The Rule Book for Con Artists and Manipulators

The Standard Reaction:

When you first begin reading the information offered below and on our other web pages, you will probably have the standard reaction: This is crazy. It's too far out to be believable. The author is just another lunatic.. Here are four factors that you might want to consider:

First, your reaction is the typical of the pre-programmed response that was installed in most children's minds by their church, their school, and the social structure when they were too young to resist. **

** For example the typical Christian church: 1) teaches its children what to think and what to believe, 2) discourages children from thinking for themselves or thinking outside the church's belief box,. 3) strongly discourages children from asking challenging question about their religion, 4) instills fear in the children by example. Church elders expel and condemn to hell forever adults who seriously question or challenging the authority of the church leaders, 5) destroys children's self esteem and replace it with dependency upon the church, and 6) instructs the children to stop listening when they hear anything that counters the church doctrine because if they listen, they could loose their faith and end up burning in hell forever.

What do you suppose the consequences are to a young child who gets this type of fear-based behavior-control programmed into his mind before he reaches the age of reason?. You've probably heard the classic line, "Get the child and you've got the adult." That's why the most ardent religious believers follow the same religion their parents believe in. If you had been brought up in a different religion, would you still believe what you believe today?

Second, Each section on our web sites is only a small piece of a comprehensive study of the abortion controversy, its religious base. and the religious social structures that dominate this controversy. Reading more sections on our web sites, causes each individual piece becomes more logical and its place in the overall study become more apparent.

Third, the lunatic fringe. is now and always has been the source of all major changes on planet Earth. There is no evidence that that's about to change.

Fourth: The descriptions below do not simply apply to the lone, snake-oil-salesman type of con artist. The more sophisticate manipulation and control organizations have been around for years, in some cases, for centuries. Many of them are family dynasties, with entry not based on virtue or ability, but on one's family of birth.

Others are semi-secret fraternal-type organizations commonly referred to as "Old Boys Clubs." Club membership is by invitation and members play key roles in major organizations.

These family dynasties and fraternal groups have set themselves up as pillars of the community. Their main issues are money, power, control, and the prolongation of the ancient and still strongly held belief in a two class society with the elite in control and everyone else as disposable servants living in poverty.

There are also groups that are definitely not considered the elite, yet secretly, in one way or another, wield considerable power or influence. Have you heard of the Neo-Nazi party, the Mafia, the Russian KGB, or the Ku Klux Clan?

Look at the techniques below and see if you can find any organizations that use these them. Our goal here is not to condemn anybody, but rather to bring awareness to those who have eyes and are also willing to see.

A Guidebook for Con Artists and Manipulators

Beliefs are Stronger that Steel and Stone

The most successful con artists understand how the universe works. They understand that everything begins with a thought. Even the Christian Bible tells us that.*

* "In the beginning was the word; and the word
was with God; and the word was God." John 1:1
More Biblical passages on this topic.

The first step a budding con artist needs to take is is to study, learn, and understand The Three Universal Laws. and The Seven Principles of Hermes.. Then they can build their prison walls out of beliefs. They need not waste your time building walls of steel and stone.

The Russian fascists, under the false claim of being communists, attempted that. They used violence backed up by illusion. Stalin even murdered 70,000,000 of his own people in an attempt to maintain control. It was a dismal failure!

On the other hand, those controlling the American government have focused primarily on illusion. They back up their illusions with bribery, with payoffs, with secrecy, with manipulation of the laws, and with a dozen or so more scams and tricks such as the Federal Reserve and Enron-style, creative accounting. Whenever necessary, they revert to intimidation, threats, and violence. In terms of maintaining power and control, they have been a phenomenally successful.

You have probably heard the classic line about this: "Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage."** That, in essence, tells us that "External constraints cannot imprison someone whose spirit and thoughts are free." It also tell us that walls built out of beliefs accomplish far more than those built of stone and steel.

