FBI face-off with Scientology (Waco-style)?

Is it imaginable with PoD a Waco Style FBI face of with Scientology? Poisongas attack by Scientology like that cult did in Japan?

Leading to a face-off with FBI?
 

Valdemar II

Banned
Unlikely while Scientology isn't a nice organisation, it isn't run by lunatics, for me as a outsider it seems to be run by calculating businessmen, and there would be little profit in doing something so stupid.
 

Sachyriel

Banned
No, but I could see some 4chan, 7chan and other Anons gathering for a violent attack on a Scientology church; Scientology retaliates, and then the FBI has to bring both sides down.
 
Whilst the Branch Davidians were a small cult isolated in one real base,Scientology is widespread enough to make this impossible. Also whilst the nutcase leader abused children,slept with various women and held hostages the Scientology movement is on the face of it clean (Although I for one belive that they brainwash people).
 
It might be possible during L. Ron Hubbard's "exile" days aboard his ship. If he decided to go to ground for a while, and his SeaOrg people came with him, then overly aggressive government actions against him could lead to such a standoff. It is well-known that he had become increasingly paranoid in those days, and that his followers were naming people as "suppressive" both right and left.
 
It might be possible during L. Ron Hubbard's "exile" days aboard his ship. If he decided to go to ground for a while, and his SeaOrg people came with him, then overly aggressive government actions against him could lead to such a standoff. It is well-known that he had become increasingly paranoid in those days, and that his followers were naming people as "suppressive" both right and left.

So if FBI with the Costguard had boarded his boat in US Waters back there in 1960s and it had let to a shootout. Would Scientology have existed today?
 

MacCaulay

Banned
So if FBI with the Costguard had boarded his boat in US Waters back there in 1960s and it had let to a shootout. Would Scientology have existed today?

No...he's it. It's not like Catholicism where you can say "The Pope got shot but the faith is still here."

He's pretty much it. Especially back then.

Besides, there weren't big stars attached to him then. It wasn't like Yul Brenner and Paul Newman were going to stand up and support him or anything.
 
No...he's it. It's not like Catholicism where you can say "The Pope got shot but the faith is still here."

He's pretty much it. Especially back then.

Besides, there weren't big stars attached to him then. It wasn't like Yul Brenner and Paul Newman were going to stand up and support him or anything.

Wonder what Tom Cruise and others have been doing today then ;)
 
Whilst the Branch Davidians were a small cult isolated in one real base,Scientology is widespread enough to make this impossible. Also whilst the nutcase leader abused children,slept with various women and held hostages the Scientology movement is on the face of it clean (Although I for one belive that they brainwash people).

Actually, the Church of Scientology has been implicated in kidnapping people (who were detractors), threatening detractors, attacking detractors, purging records unfavorable to them, keeping people cut off from their families with devotion only to the church, etc., etc., etc.

IE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Freakout
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White

And Scientology is not really that widespread and its own numbers for members are dubious and likely very exaggerated.
 
No...he's it. It's not like Catholicism where you can say "The Pope got shot but the faith is still here."

He's pretty much it. Especially back then.

Besides, there weren't big stars attached to him then. It wasn't like Yul Brenner and Paul Newman were going to stand up and support him or anything.

He's been dead for over 20 years. He died four years before Tom Cruise even joined the church.

Actually, the Church of Scientology has been implicated in kidnapping people (who were detractors), threatening detractors, attacking detractors, purging records unfavorable to them, keeping people cut off from their families with devotion only to the church, etc., etc., etc.

IE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Freakout
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White

And Scientology is not really that widespread and its own numbers for members are dubious and likely very exaggerated.

I was thinking Snow White was a good POD. We already have an FBI raid on Scientology headquarters. We know they have weaponry (look up "R2-45"... only pistols, but pistols can still kill, and we don't know what else they have, if anything). So have one twitchy person trying to hide Scientology secrets attack the agents. That could lead to a full out assault.
 
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