Damon Brink, a former NXIVM member, wrote on his new website, Let’s Not Be Frank, that ‘Frank Has Brought a Lot of Hatred Into the World’
I am Frank – the foil, the person not to be, of his new website.
I never met Damon Brink, but I have spoken to his wife, Sally, also a former NXIVM member. She has a less nostalgic fondness for NXIVM than her husband.
According to his website, Brink feels I have hurt him by what I have published about him.
“I have been experiencing the effects of Frank’s pixels, and they have not been good.’
Sally Had Different Experience
Damon’s wife Sally was one of the architects of NXIVM’s demise. She provided valuable information about its business practices to the prosecutors of Keith Raniere, Clare Bronfman, et al.
She also wrote a story for Frank Report in May 2021: Sally’s Shocking Story of How She Was Almost Destroyed By NXIVM High Rank and How Dr. Danielle Roberts Helped Save Her Life.
She spoke at Clare Bronfman’s sentencing: Cancer Survivor, Sally Brink’s Statement at Clare Bronfman Sentencing: ‘You’ve Caused so Much Destruction in so Many Lives.’
A New York Times story report of the N XIVM lawsuit brought by dozens of former NXIVM members against 11 leaders of NXIVM, including Raniere and the Bronfman sisters, Clare and Sara, wrote, Sally Brink, “was fighting to escape [NXIVM]. The worst moment came in 2017; she said, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Nxivm associates told her that she had given herself the disease to get her husband’s attention. Instead of spending the money she had raised online for treatment, they urged her to make the ethical decision to die, she added.”
While Sally has dropped out of the NXIVM lawsuit, she has not issued any statement as to why.
Damon Lost a Job Because of Frank Report or NXIVM
In Dec. 2020, the Vermont publication Seven Days wrote an article about Damon: ‘Maybe I’m Brainwashed’: How the NXIVM Cult Followed Damon Brink to Vermont.
The story is about how Brink lost a state government contract job in Vermont because of his known connection to NXIVM:
“Since leaving the Albany area with his family in 2018, Brink has sought to establish himself as a mentor and coach in north-central Vermont. He serves as president of Stowe Youth Baseball and Lamoille County Little League. He founded an indoor batting cage center called Go Baseball and is a DJ for Top Hat Entertainment. In August 2019, he was hired to run an afterschool program at Everyone Equals Morristown Community Center or E=MC2. There, he helped secure a contract with the state Department for Children and Families to host supervised visits between non-custodial parents and their children.
“Earlier this month, however, a community member brought Brink’s past to the department’s attention. ‘We became aware of a connection between Mr. Brink and NXIVM,’ said DCF general counsel Jennifer Myka.
“Last Thursday, the department gave notice that it was exercising its right to cancel the $8,200 contract for no cause. Myka declined to say whether the decision was prompted by the tip.”
People probably discovered Damon’s connection to NXIVM because they did an online search, and Frank Report’s stories came up.
In the Seven Days story, I was interviewed:
“Frank Parlato, a former NXIVM employee who became one of its chief critics, has mercilessly mocked Brink as a dupe on his blog, the Frank Report, which has for years documented the organization’s alleged misdeeds. But even Parlato argues that Brink’s association with NXIVM should not cost him his career.
“‘I do not think Damon Brink is a threat to any children whatsoever. Just the opposite. I think he’s probably a good kind of role model for kids,’ Parlato said in an interview. ‘He might be brainwashed about Keith. He might be blind to Keith’s scenario. But he’s no threat to children.'”
I bring this up in part because Damon says I bring hatred, and the Seven Days story says I “mercilessly mocked” him.
Brink refers to his first appearance on Frank Report – back in Sept. 2017 – as “Jesus fuck, it sucked. Brutal.”
Was it brutal?
Brink made his debut on FR before Raniere was arrested before the NY Times came out before the criminal investigation began.
In the summer of 2017, I was the only one writing about Raniere, trying to get people interested in what I was sure were his high crimes and misdemeanors.
My story was about Damon’s short video for the Society of Protectors. The story was: Bullshit Detector goes off during Damon Brink’s video about Raniere.
