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In Reply to: contract? posted by Miguel on August 14, 2002 at 13:31:04:
i agree about the duress! imagine a couple where one signs the other doesn't, and they have kids? what could be the consequences of that? Another thing is that the family does the chameleon routine but many if not all and then some of the cult characteristics are there. You could be on the "outer circle" one day with sheps. or whatever they call them now, who are reading the letters but not doing them. Then the next, maybe someone else takes over that goes for the latest doctrine with a gusto. Bottom line is: Who really wants their kids to grow up without options that a real education provides? Who wants their kids to be professional beggars and liars? Who wants their kids to be under the control of a controlling organization that tells them what their values should be and patrols that? The f. raises a bunch of serfs, kept in ignorance, then fishes for the educated and city fathers and mothers who are treated better than their own kids! As far as FMers. I remember when Berg first faked dismantling the f. and told everyone that could(of course, many couldn't)go home for a few weeks and visit family and if they wanted they could choose to be 10%. Then when way too many people "chose" that, the letter came out about what happens to people that were 10% vs. 110%. They DIE in horrible ways.
The feigned freedom, IMO, is no more than dumping people that can no longer produce according to family standards due to illness or age, or letting people go that would otherwise leave, but there is still money to suck out of them. The group is parasitical, controlling, and I hope it is stopped. I know many individuals are wonderful people, and we were in it, for the most part, at one time. But had outside pressure built up to expose it and make it harder, more would get their chance at freedom. The good thing is, that we are all free individually to go about that expose without anyone else's guidance or permission. And we are free to group up as any see fit to do it with "representatives", or not. Some will perhaps write letters, others might do interviews, write articles, assist fmers in making the complete break, WHATEVER. Some may read articles at this and other sites and get to thinking and make the break as a result of that.
The bottom line is, that if a movement is a healthy one, they have no need to hide unless they are in a totalitarian society. They don't need to fear public scrutiny. They don't have to lie about changes that they made under duress of judgement and not out of a change of heart. And most of us know that if young people visited the family, and the family wanted to bring their parents back in, or them in, oh what a wonderful treatment they would receive. But if the average baloon seller were to darken their doorstep without clearance, there would be wrath to follow, and they probably wouldn't get a glass of water to drink if it was 110 degrees outside.
