The Scientology founder “became more and more unhinged in his last days,” DeWolf claims. “He was lost in his own little wonderland, surrounded by this armada, this dark security force. He was totally lost.”

The Church of Scientology has previously rejected DeWolf’s claims, saying: “Despite his public representations and self-promotion, Mr. DeWolf is not knowledgeable about the Church of Scientology or its founder.”

How Militarization Came About:

This evidence points out that the aspect of community policing for the greater good of the community has been thrown out the window and a plan of controlling the lower class for the greater good of the rich instituted.

Too understand the problem of militarization within the police system we must understand the main causes, the effects this militarization has on the policing system along with society, the reasons the militarization of the police has happen, and the alternatives to this militaristic police system

In a famous controversial experiment, Stanley Milgram tested people’s obedience to authority. In this experiment he picked people from different walks of life and instructed them they were doing a learning experiment (Milgram 1974). These participants played a word matching game with someone they thought was also a participant. When a wrong word was given the participant would shock this other player who happened to be an actor. These shocks increased in intensity until “XXX” was printed next to the shock lever. Even though the other player was screaming in pain and toward the end silent 65 percent of participants continued until the highest voltage marked “XXX”. It didn’t take a threat to their life or their family just a remark from an authoritative figure saying the experiment must go on (Milgram 1974). This study not only shows the willingness of people to be obedient and not question authority but also the dangers of having a hierarchical system. The results of this experiment and the use of this system almost would make sense from a military stand point.

The police are supposed to serve and protect, not harm and punish.

The structure of the police system is modeled after the military structure

hese militarized units are known in the law enforcement field as SWAT teams. These SWAT teams are trained in military style tactics, are equipped with specialized weapons such as submachi

What Overkill?

One police executive has even suggested that the police function should be divided into two separate agencies under one department: one agency for law enforce- ment, the other for community ~ervic

. Community policing ac- knowledges that police cannot succeed in achieving their basic goals without both the operational assistance and political sup- port of the community. Conversely, the community cannot succeed in constructing decent, open, and orderly communities without a professional and responsive police for~e.

Community Policing and the Police Officer I By Edwin Meese II

But bloated militarylike responses take psychological tolls, Stamper says. When officers begin to dress like soldiers, their uniform and vocabulary of war reinforces their mind-sets. As they become more soldierlike and less peace officer–like, they become distanced from the community. “If you’ve taken on the identity of your badge and uniform, it’s not what you do, it’s who you are,” Stamper says. “Psychologically it’s a tragedy.”

“They don’t get credit for making a citizen happy,” Nhan adds. “Until we really change some core function of the police, they will still act the same.”

Since then local cops have become more than just peacekeepers and law enforcers.

siege mentality

Before, when the night watchmen might rely on the neighborhood butcher for backup, they now relied on one another. They introduced the two-way radio and patrolled in cars. Over time they became distant from and skeptical of the public.

“It’s all about the money,” said James Eagleson, owner of the 4:20 Group, who also once worked at Desert Snow.

As the drug trade ramped up throughout the 1980s, money deposited into Justice’s federal forfeitures fund increased from $27 million in 1985 to $556 million in 1993. (It reached $2.6 billion in 2007.)

“It was never meant for a street cop to take a few thousand dollars from a driver by the side of the road.”

Thousands of people have been forced to fight legal battles that can last more than a year to get their money back.

When Baker, 73, lost her husband to cancer, a Scientologist turned up at her Los Angeles home peddling a $1,300 auditing package to cure her grief. Some $15,000 later, the Scientologists discovered that her house was debt free. They arranged a $45,000 mortgage, which they pressured her to tap for more auditing until Baker's children helped their mother snap out of her daze. Last June, Baker demanded a $27,000 refund for unused services, prompting two cult members to show up at her door unannounced with an E-meter to interrogate her. Baker never got the money and, financially strapped, was forced to sell her house in September.

According to the Cult Awareness Network, whose 23 chapters monitor more than 200 "mind control" cults, no group prompts more telephone pleas for help than does Scientology. Says Cynthia Kisser, the network's Chicago-based executive director: "Scientology is quite likely the most ruthless, the most classically terroristic, the most litigious and the most lucrative cult the country has ever seen. No cult extracts more money from its members."

[Note: since publication of this article, the Cult Awareness Network has been taken over by Scientology. Do not contact them!]

Most cults fail to outlast their founder, but Scientology has prospered since Hubbard's death in 1986.

Scientology is now run by David Miscavige, 31, a high school dropout and second-generation church member. Defectors describe him as cunning, ruthless and so paranoid about perceived enemies that he kept plastic wrap over his glass of water.

Yeet-like arm-across-body

The two had even swapped views on wills and what happens to your money in the end