On 31 Jul 1999 00:41:52 -0700 Warrior wrote: Bernie: 1) What is your definition of brainwashing?

Basically, as used in the cult context: what annihilates the power of choice or free will of others. Note that this is not necessarily my definition (I hardly have a definition for something that doesn't exist), only what has been used by anti-cultists to justify their abuses. For example, from the famous Ted Patrick interview with Play Boy Magazine: PLAY BOY: "But, again, aren't you the one who is abusing people's freedom?

Aren't you the one who is depriving them of their First Amendment rights?" PATRICK: I will fight and die to protect the First Amendment. That is what I am fighting for.

I believe a person should have the right to worship the way he pleases, but when someone destroys your free will and your ability to think and takes your mind, you don't have any more rights. They have destroyed your human rights and your constitutional rights. And I haven't broken the law.

These people have been rescued, not kidnaped, and we have a law of justification that states that a person is ... more.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.