The Bottom Line:

The most successful con artists focus on mind control, on creating sheep. Here are the ABC's of control: a) specialize in teaching people what to think. b) condemn, ridicule, or get rid of those who think for themselves; and c) murder or destroy those who refuse to go along.

Please don't believe this. Instead we invite you to ask John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, John Lennon, Larry Flint, or any of dozens of their less-well-known compatriots. Politics by murder always has been and still is the global norm. American have simply been programmed to believe that such things don't happen here.

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Our no-choice friends come from a long lineage of people who have maintained their power and control by intimidation, violence, arson, and murder, and yet they are perceived by the public as Godly people loving the world. [Here are just two examples of their handy work: William Tyndale. and The library at Alexandria. ]

The most successful con artists study church history and use the religious criminals as their role models. They set themselves up as one of the good guys. and elicit money and workers from among the sheep. The Ultimate crook is the one who is revered and respected as a pillar of the community. Lies and deception are his stock in trade.. For example, Lyndon Johnson still is considered to be a respected leader by most people; however, when you closely examine the things he did, you get a very different story. For another example, see the page titled: Let George Do It..

The Downside:

You must always remember that there is a serious downside to using these techniques. First, most con artists get caught in your own trap. See the next section Confusing Reality with a Story About Reality..

Second, we do not know with provable certainty what happens to us after our bodies die. The con artists who use this technique are gambling with their future -- their future in what the Christians call "eternity". and in what the Eastern religions call "Karma.".

Another word of warning:

You are far better off learning to control yourself rather than attempting to control others.

** This saying is taken from a poem, “To Althea: From Prison,” by the seventeenth-century English poet Richard Lovelace.

Confusing Reality with a Story About Reality

This is, without a doubt, the most pervasive, the most common, the most successful, and the most dangerous of all the tricks in The Con Artists' Guidebook. It's so good that most people unintentionally fool themselves. Even the con artists usually get suckered in by their own game. They start believing their own lie.

Here's how it works. A person will have an experience that triggers a strong emotional response. The person will have vivid memories about the experience. From the memories, the person creates a story about what that experience means. In the person's mind, the story about their experience soon replaces the experience, itself, and the story becomes evidence from which they draw conclusions. Their conclusions (their story about reality) replaces reality. From that point on, the meaning of an experience comes from the person and not the experience. It comes from what the person believes the experience means," To better understand this viewers are invited to read the web page titled Self-Created Significances. The address is: http://www.truth101.org/vs-ab-1-significances.html.

The Classic example:

Every religion on the planet is an example of this. Even though the major religions conflict with each other -- even though their beliefs are not provable,. each religion teaches its beliefs as if they were factual truths., They also say that the other religions are just myths.**

**Reference: http://www.truth101.org/vs-three-assumptions.html.

The Abortion example:

The example below comes from a man who is strongly against abortion based on hearing a pro-choice woman talk about her daughter having memories while she [the daughter] was in the womb.

This example is offered, not to make the person wrong or put him down in any way. He is obviously dedicated to doing what he considers right, and we honor his search for the truth. Our goal is to add additional evidence and show how adding or omitting information. significantly alters the meaning of an experience. When we have access to additional information, we expand our view of the experience, and as in this example, often reach some very different conclusions. The following text is quoted verbatim from the Internet web site: http://www.geocities.com/wftright/abmoment.html.

"I was amazed at the inconsistency of her [the woman] believing that a child remembered something from a time when she [the woman] would not acknowledge that the child was a person with basic human rights. I was amazed that she would support another's right to kill a child at a stage of development where she admitted that her own child had memories and self-awareness.

This single piece of evidence from a proponent of legalized abortion opened my eyes to the fact that the unborn child is a person. How can someone have memories from a time when he/she was not a person? Anyone who is building memories is alive and thinking and responding to the world. In other words, he/she is a living person.

