NBC targets cults with brainwashing drama

by Dogpatch 14 Replies latest jw friends

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  Dogpatch

  I know Rick Ross and this should be interesting. Amy Manchester is a Christian and part of the project, and asks for prayer for this show. I hope they don't make it look like deprogramming is the "way to do it." There are better ways to get people out.

  Randy

  NBC targets cults with brainwashing drama

  By Kimberly Speight

  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC has given a script commitment to a one-hour drama centering on an expert in "deprogramming" people.

  The tentatively titled "The Bogeyman" will center on a character who helps people who have been brainwashed.

  Rick Ross, who works as a deprogrammer, is on board as a consultant. Ross, who has been in this line of work since 1982, said he has assisted thousands of families in his efforts to help the victims of brainwashing, which he points out includes such people as victims of cults posing as religious organizations, members of terrorist organizations and women abused by their husbands.

  "For the first time, the world of cults and deprogramming and the plight of families victimized by cults and brainwashing along with the vulnerability of the human will be on view in a way it's never been before," Ross said. "The audience will have the opportunity to come into that world and experience it firsthand."

  The script is from Erik Jendresen (HBO's "Band of Brothers"), who said the show will "have guts."

  "We're staring this stuff right in the face and going to deal with very real organizations and groups," he said. "We're not shying away from any of this."

  Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

  http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=televisionNews&storyID=2005-12-09T040017Z_01_MCC914415_RTRIDST_0_TELEVISION-TELEVISION-BOGEYMAN-DC.XML
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  Dogpatch

  These guys produce American Chopper, American Hot Rod and Ghosthunters amongst many other programs.

  Should be interesting!

  Randy

  Net Soup!

  http://www.freeminds.org
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  Beep,Beep

  http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/false_exp/rossr1.html

  The above site paints a different picture of Rick Ross.
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  DannyHaszard

  The above site paints a different picture of Rick Ross.

  Yea and it's a scientology apologist site
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  DannyHaszard

  "We're staring this stuff right in the face and going to deal with very real organizations and groups," he said. "We're not shying away from any of this."

  I like it all ready
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  Dogpatch

  I know Rick Ross personally, and he is always slandered by high-control groups. To read more about him OBJECTIVELY, go here:

  http://www.rickross.com/

  Randy
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  Beep,Beep

  Sorry but that is his site. How can you view it as more objective ?

  Maybe this, from the Wikipedia site is more objective.

  ""Rick Alan Ross (born November 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a private consultant and lecturer in the area of cults who maintains a website with an extensive listing of articles about destructive cults, controversial groups and movements, and related research about mind control theories. He also publishes the Cultnews.com blog. He describes himself as a "cult intervention specialist", a term he coined to describe his way of doing exit counseling.

  He has been referred to by the media as a "cult deprogrammer" (Ortega, 1996), a "veteran cult watcher" (Padgett, 2003), a "self-styled cult buster" (Grove, 2004), as an "internationally known expert regarding destructive cults" (Bond, 2005), and as a "cult expert" (Cohen, 2005), and has been interviewed and quoted by the media in the United States and other countries in relation to his interest in cults.

  He faces criticism from some of the groups he lists on his website, from some of the scholars that study new religious movements, and from other individuals related to the roles he played in the controversial case of Jason Scott and the ill fated Waco standoff with the Branch Davidians.""

  You may know the man but it would appear that others view him differently. I fould the Jason Scott case very interesting.
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  sf

  "For the first time, the world of cults and deprogramming and the plight of families victimized by cults and brainwashing along with the vulnerability of the human will be on view in a way it's never been before," Ross said. "The audience will have the opportunity to come into that world and experience it firsthand."

  THIS is The Key.

  sKally
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  Tigerman

  Concerning the action at Waco, Texas I must ask two questions ; Who or what organization was in control of the situation there and why were eighty-one people ( mostly women and children ) baked alive in an underground hiding place ?
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  sf

  Rick Ross Responds to his Critics

  sKally