This week it was reported that a trio of 'Herbalife' adherents are currently facing serious criminal charges in Singagpore.
This case dates back to May 2021, when it was discovered that a 19 year old woman, Ms. Huang Baoying, had been starved and tortured to death over a two month period, in a tower block apartment in Singapore.
According the prosecution, in the hours before her death, Ms. Huang had been brutally beaten with a heavy wooden stick, forced to sit upright with her hands held above her head. She had also had salt rubbed into open wounds as well as being held under a running tap. Eventually she had been left on a matress where she had died on May 5th. 2021 from a combination of malnutrition, infection and severe trauma. At less than 30kgs, the victim had lost over 40% of her previous known body weight.
Initially charged with murder, on February 9th. 2026, the 66 year old owner of the apartment, Lim Peng Tiong, plead guilty to a reduced charge of 'culpable homicide' for causing the death of Ms. Huang Baoying. He admits to beating her approximately 240 times on the orders of a 46 year old woman, Chee May Wan, whom he described as, his 'Herbalife Multi-Level Marketing coach.' All these three persons have been described in Lim's indictment as, 'members of a Herbalife nutrition club.'
However, the prosecutors don't yet seem to fully-understand the 'Amway' copycat blame-the-victim cultic racket that the kistch, 'direct selling' facade and misleading terms, 'Herbalife' and 'Multi-Level Marketing,' are actually hiding. Indeed, they have stated in court that 'Ms. Huang was tortured for no other reason than some twisted project supposedly to improve her behaviour.'
It seems that in order to persuade the unwitting members of this so-called coach's 'MLM' flock to shut down their critical, and evaluative, faculties, and commit all their resources (mental, physical and financial) to recruiting other de facto slave recruiters, Chee May Wan had initially introduced a system of 'fines.' However, it has also been revealed that she had abandoned her husband and was having an affair with Ms. Huang's 34 year old brother, Huang Bocan, who was also a 'Herbalife' adherent. Chee's so-called 'disciplinary regime' then became progressively violent, until it became extreme mental and physical torture.
From Feb 16th. 2021, to May 4th. 2021, Ms. Huang was deprived of food, confined in a toilet for long periods and repeatedly beaten savagely, despite being weak and already severely injured.
Deputy public Prosecutor Timotheus Koh has requested that Lim should be jailed for 20 years for his role in this abuse. However, he stated that while Lim endorsed the abuse, participated in it, and provided the premises for it to take place undetected, he was not as guilty as Chee and Huang Bocan.
Lim’s lawyer, Ms Kate Loo, has asked that her client's prison sentence should be no more than of 11 years. She claims that her client was also subjected to the same 'punishment regime,' was given specific orders as to what punishment to inflict and was “brainwashed” by Chee and Huang Bocan.
The case will resume on March 2nd. 2026 with further submissions.
Both Chee and Huang Bocan are facing murder charges, and their cases have yet to be heard.
This trio of dangerously-deluded 'Herbalife' adherents were originally charged with voluntarily causing grievous harm to Ms. Huang with a wooden pole. The charges were modified to murder on June 29, 2021.
David Brear (copyright 2026)
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Punishment system
On Feb 9, DPP Jordy Kay, a member of the prosecution team, described to the court the punishment system which Chee allegedly came up with.
Chee owned a company selling Herbalife products, which she called a club, where clients pay a fee to join as members to get discounts on products.
These members could sell products to their own clients.
Ms Huang was about 16 to 17 years old when she and her brother joined the club in 2018.
The siblings had left home in July 2020 after falling out with their parents over their refusal to continue spending as much as $2,000 a month on the products sold by their children.
The siblings went to live with Lim, and Chee joined them a few weeks later following a dispute with her husband.
According to Lim, in October 2020, Chee introduced a system of fines to correct his bad habits, which she believed had affected sales.
After a month, Chee and Huang Bocan thought that the fines were not working, so they introduced a system where those who made mistakes had to perform exercises such as squats or hold a stress position with their legs bent and their backs against a wall.
Chee was the only one who was exempted from the fines and exercises. But she and Huang Bocan allegedly beat Lim and Ms Huang when they did not meet expectations.
A WhatsApp chat group was created in February 2021 to monitor Ms Huang and report on her mistakes.