The tone was a little sarcastic. I posted a picture of a bullshit detector, a device that has not been invented yet, but I believe Keith Raniere filed for the patent.
However, he could never bring it to market, for much like how radar detectors went off when Raniere drove in a car, preventing him from driving, the bullshit detector went off whenever he spoke.
But is mocking hating? Maybe it is.
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Let us revisit the video and hear what Damon says in his pitch for men to come to a Society of Protectors weekend retreat to be taught great truths formulated by Keith Raniere.
Damon Brink said in the video:
For those of you that don’t know, our founder, Keith Raniere, has built more than 1000 millionaires in his life. He has built multi-million dollar businesses in a short amount of time and, at one point, was making more than $100,000 per hour coaching the highest level business executives in the world.
This advertisement for SOP is a prime example of how Raniere’s followers mythologized him, uncritically advancing claims that people with critical thinking skills – something NXIVM was supposed to teach – would not believe for a moment.
Yet hundreds of men joined SOP, intelligent men, bought hook and line the stinker.
Message to Damon
Damon, you said in your post Perpetual Shift that the first FR story about you concerned a video you “shot for friends and members of SOP trying to recruit them up to Albany for an SOP weekend. I made a poor choice making that video for sure, and it will stay with me forever. Now I’m good with it.”
Let us honestly consider this video you published. You made three claims about Raniere.
Claim 1: Keith Raniere built more than 1,000 millionaires in his life
Claim 2. He has built multi-million dollar businesses in a short amount of time
Claim 3. He was making more than $100,000 per hour coaching the highest level business executives in the world
You were crediting Keith as the reason more than 1,000 people became millionaires. Did you take Keith’s or someone else’s, maybe Nancy Salzman’s word? Did you verify this? How many millionaires did you speak to who credited Keith with making them rich?
Did Keith build you into a millionaire? Was your net worth higher or lower when you said this on video than when you first met Raniere?
I know of no one who became a millionaire because of Keith – except perhaps Nancy. I can name several who lost millions – Allison Mack, Barbara Bouchey, Michael Sutton, the Bronfman sisters. And I can name dozens who thought they would make a million but got poorer. Many left successful careers.
Did you leave a successful career, Damon, to go to Albany to work full-time for NXIVM
As for the companies be built? What are their names? He built Consumer’s Buyline into a million-dollar business, and it fell apart.
“As an entrepreneur, Keith Raniere transformed a five-person organization into a corporation of nearly 400,000 in a mere two years. His company, Consumers’ Buyline, Inc., was responsible for an estimated one billion dollars in product and service sales in its second full year of business and was featured on the American Spotlight A millionaire at the age of thirty, Keith Raniere was worth $50 million only two years later.”
What was not disclosed on the bio is that CBI was under state investigation and lawsuits by Attorneys General in several states by its third year, ultimately closing the company down.
Some 25 years later, Raniere claimed on a federal affidavit that he had zero assets and zero income at the time of his arrest.
Lastly, I find it hard to believe Raniere had any high-level executive – that is, a person who made their own money – and had top employment in business and finance –and not inherited it – to pay $100,000 per hour for coaching from him.
The only two people I can think of who might have paid $100,000 per hour were the Bronfman sisters, who, according to Raniere’s prosecutors, lost more than $100 million investing in Raniere.
They were not high-level executives; they were lambs to be shorn.
I Am Not Mocking You
When I published that story of your video, I wanted to show readers the gullible world of NXIVM, how you and others believed the preposterous whoppers Keith told about himself.
From being a judo champion, playing concert level piano at age 12, tying the record for the 100-yard dash, making the rain fall on someone when he was out walking, and not a drop fell on himself– on and on it went.
I was trying to reveal the absurdity of what you said in that video.
A Final Word
Of course, I had a plan to discredit people who tried to imprison me, Raniere and Bronfman.
Anyone who stood by them, spreading their lies, empowering them, was adversarial. I was out to ruin NXIVM for self-serving purposes.
