See also Dave Touretzky's homepage at CMU for a great take ("wacky") about Scientologists, and them appearing on the Carnegie Mellon campus.

Oh, there's talk of DMCA, aviation, and Lisp on that page, too.

See also the comedy "Bowfinger" with Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy.

Martin, the writer, changed the name of the cult in the script from "Scientology" to "Mind-Head" to avoid legal action, but the script depicts and skewers how fully the cult wants to control the lives of its brainwashed members.