Monday 30 July 2012

Frank L. VanderSloot, another 'Mormon MLM' racketeer who has bought Mitt Romney.


From 'The Universal Identifying Characteristics of a Cult (David Brear, Axiom Books, copyright 2005).

Apart from its use in the sense of ‘a popular fashion especially followed by a specific section of society’ or ‘a person or thing popularised in this way,’ the traditional definition of the English noun, cult (Latin cultus worship), has been ‘a system of religious worship (Latin religiosus obligation, bondage) especially as expressed in ritual,’ or ‘devotion or homage to a person or thing.’ However, the word is now also used as shorthand for what is more accurately described as a pernicious cult. This evolving, criminogenic phenomenon can be briefly described as: 

any self-perpetuating, non-rational/esoteric, ritual belief system established or perverted for the clandestine purpose of human exploitation.

Such groups are identified by the following, essential characteristics :


1). Deception. Pernicious cults are presented externally as traditional associations. These can be arbitrarily defined by their instigators as almost any banal group (‘religious’, ‘cultural’, ‘political’, ‘commercial’, etc.). However, internally, they are always totalitarian (i.e. they are centrally-controlled and require of their core-adherents an absolute subservience to the group and its patriarchal, and/ or matriarchal, leadership above all other persons). By their very nature, pernicious cults never present themselves in their true colours. Consequently, no one ever becomes involved with one as a result of his/her fully-informed consent.


2). Self-appointed sovereign leadership. Pernicious cults are instigated and ruled by psychologically dominant individuals, and/or bodies of psychologically dominant individuals (often with impressive, made-up names, and/or ranks, and/or titles), who hold themselves accountable to no one. These individuals have severe and inflexible Narcissistic Personalities (i.e. they suffer from a chronic psychological disorder, especially when resulting in a grandiose sense of self-importance/ righteousness and the compulsion to take advantage of others and to control others’ views of, and behaviour towards, them).* They steadfastly pretend moral and intellectual authority whilst pursuing various, hidden, criminal objectives (fraudulent, and/or sexual, and/or violent, etc.). The admiration of their adherents only serves to confirm, and magnify, the leaders’ strong sense of self-entitlement and fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beautyideal love, etc.
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‘Narcissistic Personality Disorder,’ is a psychological term first used in 1971 by Dr. Heinz Kohut (1913-1981). It was recognised as the name for a form of pathological narcissism in ‘The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 1980.’ Narcissistic traits (where a person talks highly of himself/herself to eliminate feelings of worthlessness) are common in, and considered ‘normal’ to, human psychological development. When these traits become accentuated by a failure of the social environment and persist into adulthood, they can intensify to the level of a severe mental disorder. Severe and inflexible NPD is thought to effect less than 1% of the general adult population. It occurs more frequently in men than women. In simple terms, NPD is reality-denying, total self-worship born of its sufferers’ unconscious belief that they are flawed in a way that makes them fundamentally unacceptable to others. In order to shield themselves from the intolerable rejection and isolation which they unconsciously believe would follow if others recognised their defective nature, NPD sufferers go to almost any lengths to control others’ view of, and behaviour towards, them. NPD sufferers often choose partners, and raise children, who exhibit ‘co-narcissism’ (a co-dependent personality disorder like co-alcoholism). Co-narcissists organize themselves around the needs of others (to whom they feel responsible), they accept blame easily, are eager to please, defer to others’ opinions and fear being seen as selfish if they act assertively. NPD was observed, and apparently well-understood, in ancient times. Self-evidently, the term, ‘narcissism,’ comes from the allegorical myth of Narcissus, the beautiful Greek youth who falls in love with his own reflection.

Currently, NPD has nine recognised diagnostic criteria (five of which are required for a diagnosis):

·         has a grandiose sense of self-importance.
·         is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, ideal love, etc.
·         believes that he/she is special and unique and can only be understood by other special people.
·         requires excessive admiration.
·         strong sense of self-entitlement.
·         takes advantage of others to achieve his/her own ends.
·         lacks empathy.
·         is often envious or believes that others are envious of him/her.
·         arrogant disposition.

