By WhoIsColleen
Updated: January 27, 2014
Outsiders. Creating an aura of specialness that must be protected from outside influences is how cult leaders keep their members in check. It takes a good deal of mind control to turn mass sucker-dom into a bragging point.
Due to our research on cults, present and past, articles come across our alerts regularly. But when we read these lines from a recent article by Fromma Harrop, the truth in it resonated with Dogsbite.org.
Now, as has been stated in our articles pertaining to Dogsbite.org’s possible qualifiers for cultism, we are not experts. With that reiterated, it’s not a far leap from identifying the similarity of those words to the realities of Dogsbite.
They are a closed group, secretive, and exercise often a degree of elitism. They consider anyone that has not been attacked by what they identify as a pit bull as unworthy. And even if you have not been attacked by a pit bull, inclusion is only permitted if you have experienced an incident with a dog that can be misidentified as a pit bull or considered a “bully breed” so that their statistics can be padded.
Colleen Lynn and her supporters are victims of separate dog attacks. Some members have themselves been bitten, some have had a child or grandchild bitten, some have had a pet bitten, and some have suffered the greatest by losing their loved one whether two legged or four. We do not deny that, nor make any attempt to disguise it as anything less than what it is.
However, when a person considers the fact that approximately 4.7 million people (not including any other type of mammal) is reported as suffering a dog bite, and of those 4.7 million people, approximately 800,000 require medical attention each year you must ask the most obvious question of all,“Why is this select group of people making it a life-mission to eradicate dogs that have a particular appearance?”
No where is there evidence of Colleen Lynn herself, nor any of her members, lobbying for any type of dangerous dog legislation at any level of government except for breed-specific-legislation. She has never promoted public safety to the masses, instead focuses solely on the “bully breeds” (and in case you are asking why we keep putting that phrase in quotation marks, be patient).
Take for instance Douglas Wolf, a Texas resident whose granddaughter was attacked on Halloween night while trick-or-treating in 2010. He first campaigned for legislation that targeted pit bull dogs, but due to Texas statute 822.047 prohibiting breed specific legislation he attempted a loop-hole campaign by pursuing any dog over 30 pounds rather than breed-specific-legislation. But even Wolf’s proposal, at face value, appeared more broad brushed than Colleen’s legislation proposals. When Wolf first began working under Lynn as a supporter of Dogsbite, his proposal was dissected piece by piece as Colleen would point out why his push was not the direction to take his campaign.
It should be noted that this writer has been embedded in the Dogsbite group for several years. The first-hand observations have been more than enlightening as to how Colleen operates. She and Carol Miller have both, at times, caused me to question if their position may infact be the best position. You may wonder HOW an advocate for common sense laws that targets reckless owners of any type of dog could make such a statement. It’s not because I buy into pit bulls being different from other dogs or requiring eradication from this earth, but instead it’s testimony to how mind-controlling they are. They are well practiced at ‘reading’ people, knowing how and what to say in effort to bring them into their campaign. So imagine when a vulnerable, emotionally erupted individual who has witnessed or experienced a dog-attack could easily be swayed to ‘see things their way’. It is extremely easy for them to take advantage of an individuals’ suffering.
This very small group of individuals, especially when comparing the more than 800,000 people nationwide that suffer dog bites severe enough to require medical attention, vets their members with a stringent list of qualifiers. A new member must show a high degree of angst toward a specific type of dog.
Take for instance, Jeff Borchardt. He was a typical American blue-collar worker and entertainment DJ on the side. His young son Dax was attacked and killed at a friend and babysitter’s home in March of 2013. Shortly after the attack, members of the secretive group expressed their suspicions anddisapproval of Borchardt. Alexandra Semynova particularly shared vile comments about Mr. Borchardt and his ‘nutter friends’ while talking up the fact that Borchardt seemed indifferent to pit bulls attacking chihuahua’s.
Alexandra goes on with her accusating attack of Borchardt:
However, once Borchardt posted a status on Facebook that clearly showed his frame-of-mind to be understandably weakened and lost, Colleen excitedly instructed another member to friend him. She could see he was an easy target, and in the right ‘place’ to use as a tool to further her agenda.
And it worked! Today Mr. Borchardt has started a non-profit educational site designed to further Dogsbite.org’s position on breed-specific-legislation. With several link backs to Dogsbite.org, Colleen has succeeded in spreading further the brand name that has catapulted her into “greatness.”
