All of them, those in power, and those who want the power, would pamper us, if we agreed to overlook their crookedness by wilfully restricting our activities.
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Former scientologist.
BBC (1987): "Panorama: The Road to Total Freedom?" @ Xenu TV
"PANORAMA" TV CREW MEMBER (voice of): Why do think this guy is taking our picture?
Scieno man waving, then taking picture
FRANK NOTARO: Because, they, they're gonna use it against us later on, supposedly—
"PANORAMA" TV CREW MEMBER: Why is he taking photographs of us? He’s been taking all the pictures—
Scieno man continuing to take pictures
FRANK NOTARO: Ron Hubbard says if you take their picture or something you can use it against them or maybe people are intimidated by the picture taking, you know. They were taking my pictures all the time. [...]
pictures of Frank Notaro with picket sign saying "Ron Hubbard is Xenu—OT 3 Hoax"; Notaro getting beaten up by Scieno thugs
VOICE OVER: Ex-Scientologist Frank Notaro used the name Xenu in a demonstration outside a church building and got beaten up.
Frank Notaro outside Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles—caption, "Frank Notaro, Ex-Scientologist"
INTERVIEWER: Why is it so secret?
FRANK NOTARO: Because Ron says if people find out about this information that they will get sick and die, if they find out this information without paying the money.
close-up of T-shirt Frank Notaro is holding saying "OT 3 HOAX"
INTERVIEWER: Did anybody who read your T-shirt get sick or die?
FRANK NOTARO: The only person that got sick was me because I got beat up and stun-gunned! (laughs) So—well, I just wanted people to find out about what’s been going on and, and what the church is really all about. [...]
The Free Spirit (Jan. 1986): "A Picketing We Go"