[MountainMom]

The wmscog loves to throw the term "slander" around, but I don't think they really know the meaning of the word.  It isn't slander if it is true.  In a recent conversation my husband had with our son, our son told him that someone in the church told him all about interventions, and that he knew people in the church who had undergone interventions.  He said that he was told by church members that interventionists kidnap and restrain members, locking them in rooms against their will for weeks at a time sometimes.  He also said he was told that Steve Hassan is a "family destroyer."

 

First of all, if a family goes to Steve Hassan, hires him to do an intervention, and he does it successfully and reunites that person with his/her family, how could he be a "family destroyer?"  The logic just isn't there, is it.

Second, no legitimate exit counselor would EVER forcibly restrain anyone and keep them in a room against their will.  This would be kidnapping, which is a federal offense, and that interventionist would be in jail.  Steve Hassan is not in jail, and is one of the foremost authorities in the nation on cults and interventions, and that is proof that he doesn't do this.  Plus, if a member ever read his books he would see that Mr. Hassan doesn't advocate this type of thing at all.  Someone in that church told my son blatant lies about this.  Their purpose?  To make my son paranoid about us plotting an intervention as  a way to keep him from coming home to visit, or to come home paranoid and on edge the whole visit over an imaginary plot we supposedly were concocting.  Three times they have had him all worked up and paranoid, and it was a total pack of lies all three times.  My son is set up every time.  Don't you think he might see what is happening at some point when you are always wrong?

It appears that Mr. Hassan has proof on his side if the topic is slander, doesn't he. What say you, G

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?  I know you are reading this.  My son said so.