I am struck by the complexity and cryptic-ness of the structure. Half of what the OP is posting I can't even follow. It almost seems like members get so entwined in this tentacled labrynth that they don't notice obviously horrible things like banning family members from seeing each other. I think the scientific name for that is "groupthink", and the Hitler analogy seems to have been applied to the wrong side, at least in that respect.

Back in the 80s when I was playing a lot of music, many of my musician friends were in Scientology because it got them off of drugs. So I thought it was fine and benign, until I saw one of them (who I briefly dated) trying to use it to treat someone with alzheimers. I thought that was seriously presumptuous for someone without a medical background, and have been suspicious of it ever since.

Given my observations, above, is there any sort of self-reflection built into the system? Or does it (the system) pretty much presume itself to be infalible?