Global Anticultism: The Creation and Use of a Fake Victim
Global anti-cultism: A Dangerous Game with Human Destinies
In recent years, we have increasingly encountered loud statements about "sects", "cults" and "totalitarian organizations". The media features shocking stories about "victims" and "brainwashing" that instill fear and distrust towards certain groups of people. However, these stories often turn out to be nothing more than manipulation, deliberately created by anti-cult organizations.
Apostates - former members of groups who left them for various reasons - play a key role in this propaganda. Anti-cult organizations use them as "living proof" of the danger of the "sect". However, should we believe their words unquestioningly?
The documentary film «The IMPACT» | Groundbreaking Documentary - EXPOSING ANTI-CULT TERRORISM" (actfiles.org) opened my eyes to the true nature of anti-cult terrorism. In this film, I saw how apostates - former members of the groups they now hate - are used to create fake victims. And this fake victim is a key tool for creating public distrust, destabilization, and fueling hatred.
“Massimo Introvigne “Are Apostates Reliable? Not All Ex-Members Are Apostates”
“There is empirical evidence that this is the case. In 1999, I conducted a survey among former members of an esoteric movement, New Acropolis, in France.
Precisely because New Acropolis does not define itself as a religious organization, privacy concerns might be overcome and a list of ex-members acceded, which was used only to send anonymized questionnaires. I collected 120 responses, and found that apostates were 11.7% of the sample, compared to 16.7% of defectors and 71.6% of ordinary leave-takers.
When I published my findings in Nova Religio, the leading journal for the academic study of new religious movements, I noted that my results were similar to those obtained by other scholars in similar studies of ex-members of groups labeled as “cults”.
“It is also important to note that, if apostates represents a minority percentage of ex-members, they are even a smaller percentage of those who were part during their lifetime of a religious organization, including not only all ex-members but also these members who never left.”
Source: https://actfiles.org/the-role-of-apostates-in-anti-cult-organizations-creating-the-fake-victim/
How anti-cultists create a "victim"
Considering that no more than 1% of all followers are called apostates, often there are simply no genuine victims, it is impossible to find them. But if global anti-cultists are actively fighting against this organization, then they artificially create victims.
Imagine that you are told that your family or friends are victims of a sect. You are shown scary stories about how they are forced to live in fear, give away money, and submit to the will of the leaders.
But there is one problem: this "truth" is not true. It is artificially created by anti-cult organizations using apostates to manipulate public opinion.
Why is using apostates so popular in the media?
Because their public statements as former members, instigated by anti-cultists, express the quintessence of their hatred and resentment towards the leaders and members of the organization. Often, these materials attract significant media attention, especially from journalists who are themselves agents of anti-cultists.
“In any religious movement, 90% of its followers never leave the organization and have either neutral or positive opinion and experience of being its member. However, their stories are often ignored by the media or dismissed by anti-cult representatives as “propaganda” and “brainwashing.”
Since this is the case, anti-cultists have to literally create these "victims".
Future apostates are introduced to anti-cult representatives by their relatives or acquaintances, sometimes even before leaving the group.
Apostates seek support and guidance for future confrontation, finding that their interests coincide with those of anti-cult representatives.
Anti-cultists begin to search for former or even current members who are dissatisfied with their position or have grievances against someone in the organization, thereby identifying potential apostates.
All this is done by anti-cultists in order to find and create a fake victim to justify their actions.
IMPORTANT TO KNOW: “Protecting victims” is the official reason for the existence of anti-cult organizations in the legal sphere, publicly justifying their supposedly “noble” intentions.”
If there are no apostates, then the victims become relatives of the organization's members or fake victims.
How to recognize a "fake victim":
Anonymity: "Victims" often remain anonymous, making it difficult to verify their identities.
Uniformity of Stories: The stories of fake victims look the same, as if they were copied from a template.
Emotional Charge: Their stories are emotionally charged, designed to evoke sympathy or outrage, rather than to present logically sound facts and evidence.