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3). Manipulation. Pernicious cults employ co-ordinated, devious techniques of social and psychological persuasion (variously described as: ‘covert hypnosis’, ‘mental manipulation’, ‘coercive behaviour modification’, ‘group pressure’, ‘thought reform’, ‘ego destruction’, ‘mind control’, ‘brainwashing’, ‘neuro-linguistic programming’, ‘love bombing’, etc.). These techniques are designed to fulfil the hidden criminal objectives of the leaders by provoking in the adherents an infantile total dependence on the group to the detriment of themselves and of their existing family, and/or other, relationships. Pernicious cults manipulate their adherents’ existing beliefs and instinctual desires, creating the illusion that they are exercising free will. In this way, adherents can also be surreptitiously coerced into following potentially harmful, physical procedures (sleep deprivation, protein restriction, repetitive chanting/ moving, etc.) which are similarly designed to facilitate the shutting down of an individual’s critical and evaluative faculties without his/ her fully-informed consent.

4). Radical changes of personality and behaviour. Pernicious cults can be of any size, duration and level of criminality. They comprise groups, and/or sub-groups, of previously diverse individuals bonded by their unconscious acceptance of the self-gratifying, but wholly imaginary, scenario that they alone represent a positive or protective force of purity and absolute righteousness derived from their leadership’s exclusive access to a superior or superhuman knowledge, and that they alone oppose a negative or adversarial force of impurity and absolute evil. Whilst this two-dimensional, or dualistic, narrative remains the adherents’ model of reality, they are, in effect, constrained to modify their individual personalities and behaviour accordingly.

5). Pseudo-scientific mystification. The instigators of pernicious cults seek to overwhelm their adherents emotionally and intellectually by pretending that progressive initiation into their own superior or superhuman knowledge (coupled with total belief in its authenticity and unconditional deference to the authority of its higher initiates) will defeat a negative or adversarial force of impurity and absolute evil, and lead to future, exclusive redemption in some form of secure Utopian existence. By making total belief a prerequisite of redemption,adherents are drawn into a closed-logic trap (i.e. failure to achieve redemption is solely the fault of the individual who didn’t believe totally). Cultic pseudo-science is always essentially the same hypnotic hocus-pocus, but it can be peddled in an infinite variety of forms and combinations (‘spiritual’, ‘medical’, ‘philosophical’, cosmological,’extraterrestrial’, ‘political’, ‘racial’, ‘mathematical’, ‘economic’, New-Age’, 'magical', etc.), often with impressive, made-up, technical-sounding names. It is tailored to fit the spirit of the times and to attract a broad range of persons, but especially those open to an exclusive offer of salvation (i.e. the: sick, dissatisfied, bereaved, vanquished, disillusioned, oppressed, lonely, insecure, aimless, etc.). However, at a moment of vulnerability, anyone (no matter what their: age, sex, nationality, state of mental/ physical health, level of education, etc.) can need to believe in a non-rational, cultic pseudo-science. Typically, obedient adherents are granted ego-inflating names, and/or ranks, and/or titles, whilst non-initiates are referred to using derogatory, dehumanizing terms. Although initiation can at first appear to be reasonable and benefits achievable, cultic pseudo-science gradually becomes evermore costly and mystifying. Ultimately, it is completely incomprehensible and its claimed benefits are never quantifiable. The self-righteous euphoria and relentless enthusiasm of cult proselytizers can be highly infectious and deeply misleading. They are invariably convinced that their own salvation also depends on saving others.