Realizing that the unborn child is a person, I could no longer be ambivalent to allowing someone to kill an unborn child without facing punishment. I believe abortion should be illegal because I believe abortion kills a person who should have legal rights."

Now let's consider the possibilities regarding what intrauterine memories could mean. The meaning a person holds. regarding intrauterine memories, like the meaning of everything else in life, is influenced by the person's belief system? In this example the person being told about intrauterine memory came from strong, conservative, Christian roots.

For conservative Christians, reincarnation not an option.. They are told all kinds of negative things about the people who believe in reincarnation, and they are told not to read or listen to any information about this topic because if they do, they could be influenced by the devil, lose their faith, and end up burning in hell forever. And besides, people who believe in reincarnation are simply heathens who need to be converted to the fundamentalist's version of Christianity.

Fundamentalist Christians are also trained to ignore the works of people like Edgar Casey,. Jane Roberts,. Wayne Dyer,. Deepak Chopra,. Jerry and Ester Hicks,. Neal Donald Walsh,. and R. Robin Coté..

Well respected scholars like Joseph Campbell,. are also ignored, as are the spiritual masters presently here on Earth.

The author of the above quote simply declares what having intrauterine memory means. (It "opened my eyes to the fact that the unborn child is a person.") He didn't ask, "How could someone have womb memories? He didn't look for other possible answers. He simply declared his own answer. And then in a question form, he re-affirms his declaration of what having womb memories means.

The meaning in this example comes from the person himself. It comes from what the person believes the story means. What does intrauterine memory actually mean? Nobody can answer that question with tangible, provable certainty!

In addition to the conclusion put forth in the above quote, intrauterine memories could also mean that a human being is an eternal spirit observing the formation of a physical body for its future use? That idea is so far outside of this man's belief system that it's not even considered as a possibility.

The mind needs an answer to what causes the intrauterine memories and it goes to the only possibility it knows. In this example, it means that God's conception magic. act must be true. It means that a human being is his or her physical body. It has to mean what he believes it means because, in his mind, there is no other way that a person can have intrauterine memories. The person never thinks to ask these questions:

Are there any other possible conclusions that could be drawn from this evidence?

Where are intrauterine memories located? Are they in the physical body? Or are they in the consciousness that animates the physical body?

The latest scientific research tells us that physical matter is made up entirely of energy. If life is in the consciousness and not the physical body what does that say about the meaning of abortion?

Regardless of what conclusion I come to, my conclusion is not provable, so what do I do with my conclusion?

The possibility of coming to an erroneous or an unprovable conclusion,. never enters this person's mind. His story is simply declared to be reality.

In the above quote, the author then adds a couple more "therefore..." steps, tops it off with a double "I believe...". and bingo! Abortion should be outlawed.

That's not to say I or anyone else can prove he's wrong, but the probability that all of his beliefs are representations of reality is quite slim. And if logic doesn't suffice, one might ask, "Can you prove your conclusions are accurate? Can you prove that intrauterine memory is NOT the result of an eternal spirit observing the formation of a physical body?. Is your belief justification enough to force the rest of us to practice your religious beliefs?"

And what about the rights of about two billion people who hold religious beliefs that are different from yours?. Are there rights to simply be ignored? Where do their religious beliefs fit into this equation?

So before you send the police to enforce the unenforceable, please just provide a tangible, provable answer to this question:

Is a human being "an eternal spirit ". occupying a physical body or is a human being simply "flesh and bones magically created by God at conception?".

Editor's Note: We contacted the person responsible for posting the above quote on his web site, http://www.geocities.com/wftright/abmoment.html.. On his site, he repeatedly speaks about seeking the truth,** but when we contacted him and asked him to prove his truth and to show us where the Pro-Truth Team's analysis of his web site was wrong, his response was no response at all.

This is a typical anti-abortion response. When challenged to prove their beliefs, the anti-abortionists simply declare that the devil is after them, and then they run away.

** Here's a quote from the opening paragraph on his web site:

"I believe that we must constantly refine our message to make people see the truth about abortion."

