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In Reply to: History posted by Miguel on October 08, 2002 at 19:22:59:
That sounds like a great idea. An outline of the main events in the history of the Family. Anyway about 1993, that was the time when many ex-members for the first time worked together in getting involved with the court case. Even Deborah allowed Mene who at the time was staying with Deborah to go to London to testify. She also gave info to the policemen that came from France and interviewed some ex-membes at the FBI office in Ventura, near LA. I could write a whole chapter about that period. I and some other former members counterdemostrated against the COG who were demonstrating outside the Argentine embassy in LA. Likewise I confronted some of the COGs when they demonstrated outside the French Embassy. We were all shocked to discover that Bithia was testifying on the Family's side. When I wrote about about this one ex-member said I was imagining things. Anyway, we were sure we were going to win that court case. I don't know if you know the story of how couple ex-members took out a large number of internal videos out of the Philippines, copies of some of which were sent to the Judge. These videos completely changed things for the COG and exposed them for all the lies. The Judge first decided against the Family and changed his mind becoming conviced that they had changed. Then the Loving Jesus came, sex of teens was lowered to 16 and later to 14. There was a lot of push for sharing between adults and young adults. About this time Zerby married Peter. In 1996 they had that big reconciliation meeting at Barney's, communion, washing of feet. Faithy was trying to start her own following, they were the center of attention at the laurel meeting of I think both 97 and 98. During one of these two years a documentary was been made and they came and interviewed Faithy and Happy who were still together at Laurel home. These are some of the main points but a lot more happened. Sam AJemian