6). Monopoly of information. The leaders of  pernicious cults seek to control all information entering not only their adherents’ minds, but also that entering the minds of casual observers. This is achieved by constantly denigrating all external sources of information whilst constantly repeating the group’s reality-inverting key words and images, and/or by the physical isolation of adherents. Cults leaders systematically categorize, condemn and exclude asunenlightened, negative, impure, absolutely evil, etc. all free-thinking individuals and any quantifiable evidence challenging the authenticity of their imaginary scenarios of control. In this way, the minds of cult adherents can become converted to accept only what their leadership arbitrarily sanctions as enlightened, positive, pure, absolutely righteous, etc. Consequently, adherents habitually communicate amongst themselves using their group’s thought-stopping ritual jargon, and they find it difficult, if not impossible, to communicate with negativepersons outside of their group whom they falsely believe to be not only doomed, but also to be a suppressive threat to redemption.

7). False justification. In pernicious cults, a core-group of adherents can be gradually dissociated from external reality and reformed into deployable agents, and/or de facto slaves, and/or expendable combatants, etc., furthering the hidden criminal objectives of their leaders, completely dependent on a collective paranoid delusion of absolutemoral and intellectual supremacy fundamental to the maintenance of their individual self-esteem/identity and related psychological function. It becomes impossible for such fanatics to see humour in their situation or to feel pity for, or to empathise with, non-adherents. Their minds are programmed to interpret the manipulation, and/or cheating, and/or dispossession, and/or destruction, of inferior outsiders (particularly, those who challenge their group’s controlling scenario) as perfectly justifiable.

8). Structural mystification. The instigators of pernicious cults can continue to organize the creation, and/or dissolution, and/or subversion, of further (apparently independent) corporate structures pursuing lawful, and/or unlawful, activities in order to prevent, and/or divert, investigation and isolate themselves from liability. In this way, some cults survive all low-level challenges and spread like cancers enslaving the minds, and destroying the lives, of countless individuals in the process. At the same time, their leaders acquire absolute control over capital sums which place them alongside the most notorious racketeers in history. They operate behind ever-expanding, and changing, fronts of ‘privately-controlled, limited-liability, commercial companies,’ and/or ‘non-profit-making associations,’ etc. Other than ‘religious /philosophical’ and ‘political’ movements and ‘secret societies,’ typical reality-inverting disguises for cultic crime are:

‘charity/ philanthropy’; ‘fund-raising’; ‘lobbying’ on topical issues (‘freedom’, ‘ethics’, ‘environment’, ‘human rights’, ‘women’s rights’, ‘child protection’, ‘law enforcement’, ‘social justice’, etc.); ‘publishing and media’; ‘education’; ‘academia’; ‘celebrity’; ‘patriotism’; ‘information technology’; ‘public relations’; ‘advertising’; ‘medicine’; ‘alternative medicine’; ‘nutrition’; ‘rehabilitation’; ‘manufacturing’; ‘retailing’; ‘direct selling/ marketing’; ‘multilevel marketing’; ‘network marketing’; ‘regulation’; ‘personal development’; ‘self-betterment’; ‘positive thinking’; ‘self-motivation’; ‘leadership training’; ‘life coaching’; ‘research and development’; ‘investment’; ‘real estate’; ‘sponsorship’; ‘bereavement/trauma counselling’; ‘addiction counselling’; ‘legal counselling’; ‘cult exit-counselling’; ‘financial consulting’; ‘management consulting’; ‘clubs’; etc. 

9). Chronic psychological deterioration symptoms. The long-term core-adherents of pernicious cults are psychotic (i.e. suffering from psychosis, a severe mental derangement, especially when resulting in delusions and loss of contact with external reality). Core-adherents who manage to break with their group and confront the ego-destroying reality that they’ve been systematically deceived and exploited, are invariably destitute and dissociated from all their previous social contacts. For many years afterwards, recovering former core-adherents can suffer from one, or more, of the following psychological problems (which are also generally indicative of the victims of abuse):
depression; overwhelming feelings (guilt, grief, shame, fear, anger, embarrassment, etc.); dependency/ inability to make decisions; retarded psychological/ intellectual development; suicidal thoughts; panic/ anxiety attacks; extreme identity confusion; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; insomnia/ nightmares; eating disorders; psychosomatic illness ( asthma, skin disorders, headaches, fatigue, etc.); sexual problems/ fear of forming intimate relationships; inability to trust; etc.

