Source: The Chattanoogan.com Thursday, June 1, 2006 My name is Karen Draper. I live in Utah now but lived in Chattanooga and stayed with the “Yellow Deli” people for several weeks before making my “escape.” I just found this website after hearing from one of my friends in Chickamauga, Ga., that “they were back.” Ironically,…
Cornell Daily Sun/May 3, 2006 By Ross Anderson “I’m really thankful,” said a man who identified himself as Lev. “I was lost and alone, and then God revealed himself to me.” Five years ago, Lev joined the Twelve Tribes, The Common Wealth of Israel, a religious group that began a community in Ithaca two years…
Source: The Boston Globe By Christopher Dreher | October 23, 2005 Massachusetts has long been fertile ground for religious sects like Twelve Tribes. The group has already settled in Plymouth, Dorchester, Hyannis, and Athol. Newton, Wellesley, and Harvard Square may be next for a group that requires members to give up their possessions, follow the…
Source: mediastudy.com by Michael I. Niman 7/15/10 Adapted from ArtVoice 10/20/05 It certainly seems wholesome enough, a small tea house with staffed by friendly smiling and seemingly down to earth folks. What’s not readily apparent is that shoppers on four continents are simultaneously walking into Mate Factor and Yerba Mate tea houses or Common Ground…
Source: www.coldtype.net Published: October 20, 2005 Links: www.coldtype.net/Assets.05/Niman/Niman.24.05.pdf http://mediastudy.com/articles/av10-20-05.html Pdf: 20051020 coldtype.net The food co-op and the hate group It certainly seems wholesome enough, looking at the shelves of fresh locally baked organic whole grain bread lined up at my local food co-op in Buffalo. Each neatly bagged loaf bears the homey label of the Common Ground…
Source: Time Argus, September 05,2005 MONTPELIER — The Vermont Supreme Court will decide whether a former Vermont woman can avoid paying child support because of her religious beliefs. The Vermont Office of Child Support in 2003 received a court order allowing it to suspend the driver’s license of Joyce Stanzione, a former Vermont resident who…
Village police arrested a 48 year old Coxsackie man Saturday night and charged him with assault after allegedly attacking a member of the Twelve Tribes group with a baseball bat. David W. Ziegler was reportedly distraught that his wife, Suzy, had begun living with the group some time ago. On Saturday, Ziegler allegedly entered the…
Boy Came Forward To Church Elders In 1997 TheChamplainChannel.com/February 11, 2005 Island Pond, Vt. — Police charged a former member of the Twelve Tribes Church in Island Pond with molesting a young boy. John Thomas, 32, is accused of sexually abusing at least one of the children at the church in the Northeast Kingdom. Church…
Source: The Caledonian-Record/February 10, 2005 By James Jardine St. Johnsbury Vermont — John W. Thomas of Savoy, Mass., is scheduled to be arraigned in Caledonia District Court on one count of sexual assault on a minor and three counts of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child. The state alleges Thomas sexually abused four children,…
Source: MM Outreach.Inc October 2004 The Twelve Tribes communes are springing up all over North America, drawing off followers from the various churches. They follow the teachings of Elbert Eugene Spriggs, a three-times divorced man, remarried for the fourth time. Being bitterly disillusioned with the established churches, he identifies them with the Whore of Babylon,…