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Cultic Studies Review
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topic terrorism

Vol. 1, No. 1, 2002

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News Summaries
 

News Summaries: February 01-15, 2002

  Group: Al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden,American Taliban, John Walker, terrorism, violence   Founder:
  Category:   Topic: terrorism, violence

Terrorism

Muslim Extremists Found Guilty of Treason in Malaysia

A Malaysian court found 19 members of an Islamic cult guilty Thursday of waging an armed revolt to overthrow Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's government and replace it with an Islamic state. The cult's leader, Mohamed Amin Mohamed Razali, a former soldier and martial arts fanatic, convinced followers that they were protected by mystical powers. Fox News, 12/27/01, Internet)

Bin Laden as Cult Leader 

The videotape of Osama bin Laden's vicious dinner talk served to persuade all but the most irrational that he was behind more than 3,000 murders on Sept. 11 and also that he is the megalomaniacal leader of a cult based on the disfiguring of a great religion . . .

A great revelation in bin Laden's table talk is the pathology of the cultish system that he and his followers have constructed. Dreams shaped by that system are taken as divinely bestowed visions that foretell reality. This reveals a self-deluding confusion of wish and reality. It serves as a reminder. International Herald Tribune 12/20/01, Internet)

Commentary: John Walker and The Fatal Flaw in Our War on Terrorism!

FactNet, 1/25/02, Internet.

 

The US Intelligence community, the US military and the US State and new Home[land] Defense departments have failed America and the World Community by neglecting to pay attention to the root causes of Terrorism. John Walker Lindh the "American Taliban" is the embarrassing proof of this failure.

 

It does not make sense to Americans that John Walker Lindh should be found amongst the Taliban and, seemingly, willing to take up arms against fellow Americans. Unless he is seen in the more probable and logical context that he is a victim of modern mind control and cult techniques. At which point he becomes a shining example of what destructive powers a religious cult using mind control can bring to bear on a fellow citizen.

 

The American public well knows how mind control cults can turn members into martyrs, like with Jonestown and Hale Bop, or how cults can turn members into terrorists, as in the Aum Shinrikyo sarin gas attacks in the Tokyo subways.

 

The Al-Qaida terrorist network is, at its core, a religious cult that is also manufacturing mind controlled cult martyrs and terrorists. These terrorists and martyrs have become of a similar mind to those people that played out the tragedies in Jonestown, Hale Bop and in the Aum Shinrikyo attacks and, not much different to the religious martyrs now turning Israel into a living hell.

 

It is not an illusion that today's mind control is so powerful that it can quickly and efficiently manufacture cult martyrs and terrorists. Just look at the extraordinary power that mind control techniques had as long as 50 years ago and then bear in mind the huge progress that has been made in refining these techniques up to the present day.

 

America's current war on terrorism is perilously flawed without a powerfully-executed, inoculative and preventative educational program on the tactics of mind control and destructive cults that is widely available in every language where these cults exists.

 

It is as irrational to charge John Walker with "conspiring with terrorists" as it would have been to put those captured and brainwashed 1940's US Air Force pilots on trial for being traitors to their country. John Walker is as much of a victim as they were. Maybe even more so because mind control has advanced 50 years since the Korean War.

 

To add insult to injury, putting John Walker on trial for treason, terrorism or conspiracy with the enemy without providing independent outside cult and mind control experts to examine what had happened to him after he was recruited by the fundamentalist Islamic group who sent him to the Al-Qaida would be a gross lack of due diligence for Walker's attorney James Brosnahan as well as for the government prosecutors James Kelley and Randy Bellows. To say that it would be grounds for a malpractice lawsuit against the defense lawyers, grounds for an appeal of any verdict as well as grounds for the removal of any judge who would allow such an injustice to be allowed is an understatement. Without John Walker being pre-trial examined by independent, court-certified cult and mind control experts like Dr Margaret Singer, professor emeritus UC Berkeley, any "show trial" of John Walker besides being a travesty of justice is a clear sign of the governments desperation for a conviction at the expense of common sense — not to mention common law.

 

John Walker is not himself the fatal flaw in our war on terrorism, just the pointer to it. Part of that fatal flaw exists in that in just a few months we have now spent over 100 billion dollars dealing with the violent symptoms of a terrorist mind control cult and we have not spent 10,000 dollars on cult and mind control education to cut off the flow of cult recruits or to turn former cult members into valuable intelligence sources or to turn existing cult members into double agents.

 

Widespread education on how mind control works in destructive cults is the first line of cost effective prevention and population inoculation that finally deals with the real causes of the manufacturing system that creates martyrs and terrorists. (This does not imply that we do not also have to address legitimate grievances or injustices, but unless we deal with the mind control and cult machinery that turns those legitimate grievances or injustices onto martyrdom or terrorism we will have an almost impossible task to get out of the dwindling spiral of terrorism increased intelligence, security, retaliation and soaring expenses and lowered productivity.)

 

Exploiting the symptoms of the estimated 20,000 terrorist cult members in the world has become very big business. Under the symptom-focused banner of "Stop Osama Ben Laden and the Terrorists" every security company, defense contractor or need of the intelligence community that again only addresses the symptoms of terrorism is getting bathed in cash just by pushing the fear button. We are spending billions for symptom handling intelligence, security and precision bombs for retaliation, but are we spending anything at all for the precision targeting and handling of the actual causes of the wave of global terrorism?

 

We have already made what could eventually become the first big cult-management mistake of fractionalizing the Al-Qaida network into many small cells by our Afghanistan attacks and now these smaller cells will be even harder to track and predict. We have won some initial small battles against the estimated 20,000 terrorists worldwide, but we are in serious danger of losing the long-term war and turning America into another terrorist-plagued, retaliation-driven "Israel" if we do not aggressively and quickly initiate a well financed preventive program of global education on mind control and the control dynamics of destructive cults.

 

The author develops his argument at greater length in the full article, which is excerpted here.

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