10). Repression of all dissent. The leaders of the most-destructive cults are megalomaniacal psychopaths (i.e. suffering from a chronic mental disorder, especially when resulting in paranoid delusions of grandeur and self-righteousness, and the compulsion to pursue grandiose objectives). The unconditional deference of their deluded adherents only serves to confirm, and magnify, the leaders’ own paranoid delusions. This type of cult leader maintains an absolute monopoly of information whilst perpetrating, and/or directing, evermore heinous crimes. They sustain their activities by the imposition of arbitrary contracts and codes (secrecydenunciation, confession,justice, punishment, etc.) within their groups, and by the use of humiliation, and/or intimidation, and/or calumny, and/or malicious prosecution (where they pose as victims), and/or sophism, and/or the infiltration of traditional culture, and/or corruption, and/or intelligence gathering and blackmail, and/or extortion, and/or physical isolation, and/or violence, and/or assassination, etc., to repress any internal or external dissent.


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Frank L. VanderSloot is one of 13 National Finance Chairs for Mitt Romney's 2012 Presidential campaignhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_L._VanderSloot 


'Mormon MLM' racketeer, Frank L. VanderSloot

Earlier, today, I posted an article in response to questions about whether I consider Frank VanderSloot's 'Melaleuca Inc.' to be a cult. Almost immediately, representatives of the individual who posed these questions have politely-requested that my article be modified. They apparently fear that, although (as previously-agreed) I didn't mention my enquirer by name, his/her anonymity might have been compromised by my disclosure of his/her nationality and profession.



It seems that a lot of people are genuinely scared of Mr. VanderSloot and his criminal associates. That said, there are a lot of other people, who are not.



Classically, any free-thinking individual who has dared to begin to challenge the chapter of the reality-inverting 'MLM/direct selling' fairytale entitled 'Melaleuca,' has been threatened by Mr. VanderSloot's aggressive echelon of attorneys. However, once you know how 'MLM' cultic gangs operate as totalitarian States in microcosm, Mr. VanderSloot's attempts to suppress all internal, and external, dissent, obviously fit into an overall pattern of ongoing major racketeering activity (as defined by the US federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, 1970). 

Rest-assured Blog readers, I personally have no fear of Frank VanderSloot's legal huffing and puffing. My (slightly-modified )article on this narcissistic 'MLM Prosperity Gospel' racketeer, will be available soon (subject to the approval of my recent enquirer and his/her timid representatives).



David Brear (copyright 2012)










9 comments:

  1. INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL RACKETEER, MITT ROMNEY-THE MORMON MADOFF: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150437193417030 may become the next President & avoid liability for IRS FRAUD & prosecution under the FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT for his BAIN GAMES: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-romneys-bain-games/2012/08/07/92aae1dc-e0c7-11e1-a19c-fcfa365396c8_story.html ripping off foreign governments in International Tax Evasion schemes: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-06/romney-persona-non-grata-in-italy-for-bain-s-deal-skirting-taxes.html but STEALING PENSION ASSETS: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/01/06/399117/romney-bain-federal-bailout/ from America's blue collar workers is unforgivable. If you love America don't fall for the Romney Con:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vS9SF3vc-A

    PLEASE VOTE & RESEARCH THE DEPTH OF THE ROMNEY FRAUD & DECEPTION: make sure that this man who is the most hollow, soul less, god less, fundamentally fraudulent, shape-shifting political chameleon with no core principles or values, never makes it to the White House.

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  2. Moron Liberals!!!

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  3. ANOTHER DIATRIBE BY THE LOONY LEFT!!!

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    1. It is usually the policy of 'The American Dream Made Nightmare' not to publish thoughtless and abusive comments, like 'Moron Liberals!!!' and 'LOONY LEFT!!!,' without detailed qualification or heavy.

      So here is the detailed qualification and heavy irony.

