tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69449814477003757102024-03-13T10:45:30.437-07:00Freedom Is SacredDenise Matteau's blog defending free speech, freedom of religion,
and the right to live free of vigilante harassment and intimidation. (Links may be to many different kinds of groups or writers. That's what Freedom looks like.)Freedom Is Sacredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078570822506043335noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944981447700375710.post-76880526467864975622013-09-26T11:48:00.001-07:002013-10-01T13:56:28.871-07:00The Times, They Are Intensifying: China Goes Cannibal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As 2014 and the imminent threat of a presidential bid by Hitlery Clinton grows stronger, a glance back at the Clintonian concept of "Ethnic Cleansing" along with Mrs. Clinton's love affair with the Chinese Communist Party is enough to stop me dead in my tracks.<br />
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My own writing in this Freedom blog has tended to focus on the New Jersey-based cult-vigilante stalker-gang known as the Richard Ross Institute, (RRI in this blog) with only an occasional foray into national and global politics, but as the millenium ticks on, this focus on that particularly nasty nest of nazi-esque vigilantes is becoming more global and more clearly entangled with national and international events. This week the RRI started spreading some chum (bait) in shark-filled waters of an especially disturbing kind: China has <a href="http://m.theepochtimes.com/n2/world/book-details-chinas-nightmarish-world-of-organ-harvesting-322114.html" target="_blank">institutionalized live-donor organ harvesting </a>of <i>all</i> organs and has been using religious dissidents, mostly Falun Gong (Tai Chi) as well as Christians and others, as the donor population. I'm calling <a href="http://forum.culteducation.com/read.php?12,99072">RRI's discussion "bait"</a> because Rick Ross is apparently trying to cover his own involvment in Chinese hunting of Tai Chi dissidents in the USA. (Note hate-stalker "Shakti's" vigorous defense of China. "Shakti" is one of the RRI's most vicious stalkers and was part of the group that stalked two people to death in Massachusetts. Shakti posted many vicious attacks on the mother of one of the victims while the stalkers escaped prosecution because the deaths were ruled suicides.)<br />
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Now RRI has spent years trying to whip up a <a href="http://darrylthomas.wordpress.com/tag/branch-davidians/" target="_blank">Branch-Davidian style massacre </a>of a small group of Evangelicals here in the US and in Australia, the Jesus-Christians, using the Jesus-Christians' mission of support for <a href="http://jesuschristians.com/kidneys" target="_blank">live kidney donation</a> programs as a particularly effective propaganda weapon. The fact that the Jesus-Christians are a nomadic group of highly individualistic Christians has foiled RRI's efforts to push them into a "compound", forcing RRI to rely on a psychopath named Brian Birmingham (posts as "zeuszor") and his friends to personally harass the elderly founders of that group.Yet the same man, Richard Alan Ross, and his entire nonprofit 501 "institute", would have you believe that the Jesus-Christians are a terrible cult because of their practice of encouraging voluntary kidney-donation! That same man, Richard Alan Ross, actually brags of his institute's relationship with the Chinese government in hunting down Falun Gong practitioners here in the USA and turning them over to Chinese authorities for what we now discover is actual forced harvesting of ALL useable organs, done while the victim is still alive rather than post-mortem on life-support, thus guaranteeing higher quality organs taken from healthy people!<br />
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The RRI in New Jersey has members all over the country as well as internationally who openly post <a href="http://forum.culteducation.com/read.php?12,103844,104866,quote=1" target="_blank">death-fantasies</a> about their targets to recruit more stalkers. ( I have been one of their targets for years. I am not a member of any group but my work as a Catholic social critic, journalist, and artist has ruffled their feathers more than once.) Because of my spiritual vocation, I often could not fully explain to any atheist why this group's predations irked me so much, but now it is becoming very, very clear. The silhouette of Satan that showed itself during the Clinton administration is now showing itself again, and connecting directly back to the ethnic-cleansing <a href="http://www.crimesofwar.org/a-z-guide/genocide/" target="_blank">policies</a> of that era and the Democrats' nazi-esque program of global genocide. Hillary Clinton was instrumental in forcing American women to accept Chinese <a href="http://www.taylormarsh.com/blog/2013/09/hillary-lead-beijing-plus-20-review-2015/" target="_blank">misogyny</a> while her close friend Janet Reno was instrumental in forcing the American public to accept the torture and massacre of 83 innocent women and children burned alive in the Branch-Davidian compound in Waco, Texas for the crime of being an <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/hillarys-janet-reno-imitation/" target="_blank">inter-racial</a> community. The same man, Richard Alan Ross, who used his stalker-teams and the willing Dallas media to set up that siege was a "consultant" with the FBI and BATF and has enjoyed immunity for all his crimes since. He is like the Teflon Don of left-wing thug vigilante gangs, gangs which primarily stalk inter-racial groups, which also includes the Jesus-Christians! (Heil Hitlery!).<br />
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Consider this: it is close to 20 years since the massacre of the Branch Davidians and the love-affair of Hitlery Clinton with the Chinese Communist regime and during all this time the USA has been systematically building support for a cannibalist, atheist, totalitarian regime that massacres innocent groups of people, which is likely to be Hitlery Clinton's major accomplishment as President, should <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=18" target="_blank">her supporters</a> continue to hold power over our sadly weakened government. Even without that monstrously evil woman as a leader those Clintonian fascists are likely to promote Chinese cannibalism under the cover of the American medical industry. (If you follow the link, please scroll down to the list of organizations in which Mrs. Clinton worked. They are almost ALL part of the NatLFed fascist political cult!)<br />
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Consider the sad shell of what was once the glorious Catholic Church here in the USA: while drunken priests auction off Masses for money and spew sarcasm at the faithful who seek solace in the sacraments, the "priestsforlife" group keeps copies of an old Interfaith<i> <a href="http://www.priestsforlife.org/prochoice/holyabortion.htm" target="_blank">manual</a></i><a href="http://www.priestsforlife.org/prochoice/holyabortion.htm" target="_blank"> for a ritual for <i>abortions</i></a>. Is the same group, composed primarily of Unitarians, Jews, atheists and pseudo-Catholics like Nancy Pelosi or Vice President Biden, also preparing manuals for the <a href="http://kieranhealy.org/files/drafts/insurance-rsage-final-web.pdf" target="_blank">ritual harvesting of organs from children and adults? </a>Is it a co-incidence that the Chinese chose a population of Tai-Chi practitioners (extremely healthy) people as their prime target for this modern form of cannibalism?<br />
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Is is a co-incidence that the same nazi-like regime in the USA is trying to force a neo-aztec pseudo-religion into our <a href="http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit160/lesson2.html" target="_blank">public schools</a> , insisting that our innocent little children accept the live harvesting of hearts by Aztec priests as a "legitimate" religion? <br />
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Is it a co-incidence that during the rise of Hitler's Nazis a Polish farm girl named Helena Kowalska (Saint Faustina) saw visions of Jesus pointing to <a href="http://thedivinemercy.org/news/story.php?NID=2840" target="_blank">His Sacred Heart</a>, pouring out rays of Divine Mercy, and then many Polish Catholics brought their faith to bear on surviving that initial upsurge of Satanic politics?<br />
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Is it a co-incidence that now many American Catholics are turning to those same visions just as the USA is at the beginning of a fully Chinese-style<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/scott-brown-elizabeth-warren-wants-government-force-catholics-violate-teachings-their-faith_629816.html" target="_blank"> repression of all Christians</a>, but most especially of devout, traditional <a href="http://wyblog.us/blog/election/martha-coakley-no-irish-need-apply.html" target="_blank">Catholics</a>?<br />
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Please pass this article on as I go back to reinforce my statements with appropriate links. God bless you for reading thus far, please know that these people in the Democrat party are relentless in their effort to silence me and all who write as I do. (But don't hold your breath about Republicans! They need to adopt the Ostrich as their mascot!) Pray for me and for all who are seeing these things happen and are feeling isolated and confused by the events that Rick Ross, Hillary Clinton, and that Satanic cult in Washington DC cannot disguise much longer. There is real power in prayer, especially prayer directed through fellowship among all the saints who have faced these Nazis in the past. Pray for all the Falun Gong believers who are as strong in their martyrdom as all the early Christians, and please recognize that the American thugs who follow Hilary Clinton and the Rick Ross Institute are ignorant knuckledraggers who would not know the difference between a traditional Chinese Tai Chi practice and a Falun Gong practice if they saw it, and would not understand the close relationship between such meditation practice and traditional Christian mysticism if they saw it. </div>
Freedom Is Sacredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078570822506043335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944981447700375710.post-63808618275167852082013-07-25T09:19:00.002-07:002013-08-01T08:32:13.420-07:00Obedience or Freedom? Some Questions...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am a free person. Free in spirit, flesh, and soul. Free in mind and body. <br />
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Yet, I follow a religion that teaches some extreme forms of obedience.<br />
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How can I make all of these statements and assert that they are all true? Is this possible? <br />
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When I did not follow a spiritual path I did not answer to anyone or any set of beliefs, laws, or guidelines, and I was not free. I was not free because in that manner of life, it is necessary to continuously adjust oneself to the actions and ideas of other people. But in choosing a spiritual path, then I had to push the people around me into second place.I became free of their demands. Yet, in obedience to that spiritual path, I must act out of charity and love, and so my own demands must be placed second to theirs.... <br />
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What is a spiritual path? <br />
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Well, this is really two questions:<br />
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What is a path? <br />
A path is a well-worn track in the ground. It may have been made just by the habit of many people walking daily along the same trail or it may have been deliberately mapped out ahead of time and constructed by one person or a few people cutting through the overgrowth and smoothing out the stones, filling in the holes, and setting up signs to point out the direction of the path. <br />
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What is spiritual? <br />
It is that which involves the "spirit" or the non-physical, unseen and intangible part of our bodies that carries the spark of life without which our minds cannot think and our hearts cannot beat.<br />
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A person who is not following a path is, of necessity, struggling against brambles and mudpits, trespassing on terrain owned by others, taking risks, and possibly getting lost. This is true in the physical world, where you can get in a lot of trouble if you try to drive off-road even if you have a good vehicle for the purpose. It is just as true in the spiritual world where you can have experiences that are perplexing and overwhelming if you experiment with various tools or practices without knowing what they really are for and who really designed them. If you choose to go forward with no path, how can you be free of all the obstacles and confusion that will beset you in the wilderness? For even one who goes into the wilderness, in the physical world, must follow a set of rules in behavior in order to survive. Likewise in the spiritual, for the two worlds are entangled.<br />
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Here is a Scripture: Saint Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 3, Verse 17: "Where the LORD is, there is liberty."<br />
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What does this mean? What is the place referred to by the word "where" and who is the "LORD"?<br />
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There is a writer from the fourth century named Saint Augustine who wrote about "The City of God" but really was writing about two cities, the "City of Man" as well as the "City of God". This is the location to which Saint Paul is referring in 2Cor. 3:17, "The City of God". It is not a physical place, but it is a spiritual place. The "LORD" to whom he refers is the God of Abraham, Yahweh, the God of Moses, the one Jesus called "Father". Recently my parish priest spoke about "Who" this LORD is. He pointed out that when Moses asked God what he should say when Pharoah asked him who was sending him to speak for the Israelites, God said "Tell him I AM is the one who sends you."<br />
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I AM: the self? myself? I am sending myself? Moses was given the first taste of true liberty. He was not compelled to obey God, but he freely agreed to do so. His "self" then became absorbed in the "Self" that is God, for God described Himself to Moses as the Ultimate Central Essence of Consciousness, and only in full compliance with that Self could Moses himself succeed in freeing the Israelites from Egyptian slavery. Full compliance = obedience.<br />
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"Where the LORD is, there is liberty."<br />
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"In the Spiritual City where the Ultimate Central Essence of (your) Consciousness is, there you will be free."<br />
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And if you cannot get into that City and you do not obey that Self, you cannot be free. </div>
CPNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028237517335887665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944981447700375710.post-86988011556901990532013-05-29T11:19:00.002-07:002013-09-27T10:42:05.489-07:00Here We Go Again: Rickross forum terrorists attacking as usual...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>(Please note: the "rickross.com" URL for many of these links is obsolete. The same info can now be found at its new address, the "culteducation.com" forum)</i><br /><br />
<b>Originally published in June:</b> <br />
After over two years of peace and quiet, the thugs who work for a United States and Chinese government-sponsored hate group are stalking the same innocent old "Jesus" freaks they've always hated (I identify the thugs who work for Richard Alan Ross and his Boston comrade Steven Hassan as "government-sponsored" because Richard Alan Ross is the same Arizona felon who ran a very successful hate campaign against the Branch Davidian sect in Waco, Texas during the Clintons' first term in the White House, the campaign that culminated in the tragic massacre of 83 innocent women and children among David Koresh's followers. The US gov 't contracted Richard Alan Ross as a consultant in stalking and besieging groups based on religious orientations during and after that tragedy. The Chinese government now employs the Ross group against Falun Gong practitioners, hunting them down in the USA.)<br />
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Go to the rickross.com forum in the "cults, sects and new religious movements" section and look up the "Jesus Christians, Dave McKay, Truth Believers..." thread, page 109. You'll see the top postings are from 2012 but then the last postings are very recent, by a self-described mentally ill person using the stalker name "J-C-watcher". Read his description of a small group of simple, relatively impoverished Christian evangelists in Sydney, Australia and tell me you don't get a deep chill in your soul! It is a highly detailed account of where these innocent people might be parking a car, very close physical descriptions of them, and incredibly mob-style, hateful descriptions of their alleged personalities, all supported by Richard Ross and his minion "corboy" as if this simple description and invitation to hate-stalk an elderly couple and their friends is a call to arms in a noble war of some kind! (Rick Alan Ross has that domain for sale but has stated it will exist under a new domain. He is trying to duck all the links that have had some success in alerting legitimate law enforcement agencies to his threats on individuals in their constituencies. He is naïve if he thinks this ploy will succeed.)<br />
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The truth about the Jesus Christians is this: Dave and Cherry McKay have shared the road-evangelist life for years, as have millions of people all over the world, Christians, wandering zen monks, self-proclaimed religious seers, etc. The hate being thrown at them is the tip of the Nazi iceberg in the USA. This hate group (The Richard Alan Ross Institute) operates out of Trenton New Jersey. Steven Hassan is being described in their site as if he is not part of them because he is now a columnist for the national-socialist media at the Huffington Post, but that is a false rivalry. Hassan employs one of Rick Ross's main hate-posters in the anti-Christian campaign, a mental patient named Brian Birmingham who posts as zeuszor & oerlikon among others in the Rick Ross hate forums. Hassan's position as a Huffington Post columnist is part of his position within the Democratic party and is also probably part of the reason Rick Ross recently expanded his religious-group target list to include any and all "controversial" groups. (This happened just at the same time as the <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/17/irs-commissioner-stonewalls-on-prying-into-pro-life-groups-prayers/" target="_blank">IRS began asking</a> nonprofit applicants to list the contents of prayers they might say if they are claiming a philosophical or religious status under the nonprofit rules. Strange con-incidence, in my opinion.)<br />
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This entire hate stalking ring is government-protected and sponsored. Birmingham is a veteran kicked out of the army and out of Iraq for mental illness (and this was during the stop-loss-campaign! military readers will know what this must mean about his mental dangerousness, to have been considered too dangerous for Iraq in those years!)<br />
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Read "J-C-watcher's" posts carefully. I can tell you the chracterization of the McKays is a total LIE. I am Catholic, practicing a form of Zen Catholicism, and I have had many conversations with the McKays and with numerous JC's. They are all decent people, the same assortment you would find in any church. McKay certainly does not control anyone and no one has ever been told he is "messaiah" except by the Ross hate-stalkers. In fact, if you actually read McKay's book "Survivors" (a rebuttal to the LaHaye "Left Behind" nonsense) you will see all his commentaries and you can read them online in several places (jesuschristians.com) and see for yourself that he does not write with any claims of special authority, but simply converses as anyone would.<br />
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This "J-C-watcher" has the same complaint Brian Birmingham and several others have about the McKays: they did not give him money and goods when he wanted them to. He wants these good people described and hated unto death because he woke up one day to find they had moved on without him. Birmingham himself did the same thing, not only to the McKays but to a homeless-service group in Dallas Texas called the Trinity Foundation, which kicked Birmingham out of their community after discovering he had lied about his own poverty to get in, he was using drugs, and he was stalking their members.<br />
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What kind of crime is it when you attack people for failing to give you stuff? Oh, and a little research on the readers' part will show that Richard Alan Ross started his career the same way, in Arizona. Some jewelry store owner refused to give him what he wanted and he ended up as a convicted felon for trying to blow the place up. Go to sott.net or google <i>ross institute countelpro,</i> and you will see enough for yourself to understand my blog's focus.<br />
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Freedom Is Sacredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078570822506043335noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944981447700375710.post-14880770887326778722012-09-11T10:13:00.001-07:002013-09-27T10:42:27.389-07:00Cracks in the Trojan Horse?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>(Please note: the "rickross.com" URL for many of these links is
obsolete. The same info can now be found at its new address, the
"culteducation.com" forum)</i><br />
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Mitt Romney, who failed to do anything about the history of atrocious Democrat-led/driven corruption during his tenure in Massachusetts, has allowed two cracks to give us a glimpse into the betrayal that awaits those of us who think a vote for him is anything more than a symbolic slap at the fascists in Washington.<br />
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Here are the cracks: Condoleeza Rice flirted with the subject of education by making a negative reference to "neighborhood schools" in spite of the fact that it is the destruction of the old (pre-1970's)neighborhood school system that resulted in the generation of illiterate students AND teachers. We are seeing the bitter fruit now in Chicago. There is only one way to avoid neighborhood school control and that is federal control. Is Rice jockeying for position in Romney's cabinet so that any challenge to the planned betrayal of conservative hopes for education can be played as racist? That is how the Dems will play it (may already be playing it if they read this column) and Romney, in true CEO style, will stand off to one side with hands as clean as a Roman governor's.<br />
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The other and perhaps more sinister glimpse we are getting into the plans Romney's deeper backers have for us is in the recent remark Romney made about allowing indefinite ages of dependency in family health insurance plans. Was it a gaff? Consider the degree to which Romney as governor ignored the funneling of federal funds through corrupt left wing fraud channels in Massachusetts, and a good deal of that through groups like the hate-for-hire training camp Meadow Haven operated by Rob and Judy Pardon and the NEIRR (a religious cult group) in Lakeville, Massachusetts, hardly more than a subsidiary of the hate-for-hire group Rick A. Ross Institute based in New Jersey, the one famous for helping the Clintons get away with the Waco massacre of the Branch Davidians (whether massacred in a state of suicidal fear or by inept and overzealous ATF/FBI forces, it was still a massacre of more than 80 innocent people.)<br />
