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Alain Vivien (born August 20, 1938, in Melun) is a French Socialist Party (PS) politician, best known for chairing (from 1998 to 2002) the French Mission Interministérielle pour la Lutte contre les Sectes, MILS, a ministerial organism designed to observe the activities of various religious organizations defined as "cults". August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
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Early career
He was mayor of Combs-la-Ville in 1977-1983 and 1989-1992. In 1983 he was elected to the French National Assembly for Seine-et-Marne as a PS cadidate. The author of a report on cults requested by Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy in 1982, he was Secretary of State under Edith Cresson in 1991-1992. A mayor (from the Latin mÄior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ...
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In 1998 Vivien was nominated chairman of the MILS, which had been formed to coordinate government monitoring of sectes (name given to cults in France). In February 1998, MILS released its annual report on the monitoring of sects.
Controversial interview In one of his first interviews as president of MILS to the magazine Réforme (issue 2797, Nov. 19, 1998) entitled Liberty under control, Vivien outlines the concept of his work: - "It is obviously not a matter of the public powers to judge the doctrinal contents of a movement, but there are criteria - for example the respect of human rights, constitutional principles and the great fundamental liberties - which allow to us to know if a group is cultic or not."
He also mentions the United States, a country which had heavily criticized him, as a place that had created a problem by allowing "liberty without limits", and by not legislating against groups regarded as dangerous: Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...
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- "The First Amendment to the United States Constitution of 1791 prohibits legislators from making laws on proselytization—while this should be the very field legislators should regulate. The fathers of the French Constitution adopted a different attitude in 1789 when they included in the Constitution, under Article 4 of the 1789 Declaration of Human Rights, that 'Freedom consists in doing what does not cause damage to another [...] and limits may only be determined by the law'".
He further asserted that he felt France should be strict with the United States, because the latter is the World's only superpower, and as such has an important influence: The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is a part of the United States Bill of Rights. ...
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- "It is understandable that they have written the First Amendment is understandable because the first pioneers, who were persecuted in Europe for religious reasons, had the idea of securing religious peace. But today, vast and often nefarious interests are hiding themselves behind an allegedly religious cultism - we have good reasons to oppose our American friends in this point."
In 2001, Vivien's wife, Patricia Casano-Vivien, then president of the Centre Against Mind Control (CCMM), obtained from the Prime Minister's office 4.5 million French Francs (690,000 Euros), which was used to underwrite CCMM's new headquarters. This happened at a time when Vivien was president of the MILS which utilized the CCMM's services to provide information about sectes for its report. Pilgrims is the name commonly applied to early settlers of the Plymouth Colony. ...
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Alain Vivien did mention, at the time of his resignation from the MILS in June 2002, the numerous lawsuits brought against him by the Church of Scientology, and the threats he received during his mandate[1]. In 1999, Vivien was put under police protection following threats and the burglary of his home[2]. It has been suggested that civil trial be merged into this article or section. ...
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The activities of the MILS and Vivien's background as the former head of an anti-cult organization raised critiques from several minority and partisan organisations in their defense and from the United States.
Corruption allegations Vivien was criticized for allegedly using more than half the MILS budget for foreign travel, including to the People's Republic of China. Alain Ostmont, the general secretary of MILS, stated in response to these allegations in an interview that Vivien did not travel much for MILS, but that he undertook travels for humanitarian organizations which he chaired at the same time, and that this had been confused by some reports. He specifically added that Vivien was sent to the Beijing conference by the government as representative of the French state, not by MILS [3]. Humanitarianism is an informal ideology of practice, whereby people practice humane treatment and provide assistance to others. ...
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CESNUR writes that, during his tenure as president of MILS, Alain Vivien attended together with anti-cultist organizations such as the French CCMM and the European Federation of anti-cult movements FECRIS a colloquium organized by the Chinese government on the topic of cults [4], and interprets this as assisting the Chinese government in repressing religious minorities. Countering the allegation, FECRIS states that it had been invited but did not take part, and that the co-organiser United Nations Development Programme confirms that CCMM did not offer any support to the repression of Falun Gong. CESNUR is a center for studies on new religions, based in Turin, Italy. ...
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During the FECRIS application for NGO-status, the matter was also investigated by the Council of Europe Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. The rapporteur, the Swiss Councillor Dick Marty, noted that the symposium had been co-organized by the United Nations, and had also been attended by representatives of numerous other states - including the United States - and concluded that: The term non-governmental organization (NGO) is used in a variety of ways all over the world and, depending on the context in which it is used, can refer to many different types of organizations. ...
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- "The CESNUR report misrepresents the contents of the Regards sur newsletter: taking everything into accounts, there is insufficient credible evidence for the allegations to be made out[5]."
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References - ↑ (French) Pourquoi la bataille anti-sectes a échoué ? ("Why the fight against cults failed") by Thomas Lardeur, VSD, August 22 to 28, 2002
- ↑ CESNUR, Anonymous, Innocents Abroad: French Anti-Cultists, Mission Support China’s Anti-Cult Campaign [7] (Retrieved October, 2005)
- ↑ Le Parisien, June 19, 2002.
- ↑ (French) Sectes : Alain Vivien placé sous protection policière L'Humanité, January 14, 1999 [8].
- ↑ Council of Europe, Report regarding FECRIS by Dick Marty: Doc 10470 of 7 March 2005
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