I’ll say it straight away: I have CA.PO.TÉ in the documentary Rael QCbroadcast on Vrai since yesterday.
I spent an hour and a half wondering: how come Quebec has the most Raelians in the world relative to its population?
I also wondered: How could thousands of Quebecers have been naïve/gullible/innocent enough to believe this ridiculous guru en masse?
And then I asked myself: why has certain Quebec media outlets been so complacent with the clown Raël for so long?
ELOHIM AND IMAGINARY FRIENDS
There really are people who believed that Claude Vorilhon, failed singer and former racing driver, was… the half-brother of Jesus? That humans were created in labs by extraterrestrials? That a baby could be cloned?
Wretchedly, they smoked well back then!
Arnaud Bouquet’s documentary gives the floor to several ex-Raelians who testified either anonymously or openly. That at some point in their lives these people felt the need to believe in the nonsense of this scammer, this Dollarama prophet, that they chose to believe in the scam of Clonaid (the company that was offering to clone babies for $200,000 ), that’s a mystery to me.
But what also discourages me is the media’s trivialization of Raël.
They found him likeable and funny, asked him simple questions without questioning him. Mixed up ! This guy attracted nonsense like other pearls, and yet the red carpet was rolled out for him.
The media certainly helped popularize, trivialize, and boost Raël’s career (and bank account) by making him a star.
The guy had a cardboard flying saucer and the animators took him seriously?
As much as the media were responsible for Rael’s rise, they caused his downfall. Paul Arcand, Pierre Maisonneuve, Jean-René Dufort asked him genuine questions or showed the ridiculousness of his gibberish. (I also wish excerpts from Raël’s two surreal interviews with the Francs-tireurs, Richard Martineau and Benoit Dutrizac, had also been included in the documentary.)
We also remember on Everybody talks about it, where Serge Chapleau had quarreled with Raël’s hair cap, who angrily left the studio. As one of the documentary’s voice actors says, after that disastrous TV appearance, it was “impossible to revive the character”: the Guru’s statue was unlocked.
I also think of Brigitte McCann and Chantal Poirier, who have infiltrated the movement for a series of reports in Le Journal.
Luckily, these journalists have exposed Rael’s massive deception!
THE DEADLY QUESTION
In the documentary Raël QC, one of the speakers reminds that “a cult is nothing more than a company that wants to make money for the guru, it is unbridled capitalism”.
How is it that the Quebec media allowed Guru Raël to sell his salad for so long as if he were selling a product like any other?