This tactic is repeated with Angela Rutledge from Atlanta Georgia after her son died from a dog attack and has now started a separate foundation as well as her own site*. And of course, Colleen claims that Dogsbite.org authored an Amicus Brief for the High Court of Maryland on behalf of Tony Solesky that successfully influenced a ruling that finds “pit bulls” inherently dangerous. The brief was actually authored by Don Bauermeister, Assistant City Attorney at City of Council Bluffs. Don later made a prediction on Wolfe’s (apparently abandoned) blogtalk radio show claiming that in the next 10 years 220 people are going to be killed by pit bulls.
This prediction was straight from Colleen Lynn’s Quick Statistics, who has already shared with the world that she is a fortune teller. Solesky went on to “author” an online e-book, which has been criticized by many that are familiar with his writing style, accusing that he only penned his name to the propaganda and suggest that in fact it is a tale spun by no other than Colleen.
Colleen appears to be a master of one thing, and that is simply manipulating people that are either angry or experiencing severe grief. She takes advantage of these individuals in my opinion, and rather than permitting these few individuals to go through the mourning process, she and her closest ‘tech priests’ appear to swarm a victim or family member of an alleged pit bull attack, seizing the opportunity to fill them with falsehoods, padded statistics and horror stories designed to insight a greater level of fear and anger so that such victim is prompted to take upon themselves an assigned work-order to further Colleen Lynn’s climb to fame.
Outsiders. Creating an aura of specialness that must be protected from outside influences is how cult leaders keep their members in check. It takes a good deal of mind control to turn mass sucker-dom into a bragging point.
By creating this guarded circle of supporters she has created an ‘outsider’ mentality, an “us versus them” deception that for some eventually wanes, but for a very select few it generates an inability to complete their grief process. It promotes a level of PTSD, which is one of the groups common core tools for building the relationship between experienced members and newer members. “We get it!” “We understand!” “We are angry for you!” “We support you!” “We care!” Join these messages with “Cut out the negative people!” “I had to delete friends and family from my life that don’t get it!” “They are pit apologists and have no place in my life!” that black and white message becomes a tool of mass control over people that are emotionally struggling with tragedy. According to Dr. David Mc Dermott’sMind Control Manual Understanding Cult Psychology;
Black and white, good versus evilCults typically reduce things to black and white. Shades of grey are not allowed. After all if they have the ultimate Truth, (with a capital T) then every other group must be wrong, which leads to an ‘us versus them’ mentality. You’re either with the group or you’re an outsider. (This is often as aspect of the paranoia of cult leaders, too)This goes part of the way to explaining how group members end up distancing themselves from family and friends. They are made to believe that outsiders (i.e., those not in the group) are a bad influence and are stopping them from growing, evolving, progressing in some way.The cult psychology of black and white thinking extends to many other areas, too. You are fully committed or not, you accept everything the leader says or not. You are sexually liberated or you are not (how’s that for powerful manipulation?!?).Words like ‘never’, ‘always’, ‘everyone’ are used frequently.
The pattern is repeated with nearly each new prospect.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, researchers believe PTSD is inherent and most people that experience tragedy will not develop the disorder. In fact, no more than 3.5% of the population will experience this level of fear and anger and reaction.
Who Is At Risk?
PTSD affects about 7.7 million American adults, but it can occur at any age, including childhood. Women are more likely to develop PTSD than men, and there is some evidence that susceptibility to the disorder may run in families.Anyone can get PTSD at any age. This includes war veterans and survivors of physical and sexual assault, abuse, accidents, disasters, and many other serious events.Not everyone with PTSD has been through a dangerous event. Some people get PTSD after a friend or family member experiences danger or is harmed. The sudden, unexpected death of a loved one can also cause PTSD.Why do some people get PTSD and other people do not?It is important to remember that not everyone who lives through a dangerous event gets PTSD. In fact, most will not get the disorder.Many factors play a part in whether a person will get PTSD. Some of these are risk factors that make a person more likely to get PTSD. Other factors, called resilience factors, can help reduce the risk of the disorder. Some of these risk and resilience factors are present before the trauma and others become important during and after a traumatic event.Risk factors for PTSD include:
- Living through dangerous events and traumas
- Having a history of mental illness
- Getting hurt
- Seeing people hurt or killed
- Feeling horror, helplessness, or extreme fear
- Having little or no social support after the event
- Dealing with extra stress after the event, such as loss of a loved one, pain and injury, or loss of a job or home.
Resilience factors that may reduce the risk of PTSD include:
- Seeking out support from other people, such as friends and family
- Finding a support group after a traumatic event
- Feeling good about one’s own actions in the face of danger
- Having a coping strategy, or a way of getting through the bad event and learning from it
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