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He doesn’t know for certain how the authorities found the jet ski, but thinks it has to do with footage he posted on Facebook. Remarkably, police and different authorities hardly ever intervened because of a widespread fear that the deprogrammers were doing what they needed to do with a view to counter the menace of a supposed brainwashing conspiracy. It was, itself, brainwashing. There have been just a few others who set themselves up as deprogrammers, but Patrick was, by far, probably the most distinguished of the bunch. Patrick was self-taught; he first developed his techniques when convinced his son had been brainwashed by a cult. The three males had been employed by Scott's mom to deprogram her son. In the mid-nineties, three deprogrammers named Rick Ross, Mark Workman and Charles Simpson kidnapped a man named Jason Scott, introduced him to a remote area of Washington State and held him there for days against his will. But authorities investigations into the inner workings of his organization led Jones to relocate his operations to a distant nook of Guyana in 1976. There, satisfied that his group was underneath menace from outdoors forces, Jones organized rehearsals of mass suicide. Anxious family members of some project members lodged complaints against Jones in courtroom and in the media, main U.S. |
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