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Universal Knowledge
IMPORTANT NEWS - FORMAL APOLOGY - 21ST SEPTEMBER
2011
WITHOUT PREJUDICE
To Whom it May Concern,
We would like to make you aware of the current circumstances concerning
the defamation of Natasha Lakaev.
A court case has been under way to sue two particular individuals that
started the defamatory behaviour, malicious actions, inappropriate
comments
and other types of incitement.
The two individuals have now provided a full signed
APOLOGY and letters written to the websites and newspapers,
requesting that they remove the defamatory material and that they publish
a
copy of the Apology.
The Apology and Letters can be viewed, downloaded and printed at
the following website that someone has been kind enough to create:
ANOTHER APOLOGY (also see below) has also been provided by Media
Mouse for publishing the defamatory information on their blogging website.
This website was also closed down by the proprieter after providing this
apology.
The evidence (including computer hard drive inspections) clearly indicates
that the defamatory actions came from only a couple of individuals
masquerading as a number of people under a variety of different names.
If you have information regarding the people involved in the defamation of
Natasha Lakaev, whether that be verbally, in writing (or over the
internet)
or by other means please contact the following solicitor:
Bruce MacDonald
GPO Box 4651
Sydney NSW 2001
Phone (02) 9232 6767
Fax (02) 9232 6776
bruce@macdonaldlawyers.com.au
Your knowledge regarding this behaviour is important. How far back your
memory goes is not an issue. All of your information, even if it may seem
irrelevant, is vital. We are gathering information from 1997 onwards.
Should any of the individuals described here have been in contact with you
by email, paper mail, telephone, in person or by chance meeting (or phone
calls) at your place of work, your home or in the street it is very
important that the above solicitor be contacted.
It is time that greater restrictions be placed on the internet and media,
so that sensationalist stories cant just be written based on opinion
rather
the researched facts from both sides of the story.
If you would like to live in a kind, fair and appropriate community then
this may be your opportunity to do something morally correct. No one
should
be treated in this manner (especially when it is the product of
heresay).
We all have the right to stand against bullying and harassment, no matter
what form it may come in.
Thank you for you time
See the following scanned image of a formal apology from a
blogging site that was actively involved in the defamation of Universal
Knowledge and Natasha Lakaev under the guise of anonymity.
It is our belief that if something is factual that a person will attach
their actual name to it. Hopefully this will be the setting of the stage
for something to change globally in terms of confabulation about innocent
individuals and their family members.
As you can see below the legal proceedings that have taken place have
resulted in the blogging site being closed down. Hopefully this is the
beginning of a global movement regarding unsubstantiated claims and
statements about good quality people by vindictive personalities who hide
behind anonymity. If you have something to say, step forward with the
evidence with your name and face attached to it. Otherwise go about your
business.
PEOPLE WHO "CRY WOLF" ABOUT BEING IN A CULT
In research of cults many academics hold strong views and have conducted
research on the strange behaviour of people who belonged to groups they
claim to be cults. The following excerpts provide insight into the
thinking
of those few people who cry wolf of Universal Knowledge and Natasha Lakaev
to cover up their own lies and inadequacies, yet do so much unnecessary
damage with this behaviour. The following is an excerpt on such research,
and if you read beyond the excerpt there is an important formal apology to
Natasha Lakaev and Universal Knowledge from a website on which defamatory
information was published:
The role of outspoken former members of groups they report as cults,
has been widely studied by social scientists. Former members in some cases
become public opponents against their former group. The former members`
motivations, the roles they play in the anti-cult movement, the validity
of
their testimony, and the kinds of narratives they construct, are
controversial with some scholars who suspect that at least some of the
narratives are colored by a need of self-justification, seeking to
reconstruct their own past and to excuse their former affiliations, while
blaming those who were formerly their closest associates,[81] and that
hostile ex-members would invariably shade the truth and blow out of
proportion minor incidents, turning them into major incidents.
Scholars that challenge the validity of critical former members
testimonies as the basis for studying a religious group include David G.
Bromley, Anson Shupe, Brian R. Wilson, and Lonnie Kliever. Bromley and
Shupe, who studied the social influences on such testimonies, assert that
the apostate in his current role is likely to present a caricature of his
former group and that the stories of critical ex-members who defect from
groups that are subversive (defined as groups with few allies and many
opponents) tend to have the form of -captivity narratives- (i.e. the
narratives depict the stay in the group as involuntary). Wilson introduces
the atrocity story that is rehearsed by the apostate to explain how, by
manipulation, coercion, or deceit, he was recruited to a group that he now
condemns. Introvigne found in his study of the New Acropolis in France,
that public negative testimonies and attitudes were only voiced by a
minority of the ex-members, who he describes as becoming -professional
enemies- of the group they leave. Kliever, when asked by the Church of
Scientology to give his opinion on the reliability of apostate accounts of
their former religious beliefs and practices, writes that these dedicated
opponents present a distorted view of the new religions, and cannot be
regarded as reliable informants by responsible journalists, scholars, or
jurists.
If you want to know the truth about what has happened to Natasha Lakaev
and her family go to the following links.
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