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THE
SWISS EXPERIENCE
On
July 1st 1999 the National Council Management Board introduced the Federal
Council a report about sects in Switzerland. The Board got aware that
the phenomenon of the indoctrination movements and groups is a multi-facet
and controversial phenomenon; indeed, notwithstanding so much information
and intensive discussion, it did not succeed in outputting a complete
frame of the situation. It had to face a set of contradictions, compelling
of, on a side, gaps in information and survey, and detecting, on the
other side, impressive cases of evident abuses. The Board highlighted
that certain juridical authorities are of mind that sects constitute
a problem of predisposed or weak persons and are very prudent in issuing
actions grounded on the belonging to an indoctrination movement. According
to experts, if the context is religious, or reputed religious, caution
is almost always amplified. Often there's the fear that it must establish
troubled delimitations or to provoke reactions, legal or public level,
by the interested groups. In view of all that, it may establish in the
public opinion the feeling that one cannot expect any help by State
against the indoctrination groups. Impotence feelings alike increase
the damage range the indoctrination groups provoke, on the Board's opinion.
In the light of the fact that an independent decision, completely free
from influences, practically does not exist, it's hard to establish
the limit to an excessive and social influence, any more tolerable.
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