A powerful high-quality and full-length 2006 Australian TV documentary about the Exclusive Brethren that explores the nature of the cult.
This Australian Broadcasting Company – Four Corners episode first aired Mon Sep 25 2006.
Further information and background interviews and details can be found on the Four Corners website:
Separate Lives explores the cult known as the Exclusive Brethren (2006)
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by Neville and Philippa McCallum
Neville McCallum experienced the full wrath of the Exclusive Brethren in New Zealand during the notorious reign of James H Symington (cult leader through the 1970′s until his death in 1987). In Cast Outside The Camp, Neville and his wife Philippa recount how it felt to be pursued, interrogated and eventually cast-out of the Exclusive Brethren. They pull no punches in this often deep, always insightful and sinister human drama which is presented by peebs.net as a multi-part serialization.
And now matters start coming to a head ...
And now matters start coming to a head ...
ROUND 15 (Part 1)
- Excommunication -
After the last Round, I had to do a little homework, in case I was employing the 18 year old illegally. I contacted the Labour Department, and enquired into the matter. The laws of the land were as follows –
It was lawful to employ any person who reached the age of 18 yrs without joining them to a union, providing they had not been approached by a union official. There was no responsibility on the part of the employer to even suggest to any employee that they should join a union. The fact that no union official had ever set foot on my property let alone speak to my employees, left me in the clear legally.
I asked my 18 yr old employee, if she had ever considered belonging to a union. I got an emphatic NO. The result of the above enquiry was like ‘music to my ears’.
I was ready for the return of the thugs.
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by Neville and Philippa McCallum
Neville McCallum experienced the full wrath of the Exclusive Brethren in New Zealand during the notorious reign of James H Symington (cult leader through the 1970′s until his death in 1987). In Cast Outside The Camp, Neville and his wife Philippa recount how it felt to be pursued, interrogated and eventually cast-out of the Exclusive Brethren. They pull no punches in this often deep, always insightful and sinister human drama which is presented by peebs.net as a multi-part serialization.
Nev experiences the EB 'Clone Mentality'
[Editor note:
This is a continuation of a conversation between the Exclusive Brethren priests and Neville. The priests have just made an outrageous accusation regarding the way Neville operates his small business and Neville has decided to push back.
If you want to refresh your memory as to the earlier interrogation, click here.
The previous installment will open in a new window.]
ROUND 14 (Part 2)
- Business (continued) -
N. McC – “How could I be righteous if I am still employing the same person?”
PRIEST – “It’s simple, you put the responsibility onto the manager. If he joins her to a union then you are not responsible for this error, and if he does not join her to a union then it is the manager not you, that is acting unlawfully. So whatever the manager does you can be righteous, yet still employ the same person.”
The deceit here was to create a technical cop-out, in that if an EB employer (like myself) was asked, “Do you employ union labour“, I could technically answer “NO“, because I only employed the manger/contractor, who did not legally have to be joined to a union.
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by Neville and Philippa McCallum
Neville McCallum experienced the full wrath of the Exclusive Brethren in New Zealand during the notorious reign of James H Symington (cult leader through the 1970′s until his death in 1987). In Cast Outside The Camp, Neville and his wife Philippa recount how it felt to be pursued, interrogated and eventually cast-out of the Exclusive Brethren. They pull no punches in this often deep, always insightful and sinister human drama which is presented by peebs.net as a multi-part serialization.
Nev and Pip grew to hate the ominous sound of the priests shoes on the path as they approached the front-door
Nev and Pip grew to hate the ominous sound of the priests shoes on the path as they approached the front-door
ROUND 14 (Part 1)
- Business -
The trouble makers are returning, the click-click-click of their approaching heels on the concrete was like (other ‘outs’ have also stated this) listening to the high-boots of the Gestapo echoing louder and louder in the corridors as they approach the front-door.
We are sick of their faces. They arrive at the same time; they knock the same way every time; they glide across the lounge with no difference; they sit in the same chairs; the long silences are the same; heads bowed and curving spines the same as before; slobbery mouths still spitting venom and unintelligent crap; they rise up to leave the same; they would depart the same with a nod and identical movement of the mouth…
We were now looking for a change, we wanted to go forward in life. That was was perhaps closer than we knew, but there would still be some more surprises.
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by Neville and Philippa McCallum
Neville McCallum experienced the full wrath of the Exclusive Brethren in New Zealand during the notorious reign of James H Symington (cult leader through the 1970′s until his death in 1987). In Cast Outside The Camp, Neville and his wife Philippa recount how it felt to be pursued, interrogated and eventually cast-out of the Exclusive Brethren. They pull no punches in this often deep, always insightful and sinister human drama which is presented by peebs.net as a multi-part serialization.
The Exclusive Brethren priests turn on Philippa
The Exclusive Brethren priests turn on Philippa
ROUND 13
- Stillborn child -
It was the evil of this session, that convinced me of the depth of inhuman feelings in the Exclusive Brethren leadership. It also increased my courage and will to survive. It is sessions like this, that formed a backbone into many ‘outs’ around the world, and it is that backbone in 2008 is coming back to haunt them.
For nearly three years these poorly equipped cult members had tried to break me with a level of mind control that did not have the IQ level of an 8-year-old child, nor could their mind control have any moral connection with a church. Because nothing had worked for them, these ferret-eyed jackals turned on my wife, knowing that if they broke her, (because of my devotion to her), it would have to break me too.
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Kerikeri’s Westmount School pays sacked teacher Suzette Martin $27,700
Northern Advocate, New Zealand
by Imran Ali
April 23rd, 2011
COMPENSATED: Suzette Martin was sacked from the Exclusive Brethren High School and and won compensation after going to the Employment Court. (Photo / Apn)
An Exclusive Brethren school has to pay nearly $28,000 compensation to a teacher it sacked for handing her students a contemporary interpretation of text from Shakespeare’s King Lear without approval from the school committee.
