Why We Suffered Persecution At Lighthouse Global…
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Why Have We Been Persecuted?
Paul, Warren and the community at Lighthouse Global found over and over again that people who wanted to take part in personal development workshops and research were consistently met with opposition from those closest to them; their friends and family. Even in families, where there seemingly were no hugely dysfunctional issues, parents, siblings and friends seemed to be cynical or suspicious of their relative or friend improving themselves and investing in their growth. This was consistent no matter how much we tried to work with those families and friends. Ultimately, the greatest opposition we have faced has been from malignant toxic families that didn’t want to look bad or were personally offended by someone close to them seeking support and community beyond them.
When those family members and friends, who were the most cynical and destructive crossed paths with ex-clients who had left claiming undue refunds, it was a perfect storm for a smear campaign to form out of mutual disapproval and hatred. Some of the worst racist attacks, religious hate speech and vicious language can be found here…
Phew! This started because we refused to give refunds where it was not remotely due and not legally enforceable! That’s it! The rest? Well the burden of proof rests with our false accusers? I shudder for them and the consequences I now know are there! Ask Amber Heard!! bless herx
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) June 6, 2022
have been on me personally and my family. My report to the police has taken months to compile by a team of 4 people that have worked tirelessly to finalise it. It’s comprehensive and damning! This report is now in and the police will need weeks just to process. God bless all 🙏..
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) June 6, 2022
This is how things have developed here at Lighthouse with the escalation of attacks over the last 18 years with the rampant predatory trolls. FIRST our response was CONCILIATORY with the vengeful toxic families and their supporters. SECOND came DEFENSIVENESS from Lighthouse out
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) October 9, 2022
of sheer necessity & survival. THIRDLY we are now on the OFFENSIVE! The predatory trolls and toxic families have left us no choice but to let the world know what really is & has been going on here ..and.. it’s bad..wicked..evil ugly. Darkness itself! We will not hold back/Pray🙏
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) October 9, 2022
I can personally testify to this, you and we have always tried to err on the side of hope, reconciliation and healing - always, even when it was painful and hard for you, for us. Always rooted in hope of reconciling and unity. Being on the offensive now is not only necessary…
— Sukh_Singh86 (@Lighthouse_Sukh) October 9, 2022
Why We Have Suffered Abuse From Toxic Family Members
As Lighthouse Global Associate Partners we were all initially clients of Lighthouse being mentored for help in our own lives. Somewhere deep down we understood and knew we wanted more than our lives currently had to offer, so we went looking for answers and found surrogate family in Lighthouse. We didn’t realise that there was so much we needed to heal from and repair in our upbringing.
As we grew in independence and made choices our often controlling family members could no longer influence, we also challenged past neglects and abuses we had suffered from them. In turn they became resentful and angry which led to covert and overt attacks on us and our work from the very people who ought to have supported us most. Our family members who claimed to love us became our biggest abusers. Members of the team have had police arrive at their doorstep late at night as a result of malignantly toxic and controlling family members and one person’s sister saying, “I would rather be dead than be on your calls”, not to mention many other abusive situations; psychological, verbal or otherwise. Read more about the abuse we have been through at the hands of malignantly toxic family members here…
Through this persecution we have grown stronger in Christ and now help many others out of their own toxic families.
Toxic parental & family jealousy of so called loved ones here at Lighthouse all hiding behind a facade of love and concern ..let me put this nonsense to bed once and for all. No family member would attack their loved ones here ..feel let down by them if they loved them..
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) October 9, 2022
viciously jealous family members constantly attacking Lighthouse myself and others along with their poor stricken family members here have an emerging creed..Love no one else child or ELSE INCUR OUR WRATH!! I pray these controlling and manipulate toxic families repent/Christ🙏..
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) October 9, 2022
(Cont/2.) we have many case studies here. We will be publishing soon where it is legal to do so and without using names etc. the idea is to teach and share not out and embarrass parents and families. We need to protect those people who need to be released from abusive families🙏
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) June 1, 2022
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Ex-Partners & Clients Bitter About Refunds
Lighthouse Global has worked with and served over 70,000 people in it’s 18 year tenure and research, doing much pro-bono work and simply cost-covering while going above and beyond the call of service, we have done a lot of pro bono work to help people in difficult positions who couldn’t financially invest in themselves through us. We have helped people who have had issues within their own families.
