Australia: The Exclusive Brethren are in trouble again, as a writ is filed accusing the cult of kidnapping, fraud and a number of other crimes.
Three sisters, from India, who say they are on the run from the religious sect, allege they can link it to numerous crimes. The women also allege the Exclusive Brethren is involved in money laundering, immigration fraud in New Zealand and bribery of police and members of the judiciary in India.
We've got 3,000 pages of evidence ... and now we're going to expose this whole thing,one of the sisters told reporters in Canberra.
Exclusive Brethren accused of kidnapping—The Age, 29th July 2008.
The shadowy Exclusive Brethren religious sect has been guaranteed another $10 million in taxpayer funding for its school campuses, despite being branded an "extremist cult" which "breaks up families" by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd before the election.EXCLUSIVE: Labor backflip on Brethren—LiveNews, 14th January 2008.
A man who believed he had supernatural sexual powers killed his partner's best friend after encouraging her to sleep with him to exorcise her demons.Killer said sex would 'exorcise demons'—Sydney Morning Herald, 14th January 2008 (via Red Wolf).
A Church-in-Wales vicar has been questioned by Dyfed-Powys Police for offences relating to indecent images of children.Vicar arrest over indecent images—BBC News, 14th January 2008.
Australia: For a cult that loudly proclaims how it doesn't vote, the Exclusive Brethren seem to have extraordinary difficulty in staying the hell out of politics. Their latest bout of interference has been to send a letter to the citizens of Tasmania
warning them about the evilness of Greens leader Bob Brown.
Considering their usual dabbling in politics comes in the form of smear campaigns that are either unsigned or attributed to dodgy shelf companies, this one was signed off by 51 cult members.
Continue reading "Brethren Smearing the Greens in Tasmania Again"Australia: It appears that the bampots in the Exclusive Brethren have been breeding paedophiles again. By now I expect no one will be surprised that not only was the alleged paedophile a church leader at one point and was the trustee of a private Brethren school. No doubt wangling his way into that position, one he was reportedly very active in, to get closer to his victims.
This is the third case of kiddie fiddling that's been brought to light in the past 12 months, but the cult deny any pattern of behaviour. Between paedophilia, child abuse and the destruction of families, the Exclusive Brethren is not looking like is a terribly safe place to be.
Continue reading "Cult Caught Kiddie Fiddling Again"Australia: Exclusive Brethren sanctioned child abuse has featured quite a bit on the Prattle and, oh look, it raises its ugly head yet again.
FORMER Family Court chief justice Alastair Nicholson has accused the Exclusive Brethren church of brainwashing and abusing children by denying them access to their non-Brethren parents.Continue reading "Religiously Justified Child Abuse"
Mr Nicholson also accused it of failing to comply with court orders, of stacking Family Court rooms with supporters to intimidate opponents, of using their almost unlimited legal funds toconduct appeals no matter how hopeless, and ofunacceptablecomments about being above the law.
Australia: Oh dear, John Howard has finally announced an election and his bestest buddies are sprung illegally moving large sums of cash around the world to fund smear campaigns in his favour.
A former member of the Exclusive Brethren has revealed the secretive religious sect has been transferring large sums of money across the world, possibly to fund political campaigns in Australia and the US.Continue reading "Brethren Outed for Illegally Shifting Cash"
In recent years Brethren leaders have met with numerous Liberal ministers, including Prime Minister John Howard.
Now ABC TV's Four Corners program has revealed that tens of thousands of dollars in Brethren cash have been transferred around the world in envelopes.
Australia: John Howard hasn't announced the election yet and already it looks like the bampots from the Exclusive Brethren are running their smear campaigns
A leaflet had been distributed in parts of Wentworth that warned against voting Labor or Green under the banner Keep Australia Christian.Continue reading "Brethren Running Political Smear Campaigns Again"
The two parties were accused of the destruction of families through supporting gay marriage and same-sex adoption, and turning a blind eye to drugs, prostitution, pornography and immigration from non-Christian countries.
Although the leaflet contains no authorisation required for political advertising, Newhouse believed theextremist materialcould be the work of the Exclusive Brethren.
Australia: There was a recent proclamation from the Brethren via their official PR wonk that they would no longer be dabbling in politics. As with all Brethren claims, that one appears to be a big steaming pile of manure too. Feòrag has pointed me in the direction of a tale about the wingnuts corrupting a local council to get their agenda sorted.
Continue reading "Brethren Caught Corrupting Local Council"Australia: It's getting so you can't open the paper without reading yet another story of Exclusive Brethren hate-mongering and stupidity. That being the case, let's see what the wingnuts have been up to since we last looked in on them.
Continue reading "The Almost Weekly Exclusive Brethren Round Up of Stupidity"Australia: One of the recent Exclusive Brethren [Prattle archive] court battles has wound up with the Tasmanian Family Court granting access rights to the excommunicated father, which will no doubt be ignored by the cult. Interestingly enough, the judge bowed to cult lunacy and insisted that the father keep his children isolated and ignorant of reality while they're in his custody.
An excommunicated member of the Exclusive Brethren sect has been ordered by the Family Court not to expose his children to television, radio or non-members of the church in a landmark decision granting him access rights.Continue reading "Court Win Against Cult"
Despite finding Exclusive Brethren members and the mother had beenabusivein denying the father access visits after the Tasmanian couple's 2003 separation, his bid for full custody was denied because it would be too traumatic for the children to be removed from the secretive Christian sect.
Australia: Christmas is generally the season when Christian religions put on a good front in the hope that they'll keep the seasonal church-goers beyond the holiday. Not so the Exclusive Brethren, who aside from becoming Prattle regulars, have shown their Christmas spirit with an exciting display of corruption, child abuse and paedophilia.
Brethren schools seem to have the enviable ability to tap parents for extremely large sums of money, even in small country towns.
Former principals, teachers and students of the Brethren schools agree the sect is able to raise millions of dollars a year from parents at concerts and auctions, calledContinue reading "Christmas: The Season of Giving"fun days. The most recent fun day in Sydney is said to have taken $1.3 million from the city's Brethren members, many of whom run successful businesses. Raising $500,000 is commonplace ...It makes a huge amount of money,she [former Brethren member,Janie] said.Even in a little country town they could get $80,000 on a Saturday, and they probably do it three to four times a year.
Australia: The Exclusive Brethren seem to be determined to bring themselves to the attentions of The Prattle of late. This time it's in relation to them scoring favours from the PM. One can only assume this is in return for the cult doing a hatchet job on the Greens in the Tasmania elections.
Continue reading "PM Bends Over for Loony Fundies"
Australia: The Exclusive Brethren, a loony fundy Christian cult, has been caught distributing false and misleading documents about the Tasmanian Greens. They're also guilty of bankrolling the half-page ads claiming that the Tasmanian Greens' progressive transgender and intersex policies would ruin our families and societies
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National Greens Leader Bob Brown says an election pamphlet bearing his photograph and being distributed statewide is full of hate.Continue reading "Loony Fundy Group Behind Political Smear Campaign"
This is a very highly cashed up campaign by people whose bigotry is miserable and divisive of families. It is in strong contrast to the Greens inclusive and family-enhancing policies,Senator Brown said.