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Romney, and all the Republicans, have always remained silent on these things.<br />
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A look at the history of the hate brigades led by Rick Alan Ross, Brian Birmingham, Malcolm Wrest (of Korea) and the Pardons and their ilk shows that they all work on behalf of families who wish to control, to the point of slave-ownership, their individual members. Once hired, they assist in attacking every form of relationship, business, work or other activity that the individual non-conformist may have which the controlling family wants to stop. Liberal family fearful that a young adult is giving up a lucrative career to become a street-evangelist? No problem: just sic'em on that young man or woman. Muslim family fearful of a convert? No problem. Jewish bigots angry at a Messianic relative? no problem.<br />
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Now add to it that Romney proposes allowing the families to take full control of the member's health plans, forcing a son or daughter who married "wrong" to abort, forcing a talented athlete to perform, and on and on....<br />
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Where does it end? I have had many lengthy conversations privately with victims of the US gov't supported hate brigade that operates in the Northeast with such boldness it is obscene, and if I were to betray trust and publish some of those emails you would see the proof, but that is unnecessary. Anyone can google through my references in these freedom columns and see the entire picture for themselves. Those who cannot see just by using google that the United States is preparing for a collapse into the most incredible level of total enslavement ever known, well, they wouldn't understand the email conversations anyway.<br />
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My daughter, Faith Jackson nee Sojourner Matteau Jackson and her fiance Myron Wix were both murdered in Massachusetts in the summer of 2010 right in the epicenter of the hateful storm that is about to burst on us. Make no mistake about it, their deaths were called suicides like so many others, and Romney wants to quietly enable more such "suicides" inside families, orchestrated by the hate-brigades. <br />
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We will see the following events now: Chicago's teacher strike will spiral out of control and will attempt to spread tentacles into other cities through the corrupt public employee unions and Obama's "Community Action" brownshirts. Obama will be required to act. The mess might be inherited by a sure-to-be-embattled Romney administration, Condoleeza Rice will be in the thick of it, and all of us who dare question or criticize will be in concentration camps if not killed outright. It really doesn't matter who gets elected this time. A vote for Romney is a symbolic slap at the Democrats, but certainly not a genuine hope for any kind of change</div>
Freedom Is Sacredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078570822506043335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944981447700375710.post-59010592819989986922012-08-23T14:18:00.000-07:002013-09-27T10:42:50.516-07:00Carrying On In Apocalyptic Mode: Gus St Silva? Another victim of the Massachusetts Neo-nazis?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>(Please note: the "rickross.com" URL for many of these links is
obsolete. The same info can now be found at its new address, the
"culteducation.com" forum)</i><br />
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There is so much to post, yet so little to say that could really matter in these times. I am coming up to the second anniversary of the death of my daughter, who was killed in Massachusetts at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Her body was found in the Sylvan dormitory and it was ruled a suicide. One month before her death, her fiance Myron Wix died, also ruled a suicide, although his father vehemently insisted that his son, too, was killed.<br />
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I have not been able to find out the details of my daughter's last weeks or days. I do know that she was not depressed, but she was srurrounded by the Massachusetts ghouls who enforce gay culture and who were attacking her and Myron for even considering having a natural family, bringing their own children into the world. I know that she was buying a car and planning to visit me, but as usual, she was attacked by the people up there who have such vehement hatred for all that I represented in her life: the conservative Christian mother, seen always through their eyes of bigotry and hate. Faith tried so hard to please them and was just beginning to understand, as she said in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQsuoGuKcFs" target="_blank">her last letter</a> just why we had lived under such terrible attack at all times.<br />
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The same group who had stalked and hounded me for years, the Rick Ross Institute (you can find them at rickross.com) also attacked a man at UMass recently, a veterans' councillor for attempting to blow a whistle on one of their activists, UMass student Brian Birmingham, for apparently getting access to about $9,000 in unauthorized benefits. (Birmingham is "zeuszor" and possibly also "Apollo" in the rickross hate forum).<br />
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Rick Ross rounded up his cohorts in Massachusetts, the charlatans Rob and Judy Pardon who run the "Meadow Haven" private prison in Massachusetts where they use "theological" credentials to claim professional status as "counselors", and where Birmingham has acted as a staff member. A professional who was giving nutrition workshops at the center and who knew Birmingham was an inmate filed complaints, to little effect, with Massachusetts about seeing him introduced as a fellow staffer when new patients arrived. (Among other things, Birmingham was witnessed harrassing female patients who had accepted the Pardons' charlatan assistance for leaving an agricutural commune group, the "Twelve Tribes". The Pardons have close connections to the Democrat Party's fascist nazi-like left factions, especially Scott Harshbarger and Martha Coakley, both former Massachusetts attorney-generals who enabled Democrat assaults on all forms of Christian family life)<br />
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The Pardons with Birmingham and with UMass help ran a petition among the gullible UMass students to get Gus St Silva, a very well-respected professional counselor with REAL experience, fired. Now they are dogging him out of life completely. UMass did NOTHING to protect this man. The Pardons and their ilk were able to appear unconnnected "concerned citizens" to anyone who read their slander in the leftwing fascist petition sites and only their other victims, people like me and like that whistle-blower who saw Brian in action with the Pardons and like the hounded McKay evangelists could recognize tthat this same group of criminal fraudsters running a mob assault on yet another innocent person. One of the members of the gang that petition-attacked St Silva is Malcolom Wrest, an Australian hiding in Korea who once tried to make off with the McKays' evangelism funds when he and some other members, including Brian Birmingham, tried to form their own missionary group. McKay stopped them and tried fruitlessly to come to peaceful crhistian accord with them, and now lives with his wife in hiding from their continuous assaults. These people are in their seventies, living this way because of this Massachusetts-based terrorist type of group, a hate group that uses every form of religious bigorty to attack innocent individuals and familes! Birmingham also got in trouble in Dallas Texas for stealing benefits from the Trinity Foundation, a homeless-shelter group run by muckraker Ole Anthony who once wrote expose's of televangelists in a Lutheran satirical magazine. Birmingham is using his UMass credentials now to attack any and all the freedom-loving, random individuals who simply try to live according to Christian principles without all the hoopla of setting up those private prisons like the Meadow Haven hell-hole in Lakeville, Massachusetts. <br />
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How did Birmingham, a supposedly impoverished and allegedly disabled veteran (kicked out of Iraq for mental illness) manage to immediately pay back the $9,000 so that he would lose no more than a semester at UMass? He now is selling himself as a psychologist with backing from that Massachusetts nazi-esque gang, all of whom run their games through the horrible gullible church structures, the faux-churches, Pardons even calling themselves Anglican pastors! Gag---choke--forgive me I can hardly type. Here in Texas they have their charlaten friends in Dallas, Wendy and Doug Duncan, who worked closely with Brian in his assaults on Ole Anthony's shelter group. Those people working with Anthony had worked hard to rehabilitate derelict housing, all with the blessing of the city, and the attacks washed off their backs, but still affect the innocents who accidently come into the criminal sights of the Duncans, the Pardons, the rick Rosses: ALL of these people claiming false credentials, NONE of them able to qualify for licensed status, but ALL able to destroy families and lives for their OWN PROFITS! $$$$!!!!! Google all these names. I will come back and update with links, but it will take you only ten minutes in Google to see the truth in what I am writing.<br />
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How far is this going to go? Listen to my daughter describe, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/In-Memory-Of-Faith-Sojie-Jackson-6171976-8262010/121713621214421" target="_blank">with her last words</a>, that certain people HELPED HER COMPOSE HER FINAL STATEMENT!!!! Her letter is in a video in her facebook memorial page, where I read it according to her last wishes to have it published. It is also in Youtube and in my personal facebook page. I read it a few weeks after her death. Birmingham and others in the Rick Ross group attacked me, insisting that all memory of her be erased. Stockbridge Massachusetts police know that they had an alert on Birmingham about two months vbefore her death because he had been stalking her by contacting me weith questions about her.<br />
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Those who attacked her included people at UMASS, and I do know several by name, but I lack the money and influence to purchase justice that would embarrass the Massachusetts elite, an elite that includes some of my own relatives. I can only write whatever I find to say in these moments and I can only hope that someone, somewhere, will read this article and understand that the money it takes to have a full private investigation of Sojourner Matteau (Faith) Jackson's death and the hounding of UMass counsellor Gus Saint-Silva and to get past the mafia-like, nazi-esque mob that runs Massachusetts, that money will be well worth it. Please contact me via <a href="mailto:denise.matteau@gmail.com">denise.matteau@gmail.com</a> . I am willing to sign all profits from this story over to the backers. It will indeed be a best-seller and will indeed pay you well for the risks you are taking. You can use the profits to fund your cause or provide for your loved ones. Just help me tell the story of what really happened to my family.<br />
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I live in Corpus Christi, Texas now, free of any fear of these people or anything they can do to me. I want only to see justice done and the shackles of that ghoulish mob removed from this land. I am not unrealistic. I am a witness to all that Christ has bidden us to endure while we all wait for His Ultimate Justice.<br />
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Freedom Is Sacredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078570822506043335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944981447700375710.post-10138740656878827662011-12-20T11:38:00.000-08:002011-12-20T11:38:29.059-08:00Merry Christmas!Merry Christmas to all and to all a good year! <br />
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I have been hibernating off the grid for a while but I will be back online soon. Everyone should hake a vacation from media during stressful times, I think, but most of us are afraid of "losing touch". I certainly felt that way, but having done it for the past six months or so, I must say I not only did not lose touch with what is happening in the world and among my friends, but I discovered a deeper and more secure connection with things that matter. The news, or what passes for news in the media seems only to repeat itself in ever-blurring spirals. The gloom of exagerated panic that infests the talkers evaporates in the face of reality that is not so gloomy at all.<br />
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Yes, I do know of all the unrest in places like the Mideast and of all the economic upheavals, but the sun still rises and sets and people still greet each other with a friendly smile in my world. Will I be helping anyone in those upset places if I share the political panic that has caused their societies to collapse? No. Will I help anyone by remaining content in the place I am, always ready to share a meal and a conversation? Maybe.<br />
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And so I will go for the "maybe" and get a head start on my New Year's Resolution: No friends of mine need go hungry or lonely in this coming year. Hospitality is one of the oldest commands for our spiritual health, and it is one of the first practices to fall under suspicion in a spiritually unhealthy world. This is why Christmas, that most hospitable of seasons, has been so viciously attacked by the fear-mongering and hate-worshipping media. <br />
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Ah, pass me a cup of mulled wine and tell me what you've been up to, my love, for we live in interesting times.Freedom Is Sacredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078570822506043335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944981447700375710.post-43210926573085527072011-06-29T10:12:00.000-07:002013-09-27T10:43:28.822-07:00Obama's Queer Politics: Democrats Embrace Whitey's Violent Tyranny<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Recently President Barack Obama spoke at a political event and praised the <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-praises-homosexual-spouses-gay-gat" target="_blank">fascist stormtroopers of the Democrat party</a>, urging them to increase their assaults on all aspects of private life, personal freedom, and civil peace. <i>(I'll add more reference links shortly since I'm typing extemporaneously here.)</i> In words that promise nothing short of civil war, he urged his fascist activists to continue their grassroots warfare lest there be any refuge left for Americans to maintain our capacity to think, believe, love and live free of the soul-killing death culture of the American gay movement which is the ultimate expression of fascism in the world today. <br />
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When will Black America finally take him on and protest the castration of all young men, especially Black young men, by Obama's white Democrat fascists? Is Freud so deeply buried in his grave that no psychoanalyst lives who can point out that in the long history of slavery, especially color-based slavery, the open and public castration of a healthy young male was a key element in the control of the entire slave population by a few owners? Can no-one see that the modern gay fascism of the Democratic Party in the USA is essentially the slave-owners' exercise in castrating the Black race by promoting homosexual identity as an equivalent of racial identity? Is there no anthropologist who is willing to point out that throughout history, women of slave classes have been denied the right to raise their own young and that the almost 100% white lesbian fascists are doing the same thing, grabbing young girls at adolescence and taking control of early pregnancies so that they can rip the babies from the womb and kill them at the first opportunity?<br />
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And now let's digress to speak of Whitey. Not as in "Whitey", the epithet we used to hear shouted by enraged young Black men, but as in <a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1348617" target="_blank">"Whitey" the Irish mobster from Boston.</a> The Boston Globe, which competes with the New York Times in its embodiment of <i>Mein Kampf's</i> darkest propaganda dreams <a href="http://boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2011/06/james-bulger-cast-powerful-aura-over-william-bulger/eAGfTtd496Is6ktXx3wkK0/index.html" target="_blank">speaks of William Bulger</a>as having the "Aura" about him of his brother Whitey Bulger's career. <i>(The link leads to the Boston Globe but you'll have to search "aura" and "bulger" to see the exact article.)<br />
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Now, while we try to exhume psychonalysts and anthropologists of yore to shed some light on the castration of the American Black race by the mulatto president, let's see if we can also exhume some linguists to shed some light on the use of the word "aura" to describe the influence of a vicious violent criminal, a murderous Irish mafiosi who did not keep his own hands clean from his bloodlust.<br />
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"Aura" is usually a positive, glowing, spiritually uplifting term, stopping just short of "halo". The Bulger brothers rose side by side in American politics in the wake of the segregation war in the schoolyards of Southie. One of the brothers, James aka Whitey, went directly into the honest life of thugs who kill people for their own power. He had an admirer while he was growing up: John Connally. William Bulger went from local political office to the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Whitey Bulger went from the street gangs into the FBI, where he was welcomed as an "assett" by John Connally, whose admiration never faltered even as Whitey's criminal dossier grew. Among the links I'll soon be adding here is a mention of how Whitey personally strangled the daughter of a girlfriend of one of his henchmen. There are nineteen murders that the FBI <i>admits</i> Whitey personally committed or participated in while serving not only as informant, but as <i>mentor</i> to the Boston FBI's field commander John Connally. He really would be seen as a serial killer if he were not a vital part of his brother William's political career, and a vital part of the Democrat party's stranglehold on Massachusetts and via Massachusetts, the Party, and via the Party, the nation.<br />
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And those two brothers are actually part of the inner circle that helps form the leadership of the modern American Reich of the mulatto Obama and his white queen, Hitlery Clinton. The Clintons are also part of the key to why the FBI could not prevent or control the Connally-Bulger mob activity. Bill Clinton, that old Southern Democrat, decentralized the FBI offices while he was in power, hampering oversight of one of the Democrats' most important assetts: the Boston FBI office.<br />
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Please bookmark this thread and forward it to your friends. I'll be updating it frequently with supporting links and notes as I dig back into the timeline of this dark & unfinished chapter in American history.</div>
Freedom Is Sacredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078570822506043335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944981447700375710.post-66207307428407569902011-06-20T11:26:00.000-07:002013-09-27T10:43:51.061-07:00I was never silenced<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Right now the hired mob over at xjcs.org (one of Rick Alan Ross's members' hate sites) as well as in his own at rickross.com are howling that I have been "silenced" while simultaneously howling that I am somehow contacting the fictitious Sisi by phone at all hours and her husband has the Canadian version of 911 looking for me. (Susan Smith Summers, aka Verite Evangeline, a Canadian according to "herself" & also known as one "Al Antony", an Australian, according to some observers.)<br />
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A. I have never been contacted by any attorney or any police department on behalf of anybody's attempt to silence me. None would, since I have done nothing wrong and I have told only the truth, in its plain ugly self. My choice to publish or not at any given time is purely voluntary. <br />
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B. I have not made any of the phone calls Ms. Verite Evangeline describes. <br />
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As far as "silencing" me is concerned, if there were legal procedings of any kind, I can assure you I would have been told by lawyers on both sides to remove what I have already published while we fight in Court. That has not happened, and I have left old material up specifically to maintain this proof in the face of Verite aka Nick and Kate/Cait Croft's lies (since they publish the Rick Ross-affiliated site xjcs.org that contains most of the attacks, "Verite Evangelene" may as well be considered to be Kate Croft herself, if not Nick in a petticoat) <br />
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Verite is also claiming to be involved with one of my relatives. Which one, pray tell? Is it Joseph Burke, the nephew who helped kill Barry Griffin and Richard Retzel in 1981? His mother, Rene Burke, the retired GE executive who was implicated in the PCB spill (which, interestingly enough, seems to have involved other families of the "Lenox 7" gang that included my nephew, also included one Peter Bianco, one Todd Terpak, and a few others. The drowned victims included the son of Barry Griffin Sr, a union official who could have blown the whistle on the PCB contamination while it was going on in the 1980's, had he not been distracted by the murder of his own son, and by the fact that one of the killers was the son of a very-well-known executive secretary in charge of the disposal of materials at GE!) If I have done wrong in being so frank and open about my accusations towards certain of my relatives, especially those whose careers have impacted so many people in Massachusetts and beyond, why have none of them defended themselves? Wouldn't their own words speak volumes over mine, if they were not guilty of everything I have written? <br />
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No, I have not been silenced. <br />
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Timing is everything, as the saying goes. Consider the timing of the killing of the Griffin boy. My family was also involved, directly and heavily involed, in tthe deaths of Myron Wix and Faith Jackson (my own daughter) last summer. They maintain the same silence about their roles in those events that the Kennedies have maintained about their role in protecting Senator Ted Kennedy after the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne in Chapaquiddick Pond. <br />
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And there is indeed a very slender thread connecting those events and the influence of family connections and corrupt covering-up of crimes committed by important family members. My family is indeed a branch of the same Democrat old-boy network that has ruled New England corruption for generations. <br />
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I'm publishing this note today mainly as an update to those who have been following the rise of fascism in the USA, especially the strange little group of gay brownshirts that constitutes the Rick A. Ross Institute. If I have piqued the curiousity of new readers, post your questions and I will try to direct you to the sources of this saga in chronological order. "Anonymous" posting is allowed in this blog, so you needn't worry about exposing yourself to hate-stalkers like "Verite Evangelene", Brian Birmingham, or any of the other members of the Rick Ross brownshirts.</div>
