I Hate Cults
WHY CULTS EXIST
Cults are prisons for various power groups, such as political power groups of the extreme right and extreme left. That is their purpose and the main reason for their existence.
When a person is part of a secret power group, and they do something seriously wrong, the penalty may be death. On the other hand, death is pretty permanent, and if they kill this person, they lose a member of their group, perhaps someone valuable, someone who may be specially trained for a specific kind of job. And murder is a serious felony with no statute of limitations so it takes careful planning and use of professionals to avoid ever being caught. It's a hassle.
So murdering the errant or disloyal person is not always the best practical plan.
Sometimes a prison sentence in a very tough prison would work much better.
Such secret power groups can sometimes get a person convicted of a crime by framing him or her but that takes a lot of time, effort and money, bribing judges etc. And if that imprisoned person can garner any serious legal help, such as a good attorney or support organization, they can often eventually overturn an unfair sentence or unjust conviction.
Furthermore, in the US at least, prison, particularly for a first conviction, is really not that tough. The law doesn't allow "cruel or unusual punishment." You can have visits from family and friends. The food is not gourmet but it's adequate nutrition. They are not allow to beat you, torture you or seriously humiliate you.
Cults provide the kind of prison these power groups need. In a cult, you can be treated in such a way that if it you were treated like that in a prison, you could sue the prison successfully and leave that prison as a very rich person.
Cults can do many things prisons can't. They can starve people, and work them hard for long hours with no rest. They can punish people in humiliating ways. They can keep a person indefinitely and deny that person visits from the outside. Cults, unlike prisons, can have total control over their members. No government official or agency inspects cults or has authority over them.
So...when a secret power group, such as parts of the military intelligence world (as an extreme right example), or the underground part of the Communist Party (an extreme left example), needs to punish an errant member of their group, and doesn't want to kill that member, that person may be told he or she must join a cult. The alternative is death (usually a very ugly one) and that murder would usually include at least one or more family members.
Of course, not everyone in a cult is serving an unofficial sentence dictated by a power group. Most people in cults are drawn in out of desperation; street people, addicts, the very naive and the very lonely. Such people are trapped into cults by their difficulties in surviving on their own outside the cult. But a definite percentage of people in cults are there on orders from the leaders of their power group. They will only get out when their power group releases them.
Scientology has their own prisons for members who get in trouble. People in these prisons are worked half to death. They sleep on cement floors. They are not allowed to talk to each other or have visitors or communicate with the outside world. Other cults also have special restricted areas where they punish their members and there are no rules or laws they have to follow.
Scientology is only one well known example. Most cults are little known or completely obscure. There are still cults in Guyana, for instance, near where Jonestown once was (the old Jonestown cult property is now owned by the CIA and used to train immigrants who have had to leave their countries due to their support of the CIA). The cults in central America are used by the military intelligence community. Besides being places of punishment, they are also good places to stash a fugitive CIA trained spy while figuring out where to send him or her next.
Here is an example of what I am describing: Back in the late 1970s, congressional Representative Leo Ryan took a serious interest in what was happening at Jonestown after a number of his constituents complained about their children disappearing into Jonestown. There were rumors of people being held there against their will. As Ryan investigated, his daughter, a young adult, heard rumors (or maybe she knew something) about suicide drills and an upcoming mass murder- suicide. She warned him repeatedly not to go there to investigate. He went, found out that several people wanted to leave and was murdered right after he left the property, precipitating the infamous Jonestown suicide-murders. Many people thought it odd that right after that, Rep. Ryan's daughter joined a cult! You'd think that's the last thing she would ever do under the circumstances. She is still there, apparently serving a life sentence for warning her father by revealing information she was supposed to keep secret. The cult she is in is in Arizona and it's a major cult with many members. (Rajnishpuram...will check spelling).
The extreme left (example: the very secret underground part of the Communist Party) uses their own cults. At one point, years ago, they used Synanon. It was not only for drug addicts. A lot of these groups have their public facades. But underneath it is a prison-like world designed to punish, humiliate and subdue errant members of power groups.
No one being punished in these cults would ever dare tell the truth. After all, their sentence could always be changed to torture and death for their entire family. And they believe they have a chance of getting out eventually if they cooperate and stay silent about why they are there. That is why you will never hear the truth I have written here spoken in a news interview.
Cults contain the helpless, the hopeless, the extremely naive and those being punished by a power group they once joined. These punished people are suffering immensely but there is no way they will ever tell you about it.