Clare Bronfman filed a criminal complaint against me on bogus charges. I doubt she would have done it had Keith not given her the green light.
So, in turn, I worked hard to get these two imprisoned.
While you were out bragging about how great Raniere is while he was trying to put me in prison.
If I could hate, I would hate you and Raniere. But I only gently mocked you for your faith in a criminal and your gullibility.
To paraphrase Diogenes, “it is not that I hate, it is only that my heart is different from yours.”
I cannot support guys like Raniere, who hate. I do not have the heart to let swindlers swindle and fools promote them.
You are still spending precious moments of life lusting for the glamor days, with maudlin nostalgia, looking back at NXIVM village with a lens of tinted rose. You complain you’ve “been experiencing the effects of Frank’s pixels, and they have not been good.”
But would you care to consider that the effects you are experiencing are because of Raniere?
You say I “brought a lot of hatred into the world.” I submit Raniere brought a lot of hatred in the world, and, in the past, you supported his lies. Maybe you still are supporting his lies.
Still, Damon, I wish you well, as I always do. I hope you keep writing and signing your name to what you write. I cannot respect a man or woman who cannot put their name behind their words and deeds yet spew cowardly attack or seek to hurt others – while keeping anonymous.
That kind of hate is the hallmark of the sniveling coward. But, I consider all hate to be just another name for cowardice.
If we were not afraid, we would not hate. We would wish them well. We might have to defeat someone but not hate them.
I never hated Raniere or Bronfman, not once, not ever. I felt sorry for them, for they meddled with me, and I knew to stop them because of their arrogance and mental illness, I would have to ruin them to stop their meddling with me.
And because of gullible followers like you who blindly follow rascals without applying your ethics, your conscience, instead of theirs to your words and deeds, I had to ruin NXIVM.
I wish Raniere well and you too. If I knew Raniere could change and be a compassionate human instead of a brute and a thief, I would welcome him tomorrow to my table. But he cannot change, I think. At least not now, and he is where he belongs – in prison.
For you, Damon, your life is before you. Good luck, and I hope you recognize one day that exposing evil is not hate; it might even be close to the opposite.
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Poor Damon.
Everyone intentfully picks on him except a handful of his culty buddies.
He can’t get a job around kids because for some reason no one wants a sex-cult member anywhere closefully to their children. 🤔 Such prejudice‼️
I mean, who WOULDN’T want a guy running a youth program whose guru teaches that it is perfectfully normal for parents to perform sex oralfully on infants???
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To be fair, he didn’t teach it was good for parents to perform sex acts on infants. He just insinuated he was okay with it. And really, I don’t think he cared about the topic – it was just part of his larger strategy to desensitize everyone, and ultimately make it ok for him to groom underage girls for sex.
To be accurate, I didn’t write that Keith thought it was “good.” If you are going to play silly, nitpicky word choice games you need to pay attention to the exact terms used.
You are drawing a distinction without difference.
Your penchant for vocabulary shell games that distract from underling meaning is part of what made you susceptible to Raniere’s huge servings of word salad, wasting money, time and energy in his cult before you thankfully woke up.
Watch out. It is much easier to take the boy out of the cult than the cult out of the boy. Don’t end up a serial cultard like Mark Vicente and Allen Stanfield.
If you want to hire Damon as a baby sitter or youth group leader for your kids, I’m sure he needs the money.
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You dumb.
Frank-
You post:
“Nxivm associates told her that she had given herself the disease to get her husband’s attention. Instead of spending the money she had raised online for treatment, they urged her to make the ethical decision to die, she added.”
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Here’s what ex-Mrs. Brink said to The NY Times:
“I just can’t imagine sticking it out for years with a spouse that wouldn’t leave a community that thinks I gave myself the disease to get my husband’s attention and should do the “ethical thing” and die without treatment.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/nyregion/nxivm-lawsuit-keith-raniere.html?auth=linked-google
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Frank, I feel you are being way too benevolent to this nutty scumbag. He happens to be currently harassing Susan Dones!