Freedom Is Sacredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078570822506043335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944981447700375710.post-28805511620476784352011-03-15T12:14:00.000-07:002013-09-27T10:44:11.401-07:00Super Fraudulent Attacks on my name and being done IN my name<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There are numerous postings in many forums going up using my name and referring to this blog but using false links etc and they are trying to discredit me and this blog. <br />
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The individuals involved in these attacks include my own family because of my nephew's participation in a double homicide in 1981. That story has been published and republished in attacks on me and was used in attacks on my daughter before she died in 2010. Her death was caused by harassment and terrorization that she was not strong enough to resist. My own family is involved. James Matteau of Westminster Vermont, a Democrat who has worked hard to cover up the "Lenox 7" case, Renee (Lorene) Matteau Burke of Pittsfield, Massachusettsm, Larry Matteau of Vershire, Vermont, the Jacksons of Grafton, Masssachusetts and other members of my family who supported the suppression of evidence in those murder/manslaughter trials in Massachusetts, 1981-1983, are involved. The Rick Ross Institute has been hired by at least one of my relatives to attack me for "breaking ranks". Several licensed social workers as well as fake non-credentialed ones, including Lorene Burke Zeif and one Rose Constapoulos have been involved. Zeif is Renee Burke's daughter and left Catholic Charities in Berkshire County in the 1980's after being found allowing her mother to use her credentials to access information about my family. Loree later converted to Judaism and used her new Jewish identity to continue the attacks while we lived in Great Barrington, where she instigated several mob-style assaults on my daughter by accusing us of "anti-semitism" and that is when Rick Ross Institute was included in the attacks. Our neighbors all along the road at June Mountain were contacted by these "anti-cult" "experts' and it was years before I found out the truth. The Rick Ross people were all over Berkshire County attacking anyone who challenged the corrupti rings there. <br />
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I tried hard to get my daughter out of that filthy corrupt state of Massachusetts, but she did not have the strong roots I had in my own Catholic faith and she was too young to see the events that motivated all the family attacks on her. She was horribly andf visciously attacked by Renee Burke and Larry Matteau and others at Renee's house the Thanksgiving after attending a family funeral Larry, who is emotionally disturbed because of all the abuse in our family, admitted he was there but refused to help me get authorities involved. I knew from some conversations with my daughter that she was terrrified. (It took me 35 years to be able to reclaim my faith in spite of the continued filth that infests the Catholic Church. My daughter turned to Kripalu for her own faith and was visciously attacked by Renee as if that were the reason, but indeed the reason was Renee had always threatened me with attacks on my daughter for not co-operating with her, and she carried out those threats more than once, and she had her daughter Lorene Burke Zeif's help more than once.) <br />
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My family's influence made our lives into a living hell. My daughter chose to stay in Massachusetts and that is how or why she was killed. Renee Burke wanted her dead. Larry and James Matteau supported Renee in everything she did. Technically, my daughter apparently committed suicide but she was not alone. Her own letter that I read into the video that is under assault by my family and their hirelings shows that several people were "sharing" that letter with my daughter while she was alive and were punishing her for wanting to be in contact with me. <br />
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My daughter's death was not a true suicide. That much is obvious. <br />
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James Matteau, Larry Matteau, Renee Matteau Burke, these are my brothers and one of my sisters and they have been supporting these recent internet attacks on my daughter's name and on my character and livelihood. That is because they also supported all the attacks on her and on others like her that have turned Massachusetts into a living hell for so many decent, normal young men and women.<br />
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Renee Matteau Burke was the secretary to the Jesuit headmaster of the famous Cranwell School in Lenox, Massachusetts before she went on to work closely with Jack Welch in GE during the years of the PCB spills in the Housatonic River and elswhere in Berkshire County.<br />
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James Matteau was a selectman in Gill Massachusetts during the above-mentioned murder/manslaughter trials. Our nephew, Joseph Burke, was one of seven young men accused of killing Barry Griffin and Richard Retzel by drowning them in Laurel Lake in Lee, Massachusetts.<br />
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I was at the house in Lenox during one of the meeting to discuss what to do to "help" Renee, who called upon everyone she could co-erce for favors. As former secretary to the Jesuit headmaster of Cranwell School, a famous boarding school for the very rich including the Welch and Kennedy familes, Renee's ability to blackmail and export influential people reached even further than her duties at GE Plastics provided. <br />
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I refused to co-operate. My daughter was only 6 at the time and became a continuous target of Renee Burke's hatred and abuse. I moved often to try to protect her. <br />
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James Matteau's wife took a lesson from Renee. During the trials in Pittsfield, in which Joseph Burke was ordered by my family to stop co-operating with State Police (I witnessed this event) James Matteau moved his career as a state official (he was in charge of programs for the elderly around Greenfield, Massachusetts) from Massachusetts to Vermont where he became chairman of the Windham Commission, oversseing the Yankee Power plant area and many land-use issues throughout Vermont, and his wife became a secretary for a prestigious private boarding school in Vermont. <br />
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Lucy Matteau and Renee Matteau Burke have heavily involved in supporting gay political activities and pro-abortion inclusions into the Catholic and other liberal churches in the wake of those trials, and they have been very strong in supporting the tactics of breaking up families of people they perceive as ideologically "different" from themselves. Lucy Matteau has ostracized members of the family if she even suspected we do not sympathize with her gay friends in the Congregational church, where she and James are on the board. James matteau left the Catholic church long ago, as did most of the Matteaus who were witnesses to Renee and Loree's abuse of Catholic connections. That abuse has to be seen as separate from any real belief. Loree converted to Judaism at the drop of a hat in order to marry a Jew in spite of their racism against her own background and Renee never saw the Church as anything more than a convenient social club that she could manipulate against her own family. The horrible assaults on high school students in Pittsfield by the gay militant mobs are among the activities Renee, Lucy, James and Loree supported, especially the developoment of the fine arts as channels for political financial influence. Renee Burke, as one of Jack Welch's key employees at GE, was the liason for many of the donations into the gay feminist militant organizations. <br />
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Those murder trials in the 1980's about the drowning of Griffin and Retzel that included her son were completely entangled with the establishment of the grants-non-profit system of money-laundering that uses gay, lesbian and aggressive abortion issues as the tools of emotional attack on any members of the families who present possible threats of exposure.<br />
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That is how that Chappaquiddick-like double homicide case was suppressed and the accused were able to walk free.<br />
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My daughter was not the only additional casualty of that Massachusetts/Vermont influence-peddling ring. <br />
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Beyond this, look at the corruption that surrounded the Catholic Church. Our family was heavily impacted because Renee and the Kennedies and Jack Welch obviously were instrumental alongside many Cahtolic politicvians and government officials in suppressing priestly abuse cases. The Bishops who aided and abbetted the priestly criminals knew they could not challenge the Welches, Kennedies, and others.<br />
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Look at all the facts. I will not remove this blog. Everything I say here is fully defensible against any accusations of defamation or libel because I can prove every word is true and indeed, is only part of the full story. It is also easily defended against the accusation that such "dirty laundry" should remain unseen because the success of Renee Matteau Burke and james Matteau's scheming continues to entangle younger people in their criminal circles and continues to endanger those who remain outside that circle. We are looking at one family in the center of the corruption that has ruined Massachusetts and extends into the United States, but it is only one family among many, of course. All of the facts around the drownings of Barry Griffin and Richard Retzel, the subsequent trials, and the development of the money-laundering system in the wake of those trials must be examined if we are ever to recover from this horribly corrupt period of our history.</div>
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There are so many directions this article could go in that it is an exercise in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynMS0g6zu5E">postmodernism</a> just to start. First of all, there are these questions of category of journalism and the role of the reviewer or the writer as well as questions of the role of the artist and his art. In past times including most of "modern" times, these roles or realms of activity were pretty easy to keep separate. It used to be easy to look at one part of a person's activity and say "this is his artwork" and the other part of his activity and say "this is his personal life, no concern of the public's."<br />
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Secondly, there are these questions of private relations between the artist and his friends and family, the public, the art-world, etc. which usually, in the past, have remained easily separated, one from the other.<br />
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But no more. And actually, am I really being accurate to say these things were always separate? In old times, an artist's studio would include the work of many members of his own family as well as friends and the entire social circle would be rife with romantic escapades and stories of high scandal. <a href="http://www.renaissanceconnection.org/artistslife.html">Artists in the Renaissance</a> were brought into royal courts as much for the entertainment of their messy lives as for the actual product of their work.<br />
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Still, we seemed always to know when we were looking at the professional product and when we were peeping into the private lives of artists. Picasso and his crowd began to blur the lines. <a href="http://picasso.shsu.edu/">Picasso</a> made an art-form of his life, having his <a href="http://www.alibris.com/search/books/qwork/5124890/used/Picasso%20plain%3B%20an%20intimate%20portrait.">Parmelin</a> and his <a href="http://mystudios.com/art/modern/picasso/picasso-jamie-sabartes.html">Sabartes</a> provide an approved series of hints while enticing more than one photographer and film-maker to co-operate in the first hints of the post-modern world. Before WWII, the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqkIJ0odFxA">Dadaists</a> and other adventurers had begun to tear at the boundaries of what is and is not art, but they did it within an outer world whose boundaries were still clear. Picasso carried their activities further while wartime Europe tore down all the outer boundaries. <br />
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Hitler had made Germany into a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox7JgwnWRFs&feature=related">giant machine in which human beings were but ants</a>. Anyone today who looks at the footage of those thousands of soldiers lined up so precisely for Nazi parades cannot help but see the total collapse of the human soul in the crushing grasp of the Nazi cult. Picasso had remained in Paris even through the occupation, never picking up a gun to defend his adopted homeland, but also never laying down his brushes or letting go of his quintessential human spark. That was the 1930's and 1940's, the height of modernism and the glimpse of postmodernism. Religion had gone into a kind of eclipse during that period, but in the aftermath of war, it enjoyed a resurgence. Everyone wanted the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTZi6yzcdE8">boundaries offered by churches</a>, the clear rules and regulations, the lists of sins and not-sins, the schedules of worship and prayer. Alongside that, marketing became a religion too, with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUDKehwFWjg&feature=related">Billy Graham </a>running neck-and-neck against <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2eLJXoLzIU&feature=related">Dale Carnegie </a>for influencing the most people and making the most money off the most friends, what a Friend he had in Jesus!<br />
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Art really began to disappear as an object-form in the 1950's. <a href="http://www.regent.edu/acad/schcom/rojc/mdic/mcluhan.html">Mass media </a>exploded into the living-space people once reserved for treasured objects of useless beauty. The children of the war were giddy with the adventure and glamour of a world that appeared to have acheived a balance between freedom and social structure. But then the emergence of war-as-art happened when Vietnam became a globally televised visual witness of all the human destruction that had been partially obscured during previous wars, when artists and photographers who went to the front took weeks or at least days to get their images in some editted form back to the news-hungry public. If WWII announced that there are no more boundaries between that which belongs to the private workplace and that which is public market, then Vietnam announced that there are no more boundaries between the atrocities of the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL7N-aCtlLo">soldier's battlefield and the personal</a>, individual thoughts of the civilian in his livingroom on a calm summer evening.<br />
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Once again, an eruption. People stopped lining up for haircuts and the latest style in cars and stopped going to churches. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYKY2lpxMg8">They piled into vans</a>, traded their televisions for macrame'd hemp and dropped the orderly Sunday services in favor of hippie Jesus gatherings with the national flags sewn to the seats of their pants.<br />
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Buddhist monks from Vietnam began burning themselves alive in public places. Black Americans began burning down their own neighborhoods. Priests and preachers gathered with students and parents at the gates of air-force bases like Westover and tried to stop, literally stop, the B-52 bombers from taking off. Hairy Indian gurus handed out beads while Harvard professors handed out LSD (Remember Timothy Leary? LSD was assigned as homework in his classes!) while David Berg and an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5egGzQWGvDU">assortment of wandering Jesus-freaks mixed Christian folk music with hippie love</a>. Postmodernism announced itself even before it had a name.<br />
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The David Berg group used comic books to spread the gospel among all the free-loving hippies. Jesus, the first postmodernist in many ways (for so much of his teachings support situational ethics, compared to the left-brain list of the Ten Commandments) was available to David Berg to be reduced to a few principles that Berg could then re-arrange as the whims and impulses of the times suggested.<br />
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In those days, 15-yr-old girls in Tennessee married and raised families before they were twenty, this was what conventional Christian families did. Young men enlisted, often before they were eighteen, and were sent into battle, and if they didn't enlist they were drafted. They became hardened soldiers in the war before they were old enough to vote. Twelve-year-olds smoked cigarettes and fourteen-year olds went to work at their first jobs after school, and quit school to work full time as soon as they were sixteen. <br />
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Dave Berg saw the success of the free-love Beatles' gurus and saw no problem interlacing that openly celebrated <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IaPtrmGCHA&feature=related">Yellow Submarine culture </a>with his comic-book street Christians. Better-grounded followers of his, like David McKay, did see the problems, but most people, frankly, did not care what Berg was doing. Not when the nation's elite were sending their children to Timothy Leary's acid-fests and the rest of the parents were sending their children to war in Vietnam. Somewhere in the fog of the seventies and eighties these things began to sort themselves out. The secular culture began to raise the age of adulthood and limit the permitted chemical adventures of students while the religious culture applied solid marketing concept to reigning in the free-love hippies.<br />
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Out in the quieter towns of Australia, David McKay was a working journalist with a small family and group of young friends all associating with Berg's anti-establishment Christianity. He and his loved ones enjoyed the spiritual freedom of challenging materialistic Christians to the true teachings of Jesus. Who knew what Berg and the rest of that group were up to, outside of McKay's little corner of Australia? But it was not long in the mid seventies before David McKay saw the sexual escapades of Berg's group as a threat to the moral foundations of his own set of family and friends as well as a violation of the most basic Christian teachings. McKay soon led his following into a much more conventional, yet still communally challenging, expression of the teachings of Jesus.<br />
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Kevin Mckay was a very young boy when those things happened. He cut his teeth as an artist working on illustrations for his father's pamphlets and revised, cleaned up versions of the old COG comics. McKay wanted to continue to appeal to the lost youth in the streets while making sure the message was truly of Jesus's Christian moral compass. McKay's group began calling itself the Jesus Christians some time later, in the 1990's, and Kevin was growing into a leader under his father's guidance. The small group traveled, established mission outposts, and generally lived just like the wandering Christian clans of the first centuries after Jesus walked the Earth.<br />
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More premodern than postmodern, certainly? Didn't I say that Jesus was postmodern? Yes. In the old system, including the Modern (if mid-twentieth century secular culture was "modernism") rules were clear, hard-line, written out in lists with chapters and sub-chapters. Just like in the Old Testament: a list of ten "most important" but then whole books of detailed instructions on every facet of life. The Israelites were able to structure their isolated shepherd tribal life with that. Every so often they would bump into a pagan tribe with a smaller set of rules or no rules at all, and they would go off the rails comletely. Mighty Jehovah would have to spit fireballs and send plagues to get them back on course.<br />
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Then Jesus came along and said the entire Old Law, the whole big set of it, could be contained in a few simple words: "Love thy neighbor as thyself".... having those few words as a guideline could allow the Christian to react according to each situation as God's law demanded, without having to memorize all those details of God's law.... postmodernism? No wonder they crucified Him, for who would pay a temple priest for an elaborate cleansing ritual if all it takes is a simple application of Jesus's Law of Love to know how to behave?<br />
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Something happened, though. In those heady years of setting out on the Jesus-Christian road, Kevin saw a future for himself while his father David moved from need to need, book to book, fulfilling his own role as an author and a facilitator of sorts, of a community of dedicated Christians.<br />
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Kevin and David did not see everything through the same eyes. Some of the other Jesus Christians seemed to assume Kevin had a right to lead, whether Kevin felt that way or not. David still ran with the communal principles that were a legacy of the anarchic hippie days but Kevin grew up in the more tightly-ruled, more corporate Yuppie years and so a split was almost inevitable. When Kevin took his artwork and left in the late 1990's, a few of those followers who will always follow, followed him.<br />
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David McKay continued on with the remaining Jesus Christians. They'd had contact with all kinds of established denominations and interpretations of Christian teachings and they continued to engage in controversial applications of those teachings in practical witness. The whippings or floggings, seem to be the most controversial or unusual applications, although it is hard to avoid saying that the movement into altruistic living-donor medical transplants was not even more controversial.<br />
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Yet: there remain boundaries that the postmodernists refuse to recognize. In setting up several mock-trials which resulted in real floggings, the Jesus Christians were careful to keep the floggings within the realm of temporary, non-injurious pain, and careful to include only seasoned volunteers in the practice. The contrast between their practice and the extremely cruel, disfiguring and fatal tortures that they protested is obvious. In one case, the protest was of a brutal street-gang beating of a man who was kicked viciously in the head while already losing consciousness on the ground, in another case the protest was of the horrifically violent torture of Falun Gong practicioners by the Chinese government, and in the third case, most heart-touchiing in its way, the Jesus Christians found that one of their associates was going to be horribly whipped by the Kenyan government over some petty theft that the Jesus-Christians themselves had reported without realizing the cost.<br />
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They appealed to the government which refused to lift the punishment. Finally they asked the government to let them take the case into their own community so that they could carry out the whipping themselves. The government agreed to allow that. This set an incredibly good precedent for all people in that region to be able to avoid horribly unjust and violent punishments! The Jesus-Christians at the Kenyan mission then took it a step further: when the thief showed up to accept his punishment, they announced that because Jesus took our sins upon Himself, one of them would step into the thief's place and take the whipping while he looked on.<br />
