Robert T. Pardon Bob Pardon is director of the New England Institute of Religious Research (NEIRR), and of MeadowHaven, a cult recovery facility, in Lakeville, Massachusetts (see www.neirr.org). He has been an AIIA Resource Associate since 1995. I recently received an e-mail that contained the following message in its subject line: “URGENT CRISIS!” My…
But truth be told…. Factnet NewsBlog editor’s note: I just recently worked with a reporter from NBC in Kansas City, Mo. on a spot he was doing about the Twelve Tribes. His story was focused on the “child abuse aspect” of the Tribes until he found how many different destructive traits he could have investigated…
Source: http://www.oocities.org/realidadebr/rn/seitas/s100401.htmSÉRGIO DÁVILAPublicado no Jornal Folha de São Paulo em 10/04/2001 A empresa Sundance, do ator Robert Redford, dona do festival de cinema de mesmo nome e reconhecida internacionalmente por suas preocupações ambientais e humanitárias, vendia desde 1999 móveis fabricados pelo movimento religioso Doze Tribos, que promove o trabalho infantil gratuito. O grupo religioso isolacionista,…
Scandal NY Post .com Jeane Macintosh April 9, 2001 A bizarre upstate cult that uses kid laborers to churn out products – some in Robert Redford’s catalog – is under scrutiny by state labor officials following a Post report on their practices. In the wake of the Post’s report Sunday on the Twelve Tribes cult’s…
New York Post Jeane Macintosh April 8, 2001 For some children of the Twelve Tribes, the beatings begin in infancy and sometimes don’t stop until they’re old enough to have kids of their own. They start working as young as 2 or 3, and by 13 or 14 are expected to quit home-schooling to work…
NY Post Jeane MacIntosh April 8, 2001 A Robert Redford catalog company unwittingly sold products made from a firm that uses child laborers – all members of a controversial upstate cult – to make some of its products. The children are part of Twelve Tribes, a racist, isolationist Bible-based cult that believes in beating kids…
NYPost.com Andy Geller April 8, 2001 Elbert Eugene Spriggs was working in a carnival in Chattanooga, Tenn., when he says he heard the Lord ask him, “Is this what I created you for?” The year was 1969, and the answer was no. Within three years, the former high-school guidance counselor had created the Twelve Tribes,…
MSNBC.com March 13, 2001 Beauty company Estee Lauder could be facing another ugly controversy. The cosmetics giant recently angered actors when Liz Hurley crossed Screen Actors Guild picket lines to do commercials. Now it seems the company was unwittingly using child labor. What’s more, the alleged young workers were apparently part of a group that…
Source: Cult News December 22, 2000 Rick Ross Since the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995 another band called the Phish seems to have filled the void that the Grateful Dead left behind. “Phish heads” have largely replaced the cult following of the “Dead heads” that once wandered nomadically from concert to concert devoted to…
“Shimon: “I want to repent for my dullness. I’m so thankful for the sensitivity and discernment Yoneq possesses. I know I am affected deeply by my past involvement in Christianity. I was blind in asking Grace to sing that song last night. It was an admixture. It is a wicked spirit that brings good feelings…