As you know, I’m a huge fan of the Frank Report. Please stop glossing over and sugar coating who Damon Brink is….With all due respect, I believe you are being way too kind to an animal.
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I support the ethical treatment of animals.
With the exception of rattlesnakes?
And mosquitoes.
Cruel Dipshit Troll Beseeches:
Cruel Dipshit Troll desperately wants Frank to lie about people and be more cruel to them.
Right out here in the open.
What do you bet Cruel Dipshit Troll comes from a devoted Catholic family?
Alanzo
Mr. Allen Stanfield-
You say I’m cruel? You and Damon Brink harass Susan Dones. She never done anything to anyone.
Allen you are a fat turd who stuffs his face with RingDings®️. I can’t tell who’s the bigger loser you or him.
When you were attacking Susan you went by the name Ant-Man.
You’re a cruel, lying dipshit troll who thinks that everyone uses sockpuppets just like you do.
Which makes you stupid, too.
And loopy.
Alanzo
Aloonzo-
No one tells Frank what to do. So I certainly wouldn’t ask him to lie…..
Beside I don’t need to lie — truth is Damon Brink is a scum and a bigger nut than you.
Re Wonderful Damon:
The part that was left out – it was Damon who said the ethical thing was to die without treatment.
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Please, Damon, correct me if I’m wrong. Oddly enough, in recent years your wife regarding what you said, back tracked — my guess is you begged her to back track or she forgave you and wanted to be kind.
Come on out big (rotund) guy!
Happy Saint Patty’s Day, Chris O’Brien!
It’s an opportunity for you to start a new life.
To leave your toxic past, where your unfulfilled wishes and unrealized dreams made you cynical, giving you the excuse to abandon the very difficult path you set for yourself, and to instead fight a cult you knew could con and harm others.
Believe me dude – I’ve been there.
This Saint Patty’s Day you can start something new.
You can begin focusing on creating rather than destroying.
There is no danger anymore from NXIVM. No one is going to join it. The government literally owns it now – no one CAN join it. Raniere is in prison for 120 years. You can’t ask for anything more final than that.
You helped to take away its danger to others.
Well done.
And yet you’ve got a real gift that you’ve put on hold to solve this problem. I’ve researched you enough online to know you have real talent. You’ve got some great songs. You can, and have, created real beauty for people.
I want to become one of your supporters in your new life this week.
Start creating now, knowing that the job has been done, you’ve done your part, and don’t look back. What you’ve experienced in the last few years can fuel 15 albums of beauty and inspiration to other people.
Use what you’ve done to inspire and uplift people, like you have.
From one cult fighter to another: Break a leg.
Alanzo
I believe disclosing the alleged identities of Frank Report commenters is not ethically questionable if I’m being “inspirational”.
Niceguy only moves his lips when he “sings” happy birthday.
But, if somebody wants to toss some gas station penis pills up on stage this Friday, let’s see if Chris gets all giddy. If he snatches the packets up like Vanguard grabbing Tofutti Cuties, I’ll reconsider.
Nutjob, are you saying “Nice Guy” is a character that Alanzo is playing?
Yet another sock puppet he uses to attack himself and create drama?
Uh, no.
And now I need to reconsider everything about the way I make comments…
I’ll try again: I don’t think Niceguy can sing happy birthday without people covering their ears. I highly doubt he is a struggling singer.
I do think Niceguy is the target market for all these damn ED adds we see everywhere.
NutJob-
Thanks for the kind words, I think.
Gas station dick pills our hit or miss. The ones without labeling, which actually work, come from China. You dong will be harder than a diamond. Last time 2 years ago, I was [redacted] all weekend.
P.S. I don’t get the birthday song joke.
Yeah. That’s very uncomfortable. Wish Frank would not support this kind of harassment.
Most view the guy as legitimately unstable.
It’s not great that he seeks to identify participants on this blog and start doling out their home location and other personal information publicly.
That’s really not a good practice.
It’s very creepy that he even wants to know other commenters personal information.
Alanzo, if you spent as much time at the gym as you do trying to stalk Nice Guy, you could eat all the Ring Dings you want AND be a ripped muscle man.
