"Former cult member speaks from grave" (about abuse and revenge)

[Minstrel Boy]

Former cult member speaks from grave

Jan 18

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In the video, Ricky Rodriguez sits in his apartment, and from his kitchen table, documents his plan -- to hunt down and kill several members of a religous sect he claims sexually abused him and other children. Rodriguez says, "There is this need... I have a need. It's not a (explitive) want. It's a need and I wish it wasn't, but this need for revenge, it's a need for justice."

Loading bullets into magazines, the 29-year-old talks about the abuse. "Thousands of us, some worse than others, I had it good in many ways" As a toddler, it been reported that Rodriguez was being groomed to lead the group, but he managed to break away several years ago. Leaders of the sect have admitted publicly that as of 1986 the rules were changed to ban sex with minors.

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By far the most chilling part of the tape is when Rodriguez vows revenge on the group's leader,his own mother.

"My mom is going to pay for that. She is going to pay dearly one way or another. If I don't get to her...man if I don't get to her and life goes on, I'm going to keep haunting her in the next life."

Angela Smith's body was discovered in Rodriguez's apartment on Sunday, two days after the videotape was recorded.

http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=2826894


And from an earlier LBN thread about the story:

I've cribbed this from Alex Constantine's book, Psychic Dictatorship in the USA:


Chief Inspector Juan Carlos Rebello, who led police in the Children of God raids (in Argentina), said "we found evidence suggesting that the Family was funded by influential businessmen worldwide." One Argentine magazine found that some financial supporters of the cult were "well-known and powerful people," and pondered whether Berg's disturbed mental state "is being exploited by a network of powerful people to sexually control an army of children....

According to the Washington Post for June 2, 1993, "the Family's leadership follows a policy of lying to outsiders, is steeped in a history of sexual deviance and has even meddled in Third World politics." Edward Probe, a Canadian who once edited Family publications, worked in the Philippines from 1986 to '88. He told the Post that "Family officials openly sympathized with right-wing military officers who tried to overthrow the government: What we were doing was supplying all the moral support." One former member from Costa Rica told Argentina's Gente magazine: My father used to have certain privileges inside the organization. He was considered a very important person for public relations. His paternal grandfather...was a close friend of Pinochet and Juan Carlos, the king of Spain." Pinochet and Carlos became financial and political benefactors of the cult.

In the United States the political pull of the sect extended to the Bush administration. A chorale of Family children (in 1978 the COG changed its name to the Family of Love) kicked off a Christmas show in 1992 for Barbara Bush in the East Room of the White House, for which they received certificates of appreciation signed by President Bush. The sect also sang for Bush after he toured the ravages of Hurricane Andrew in south Florida. It wasn't the first time Bush's name arose in connection with a child prostitution cult....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1153791#1154082

[ck4829]

1. Does this have connections to another Family?

The Family I am thinking of is a secret group of politicians, all but 1 Republican, who plan in a little house in Virginia.

[alexisfree]

2. Cult ..Bush is in charge of the cult

[CoffeeCat]

3. Does this stuff happen quite a bit...even in the US?

I'm familiar with the Franklin Cover Up--is that part of a cult or a big child-sex ring--which is similar to the one described in this article?

I read about the Franklin cover-up on DU. Shocking, but I stumbled upon some information about Johnny Gosh, a pre-teen paper boy who went missing in the 80's. His mother has information that he was abducted to take part in a child-sex ring--and she alleges that the govt knows about these activities.

There are so many missing children in the United States.

Could this really happen?

[Minstrel Boy]

4. I know what you mean

The Johnny Gosh story is awful. And Franklin. (And Lawrence King is out of prison now, and reportedly seeking a Republican appointment.)

"The Finders" is another paedo cult, based in DC, with reputed ties to the CIA. See these:

http://www.the7thfire.com/Politics%20and%20History/Pedophocracy/child_sexual_abuse_and_the_CIA.htm

http://www.kathleen-sullivan.com/Finders%20Investigation.htm

[Minstrel Boy]

5. more on the Children of God:

Remarkably, the Children of God organization has withstood several prosecutorial attempts, including one in 1974 by the New York Attorney General's office, which accused the cult of incest, rape and kidnapping. Incredibly, the case was dropped by order of the Attorney General, who made the amazing claim that the cult was protected from prosecution by the First Amendment! Could it be that the cult is protected by very powerful figures? Former Chilean dictator Pinochet and Libya's Muammar al-Qaddafi, allegedly have connections with this organization, whose choir even performed at the George Bush White House.

In 1991, movie actor River Phoenix revealed that as a child he had been forced to have sex. This was during the period when his father served as an archbishop of the Children of God church. Because the actor had not acquired celebrity status at that time, his comments were largely unreported by the media.

Some 170 children were taken into protective custody in 1993, after a police raid on an Argentinean compound of the Children of God church. The police claimed that the children had been sexually-abused by church members; cocaine and pornographic video tapes had been seized in a previous raid. Not surprisingly, perhaps, no charges were brought against church members.
www.heart7.net/religious-mindcontrolcults.html