Kerikeri’s Westmount School fired English teacher Suzette Martin in July 2009 – two years after she was employed – for “corruptly and morally defiling her students” in Year 13 through use of the text.
Her employment agreement required the 41-year-old single parent of Whangarei to seek and obtain the school’s approval for her use of teaching material.
Ms Martin had used a modern version of King Lear she had found on the internet to fulfil NCEA requirements.
She went to the Employment Relations Authority, claiming unfair dismissal, but lost and subsequently argued her case in the Employment Court, which has now ruled in her favour.
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by Neville and Philippa McCallum
Neville McCallum experienced the full wrath of the Exclusive Brethren in New Zealand during the notorious reign of James H Symington (cult leader through the 1970′s until his death in 1987). In Cast Outside The Camp, Neville and his wife Philippa recount how it felt to be pursued, interrogated and eventually cast-out of the Exclusive Brethren. They pull no punches in this often deep, always insightful and sometimes hilarious human drama which is presented by peebs.net as a multi-part serialization.
Where Pip suffers a terrifying experience!
Where Pip suffers a terrifying experience!
ROUND 12 (Part 2)
- Royal wedding on TV – Nudity – Richmond field day -
FIELD DAY
This charge had a funny side to it, and we scraped through without a scratch.
We decided to travel to Richmond (near Nelson) to attend a horticultural field day to look at the latest irrigation technology for our vineyard. We packed a picnic lunch, kids on board and away we went. We drive into the showgrounds with tents and stalls everywhere, and round a tree we go and nearly run right over Miles Deck (Pip’s brother-in-law) and his brother Phil, two very wicked excommunicated men.
Pip ducked and I swerved, but they were so close they spotted us. Speaking with an ‘out’, was almost an unforgivable sin. Much worse than speaking to a member, or one who was just ‘shut-up’, it meant the immediate excommunication of that culprit. How were we going to hide for hours at the same field days as we never dreamt that they would be there?
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by Neville and Philippa McCallum
Neville McCallum experienced the full wrath of the Exclusive Brethren in New Zealand during the notorious reign of James H Symington (cult leader through the 1970′s until his death in 1987). In Cast Outside The Camp, Neville and his wife Philippa recount how it felt to be pursued, interrogated and eventually cast-out of the Exclusive Brethren. They pull no punches in this often deep, always insightful and sometimes hilarious human drama which is presented by peebs.net as a multi-part serialization.
UNSCRIPTURAL!
UNSCRIPTURAL!
ROUND 12 (Part 1)
- Royal wedding on TV – Nudity – Richmond field day -
This Round covers three charges, with a mixture of success for both sides.
Royal Wedding
The wedding of Charles and Diana was imminent. Because we were living like ‘moles in a hole,’ a neighbour felt sorry for us and invited us to come and see the wedding on TV. This was the most exciting thing that had transpired for us in years! We consulted with ourselves as to whether it was worth the risk, and we decided to accept the invite. Pip and I still talk about the trauma of that very first cuppa with a non member of the brethren cult. It was the first time we had eaten, drunk, or been in another persons home socially (other than a EB’s) since 1959; 22 years. Continue reading »
by Neville and Philippa McCallum
Neville McCallum experienced the full wrath of the Exclusive Brethren in New Zealand during the notorious reign of James H Symington (cult leader through the 1970′s until his death in 1987). In Cast Outside The Camp, Neville and his wife Philippa recount how it felt to be pursued, interrogated and eventually cast-out of the Exclusive Brethren. They pull no punches in this often deep, always insightful and sometimes hilarious human drama which is presented by peebs.net as a multi-part serialization.
A new Exclusive Brethren industry?
A new Exclusive Brethren industry?
ROUND 11 (Part 2)
- Claim to be a Good Boy & the Aphrodisiac Stag -
I was up on two charges:
1 - Claiming to be a good boy;
2 - Yarning with someone else who was also ‘shut-up’, and wait for it – not Feeling my Position in all of the above.
In nearly three years of interrogations, I had never been in the mire so deep. Now the long silences worked in my favour, I laid plans for my escape – somehow. The claim to be ‘a good boy’ was only a joke, but try and convince these two sour-faced, stick-in-the mud’s it was a joke took some time, but this was moving fast and they (priests) were losing ground, so now we had to get down to details.
PRIEST – “Neville, if it was a joke, what were you joking about?”
Now I was caught, because if I told the truth, that we were laughing about being ‘shut-up’, things would be worse for Norm and me. Two ‘shutter-uppera’s not feeling their position could be deemed to be, party activity, a coup, or worse! If I said the joke was about him working on a Sunday, it would have exposed him to further priestly interrogation. This joke was backfiring big time.
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Nick Xenophon targets "Tax lurk of biblical proportions"
For once, there is little to add to what Micheal Bachelard reports today in Australia’s The Age.
The penchant that the Exclusive Brethren have for creating networks of interwoven international, private, charitable and family trusts may at last undergo the scrutiny of Australia’s Tax Office.
Formidable cult-battler Nick Xenophon has his sights set – as Bachelard indicates below, the evidence speaks for itself.
Nick is no stranger to calling for investigations into cults; he is fearless, smart, well-respected and carries a big gun.
The old adage used by criminal investigators – “Follow the money” has never been more apt…
Exclusive Brethren parents claim ‘tax lurk of biblical proportions’
Michael Bachelard
March 25, 2011Parents in the Exclusive Brethren avoid paying tax on the bulk of their children’s school fees in an arrangement that would be illegal if sought by other Australian parents.
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