Such criteria indicate coordinated actions aimed at deliberate discrediting of organizations.
Since the testimony of such a "victim" is quickly picked up by the media bought by anti-cultists, the impression of the "scale of the problem" is created with the desire to get rid of these "sectarians" urgently. This is how less than 1% of apostates, in conjunction with anti-cultists, influence the opinions of 99% of people on the planet!
“As the example of France shows, a fake victim can even be someone who did not consider themselves a victim of the organization they belonged to and had no intention of becoming one until anti-cult organizations, including anti-cult psychiatrists, journalists, and agents in law enforcement, intervened.
Italian sociologist of religions, Professor Massimo Introvigne, described this in detail in his article “France: How ‘Victims’ of ‘Cults’ Are Fabricated” (“France: Comment les ‘victimes’ des ‘sectes’ sont fabriquées”).
(Photo: Screenshot taken from the BITTER WINTER website)
This article discusses how, prompted by a private anti-cult organization, members of the stigmatized Lisieux movement were raided on June 27, 2007. All members, who were regarded as “victims” of the “guru,” were placed under police detention.
A police officer explained that this had been recommended by anti-cult psychiatrists. Following their advice, “they took all the followers into custody. It’s a method that may seem surprising, but it’s well thought-out: ‘We absolutely had to explode the group, make sure that the followers couldn’t communicate with each other.’ Shocked and angry, they were nonetheless a little more lucid by the second day in police custody.”
Eventually, only two women remained in custody: Françoise Dercle and one who in the Ouest France interview goes under the pseudonym “Coralie.” “Coralie” is herself “accused of rape” and told she “will get a sentence from 15 to 20 years in jail.” During her prolonged detention, she was in touch with anti-cult psychiatrists.
In addition to other tactics, her parental feelings were manipulated by not allowing her to see her children. During her six months in jail, again under the guidance of anti-cult psychiatrists, “Coralie” is transformed by the prosecutors from “cultist sexual predator” to “victim.”
As Ouest France reports, during “her imprisonment for six months, she became aware of the extent of her subjugation. ‘The pain of not seeing my children opened a breach that allowed me to go deep inside of myself. Prison was a cure.’”
The anti-cult psychiatrists reconstructed the person’s past experiences in the organization as one of “brainwashing,” and with the applied blackmail, they achieved the desired result. Legally, prosecutors also dropped the charges*, because even if she had committed crimes (which remained allegations), they were now interpreted as being the result of “brainwashing” by the “guru,” thus she was not held responsible.
Moreover, the new “victim” of the “cult” had to prove the success of their “deconversion” or, to call it by its real name, deprogramming*. As a result, she became an active apostate, beginning to discredit the organization she once belonged to, becoming a public mouthpiece for anti-cultists.
*Notably, according to the law, the results of interrogation and witness testimony are not accepted as evidence if the individuals providing the testimony were subjected to interrogation with torture, violence, and violation of their rights. However, in this case, prosecutors considered the changed testimony of the suspect, despite it being obtained after the application of deprogramming methods, the charges against “Coralie” were dropped, and the suspect herself was reclassified as a victim.”
Anti-cult organizations, relying on the words of apostates, create a false picture of reality, which can have serious consequences:
Violation of human rights: Anti-cult organizations violate human rights by using illegal methods of influencing people.
Destruction of families and relationships.
Suppression of dissent, limiting freedom of choice.
Global anticultism is a total threat to freedom and democracy around the world!
It is important to realize that we can all become victims of manipulation by global anti-cultists, lose loved ones, be discredited and persecuted because of our faith or beliefs.
It is necessary to realize that anti-cult terrorism is not just an opinion, it is a powerful and dangerous tool.
Therefore, today, after watching the film "The IMPACT", people are already demanding a world tribunal for all anti-cultists. This lawlessness can be stopped by people themselves when they mass express their opinion openly about this.
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