TRANSCRIPTION Keynote Speech Panel Discussion Blackhawk College, Moline, Ill April 20, 198

WARNING: The Cult Awareness Network was destroyed by the Scientology
crime syndicate in court and, when CAN went bankrupt, the Scientology
criminal enterprise acquired the use and title of the Cult Awareness
network.  Now, if you call CAN, you will find yourself talking to
the Scientology crime syndicate!  This gross injustice was due to a
massive frame up concocted by Scientology to destroy CAN and it
worked, prompting a Judge to order all of CAN's records handed over
to the very same criminal enterprise that most people contacted the
real CAN to complain about and to acquire help fighting.  Spread
the word that the new Cult Awareness Network is now a Scientology
crime syndicate front! - flr, feb 2003

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Keynote  Speech Panel Discussion Blackhawk College, Moline, Ill April
20, 1986

Dr.  Edwin L. Morse
Clinical Psychologist, Madison, WIs.
B.S., Wittenberg College
M.S. & Ph.D., Ohio State, Doctorate Thesis on Personal Identity
Experience: 1953 Study of Korean P.O.W.s
Became involved because of children of close friends
Wife: Julia, Certified Speech Therapist and Psychological Assistant
50% OF HIS CLINICAL PRACTICE IS "CULT" RELATED
Shepherding Groups, est, Scientology, Wicka [sic]
Majority of Clients, Women

In their community: Midwest Headquarters  -  The  Way  International,
Ananda Marga "cult."





     Thank you  very  much.    I'm  really  delighted  to be here and
frankly, honored to be given not only  the  recognition  of  Citizens
Freedom  Foundation but to work as closely with them as I have in the
years that I've been involved in this kind of work. "Cult"  Awareness
Network  is an organization that is typified by knowing what they are
doing and in being relentless in trying to pursue it.  I continuously
am not only amazed but my respect for them is just never ending.

     I am one of the furtunate people that does  not  have  immediate
family involved  in  one  of these destructive organizations.  I have
close friends, however, who have  children  missing  and  don't  know
about  what  they're doing, how they're being treated, whether or not
they are healthy, whether or not they are injured...and  on  and  on.
It is a pathetic type of pain that these individuals experience every
day of  their  lives.   But, it is something that many individuals in
this country, in this society, in this community are  ignorant  about
and if anything, I am very, very happy to hear Reg talking about some
of  the things that are taking place...because more and more exposure
has to take place...because I feel that we are involved  in  a  basic
type of sociological war or crime.

     There  is  available  in our society today the sophistication of
technique to basically enslave human beings.  And  that  is  what  is
being done  by  a  number  of these organizations.  Last October at a
National Conference,  Dr.    Margaret  Singer  addressed  the  "Cult"
Awareness Network  in  Dallas Texas.  She indicated that 1985 and now
1986 has come and gone, or is in the process, and we have passed 1984
predictions of Orwell which have not come true, by in large.  But she
made a very enlightening point that I had never thought about.    And
that is,  that his basic prediction has come true.  We have reached a
level of sophistication in our  knowledge  of  use  of  language  and
communication and interpersonal skills so that we can, if we want to,
deliberately  and  systematically control other human beings and have
them do what we want them to do.

     The basic knowledge of how to create  an  imprisoned  victim  is
very simple   and   is  very  easy  to  obtain.    All  it  takes  is
motivation, and  to want  to  use  other   individuals   enslavement,
entrapment,  and  to  use  it  for  the  individual's  own  power and
purpose.... and it can be done.

     I have a lot of trouble talking about  the  victim  because  the
words get  very  complicated.    Psychologically,  it is a very clear
reality that there is a process that is brainwashing.  Similarly  you
can refer to it as mind control, it doesn't matter, the end result is
the same.  A person who is unsuspecting, a person who is searching to
find  some  real  meaning for their life can be very subtly, quickly,
systematically, enslaved and manipulated and they don't  know  what's
happening.   For years and years I gave lectures on clinical hypnosis
and had always said, and still say, that in clinical  hypnosis it  is
impossible  to  take  a  human  being and make them do something they
don't want to do, and it's true...it holds true today.  However, if I
have another human being under my absolute control for  72  hours,  I
now  realize AND KNOW that I can have them totally brainwashed...that
I can have them totally obedient and compliant.  It is  done  day  in
and day  out  all over this country.  Human beings are systematically
taught to believe certain things and taught to forget certain  things
and  they become prisoners of the people that they thought they could
trust and learn from.  It  is  human  exploitation  and  it  is  done
deliberately and systematically.

     I  am  very  glad to hear...I didn't realize that there had been
such testimony for the Select Subcommittee for Children and Families.
There has to be more, because if there is one thing  that  exists  it
is,  I believe, pervasive ignorance about what is going on within our
society and our homes.

