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To Ed Priebe

Posted by on March 09, 2005 at 17:10:22

My reply to Ed Priebe


In your condition of ex member of WS’ staff, it is neither difficult nor impossible for you to give an appropriate answer to my present and past questions.

Keeping absolute fidelity to your methods, your answers always stop half way and are tuned to whatever comes as convenient to you.

Even though, I am prepared to concede that your concerns for the SGAs and your comments about Ricky and Richard Dupuy are legitimate enough. What I am not prepared to accept is the extreme that their choices have been exclusively theirs and that no one else was responsibly for their dramatic decisions.

The subject of my reference to your “Open Letter” was not the fact of the police raids on the COG’s homes in Argentina – and while I mention that letter of yours, subsequent articles of your authorship keep coming to my recollection − but your behavior, that of always replying in accordance with your convenience, trying to attenuate and justify your responsibilities.

I do agree with you in the sense that you assumed a higher responsibility that other ex-members but it seems as if you always make a sudden stop at a point in the middle of nowhere. You keep silence and neither go along with other ex-members, those brave enough as to stand up with their truth, nor give them your backing; your simple choice is to ignore them.

You very well say that James Penn can answer for his own doings but, confronted to concrete facts he does not take action and, if he does, his attitude is always similar to yours.

Now, with regards to Jon-A, I do not think that he will ever reply with positive answers to my questions re the identification of all the COG/TF’s Homes, colonies, “training centers” or “boot camps”, their exact postal and geographical locations and telephone numbers. No, I do not think he will ever do that. I dare say it is impossible, it is almost like asking an elm tree to give you pears. While on the subject, I would like to ask him not to be so critic of the system because it is in and from the system where he finally extracts his life resources. This is also true of TF, but they rather prefer to remain anonymous and hidden away.

Ed, it is you and others like you who are in a position to stand up and forward concrete information to expose the COG/The Family/The Family of Love/The Family International and make those responsible/guilty of abuse and wrongdoings, to pay for their actions.

You, Sam Ajemian and David Welsh have chosen to keep silence about FSM 227 (FN336) “Anti-Family Conspiracy Exposed & Foiled”. Please allow me to say it again: it is not my intention to help The Family.

I neither censor you nor those who assisted you while taking the video tapes and literature away from a COG Home in Manila but can’t help wondering ¿To what use did you put all that material? ¿Which was its final destination? It is my understanding that, with the exception of a few of the videos and a minimal portion of literature, that material was presented to several judicial cases but ¿What did you do with the rest?

My reference to the FSM was meant to project your ambition for power, you propensity to deliriums of grandeur and your spiritual arrogance. Your endeavors, with no regards for the means, to lead The Family, become the star writer of their letters and feed up your personal ego.

Remembrance.