Love's Bridge/ FCF/ Sloppy reporting

Since I have not posted on this forum before, I would like to state a few details about myself: I am a former second generation Family member. I am married and have children.

I spent a number of years in the Family working with top leadership, my very close friends (although no longer in the Family) were some of the original founders of FCF, which puts me in the position of knowing a lot more than most regarding the inner workings of Family structure, Family leadership and FCF structure.

Fact 1: Love's Bridge is not a Family project and the founders of that project are no longer in the Family.

Fact 2: There are numerous FCF projects that have been founded and are run by people who have never been in the Family and will never be in the Family.

Fact 3: While there are dozens if not hundreds of FCF sponsored projects who could use a good dose of Sam's sloppy reporting, Love's Bridge is the only project I am currently aware of that is actually doing a great job of bettering the lives of the less fortunate.

Sam, with the literal hundreds of Family Homes around the world that you could legitimately pick on for being scams or frauds or deceptive. WHY IN GOD'S NAME do you pick on a project that's not even part of the Family any more and which is the only legitimate project sponsored by FCF (at least that I am aware of), and where the young people have suffered extreme hardship and personal sacrifice in order to better the lives of those even less fortunate.

So Grant went to the Urals to visit the Love's Bridge project. Whoopdeedoo & SO WHAT?! Why the hell do you think he went there? Because he's the leader of a Family project and he wanted to show all the lunacy theorists that this non-Family project really is a Family project?

Grant went to the Urals so FCF could rub noses with the one truly great project that they have under their umbrella and so FCF could shine in their glory. Now FCF has something reputable to claim for their monthly newsletter.

If you want to go after FCF or after Grant, be my guest.

I have read through the threads regarding the Love's Bridge project, and while I generally prefer to know someone personally before passing judgments, Sam, your postings portray the same smug self-righteousness that epitomizes everything I despise in Family leadership.

It should be painfully aware to anyone who has read your nonsense that you are completely and utterly clueless to the issues being faced by second-generation ex-Family members. And where YOU of all people get the gall to call innocent second generation members to "come clean" is beyond me.

What are you trying to do? Who's interest are you trying to serve in this? Please don't tell me it's for the public good. Unless you've had any interaction with street children of late, I'm in a much better position than you to say that the best interest to the public in Perm is for Love's Bridge to get as much money as it possibly can.

If this crusade is not for the benefit of the public good, what is it? Perhaps it's for the benefit of the young people who founded the project? Perhaps from your distance and having never met these young people, you are in a good position to know what's in their best interest. You obviously consider yourself qualified to pass judgment on whether or not they are in any way competent enough to help the street children of Perm.

Obviously then, this crusade is not for the benefit of the young people. Well perhaps it's in the benefit of public awareness? Let me tell you something about public awareness: It is NOT easy to get a project like Love's Bridge in the public eye. It is not easy to raise money for a project nobody has heard of. People usually give their money to projects they know: Red Cross, United Way, Salvation Army et al. Let me tell you something about public awareness. The public is clueless to the fact that these large charity organizations suck up over 85% of their donations into a mechanism known as "administration". Also known as salaries. Did you know that the heads of the Red Cross get paid over $15,000 per month salary, plus house, car, and living expenses? Perhaps you'd rather have people send their money over that direction. There's no way some starving street kid in the Urals could possibly benefit from the kindness of a few dedicated former cult members.

Are you possibly so blinded by your hatred toward the Family that you don't care who you harm in the process of fulfilling your agenda?

Let me give you a couple of case scenarios of what's going to happen if you go forward with your little crusade:

1) You cut off the funding for the project; the ex-Family young people pack it up and go back home. The street kids and orphans that were finally getting an education, warm clothes, three square meals a day and place to live are back out on the streets. You should be proud of yourself.

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2) It makes no difference to their funding, but now everyone thinks that it's a Family project, so the Family gets to bask in the glory of something they didn't even want in the first place.

Sam, your approach to the Love's Bridge project in Russia is an affront to reason and sanity with the added insult of smug self-serving hypocrisy added for good measure. I have yet to come across a first generation member less sensitive to the issues faced by the second generation. Other people have asked you questions about your motives and what you’re trying to accomplish, I for one, would really like to know, because honestly, the only thing I can see benefiting from this ill-thought-out crusade is your own ego.