In January 2021, Ms Huang was limited to one meal a day, purportedly to teach her about hunger and being grateful for her food.
From the next month, she was deprived of food as a form of punishment. From April 2021 onwards, she was deprived of food for days and would be allowed only to drink water.
Between January and February 2021, Ms Huang was forced out of the flat several times as punishment. One time, before chasing her out, her brother cut her hair to humiliate her.
On another occasion, a passer-by took pity on her and provided her with a blanket and a straw mat to sleep on. This allegedly prompted Chee to beat her for behaving like a beggar.
Ms Huang was beaten on other occasions, with the number of blows progressively increasing to a staggering 240 in a single incident.
One of the beatings resulted in a wound on her calf that did not heal properly.
In April 2021, the four attended a church service, where Ms Huang dozed off. After they returned to the flat, she was slapped about 130 times in total by Lim and allegedly her brother.
From February to May 2021, the victim was confined in a toilet under the guise of giving her a quiet place to reflect on her “mistakes”.
She slept and took her meals in the toilet, and was chained to the railing beside the toilet bowl.
On top of the beatings and food deprivation, she was also forced to do intense physical exercises including squats.
On the night of May 4, 2021, Chee allegedly wanted to punish her for lying about whether she had done her squats.
When Ms Huang remained quiet during the beating, Chee and Huang Bocan saw this as defiance.
The trio allegedly tried several ways to get a reaction out of her, including poking her with a stick and holding her head in a basin of iced water. They also tied her hands with rope, pulled her into a sitting position, and took turns to stand on her legs to get her to cry.
Salt was poured on the wound on her calf, and she was taken to the toilet and drenched under a tap.
Her brother then changed her out of her wet clothes and left her on the mattress.
Some time past midnight on May 5, the trio tried to wake her, but to no avail. They discussed whether they should take her to the hospital or call for an ambulance, and decided to lie to the authorities.
Huang Bocan allegedly deleted photographs and videos from his phone that showed the bruises on Ms Huang’s legs and audio recordings from his phones of the trio scolding her.
The trio also deleted the group chat they had used to report on her mistakes.
Huang Bocan called for an ambulance at about 6am and told the operator that his sister was unconscious.
Ms Huang was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics, who reported the case to the police after they saw the bruises on her body.
Lim was arrested on May 11 and has been in custody since.
Straits Times (copyrigh 2026)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx3zdjgOuCc&t=3s
The Big 'Multi-Level Marketing' Lie.
Introduction
In 2006, a UK civil regulatory agency (the ‘Company
Investigation Branch’ of the ‘Dept. of Trade and Industry’) announced that it
was pursuing a major law enforcement action against ‘Amway UK Ltd.’ In
brief, this privately owned corporate structure (first registered in 1972), which
was a subsidiary of a gigantic American-based privately owned, multi-national
corporation (first registered in 1959), stood accused of peddling ‘an
inherently objectionable dream-selling scheme’ in contravention of the ‘Fair
Trading Act, 1973’ and the ‘Lotteries and Amusements Act, 1976’. A government
minister was about to file a ‘public interest bankruptcy petition’ in the UK
High Court, seeking the compulsory closure of ‘Amway UK Ltd.’ Previously,
truckloads of evidence had been seized at the company’s HQ in the Buckinghamshire
town of Milton Keynes. However, after looking beyond a wall of mind-numbing
mathematical and linguistic hocus-pocus, the regulators had initially been
faced with an enigma. During the thirty-four years of the company’s existence, ‘Amway
UK’s’ accountants had never once declared an annual net trading profit.
In fact, they had declared accumulated net trading losses which ran into
tens of millions of £. This terminally ill UK company had been kept alive with cash
transfusions declared as ‘coming from Amway subsidiaries in Europe and Asia.’
Laughably, for three decades, ‘Amway UK Ltd.’ had been allowed to pose
as ‘Britain’s most successful direct selling company offering ordinary folk an
entirely legal, government approved, Multi-Level Marketing income opportunity.’
