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I'm Joe Quinn, and this is The Sott Report
Today I'd like to talk about cults.
When anyone today,
at least, anyone in the Western world,
hears the word 'cult',
images of mind programmed devotees estranged from their families
being bilked for all their money often immediately come to mind.
If we were to play a word association game,
it's also very likely that if I said the word 'cult'
you'd probably say 'suicide' as in 'suicide cult'.
Like so many other instantly accessible associations,
it is no accident that these images and words comes to mind,
because they have been deliberately implanted in the public mind.
The thing is, the word cult didn't have any negative connotations 50 years ago.
The idea of a 'dangerous cult' has its roots in the 1960s and '70s
and the efforts by Western 'intelligence agencies'
and elements within Western governments
to co-opt and discredit what was known as the 'Human Potential Movement'
and the subsequent 'New Age' movement
and enforce a conformity of thought and belief
on hundreds of millions of people
that would keep them essentially dumbed down and ignorant.
It was, in effect, an effort, which has proved largely successful,
to suppress true human evolution,
which is dependent on access to the truth
of all areas of the human experience.
The discrediting of the human potential movement
involved the manufacturing of a series of high profile 'cult suicides'
over the past 30 years,
most notably the Jonestown massacre in Guyana in 1978,
the attack on the Branch Davidians in Waco Texas in 1993,
the Order of the Solar Temple suicides in 1994 and 1995
and the 2000 Heaven's Gate suicides,
where devotees supposedly killed themselves
in order to rendez-vous with a space ship that was travelling behind Comet Hale Bopp.
After Jonestown, 5,000 organisations
that had previously been just 'new age' or new spirituality type organisations
were now seen as cults and therefore 'dangerous'.
Jonestown was manifestly a CIA experiment
that ended with the mass *** of 900 people on the orders of the CIA.
When the bodies were discovered,
it became clear that the people at Jonestown had been making preparations
for several birthday parties.
Is that the kind of thing people who are planning to kill themselves do?
What are you exactly alledging?
I'm alledging that the media picture that was printed
that was painted, rather
and then brought out in print and so on
was that you don't have to worry about these people
because they're crazy, they'll do anything.
They're not like us.
It's my impression at this time
that they were conducting some sort of mind control experiments.
For example, they had a very modern hospital there that they bragged about.
So modern that in that population they had
medical checkups for everyone, every day.
There's no need for that unless you are conducting experiements
where you have control groups, and you are giving people...
...their given their "vitamins" every day.
And it is my guess that they were just using them as guinea pigs
to see what they could do under isolated circumstances
they take them off into a jungle someplace, far away from everybody
they get them there somehow
they they were able to see how these various drugs work
on different groups.
More than any other country in the world,
France has consistently led the field in the area of 'cult hunting'.
With less than 1% of the world's population,
France has 42% of the world's 'anti-cult' organisations,
and every one of them have been funded by a few right-wing elements
within the French government.
Chief among them is the government organisation called MIVILUDES.
In 1995, under pressure from various human rights groups
for it's oppressive policies towards alternative religious and health groups,
France manufactured its own 'cult-suicide'
in an effort to justify its desire to control the expression
of spiritual and alternative beliefs in secular France,
where rather than the individual being more important than society,
society is held to be more important than the individual.
It is more, even, than a religion.
It is the will to create mankind anew.
The Order of the Solar Temple was a quasi-masonic organisation
originally based in Switzerland.
Evidence has since come out that it was in fact
a front used by politicians and businessmen
to launder money from international arms trafficking.
In 1994, 54 supposed members of the Order of the Solar Temple,
including children and infants,
were killed in Switzerland and Quebec, Canada,
and their bodies burned.
Strangely, the windows and doors in the houses in which the bodies were found
had been sealed shut from the outside.
Yet this was still deemed to be a 'cult mass suicide'
Then, a year later, during the night of 23 December 1995,
16 people were shot and their corpses burned
in what was called a 'mass-suicide' in the Vercors region of South-eastern France
that was linked to the Order of the Solar Temple.
Authorities would ultimately claim that two people shot the others
then committed suicide "by firearm and immolation".
