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Joseph] Kony’s power, including his ability to find them if they escape.‖ (New Vision,
Internet, 6/1/04)
UN Appeal to Rebel Group
The UN and humanitarian organizations working in Northern Uganda have asked the Lord’s
Resistance Army to stop abducting children to serve in its forces and to enter into a
dialogue with the government. (F. Ahimbisibwe, New Vision, Internet, 6/16/04)
Lyndon Larouche
Parents Call for Cult Awareness
The parents of Jeremiah Duggan, who was struck by a car and killed shortly after
leaving a meeting run by a Lyndon LaRouche-connected group, in Wiesbaden,
Germany, have launched a campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of ―cult-style‖
organizations.
German authorities ruled Jeremiah‘s death a suicide, but London coroner Dr. William
Dolman said Jeremiah died ―while in a state of terror,‖ perhaps caused in part, his
parents say, by the young man‘s realization during a week-long retreat at LaRouche‘s
Schiller Institute that he, a Jew, had become involved with an anti-Semitic group.
Mrs. Erica Duggan said: ―We would like to see the establishment of a Cult Awareness
Week in memory of my son ...and that schools and colleges warn young people and
students about the need to be vigilant against organizations that prey upon them.‖
In 1995, the German government decreed that the LaRouche political organization was
a political cult, and critics have said membership involves the emotional and
psychological manipulation of vulnerable young recruits, who are expected to devote
their lives to LaRouche and his warnings of economic apocalypse. (Terry Kirby, The
Independent, Internet, 3/27/04)
Claims Star Wars Defense Was His Idea
Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche says the Star Wars defense was his idea, not
President Reagan‘s, and that it emerged from a series of meetings between LaRouche and
Reagan staffers in the early 1980s. ―The most important product of those meetings was my
1982–83 role in conducting back-channel talks with the Soviet government ...The
proposal changed the world,‖ LaRouche said. (Charles Mahaleris, Talon News, Internet,
6/11/04)
Mind Control/Marc Dutroux
Victims Embraced Abuser
Belgian pedophile Marc Dutroux has been convicted of murdering two girls he kidnapped,
imprisoned, and tortured. Two other girls whom he kidnapped hid from police rescuers and
embraced Dutroux because he had persuaded them he was protecting them from a gang
that wanted to kill him. (Philippe Siuberski, AFP, Internet, 6/18/04)
New Alliance Party
Nader’s Cult Support
A ―fascistic zombie cult outfit‖ headed by Fred Newman and Lenora Fulani, leaders of the
former New Alliance Party (NAP), is ―more or less the [Ralph] Nader [Presidential]
campaign.‖ [Newman and Fulani promulgate a kind of psychotherapy that critics say
involves unethical and damaging manipulation.] Nader believes the ―Newmanites‖ are not
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Election Commission, so you can ‗jump on.‘ ‖ (Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair, Internet,
5/04)
Order of Christ Sophia
Cult-like Controls Alleged
Former member Nancy Wainer says the Boston area branch of the Order of Christ Sophia,
a self-described mystical Christian organization devoted to meditation and prayer, is a
dangerous cult that breaks up families. ―They use deception, mind control, hypnosis, all
kinds of devious tactics to get you to follow them blindly.‖
Wainer‘s adult daughter, Andrea, now with the new name Michelle, given her by the Order,
has moved to Oakland, CA, to be with the group‘s leader, the self-ordained Rev. Peter
Bowes. Bowes was forced several years ago to give up his license to practice psychology in
Wisconsin after patients filed complaints that he used his position to recruit them into the
Order.
Wainer laments: ―They‘ve taught my daughter that I‘m a terrible person. My daughter
doesn‘t have any memories anymore of the loving relationship we have.‖ Says Andrea‘s
father, Paul Cohen: ―There are times I can talk to Andrea, but then Michelle takes over, and
when she is in control, she is in control.‖ Another set of parents has similar complaints, but
two who are current members feel their family‘s association with the Order has been good.
Order co-founder Mother Claire Watts said, when visiting Boston recently: ―The thing they
call brainwashing is visualizing yourself in a bubble of light, letting go of negative energy. I
feel sorry for their sons and daughters whose parents get on TV to say how stupid they
are.‖ (Boston Channel, Internet, 6/28/04)
Persuasion
Using Religion to Persuade Investors
Salesmen using religious terminology bilk investors out of millions of dollars annually. Jon
Bloch, assistant professor of sociology at Southern Connecticut State University explains
that for people with a certain kind of religious background, the invocation of certain words
or passages from Scripture ―can produce an emotional experience‖ that makes them
especially vulnerable to a sales pitch. ―If you get someone who‘s wearing their religion on
their shirt sleeve and the same time offering to advise you on financial matters, there tends
to be a higher level of trust than with just any banker or financial advisor.‖ The victim may
feel doubly violated, for there is not only a financial loss, but spiritual victimization. (Paul
Doyle, Hartford Courant, Internet, 4/18/04)
Group Pressure Can Transform Individuals
The [unnamed] author of a new biography of the eminent psychologist Stanley Milgram,
entitled The Man Who Shocked the World, discusses how Milgram‘s experiments that
induced normal men to give apparently fatal electric shocks to volunteer subjects
revolutionized our understanding of social psychology. We now see genocides and other
atrocities as largely the work of ordinary people, not sadists or otherwise abnormal
individuals.
Today, we believe that most people can be transformed into mass murderers under the
right circumstances because, as other experiments have shown, there is a ―strong tendency
to conform to the dominant beliefs of whatever group they happen to find themselves in,
even if this requires denying apparently overwhelming evidence.‖
Indeed, experiments show that people actually internalize new beliefs under group pressure,
rather than simply choosing to accept or reject them. So it‘s not surprising that a great