I hope I am not off topic here but..
those that wish to SAVE people from the church are many, but I am not one. I am in this fight to save my tax dollars and to save those who do not have a voice. I could care less about those who are fully indoctrinated and are unwilling to listen to both sides. They ARE the problem. The criminality of this cult is not that of one man, but that of MANY in the cult.
There's some truth to what you say, but, I'd say your emphasis is off, and that you miss something important here. There are as many reasons to oppose Scientology as there are people to oppose it, but, people wanting to 'save' Scientologists as a primary purpose is a relatively small minority, mostly because it is, or has been, so pointless.
People aren't 'saved' from Scientology; they save themselves. People don't leave Scientology because they're 'rescued' or because they're 'talked out of it'. They leave because Scientology failed them. It promises so much, then breaks every promise. It's just what Scientology does, and, eventually, almost all Scientologists run up against that, no matter how brainwashed they may be.
Once *that* happens, they leave, or, they hit a point where the 'Church' kicks them out. Once Scientology fails them; breaks one too many promises; commits one too many atrocities against them or their family, they *do* begin to see the other and more general 'outpoints' that they've been trained to blind themselves to.
So, not being in this to 'save' Scientologists is a rational point of view. An outsider is not in a position to 'get people out', because, while most Scientology 'Tech' doesn't work, the Scientology Mind Fuck *does*.
Admittedly, on *this* particular discussion board, you will find people who are trying to save Scientologists, more than elsewhere. It's because most of the people here are *ex* Scientologists (I'm not; some others are not) and, the people they want to save are their friends, their families, their compadres over sometimes *decades* of shared experience.
Scientology rips apart families; it destroys friendships; it *denies* any personal relationships, except for Scientology itself.
Could Scientology even operate without the Scientologists? Well, yes and no, but mostly no. Most Scientologists are the hostages in Scientology's terrorism. Just people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time and got tricked in. Or, they were *born* into Scientology, and, there's not a lot of choice there.
They're hostages to their own family ties, and, 'Disconnection' is the whip the 'Church' uses to silence opposition within the 'Church', and, it's the whip they use to silence people close to people still 'in' the 'Church'.
But, to make a blanket judgment of complicity of 'all' Scientologists; to fail in compassion in understanding the gun to their heads; to call the Scientologists themsleves 'criminal' for having that gun held to their heads, is like blaming the hostage in a terror crime.
So, yes, don't 'save' Scientologists; you can't. Not directly. You can't get a Scientologist out of Scientology; you can just be there to help once they get themselves out.
And, you can work to eliminate the hotage taking terrorist. It's not about 'getting the Scientologists out'; it's about shutting down the Cult. Whether the Scientologists want that (or think they want that) or not.
Zinj