Some ex-partners and clients who left felt that they wanted the money that they had invested in themselves returned in full: a refund they were not legally due. When these were denied, or placed on hold pending investigations into the Lighthouse Global smear campaign, it became clear that those who were bitter and insisting on their money back were in fact behind the smear campaign. In one case we did offer a compassionate refund on the grounds of illness but after investigation this was withdrawn due to their emerging hostility and connection to the smear campaign.
Predatory Trolls attacking us
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) December 19, 2022
Claim that
1. they are campaigners for justice.
2. they are investigating us.
Reality? While using vile and hateful speech..They are being investigated and arrested by the police and then being fired from their Jobs ongoing not us. Huh? 👀
We have a few Lighthouse assailants who are attacking us over financial disputes. They are the extreme minority however. This extreme minority have joined the toxic and abusive families in attacking us relentlessly. Thank you to all of our Christian brothers and sisters /Christ
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) October 7, 2022
on top of this brand based false foundation and ego an image a showy display of one’s means of life…materialism. No more. We now work with people who truly want to pay the price to grow. To build a foundation in Christ. To develop a human being instead of a Human brand. Grace🙏
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) September 30, 2022
If someone is doing wrong and like Lighthouse and the people of Lighthouse we want to improve and renew then help don’t hinder. Love not hate. Be part of the solution by helping people fix their error. Don’t spend your life trying to murder. Love and blessings to you all x x
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) October 1, 2022
Criminals & Psychos On Reddit Threatening Our Children
The internet is a largely unmonitored and unverified warzone, where anyone from any walk of life can read anything that anyone posts. The assailants against Lighthouse Global chose Reddit as a platform to host their online hatred. This, however, attracted the attention of those with dangerous track histories to join in targeting Lighthouse Global.
What is a troll? I will give you the best and easiest way to identify a troll pathology in yourself and others. A troll is someone who hacks at the human soul. They are soul hackers. They are not just wanting to change something they believe is bad or must improve. Soul killers
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) June 14, 2022
Joanne Holmes of @ChipHillPrimary who put the location of our children’s school online to the ex convict and inmate Jon Breen has an online ex con partner in online assailant Richard Howard who laughed and mocked at our children’s fear saying poor little kiddies has now come out
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) November 10, 2022
Some time before Joanne Holmes (School Teacher at Chipping Hill @ChipHillPrimary Primary School) rendered our children extremely vulnerable by exposing where we live and where they go to school online to convict and ex inmate Jon Breen. Holmes before this demonstrated toxicity. pic.twitter.com/nAsRw9dK2a
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) November 9, 2022
Joanne Holmes if Jon Breen hurt or murdered one of us or our children because you set him on us in real time online you would be in prison for life right now! This is how heinous a crime you have committed! Someone please stop this woman now m..PLEASE 🙏🙏.. https://t.co/MT4vWKFy46
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) November 5, 2022
Joanne Holmes of Chipping Hill Primary (Essex) school and mentally unstable criminal Jon Breen not long out of prison! .. https://t.co/cqzbaouxYv
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) November 5, 2022
Cont..your fellow trolls. Leave them be Mr Breen. Many of them have children. Leave them in peace. We love you and pray for you regularly. We wish you well. Love from myself and Lighthouse x x
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) September 21, 2022
Hate crime is using someone’s religion/culture/race to hurt them. To cause them trauma. To victimise and to persecute in order to break down and destroy that person’s/group’s life. Calling out a religion is not hate crime, using it as a stick to beat them with hatefully is.. 2/2
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) September 29, 2022
Ex con Richard Howard is also a partner in crime as an assailant with Lighthouse Reddit assailant Richard Thomas! Howard has been instrumental in getting Thomas in real deep trouble historically with his employer! Howard has just done it again with his latest psychopathic tweet https://t.co/Ta6crSpP70
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) November 10, 2022
Richard Howard @rjhoward1986 of https://t.co/4Yu8cUY9qI has systematically tried to defame & character assassinate me & others at Lighthouse International since Dec '21. Ironic given his past conviction https://t.co/IyxtkVIBC3
— Kris Deichler (@KrisDeichler) November 7, 2022
An anonymous predatory troll has been banging on about how they are building a case with the police against lighthouse. What after 19 months..! Nonsense! Please let me know the officer involved I would love to help them. Reveal your identity too, if you are so justified. Funny!🙏
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) October 9, 2022
How The Daily Mail & Other Media Were Roped In
Opening up conversations about Christ and Christianity was not welcomed by some individuals who proceeded to leave Lighthouse Global. These individuals had other factors in their life that made the decision easier for them to turn away from their growth; many were being horrendously bullied and harassed by their families to leave and others had found a new boyfriend/girlfriend who consumed their attention.
