Subject: FECRIS: CONSUMER PROTECTION: HEINEMANN
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Ingo Heinemann:
Statement given on 23.4.99 in the building of
the National Assembly in Paris.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
because there are only very few Germans here
I gave my script to them and speak in English
to you.
I am speaking for the German umbrella
organization AGPF Campaign for Intellectual
and Psychic Freedom.
17 other organizations are members of the AGPF.
In Germany, new cults started about 1970.
It was Friedrich Wilhelm Haack who first
informed a broad public about this topic.
Like many people he had problems with the
terms sect or cult.
So he 1974 called it "Youth Religion".
Since then a lot of terms have been suggested.
None of them were adopted in the colloquial
language. But we have to use the colloquial
language if we want to reach the public.
About 1975 the first organization to provide
assistance and information on cults was
founded in Germany.
Shortly before, a similar organization was
founded in France.
The AGPF was founded in 1978.
Shortly after nearly 1000 people died in
Jonestown in Guyana. Among them 276
children. The press is still talking about mass
suicide.
There are about 30 organizations in Germany
that deal with cults.
These organizations have three missions:
To cause changes:
For that a lot of suggestions have been
discussed and are still discussed.
Important changes are caused by laws.
Therefore the AGPF suggested a law in the
year 1984. Nobody considered this suggestion.
But a law can cause changes.
Thats what we want.
The AGPF is neutral.
We dont concern ourselves with religion or
faith.
But: 90 % of the cults sell something.
So they make contracts.
Often it is impossible to find out
So it is impossible to determine, whether the
customer was defrauded.
In Europe there was a similar problem with
vacation offerings. Such trips consist of many
components: transport, accomodation, food,
for example.
Nobody was responsible if something went
wrong. Always the others were the culprit.
Today we have a European traveling law.
The Council Directive 90/314/EEC of 13 June
1990 on package travel, package holidays and
package tours.
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Some cults are very rich.
Often they keep the money they should have
given back to the customers.
For Scientology, I estimate, this are millions of
Euros a year.
Some of these cults use the money to fight
against criticism.
To fight against the critics and the governments.
And to prevent consumer protection.
Therefore a law is necessary.
A European consumer protection law.
A law for the psycho market,
which has existed about 20 years.
What do I mean with psycho market?
In the psycho market, psychological services
are sold with psychological methods.
Psychologial services and methods can be
useful and they can be harmful.
The Australian Anderson Report of 1965 says:
"... the evidence shows (Scientology ) to be
psychology practised in a perverted and
dangerous way by persons who are not only
lacking any qualifications which would fit them
to practise psychology but who have been
indoctrinated and trained in beliefs and
practices which equip them to do no more than
apply dangerous techniques harmfully and
indiscriminately.
Control scientology by controlling Psychology."
Anderson said this in 1965.
He added:
"The practice of scientology is a business, and
its attraction lies in the opportunity it affords for
making money."
This business belongs to the psycho market.
I think, it is not necessary to control
psychology.
But it is necessary to regulate the psycho
market.
In Germany there was a bill in the Bundestag.
At the end of the legislative period it was not
enacted into law.
Now it has to be started again.
The german bill does have a very complicated
name, which I cannot translate:
"Lebensbew=E4ltigungshilfegesetz".
But the subject matter is very easy.
It is a contractual law.
There are the same problems in all European
countries.
In no country there is such a law.
Therefore it would be wise to make a
European law.
Of course such a European law is not a real
law.
It is a directive which must be made to a law in
the different countries.
I do not want to repeat what should be in such
a law. Mrs. Caberta talked about that
yesterday.
Only one point:
Such a law does not have to do something with
religion.
Such a contractual law deals with proposals,
money and contracts.
No sale, no contract.
Tomorrow we discuss, which
recommendations this assembly will make.
I beg you:
Please vote for a European law for psycho
contracts.
Autor: Ingo Heinemann 1. Version 27.4.99
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http://home.t-online.de/home/Ingo.Heinemann/psymarkt.htm
TIME January 27, 1997:
"Says Ingo Heinemann, of the
Bonn-based Campaign for Intellectual
and Psychic Freedom, a parent's
committee: "Consumer protection is
already the law for medical or food items,
and it's time that the state regulates the
psycho market as well. These
organizations can take away people's
ability to protect themselves." Various
German states have heeded this advice,
but there are also voices raised against
intervention, calling it at best unnecessary,
at worst discriminatory."
(Rod Usher: Religion - Cult Control.
European governments search for ways
to contain the growing influence of
religious sects without endangering
freedom of belief).
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1. to help
2. to inform the public
3. to cause changes.
A law is not a total solution.
A law cannot eliminate the problems.
As everybody knows, murdering is prohibited.
Inspite of that, people are murdered.
- what was sold,
- whether the contract was fulfilled or not,
- who pays for damages.
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