I am starting to think that Ben is evil (I hate saying Benry). I think that he is the leader or at least He is the one who started this uptopian state on this island. I think that he led these people to this island because of what Dharma had started. He either worked for dharma or whatever. IN any case I think that these people are an offshoot of the original Dharmanians.

Ben is the 'cult' leader. He strictly controls everyone. How he does this is remaining to be seen.

And I think there are good people who are a part of his uptopia, people who don't want to be controlled by him anymore. A type of insurrection if you will... certain people that are secretly conspiring to free themselves of him. And I think that the abduction of claire had something to do with it. I am leaning towards the idea that ethan was one of these people., but that he was mentally unstable, and willing to murder whoever to escape Ben's control. Which does not make him that good... and I think that someone like Juliet would not do such things... I don't know.. it's a very underdeveloped theory... I am hoping very much to see the storie go in this direction. I am going to watch the Claire flashbacking to ethan having her in bunker... I want to see if I can catch something. Because of what I think and what has been revealed you can look at that episode in a very different way now. (I hope)