Yet completely contrary to its nonspecific, jargon-laced ‘commercial’
cover-story, prior to 2006 there had never been the slightest official attempt
to find out what was the real function of this apparently ridiculous ‘business
model.’ For whilst ‘Amway’s’ own comic-book narrative claimed, ‘millions
of £ of sales annually, via almost one hundred thousand UK distributors,’ the
regulators had now discovered that, in the adult world of quantifiable reality,
the average churn rate for participants in ‘Amway’s’ scheme, had
exceeded 50% per year. Thus, by extrapolation, this meant that more than one
million recruits had passed through the company’s ‘distributor’ ranks
1972-2006. All these people had signed take-it-or-leave-it contracts which had labelled
them as ‘Independent Business Owners.’ However, after the deduction of
their start up and operating costs, not one of this expanding flock of transient,
would-be entrepreneurs had managed to generate so much as a penny of overall
net income lawfully by regularly retailing ‘Amway’-supplied
products and services to persons who were not fellow ‘Amway’ recruits. Thus,
since by design, there had never been a significant and sustainable source of
revenue other than that deriving from the endless chain of fresh recruits,
the hidden overall net-loss churn rate in ‘Amway’s’ so-called ‘income
opportunity,’ was effectively 100%. Yet whilst this key information had
remained hidden, virtually no one had been complaining.
So, how can a pile of money be made from a financially
suicidal ‘business model’ that has been deliberately rigged to fail?
In 1967, an American satirical movie offered a memorable
answer to this conundrum. I am of course referring to ‘The Producers,’ written
and directed by Mel Brooks. Whilst this movie went over the heads of certain
humourless critics who described it as ‘controversial,’ in 1968 it won its
author an Academy Award for best original screenplay. Indeed by 1996, ‘The
Producers’ had long-since achieved a ‘cult’ status and was deemed to be of such
‘cultural, historic and aesthetic significance,’ that it was selected by the
Library of Congress to be preserved in the United States National Film Registry.
For Mel Brooks’ had presented the world with a classic comedy double act - Max
Bialystock, an outrageous caricature of a once successful, but now failing, New
York Jewish theatrical producer (evidently suffering from Narcissistic Personality
Disorder) played by Zero Mostel, and Leo Bloom, a deeply insecure Jewish
accountant (evidently suffering from Social Anxiety Disorder) played by Gene
Wilder. In the movie, this pair of physically and psychologically opposite
characters come together and perpetrate an absurd swindle - identified by the
accountant and peddled by the producer. By first building a bedazzling utopian fantasy
of boundless future prosperity, happiness and freedom in his
mind, Bialystock overwhelms an initially reluctant Bloom, and persuades him to
become his partner in crime. He then sets to work seducing a flock of wealthy,
but lonely and vulnerable, old ladies. One by one, Bialystock persuades them to
buy the staggering total of 25 000% of the ‘projected profits’ from, what
he assures them will be, ‘a sure-fire hit stage musical’ which he and
Bloom are producing on Broadway. However, he doesn’t tell them that the show has
been written by a deranged devotee of Adolf Hitler, Franz Liebkind, or that it will
venerate the ‘führer’ and the ‘Nazis.’ For the show,
‘Springtime for Hitler,’ has been carefully selected by its producers with
the hidden criminal motive of offending a sophisticated New York theatre audience
to such an extent, that it will be doomed to close after only one disastrous
performance. Just to make certain that it will immediately bomb, Bialystock and
Bloom recruit an aggressively kitsch transvestite, Roger DeBris, to direct the show,
and they find a drug-fuelled pacifist-hippie, Lorenzo Saint DuBois (LSD), to play Hitler. On opening
night, Bialystock even makes an enemy of the New York Times theatre critic, by
offering him a bribe.
The devious plan being that, seeing as ‘Springtime for
Hitler’ has cost Bialystock and Bloom only a mere fraction of their available
financing to stage, when inevitably it sinks without a trace, the Internal Revenue
Service will have no reason to investigate Bloom’s fraudulent declaration that ‘no
profit was made.’ Moreover, the old ladies who collectively have vastly
over-financed the show, will believe that they simply made a bad investment.
As ill-informed and isolated individuals, they too will have no reason to
suspect fraud. Thus, Bialystock and Bloom will be able quietly to keep
the large pile of excess finance. However, when despite all their sabotage efforts,
‘Springtime for Hitler’ turns out to be a smash hit predicted to ‘run
and run,’ the producers, along with the show’s author, wind up behind bars. Ultimately,
they are seen duplicating the same fraud on their fellow inmates and the prison
warden, with Bialystock and Liebkind directing rehearsals and Bloom
over-selling shares in their latest sure-fire hit production, ‘Prisoners
of Love.’
