This message board was launched more than 10 years ago and contains more than 100,000 entries. It has been a safe haven for many former cult members and also for families and others concerned about controversial groups.
Frequently news stories have begun here about many groups and leaders. Perhaps the most significant was the series exposing Geronimo Aguilar, the leader of a mega-church in Richmond, Virginia called the ROC or Richmond Outreach Center. Aguilar was convicted for sexually assaulting minor children and is now in serving a 40-year prison sentence. It was the bravery of former ROC members posting here that first focused attention on his crimes and eventually culminated in a an investigation, which led to Aguilar's arrest.
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The effectiveness of this message board has not gone unnoticed.
Landmark Education sued and lost in court trying to censor this message board and Web archive. But a federal judge protected the anonymity of members posting here. All told the Cult Education Institute (CEI) has been sued five times by groups called "cults" unhappy with information shared online through its Web presence. They all lost. CEI was represented pro bono by some of the most well-known law firms and lawyers in the country. And organizations concerned about free speech such as Birman Center at Harvard University and Public Citizen in Washington D.C. were also helpful.
Very few sites on the Web concerned about cults can claim a similar history of standing up so successfully and effectively against destructive cults.
At times people will post at this message board and then decide to move on and start their own blog and/or website. There have been many spin-offs since this site was first launched in 1996.
CEI is honored by the participation of so many dedicated people over the past 20 years of its online history and is greatly encouraged by the results achieved in greater public awareness about the issue of cults through the World Wide Web.
This thread is yet another example of significant work accomplished through an accumulation of posts by former members and others concerned about a group and its leader. This thread is quite prominent in search results regarding the Science of Identity and Chris Butler (aka Jagad Guru) as is this message board regarding many other groups and leaders and CEI generally through its extensive archives.
Frequently news stories have begun here about many groups and leaders. Perhaps the most significant was the series exposing Geronimo Aguilar, the leader of a mega-church in Richmond, Virginia called the ROC or Richmond Outreach Center. Aguilar was convicted for sexually assaulting minor children and is now in serving a 40-year prison sentence. It was the bravery of former ROC members posting here that first focused attention on his crimes and eventually culminated in a an investigation, which led to Aguilar's arrest.
See [www.culteducation.com]
The effectiveness of this message board has not gone unnoticed.
Landmark Education sued and lost in court trying to censor this message board and Web archive. But a federal judge protected the anonymity of members posting here. All told the Cult Education Institute (CEI) has been sued five times by groups called "cults" unhappy with information shared online through its Web presence. They all lost. CEI was represented pro bono by some of the most well-known law firms and lawyers in the country. And organizations concerned about free speech such as Birman Center at Harvard University and Public Citizen in Washington D.C. were also helpful.
Very few sites on the Web concerned about cults can claim a similar history of standing up so successfully and effectively against destructive cults.
At times people will post at this message board and then decide to move on and start their own blog and/or website. There have been many spin-offs since this site was first launched in 1996.
CEI is honored by the participation of so many dedicated people over the past 20 years of its online history and is greatly encouraged by the results achieved in greater public awareness about the issue of cults through the World Wide Web.
This thread is yet another example of significant work accomplished through an accumulation of posts by former members and others concerned about a group and its leader. This thread is quite prominent in search results regarding the Science of Identity and Chris Butler (aka Jagad Guru) as is this message board regarding many other groups and leaders and CEI generally through its extensive archives.