Overseas now,
the charred bodies of 16 people and 3 children were found today
in a remote region of the French Alps.
They're all believed to be members of the Solar Temple cult.
It's the second time in 14 months that members of the cult have perished.
53 members died in apparent ***/suicides
in Switzerland and Quebec in October of last year.
Among the victims were the wife and son of former French ski champion Jean Vuarnet.
Vuarnet has repeatedly called for a new official inquiry and,
in 2003, the bodies of his wife and son were exhumed twice at the request of the family
in order that further tests be conducted to determine the nature
of the combustible material used to burn the bodies after they were shot.
Contrary to the findings of the official report,
experts determined the presence of large quantities
of military-grade phosphorous at the site of the burning of the bodies
which would explain why parts of 9 of the 16 bodies were completely incinerated.
Both the Vuarnet family and other interested parties
have claimed that the volatile and toxic nature of phosphorus
strongly suggests the involvement of a third party in the killings
and that all 16 were in fact assassinated or 'suicided'.
In addition, two French policemen,
who had originally been tasked with infiltrating the group,
were among the dead.
In short, the Order of the Solar Temple suicides was clearly an inside job
designed to further promote the belief that any group of individuals
engaged in any form of 'alternative' lifestyle is a dangerous cult.
Cult leaders
driven to manipulate
fueled by egomania
charismatic
Sometimes he exuded all this love from his face
But beneath the allure can lurk danger.
And he looked at me with 'shark eyes'
just devoid of life.
How do cult leaders control the minds of others?
And which of them is most evil?
Immediately after these so-called 'cult suicides',
and I mean within a few days,
the French government drew up a 'black list' of 172 supposed cults in France.
The government offered no justification for why it had included any of the groups,
other than referring to the Jonestown massacre and the Solar Temple "suicides",
which were clearly covert government sponsored operations.
The list was more or less a who's who of innocuous alternative religious groups
and groups advocating organic farming methods,
and included:
Reiki and Tai Chi Practitioners,
kinestherapists who sold pharmacy products,
an evangelical community,
practitioners of the Hamer method,
practitioners of Qi-Qong,
Steiner Schools,
health professionals using Bach Flower remedies
and those using neuro-linguistic programming methods.
Since then, the list has been used to justify several dawn raids by French police
on organic farming and alternative health groups
and has created an atmosphere in France
where just mentioning the word 'meditation', for example,
will provoke concerned looks from average French citizens.
So the question is, why is the French government sponsoring such draconian groups
that are tasked with suppressing all things alternative in France?
The second president of France's pre-eminent anti-cult organisation, MIVILUDES,
is Jean-Michel Roulet.
Roulet is a career 'spook', or intelligence operative
and has held many high-level positions within the French intelligence and Defense departments.
While he has been heavily involved in France's investigation and suppression of 'cults' for several years,
the reason for his appointment as the head of MIVILUDES becomes clear
when we realise that Roulet was the Secretary for Security and Internal Affairs
at the time of the 'group suicide' associated with the Order of the Solar Temple,
and heavily involved in the investigation
--or rather, the cover up--
that resulted in the 'dangerous cult' hysteria in France.
In 2008, George Fenech took over from Roulet
and has been the President of MIVILUDES ever since.
MIVILUDES includes in its list of 'cult identifiers'
the practice of alternative medicine and growing natural, chemical-free food.
The reason for the inclusion of such benign and often beneficial practices
becomes obvious when we realise that George Fenech
is also a founding member of Momagri,
a 'think tank' established in France in 2005
as a "movement for a world agricultural organisation"
which advocates for a global agricultural governance system.
Basically, Momagri is a Big Agri-business lobbying outfit,
petitioning governments on behalf of multinational corporations
to dissolve any remaining restrictions on GMO crops.
And who are the biggest thorn in the side of GMO crop producers?
Organic farmers and the increasing numbers of people who buy organic produce of course!
Just to give you an idea of the type of government officials that support these organisations;
at the first MIVILUDES seminar in Lyon in 2009
the then Minister for Justice, Jean-Marie Bockel,
compared 'cultic abuses' to - and this is a direct quote -
"mutant viruses which spread like insidious poison,
manipulating human behaviour and minds against the dignity of people
and fundamental freedoms."