Now most people would automatically assume that, in the
real world, it wouldn’t be quite so easy to perpetrate essentially the same absurd,
blame-the-victim swindle, albeit hidden behind a far more convoluted and confusing
‘sure fire business model,’ but again one deliberately rigged to fail. A
swindle not just based on the same, one-off, financially suicidal modus
operandi as described above, but now expanded and duplicated on an industrial scale
and baited to keep ensnaring a much wider range of unwitting victims. Indeed,
to the average person, the idea that numerous gangs of copycat charlatans have
been allowed to keep peddling the same insidious game of ‘commercial’ make-believe
as reality, steadily exploiting, isolating and silencing many millions of
losing investors around the world over a period spanning several decades, and thereby
get away with stealing a veritable mountain of money, would seem to be beyond
the bounds of possibility. However, it should be remembered that the best way of
hiding something, is to place it in plain sight and make as big as you possibly
can.
Thus, I managed to live more than three decades
without ever hearing the made-up technical-sounding phrase, 'Multi-Level
Marketing,’ or its catchy abbreviation, ‘MLM.’ Today, I wish this contagious
nonsense had never entered my life, but unfortunately, I had no choice in the
matter. Whilst reading the history of my own nightmare encounter with the
original 'MLM commercial' cult known as 'Amway' (corruption of 'The
American Way'), bear in mind that, when these disturbing events first started
to unfold, I had no idea of the extraordinary level of danger my family was in,
or of the true nature, extent and power of the phenomenon I was confronted
with. As yet there was no plain language, comprehensive explanation of 'MLM
commercial' cultism readily available. That’s why I began the thankless
task of compiling one as long ago the late 1990s. However, at that time, I was
still trying to find the right words to identify it accurately. Even when I did
find the right words, I discovered that the ugly, but ultimately absurd, truth
about the 'MLM commercial' cult phenomenon was still unthinkable to most
people. The truth being that what has become commonly referred to as, 'the MLM
business model,’ has been nothing more than a classic example of the
notorious, reality-controlling, totalitarian propaganda tactic known as the
'Big Lie.' That is to say, the spreading of a falsehood which is so colossal
and outrageous that the average person cannot even begin to conceive that
anyone would have the audacity to invent it. Indeed, when I first began
to challenge the Big 'MLM' Lie, I was faced with the daunting situation
where it had been repeated, largely unchallenged, so often and for so many
years, that a remarkable number of apparently sophisticated and rational people
had come to accept it as the truth. Thus, rendering them incapable
of admitting their error.
The situation is still daunting, but lately it has begun
to change in that, mainly due to the Internet, an increasing number of
courageous 'MLM commercial' cult survivors have found accurate information,
as well as mutual support, enabling them to come forward and describe their
essentially identical experiences. Also, whereas in the past many 'MLM' converts
were men, who naturally found it hard to admit to the world that they'd been
duped, lately the majority of persons being lured into, and exploited by, these
pernicious groups, have been women. Furthermore, in 2019, my American associate,
Robert FitzPatrick, published 'Ponzinomics.' In this book, Robert not only goes
a long way towards identifying the true nature of the 'MLM commercial' cult
phenomenon, but he also traces the origins and evolution of the Big 'MLM' Lie
and explains how a pair of its earliest creators managed to obtain the
highest-level of protection in the USA. As a result, politically appointed
senior Federal Trade Commission officials effectively raised the white flag of
surrender to predatory criminals, albeit dressed up as respectable businessmen,
when, starting in the 1970s and despite significant levels of complaint, they
set aside an established, common-sense legal precedent which had automatically identified
and banned all endless-chain (infinite level) recruitment frauds, previously labelled
as, 'pyramid selling schemes.' For, even though it had been under investigation
for years and was facing civil prosecution, these senior FTC officials eventually
latched onto a convenient pretext not to go ahead and shut-down the
corporate-front for the original 'MLM commercial' cult, upon which all
subsequent versions have been, and continue to be, modelled. This dubious
decision was evidently made, in part, because the bosses of 'Amway,' Messrs.
