FWIW, I’ve been watching the show on A&E – “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath”.
http://www.aetv.com/shows/leah-remini-scientology-and-the-aftermathIt has been a quite interesting and enlightening expose of Scientology and very well done IMO. It has many interviews with former Scientologists who like Remini escaped, some who were high ranking in the group, and since leaving have been cut off from their family members and harassed and stalked by the “church” and had terrible lies published about them by the “church”.
I long knew that it was a cult-like organization, a completely made-up “religion” started by science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard, supposedly at first as a joke or on a dare, but that is really nothing but a way to bilk gullible people out of their money. But I had no idea just how oppressive and abusive – both mentally and physically, and just how criminal it is in its operations.
As to the KKK, the actual membership is estimated to be somewhere between 3,000 to 6,000 nationwide – not exactly a big organization, but then again their membership often is predicated on secrecy.
There are also a lot of splinter groups that are not “branded” as being KKK and they don’t go around wearing white robes and burning crosses or are as out front as say Storm Front, but follow much of the same ideology such as Jared Taylor’s group, American Renaissance and Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute and the Radix Journal and VDARE, calling themselves “Nationalists” or “Race Realists”, groups that also often call themselves part of the Alt-Right movement.
Not that all who claim to be Alt-Right are racists and or anti-Semitic but there is none the less a strong leaning toward it by many of them or they turn a blind eye toward those who do like Steve Bannon and today’s Breitbart.