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The thief, a life-time alcoholic who never had succeeded in straightening out, could not believe that they would do this. He refused to allow it and insisted on taking his own punishment. It was carried out, and he came out of that whipping cleansed, truly cleansed, because the outpouring of love from those Jesus-Christians gave him the strength he needed to drop his alcohol and petty-theft habits.<br />
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And yet, the postmodernists of the art world, that would have you believe Christians are responsible for all the woes of the world (check: how many of the oil tycoons and war-machine ceo's,politicians and bankers, are practicing Christians of any sort?) the ones who post photos of torture victims in galleries and command thousands of arts-grant dollars for their efforts, these are the people who want to hunt down the Jesus-Christians and punish Dave McKay to his last dying breathe....<br />
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I was accused of being a little too harsh in saying, in my video, that Kevin McKay is actually planning to kill his own father by encouraging the stalker-mob that includes his friends to hunt the man down. Really, I have no idea what Kevin McKay is actually planning inside his own head. I thought I might even backpedal a little, and soften my statement in this article, but I can't do it.<br />
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Kevin has repeatedly posted admiration, friendship, and support for a bizarre character known mainly as "Verity Evangelene" who posts obscene predatory and disgusting death-oriented.... material..aimed at his father. Kevin has been part of that, repeatedly supporting that in the forum that has no other purpose except to attack Kevin's parents and every aspect of their lives. David McKay recently ventured into that forum in a futile effort to engage his son in a dialogue and Kevin left after insulting his father. Verity-Evangelene posted page after page of the most vile and obscene hatred imaginable. I noticed as I followed the struggle over the past few weeks that the sexual content that was once thinly veiled became open and predominant. This character, who has given a fairly strong impression of being a real woman named Susan Smith Summers who lives in the Vancouver area, has been covering her posts with obscene flirtation, has claimed sexual things about others and mostly has painted a picture of a vulgar and obscene affair between herself and David Mckay, even quite often throwing humiliating insults to Cherry McKay into the mix. What kind of son associates with people who do that to his parents? <br />
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I could not see any sense to this, other than the indulgence of obscene postmodern evil, but yesterday the reason for the filth was unveiled. "Verity Evangelene" has invented a jealous-husband story. Her old story was that she was widowed and bereft of a child because of a fatal car accident, and she ran that story for miles of pity-posts because in his exasperation, Dave McKay made the mistake of posting a common-sense question: since no one knows who Susan Smith Summers really is, how can anyone know if her sad story is true? Couldn't she at least send him a copy of a news article about the accident? Surely a simple article like that would not violate anyone's privacy and it would put to rest all the suspicion Verity Evangelene creates with her lies. Now, most people would never even bother to address a character like Verity Evangelene on the internet, a character that might not even be a real person but might be anyone, masquerading. But Dave McKay still has both feet on the pre-digital earth and he refused to give up on the possibility there might be a sensible human being behind that mask.<br />
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Verity Evangelene has bragged of paying the Rick Ross stalker Brian Birmingham for his research, research that according to Dave McKay and even some of Birmingham's own postings, has included collecting video clips of the McKay's vehicles, a clip of Mrs Mckay using a cane that Birmingham somehow thinks is "obviously unnecessary" from seeing the clip, and other clearly threatening surveillance material. Birmingham repeatedly posts lyrics from the song "psycho killer" and fantasizes about Mckay's death. Along with him, Verity Evangelene does the same, adding the pornographic assaults, lately including about a dozen obscene cartoons and calling herself "cultbuster graphics." And now these two apparently think that by creating an angry-husband character, whatever harm befalls the McKays at the mob's hands will be picked up by the media as something honorable (only in such twisted minds). Verity Evangelene explains this supposed husband's anger this way: He is supposedly enraged that David McKay had the temerity to question whether the story of a family tragedy was true or not, and furthermore, this angry husband is angry not only on the behalf of his beloved wife Verity's virginal honor, but also because he was supposedly a friend of the late first husband. <br />
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And Verity suggests he might become violent in her behalf. Even though any sane person has to suspect these people are doing nothing but living out their psychotic fantasies, one does not have to look far to see the ease with which they may slip from fantasy to reality. <br />
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While Kevin Mckay remains off to the side with not one word of support or defense for his innocent parents. No, on second thought, I cannot see any reason to doubt the accuracy of my original statement that Kevin Mckay is indeed trying to turn his own life into a horrible exercise in postmodern patricide.<br />
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I hope that at some point he steps forward to put an end to that hate-forum and makes me eat crow, but I am not looking up any recipes just yet.</div>
Freedom Is Sacredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078570822506043335noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944981447700375710.post-34638635743187949322011-01-08T20:52:00.000-08:002013-09-27T10:46:12.665-07:00Rick Ross Institute Hate Brigade: The Crofts In Australia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>(Please note: the "rickross.com" URL for many of these links is
obsolete. The same info can now be found at its new address, the
"culteducation.com" forum)</i><br />
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Below is a statement pasted from the Jesus Christians' site that was also posted in the Croft family's Hate Site at xjcs.org. (references to http://xjcs.org replace the word "here" that referred to the xjcs site in the original posting by David McKay and I have also included the full names for accuracy.) Note: the Croft hate site made an unauthorized and deliberately misleading use of Dave Mckay's name in its title. When I questioned McKay about that, he cited the futility of fighting endless incidents of name-theft as his reason for ignoring it. I also have been subjected to numerous incidents of name-theft by this very same lynch-mob, and I can attest to the discouraging difficulty of fighting such people.<br />
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For almost three years this site [http://xjcs.org]called itself: "Dave McKay's Jesus-Christians: Free discussion between members and ex-members, supporters and observers." It advertised itself as a place where Jesus Christians (including myself) would be welcomed for rational dialogue with others on [xjcs.org]. We Jesus Christians stayed almost entirely away from [xjcs.org], not being convinced that the "welcome" sign really meant what it said.<br />
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However, for two weeks in January, 2011, four of us (Joe, myself, and two anonymous "JCs") came over here. I came for 8 days; Joe (posting as Brad) for four days; and Charlie for five. Only Falling Leaves was here [xjcs.org] for the full two weeks and a bit.<br />
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In the final week, when all four of us were posting for at least four days, there were about 1,000 posts made here [xjcs.org] on 40 different threads, about half by ourselves and half by those who had been waiting to "welcome" us, primarily Sisi (Verity Evangelene aka Susan Smith Summers), Brian Birmingham (Bryan Apollo), and Malcolm Wrest (Methodical Wesley). The reception was anything but friendly or rational. Virtually all ex-Jesus Christians went silent, with Kevin McKay announcing that he was bowing out of [xjcs.org] before I even arrived (because he THOUGHT Falling Leaves was me). <br />
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Backing up a bit, two months earlier, in early November, 2010, the Jesus Christians as an organisation had "disbanded". I announced that the community had not had a falling out, but just that we had "graduated" to a less organisational body, with greater emphasis on spiritual unity. There were efforts by posters on both of the hate sites (this one and the Rick Ross site) to woo the recently departed into their ranks, so that they could give them some of the tender love that they presumably had been missing for so many years as Jesus Christians.<br />
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While we had been led to believe that the Rick Ross forum, dominated almost entirely by Malcolm Wrest and Brian Birmingham (as Zeuszor, Oerlikon, Apollo, and possibly Stoic) was NOT going to be a nice place to go, even posters on the RR site assured any nomadic JC "graduates" that they would be more welcome over here[xjcs.org]. Brian Birmingham had taken to spelling his name Bryan over here, and sending his posts via a proxy server in Scotland, since he had been banned from here previously. However, he and Sisi pretty much became the sole voice of the "friendly" place for JC graduates to come for sympathy and understanding.<br />
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Any readers who would like to observe what took place during those eventful days can click on the links below. But, before you click on the first one, let me explain something about "Recently Deported". Shortly after Falling Leaves arrived over here[xjcs.org], Joe tried to sign up as "Recently Departed". The administrator (Nick Croft) approved his application and said that his password had been encrypted in the data base. However, Nick Croft then broke into the data base, stole the password, changed it, and began posting as though HE was the anonymous JC graduate who had signed up to be on the site. Nick Croft later admitted to doing this, saying that he believed that Falling Leaves (who was the only JC posting at that time) was me, and he wanted to see if I would complain about what he was doing to Joe, i.e. to work out if Joe and I were in communication with one another. (There had a lot of debate over just how much unity there was between myself and other Jesus Christians, with most people here saying that I had been dumped by angry JCs.)<br />
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While pretending to be a recently departed JC, Nick Croft wrote personal messages to people... to Brian Birmingham in particular. Brian Birmingham posted one of the messages, in which Nick Croft pretended to have inside information on paedophile activity within the Jesus Christians. Nick knew that Brian has serious mental problems and that he has an obsession with proving that we are into child abuse; so he was deliberately filling this sick man's head with the worst possible gossip/slander, something that we have maintained has been happening since before this forum began.<br />
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When Nick Croft was exposed and challenged to apologise for his action, he decided to cover it instead, by changing the name on all of "Recently Departed"s posts to "Recently Deported", probably assuming that, if he changed the name, it did not constitute identity theft, even though he had to steal Joe's password in order to do it. This is certainly unethical if not illegal.<br />
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NICK'S IMPERSONATION<br />
Okay, so here's one of the links, to a thread which starts with a post by "Recently Deported". You will see that Nick does such a good job of impersonating a JC graduate (as he has done in other trolling adventures) that even Brian (Bryan) was sucked in, and assumed that he was me. Note too, that every single person who responds to "Recently Deported" refers to him as "Recently Departed", since that was the original name of the account, before Nick Croft further fiddled with it.<br />
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http://jcs.xjcs.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&am...mp;sd=a&start=70<br />
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<b>MY PLEA FOR HELP</b><br />
I had, on the JC forum, asked for genuine ex-members on this site to challenge things being said by Brian Birmingham, who was trying to say that the JCs were more or less a Christian paedophile ring. To their credit, Glenn and Anita (Blackhat) stood up to this a bit, even though they are not former Jesus Christians. But even this little bit of defense pretty well went silent over the next few days:<br />
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http://jcs.xjcs.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=530&start=80<br />
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<b>MY ARRIVAL ON THE SCENE</b><br />
Because of the problems Joe had encountered when he had tried to register under a username, he suggested that I use his real name to register myself. Together we had assumed, from worries expressed by people here over Joe's state of health, that even Nick Croft would be pleased to have him here where they could love bomb him through what they asssumed must be a very difficult time for him personally. (Surprisingly, even when Joe did come here and reveal who he was, no one thought to enquire about his health until after we had gone! Apparently other things were more important.) Although the first post below says "Joe", it's really me. Once I got on, I requested a name change to Dave, which Nick did temporarily and then changed it back (possibly hoping to confuse people further). Nevertheless, he let me have a new account (this one) as Dave McKay. Here is my introductory thread, to give an idea of the kind of reception I received. (Franky [Hello] started out with a warm welcome, which later turned to accusations of JCs raping, sodomising, and giving oral sex to children! And she says she won't accept any explanations or denials for any of it, because she knows what she knows! With friends like that, who needs enemies?)<br />
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http://jcs.xjcs.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=540<br />
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<b>CALLS FOR CENSORSHIP</b><br />
Almost immediately there were calls for JC graduates and/or myself to be banned. The administrator, of course, could see that this would be an admission of absolute failure in what this whole forum ostensibly stood for, i.e. dialogue. So then the hue and cry arose against anyone being allowed to produce articles written by me in relation to accusations being made against me. In true Rick Ross style, only quotes used to condemn me were favoured by these people. Anything presented in the full context of what had been said was considered "propaganda" and, as such, should not be allowed in a forum for 'free discussion'. These threads deal with that:<br />
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http://jcs.xjcs.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=551<br />
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http://jcs.xjcs.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=568<br />
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<b>FINDING A WAY FORWARD</b><br />
Falling Leaves, in particular, tried to start a number of threads that would steer people toward more positive topics, with more hope of moving forward. They included one where people would share their favorite Bible verses (which almost immediately became a disgusting display of brutal "sword" fighting in an effort to use the Bible to club myself and the graduates to death).<br />
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http://jcs.xjcs.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=544<br />
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A thread aimed at getting people to make compliments (without turning them into veiled insults) had slightly more success, but it, too, was short-lived:<br />
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http://jcs.xjcs.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=554<br />
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A thread aimed at sharing ideas on how to get along with one another attracted over 100 posts, but it too, was a spectacular flop in the end.<br />
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http://jcs.xjcs.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=541<br />
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<b>MALCOM'S WRITING STYLE</b><br />
There was a somewhat comical thread, where Sisi instructed me to follow Malcolm's sterling example of love and patience. So I took a series of one-liners that Malcolm had, in the previous few days, addressed to myself or anyone supporting me, and I inserted Sisi's name in the sentences instead, so that it sounded like Malcolm was saying these things to her. After several lines of this, I finished by saying that I just did not feel Malcolm's style of writing was right for me. She totally missed it and went ballistic over me using sentences that had (unknowingly to her, apparently) come right from Malcolm's own epistles, thus illustrating how totally immune to the stench regular posters become here... UNLESS a criticism is made of themselves.<br />
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http://jcs.xjcs.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=568<br />
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<b>TRICKY NICKY</b><br />
Charlie started a thread to reveal what Nick Croft had been doing to destroy the credibility of the entire forum, through stealing Joe's password as Recently Departed and through spreading malicious (and totally untrue) gossip in his disguise as an ex-JC. It probably set something of a record, by attracting 160 posts in three and a half days, most of them defending Nick's right to do whatever he likes with anyone's identities here. At that time, Nick Croft's avatar was Michaelangelo's famous picture of God, and it certainly did appear that Nick was being given god-like powers to break any rules he liked. This is a disturbing illustration of the classic description of a cult leader... totally unaccountable, and surrounded by yes-men.<br />
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http://jcs.xjcs.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=555<br />
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<b>PAEDOPHILIA</b><br />
That's about when Brian Birmingham's paedophile claims suddenly became fair game over here (even though there had been some outrage at his transparent efforts to play vigilante in matters that were grossly exaggerated earlier). Each time the story was told, it grew by about ten percent, until Franky was falsely detailing the specific actions that were happening and the numbers of people that they were happening to. And she said that if anyone offered evidence contrary to what she was saying, she would need to cite it personally before she would change her story. In the entire thread, no one thought to mention that ( a ) X is someone who totally volunteered feelings of guilt about something that had happened years before he joined the JCs, when he was a teenager (briefly touching a child inappropriately while she was sleeping and briefly touching her sister while playing with her a few days later); (b) he had reported the matter to the girls' mother, who, while upset, did not feel it necessary to inform authorities further; yet (c) X also reported it to the police himself, who, after hearing the exact details said that it did not need any further action. Yet, when we left this board, there was nothing short of hysteria being expressed on this board as they made plans to rid the world of this person.<br />
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http://jcs.xjcs.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=577<br />
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<b>MORE ON THE 'DISBANDING' of the JCs<br />
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There was a rather ridiculous effort by many of the posters here to argue that Charlie, Brad (Joe), and Falling Leaves were either me or a woman from Texas who has never been a JC, so much so that on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2010, the four of us emailed and chatted with one another over the Internet and decided to be quite explicit about exactly what has been happening with the Jesus Christians, although I cannot see that this will be much more explicit than it has been from the start. Perhaps when I explain some of our motivation, however, that will fill in the dots a bit better.<br />
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We had been concerned that Brian Birmingham in particular, has been obsessed for years with 'taking out' myself and the Jesus Christians by 'whatever means possible'. With help from a Quaker private investigator from Australia (David Lowe), Brian produced a dossier consisting of several hundred pages of lies and other unnecessary personal information about everyone associated with the Jesus Christians (except, of course, himself and those who helped him in preparing it). He boasted that these lies had been sent to law enforcement personnel, the media, church leaders, Immigration authorities, hospitals, welfare agencies, and others, in an attempt to defame me in particular, around the world. He knew that if he got enough people running into each other investigating the same bizarre claims, they would all start thinking that there must be some truth in it.<br />
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Anyone who showed some interest in knowing more about ourselves (Jesus Christians) would simply google Jesus Christians and/or my name, and Brian, with help from others, had been able to perfect a system that would lead these googlers to his contributions on the two hate sites. He boasted that he had been successful in steering numerous people away from us by his lies.<br />
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One of our options was legal action, but it turned out to be far too costly. So we decided to do exactly what Brian Birmingham had been hopefully prophesying for so many years: We would "implode", just disappear. Cease to be Jesus Christians.<br />
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I had retired almost two years earlier, so it would not matter if they continued to attack me, so long as the others could branch out, take on new names, create their own web sites, produce their own material (as well as using whatever material from me that they wanted, on the understanding that they were just pushing the message and not the guy who wrote it). It was as easy as that. We "disbanded", or, as I prefer to call it, we "graduated".<br />
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The naysayers, frustrated that they could not locate the former JCs, and angered that even when JC graduates turned up on their forums, they had no answers for the powerful arguments raised, decided to just ridicule me as a complete failure. Amazing, isn't it? After all these years of saying that it is all about me and my big ego, when the group moves on and Cherry and I settle into a quiet life as grey nomads, they go more berserk than ever! They laugh, ridicule, hurl abuse and just generally turn purple with rage at me because they cannot touch the graduates any more. <br />