Cults are prisons for various power groups, such as political power groups of the extreme right and extreme left. That is their purpose and the main reason for their existence.
When a person is part of a secret power group, and they do something seriously wrong, the penalty may be death. On the other hand, death is pretty permanent, and if they kill this person, they lose a member of their group, perhaps someone valuable, someone who may be specially trained for a specific kind of job. And murder is a serious felony with no statute of limitations so it takes careful planning and use of professionals to avoid ever being caught. It's a hassle.
So murdering the errant or disloyal person is not always the best practical plan.
Sometimes a prison sentence in a very tough prison would work much better.
Such secret power groups can sometimes get a person convicted of a crime by framing him or her but that takes a lot of time, effort and money, bribing judges etc. And if that imprisoned person can garner any serious legal help, such as a good attorney or support organization, they can often eventually overturn an unfair sentence or unjust conviction.
Furthermore, in the US at least, prison, particularly for a first conviction, is really not that tough. The law doesn't allow "cruel or unusual punishment." You can have visits from family and friends. The food is not gourmet but it's adequate nutrition. They are not allow to beat you, torture you or seriously humiliate you.
Cults provide the kind of prison these power groups need. In a cult, you can be treated in such a way that if it you were treated like that in a prison, you could sue the prison successfully and leave that prison as a very rich person.
Cults can do many things prisons can't. They can starve people, and work them hard for long hours with no rest. They can punish people in humiliating ways. They can keep a person indefinitely and deny that person visits from the outside. Cults, unlike prisons, can have total control over their members. No government official or agency inspects cults or has authority over them.
So...when a secret power group, such as parts of the military intelligence world (as an extreme right example), or the underground part of the Communist Party (an extreme left example), needs to punish an errant member of their group, and doesn't want to kill that member, that person may be told he or she must join a cult. The alternative is death (usually a very ugly one) and that murder would usually include at least one or more family members.
Of course, not everyone in a cult is serving an unofficial sentence dictated by a power group. Most people in cults are drawn in out of desperation; street people, addicts, the very naive and the very lonely. Such people are trapped into cults by their difficulties in surviving on their own outside the cult. But a definite percentage of people in cults are there on orders from the leaders of their power group. They will only get out when their power group releases them.
Scientology has their own prisons for members who get in trouble. People in these prisons are worked half to death. They sleep on cement floors. They are not allowed to talk to each other or have visitors or communicate with the outside world. Other cults also have special restricted areas where they punish their members and there are no rules or laws they have to follow.
Scientology is only one well known example. Most cults are little known or completely obscure. There are still cults in Guyana, for instance, near where Jonestown once was (the old Jonestown cult property is now owned by the CIA and used to train immigrants who have had to leave their countries due to their support of the CIA). The cults in central America are used by the military intelligence community. Besides being places of punishment, they are also good places to stash a fugitive CIA trained spy while figuring out where to send him or her next.
Here is an example of what I am describing: Back in the late 1970s, congressional Representative Leo Ryan took a serious interest in what was happening at Jonestown after a number of his constituents complained about their children disappearing into Jonestown. There were rumors of people being held there against their will. As Ryan investigated, his daughter, a young adult, heard rumors (or maybe she knew something) about suicide drills and an upcoming mass murder- suicide. She warned him repeatedly not to go there to investigate. He went, found out that several people wanted to leave and was murdered right after he left the property, precipitating the infamous Jonestown suicide-murders. Many people thought it odd that right after that, Rep. Ryan's daughter joined a cult! You'd think that's the last thing she would ever do under the circumstances. She is still there, apparently serving a life sentence for warning her father by revealing information she was supposed to keep secret. The cult she is in is in Arizona and it's a major cult with many members. (Rajnishpuram...will check spelling).
The extreme left (example: the very secret underground part of the Communist Party) uses their own cults. At one point, years ago, they used Synanon. It was not only for drug addicts. A lot of these groups have their public facades. But underneath it is a prison-like world designed to punish, humiliate and subdue errant members of power groups.
No one being punished in these cults would ever dare tell the truth. After all, their sentence could always be changed to torture and death for their entire family. And they believe they have a chance of getting out eventually if they cooperate and stay silent about why they are there. That is why you will never hear the truth I have written here spoken in a news interview.
Cults contain the helpless, the hopeless, the extremely naive and those being punished by a power group they once joined. These punished people are suffering immensely but there is no way they will ever tell you about it.
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