” and which was the fault of the victim in the first place keeps the abusers happy, the victims silent and the money rolling in.

So much respect to the ex-victims who speak up, and in particular to the plaintiffs.

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Its numbers are dropping!?!!

Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.

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Billy Preston thanks you. Those thousand paper cuts do seem to be adding up.

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"Australia … had gained 2 million people in ten years"

Clicking on the article shows the time span is "between 2016 and 2021" for Australia.

If you go by the 2011 Aussie census, Scientology has actually declined by 508 members in that ten year period.

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Thanks, fixed.

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There is a parallel to a decline in such figures from the big list of "Former Church of Scientology members who have spoken out" which went from a total of:

1,367 at the beginning of 2011 to

2,659 at the beginning of 2016 - an increase of 1,292 - and then was

3,038 at the beginning of 2021 - an increase of 379 - less than a third of the previous five years.

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Canada lost 20% of its Scientologists in one year! Straight up and vertical!

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In ten years.

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Oh, ok! So across ten years they could not bring in enough new members to mitigate the drain.

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There's enough horrifying open court testimony and public awareness of the appalling practices of this cult now. SCOTUS and/or the IRS must strip them of their tax exempt status, and the FBI must investigate these crimes of obstruction of justice and protection of rapists. It's great that Co$ numbers are in decline and people are escaping (I wish I could say unscathed), but it needs to be ripped right open by criminal investigation, asset-seizure, Federal Commission, stuff to really get the spineless main-stream media's attention. Good people continue to be controlled, abused, trafficked, enslaved and bled-dry by this Government-endorsed bunch of Satanists.

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