The video is disturbing. But is it true?

My interest (and doubt) piqued by the notorious video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRuKmxQSPSw , I found and read this article: http://www.volkskrant.nl/economie/van-burger-tot-bankier-is-geen-fluitje-van-een-cent ~a4449137/ which was published in January 2017, several months before the video was released. There is no reference in the article to any horrific background or personal history that led Bernard to abandon a worldwide conspiracy and work on building an alternative bank, which is what this article is about.

A serene, kindly-looking Mr. Bernard graces the header of the article. The subtitle reads, in English, "From citizen to banker isn't a piece of cake" (Translation of Dutch expression "whistle of a penny" = "really easy thing," "piece of cake").

Regarding Ronald Bernard, the article reads: "Citizens who take care of it and set up their own bank: they exist. Like Ronald Bernard. Under the motto 'Boss in own bank', the self-employed entrepreneur, together with his relatives, took over the initiative for the Blije B for several years." (BTW: Blije= "happy". Blije B = The Happy B[ank]; the B[ank] of Joy)

Regarding the "B of Joy": This is the link to the B of Joy "Team": https://bofjoy.net/about-us/who-are-boj.html These people may or may not be reasonable people. You be the judge: they range from someone who "worked for 5 years for the central government and then 15 years in the financial sector in Switzerland, the Netherlands and in Curaçao" to a "visionary and inspired citizen of the world" to an "energetic healer." Regarding the parent organization of the B of J, known as the "United People Foundation" (a vague title, I think), you find that there is a combination of "sovereign citizen" movement, evangelical Christian, and Green/alternative economy content.

Read their FAQ. It comes across as a Google-translate version of the Dutch document. Overall, I get the impression of a number of well-meaning, idealistic, if a bit loopy people who are trying to create a not particularly well-considered banking alternative. It reminds me of the two or three times I attended Green Party USA meetings and, sensing idealism untempered by any realism whatsoever, left thinking, "Even if these people have good intentions, I would never want them running a food coop, let alone the government."

So, who is this man? I'm not saying the following is true -- I don't know. But if I set this video side by side with "alien abductees" who truly believe they've been raped and probed by alien "Grays," I find the same kind of emotional authenticity paired with absurdly false memories derived from despicable "hypnotherapists" who create the very conditions that leave such people convinced that they are victims of a grand (in the latter case, intergalactic) conspiracy. Did Mr. Bernard undergo "regression therapy" after a bad (but not Satanic) job experience?

Of course, I could be wrong. I'm not a true believer about anything. For example, it could be that the multiple reminders by the B of Joy and the United People Foundation that you can deposit, or plan on depositing, money to them by buying "Member Certificates," coupled with the ominous statement that some of the people behind the B of Joy work in the "current financial system" and therefore "cannot reveal their identity yet, otherwise they would lose their job" -- maybe these indicate that these organizations are worse than simply promoting a well-meaning if poorly thought out scheme. Maybe they are a way to appeal to an audience who would be receptive to an emotional plea regarding a global conspiracy, which they can apparently combat by sending their money to an organization that can't even, in a country where most people speak fluent English, supply a decent English translation of their own webpage.

It's one thing to come to terms with the sad reality that there is rampant social injustice and a stacked deck for the wealthy in this world. It's another thing to take -- and spread -- the word of someone who, it seems, is unwilling to name names, supply dates, or even give an account of the specific organizations that he alleges pushed him closer and closer into the arms of Satan. Do people really believe that? I, for one, think that Mr. Bernard may have himself supplied a much simpler explanation, which could apply to his own organization: Follow the money.