In early 2021, a few individuals who had made an exit banded together to create a smear campaign against Lighthouse Global. Due to pressure from their toxic family members and friends, they wrongly felt convinced they ought to be refunded the money they had invested in themselves in full, despite receiving support in some cases for many years.
When these were denied, they went to the Daily Mail with the intention of destroying Lighthouse Global’s reputation as part of the smear campaign against Lighthouse Global and its partners. The Daily Mail endorsed and supported them despite their extensive lack of evidence.
The piece was one-sided, defamatory and libellous and although the Daily Mail were provided with a substantial 17,000-word response to the outrageous claims that were made. Yet the Daily Mail chose to ignore the evidence and bring the article to print. You can read all about the article in detail on our sister site here…
We sent the @DailyMailUK (in their published words) a 17,000 word body of evidence with all and way more than I have explained today so far! They mocked us for it in their article! Disgraceful! Borderline Satanic! Getting closer to #God was essential for more reasons than one..
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) May 29, 2022
The Daily Mail have have taken no responsibility for the false accusations in their article on Lighthouse. They have merely reported false accusations from certain people some anonymous some not who have falsely accused us. There was zero investigation by the mail. God bless all
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) May 29, 2022
This has cost us at Lighthouse a fortune! Someone has to pay for it! The list of of the libel debtors grows! God bless them, it’s frightening! I keep thinking.. why? Why? Why and how did they think they would get away with it? I’m shocked and amazed by it all!
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) May 29, 2022
The Recording
I once mistakenly released information about an abuse victim on youtube as part of a five hour (filmed) meeting. I was exhausted when it happened. I apologise to this person from the depths of my being. I will make it right with this person too.
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) May 29, 2022
was because she wanted to leave and I did not want her to. That I was being controlling. Nothing is further from the truth of that situation. Mrs X you know who you are. You will be reading this. I have a request.would you allow me to present data protected evidence to the Mail?
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) September 30, 2022
You’re spot on Paulie. The truth of why that call happened was the opposite of what it was painted as! I was on it and listened to the whole 3 hours of it recently again. https://t.co/tQ4NhgZCcn
— Jai Singh (@JaiSinghmentor) October 1, 2022
Mrs X I humbly ask you to turn to Christ. You know I offered to help you.The offer is still there despite your persecution and violation against me. You briefly accepted my offer but your family by all accounts had you turn on me viciously. Atone and repent. Eternity is ahead🙏..
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) September 30, 2022
The Second Daily Mail Article
Somehow in the 2nd article in the Daily Mail where they report on me exposing the name of a child abuse victim.. somehow I’m the pariah?!! No mention of the family and the terrible sexual abuse on this poor person. My slip of the tongue was somehow worse?! So you see the smear?
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) May 29, 2022
Nepotism?
BREAKING: We now know how the largely false @DailyMailUK article came to be written and published libellously. It had to be an inside job, a favour or otherwise. We now know it is and was not Tom Kelly @Tomreporter Continued ..
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) September 21, 2022
@DailyMailUK must now make this right. I did not have a chance to comment on the accuracy of the context of that recording which was totally and utterly false.. so designed to defame and damage my family, life and business. Daily Mail you know where to find the truth. Make right!