Richard DeVos and Jay Van Andel, with a Bible in one hand and the Stars and
Stripes in the other, had purchased association with their local congressman (fifth
Michigan district) with significant quantities of stolen money. The beneficiary
of these ill-gotten gains was none other than Gerald Rudolph Ford Jnr. - a
politician not exactly noted for his intellectual capacity, but nonetheless
someone of great influence. For those readers who are perhaps too young to remember
him, Gerald Ford was leader of the Republican party in the House of
Representatives 1965-1973, becoming US vice-president under Richard Nixon when,
in 1973, Spiro Agnew (who was under investigation for corruption), pled guilty to
a minor felony charge and was obliged to resign. Ford went on to become US
president 1974-1976 after Nixon himself was obliged to resign rather than face
certain impeachment over the Watergate scandal. Thus, Ford remains the only
person to have held both the office of US vice-president and US president,
without being elected to either. He is also the president who granted a pardon
to Nixon for the crimes he'd committed whilst in office.
However, the co-opting of Gerald Ford to play the role of
‘Amway’s’ useful idiot was only one step in DeVos and Van Andel’s
well-financed infiltration, and subversion, of the US legislative process and justice
system. Indeed, there can be absolutely no doubt that, culminating in 1979, the
chiefs of an important civil regulatory agency of the US federal government
played politics, and in so doing, completely failed in their appointed task of
protecting the American public. As a direct consequence, the FTC brought about
the birth of the essentially meaningless phrase, 'Multi-Level Marketing is
legal.' In this way, a ridiculous, but nonetheless insidious, endless-chain
(infinite level) recruitment fraud was effectively authorized in the USA by an
unaccountable little clique of self-serving bureaucrats. Furthermore, this
major American regulatory lapse permitted the profitable racket of 'MLM commercial'
cultism not only to be extensively reproduced in the USA, but also to be
exported around the world, now hidden behind the pretence that ‘the MLM
business model (as developed by the founders of the Amway Corporation)’ had
been ‘thoroughly examined and approved by the US government… So, anyone calling
it a fraud must be a deranged, hate-filled anti-capitalist or crazy conspiracy
theorist.' Not surprisingly, subsequent generations of politically
appointed senior FTC officials have all refused to admit publicly to their
predecessors' catastrophic failure and their own gross negligence - for which,
one day, a sitting American government might find itself liable. In this way, the
Big ‘MLM’ Lie was permitted to transform and expand into a well-oiled
machine for stealing and laundering money on a global scale - each year
bringing billions of dollars into the USA, and all right under the noses of complacent
officials who have continued to allow this plunder to be falsely declared, with
the paid-compliance of some of the world's largest accountancy firms, as 'retail
sales revenue.' However, plenty of senior FTC types, as well as
high-ranking US politicians, including a certain Donald John Trump, have all
had their snouts planted in this almost bottomless trough of foreign and
domestic loot, set before them by the bosses of a multiplication of 'Amway' copy-cat
'MLM' cultic rackets whose essentially identical camouflaged criminal
activities they have conveniently refused to identify. Indeed, the number of
senior FTC officials who have sold their souls and signed lucrative employment
contracts with 'MLM' front-companies, or law and accountancy firms, co-opted
to hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil whilst playing along with the
Big 'MLM' Lie, is truly astonishing.
