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Post from Jered

Posted by Sam A (reposted from Journeys) on September 08, 2003 at 18:35:24

I don't know why I can't post this on Genex.
For some reason I can't past it there.
Could the coordinator please repost this on Genex? Thanks.
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This portion was written this morning to Christina but I couldn't post it on Genex.
I wrote this before I read the post from Jered just now. Sam
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To Christina: If you are no longer with the Family and have no more connection with the FCF, and you want to continue operating Love’s
Bridge independent of them that is great.

You sound sincere and honest and I do not want to be skeptical or difficult. On the other hand from my part I just can’t say at this point that I
am in a position to know for certain if what you are saying is the truth. I don’t know at what point I’ll be at able to say that I know and am
convinced in my own heart. You sound like the real deal and I believe you more than I don’t believe you.

When I said come clean I was not talking about telling the authorities that you were abused in the Family or anything like that. What I was
saying is that you were for years part of the Family and part of FCF operating a charity organization, interacting with people there in Russia,
receiving help, dealing with the authorities there, without disclosing your association with the Family. Is this an accurate statement? If so you
were involved in deception.

If these people that helped you knew of your association with the Family, may have not helped you at all, or may have wanted you out of the
country, etc.

Coming clean is not only for the sake of being honest.

The Family to me is like a cancer that is metastasizing into more and more areas, the fund-raising area, the humanitarian area, the churches,
video, TV, publishing of books, music, etc.

Just like you have a strong desire to help the homeless children in Perm, I have a strong desire to stop or slow down this metastasis which will
continue growing and growing until something is done to stop it or at least slow it down from growing as fast.

I think what you are doing is great. I think what I am doing is great. The choices we have to make in our various approaches as former
members of COG are often not between something evil and something good. Sometimes they are choices between two very good things.

I am not against what you are doing. In fact I think it is just great that someone will leave the Family and will remain on the field as a missionary
or as a humanitarian worker or connected to something like Love’s Bridge.

If you were to tell all about your past there, tell the authorities of you past ties with the Family and give them or the media info about other front
groups in Russia and even internationally, tell everybody who Grant Montgomery is, and what FCF is, that in my way of thinking is more of a
priority.

If I was in your position right now, I would had tried to do both at the same time and it is very possible that both can be done at the same time.
But if I had to make a choice, exposing and trying to stop the Family and FCF worldwide would had been more of a priority with me.

You may not think so, you may think protecting Love’s Bridge comes first. Hence a possible conflict between my efforts and your efforts.
How can we bridge our differences in our approaches? I don’t know.

But please don’t misunderstand me. I am not saying that what you are doing is not very important. I think it is very important, and I very much
support what you are doing.

Sam A.
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Dear Jered,
First of all, about your threat to take legal action against me, you are welcome to do so.
I am not afraid of any such action from you.
Having said that, after the flood of new information in your post, I am more than happy to reconsider everything and take whatever appropriate
action as needed.
I am not against you as a person.
I am against the Family’s evil.
I will re-read carefully what you have said, absorb the information and take it from there.

Sam Ajemian