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Former, penniless 'Mormon Missionary,' turned 'MLM income opportunity' racketeer, Rex Maughan, posing as a visionary, philanthropic, multi-millionaire, 'Mormon' businessman who has helped more than 9 millions people around the world to start their own business.
In reality, this veteran crook (who apparently is qualified in accountancy) made a fortune by playing the unoriginal, sanctimonious role of ordinary man: turned superman - prepared to share his secret of unlimited health, wealth, happiness and freedom with anyone (for a price).
Whilst watching the above reality-inverting, kitsch propaganda videos, readers are reminded that (typically of an 'MLM / Prosperity Gospel' cult) apart from an insignificant minority of shills at the top of the pyramid, the overall hidden net-loss/ churn rate for 'FLP' participation, has always been effectively 100%. |
For several months, the largest number of page visits to this Blog have been to articles about the US(Arizona)-based 'MLM Income Opportunity' cultic racket known as 'Forever Living Products (FLP).'
I have clearly explained that 'FLP' is part of a largely-unrecognized, ongoing criminogenic phenomenon of historic significance and that recruiters for the group are both committing fraud and are the victims of fraud. The self-righteous belief of core- 'Multi-Level Marketing Income Opportunity' adherents is quite genuine, but what they believe in, is false. Even though they can appear to be deliriously happy, friendly and harmless, core- 'MLM' adherents have been subjected to co-ordinated devious techniques of social, psychological and physical persuasion without their fully-informed consent. Thus, whilst they remain under the malign influence of their group, such persons are dissociated from external reality, and ill-informed contact with them is potentially dangerous; for anyone claiming, or implying, that he/she has generated an overall net-income lawfully from the operation of a so-called 'MLM Direct Selling Business,' is not telling the truth.
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, and that 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 organized 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, leads, lead generation systems,' etc.).
Recently, I began to receive a string of bizarre and insulting comments which pretended that the reason why I have written about 'FLP' is that I am, or have been, involved in an 'MLM' racket.
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| Owen Brear |
I was then informed that I have a namesake living in the North of England whose son, Owen Brear (b. 1986), is currently an adherent of 'Forever Living Products.'
Owen Brear
Assistant Supervisor
Forever Living Products (UK) Ltd
I help distribute high quality, natural Aloe Vera products through network marketing and recruitment. Whether for fitness management, animal care, personal health or beauty I can help build solid, secondary incomes and opportunities for home based businesses through the tools provided by the Forever company
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| 'Owen Brear- Local Green Party co-ordinator and party liaison for the Otley and Yeadon Green Party. We are looking to build a strong Green presence in the town, and promote the ideals and policies of the national Green Party for England and Wales to all citizens and levels of Government.' |
When I read Owen Brear's somewhat-mystifying academic resumé, I began to see how he might have fallen for the 'positive vs negative MLM Income Opportunity' fairy story; for it says that he "is interested in the intersection of economic thought and eudaimonic well-being as presented within the field of positive psychology. He is also studying the more mystical aspects of this work – especially the notion of the daemonic in the human mind as presented within Jungian and post-Jungian psychology via the metaphysical union of opposites, and within the context of the divine feminine i.e. daemonic imagery and the unconscious coupled with the Christian ‘demonisation’ of the Pagan ‘daemon’."
Readers should be aware that (although they have the same family name, and come from the same part of the UK, as me) neither Owen Brear, nor his father, David Brear, has any connection with me.
David Brear (copyright 2015)
I don't get this. From the videos of the scary FLP mass in London it certainly looks like fraud, then why weren't the organisers arrested by the police? Also why hasn't the press investigated?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - these are both very good questions.
DeleteUnfortunately, without wishing to insult you, if you really do believe that fraud is prosecuted in the UK, then you are almost as deluded as the adherents of cultic groups like 'FLP.'
Before I started to examine cultic groups, I also believed that fraud was prosecuted in the UK. In reality, there are numerous criminogenic cultic groups that have been effectively above the law in the UK.
The UK is, in fact, sinking in a veritable sea of fraud simply because racketeers know that their chances of being caught and held to account in the UK, are virtually non-existent.
'MLM income opportunity' cultic racketeering has been allowed to exist in the UK since the early 1970s without the slightest challenge from law enforcement agents. Indeed, numerous UK police officers have been adherents of 'MLM' cults.
With the notable exception of a couple of articles about 'Amway' by Tony Thompson of Time Out Magazine (published in the early 1990s), the UK mainstream media has been nowhere to be seen.
The average journalist is trained to remain 'objective' at all times, but if you foolishly report a fraud with mis-placed objectivity (i.e. from a position of ignorance), then you risk becoming part of the fraud yourself. Where 'MLM' income opportunity cultic racketeering is concerned, this important concept seems to be beyond the intellectual capacity of the average journalist. Thus, the mainstream media continues to repeat thought-stopping 'MLM' jargon without any qualification or irony.
Has anyone reported FLP to the police?
DeleteI presume you mean, has anyone reported 'FLP' to the British police?
DeleteYou might be surprised to learn that the British police no longer receive complaints about fraud directly from the public. All complaints of fraud have to be made to a government agency called 'Reporting a Fraud.' The management of this agency then decide to which law enforcement agency the complaint of fraud should be directed. These agencies then decide what investigative action, if any, they are going to take - but other agencies decide whether there will be a criminal prosecution.
In the case of 'FLP', because it is legally registered as a commercial company in Britain, there would first have to be sufficient complaints filed to trigger a civil investigation by trade regulators. I a civil prosecution were to be pursued, then it would probably be a public interest bankruptcy petition against the company.
