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Sam A. to John Smith

Posted by on August 17, 2002 at 13:18:00:

Sam Ajemian to John Smith.
We believe that your allegations that the Family promoted or engaged
in: child pornography, [We have videos showing Armendria, Seleste, Haidi, Mene and other young girls of around 10 or 12 years old dancing naked for Berg. That’s child pornography.] adult-child sex, [are you denying child-adult sex happened?! Even Family members have openly admitted it in pro-COG Chancellor’s book, and it was established by Judge Ward that it was so. He said, to use his word, that child adult sex was widespread.] prostitution, [the group even owned one escort service that I know about and Family girls were working as prostitutes in escort services and Judge Ward said that ffing was prostitution] adultery, [if a married person has sex with someone else it is adultery, no matter what Berg said] libel, [I don’t know exactly what libel means] kidnapping, [if that means one parent taking the kids and moving far way and hiding the children from the other parent, that happened in the Family] larceny, [I don’t know what larceny means] evasion [I don’t know what evasion means] and political meddling [the Family tried to help the overthrow of the Philippine government according to Ed Priebe] is libelous and we know of no court of law that has found The Family
guilty of these crimes [Judge Ward found the group guilty of widespread child molestation as I explained] (of course some of the listed are not crimes).
We would suggest that the horrendous suffering that over 200 [maybe you are exaggerating. One of these kids said it wasn’t that bed]
innocent children were subjected to in Argentina due to outright
slanderous libel [what slanderous libel are you talking about. James Penn said the same thing some time ago but he wouldn’t get into the details. He said ex-members lied. We tried to find out if this is true and so far there is nothing to suggest that they lied. Maybe they did, but I am not aware of any lies told by ex-members Watchman, Ed, Eduardo, Miriam and Abigail – The problem is in the other direction. Ex-members don’t tell all.] from former members, most of whom did not even know
these children or have any knowledge of their lives, [my understanding is that whatever the ex-members said was in reference to what happened in the group in general and not about these specific children who were taken under protective custody] may serve as a
lesson to the ill consequences of unfounded accusations [they were not unfounded accusations, but very well documented crimes from the cult’s own copyrighted puclications] presented as fact, and truth twisted beyond recognition, [what the Family says is truth twisted beyond recognition, that seems to be the Family’s trademark] to the point that judges have to proclaim such testimony as perjury. [What Judge proclaimed such testimony a perjury. I know that the Family lied to no end in the English court case, but again I don’t know of a single case of exmembers lying. Can you name one single case where exmembers lied. Maybe they did lie, but can you name one case?]

Also, in another section of your site, you state: "Another major
purpose is bookkeeping and tax benefits - by redistributing funds
internally and writing them off as expenses or gifts to other charity
projects - they declare themselves non-profit organizations - and
thus benefit from subsidies and tax exemptions designed for bona fide
charity work.[I am trying to figure out and I feel there should be an investigation to find out how much of what FCF sends to its projects who in many cases are nothing more than cult homes that do CPT work, actually end up as help to the poor and needy and it does not get used for rent, cameras etc, for the members.] By registering themselves as NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) they may also infiltrate countries closed to
proselytization activities. These names were collected through
primary sources. It is difficult if not impossible, to stay up to
date - members uproot frequently and adopt new names to avoid
detection. They do however, use recognizable common themes in their
literature, activities, style and presentation."

We assume by this that you mean that Family members have no right
to run a charitable organization legally, due to the fact that they
are Family members, aka religious discrimination. [If FCF is doing illegal things it is matter of law and crime and punishment and not a case of religious discrimination.] We don't believe this premise would hold up in a court of law, rather each individual
project (which is just that, an individual community endeavor and not
"The Family") undertaken by a community is responsible before the law
to represent their charitable works in a legal fashion. [A lot if not all, of the charities of projects under the FCF umbrella are Family homes, they are part of the Family, front groups for the Family. The issue is not if all the projects should come under the Family name. Just like during the early ninties you all became all these so-called independent missionaries where every little one family home got its own name for security reasons and to cover their identity, in the same way your multitudes of project names are masking the truth of who these CPT project are working under.] We're sorry
if you seem to believe that in order to carry out a local charitable
operation it must be under the name of the Family, but actually that
is no more required than that any other religious charitable endeavor
hold the same name as their church. This is perfectly legal and
legitimate, and in fact, the practice of most churches. We don't
know of a charity called "The Catholic Church", or "The Seventh Day
Adventists".

So we reserve the right as every other church, to have local
organizations under our umbrella that are oriented towards a social
gospel, in other words, charitable works. Our publications do state
that such organizations should be clear about their affiliation with
the Family, [What does being clear mean. You can even reveal your being part of FCF or the Family but then give them on of your several lines, as for example that there were some mistakes made in the past. Or if they really know about the law of love and the child molestation doctrine as in the Book of Davidito or the Devil Hates sex, you can tell them what Zerby said in “Answer him that Asketh Thee.” That must be the most ridiculous lie, that it was all a communication problem and that the group should had “explained better” that the Law of Love does not apply to sex of adults with minors.] which in most cases, except in countries where Christians
are persecuted, is quite straightforward. This seems again a case of
holding Family members to a standard that society does not expect
from its members. [We should and are holding Family members to a standard held for anybody else. If the FCF is a doing illegal things we want to find out and we will report you to the authorities, the same way we have reported you to the authorities concerning child sexual abuse. You are not entitled to any special treatment because you think you are God’s end time elite army and other such nonsense.] We do not feel that we owe an accounting of the charitable work carried out by current members to you, [You owe an accounting to the authorities and to society and for this reason we are contacting the authorities and the media.] nor do we believe that you have had the opportunity to become familiar with the charitable work Family members do around the world. [Why don’t you invite me to FCF and show me around and let me ask some questions.] Therefore, it is not honest to say that such local endeavors are not "bona fide"
organizations. Perhaps the law as to what constitutes a "bona fide" charity would elucidate this point further.
Thank you for your prayerful consideration of this letter, we
believe that what we are presenting is only fair and legal and we
hope that we will not find ourselves obligated to seek legal
recourse. [You may have to seek legal help soon, if it turns out that you are doing things that are illegal. Sam Ajemian. )

Sincerely,

Public Relations Office for The Family