August 27th, 2008

Daniel Hales, brother to the Exclusive Brethren leader Bruce Hales, would do well to remember who starting throwing mud first!  The Exclusive Brethren spent $Millions in nasty, underhand, anonymous smear tactics that were so repulsive, some commentators state that Exclusive Brethren political interference and stupidity cost two national party leaders their seats and their jobs!

In perspective, Brash (NZ) and Howard (Australia) accepted Exclusive Brethren ‘help’ – and paid the ultimate price for doing so.

So when Bob Brown stands up and gives a factual account of why the Exclusive Brethren should be investigated – and states his case openly and carefully in the Australian Senate – the world can at least see the difference between the Accused and the Accuser.  One uses the sunlight – the other scurries in dark places.

In situations like this, the Exclusive Brethren always prefer to lie – they even have scripture to support doing so! They use blanket generalizations and attempt to wear their threadbare suit of martyrdom.  The attitude does not fit. It is becoming a blatant statement of culpability … similar to the bard “… The Daniel doth protest too much, methinks.”

Bob Brown is helping thousands of people in many countries in his courageous stand for what is right.  It is horrifying that governments and those in authority would protect and subsidize a modern-day cult.  Exclusive Brethren schools are nothing more than Indoctrination Centers. As they do not evangelize or recruit new members, their entire future lies in large families and in keeping them!

The mind-killer is Fear and the creed is Separation. The gates, high walls, padlocks, windowless halls, locked doors … are just as much to keep the trapped inside as to keep the increasingly fascinated out.  As the Trapped grow into adulthood, financial chains are added together with the dependency forced by lack of higher education, working for other Exclusive Brethren and the necessarily tight familial links.

And Daniel Hales is simply the latest applicator of the now familiar lipstick …

Bob Brown ‘vilified’ Exclusive Brethren

The Exclusive Brethren has accused Australian Greens leader Bob Brown of vilifying its church and members.

Senator Brown yesterday urged the Upper House to conduct a wide-ranging inquiry into the activities of the Exclusive Brethren sect, saying it had prevented thousands of young Australians proceeding to tertiary education.

But Exclusive Brethren spokesman Daniel Hales said Senator Brown’s attempt to refer the church to the Senate’s community affairs committee was based on a “fictional account” of the group’s activities.

“Senator Brown’s remarks in the Senate were characterised by many factual inaccuracies,” Mr Hales said in a statement.

The Greens leader suggested the inquiry should examine $10 million in government payments to five Exclusive Brethren schools throughout Australia, even though they had a total of just 2000 students.

Brethren schools received funding in the same way as other non-government schools, Mr Hales said.

“Church members, their businesses and schools are subject to exactly the same regulations, laws and scrutiny by government agencies, tribunals and courts as other Australian individuals, businesses and schools.

“We obey the law scrupulously.”

The Brethren called on Senator Brown to stop vilifying the church and it members.

The sect was embroiled in controversy before last year’s federal election, when it was alleged it was campaigning for then-environment minister Malcolm Turnbull in his marginal seat of Wentworth in Sydney’s east.

AAP

Source: News.Com (AU)