TRUE CRIME UNCENSORED with BURL BARER

STATE CRIMES -- THE PERSECUTION OF THE BAHA'IS OF IRAN, BURL TELLS THE STORY

Today I'm doing the show by telephone from home as I am high risk for the virus.  I will be sharing my little known but certainly most important true crime book, LOVE AT THE COST OF LIFE.  An oral history of the persecution of the Baha'i religious minority in Iran.

I will share the story of how I became involved,  the process of how the book was written over a period of ten years, and share at least one of the chapters.

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2pm pacific time 5pm Eastern Time

DRUG SMUGGLER RETURNS - Leonard Buschel live Saturday on TCU

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 From Philly to Tel Aviv, Jamaica to Los Angeles, Leonard built a reputation as an honest and reliable drug dealer and drug smuggler, primarily selling hashish and pot, although he personally consumed all manner of consumables.

He didn’t get busted or go to prison, but he “found himself” at the movies. Co-Founder, with  Robert Downey Sr. of the Reel Recovery Film Festivals, Writers in Treatment and the recently postponed Experience Strength and Hope Awards, Leonard joins us for a fun hour of drug fueled adventures and how living a life awake and aware has kept him sane, productive, drug free and as eccentric as ever. 

 

 

DOOMSDAY CULTS : The Blind leading the Bland

 We haven’t figured out the grand mystery of how Alan R. Warren cranks out so many books. Perhaps he made a deal with THE DEVIL??? Not likely — there was no concept of a literal “bad god” in opposition to the Almighty, playing little games for galaxies and collecting souls much as smokers collected Raleigh coupons or housewives hoarded Green Stamps until over a thousand years after Jesus.

But I digress. Jim Jones convinced his 1000 followers they would all have to commit suicide since he was going to die. Shoko Asahara convinced his followers to release a weapon of mass destruction, the deadly sarin gas, on a Tokyo subway. The Order of the Solar Temple lured the rich and famous, including Princess Grace of Monaco, and convinced them to die a fiery death now on Earth to be reborn on a better planet called Sirius. Charles Manson convinced his followers to kill, in an attempt to incite an apocalyptic race war. 

These are a few of the doomsday cults examined in this book by bestselling author Alan R. Warren. Its focus is on cults whose destructive behavior was due in large part to their apocalyptic beliefs or doomsday movements. It includes details surrounding the massacres and a look into how their members became so brainwashed they committed unimaginable crimes at the command of their leader.

Usually, when we hear about these cults and their massacres, we ask ourselves how it possibly happened. We could also ask ourselves, what then is the difference between a cult and a religion? We once had a small group of people who unquestionably followed a person who believed he was the son of God. Two thousand years later, that following is one of the most recognized religions in the world. This book in no way criticizes believing in God. Rather, it examines how a social movement grows into a full religion and when it does not. And what makes the conventional faiths such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism stand above groups such as the Branch Davidians or Children of God. We get the full story on these nut jobs and their hapless followers when Allen Warren returns Saturday 2pm Pacific time. 
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