All this begs the not unreasonable question: other than
enabling a growing number of unoriginal gangs of devious con artists to get
away with thieving from the entire planet for the best part of half a century,
what exactly has been the point of having such a spineless, easily-corrupted
and, therefore useless government agency as the FTC?, when in 'Ponzinomics' one
independent American does far-more to protect his fellow citizens from the Big 'MLM'
Lie, than the entire one thousand five hundred+ FTC staff (including more
than five hundred attorneys and seventy economists, with an annual budget of hundreds
of millions of dollars) have ever done. In fact, Robert explains in great
detail why, completely contrary to the ambiguous official message broadcast by
the FTC for decades, it has not just been ‘a few bad apples,’ but all 'Amway'
copy-cat so-called 'MLM income opportunities' that have been centrally
controlled rigged-market swindles, hiding their inevitable, effectively 100%, overall
net-loss/churn rates of endless-chains of transient unwitting investors. For
the crack-pot pseudo-economic theory which has been falsely-labelled the
'MLM business model,' was maliciously designed to be flawed-financially, to
the point where it would be impossible for any so-called 'MLM' company
to derive the majority of its revenue lawfully from persons who are not persons
motivated by the false expectation of a future reward. In even more
accurate terms, 'MLM commercial' cults have all comprised groups, and
sub-groups, of susceptible individuals who have been subjected to identifiable,
co-ordinated devious techniques of social, psychological and physical
persuasion designed to shut down their critical and evaluative faculties, and thereby
convert them, without their fully informed consent, to the self-perpetuating
and self-gratifying, but ultimately self-destructive, delusional belief that: endless
recruitment + endless purchases by the recruits = endless profits for the
recruits. For this reason, Robert FitzPatrick coined the word,
'Ponzinomics,' in an attempt to place an appropriate label on the financially suicidal
activity that, to their eternal shame, generations of senior FTC officials,
their advisers and political masters, have permitted to be passed off and
normalized around the world as, ‘a viable and legal part of the direct
selling industry.'
Thus, 'Ponzinomics' can be briefly defined as the
dark art of peddling unwitting persons infinite shares of their own
finite money, because what the FTC has consistently refused to acknowledge
publicly, is the undeniable fact that any claim, or implication, that one
penny of extra net-income, let alone life-changing sums of
money, can be generated lawfully by participating in an 'MLM income opportunity,'
is dangerous comic-book nonsense designed to entice and deceive. Indeed, it
should be glaringly obvious that the Big ‘MLM’ Lie is far-too-good to be
true, whilst it's no secret that what used to be the traditional direct selling
industry (once known as ‘door-to-door peddling’), has long-since died out. Its
demise being due to many evolving social and economic factors; not least the
arrival of supermarkets, hard-discount stores and online shopping. Furthermore,
'MLM' products/services have been offered at fixed, often exorbitant,
prices, rendering them effectively unsaleable on the open market to persons
with fully functioning critical and evaluative faculties; whilst no so-called 'MLM'
company has ever set common-sense limits on the number of contractors being
recruited, or on the areas of population where these so-called 'distributors/direct
sellers' are supposed to find customers. Just imagine what would
happen if the bosses of McDonalds fixed the price of their company’s hamburgers
at twice that of their competitors and set no limits on the number of
franchises they sold, or any restrictions on the locations where all these demonstrably
unviable catering establishments were supposed to operate shoulder to shoulder?
Once the utter absurdity of the so-called 'MLM
business model' is fully understood, anyone with a modicum of common-sense,
and/or the most-rudimentary hands-on experience of commerce, ought to be
immediately able to deduce that no ‘Amway’ copy-cat company can ever
have been, or will ever be, found by the FTC voluntarily disclosing the true
results of its economically incestuous activities and operating lawfully.
Indeed, this ongoing situation is beyond farcical, because when asked the most
obvious of questions, it goes without saying that American regulators and their
academic advisers, have never been able to come up with one solitary example of
a so-called 'MLM' company that would be able pass independent rigorous
inspection. Yet despite the lengthy list of common-sense reasons proving that
there can be no such thing as ‘a viable and legal MLM income opportunity,' FTC
officials, guided by a cabal of smug dunces with diplomas, came up with a truly
pointless and stupid ‘test.’ This boils down to them throwing
common-sense out of the window whilst laboriously trying, on rare occasions and
on a case-by-case basis, to determine that a so-called 'MLM' company, suspected
of being a pyramid scheme, has not been deriving the majority of its income
lawfully from authentic retail sales (based entirely on value and demand) to
members of the general public (persons who have not been contractors of the
so-called 'MLM' company motivated by the false expectation of a future
reward). Thus, since 1979, less than forty ‘Amway’ copycats have been investigated
and shut down by the FTC as dissimulated pyramid schemes, whilst hundreds more
have continued to appear, but without the slightest attempt to stop them.