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But here is the ironic thing. While they want me to believe that my "empire" is in ruins, it is really their empire that is in ruins. (This is true for the Rick Ross site as well, explained in the next paragraph.) What Cherry and I have sought so hard to build, first with our natural family and then through our influence on various members of the Jesus Christians, were people who are prepared to follow Jesus wherever he leads, with or without us. I believe they are doing that now more than ever. My life is a resounding success. Cherry's life is a resounding success.<br />
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But the creators of this forum set out to destroy the Jesus Christians, and now that they have achieved what it was that they set out to do, there seems to be more anger than ever. This site could change its title to something about Dave McKay (minus the JCs), at least while I'm still alive. But without the JCs, this forum (and Brian's other one as well) is dead, useless, a lot of energy with no direction in which to channel it. Because the people here built their lives on REACTING to something, when the real "actors" (the JCs) left the stage, there was nothing left for them to do except maybe go back to fighting like children with each other.<br />
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I may return to paste this or a similar message here from time to time (just to remind people that there IS a record of what I really teach and what the JCs really did over at this link:<br />
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http://jesuschristians.com/<br />
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Take your time here. Don't just skim through. Don't settle for just one negative posting about myself or the Jesus Christians. Read widely. Read claims about how we are kidnappers, how we are terrorists, about how we are killers for Christ, about how we are a paedophile ring, about how we are criminals and frauds. And take time to digest the claims about me stealing a towel, or wiggling my bottom at someone, or correcting people when they spell "a lot" as one word, about me discussing a dilemma I created when I discovered that we had only enough money for drinks for half of the people invited to a party, about one of our members taking out an AVO against someone who almost killed him, about us donating kidneys to people dying from endstage renal failure, and about some of our members having smelly feet. Get the whole picture of what is happening here. Eventually, you will start to get the idea that someone is trying just a little too hard to create a case where there is none. Where are the arrests? Where are the charges laid? Where are the convictions? And if the big libelous claims are not libel, then why do they waste time trying to create a storm over the slightest little thing? BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE A CASE AT ALL, that's why.<br />
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In fact, do like us and dedicate a whole week to reading (and even posting, if you like) on this forum for ten or twelve hours a day before you come and see what we really teach. I think that after a really good stiff dose of what this site has to offer, you will find that what we say is incredibly refreshing.<br />
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Dave & Cherry McKay<br />
http://jesuschristians.com/</i></blockquote>
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I am printing this here because it pretty much sums up the vicious mob's activity as it happened. I thought Dave McKay was a little too interested in "making peace" and he has never respected my position as an unwilling participant, a journalist dragged out of retirement by the same lynch-mob that was attacking his family. Dave McKay is an old-fashioned guy in a lot of ways and he occasionally played into his enemies' hands because he is of a generation that has been able to use sarcasm with wild abandon, being universally understood, but things are different online. Sometimes his sarcasm, witty as it was, backfired in the hands of determined assasins (as in, character-assasination). But I have to hand it to him, that last round of this dangerous game was played with great finesse: he caught Nick Croft out flagrantly exploiting Brian Birmingham's dangerous mental illness in order to spread those vicious false pedophile stories.<br />
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I wonder if some of the same laws that have been used to prosecute irresponsible therapists for taking advantage of their clients in sexual affairs may also be used to prosecute people like Nick Croft and Rick Alan Ross for seeking out and exploiting easily-deluded Asperger's sufferers?</div>
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Thank you everyone who is reading this blog. We have had a great start, considering we only date back to October! I've seen visitors coming in from a dozen countries and so I must say gracias, merci beaucoup, graci, danke schen, and much, much more! <br />
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I hope to build and expand this bog into a real voice in the cause of free speech, especially freedom of religion. This is not the same thing as a discrimination-based or victim-based cause. This is a cause that recognizes liberty and the right to choose to associate freely with those who share our own peculiar beliefs. I do not recognize any right to interfere with others who believe differently. I believe there are plenty of laws that can be brought to bear against those who commit crimes against others based on disagreement with their religious or philosophical beliefs. Crimes of stalking, harassing, assaulting, libeling, slandering, and interference with employment, business, social relationships or benefit entitlements all can be prosecuted without claiming any special religious or other privilege as long as we all agree on the basic human right of freedom of speech, and even freedom of thought and worship.<br />
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My plan for this blog through 2011 is to continue tracing the development of these active vigilante/stalker groups. I would like to invite others who share this concern to contribute directly to this blog as writers. Please contact me if you are interested. You will appear as a team-member when you contribute something, and I would like to set up several "beats" or directions of coverage so that we can efficiently develop a strong resource for free people everywhere.<br />
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The budget I have set up is loosely based on $250 a month, which is more than I can afford to invest, and so I placed the subscription and donation system in the sidebar for that purpose. The money will pay for a solid closed forum in which writers can share research and it will also start a seed fund for legal support for writers who are facing retaliation, frivolous lawsuit threats, etc.<br />
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Please consider the value of joining together in one blog. We can achieve more in terms of reaching a solid audience by combining our efforts. Of course, writers who already have established blogs can link to them and thus can use this blog to support more interested traffic to their own. Networking in this manner is very powerful. <br />
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The forum subscription is set at $5.95 a month. I will open a forum as soon as ten are signed up. The division of that fund is as follows: $.95 of the $5.95 covers expenses. $5.00 goes to the $2,500 annual budget <i>as a loan</i>. In December, everyone will be contacted and asked if they want their loan returned or if they want to leave it in the fund towards the 2012 budget.<br />
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Let's make 2011 the Year of the Brave and the Free!</div>
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Freedom Is Sacredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078570822506043335noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944981447700375710.post-41532733787744133152010-12-22T21:31:00.000-08:002010-12-22T21:33:54.206-08:00Can "Psychotherapist" Neil Brick Defend Himself?<i>This article is reprinted with permission from the author, Doug Mesner. The original is here: <a href="http://www.process.org/discept/2010/11/07/in-defense-of-neil-brick-psychotherapist/">http://www.process.org</a></i><br />
<b><font size=4>In Defense of Neil Brick, Psychotherapist<br />
</font></b> <br />
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The summons was packed into the mailbox of a previous address — two residencies ago, in fact — on a Wednesday afternoon. The hearing was to be on Monday. It was only happenstance that I found out that the organizer of S.M.A.R.T. (Stop Mind-control And Ritual-abuse Today), Neil Brick, was trying to sue me at all.<br />
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As the paperwork, aside from being grossly improperly served, was also dated a couple of weeks previous to its delivery, this seemed like a rather underhanded attempt to avoid my replying to the suit. When I eventually had the opportunity to read over the summons, I could see why this may have been the tactic.<br />
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The case was weak. In fact, it was non-existent.<br />
<br />
“Defamation” was the claim, and many quotes of mine were pulled from internet sources in an attempt to support it. Even quotes that are not mine at all were included in the summons, though Brick and his lawyer apparently felt confident enough in their origin to attribute them to me. Among these quotes are comments that are no longer online at all! As for the quotes that were written by me… I stand by them, they are founded in fact, and they certainly don’t constitute defamation.<br />
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Ironically, this all stemmed from a report I wrote about one of Brick’s conferences where I heard him deliver a speech in which he encouraged vigorous debate with skeptics against his position. It was his own failure to successfully do just that which caused him to seek legal remediation — an injunction to prevent my writing my writing about him or his organization — instead.<br />
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Here’s how it went:<br />
Having entered the hotel slightly after the opening speaker of S.M.A.R.T.’s twelfth annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations, and Mind-Control conference began, I was told by a large woman sitting behind the registration table that I would have to wait until I could be properly registered before entering. I took a seat just outside the open door of the conference room where I could observe the full proceedings within. Brick stood at the podium. As I described him later in my subsequent “defamatory” report, he is a “small man in his 50s with a greasy dark curly comb-over, large thick glasses, and a voice that sounds exacly like Elmer Fudd (without the impediment of pronouncing his Rs as Ws).”<br />
<br />
He was delivering the opening remarks. He was wearing a button-up shirt at least two sizes too large for his diminutive frame. (This physical description is important when you consider his claim to have been a type of super-soldier for Black Ops military.) Reading directly from his notes in a mechanical word-by-word monotone, without once looking up, he emotionlessly railed against skeptics who have sought to discredit ritual abuse as well as the validity of “recovered memories”.<br />
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“There is overwhelming scientific evidence that recovered memory exists as a phenomenon”, he asserted. He began to quote at length from sources that agree with this position.<br />
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A belief in the historical accuracy of recovered memories, as I had already discerned from their website, is vital to S.M.A.R.T.’s belief in a conspiracy of satanic cults and government mind-control. The theory espoused by recovered memory proponents (and well known in popular culture), is that traumatic memories of abuse may be repressed – relegated to some dark corner of the mind – where they unfailingly metastasize into some type of chronic negative emotions, compulsions, confusion, even physical ailments. Preserved in high-definition, and unerring detail, these oppressive unconscious memories must be drawn out, retrieved, relived, confronted, and reconciled within the conscious mind, before the victim can lead a happy and productive life.<br />
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Almost all of the self-proclaimed victims of Satanic Ritual Abuse have recovered their memories of victimization while undergoing some type of psychotherapy. For the most part, these memories are the only type of “evidence” they attempt to present in support of the claim that such victimization ever occurred.<br />
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The process of digging for repressed traumatic memories through hypnosis or other techniques is most often employed in treatment of the diagnosis of Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), now re-labeled as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). Due to their almost total reliance upon recovered memory evidence, purveyors of satanic cult stories are often also defenders of the controversial multiple personality diagnosis, a condition that itself is dismissed by some psychiatrists and psychologists as a “behavioral artifact… generated by suggestion in vulnerable people.” (See below: Concerned Psychiatrists’ and Psychologists’ letter to the APA’s DSM-V Task Force.)<br />
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Critics of Recovered Memory Therapy point out that the act of digging for memories assumed to be repressed can have a subtly coercive effect on clients who – knowing what they are supposed to be “remembering” – are at least as prone to confabulating false memories as they are to recalling anything with historical accuracy. Given that such critics of recovered memory therapy often point directly to highly improbable claims of satanic cult abuse as evidence of false memories, it was no surprise that Neil Brick breezily dismissed skeptics as conspirators: “There is [...] a lot of evidence that those attacking the theory of recovered memory may have ulterior motives. For example, they may have been accused of child abuse crimes or may have been connected to mind control research in the past.”<br />
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Using “child abuse” interchangeably with “ritual abuse”, Brick attempted to further bolster a position that those who doubt the existence of an international brain-washing coven simply despise tykes: “The media turned on child abuse survivors in the early and mid 1990′s and began to in essence support those that has [sic] perpetrated crimes against children, believing unfounded stories about so called ‘miscarriages of justice.’ Due to the extreme nature of ritual abuse crimes and the psychological need for the public denial of these crimes, it became an easy sell to spin these crimes against children for the public to believe the misstatements about falsely accused perpetrators. After ritual abuse was discredited, then other child abuse crimes could be more easily discredited.”<br />
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There you have it. You’re either with Neil Brick, or you’re with the Satanists. You either believe every outrageous claim of demonic doings, or you’re part of the cover-up. At best, you’re simply in “denial”.<br />
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Suddenly, the woman at the registration table, who had also been watching Neil Brick through the open door, began to lightly sob. She grabbed a nearby tissue, dried her eyes, and blew her nose.<br />
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I stared uncomfortably down at the program in my hands. I came looking for the reasons, the so-called evidence that compels this continued belief in satanic cult crimes… of mind control… to see the self-proclaimed byproducts of the brutal puppet masters said to control the highest reaches of the world governments with an inhuman disdain for life and liberty. Instead – with scheduled lectures entitled “Dissociation and Time Management” and “The DID RA [Ritual Abuse] Family: An Attachment Perspective on a Forensic Relationship” – this conference appeared to be primarily adapted toward defending the DID diagnosis.<br />
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According to his biographical synopsis on the program, Neil Brick describes himself as a “survivor of alleged Masonic Ritual Abuse and MK-ULTRA [the CIA's covert mind-control and chemical interrogation project of 1950s - 60s]“. The disclaimer of the word “alleged” in his own biographical description is perplexing…<br />
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I mulled over this as Brick eventually concluded his labored lecture. What did it mean?<br />
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Brick came out to the registration table during the break following his presentation gripping a briefcase. He scrutinized me momentarily.<br />
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I checked out. Given the nod, my attendance was then officially approved.<br />
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I stationed myself anonymously in the second to last occupied row at the far left side of the room.<br />
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Never, it occurred to me, have I heard anybody describe oneself as an “alleged victim of a mugging”, nor would I expect one to tell me, “I was allegedly harassed by a drunkard last night”. Considering this, I wondered if perhaps Neil Brick himself is uncertain as to whether or not he was a victim of the CIA or Masonic abuse. In fact, despite a veneer of confident assurance that the satanic conspiracy is an unquestionable item of fact, the conference was rife with inconsistency and an undercurrent of doubt…<br />
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Anyway, it was the inconsistent, and wildly incredible, content of the conference that I focused on in my writing. And this was no mere point-and-laugh tactic for the amusement of those who cultivate an air of superiority with smug disbelief toward any outside notion. The conference wasn’t merely absurd, I saw it as harmful and exploitative to the attendees — many of whom seemed to imagine it as therapeutic — as well as some of the speakers… some of whom are unfortunately licensed therapists.<br />
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It is natural to laugh at absurdity. It would have been difficult to write about the sales booth within the conference room hawking electromagnetic transmission blocking hats without sounding humorous. But I was outright horrified when a 78 year-old woman, who referred to herself as Julaine, sat before the attendees — unable to stand for any extended time — to explain that she had suffered some type of negative diabetic reaction earlier that day, and that her rheumatoid arthritis was causing her no small amount of discomfort. She attributed both of these conditions to a conspiracy of evil. Rheumatoid arthritis and Satanic Ritual Abuse, Julaine posited, are “almost partners”.<br />
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Clearly, this woman needed real medical attention. To allow her to delude herself — or worse, actively feed her the delusion — that her ill health is a side-effect, and evidence of, satanic conspiracy is beyond irresponsible. Worse, these delusions have apparently encouraged the aged and infirm Julaine to sever ties with the family members who may have been most willing to help her now… You see, Julaine’s family, she believes, is a multi-generational satanic cult. “My sister thinks I’m bi-polar”, she explained. This, of course, is seen as mere denial. “She is lost”.<br />
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That Julaine is highly impressionable seemed apparent at the conference, but it was after the conference that this became quite clear.<br />
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I was perusing the website of another speaker, deJoly LaBrier, when I came across the transcripts of a lecture she had given at a much earlier S.M.A.R.T. gathering. In it, she told a familiar tale: “[My father] would draw a dot on the wall, and [my siblings and I] would stand at attention with our nose on the dot on the wall, until he told us that we could leave.”<br />
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I clearly remembered hearing the story at the conference I had attended, for it struck me as odd… Rotten though this nose-to-the-wall experience would be for any child, I couldn’t help but feel such punishments would be quite over-shadowed by the compulsory initiation into sadistic cult rituals and child prostitution that LaBrier claimed had also taken place… So much so that being made to stand in a fixed position felt rather unworthy of mention.<br />
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But it wasn’t LaBrier who told this tale at the 2009 conference. It was Julaine.<br />
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Had it occurred to Neil Brick (who is a licensed and practicing “Mental Health Counselor” in Massachusetts), or any other attending therapist, that Julaine may not in fact have been victim to “Moriah, Illuminati… whatever you want to call it” (as she referred to “Them” in her lecture), but rather an incredibly suggestible and vulnerable old woman who has difficulty distinguishing stories she has heard from her own autobiographical memory?<br />
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Apparently not.<br />
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To allow any such questions to encroach on any one of the delusive narratives told would cast doubt on them all… and they all had their own ludicrous tales to defend with nothing more than shallow assertions of recovered memory accuracy.<br />
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For this reason, not even the most impossible of claims were met with so much as a raised eye-brow or embarrassed cough. Nobody showed a hint of doubt when a speaker going by the name of “Royal”, at all of about forty years of age, stood before us to claim that she was a personal slave to nazi doctor Josef Mengele. “My experience with Mengele”, Royal explained in a lecture (the gist of which was that Satan uses abortion as a means of traumatic mind-control), “involved much of the trauma-based mind control involving core programming (such as End-Time programming) that is connected to the global take over. He used the Psychic/Spiritual dimensions using, what I have come to call ‘demonic harmonics’, which involves using musical tones and quantum physics to open up portals into the spiritual realms. I also have core programs set up that were created using abortions as a means to develop them and more.”<br />
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Despite all this, Neil Brick imagines that my use of the words “paranoid”, and “delusional” are vicious defamations. Further, in his affidavit attached to the summons, Neil Brick states: “His actions have caused me a loss in business, as it appears our conference attendance will be much lower this year due to attendees being afraid someone like him may infiltrate the conference again.” On this, as with everything else, the suggestion that I might even owe an apology is obscene. Take the consumer advocacy view: If I’ve shown the product to be faulty, I owe nothing in compensation for a loss in sales.<br />
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Following the publication of the report, Brick went all to pieces, leaving angry comments, penning a “rebuttal”. Oddly enough though, none of his objections confronted my outrage at the absurdity of the very conspiracy theory that underlies the entire narrative framework of the conference, and of S.M.A.R.T., itself. Though claiming I misrepresented the entire affair, he failed to explain how. He failed to answer any questions regarding his own experiences as an “alleged” victim of “Masonic Ritual Abuse and MK-ULTRA”. He failed to answer any questions directly aimed at elaboration upon his belief in a massive satanic conspiracy. He failed to confront any questions regarding the content of the conference to instead assert, again and again, supported with lists of journal article citations supporting the view, that recovered memories are a real phenomenon.<br />