Obviously, an organized crime group like 'FLP,' has been deliberatly constructed to prevent, and/or divert, criminal investigation and isolate its bosses from liability.
Furthermore, at the present time, there is no law in the UK which defines and prohibits major ongoing racketeering activity.
From bitter experience with 'Amway,' I know that complaining in Britain about fraudulent cultic groups like 'FLP,' has been effectively a waste of time and effort.
Thanks for all these posts. Very informative! Got cornered by some oh so happy FLP types and thought it had to be a scam.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - You should be aware that 'Prosperity Gospel' cults like 'FLP' are searching for vulnerable people who are trapped in jobs which they detest, and who are deeply dissatisfied with their lives. What seems like an obvious scam to most people, can appear to be a real opportunity to find freedom and happiness, to persons who fit this description.
DeleteRex Maughan owns South Fork ranch from the TV series Dallas.
ReplyDeleteYes that's right Anonymous - just when you think that 'MLM' racketeers can't possibly be any more Kitsch, you discover extraordinary facts like this.
DeleteBack in the 1980s, Southfork Ranch in Texas was run as a tourist business by its original owners, and Maughan was one of their clients. He used to hire Southfork for FLP orgies of deluded self-gratification, but then he bought the place in 1992 - using stolen money..
http://southfork.com/dallas/
Dallas is one of the USA's most iconic televison series. It was sold to almost 100 countries. Maughan's purchase of Southfork was part of his infiltration of traditional culture. This is partly how he has hidden his racket in plain sight.
Like Mafia bosses buying legit businesses?
DeleteRight again Anonymous. However, strictly speaking, Maughan is not like an organized crime boss laundering his unlawful profits; for Maughan is an organized crime boss laundering his unlawful profits.
DeleteInterestingly, the original southern Italian gangs that became known as 'Mafia' had no names. The word 'Mafiosi' originally meant an extortion gang member who went around boasting and swaggering, because he didn't have to work at an ordinary job like everyone else, - which is not a bad description of the most-deluded 'MLM' adherents.
'Recently, I began to receive a string of bizarre and insulting comments which pretended that the reason why I have written about 'FLP' is that I am, or have been, involved in an 'MLM' racket.'
ReplyDeletewhere are these comments?
Anonymous - If you look in the comments section of my main article on the 'FLP' racket, you will will find some of these comments.
DeleteThey began with a couple of unsubstantiated comments from the current British 'FLP' shill, Emma Cooper, insisting that I am:
'a scorned MLM promoter with too much time on my hands.'
Other anonymous, unsubstantiated comments of this nature have not been posted, but these said pretty much the same as the above comment, except that, in one, I was falsely described as a:
'former FLP Distributor from Yorkshire blaming others for your own failure.'
This familiar, reality-inverting story-line has obviously been fed to doubting- 'FLP' adherents, in order to prevent them from taking any notice of my Blog. It would seem that the coincidental facts that I do come from Yorkshire, and that a Yorkshire 'FLP' adherent, Owen Brear, is the son of someone called David Brear, are the origin of these latest propaganda lies about me.
It should be perfectly obvious from the contents of this Blog, that I have never been an adherent of an 'MLM income opportunity' cult. Indeed, I posted a detailed article specifically to explain why I began to investigate this phenomenon, after receiving a string of enquiries wanting to know if I had been an 'MLM Distributor.' In this article, I explained the dramatic personality transformations that happened to members of my family who fell under the malign influence of 'MLM income opportunity' racketeers preaching their twisted 'Gospel of Prosperity', and what my own brother did to me when I refused to believe the 'MLM' fairy story.
Why don't you post all comments?
DeleteThe policy of this Blog has always been not to post reality-inverting 'MLM Income Opportunity' propaganda (without detailed qualification or heavy irony).
Delete'MLM The American Dream Made Nightmare,' is not a platform of racketeers.
The made-up, technical-sounding jargon-term Multi-Level Marketing' or 'MLM', is itself a form of lie and we like to keep this Blog a jargon free-zone.
You will observe that 'MLM Income Opporunity' jargon is always indicated by quotation marks and/or italics, in order to indicate that this is not a traditional use of the English language. In reality, 'MLM Income Opportunity' jargon is a form of reality-inverting code. Speaking this code has become second nature for core 'MLM' adherents.
You all are Losers.
ReplyDeleteFLP is the most legitimate biz. opportunity on Earth today.
Verify your facts before u speak like Morons
Delete'You all are Losers.
FLP is the most legitimate biz. opportunity on Earth today.
Verify your facts before u speak like Morons'
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Gosh 'Anonymous,' it's not difficult to deduce who has been feeding that frighteningly-familiar, grandiose, puerile and abusive fiction into your receptive mind, and telling you that it's 'fact.'
Thank-you for confirming the accuracy of my analysis; for in your present intellectually- castrated state, you wouldn't recognize real facts (let alone an intellectually-rigorous analysis of these real facts), if they fell on your head.
That said, the fact that you have been reading my Blog, demonstrates that you must have some vestige of your critical and evaluative faculties struggling to function again.
lol this is hilarious! why do you care what other people do? just live your own life and stop acting like a a little angry girl
DeleteAnonymous - Might one ask exactly why you don't want me calmy to express my legimate concerns about criminal activity and seek falsely to portray me as an irrational child of the female sex?
DeleteHi David anymore information about ARIIX?
ReplyDeleteJohn White - There are various articles on this Blog warning readers about 'Ariix.'
Delete'Ariix' is an 'MLM' cult which specialises in rounding up the adherents of other 'MLM' cults, and some 'Ariix' leaders are 'Scientologists'.
Hi David any more information about ARIIX as their have been a lot of people I know getting involved?
ReplyDelete