In any case, where’s your PROOF that Nice Guy is the person you claim?
If you are going to dox someone, at least have the intelligence to do it convincingly, as other have done to you time and time again.
It’s not doxxing when I’m helping them be better human beings.
Mr. Translator,
Why does Alonzo dox me?
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Alanzo – Nice Guy is not Chris O’Brian. I hope you don’t make the mistake of harassing him.
Alanzo-
Thank for the happy wishes in the day of my people.
You are too kind. I hope one day you find a pot of gold at the end of the Rainbow.
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Damon really buried the lead about Keith Raniere….
Vanguard’s ability to control the weather!
More achievements of founder Raniere:
Keith’s sperm could make women see a blue light (not sure how that really benefited the women?)
Ability to put hot sauce on pizza while oinking at starving, emaciated women.
Keith Raniere was able to evade paying child support for many years, a skill that other deadbeat dads would love to learn
Keith was the best at spreading HPV virus
Keith could see a female in her underwear and immediately decide how underweight she would need to be in order to give him a half chub.
Keith knew exactly how hard to kick Dani Padilla when she was “defiant” and already down on the ground.
Keith knew just the right length for any female’s pubic hair.
Ditto head hair. Just ask Ivy Nevares.
Keith could just go about his daily life while knowing that nearby a young girl was being kept in a bare room and slowly losing her mind for almost 2 years!
Keith made lots of child pornography.
And curated a large photo binder of vulvae.
Keith taught Mexicans how to be Mexican!
Keith was somehow able to lose lots and lots of Bronfman money in the Los Angeles real estate market. (A truly remarkable feat. People, do you truly understand how hard that is to do?!)
Ditto stock market. Barbara’s money too.
These are just some of the things that I was I told while one of Keith’s girlfriends tried to locate me for Keith. On Tinder.
You know, a totally normal place to look for a virgin successor.
That’s how I KNEW the search was in earnest. Because who WOULDN’T have one of his MANY harem members look for a virgin successor on a hook-up app?!
Someda,y I shall fulfill my destiny…
Which, again, was…what?
Please. Someone tell me.
This is astonishing.
Alanzo
Not as astonishing as you, shitting away your life in bullshit(Scientology).
BUT, hey, not everyone is a winner. Boohoo!
Frank, there is something we are missing about SOP. I have yet to figure out the gain for the men, particularly the married men, to participate in this group. Yeah, I hear the save the world and humanity crap, but these dudes spent big money and lots of time being a member.
When KAR started loving up and controlling their wives, I can understand a passing fascination to mimic his tech, but after a while they drop out if it had no consistent gain. A frats goal is booze and girls via party and association. And the wishful hope that a fellow brother can help them get better employment upon graduating.
No beer. KAR got all the girls. And KAR got all the money.
Why did the SOPs stay more than 6 months?
I realize some can’t admit they were scammed and have too much “PRIDE” to see the truth. But most are in the wind.
But what was their gain for participating, and their goals for benefits in becoming an SOP member?
I don’t get it. !
Frank used to call them the Society of Cuckolds.
How many members of the SOP (Society of Protectors) were Raniere’s Catamites?
In ancient Greece and Rome, a catamite was a pubescent boy who was a sex companion of an older male. But it was also used as a term of insult when directed toward a grown man. I would say a lot of the SOP men were available to Raniere for whatever he wanted.
Unless I missed this before, Frank, your comment is new news.
Come on – what dude in his right mind wouldn’t want luscious Vanguard to use him like a tube sock?
So…Smelly got bj’s from the SOP men and their women?
Lol. I highly doubt it. But who the hell knows? And if Frank knows and he’s been sitting on it for all these years, it would mean he doesn’t truly care about entertaining his readers.
Nutjob-
A certain cult-Groupie is harder than granite after reading your comment…
…Our Groupie has been gingerly licking, every drop, of precious cream, out of his RingDings,over the course of 38 years, in the hopes that one day…….
……He could be used as a tube sock!
