USA leaders may send spies or exercise clandestine operations to terminate foreign or domestic enemies. A cult may torment their members with threats or confinement if they do not go along with the dictates of the order. In the USA members may have their homes or businesses confiscated and sold if those citizens fail to pay their taxes which are ordered for the support of the powers that govern. Cults become dangerous only when they force their members to do things they would not ordinarily do if left to their own reason. In cults the children are often educated by the group instead of the parents of that child.
Cults seem overly sensitive to times and seasons.
They look for some great event in time, an astronomical event or date. Cults sometimes take drugs for personal enjoyment and for the purposes specified for them. At times cult members die of these drugs from overdose or simply on purpose. It is acknowledged by all parties that cigarettes spread death and disease to all who ingest them, yet the USA collects taxes and profits from the world sale of this drug and its own members ingest this drug freely, often terminating in a horrible and debilitating disease. The cult leaders have no intention of banning such a profitable product.