     I am a Clinical Psychologist and I'm  licensed  to  practice  to
help human  beings  with  their personal troubles.  To the best of my
knowledge, I am the only  person  in  a  community  of  approximately
400,000  people that has special knowledge about the issues that I am
referring to.    It  is  a  tragedy  that  there  are  few,  if  any,
professionals  who  understand  this phenomenon or understand what is
happening to not only the youths, but also to children and to elderly
in our society.  I believe our educational institutions and political
systems as well as  criminal  justice  systems  have  got  to  become
educated and  learn what is going on.  BRAINWASHING..MIND CONTROL..IT
EXISTS..IT IS A REALITY...it can be done..and it can be done  QUICKLY
and EFFICIENTLY. It also can be done EN MASSE. There are all kinds of
variations,  but  all  the variations include the same variables that
take place within the process.

     Saying this, I would like to move for just a moment to  what  we
see in our clinical practice.  We are very familiar with the standard
or  destructive  "cultic"  organizations  that  appear  very often in
newspapers.  The Unification  Church,  The  Way  International,  Hare
Krishna,  Scientology,  on  and on and on, I'm trying to think of the
"top ten".  But, we are also very, very familiar with things we  have
never seen  before  the last few years.  Maybe it's because we didn't
look around or maybe it's because we are starting to wake up.  At the
present point in time we are working with two individuals, two women,
both of whom are professionals who are a part  of  eleven  women  who
were all  in  a small "cult" directed by a single male.  He now has a
cohort with him.  These two individuals were the  recipients  of  the
total  income of eleven professional women over a four year period of
time.   And,  when  I  say  professional   women,   I   mean   Social
Worker..School  Teacher..Nurse..individuals who are making large sums
of money.  But they existed, all eleven of them, on $100 a month  for
groceries.  They always had to ask for enough money for tampons, they
always  had to allocate how much money could be spent on toilet paper
and they had to get  permission  to  buy  such  items.    They  never
questioned where all the money went.  They never even questioned why,
after  working  all  day  long, they had to stay up all night long to
AGAIN go over the teachings of the leader.

     Recently  we  have  become  more  aware  of   "satanic"   groups
systematically   using  runaway  children..systematically  trying  to
entice adolescents  into  their  organizations  for  both  their  own
exploitation,  and  also  to  use  them  in  rituals involving sexual
abuse...and sometimes death rituals.  The kind of things we're seeing
in our clinical practice are, in all honesty, the worst things I have
ever seen in my career of twenty years at this point in time.   I  am
staying   in   this  field  because  I  am  so  disgusted  about  the
exploitation and abuse of human beings that I'm seeing in this  "Free
American Society".

     If  you haven't spent much time learning about things like this,
you would be shocked, I think, to find some of the things that do  in
fact exist and take place every day of the week in every community in
this country.    I know of NO community that is not affected by these
types of problems.

     We have, just a few months ago, faced a court case where custody
and visitation from the parent father was denied to his two children.
The reason it was denied, and the reason  we  fought  for  it  to  be
denied,  was the six year-old child and the three year-old child were
brainwashed from the day  one.    The  six  year-old  child  believes
absolutely that he can change the weather, that he talks to God, that
his  father  is  God, that he is able to read people's minds and that
the only mind in the world that is real is his father's  mind.    The
judge  looked at it for a long, long time, and it is the only case in
the court's history that this has ever been done.  But, at least  one
judge recognized the seriousness of what was happening to that child.

     There is something else that we also are seeing..and that is the
brutalization of  women.    Brutalization  in  ways  that are hard to
describe without becoming extremely both angry and outraged.  I  have
been aware  of  a tremendous amount of crime in my life.  I've worked
in prison systems, I've been in the streets  of  major  cities,  I've
been involved in a lot of criminal cases...I have never seen anything
as ugly as I have seen in "cult"-related cases.

     We  are currently dealing with two women and their two daughters
who were systematically sexually abused by a grandparent.  They  have
absolutely  no memory for any of this because they were being used in
"satanic" rituals and were given drugs that  made  them  pliable  and
forgetful,  but  simultaneously  available  for  any kind of perverse
sexual torture or abuse that you  could  imagine.    The  statute  of
limitations has  run  out.  There's no physical evidence so that they
can  get  anywhere  in  the  courtroom,  but  we  have  reports  from
physicians  who  say  they  can't imagine what this woman's body went
through...but he can't testify as  to  how  it  got  there.    It  is
happening more and more.

     Drugs are  playing  a  major  part in some groups.  In "satanic"
groups they play a major role, but they are also  related...from  the
best  that  we know...not all the time...but very often...where there
is child pornography involved.  It's a little different than The  Way
International,  it's  a  little different than the Unification Church
but it is similar because it is the identical type of enslavement and
mind rape and human violation that takes place in the other types  of
"cults."