His site links to seventeen anti-choice sites, and when we request a link to our web sites, we have, to date, received only the silent response.

Conclusion: Seeking the truth is fine as long as you don't have to face it when it shows up.

6 & 7

Use a Third Party Deceiver Prove Me Wrong ...

Prove Me Wrong

These two techniques work wonders when combined. They are explained below in the context of a letter to Supermodel Kathy Ireland after her June 17, 2003 appearance on the Joe Scarborough TV talk show on MSNBC. <joe@msnbc.com>

Dear Kathy,

May I share a secret with you?

You’ve been duped by the no-choice spin-doctors into participating in two of the most successful tricks in “A Guidebook for Con Artists and Manipulators.“ The first is called “Prove Me Wrong” and the second is called, “Use a Third Party Deceiver.” Here’s what you said followed by how the deceptions work.

Here’s what you said:

In your recently aired, Joe Scarborough interview, you said that if anybody can prove that an embryo is not a human being, you wanted them to contact you. Are you aware that that statement is one of the classic lines of anti-abortion deception? It’s extremely misleading because it implies that an embryo is a human being unless someone can prove it isn’t.

Now say the same thing in reverse.

If you can prove that a zygote, embryo or a fetus is an independent human being, please contact me. If you can prove that a human being is his or her physical body, please contact me. Notice how the second version of this statement uses almost the same language as you used, and yet, it has a very different meaning. It implies that because you can’t prove that an embryo is a human being, therefore it isn’t.

The Truth Versus the Con:

When asking the question from both sides, it becomes obviously that nobody has the proof required to answer that question with certainty either way. But asking it from one side only and ignoring the other is a scam worthy of the sleaziest of politicians or a master snake oil salesman. It’s so good that I’ll bet you didn’t even know you’re playing a part of the no-choice con game!

Here’s what the “Prove Me Wrong” scam actually accomplishes:

The line, as you delivered it, takes something that is unknown and unknowable and delivers to the public as if it were a provable fact in support of no-choice position.

Here’s how the “Use a Third Party Deceiver” game is played:

The Manipulator finds someone, like you, who believes their lie, someone who is physically attractive, someone whom the public knows and respects, someone who will give their message a high level of credibility, someone who can elicit emotional responses in their listeners, and then the manipulators use that person to peddle their deception. The speaker’s passion and his/her belief in the lie overpower its falsehood and give the deception a great deal of credibility.

Also, because the manipulator isn’t doing the public speaking himself, he can’t get caught in his own lie, and if something goes wrong, he also has a ready-made scapegoat at whom he can point the finger.

And the money pours in:

With your appearance and the public’s gullibility, they can milk this little gem of deception combo for years and deliver millions of dollars into the coffers of the forced motherhood peddlers.

These two techniques are just two of the numerous tactics used to subvert the facts and manipulate public opinion. The tricks are so good that you actually go home believing you’ve spent your day saving babies.

To get a little more clarity on what is really going on, you might be interested in looking at this page on our web site:

http://www.pro-truth.net/20-2-talk-to-no-chioce.html#PlayingWithFire.

Thank you,

R. Robin Cote’
contact us°

http://www.chooice101.com

P.S. I have a list of questions on the Pro-Truth web site that you would do well to read before your next public appearance as a no-choice spokeswoman. The address is: http://www.pro-truth.net/59-questions-without-answers.html. Here’s just one question from that list:

Billions of people believe that humans are eternal divine beings who simply inhabit physical bodies and that a physical body is merely a vehicle for the temporary use of the eternal being while here on Earth. How do you know that you are right and that the billions who believe in reincarnation are wrong?

Because your passion, your sincerity, and your physical appearance give your message significant credibility, you might want to study this issue a bit more closely so that what you are saying is an accurate representation of the truth.

And one other thing: If you can prove that reincarnation is not “The Divine Truth,” please contact me.

Thank you.