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This made it incomprehensible that Neil Brick would actually ask to take this court, where he might have no choice but to face those very questions.<br />
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Interesting, I thought… Even if I weren’t being summoned, I’d want to watch this court-room comedy.<br />
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Alas, it was not to be. Whether they experienced a moment-of-clarity, or the whole thing had been a mis-guided and ineffective measure meant to spook me away, neither Neil Brick nor his lawyer actually showed up to the hearing. Neither did I, for that matter (as I wasn’t actually legally summoned). But my lawyer did.<br />
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The case, not surprisingly, was dismissed, but my lawyer was heard anyway. The Judge, I am told, was nonplussed by the Plaintiff’s actions.<br />
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I’m nonplussed, too. But there was, it turns out, one item in Neil Brick’s affidavit that, if true, moves me to outrage on his behalf. He claims that: “To the best of my knowledge, everyone in my field knows about [Douglas Mesner’s] attacks against me and many have avoided contact with me due to the fear that he will attack them also, as he has done to several already.”<br />
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If by “attack” he means “directly confront them with their own incredible narratives, question their defense of such narratives when told by others, while asking clarification on where the demarcation between recovered memories and delusions can be found (unless we are to unquestioningly accept all stories of satanic conspiracy, alien abduction, and past-life regression)”, then this fear is well-founded. But if these people, this “everyone”, within Brick’s “field” agree with his notions of Satanic Ritual Abuse and Mind-Control, and if they feel that this is a position that is evidence-based and rational, then my scrutiny should not be an object of fear. It should be welcomed, and the answers to any such questions should be forthcoming. If instead, they choose to distance themselves from Neil Brick only to conceal a position that is not supported by evidence, can not be justified by facts, only so that they may hide their delusions behind the professional veneer afforded to repressed memory theory by way of poor retrospective surveys and bad data… then they are a craven lot indeed, and would be fully deserving of Neil Brick’s scorn…<br />
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If only he’d acted any differently himself…<br />
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Concerned Psychiatrists and Psychologists Letter to the DSM-V Committee<br />
<br />
A Group of Concerned Psychiatrists and Psychologists<br />
<br />
c/o Dr. Paul McHugh, MD<br />
<br />
Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry<br />
<br />
Johns Hopkins University<br />
<br />
April 11, 2009<br />
<br />
Dr. David J. Kupfer, MD<br />
<br />
Chair of DSM-V Committee,<br />
<br />
Dr. Thomas Detre Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry<br />
<br />
Professor of Neuroscience, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic<br />
<br />
5811 O’Hara Street<br />
<br />
Pittsburgh, PA 15215<br />
<br />
RE: Dissociative Identity Disorder and DSM-V<br />
<br />
Dear Dr. Kupfer:<br />
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We are writing to you to express concern with respect to the continuation of Dissociative Identity Disorder as an approved diagnosis within the forthcoming DSM-V. We believe that the identification of Multiple Personality Disorder, and later its name change as Dissociative Identity Disorder, has been harmful to the good sense and reputation of psychiatry, not to mention the cause of grave ill-effects to large numbers of patients and their families. In the attached document we maintain that the diagnosis should be removed from DSM-V and we provide the basis for our request. If either the Task Force or Council is unable to agree on removing DID completely from the 5th Edition we suggest that at the very least it should be placed in Appendix B as an experimental criterion set requiring further investigation.<br />
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Respectfully,<br />
<br />
Signatories<br />
<br />
(Please see Appendix A)<br />
<br />
Attachments<br />
<br />
To: DSM-V Task Force &<br />
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Work Group on Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum,<br />
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Posttraumatic & Dissociative Disorders<br />
<br />
Statement on:<br />
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The need to remove Dissociative Identity Disorder from DSM-V or place it in Appendix B<br />
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The evidence supporting this diagnosis as a distinct mental disorder is modest whereas much suggests it to be a behavioral artifact equivalent in nature to pseudo-epilepsy generated by suggestion in vulnerable people. Its identification as a special, separate diagnostic entity in DSM has harmed the practice of psychiatry and undermined its scientific credibility. Although it is important for us to provide evidence to support these statements, we wish to avoid excessive detail, given that such evidence has been documented widely in the published literature.<br />
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Origins<br />
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The notion of dual personalities was founded upon cases of bipolar illness (1) and was followed by the idea of extra personalities. This expansion first occurred with the hypnotically-induced introduction of a second personality and the deliberate naming of those personalities as if they were separate entities (1).<br />
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Prevalence<br />
<br />
Taylor and Martin (2) recognized a total of 76 cases occurring between 1816 and 1944—slightly more than one every two years; they thought a similar number might be unreported. In 1954 Thigpen and Cleckley (3) reported their case, which was published as “The Three Faces of Eve” in 1957. After a film was made of this case, the numbers of reported cases increased steadily; there was a further dramatic leap after the film of “Sybil”. By 1990 thousands of cases were being diagnosed; some authors identified more cases in their personal practices than had been described in the literature over an entire century.<br />
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Twentieth Century Suggestion<br />
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As is well known, Sybil, a patient of Dr. Cornelia Wilbur, was fully aware that her therapist wanted her to create extra personalities (4). In 1973, Dr. Wilbur gave tape recordings of Sybil’s interviews to Schreiber [the journalist who reported Sybil as a case of multiple personality disorder (5)]. Schreiber made the recordings available to Ronald Rieber, a professor of psychology, who amassed evidence showing that at least some of the personalities were artifacts overtly created in treatment (6).<br />
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Etiology<br />
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Dissociative Identity Disorder is often alleged to result from repressing an experience of childhood sexual abuse. This claim has not received adequate scientific validation. For example, Piper and Merskey (7) reviewed all the studies that claimed to corroborate DID patients’ abuse recollections. These authors concluded that “no evidence supports the claim that DID patients as a group have actually experienced the traumas asserted by the disorder’s proponents” (7).<br />
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Proponents of the DID diagnosis assert that horrific, repeated childhood physical and sexual abuse is the primary cause of DID. Victims supposedly develop their multiple personalities as repositories for traumatic memories that the “host” personality is unable to tolerate consciously. The DID diagnosis thus relies on the concept of traumatic Dissociative Amnesia (DA or “repression”): the notion that the mind protects itself by banishing terrifying memories from awareness, rendering them inaccessible until the person feels psychologically safe to recall them, often years later. There is no convincing evidence that victims can become incapable of recalling genuinely traumatic experiences, as the trauma theory of DID requires (8). Indeed, an extensive survey of the historical literature, including both fictional and non-fictional written works in multiple languages, found no written example of “dissociative amnesia” prior to 1786 (9). Thus the notion of “repressing” a memory itself, like DID, appears to represent a recent culture-bound phenomenon, rather than a naturally occurring human psychological process.<br />
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In a comprehensive analysis of studies of people with documented trauma histories, not a single mention of spontaneous amnesia for the traumatic event was found—unless the forgetting was attributable to either organic amnesia or childhood amnesia (10). Finally, an examination of Freud’s original work gives reason to think that the evidence from psychoanalysis for repression is also very unsatisfactory (11, 12).<br />
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Harmful Effects<br />
<br />
Due to the assumption that trauma is a primary etiological factor, the DID diagnosis has resulted in wrongful accusations of sexual abuse on the basis of recovered memories, not only in North America but throughout the developed world (references). DID has caused mockery of psychiatry, and, for patients, has led to misdiagnosis (13), mismanagement (14) and inadequate treatment of depression (15).<br />
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Lack of Consensus<br />
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Canadian and American psychiatrists show little consensus regarding the diagnostic status and scientific validity of DID. In surveys of board-certified psychiatrists in the United States (16) and Canada (17) fewer than one-third of Canadian psychiatrists and 35% of American psychiatrists replied that DA & DID should be included without reservations in the DSM-IV; fewer than 1 in 7 Canadian psychiatrists and only 21-23% of American psychiatrists replied that there was “strong evidence of validity” for these disorders. French- and English-speaking Canadians had similar opinions.<br />
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Conclusions<br />
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There are overwhelming reasons to question the validity of Dissociative Identity Disorder. We respectfully urge you as members of the Work Group and the Task Force to drop the category of dissociative disorders from the upcoming DSM-V: it is harmful to patients and their families, scientifically unjustified, and undermining the credibility of psychiatry.<br />
<br />
Signatories<br />
<br />
Please see Appendix A.<br />
<br />
REFERENCES<br />
<br />
1. Merskey, H. (1992a). The manufacture of personalities. The production of multiple personality disorder. Brit. J. Psychiat., 160:327-340.<br />
<br />
2. Taylor W.F. & Martin M.F. (1944) Multiple personality. J. Abnormal & Soc. Psychol., 39:281-330.<br />
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3. Thigpen, C.H. & Cleckley, H.M. (1957). The Three Faces of Eve. New York: McGraw-Hill.<br />
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4. Spiegel, H. (1993) Mistaken Identities: Toronto. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The Fifth Estate, 9 November 1993.<br />
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5. Schreiber, F.R. (1973) Sybil. Chicago: Henry Regnery.<br />
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6. Rieber, R.W. (2006) The Bifurcation of the Self. The History and Theory of Dissociation and Its Disorders. New York: Springer Science.<br />
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7. Piper, A., Merskey, H., (2004). The persistence of folly: a critical examination of dissociative identity disorder. Part I. The excesses of an improbable concept. Can J Psychiatry 49 (9): 592-600.<br />
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8. McNally, R. J. (2003) Remembering Trauma. Belknap Press/Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA.<br />
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9. Pope, H.G. Jr., Poliakoff, M.B., Parker, M.P., Boynes, M.D., & Hudson, J.I. (2007) Is dissociative amnesia a culture-bound syndrome? Findings from a survey of historical literature. Psychol. Med., 37(2):225-233.<br />
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10. Pope, H. G. Jr., Oliva, P., Hudson, J.I.: (2005) Repressed memories. The scientific status of research on repressed memories, in Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony—Social and Behavioral Science, 2005-2006 Edition. Edited by Faigman D, Kaye D, Saks M, Sanders J. Eagen, MN, West Group, pp 408-447.<br />
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11. Esterson, A. (1993) Seductive Mirage. Open Court: Chicago.<br />
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12. Crews, F. (1998) Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend. New York: Viking.<br />
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13. Freeland, A., Manchanda, R., Chiu, S., et al. (1993) Four cases of supposed multiple personality disorder: evidence of unjustified diagnoses. Can. J. Psychiat., 23: 245-247.<br />
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14. McHugh, Paul R. (2008) Try to Remember: Psychiatry’s Clash over Meaning, Memory, and Mind. Chapters 4 &5. Dana Press.<br />
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15. Fetkewicz, J., Sharma, V. & Merskey, H. (2000) A note on suicidal deterioration with recovered memory, treatment. J. Affect. Dis., 58:155-159.<br />
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16. Pope, H.G., Jr., Oliva, P.S., Hudson, J.I., Bodkin, J.A. & Gruber, A.J. (1999) Attitudes toward DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders Diagnoses among Board-Certified American Psychiatrists. Am. J. Psychiat., 2000; 157:1179-1180.<br />
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17. Lalonde, J.K., Hudson, J.I., Gigante, R.A. & Pope, H.G. Jr. (2001) Canadian and American psychiatrists’ attitudes toward Dissociative Disorders diagnoses. Can. J. Psychiat., 46(5): 407-412.<br />
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Appendix A<br />
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List of Signatories<br />
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1. Paul R. McHugh, M.D. Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University.<br />
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2. Harrison Pope, Jr., MD, MPH, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Director, Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, McLean Hospital, Belmont Massachusetts<br />
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3. James Hudson, MD, ScD, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Director, Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, McLean Hospital, Belmont Massachusetts<br />
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4. Elizabeth Loftus, PhD, Distinguished Professor, University of California-Irvine.<br />
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5. Richard J. McNally, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.<br />
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6. Harold Merskey, FRCPsych., Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario<br />
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7. Joel Paris, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University, SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec H3T1E4, Canada.<br />
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8. August Piper, M.D., Independent practice of psychiatry, Seattle, WA.<br />
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9. Numan Gharaibeh, MD (MB, BCh), Danbury, CT.<br />
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10. Pamela Freyd, Ph.D.<br />
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11. Eduard Vieta, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.<br />
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12. Philip G. Janicak, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Rush University, Chicago, Il.<br />
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13. Gerald M. Rosen, Ph.D., Private practice, Seattle, Clinical Professor, University of Washington.<br />
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14. Steven Jay Lynn, Ph.D., ABPP, Professor, Binghamton University (SUNY) Binghamton, NY.<br />
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15. Sally Satel, MD, resident scholar American Enterprise Institute; staff psychiatry Oasis Clinic, Washington DC; lecturer, Yale University School of Medicine.<br />
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<i>(Please note: the "rickross.com" URL for many of these links is
obsolete. The same info can now be found at its new address, the
"culteducation.com" forum)</i><br />
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The Pardons of Meadow Haven show a benign face to the public, but their willingness to deceive anybody who follows a religious path different from their own is typical of the anti-cult vigilante jihadists. In their <a href="http://forum.rickross.com/read.php?12,10965,page=549">colleague's thread in the Rick Ross Institute</a>, for example, there is no way to tell who the people hiding behind the nicknames are. Is Apollo really one of the Meadow Haven staff? No one reading that thread can tell who these people are, while they clearly misrepresent me and others by name, making repeated threats to our private lives. <br />
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These vigilantes hide online just as they do at night when they drive by a "compound" (which is the demonizing name for any house belonging to any extended family) and throw rocks through the windows. No, this is not something from the 1950's Ku Klux Klan wars in the deep South, this is from today, <a href="http://www.twelvetribes.com/controversies/under-attack.html">in Massachusetts, as one eye-witness describes:</a> <br />
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As I watched the unthinkable horror of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon unfold, I found myself thinking back to the previous night’s much smaller, yet still significant terrorist attack on our home in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Rocks were thrown through our windows and our car tires were slashed. Of course, the two events were vastly different in magnitude, yet they were chillingly alike in essence.<br />
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It is a sad irony that in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the very village where our courageous Pilgrim forefathers established a beachhead for freedom of religion in the New World, self-appointed Inquisitor Bob Pardon is fueling the fires of animosity against us. We are not troubled that he disagrees with our understanding of the Bible; he is entitled to his own opinions. What is really troubling is that, in a country whose system of justice is founded on the principle that one is presumed innocent until proven guilty, Mr. Pardon aggressively portrays us as presumed guilty unless proven innocent. And really, no proof we might offer can stand in his courtroom since he holds his handful of disgruntled ex-members as more credible than the thousands of happy men, women, and children who daily love and care for one another in the communities of our Twelve Tribes.</blockquote>
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Anyone who reads the horrific attacks on individuals in that Rick Ross thread must be scratching their head at the way a Catholic woman in Texas is thrown in with an alleged "McKay Cult" in Australia. Here is how it began: Robert and Judy Pardon's colleague Brian Birmingham invited me to travel up to Massachusetts to attend some Twelve Tribes meetings in a very bizarre chat that he initiated when he saw me ask questions in the Rick Ross forum. He wanted me to help him "infiltrate a cult". I refused. Thus, I became the enemy. I warned Rick Ross to put a stop to this, but apparently the financial entanglements between the Rick Ross Institute and Meadow Haven are so thick that Rick Ross's hands are tied if an organization like Meadow Haven wants to use his forum the same way Tony Soprano and his kinfolk use the back room of a shop in a New Jersey neighborhood.<br />
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I never heard of Meadow Haven until I was forced to take a close look at who is attacking me and an even closer look at how and why the Jesus-Christian group was being demonized with such completely false propaganda, the same as what happened to the Twelve Tribes, which is an Amish-like Christian sect with farms and restaurants as their means of support. Brian Birmingham apparently is not happy that their community continues to thrive in spite of Robert and Judy Pardon's efforts to destroy it. Robert Pardon is a specialist in demonizing entire groups of people, including the children, using tactics taken straight out of the old KKK manuals which themselves shared a great deal with Hitler. But those early fascists were crude compared to the Pardons, the Rick Rosses, and their ilk today.<br />
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Here is a short quote from the <a href="http://www.twelvetribes.com/controversies/neirr-response.html">Twelve Tribes' own very detailed response </a>to the devastating libel they suffered from the Pardons:<br />
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During the summer and fall of 1994, Bob Pardon and Judy Barba, of the New England Institute for Religious Research (NEIRR) visited several of our communities in New England, saying that they genuinely wanted to get to know us so that they could communicate accurately and fairly with those who look to them for information about unconventional religious groups. We welcomed them into our households, had many meals with them, answering their many questions as clearly as we were able. They said they were writing an extensive analysis of our communities based on their research......We were shocked by the contents of the 90-page document we received in December, 1995. It was so far from portraying the life we actually live and what we actually believe!</blockquote>
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Was what the Pardons did to the Twelve Tribes just practice for when the jihadist vigilantes take on the Amish and the Mennonites, as well as the various Mormon groups all spread across North America? Is this the biggest greedy land grab since the Trail of Tears forced a different group of people out of their original land? What is really going on in America with this new wave of viscious nazi-like fascism?</div>
Freedom Is Sacredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078570822506043335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944981447700375710.post-13629251109657186502010-11-23T09:30:00.000-08:002013-09-27T10:49:24.064-07:00Rick A. Ross Institute Threatens Retaliation "Behind The Scenes"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>(Please note: the "rickross.com" URL for many of these links is
obsolete. The same info can now be found at its new address, the
"culteducation.com" forum)</i><br />
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Dave McKay of the Jesus-Christians just posted a very astute summary of the hate campaign against me in his forum.<br />
