Should CultAware be allowed to victimize Australians?
“I want to live my life the way I want to live and don’t feel that (others) should be interfering with my freedom of choice of lifestyle as I am an adult capable of looking after my own life.” CultAware victim This mild-sounding expression of the desire for personal freedom belies the nightmare of threats and coercion that inspired it. The speaker has been the victim of a coordinated and relentless campaign to batter him into renouncing his religious beliefs. Not in Bosnia-Herzegovina, but in leafy Wahroonga, Sydney. The offensive is being orchestrated by a small but vocal group that goes by the euphemistic name of CultAware. “[Tony McClelland] has slanderously misused information about myself,” says the victim of CultAware’s campaign. “I have expressly asked this individual on many occasions not to publish these defamatory allegations. Instead, he has ignored these requests and continued to publish information of a slanderous and defamatory nature.
