I wonder if this might be the Reed Slatkin retirement plan too?
When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police.
[L. Ron Hubbard, HBOPL 12 February 1967, Admin Know-how; The
Responsibilities of Leaders]
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When a Scientology staffer used a syringe to force
a mixture of aspirin, Benadryl and orange juice
into McPherson's throat while others held her down,
it was "spiritual sustenance," the church argues.