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I will quote part of it below and certainly everyone is welcome to post comments here. I am particularly concerned that the stalkers in the Rick Ross forum have turned their attention to McKay's wife, who is not at all an outspoken person. Those people hiding behind their nicnames over in those two hate sites, completely facilitated by Rick A. Ross and by Nick and Kait (or Cait, she changes it) Crofts, feel above the law. The Crofts, who are in Australia where the McKays are being threatened by this gang, are not innocent and neither is Rick Ross, who is here in the USA where I am being threatened.<br />
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Here is a kink to <a href="http://jesus-teachings.com/forum/9-forum-administration-and-announcements/40417-an-explanation#40427">Dave McKay's post</a>:<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;">There must be more than a hundred pages of hate written over the past few months specifically about Denise Matteau (on the two hate sites). Denise, a 57-year-old Catholic artist, frequently chats into a video camera in her little apartment in Austin, Texas, discussing such things as her budgies, her paintings, and her hobby of growing orchids. Like so many posts on Youtube, Facebook, and similar blogs, hardly anyone ever watches these videos.<br />
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However, because Denise has expressed anger against the tactics used on the hate sites that have targeted me personally, and because she has named some of the key players on those sites, she has become the object of a worldwide hate campaign, stretching from Scotland and Korea to Canada and Australia. </span><br />
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Rick Ross has gone into the hate thread that he lets Brian Birnmingham run and posted that Dave McKay has not committed any crimes. After over 500 pages of relentless criminal accusations! It appears Rick Ross is trying to distance himself from the predatory behavior of his Institute's members. But he is allowing Brian Birmingham to follow that disclaimer with more dehumanizing posts about McKay, including a posting of lyrics from a rock song, "Psycho Killer". If Rick Ross is trying to imitate Pontius Pilate, I think the water in the bowl is too dirty for him to avoid responsibility for that gang. <br />
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Why on earth doesn't he delete all those pointless posts of pure hate and demonization and ban Birmingham from the board? He has no reason to keep that thread up, except to feed a crew of predators. Ross stands to gain thousands of dollars each time his predators corner a target and successfully convince the target's family that a "cult" has stolen their son or daughter. The stalkers always manage to post or deliver some kind of reference to Ross's cult directory and collection of links to member "therapists". <br />
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It must be pretty lucrative to justify the risks he takes by supporting Birmingham and the other predators in that forum.</div>
Freedom Is Sacredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078570822506043335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944981447700375710.post-84411916123297921712010-11-21T08:05:00.000-08:002013-09-27T10:49:59.616-07:00Dave McKay Announces Return of Jesus-Christians<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After a few weeks of lock-down Dave McKay, the founder of the Jesus-Christians opened the forum long enough to announce that he and Cherry McKay will continue to operate the Jesus-Christian website while others continue in new directions. The Jesus-Christians have had a wide range of music, documentary, and educational missions besides their personal witnessing activities. There has been a recent expansion in the film-production side with the release of longer and more professionally-produced documentaries about their teachings and practices.<br />
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Here is the announcement by Dave McKay that was posted in <a href="http://www.jesus-teachings.com/forum/9-forum-administration-and-announcements/40417-an-explanation">Announcements</a> at their forum:<br />
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<i>There has been much speculation over what is happening internally within the Jesus Christians at the moment. Most of this speculation has been an over-reaction. There have, indeed, been certain changes made which will enable each of us to function more freely as individuals, each with a distinctive ministry of our own. It is taking us some time to find our bearings in this new arrangement, as we are not all traveling the same path or marching to exactly the same tune. But there is unity... the kind of unity that counts most in the eyes of God.<br />
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One report is that the Jesus Christians have "disbanded". Some have chosen to use that term to describe what has happened. They are free to do so. However, I prefer to see it as a kind of "graduation". Cherry and I have been given responsibility for this web site, and we are still endeavouring to find the best way to deal with that responsibility. Others have taken control of other assets and will do with them what they feel is best.<br />
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Cherry and I wish all the best to those with whom we have worked for so many years. We feel fortunate to have been able to play a part in the spiritual journeys of those who have been touched by the message which we have preached. If we each keep our eyes on Jesus then what we are doing now will come to be seen as a greater show of unity than ever was possible in our former association.</i> </blockquote>
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One only can hope that the professional stalkers will leave the Mckays and the other Jesus-Christians or anyone who supports them alone, but it is not likely. All decent people are appalled at the virulent hatred that boils out of the stalkers in the hate sites. It has become obvious that fully disbanding according to the announcement that was emailed to many people directly from the forum admin would leave individuals vulnerable to abuse from the hate site. This blog will continue to address the Rick A. Ross Institute and the stalker-gang problem as it affects far too many independent religious groups and individuals.</div>
Freedom Is Sacredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078570822506043335noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944981447700375710.post-40025676758261643512010-11-18T23:57:00.000-08:002013-09-27T10:50:28.544-07:00Stalkers In Search Of A Cult<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Now that the Jesus-Christians have disbanded, Brian Birmingham and the other stalkers in the Rick Ross forum have decided on a campaign to convince themselves and others that there is a "Jonestown" in the making.<br />
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Realistically, this Jonestown stuff is pure hogwash and nothing more than a very serious libel promoted by Birmingham in order to justify his own criminal stalking behavior and attract more useful idiots to his scheme. The Jesus-Christians reached the point at which a cult might indeed "implode", which is the aging-out of their founder BUT at which any other group would either continue under new leadership OR disband. Since the Jesus-Christians never were a "cult" in the sense Birmingham means, they actually did both of the things HEALTHY groups do. They considered continuing on under the leadership of several of the senior members while the founder, Dave McKay, went into retirement. Then they disbanded. They had completely open-door discussions all the way through the process. The only thing they never announced was exactly when it would happen, as a security measure. The website remains up at <a href="http://jesus-teachings.com/">http://jesus-teachings.com</a> because the books are not being burned and no one is hiding it from the public. You can still read the books online there and you can still go to Amazon and order them. Just like you can still buy copies of books written by Christians from anytime in the recent or ancient past.<br />
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Birmingham and his stalker gang relentlessly pursued and harassed every individual they could find, including people like myself who don't even support most of the Jesus-Christian theology or practice. So the group disbanded. Now Birmingham is desperately trying to persuade his criminal gang members to continue to stalk individuals, this is so obscenely criminal!<br />
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A lovely statement was sent to known friends of the group explaining that Jesus's teachings survive regardless of what each Jesus-Christian decides to do as a follower of Jesus. Friends who know each other remain in touch, of course. Why wouldn't we? That is what healthy groups do when their term of existence expires, for whatever reason. There are dozens of forums all around where we gather, among Quakers and Catholics, Seventh-Day "Sabbath Keepers" and Baptists, because the Jesus-Christians always were non-denominational in that sense. At least one is going into Zen Buddhism of some sort, too. <br />
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No "jonestown" oriented group would do such a thing. No "Jim Jones" style cult-leader would consider retiring. Dave Mckay took a lot of criticism for once having predicted "The Fall of America" (and what talk-show pundit hasn't done the same thing?) but unlike cult-leaders, who claim some higher truth about a debacle like that, McKay openly admitted his own error and embarrassment in discussions in the Jesus-Christian forum about the error of thinking we know what is going on as if we are prophets when in fact, we are just human beings guessing. What kind of cult leader would admit he screwed up that badly? McKay never tried to predict anything after that and he warned people off quoting the popular doomsday conspiracy-theorists with exactly that story as his example of the error. What kind of cult-leader would be that brutally honest about his own mistakes?<br />
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Birmingham and his active supporters are in fact under investigation for serial stalking. I look forward to the day I announce an arrest in this blog. Susan Smith Summers and Birmingham are at the top of the list with Wendy and Doug Duncan coming close behind for their activities in this country. (The Duncans are some quack therapists who used Birmingham in a attempted shake-down of a homeless shelter in Dallas, Texas a few years ago. Google "Dallas Cult" and their names and you'll see the story. Birmingham aka zeuzsor has their hate videos up in his Youtube channel. They lost that one and now they are partners with Rick Ross, using his forum to stalk members of several innocent groups. The Duncans have social work and therapists' licenses right now but they are likely to lose them because of their joint activities with Birmingham and the Rick A. Ross Institute, which is shunned by more ethical therapists.) <br />
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Who knows if the authorities will invest enough energy to also go after the Crofts and Kevin McKay's Australian part of the gang or Malcolm Wrest in Korea? But at least the ones who are active here in North America will face the consequences of what they have been doing to my family and others. What makes them think that when someone's relative gets a phone call from a creep like Brian Birmingham trying to pass himself off as a detective, that relative wouldn't call Birmingham's target up right away after telling Birmingham he has the wrong number? How stupid do they think we are? As stupid as himself and the equally psychotic Rick Ross? Stalking is not the only charge Birmingham will be facing when he is finally arrested. All kinds of impersonation and other charges may easily be added on, and his friends are accessories to the whole scheme. <br />
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Those who are not worth chasing down in the eyes of the authorities local to Birmingham and Ross may easily end up in international watch files kept by law enforcement agencies. I wonder how much thought Apollo, bigpigweed, Anita Walker and the others have given to that, as they continue playing this game? How many of them are just naive idiots and not delusional drunks like Susan Smith Summers appears to be? They obviously do not know that once police agencies notice an internet stalking ring, the authorities do not even need to notify the forum admins that all the traffic is being traced to residential addresses of <i>all</i> the people who are participating in Birmingham's data-stalking exchanges, and the email is traced, too. <br />
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Nothing online is truly private. That does not mean that abuse of such information is not stalking. Stalking is defined as a series of normally legal actions that add up to intimidation, harassment, and co-ercion or threat against a target. No warrant has to be shown by authorities to the sender of an email in such a case, only to the ISP handling the accounts, and all email is routed through a bare handful of internet junctions, making it very easy for authorities to serve the ISP's with warrants enabling examination of accounts if necessary. (That's one of the things that has Americans worried about the recent threats of our government to "shut down" the internet: they actually could shut down those junctions because those junctions were put there to enable government access to all traffic in the first place.)<br />
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Home computers have been subject to back-door searches without any need for the authorities to notify the subject for at least eight years. This is a topic that causes distress to people who value personal freedom precisely because the authorities really <i>do</i> have this capacity and they <i>do</i> use it. I am just pointng this out because I know Birmingham and his delusional cohorts don't care what happens to the useful idiots they entangle in their scheme, but I do care enough about those naive idiots to point it out. I am not interested in seeing relatively innocent people suffer. Birmingham will be arrested, and hopefully Rick Ross with him. Those two already know that they are engaged in criminal acts and nothing I am saying here will hinder any investigation. <br />
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The other useful-idiots who do not see why they are being fooled into believing Dave Mckay was another "Jim Jones" need to think about what they really are doing, attacking crazy old ladies and innocent young men and women who chose a path different from their own, and now extending their assaults beyond the disbanding of a group to hunt the individuals as if they are animals. Apollo and the others will not have even the flimsy "cult" excuse as a defense if they are charged as accessories to a whole series of prosecutions for stalking, attempted or actual extortion, threats and intimidation of individuals and our relatives and colleagues. All participants in those hate-sites are accessories to the money Birmingham and Ross are paid by frightened families and others who can also bring charges of extortion and harassment against them once they see the extent to which they have been deliberately deceived and their relationships manipulated.<br />
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Many people do indeed join small religious communities as a compensation for highly abusive families, too. Consider what you are doing when you try to force adults in their 30's to leave such communities and reconnect with their abusers. Only abusive families hire people like Rick Ross to stalk their adult children. <br />
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And how can Rick Ross explain that if indeed his worst accusations against Dave McKay were true, that McKay gets money from the donation of someone <i>else's </i>kidney?! Wouldn't there be an investigation of any surgeon or hospital that would co-operate with such a scheme? After all, Rick Ross is actually describing <i>sale</i> of organs, not <i>donation</i>, and third-party involvement, besides: very easily prosecuted as a very major crime <u>if it were true</u>. The Jesus-Christians, after all, are publicly visible in their music videos and missionary documentaries, both before and after any of them have donated an organ. Are we to believe there is no whistle-blowing nurse in such a huge crime as Rick Ross Institute has described in its libelous threads? How outrageously evil can the Birmingham/Ross stalker ring get, now that they have set things up so that no church group dares offer support to people in medical need if the felon Rick A. Ross and his mentally-ill cohorts are not made privy to all the arrangements!</div>
Freedom Is Sacredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078570822506043335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944981447700375710.post-31183073632587355372010-11-14T19:11:00.000-08:002013-09-27T10:50:59.757-07:00Rick Ross Institute, Croft Hate Site, & Legal Actions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One of the RRI activists, Susan Smith Summers, is posting in several places, including in Nick and Cait Crofts' anti-Jesus-Christian hate site, that there is "some kind of legal action" against me, and that she has seen a copy of a "letter" that is apparently supposed to have me in a state of fear of some kind of drastic legal action being taken against me. Here's the quote, linked, (and I have the file saved should they edit it):<br />
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<a href="http://xjcs.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=510&sid=a7b14ff5fb064b573deb384720af1810&p=5933#p5933">"There has been some form of action taken against little rose, Cait. Things like that can be long and drawn out and often it's a situation of giving people enough rope.......as she carries on with her videos" </a></blockquote>
If such a letter exists, I have not received it. My videos remain as they are. <br />
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I did once receive a letter from a person claiming to represent another subject of my journalism (unconnected to this, it was years ago) and the letter accused me of committing "liable". It was not just a typo, the supposed lawyer had written the word that way all the way through the letter! *LOL* Somehow I suspect if any kind of letter exists, it is from the same kind of character. The subject of my statements in that case was thoroughly investigated and sent packing by the people who were originally shocked at what I said was going on. I'm not worried about Susan Smith Summer's letter, if it exists. What I have said in this blog ain't libel 'cuz it's true and especially since it is indeed newsworthy. What these vigilantes are getting away with in terms of harassing and intimidating individual Christians and their families, <u>and with tax-exempt status besides</u>, is indeed newsworthy.<br />
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None of Susan Smith Summers' posts nor any of her echoing cohorts' make any allegations of any actionable statements by me of any kind of falsehood. Her posts are filled with libelous insults about my mental state, lifestyle etc, and strange fabrications , but they do not describe any charges or claims that could justify any kind of legal action. She does not even give the supposed legal action a name. I consider it a fabrication like all her other postings. (One of her strangest fabrications is the recurrent claim that I had a dispute with Tupperware company. I never was a Tupperware seller, I never even had a Tupperware party. It is embarrassing to think a grown adult can even post such nonsense. But what amazes me is the hysterical alarmist tone this Susan Smith Summers and her cohorts are able to get into these fabrications. She and her cohorts are true masters of the art of emotional propaganda.) If Susan Smith Summers has a copy of a letter about me, then it would have to be a letter that she or someone close to her has written. If Rick Ross himself were challenging any of my statements in these videos with a libel suit, he would not have any reason to send Susan Smith Summers a copy of his correspondence unless she were paying him for it or it involved services for which he is paying her. Ross knows he can't bring legal charges against anyone for any of the things I've said about him because those statements are all true and also newsworthy. It is always newsworthy when the vigilantes are trying to manipulate the public into accepting a new Branch Davidian-style tragedy. <br />
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Susan Smith Summers has been rumored to have paid Brian Birmingham for his research that he does as part of his work at Rick Ross Institute and she herself has bragged of the money she spends on lawyers in her strange career as an anticult activist. <br />
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It is possible that Susan Smith Summers or the Rick Ross Institute has involved some hapless relative of mine in an attempt at an intervention stunt, or convinced someone to pose as an interested party. Susan Smith Summers herself was trying to pose as a personal friend of mine when I first discovered her existence thorugh her posts and she was trying to round up a group of "helpers" in what she hoped would be an "intervention" to rescue me from contact with the Jesus-Christians. That is what she and the other activists openly discussed in their forums shortly after I refused to co-operate with them. They have a history of involving relatives of targetted victims in signing papers that could approve "interventions" and they will resort to fabricating false relationships if no relative is willing to help them. Generally, this type of extortionist will find members of a family who have some kind of dispute and then convince one party in the dispute that it can get some kind of benefit from incarcerating or disabling the target. The sole benefit might be to be left alone by the extortion ring. But there is no dispute in my family, there is no contested estate, and there are 2,000 miles and many years separating us, and certainly none of my relatives have any interest in paying Rick Ross Institute or any of its vigilantes any fees or donations. I must admit I am awful curious to see what kind of "intervention" claim can be dug out of such cold ground, if that is what the phantom letter is all about. <br />
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One thing Susan Smith Summers seems to think is a criminal act is when I say "Come on down to Texas and make my day!", as Clint Eastwood might say. *LOL*<br />
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Lots of things make my day. Seeing someone like her get arrested and tossed into a Texas jail for filing false legal complaints is one thing that certainly would make my day. Texas is not like a lot of other states. I don't know what Canada or New Jersey are like, but in Texas they look at false or malicious complaints as crimes in and of themselves and they won't even require the subject of such a complaint to file a civil defamation suit. Texas authorities consider it a crime against <i>them, </i>a theft of <i>their</i> time and resources and a besmirching of <i>their </i>integrity if you attempt to use them as a weapon against an innocent person. If they see an obviously falsified complaint before even delivering said "legal letter" (if one exists and is to be delivered by constable) they may be working on charges against the perpetrators without even notifying me. <br />
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So, Susan Smith Summers, Brian Birmingham, Nick and Cait Croft, Rick Ross Institute, <i><b>make my day!</b></i> I just looooove Texas! *LOL*</div>
Freedom Is Sacredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078570822506043335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944981447700375710.post-56162422036468115042010-11-09T23:48:00.000-08:002013-09-27T10:51:42.556-07:00RRI Maintains Vigilante Hate Team In Spite Of JC's Disbanding<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>(Please note: the "rickross.com" URL for many of these links is
