"Law student gets house arrest in ‘cult’ abduction"

[Strong Atheist]

Difficult to know who to root for here...

http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/565611

[Warpy]

1. Wow.

Everybody but the active members seems to know that the DCC is a cash cow for a charismatic fraud who is fond of Guccis and fine cars.

I can't imagine how helpless parents, spouses, siblings, or children must feel to see someone sucked into one of these cults.

It seems the court very reluctantly applied a slap on the wrist sentence for what is usually a heinous crime in light of a family trying to rescue someone from that cult.

[imdjh]

3. I might be about to find out.

The young 'un is seeing a guy who is a Scientologist. He hasn't even invited her to be tested yet, as far as I know, but I am watching it closely.

[imdjh]

2. I think it's like the Elian Gonzales case, in that one has to hold ones nose and take a principled

position. No, I didn't want Elian to go back to Cuba. I do think he would have been better off here in the US. On the other hand I myself, under the same circumstances would have preferred to be with my father in Cuba than to live under any circumstances in the US. But I had to hold my nose and say that he should go back to Cuba if his father wanted him to. Otherwise, we would have a hard time justifying the demand for the return of US born kids to the US when they are abducted to Iran or someplace similar.

[Strong Atheist]

4. The problem is, the woman was 26. Old enough to make her own dumb

mistakes...

... and kidnapping, and being held, well...

those are not good things...

OTOH, I am (heh) not in favor of cults...