Laughably, FTC officials have listed other ‘pyramid scheme red flags' for the
public to look out for, and the agency has even posted warnings that 'MLM
companies have caused, and are still causing, extensive damage to consumers,
because some MLM income opportunities are pyramid schemes in disguise.' At
the same time, American regulators, without the slightest concern for the
extensive damage they themselves have caused and are still causing, have
continued bleating the Big Lie, by insisting that 'MLM is a viable
and legal branch of the direct selling industry.' Yet no one at the FTC has
ever seen a shred of quantifiable evidence proving that this ridiculous adult
fairy story can be true. In fact, when asked in the most specific of terms,
if they have ever seen such evidence, like income-tax payment receipts, it has
been impossible to get any meaningful, let alone the only truthful, response to
this simple ‘yes/no’ question. Another highly revealing question that FTC types
have obviously shied away from answering, is: what would be your own reaction
if a vulnerable individual you care about suddenly underwent a radical
personality transformation, and declared that he/she had signed up for a
so-called 'MLM income opportunity?' Thus, in respect of their Orwellian refusal
to tell the truth publicly, and identify this text book example of a Big Lie,
Robert FitzPatrick has compared the inflexible attitude of FTC officials, and
their advisers, to a body of humourless scientists who have been paid to investigate
the manifestly preposterous claim that 'pigs might fly,' but after
decades of examining an assortment of wingless swine, they still insist on
continuing their futile, but financially profitable, quest whilst
systematically refusing to consider even the suggestion that there can be no
such mythical creature.
At this point, I should perhaps declare that, although I
am an 'MLM commercial' cult survivor, I was never an adherent of one of
these pernicious groups. Unfortunately, I found myself shackled financially to
a person, my only brother, who at a time of vulnerability, had fallen completely
under the spell of the Big 'MLM' Lie. Again, when these disturbing events
started to unfold, I did not fully understand that my brother was perfect prey
to be lured and defrauded, then used as bedazzled-bait to lure and defraud
others; all for the benefit of a little gang of sanctimonious American
billionaire-charlatans posing as 'Compassionate Capitalists,' and whom
he had never met. Yet my brother was an ideal subject to be deceived, for the
simple reason that he was completely convinced that he was far too smart to
be deceived. Thus, once enslaved inside the ‘MLM’ trap, the most
powerful weapon in the hands of the criminals exploiting him, was my brother’s
own mind. However, initially I failed to grasp just how dangerously
deluded and devious 'MLM commercial' cult adherents can be. That said,
like many people whom they approach, I immediately realised that they are
living in a parallel reality, completely obsessed with trying to recruit you
into what is quite clearly a dumb pyramid scheme, but which they insist is 'part
of the legal MLM direct selling industry and definitely not a pyramid scheme.' What
took me much longer to fathom, is that core-'MLM commercial' cult
adherents are also living by a parallel, and perverted, code of morality. Their
destructive behaviour is controlled by the self-righteous guided-delusion that,
by recruiting you, and even by lying to you, they are ultimately helping both
themselves and you to achieve future redemption in a secure Utopian existence -
a form of Capitalist Paradise on Earth - where no one has a job, but
everyone is his/her ‘own boss’ - a happy, healthy, prosperous and free 'MLM
business owner.'
Thus, it should always be remembered that chronic 'MLM'
adherents' belief can be quite genuine, but what they believe in, and have
bought into body and soul, is a colossal and bedazzling fake. The irony of all
this being, that the Big 'MLM' Lie has continued to thrive, because its most-fanatical
adherents have been tricked into wasting their own time and money spreading it
and hiding the truth about it, combined with law enforcement agents' and
legislators' chronic, and catastrophic, failure to identify it accurately. Although
they have no idea what they are really involved in, active 'MLM' adherents
are, in fact, proselytising-evangelists for a camouflaged, non-rational, ritual
belief system (call it a 'perverted religion' if you like) which has been
maliciously designed not only to spread like a contagion - enticing, deceiving,
robbing, exploiting and abusing susceptible individuals and their friends and
families - but also to load its victims with shame and guilt for their
inevitable failure to succeed, and thus, prevent them from facing reality and
complaining. Consequently, whilst they remain under the control of the Big 'MLM'
Lie, its most-dangerous adherents should be seen for what they
really are - the deluded deployable agents of a de facto syndicate comprising
the bosses of some the most widespread, socially, psychologically and
financially destructive organized cultic crime groups to have emerged in recent
history.
David Brear Copyright 2026.