obsolete. The same info can now be found at its new address, the
"culteducation.com" forum)</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just in case</span> you think I exagerate about the predatory stalking activity of Rick Ross and his associates, especially Brian Birmingham, please note this quote from today's postings (Nov. 10th) by Brian Birmingham as "zeuzsor" in the RRI forum:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"We might have to organize a "spot a 'disbanded' JC member" competition!"</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And this, from October 22, 2010:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The whole point of <b>collecting information on who is who in term of participants on this thread,</b> is because there are potential witnesses to alleged crimes committed by the cult. Also X-members were obviously a part of JC history. It is important for certain agencies to get a background of the group's history and know who is who, and whether they still support or don't support the JC. Also, how they might be contacted. <b>When you look at an organized crime investigation, you include all known associates.</b> It is standard practice. Things like birthdates are just standard identifiers. <br />
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This isn't Facebook, and I don't do this for "fun." I am trying to help stop McKay from hurting more kids and their families, and it's not just some hobby to me, either."</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b>Brian Birmingham is right. This is not some hobby to him. It is a sick obsession. </b>He makes it very clear that innocent people who stumble across the RRI forum in google etc are subjected to unauthorized and unprofessional "background checks" by him and his fellow fake investigators. All such participants then are subjected to varying degrees of offers they had better not refuse. I was one such, and my background in curriculum design and as a consultant to a professional police educational group in Massachusetts became visible to RRI. When I refused to donate my services to their extortion ring, Brian Birmingham threatened me with the obitiuary of a murder victim named Immette St Gullen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b>A Digression</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Immette was a high school student at one of the workshops taught by one of my colleagues in the police group before she decided to major in Criminal Justice. I was a civilian consultant in curriculum standards, but my colleague, the late Capt. Tom White, was a much-loved and admired activist in the criminal cult investigation field. He was trained and certified by the Massachusetts State Police to specialize in animal torture scene analysis and some of those scenes spilled over to child-abuse cases. My work with Capt. White involved analyzing the purpose of some extremely distressing activities. It was not public. Whatever public acclaim was awarded, was awarded to the various lawyers and prosecutors who presented Capt. White's material in their cases. And they won some significant cases with that material.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Brian Birmingham was in Boston, he was (and is) a student at UMass, and he began stalking me and was also stalking my daughter on behalf of the Rick Ross Institute this past summer, insisting that I should help him with his team of vigilantes who were focussed on the Jesus-Christians. He threatened me with that obituary showing that he knew about Capt. White's work and my connection to it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b>The Investigators, Extortionists</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Brian Birmingham was kicked out of the army while in Iraq for mental issues, he has NO law-enforcement or criminal justice backing, and he has bragged of illegally accessing Macleans' Hospital records to find out that a targetted individual was a patient. Brian Birmingham is a criminal stalker, a predator, and a major player in the Rick Ross Institute's extortion business. He was involved with Wendy and Doug Duncan in their anti-cult shakedown of a Dallas homeless shelter, about which they wrote a book ("I Can't Hear God Anymore", <a href="http://dallascult.com/">http://dallascult.com/</a> ) claiming that the refusal of a minister to perform their wedding ceremony was proof of cult mind-control and caused severe mental trauma. (really!) Birmingham partnered with the Rick Ross assaults on that shelter simultaneously with his involvement in the assaults on the Jesus-Christians, of which he was never a member.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Duncans also hunt down and harass members of groups they see as good prospects for providing them with "deprogramming" clients, people who are bullied and coerced into accepting unprofessional and highly biased "therapy" and paying for it. As supported members of the Rick Ross Institute, they are heavily entangled in the entire RRI religious extortion racket. They keep their activities to a separate thread from the Jesus-Christians. They are busy setting precedents for treating habitual readers of online spiritual channelings as "cult victims" in need of their fee-based intervention services. Like Birmingham, the Duncans spend their time in their thread (the one in RRI that attacks "Trumpet Call Online") grooming stalkers, gathering information about past girlfriends, encouraging ex-spouses to obsess and stalk the Duncan's targets, often with implied promises that the alleged "cult" is hiding money that they can get hold of, if "justice" prevails!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b>Back to the Jesus-Christians</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">There are few places to communicate about what is really going on with the Jesus-Christians and those others who attack them. There is a large grey area of external friendship and friendly criticism which seems to have been shoved off the field with the closing of the Jesus-Christians' own forum. In spite of the obvious partisanship of the administrators of that forum, they <i>did</i> allow a wide range of discussion, questioning, and criticism to go on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">One of the most constricting factors in any discussion of the Jesus-Christians is the need to avoid saying anything as constructive criticism of the Jesus-Christians because of the way the predators in RRI and the Croft hate-site would exagerate and twist the remarks all out of proportion, attaching them to legal names that are searchable by google, thus libeling both speaker and subject. Thus Rick Ross enhances the cult-like tendency to isolate, which is how he murdered all those people in Waco. Yes, I say Rick A. Ross murdered the Branch Davidians himself, because he deliberately shoved them into exactly the same kind of isolation and public fear he has tried to cultivate around the Jesus-Christians. In this case, however, I believe all were prepared to avoid the kind of death scene that gives Brian Birmingham and Rick Ross such thrills. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b>Professional Psychopaths</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It is a symptom of their own mental illness, both of those men, that they cannot imagine a group of people who have worked together continuing any kind of useful life as individuals, remaining friendly and supportive to each other in their private off-line lives. Some of them may be returning to the world of 9-5 jobs while others may continue their evangelism or may be joining new communities. Can you imagine if you faced a criminal ring of outsiders who would try to force you to defame your former co-workers of any job you did, as an office worker or a nurse or a tradesman? If upon retirement you would be prevented from sharing any leisuretime with your old colleagues, or in the event of being laid-off, you were required to attack instead of help your fellow unemployed? It is really no one's business to be threatening any of the Jesus-Christians with stalking, harassment, and intimidation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">RRI targets those who would like to recognize the Jesus Christians' humanity, accepting the same flaws we all share while supporting the perfect dreams we all pursue. RRI denies human status to the Jesus-Christians and any sympathetic observers. But wait, isn't it the mark of a <i>dangerous cult</i> that it reserves for itself alone the right to define who is human and who is not? And what about Cait Croft and Nick Croft, who willingly support and participate in the criminal stalking and intimidation of innocent people who have done no one any harm, some of whom have never even been Jesus Christians? Isn';t it incredible that a woman like Cait Croft would become a predator, hunting and collecting personal information on strangers in order to utterly disrupt and ruin their lives? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Isn't it only destructive cults who do that and who control relationships the way Brian Birmingham and his stalker cohorts in RRI do? Cait does not seem to care that she is posting in a criminal ring that thrives on violence when she is posting in RRI. Everyone who posts in the RRI forum needs to start thinking about how dangerous those people are, along with their obsessed and psychotic supporters like Susan Smith Summers, who has taken to referring to the twenty-fivish young leader of the Jesus-Christian community (such as it was) as "BOY"! Now what white North American does not see the significant level of racist vicious hate the RRI cult is engaging in, when they start attacking an African-American man with that word?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Cait Croft is openly supporting a man who posts about his drug and drinking abuse. He invites people to use "ganja" and he brags about drinking "Four Loko" to the point of passing out while obsessing on continuous re-plays of videos he has made of Dave McKay, in which he fantasizes about the man!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Cait Croft attempts to disploay herself as a concerned parent, but look at what she is partnered with! It is sickening, truly sickening that these people are able to deswtroy so many lives. There are actually close to two dozen innocent and decent people living in hiding because of Cait and Nick Croft and the criminal gang they partner with, under Rick Ross's management. It is obvious that both Brian Birmingham and Susan Smith Summers are heavily alcoholic and drug abusing people when reading the posts they leave in the middle of the night, sometimes so drunk that among the strings of expletives they talk about the person they are attempting to impersonate, forgetting that they are using a profile to impersonate someone else. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b>I'd like to point out to anyone reading that I leave the comments open here.</b> I will of course delete trollish posts, but open honest discussion including honest criticism is welcome here. If anyone sees extreme troll posts, please just ignore them or flag them instead of responding. I check a few times a day and I'd rather take the chance of a troll staying up for an hour or two than require pre-approval of posts.</span></div>
Freedom Is Sacredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078570822506043335noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944981447700375710.post-10415551478421713092010-11-06T21:08:00.000-07:002010-11-06T21:12:58.719-07:00Old Australian Article About The RRI Hate Cult, Threats To Religious Freedom<cite>New Dawn</cite> #21, Sep/Oct 1993, p11-12 <br />
<h1>US Deprogrammer On Kidnap Charge, While "Cult Busters" Organise Here</h1><h3>Rick Ross, self-confessed "cult deprogrammer" and ATF advisor in the Waco holocaust has been charged, in the United States, with the 1991 abduction of a Christian teenage boy.</h3>Ross and his accomplices, Mark Workman and Charles Simpson, were charged in July with unlawful imprisonment in the abduction of Jason Scott. If convicted they face a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison. The charges against the three were the most recent in a string of legal actions brought against deprogrammers by U.S. law enforcement officials. <br />
According to police reports, Ross, of Phoenix, Arizona, and his accomplices violently abducted the teenager from the Seattle suburb of Kirkland on January 18, 1991, handcuffed and gagged him and drove him to Ocean Shores and held him prisoner to 'deprogram' him from his Church. Scott is involved with the Life Tabernacle Church, a Pentecostal Christian fellowship. <br />
Deprogramming is a form of brainwashing which uses kidnapping, forcible restraint, assault, battery and even rape in an effort to get an individual to recant his or her chosen beliefs. <br />
During the abduction, according to a police report, the victim was bound and gagged with heavy-duty tape and handcuffed so tightly his wrists became bruised and swollen, and an ankle restraint was attached to him so he could not walk. <br />
Scott stated that Ross "ridiculed me about me Church, my pastor, our worship ... the <nobr><a class="FAAdLink" href="http://www.suburbia.com.au/~fun/scn/press/9309-nd.htm#" id="FALINK_1_0_0"><span style="color: #006600;">Bible</span></a></nobr>, our salvation, our baptism ... me and my self worth. He degraded me ... and tore apart everything that I was and stood for." Scott also said that for 10 to 14 hours a day the men used videotapes and insults until he broke down and cried. <br />
Scott escaped after five days because he pretended to go along with the deprogrammers. In his statement to Ocean Shore police, he told of being threatened by Ross, who said, "If you give me trouble I'll cuff you to the bed frame." Scott said that for four days he did not leave the room where he was imprisoned. <br />
<h2>Ross's Psychiatric & Criminal Records</h2>Ross's background of personality disorder and crime is extensively documented in court and psychiatric reports. <br />
His arrest record stretches back to 1975, when he was convicted of grand theft embezzlement for stealing $100,000 worth <nobr><a class="FAAdLink" href="http://www.suburbia.com.au/~fun/scn/press/9309-nd.htm#" id="FALINK_2_0_1"><span style="color: #006600;">of diamonds</span></a></nobr> from a Phoenix department store. He was on probation at the time for an attempted break-in. <br />
At his sentencing his own lawyer pointed out Ross's "record of anti-social, criminal conduct, and even his earlier failure at probation" and cited his "clear background of serious psychological and emotional problems," which were detailed in the public court documents. <br />
Ross was seen regularly by psychiatrists and counsellor from the age of six. At the age of 10, he was put on the psychiatric drugs Deaner and Librium. <br />
Between August and November 1975, he was examined by psychiatrist Thomas P. O'Brien. O'Brien's report stated that Ross "has a tremendous capacity to deny the seriousness of problems which he faces ... in his second jailing, he eventually made quite a serious suicide attempt ... When he is thrown on his own resources and opportunism is unavailable, and crying foul produces no changes, his own lack of self-worth and sense of emptiness overwhelm him and a near suicide resulted." <br />
Ross's medical condition was evaluated by Dr Domiciano E. Santos of the Arizona State Hospital after 15 psychiatric interviews in late 1975. Dr. Santos stated that "Ricky has a personality disturbance which started even as a child. He does not seem to profit from his past experiences and cannot realize that he has a responsibility to society to control his behaviour ... He does not seem to identify himself with society and its laws, and believes that punishments are an injustice." <br />
Several years later, Ross became involved with the notorious Cult Awareness Network (CAN), after a "radical Bible-based group" began operating at the Arizona nursing home where his grandmother lived. <br />
Ross, who freely admits having carried out as many as 300 deprogrammings since 1982, mainly against Christian denominations, is known to charge up to $20,000 for a single kidnapping and "exit counselling" session. <br />
His victims have routinely been held hostage against their will and brutally intimidated in attempts to force them to recant their chosen religious beliefs. <br />
Despite Ross' past and present criminal activities, members of the Cult Awareness Network continue to praise him. CAN's national executive director, Cynthia Kisser, has described him as "among the half dozen best deprogrammers in the country." <br />
"Rick has cooperated extensively with the national office of this organization," said Reg Alev, a director of one of CAN's affiliates. "We recommend him highly." <br />
The head of CAN's Los Angeles affiliate lauded him. "Rick has helped me with all kinds of questions, situations and problems," she said. <br />
CAN is currently under scrutiny by the FBI and federal prosecutors, stemming from the conviction and jailing in May of another of its deprogrammers, Galen Kelly. <br />
<h2>Australia's CAN</h2>Brisbane housewife and professional "cult buster", Jan Groenveld, boasts of her association with Rick Ross's buddies in the Cult Awareness Network. Back in her May 1991 newsletter, Groenveld waxed lyrical about CAN's organisational ability, stating: <br />
"After attending the Cult Awareness Network convention in the USA last year I could see the benefit of having a co-operation between the Christian, Jewish and secular community here in dealing with the cults and occult. I have since been contacted by the Jewish community with that in view. The secular community (medical and legal) are also interested in helping." <br />
One of Mrs Groenveld's fellow "cult busters", Melbourne private investigator David Lentin, admitted in an interview with <cite>New Idea</cite>, "We have to resort to kidnapping to get people out. And it is a very long and difficult process to deprogram them." <br />
Another "cult expert" is Dr. Rachel Kohn of Sydney University's School of Studies in Religion and producer of ABC Radio National's religion program. <br />
According to the newsletter <cite>Christian Jewish Scene</cite>, "Dr. Kohn's interest in the interaction between social, political and religious issues extends beyond the academic arena. She was among the pioneers who established the Anti-Defamation Unit within the Jewish community organisation B'nai B'rith." <br />
The Anti-Defamation Commission of B'nai B'rith (ADC) is connected to the U.S. based Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL). A recently released special report titled <cite>Is The Anti-Defamation Commission Spying On You</cite> says, "The ADC in Australia is modelled on, and closely linked to, the US's Anti-Defamation League, which is now facing criminal prosecution on 48 felony counts, including illegal access to police computers, spying and theft." <br />
The New York newspaper <cite>Village Voice</cite> has called the ADL's criminal spying "a massive violation of civil liberties," and has termed the ADL the "Jewish thought police." While former U.S. congressman Paul McCloskey has initiated legal action against the ADL for domestic spying activities against private citizens. <br />
The Anti-Defamation League has a long history of working closely with the Cult Awareness Network. Both the ADL and CAN co-operated in providing U.S. authorities with sensational and distorted intelligence gathered on the Branch Davidians. This disinformation ultimately prompted the murderous assault on the Waco religious community. <br />
<h2>Cult Aware</h2>No doubt, with the help of her new found friends, Mrs Groenveld went on to found the "Cult Awareness & Information Centre - Australia". Currently she is organising a week-long conference on "cult busting" at Queensland University from September 22. <br />
Main speaker at the conference is American psychologist, Steven Hassan, who like Rick Ross, is a deprogrammer active with the Cult Awareness Network. Hassan is the author of one of CAN's central texts, <cite>Combating Cult Mind Control</cite>. <br />
Other speakers will include Australian "cult experts" and "exit counsellors". <br />
In conference promotional literature, Mrs Groenveld states that psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, lawyers, Barristers, media representatives and medical practitioners are just a few of the people who can "benefit" from the get-together with professional deprogrammer Steven Hassan. <br />
The Brisbane conference is a public relations exercise designed to firmly establish "Cult Aware" networks in Australia. Part of a carefully planned strategy to indoctrinate government agencies, the media, church leaders, community workers and opinion makers with disinformation about alternative religious movements. <br />
Freedom of religion is under threat in Australia. Unless action is taken to expose this anti-religion movement, Australia will see an increase in vicious deprogrammings and assaults on minority religious groups. We cannot allow Australia's "cult busters" to unleash an army of Rick Ross hate criminals on peaceful, law abiding citizens. <br />
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Link to original: <a href="http://www.suburbia.com.au/~fun/scn/press/9309-nd.htm">http://www.suburbia.com.au/~fun/scn/press/9309-nd.htm</a>Freedom Is Sacredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078570822506043335noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944981447700375710.post-26485955814778860592010-11-05T10:40:00.000-07:002010-11-05T12:53:03.439-07:00Jesus-Christians Have DisbandedWe received a notice today. The notice said:<br />
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<blockquote><i>The Jesus Christians have officially disbanded...These are dangerous times, and only those who are ready to "count the cost" and pay the price are going to survive spiritually. Lukewarmness is not enough. If you have a Bible, please read what Jesus said to the multitudes who came to him in Luke 14: 25-35...<br />
...But don't let anything stop you from practicing the teachings of Jesus right now. Jesus said that anyone who hears his teachings and does not obey them is like a foolish person building their house on the sand. He said the way that leads to life is narrow and very few will find it. Pray that you may be one of those few.<br />
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Freedom is still sacred, and this blog wishes the best of God's graces to all the Jesus-Christians as they go their separate ways. We, here, in this blog, will continue to hold the line against terrorist vigilantes and their intrusions into the free private lives of all souls.<br />
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Here is the Biblical reference given in their plain-spoken farewell note:<br />
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<font face="Times New Roman">Now great multitudes approached Him; and He turned and said to them, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters and yes, even his own life, he canot be My disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, 'This man began to build, and was not able to finish.' Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel wheter he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he senda an embassy and asks terms of peace. So, therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he has canot be My disciple.<br />
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"Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is fit neither for the land nor the dunghill; men throw it away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."</font>Freedom Is Sacredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078570822506043335noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6944981447700375710.post-11847607226752780472010-10-31T12:12:00.000-07:002010-10-31T17:19:23.497-07:00Update On The Rick Ross Institute<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/imXFdRAQOB0?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/imXFdRAQOB0?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Freedom Is Sacredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078570822506043335noreply@blogger.com0