UK Post Office/Fujitsu scandal - 'MLM' cultic rackets are not the only blame-the-victim fraud.

For decades, right under the noses of regulators, law enforcement agents, prosecutors, legislators, journalists, etc., the all-powerful bosses of an increasing-number of 'Amway' copy-cat so-called 'Multi-Level Marketing' companies have been allowed to get away with peddling a financially-suicidal, so-called 'Income/Business opportunity,' which has secretly had a (built-in) effectively 100% overall net-loss/churn rate of powerless participants. Currently, the number of ill-informed vulnerable persons being quietly churned each year through these highly-profitable, unoriginal, blame-the victim cultic rackets around the world, is counted in the tens of millions, and probably exceeds one billion per decade. Behind the kitsch facade of 'MLM/Direct Selling' have been secondary advanced fee frauds, in which victims have been peddled effectively-valueless 'step-by-step plans to achieve success in MLM.'

Decades of evidence, in the form of billions of constantly-churning losing 'MLM' contractors, proves that what has become commonly-referred to as 'MLM,' has actually been an ongoing criminogenic phenomenon of historic significance.

The quantifiable results of the self-perpetuating global 'Long Con' known as 'Multi Level Marketing,' have been fiendishly hidden by convincing victims that they are 'Independent Business Owners' and that any losses they incurred, must have been entirely their own fault for not working hard enough. 

Chronic victims of blame-the-victim cultic rackets who have managed to escape 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 years afterwards, recovering cult victims can suffer from 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, fear of forming intimate relationships; inability to trust; etc.

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Recently, a cruel blame-the-victim fraud hidden behind corporate structures (albeit on a much smaller scale than the 'MLM' phenomenon), has again hit the headlines in the UK. Although this is not a cultic racket, there are aspects of the 'British Post Office Scandal' which can be compared to 'MLM' cultic racketeering; not least the chronic failure of law enforcement + the eyes, ears and mouths wide-shut complicity of politicians in positions of power.

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Post Office Ltd. is a UK registered company that offers products and services (including stamps and banking) to the public through a national network of around 11,500 post office branches. Almost all of these branch post offices are run by contractors known as sub-postmasters; the remaining 1% are directly managed by Post Office Ltd., these are known as Crown Post Offices.

Fujitsu Limited is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and based in Tokyo. It is the world's sixth-largest Information Technology services provider by annual revenue.

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The UK public has recently been horrified to watch a four-part television drama series, 'Mr. Bates vs The Post office.' The series was an accurate internal depiction of what has become known as the 'Post Office scandal' (British Post Office scandal - Wikipedia) - a miscarriage of justice in which more than 900 innocent sub-postmasters were prosecuted for theft, false accounting or fraud. However, this was due to a Fujitsu computer system called 'Horizon' (sold to the UK Post Office and installed at a cost of more than £ one billion), which made it appear that significant sums of cash were going missing, when this was not the case. The media has apparently made the assumption that the various faults in the Horizon system were the result of genuine errors in its design. However, this is not entirely clear; for the available, jargon-laced technical explanation of these matters is largely incomprehensible nonsense. What is clear, is that, for many years, persons in postions of authority in both the Post Office and Fujitsu, knew full-well that the 'Horizon' system was prone to widespread serious faults and was fundamentally unreliable, but both organizations pumped out the same lies about these matters - blaming everything on the innocent postmasters. In this way, the individual postmasters were deprived of key-information and deceived into believing that they were the only persons being accused of dishonesty and prosecuted. Obviously, the idea that hundreds of previously hard-working, law-abiding and trusted people would all suddenly begin committing exactly the same crime, could not possibly have been true. Indeed, in not one case was any independent evidence found that a postmaster had actually taken any money. Sadly, as a result of its historical origins, the UK Post Office has retained its own internal systems of investigation and prosecution.

The level of mental cruelty inflicted on the innocent postmasters was stomach-churning. Bear in mind that these were previously respected, and valued, members of their communities. Yet, they were publicly shamed as thieves and liars and forced to hand over the money that they were falsely-accused/convicted of stealing - leading many to lose their homes and their access to credit. Post Office investigators and prosecutors behaved like thugs - deceiving many of the innocent postmasters into believing that they should plead guilty to false accounting, and avoid prison sentences for theft. Families were torn apart and victims suffered from chronic physical, and psychological, deterioration symptoms. Some wound up in psychiatric hospitals (wrongly-diagnosed with being in denial) whilst a few committed suicide.

The television dramatization revealed what can happen when there is a chronic failure of law enforcement and justice, and when (in pursuit of money) the all-powerful bosses of corporate structures are permitted (by a series of complicit governments) to behave like totalitarian dictators - maintaining a monopoly of information as part of a criminal conspiracy designed to insulate them from liabilty, whilst simultaneously, making hundreds of ill-informed powerless contractors appear to be guilty of, and financially-liable for, crimes of which they were completely innocent.

Although, due to a resulting public outcry, all the surviving victims of this organized criminal enterprise are now suddenly going to be exonerated and compensated (at the command of the current UK government which is increasingly-desperate to hang on to power), it remains to be seen whether those who organized, hid and profited from it will be held fully to account. Tragically, more than 30 victims of the Post Office scandal have already died. According to London Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Mark Rowley, it's going to take several years to investigate these matters. A UK parliamentary committee, public enquiry is currently underway.

What Is the UK Post Office Scandal? (lawyer-monthly.com)

   

Fujitsu Japan remains tight-lipped on the Post Office scandal - BBC News

 David Brear (copyright 2024)