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) September 21, 2022
The timing of this latest revelation above is most certainly God given. It has come at a time when we were preparing a case with all the evidence against the @DailyMailUK and their false sources. Thank you to our Lord and all who believe in him in relation to us.. 🙏❤️
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) September 21, 2022
Challenging The Mail
@DailyMailUK we challenge you to make this right. Be the calibre of people and organisation that you want people to believe you are by rectifying your wrongs & injustices to us and our families and children. Perhaps organisations re Wikipedia will forgive you and accept you back
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) September 21, 2022
The @DailyMailUK pay damages and have historically paid damages because they have caused enormous damage to peoples reputations businesses and lives always in the name of good. This is the pure definition of human evil..doing wrong in the name of good. God bless us all 🙏..
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) September 21, 2022
No matter how big and influential the @DailyMailUK is it cannot turn its sources malicious falsehoods into truth no matter how much this media mob try to bully, harass and destroy us or anyone else for that matter. We have the evidence here. No checks @DailyMailUK no care ..
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) September 21, 2022
in point. There are loads. They obviously won’t and don’t have the evidence for anything false and there are quite simply dozens of falsehoods. We hope that this can be negotiated out of court. But we will not rest until those false hoods are apologised and compensation agreed.
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) October 4, 2022
@dailymailuk we want answers and we will get them in relation to you trashing us with your trashy article. We will not rest until these editorial injustices are answered to by the Daily Mail and false sources. We will make it impossible for them to ignore the above. It’s time🙏..
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) October 4, 2022
I have reason to believe that the @DailyMailUK had been invading my privacy in terms of surveillance & other means. I thought I was going mad until a store manager and a Hotel manager in Worcester Uk came up to me and warned that security staff had detected that someone was
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) October 7, 2022
An anonymous predatory troll has been banging on about how they are building a case with the police against lighthouse. What after 19 months..! Nonsense! Please let me know the officer involved I would love to help them. Reveal your identity too, if you are so justified. Funny!🙏
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) October 9, 2022
What Have We Done In Response &
What Have We Achieved?
Our experience of being persecuted online and offline at Lighthouse Global has been a fortifying experience. Through this adversity we have forged our characters and opened up opportunities that were not immediately available to us before the attacks began. Here are some of the key initiatives and results achieved through our response to those seeking to destroy us and our reputations.
We Have Served More Than 70,000 People At Lighthouse Global
We are now researching the views of over 70 000 ex clients that we have served over the last 18 years as part of our 18th birthday initiatives and celebrations. Most of of the people we have served are not even aware of the attacks and have been surprised by the news ,horrified🙏
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) October 31, 2022
We Have Successfully Defended Ourselves Against An Onslaught of Constructive Sabotage For The Last 20 Months
false reports to the police.3. Triggered one agency after another to badger us in order to deplete our time efforts attention & other resources. We are so onto this and them. WE HAVE CONSISTENTLY knocked these agencies back.We will not be destroyed by manipulation of the system.
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) October 24, 2022
These Attacks Have Strengthened Our Faith In Christ
Christs fortitude and spirit is a powerful and wonderful thing. I first found it quite puzzling, startling even. The more persecution I face the more strength and peace I feel. Nothing in the 35 years I was in the personal development industry could even be in the same universe🙏
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) September 29, 2022
Paul Waugh & Lighthouse’s Parents Against Trolls Featured on ITV News
ITV News - Is Online Anonymity Safe for Children? Parents Against Trolls, #shorts Paul Waughhttps://t.co/EprCv5DIBS#parentsagainsttrolls #PATT #lighthouseinternational #responsibility #protectourchildren #accountability
— Parents Against Trolls (@Against_Trolls) December 26, 2021
Attracted Attention From Award-Winning Documentary Makers
Box to Box Films is a wonderful award winning television company. Look them up and watch their award winning documentaries. They are next on our list of meetings after approaching us recently having followed us and the trolls for over a year. Wonderfully credible. Respect
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) May 29, 2022
Launch of Lighthouse Global’s Community Site that ranked on page 1 of Google in a matter of weeks
Lighthouse Global Community site has been set up after our greater #Community were shocked at the cynical, defamatory & malicious questions & statements online about #lighthouseinternational when their personal experience has been the opposite.
— Lighthouse International Group (@Mentorshipcoach) December 20, 2021
More here: https://t.co/360xd45GFq
Launch of Christian Response Forum YouTube Channel with more than 25,000 subscribers and 7 million views in its first year
Subscribe to our channel for daily education & inspiration on realising our God-given potential.