     These "cults" are getting exposed, getting changed, but they are
also getting  more  sophisticated.  The large mass training of how to
become better as a human being that was introduced back in  the  60's
and  had the proper name of "est" is now called The Forum --It is now
changing with the times, it's getting bigger, it's  getting  slicker,
it's getting  more  sophisticated.    It hasn't gone down in price in
fact it's getting more expensive, but it's there and it's rampant.  I
work in an office with fourteen doctors.   Every  single  one  got  a
"free" invitation to go to The Forum when it was held in my community
just 4  weeks  ago..absolutely  free.   Obviously the anticipation is
that we will get involved longer.  Rev.  Moon, as  was  mentioned  by
Reg, is  trying to engage people in broad dialogues.  Simultaneously,
while that level of sophistication is  going  on  and  he  is  buying
newspapers,  we  also  have  people like Tony Alamo from Arkansas who
comes to Wisconsin every spring, because it is a state  with  a  very
large  Catholic population, and spreads literature all over the state
about how the Catholics created the Holocaust.   He  has  been  found
guilty of a number of crimes through the Federal Court System because
of  abuses  with  labor  laws,  but  he still exists.. and he's still
estimated to be worth some thirty million dollars..  and  he's  still
taking people off the streets whenever he has a chance to.

     I  don't know what the answer is, but I do know that creating an
awareness that there is a potential for human destruction within  our
communities is  a necessity.  If it weren't for CFF, I don't know who
would be trying to keep the public informed.  It is  a  small  group,
but it is a group that has been able to make tremendous and effective
changes.   But,  more  and more people have got to be willing to look
around and see what is going on, and find out when  free  choice  has
been taken  away from another human being.  The bottom line as far as
I'm concerned is  that  destructive  "cultic"  organizations  are  in
reality  taking  away  the  freedom of human beings and, in doing so,
also  destroying  families  and  affecting  many  many   loved   ones
simultaneously.

     We  are,  fortunately,  seeing  a  few  positive  things  in our
practice.  We are starting to see that there is some method  to  what
we do.    We  are  starting to see that individuals are coming out of
these things... these imprisoned mind sets...  programmed  styles  of
being brainwashed...   There is a method, and we are able to start to
say now, "I think we know when we can be of help."

     The myth that exists, I believe, in  our  community  and  almost
every community, however, is about people who get "sucked up" into or
manipulated   and   exploitively  involved  in  destructive  "cultic"
organizations.  The myth is that these people  are  "screwed  up"  to
begin with, these people are strange, these people have psychological
problems.   That  is  an  absolute  myth  and  there is absolutely no
foundation to it whatsoever.  Out of thousands of hours working  with
"cultic"  victims,  right  now  there are only two people that I feel
ever had any pre-existing serious  emotional  problems.    Those  two
individuals, unfortunately, were both involved with murders.  What we
find are   bright,  extremely  bright  people.    What  we  find  are
idealistic people.  What we find  are  highly  motivated  and  deeply
committed people.    They are people who have been lied to and people
who have been deceived.  But we do not  find  people  coming  out  of
these organizations  who  were  emotionally disturbed beforehand.  We
find people coming who were involved in good solid families but again
they were lied to and deceived and tricked and exploited.   But  when
they  come  out,  it  doesn't  take  much  when they realize they are
dealing with people who have knowledge.. that  they  are  in  and  of
themselves  valid  unique human beings and are worth something in and
of themselves.  That is something they have not known for  years  and
years  and  years  until  they  get  out  of the totalitarian kind of
existence that they have been subjected to.

     I hope that I will see a difference in the next decade, however,
I don't know how to predict.  One thing I can predict is  that  we're
going to  see more and more of the damage inflicted upon people.  And
I hope, as we see more of it, we will find quicker ways to prevent it
and correct it.  It is now a number of years since Jonestown.  It  is
also, though, a period of time when we are starting to see the second
generation  effects,  the  children  of people growing up in "cultic"
organizations.  I hope that in a decade  we  will  have  a  lot  more
knowledge  and a lot fewer of these folks around....but that won't be
the case.

     I want to end by repeating something I have probably said  three
times.   I  implore each and every person in this room to become more
knowledgeable.  To discuss issues about  "cultic"  organizations  and
therapeutic  organizations.. discuss these things with friends.. find
out what  exists..  get  more  information..  talk  to  your  elected
representative..  talk  to  your  police  officials..  talk  to  your
doctors.  When formal education is not providing the education that's
needed, it has to come from the people in the  community,  come  from
the grass  roots.  Question the professionals.. the elected people --
the people in government you know.  We have to educate and we have to
learn.  Thank you very much.

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Commentary:

Most of what E.L. Morse relates here is total fabrication, hearsay,
Urban Myth, ignorance, or a combination of these factors: It seems
someone should read a bible at him:

"Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or
favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.  Do not go about
spreading slander among your people.  Do not do anything which endangers
your neighbor's life."  (Lev. 19:15-16 NIV)  And another:  "Do not follow
the crowd in doing wrong.  When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not
pervert justice by siding with the crowd. ... Have nothing to do with a
false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I
will not acquit the guilty. ... Do not oppress an alien (someone not of your
people); you yourselves know how it feels to be aliens, because you were
aliens in Egypt."  (Ex. 23:2-9 NIV)  And if that's too hard, let's try one
of the Ten Commandments: "You shall not give false testimony against your
neighbor."  (Ex. 20:16 NIV)