Bockel cited "new risks,
including the use of the Internet behind the growth of this "mutant virus"
which he said was "to be construed as pathology of belief
on the basis of singularity and irregularity of belief"
and called for a "strengthening of European judicial cooperation
because large organized cults know no borders."
The bodies of 48 members of the doomsday cult
were found in burned-down buildings in a small town in Switzerland.
5 more bodies were found in a burned house in Quebec.
Investigators say the cult was obsessed with death
and considered it an illusion.
MIVILUDES President, Georges Fenech also has a history of involvement
in taking kick backs from individuals involved in arms trafficking,
which establishes an interesting link
to the real story behind the Order of the Solar Temple 'suicides'
which was a cover for money laundering from arms trafficking.
Today, and especially in the West, when people hear the world 'cult'
they will often think of Scientology.
Based on all of the available evidence,
Scientology does indeed seem to be a real 'cult'
in the sense that it manipulates and abuses the trust of its members.
Although so far, there haven't been many 'mass suicides' associated with Scientology.
The problem is that Scientology seems to be a 'protected' cult
and appears to be a part of the original attempts
to discredit the human potential movement
that began several decades ago in the USA.
You see, there are two main ways to discredit alternative health and religious movements.
You can create the reality of 'suicide' cults
to destroy the reputation of other genuine organisations that you cannot control,
and you can also set up your own cult that you control and,
as an added bonus,
you can use as a cover for all sorts of illegal activities.
Scientology seems to fit that profile.
Scientology seems to have beenborn out of the CIA's obsession with 'psychic abilities'.
This research is best known as a result of disclosures about the CIA's MKULTRA Program,
where hundreds of millions of dollars were used to fund experiments
on hundreds of unwitting people
using substances like LSD which alter personality structure in such a way
that the recipient becomes abnormally dependent on another person.
Using unknowing Candian citizens as test subjects
Cameron had developed a new proceedure which caught the eye of the MKULTRA researchers
as well as the Candian intelligence community.
He was hired by the CIA and the Canadian government
to futher explore the treatment that he called Psychic Driving.
First, Cameron proposed that they would use intensive electroshock
and LSD, and other disorienting drugs
to, in his terms, de-pattern individuals.
Basically, to wipe the slate clean.
Take for example the fact that key researchers in the CIA's mind control research,
such as Harold Puthoff, Ingo Swann and Pat Price
were all high level Scientologists in the early days.
Consider also that one core feature of the CIA's psychic research programs
was 'remote viewing'
which was also one of the advanced abilities promised by Scientology.
In another link between CIA activities, Scientology
and the activities of the Order of the Solar Temple and certain French politicians,
L Ron Hubbard's son has claimed that Scientology was used
as a cover to run large amounts of drugs into the USA from Mexico and Columbia.
Basically those allegations I made were true because
throughout, up to 1959 I was deeply involved in all of it.
What did you see, specifically?
Give me an example. When you say "criminal means"
like, for example, what did you see?
Fraud and deception.
The involvement with... in the early days in Phoenix, Arizona...
...for example, in 1952 the involvement with
organized crime.
Organized crime, in what capacity?
The use of Scientology money, his own money
to finance drug importations
into the country from Mexico and Columbia.
You saw these things?
Yes, I was involved with several of the incidents.
The problem here is that, in France,
Scientology appears to enjoy the protection of high level members of the French government.
While major government-sponsored cult hunting organisations like MIVIULDES
go around attacking and destroying alternative health and lifestyle groups,
when it comes to Scientology,
while publicly denounced by MIVILUDES as a dangerous cult,
French laws have been conveniently amended to allow Scientology
to continue practicing freely in France.
So what's the take home message here?
Well, it seems that the modern day definition of a 'cult',
has been deliberately created by Western intelligence agencies
by way of staged cult suicides
and used by Western governments to attack, defame and destroy
any and all grass-roots groups and organisations
that pose a threat to the main interests of big government.
Those interests being control of the means to generate vast amounts of wealth for themselves,
and control of the beliefs and awareness of the general population.