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Part Two: Synanon: The Drug Rehab Program That Built Its Own Army

Behind the Bastards

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Drug Abuse Treatment Program Becomes a Religion

The board unanimously approves this plan, although one person, we don't know who wrote on a copy of the proposal, who would be God? Which is a good question to ask when you're again, drug abuse treatment program becomes a religion. So the switch to religion came right alongside a major expansion and synon on its appreciation of violence. After children, the first group to have violence okay against them were splittees, suspected thieves, spies and enemies of the cult. Now, they're made first major group of outside enemies,. people outside the cult that they go after were local ranchers in Marin County. And they started their own underground railroad to help the kids in the punk squad escape

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