Rumor has it Alonzo wants to be a
‘tube sock’…
I hope Mr. Brink and his family find success in their post-NXIVM lives.
Moonbeam-
There is no family – his ex left him because of his ethical stance that she should die – over borrowing money.
Brinks is a [redacted] scum!
Nice Guy isn’t make anything up. Brinks is fabricating his story!
All I can say is thank god for the love of mothers. Catherine Oxenberg, who led a small handful of people in taking down Raniere, led with one thing, and one thing only: love for her daughter. Did Keith know how to love?
BTW, anyone who tells you India’s relationship with Keith was “fully consensual,” or entirely “personal” and unconnected to NXIVM or DOS, is lying. Back to my original question, did Keith know how to love? Show me the evidence. He disowned his own son with Kristin Keefe. He cycled through dozens upon dozens of lovers. His version of intimacy was quite stunted.
Look at Keith’s eyes to find the answer. Aren’t the eyes supposed to be the windows to the soul? There seems to be like a glazed over look in Keith’s eyes. Almost like there’s a disassociation there or nothing to peer into.
You could kind of see it in one of the Keith Raniere conversation videos with Allison Mack when she starts to cry and he starts looking at her in a “what is this creature actually feeling here?” kind of way. It’s sad if you think about it, but I don’t think Keith ever possessed it to even care that it is missing.
Yes! I guess it takes one heiress to take down another?
After introducing India and spending time on Necker Island with her then-hubby, she mustered up great love to save India.
Too bad her net worth of $25 million couldn’t have been used towards deprogramming some of India’s friends, you know, the ones who weren’t co-conspirators.
“deprogramming” gives you away, Alanzo.
Just like the NXIVM drones, all you culties have linguistic tells you can’t control.
It is a form of cult-induced Tourette Syndrome.
Maybe an EM session will clear that right up… or some $cio auditing.
News from Smallville, Kansas.
Tom Welling Jokes ‘Smallville’ Reunion Likely Won’t Include Allison Mack Amid Actress’ Prison Sentence
She’s already booked. Tom Welling was opening up about the animated Smallville series that’s in development when the actor made an offhanded quip about Allison Mack amid her prison stint.
Unforgettable WB Hunks: Where Are They Now?
“We’re working on an animated series that picks up right after our Smallville [which ended with season 10 in 2011], and, again, telling our own story,” the 44-year-old actor told a fan who asked about the possibility of a revival or reunion for the Superman origin story at Fan Expo Vancouver on February 19. He and Erica Durance, who played Clark Kent and Lois Lane, respectively, on the CW series, were fielding questions together during the panel.
Welling continued “And our vision is that we get Erica [back]. It might be tough to get Allison,” Welling quipped. “But you know, we’ll get Kristen [Kreuk].”
The audience chuckled at the awkward mention of the actress, 39, who played Chloe Sullivan, and Durance, 43, tried to stifle a laugh as well. “We have Zoom,” Durance joked of her imprisoned former colleague and Welling agreed.
https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/smallvilles-tom-welling-jokingly-addresses-allison-mack-reunion/
Pyriel already posted this info!
Sorry big guy!
Damon,
Have you ever heard the phrase “projection”?
Projection is the process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another. For example, if someone continuously bullies and ridicules a peer about his insecurities, the bully might be projecting his own struggle with self-esteem onto the other person.
The concept emerged from Sigmund Freud’s work on defense mechanisms and was further refined by his daughter, Anna Freud, and other prominent figures in psychology.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/projection#:~:text=Projection%20is%20the%20process%20of,own%20unacceptable%20urges%20to%20another.
In short you have your own insecurities and fears and project them on others.
Damon, how would you explain Raniere’s telling his followers, many of whom were Jewish women, that they were reincarnated Nazis?
Damon, how would you explain Raniere’s ability to manipulate his followers, many of whom had misogyny and self-hatred, to abuse and torture other women?
Raniere’s only skill was identifying and manipulating the emotionally insecure and immature for his own amusement.
Damon, find another guru more worthy of emulation and adoration.
You can do far better than Keith Raniere.
Good points Shadow!