— Lighthouse International Group (@Mentorshipcoach) January 28, 2022
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for regular updates:https://t.co/7GydqWQmEl#ChristianResponseForum #CRF #lighthouseinternational #RealisingourGodgivenpotential
Launch of the Waugh Rooms to present the reality and truth of our work at Lighthouse Global
Waugh Rooms: Intentions behind abusive trolls - @PaulWaugh64 #Shorts https://t.co/7uOvalFLe2#LighthouseInternationalGroup#lighthouseinternational #intention #onlineabuse #WaughRooms #Groundswell #ProtectOurChildren
— Lighthouse International Group (@Mentorshipcoach) April 29, 2022
Launch of the troll assault and false accusation register that’s significantly reduced the number of anti-Lighthouse Global posts
I believe there is a lot of panic developing on the Reddit troll swamp given the live daily assault and false accusatory register/website as shared this morning. If you have done nothing wrong or illegal you have nothing to stress about. if you have then that’s problematic 🙏
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) June 8, 2022
This is why we created our Troll Assault & False Accusation Register - to share the truth. Because those who have criticised & accused us of wrongdoing aren't able to back up their claims. This post provides an ongoing register of the relentless assault:https://t.co/8KtD9a8a7A https://t.co/J6IWx1LsBF
— Lighthouse International Group (@Mentorshipcoach) June 16, 2022
Holding our abusers & toxic families accountable
To my wonderful fellow brothers and sisters at Lighthouse who are now finally after many years of fear and trembling holding their toxic abusers and sexual abusers within their own families and beyond accountable to the law.. I tremble with you in the strength of Christ! Love
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) May 29, 2022
We have held so-called cult ‘experts’ accountable
Open Letter: To Alexandra Stein – ‘Cult Expert’
— Lighthouse International Group (@Mentorshipcoach) October 31, 2022
"I write this open letter in relation to your public comments about #LighthouseInternationalGroup & your endorsements of a highly (& provably) libellous article."
~ @chrisnash1, Chairman & Co-CEO
https://t.co/rS3M3okHdk
Employers have taken decisive action against our predatory trolls
Employers do not want the sort of character who is a predatory and dogpiling assailant on their pay roll! Looking at what their anti Lighthouse employees are doing online they are distinctly disturbed. One more assailant has now been dismissed and another two being investigated
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) November 11, 2022
Reddit moderators have stepped away from the anti-Lighthouse Global subreddit
Joanne Holmes,before she removed herself as moderator did she encourage Richard Thomas her partner in crime & convict ex inmate Jon Breen to close that anti Lighthouse site? Did she just leave the malicious falsehoods on there?Rats deserting a sinking ship and each other. Repent https://t.co/pLWBxnDDGD
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) November 7, 2022
The Daily Mail confirmed they have no evidence to back up their article about Lighthouse Global
The Mail’s anti Lighthouse article is from our research the worst case of un researched and non investigated hacked and false journalism ever published by the Daily Mail! We have received their letter back from our enquiry. They have only the hearsay of sources & NO EVIDENCE! 👀 https://t.co/gNB0nbjoF1
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) November 9, 2022
First in-person protest at River Radio at Rani Singh’s employer with more planned
Yes we did everything…Jones said he was busy. Have started protests. We did one this morning outside River Radio studio. Rani Singh was also held accountable with her sons confronting her in the flesh about her malicious false hoods! We are taking it to you malicious falsies🙏 https://t.co/kD8AlKy43s
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) November 6, 2022
Our assailants are now realising that freedom of speech and action does not mean freedom from consequences
The people who started this anti Lighthouse campaign designed literally to destroy us and send us and our children into deep poverty did not stop once to think that what they planned to do online to us would ultimately happen to them only much much worse. God blesses us🙏..
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) November 12, 2022
We are using our experiences to help other businesses, people and families to withstand acts of constructive sabotage
people and families. How to defend against attacks, deal with the criminal perpetrators and cope emotionally and mentally with it. It’s a global opportunity of massive proportions. Out of pain comes joy, out of problems come opportunities, and out of opportunities.. value🙏
— Paul Stephen Waugh (@PaulWaugh64) July 28, 2022