The CCMM

The CCMM

The CCMM, Centre de documentation, d’éducation et d’action contre les manipulations mentales (Centre for Documentation, Education and Action against Mental Manipulation), was founded in 1981 by Roger Ikor.

We publish below a few instructive quotations, taken from articles (read here) or from speeches by Roger Ikor in the 1980s, which seem to us to speak for themselves as to this association’s vocation.

Roger Ikor died in 1987. The CCMM has tempered its language since, but drew attention to itself again in 2001 over financial questions (such as obtaining subsidies from the Prime Minister’s office so that the association could buy itself a new centre).

With the usual arrogance of anti-cult activists, the CCMM is currently, by its own account, carrying out a “study” of the CICNS (which, let us not doubt it, is already guilty of existing in their minds. A “study” of the kind conducted on viruses, with which there could of course be no question of communicating). The association recently declared to the MIVILUDES that our centre was the object of their “vigilance”.

The CICNS was fortunately created, with an awareness of the urgency, so that “vigilance” should be less one-sided. Failing as yet to have created a genuine balance in the debate (very difficult to establish because of twenty years of disinformation), the CICNS offers the general public and the media an alternative to the discourse of a witch hunt inspired by crude rationalism and by the mechanical abuses of power of an authority in search of scapegoats.

Les cahiers rationalistes, December 1980, no. 364:

” At the origin of every cult, you will find that half-dozen, who moreover are sometimes a full dozen, if you see what I mean. As for the Founding Father, the one who persuades them … but we shall come back to that.. ”.

” In truth, what is striking, more than the theoretical (?) differences between cults, are the common features. Nine times out of ten, you have a Founding Father, a fellow who steps forward to the front of the stage and proclaims with conviction: “I am the Son of God. I have received the revelation”. In short, God spoke to him from behind a pillar, or in a cave, or near his sheep. Possible variants: instead of being the Son of God, he is its Messiah, or at the very least the Prophet. […] Between you and me, on all these points, one would find illustrious precedents, Muhammad, Christ, Moses… ” … ” So when the time has thus come, it will be paradise, and the Master Thinker will have become the Master of the world - a small nuance; or perhaps he will become the Master of the World in order to establish paradise. You see, we are squarely inside comic strips for moronic children, “I am the Master of the World… well, I shall be”

” One great divergence between cults has to do with the origin of the Founding Father. The Christ of Montfavet, who was a postman at Montfavet, a postal employee, yes, obviously placed the new navel of the world near Avignon, just as Christ no. 1 had placed it at Jerusalem. ”

” I now come at last to indoctrination. Let us consider first that a visionary is not enough to found a cult; or rather he is not enough to make it prosper. The intervention of a cunning man is generally necessary. Moses had been flanked by Aaron, Jesus Christ exploited by Saint Paul (after his death, but no matter). Muhammad presents us with another case: he, for his part, finds the means to join in himself the visionary and the cunning man. Hitler too, for that matter. ”

” Yes, there is not, between a cult and a religion, a difference of nature, or rather of principle; there is only a difference of degree and of dimensions. ” … ” If we followed our inclination, we would put an end to all this twaddle, that of the cults, but also that of the great religions.”

Le Matin 26/01/81:

” We must strike, destroy these cults that swarm over our rottenness. When enough people go and ransack the cults’ premises, they (the public authorities) will no doubt stir themselves ”

Le Matin 05/02/81: ” We’ll go and fuck shit up in those dens of death that the cults are. Wreck the macrobiotic restaurants, the Krishna centres and the rest.”

” If it is accepted that they (the cults) must be fought because they are harmful, then they must be fought resolutely as one fights a dangerous enemy on a battlefield, without letting oneself be paralysed by an excess of scruples, by incessant questioning at the level of principles. The stakes are too high to permit softness and indulgence. And the imperatives of that struggle are to be placed rather high in the hierarchy of values, sometimes even above respect for freedom; we are on the plane of acts, no longer only of thoughts. ” Je porte plainte, p. 98

Mrs Drogulovicz (a member of the CCMM) on 15/5/97 at an anti-cult conference in Courbevoie:

” Information passes by way of a kind of necessary positive denunciation. ”