      The word 'moron' used to be employed by the medical profession to classify adults with a mental age of an 8-12 year old child. Certain demonstrably-moronic (in the original medical sense of the word) persons in the USA, like the arrogant little fellow from Michigan who signs himself 'Dad Smart,' have been trained to exclude from their minds the quantifiable reality that many high-level members of the Republican party, who are also initiates of the 'Mormon Church' (like Mitt Romney and Frank Vandersloot), have been steadfastly pretending moral and intellectual authority whilst engaging in highly-profitable, clandestine, racketeering activities.

      Rather than making an effort to do some serious thinking, intellectually-castrated person's such as 'Dad Smart,' prefer to parrot thought-stopping phrases like 'Moron Liberals' and 'Loony Left,' when faced with any radical-thinking persons challenging the authenticity of the 'Mormon/Multi-Level Marketing' fairy story.

      The irony of all this, is close to exquisite, because in 1776, a bunch of radical-thinking persons in America (who today would be dismissed as 'Moron Liberals' and the 'Loony Left' by the likes of 'Dad Smart') rose up against a form of racketeering which was based on the fairy story that the wearer of the Crown of Great Britain could take money from American colonists by divine right.

      If radical Americans like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were to return today to the republic which they created, they would almost certainly be calling for its people to do some serious thinking and again rise up against the same old racket (which is now dressed up in the contemporary disguise of 'capitalism' and the 'Religious Right).'

      'Dad Smart,' who ever you are, currently, you are a thoughtless insult to all the courageous American men and women who have laid down their lives since 1776, to preserve your liberty to think, but it is never too late for you start thinking. A good place for you to begin, might be to ask yourself:

      On which side would I have stood in the American revolution: that of liberty or that of tyranny?

      David Brear (copyright 2013)

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  4. Wow, sounds much like The Two Party Oligarchy that is currently running our nation. sad and wrong!
    Do you know of any MLM's that are worth joining or that aren't ran by Republican Estremests?

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    1. jbrjaw101

      In answer to your question, the following statutory warning is posted above most of the latest articles on my Blog:

      More than half a century of quantifiable evidence, proves beyond all reasonable doubt that:

      - what has become popularly-known as 'Multi-Level Marketing' is nothing more than an absurd, cultic, economic pseudo-science.

      - the impressive-sounding made-up term 'MLM,' is, therefore, part of an extensive, thought-stopping, non-traditional jargon which has been developed, and constantly-repeated, by the instigators, and associates, of various, copy-cat, major, and minor, ongoing organised crime groups (hiding behind labyrinths of legally-registered corporate structures) to shut-down the critical, and evaluative, faculties of victims, and of casual observers, in order to perpetrate, and dissimulate, a series of blame-the-victim closed-market swindles or pyramid scams (dressed up as 'legitimate direct selling income opportunites'), and related advance-fee frauds (dressed up as 'legitimate training and motivation, self-betterment, programs, recruitment leads, lead generation systems,' etc.).


      - the latest attempts by the bosses of the 'MLM' organised crime syndicate (and of the various legislators, and former senior regulators, whom they have corrupted/co-opted) to subvert legislation in the USA, forms part of an overall pattern of ongoing major racketeering activity (as defined by the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act, 1970).

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  5. MELALEUCA HEALTH CLAIMS DATABASE
    A TINA.org investigation has revealed that MLM supplements and products are being recommended for a multitude of maladies without appropriate substantiation. Here is a sampling of TINA.org’s findings for this company. Read more about TINA.org’s investigation of illegal health claims here. This company was notified of TINA.org’s findings and, on January 20, 2017, sent TINA.org a response. ><https://www.truthinadvertising.org/melaleuca-health-claims-database/
    https://www.truthinadvertising.org/?s=melaleuca
    Wait there's more\|

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    1. Unknown- You can escape from being a de facto slave of the pernicious 'MLM' fairy story, by realizing that it is a lie designed to trick ill-informed victims into wasting all their assets to the benefit of wealthy criminals.

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