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Re: A suggeston to lay off this subject for good reason

Posted by Sam A. on August 21, 2003 at 10:09:55

In Reply to: A suggeston to lay off this subject for good reason posted by Information server on August 21, 2003 at 00:51:54:

The Siberian Project is an extremely sensitive subject to some ex-family member youth.

1. True. Faithy got that operation going when still a member of TF.
2. Fact. In '98-'99 the Siberian Project stopped being a front for TF and the distribution of Fam lit.
3. TF young people who were working with the Project left TF in '98, but they continued their involvement in the Project as employed staff members.
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Sam A. At that point they should had come clean and contact the USDA and tell them that they were in the Family in the recent past, they were part of the deception the Family inflicted on that Governentment organisation and the American Taxpayers. They should had also come clean with the host country, Russia.
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FROM THEN ON other Family members NO LONGER participated in the Project's activities, because the ex-member SGs who carried on most of the Project's work in Siberia were not leaving on favorable or friendly terms with TF. In fact TF stopped using the Project as a PR tool.
4. Piper & Rosita & their 3 yr old son, the ex-family SGs who were keeping the project going up to the end 2001, died in a tragic road accident on an icy Siberian road on Dec. 29th, 2001. The ex-member SG community dearly loved and admired this couple, they're held in high regard, and anything that would besmirch their memory is detestable.
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Sam A. So we shouldn't try to expose Faithy or PAS because people may find out that this couple were members of the Family? I never thought in those terms, my antena didn't pick up on any of that.
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5. A small number of ex-member SGs worked on the Project's staff to enable the distribution of the food aid, they also received US gov't sponsored salaries. This employment was exercised TOTALLY separate from their former membership in TF, and do you need to be reminded--they had no choice when it came to being in TF, they were been born into it.
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Sam A. They had no choice in being born in the Family, they had a choice about coming clean when they left the Family, no matter how hard that is.
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These ex-member SGs frequently face myriads of difficults to educate themselves & to find high quality employment without much to put on their résumés, but they've been able to use the work they did when they were staff members in the Siberian project.
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Sam A. I know someone here in Southern California that used his Texas Soul Clinic certificate as part of his resume to get a job as a teacher in a public High School.

This is not the same situation, but how far it is really from it?

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5. Consider this, the project's financial officer was a non secular hired NGO worker. He'd never had even heard of TF.
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Sam A. So this poor man should be kept in the dark about the fact that he is working with and surounded by a number of ex-members of one of the most perverse cults?
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I conclude, campaigns to go after Faithy might hurt an ex-member SG.
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Sam A. Many young kids went through hardship during the "persecution" years. We were not after the kids, we were trying to help them and protect them from the Family. But it is a messy job and you just can't avoid some of these things.

You have to set up your priorities.

What is more important, your job, the sigma you might suffer, your resume or exposing this destructive cult?
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Some, especially Sam A., can present a lot of valid reasons for wanting to expose Faithy.
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Sam A. Thank you.
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But unfortunately my friends, in the noble pursuit of exposing her and that Project in Russia, in the desire to destroy TF & what TF at one time or another used as a front, you might unwittingly hurt the future of an ex-member SG, who has so litte that they can use as valid references.
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Sam A. A young ex-member's career is not among the top of my priorities.

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That project's reference is valid. It's tied to what was a US gov't supported humanitarian food distribution work.
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Sam A. It was a deceptive and possibly criminal eterprise on the Family's part. I tried to alert the USDA. Received a couple e-mails from them. I don't know if they were that interested in what I had to say. Maybe they didn't want the embarassment of being used as a front by a cult. Maybe they knew it was a cult but worked with them for whatever reason. I don't know. But there is a possibilty they don't want to talk about it, cover it up. SG' exers want it covered up. I am in the uncovering business. Hence the conflict.
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The exmember SG that I know did most of the work they did in the Project AFTER they left the cult. They are proud of what they did too, believe me, they worked hard long hours in difficult conditions.
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Sam A. That's all great, but they should come clean.

If they do, they will help in the effort to expose not only PAS but also the probably over one hundred Family fronts around the world.

It's where your priorities are. If you treasure your personal career that much, the suggestion to come clear sounds totally crazy.

Not to me.

It is the right thing to do.
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So there a time for everything, and this is one time, and one situation, to lay off.
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Sam A. No it isn't.

Even if it is not true that Faithy is running the operation from here. If they have anything to do with Faithy, they are part of the cult.

Faithy is the cult.

She is as much into Berg as Zerby if not more.

Have you read my newsletter on Faith? I can send you a copy as an attached file.

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TF's second generation has enough problems as it is, and has suffered enough, please don't add to those sufferings, even if it's just for one individual.
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Sam A. I understand what you are saying, I hear you.

But you and I, with all due respect, are speaking two different languages.

I believe that the entire PAS situation should be investgated from top to bottom, looked at with a microscope, bring everything to the light of day and let the chips fall were they may.

And this should had already been done long ago.

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