The Church of Scientology - delivering spiritual freedom to mankind. I was standing in a hallway at ASHO one day, talking to Alan Lazar, an OSA staff operative. It was right after CAN had fallen into Church hands. I had been an OSA operative, as a public volunteer, and had worked on the demise of CAN for many years. Now that this "big win" had occurred, I was interested in finding out more. But Alan was interested in regging me to donate money for a charity they had to set up. And right away. He seemed almost frantic about this. They needed to get these food drives for the poor, these children's charities, rolling in a big way now. Right now!! Here was an OSA undercover dude, a guy who had directed ops against enemies, and worked on CAN for at least ten years, regging money from me in a desperate way, as if it was some personal mission he was on, despite what everyone else in OSA thought. I asked him why he was doing this. He said, "Because we just took down CAN! People are going to be scared of us! They are going to look at us like we're some big, powerful, hateful organization like the Nazi Party! We're going to end up looking worse than CAN in the eyes of the public if we don't do something right now!!" I don't think anyone in OSA ever listened to Alan. But he might have had something there. Scientology is so obsessed with its "enemies" that its whole public front has become the actions that it takes against them. Indeed, its all they actually do out in the public anymore because they are so hated and so reviled and suspected by the general wog population if they try to do anything else. If you could work out the ideal scene for Scientology in this area - the area of PR Area Control - what would it be? Would it be this? The C of S is going down. They are going to have to change an awful lot, like do the exact opposite of what they have been doing, if they are ever going to even survive, let alone grow. I don't think they can do it. Why? Because food drives are no fun! Especially when you try to hand some poor, homeless guy a can of tuna and, once he finds out you're from Scientology, he spits in your face. Who wants to get spit on by downstat dbs? It's much more fun to "take down your enemies". The Church of Scientology - at war with the world. Poopsy