After leaving Scientology, his knowledge was put to use on the internet newsgroup, alt.religion.scientology. There he became one of the first people to to be able and willing to speak out about the inner workings of Scientology and its till then top secret materials.

Someone posted a Scientology document to the net and asked Dennis to comment of the authenticity of the material. Dennis' response included the automatic quoting of the original post. From this, Scientology was able to convince a judge that Dennis was posting copyrighted materials.

The judge issued a warrant allowing Scientology to raid Dennis' home and on a rainy day, February 13, 1995...they did just that. 

Dennis phoned Priscilla Coates of the original Cult Awareness Network who altered the media about the ongoing raid. The local Fox affiliate come with a camera crew and produced the video tape you see here. Broadcast use of this footage is strictly prohibited

The local newspaper also ran a story on the raid and wrote an editorial about Scientology's actions.

Later, Dennis made a post to alt.religion.scientology describing the raid. This and many other Dennis Erlich posts have been archived on the web by Tilman Hausherr.

After years of being targeted for abuse, Dennis reached a settlement with Scientology but his website remains online and he continues to help people with cult issues.