They sue them for copyright. I have also seen web pages where they slander people who have either left the cult, or have labeled them as a cult and spoken out against them in order to try to discredit them. The last years of his life were spent in total seclusion out there at what used to be called the Massacre Canyon Inn. He was a brilliant poet- professor who spent the last ten years of his life in an insane asylum. But it takes all kinds to make a world and would take another WACO type incident to end their strangeness.
Many local politicians support their enterprises.
Clinton even intervined on their behalf in France last spring. And every religion ever founded has faced persecution which has tested their beliefs. I know the anti-Christ because I've see his works.