Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Were the top leaders guilty of human trafficking?

Views expressed do not represent those of University Bible Fellowship




I have so much trouble believing this that I am skeptical of my own memory but this is what I remember

1 The top leaders knew about the information sent by ex members and reformers. I saw Sarah Barry say she threw away letters from people complaining about UBF, I alone am not the only witness to claim this

2 Samuel Lee held people's Passports hostage.  I heard members in good standing say how it was good for Samuel Lee to do that, I alone am not the only witness.

3 A woman in my chapter was supposed to be matched with me, after she rejected many other matches in a row including to other people in the chapter. Suddenly her passport went missing

4 One of the other members said that he hoped the Pastor did not take her passport because this happened to other people with Samuel Lee according to internet articles he read and he thought the Pastor might try to be like Samuel Lee

5 This is highly embarrassing to admit and I had so much trouble believing it really happened but I remember the Pastor saying she has one week to decide if she will marry me and he took her passport because she is so stubborn about marrying anyone.  Now I might have thought this is in my favor which is good but ethically I should tell her but that will not work because she will not believe me.  I remember immediately wondering if  I really remembered that correctly because I could not believe what he told me, so I never told anyone.  If I was absolutely sure he really said that and thought she would believe me I might have told her.  I did not tell anyone because it was so unbelievable I doubted my memory and did not want to take the risk of saying that and it is embarrassing to say you believe something really happened but it is so unbelievable you are not sure if it really did.  I am not saying that my memory is foggy since that was years ago but rather that I remember doubting my memory almost immediately afterward.

6  I was fasting about the marriage during this one week period.

7 the Pastors wife said if I get a  fellowship from the University I should be able to afford to get married.

8 I got a letter saying I was rejected from the fellowship

9 During the one week period the Pastor told me to consider leaving UBF

10 After  he told me to consider leaving UBF I soon later opened a letter saying I received the fellowship  as part of the second  pool of recipients after having had not received funds when I could have married her.  Also she happened to find her passport somewhere it would seem she would have seen it already if it were not placed back there around a time convenient for the Pastor no longer persuading her to marry me if he decided to punish me for my lack of reverence for the most venerable authority structure.  Was that timing divine providence?  I do not know but it seems like it.

11 She was seriously messed up in the head one of her reasons for not marrying me was that  the Pastor and the  Pastor's wife did not unanimously agree that I should marry her, instead of her personal judgment on my character and whether or not she likes me and sees the relationship as practically  feasible.

12 If all that I say is true some of the top leaders are guilty of criminal conspiracy to kidnap people through undue influence in the form of fraud, coercion via immigration officers and theft.   Since vigilante justice would lead to prosecution of the vigilantes although I do not recognize the validity of the United States legal  system I propose taking as many legal actions against them as possible through the very system they are guilty of supporting with all their speeches about obeying authority figures.

13 I am not talking about prosecuting everyone but Sarah Barry surely knew what was going on and if not her level of criminal negligence and wilful ignorance is too far beyond the shadow of doubt that should be set when deciding about trying to press charges or giving her the benefit of the doubt that she might not have known and deciding not to press criminal charges.

Sarah Barry might not have known about some individual abuses of ethics on a microscopic level that occurred in far away UBF chapters that were never reported to her but she had opportunity to hear about the individual instances of abuses that occurred and were reported to her in letters.    Sarah Barry had opportunity to know the unethical activities that were happening on a systematic scale on the macroscopic level or the big picture through the collection of individual abuses she would have been offered information about.

Sarah Barry had ample opportunity to know because she received letters mentioning these abuses then threw them away.  Sarah Barry could have known and only would have failed to know by the act of criminal negligence through throwing away letters mentioning the abuses in order to avoid reading claims of abuse. 

I can think of two motives for throwing away the letters.  First, she may have been avoiding reading claims of abuse because they make her feel bad.  A second possible motive is so that she can claim to have been uninformed of the abuse happening and therefore not guilty of something she would have been guilty of had she known.  Both motives of these motives are unexcuseable.  

Now the reason she told people that she threw out the letters may actually be different then the reason she threw out the letters if she really did do so.  She may have said she threw out the letters to try to discourage other people from reading or listening to claims about systematic abuse within UBF.  She might have actually read the letters but said she threw them away to discourage other people from reading such letters.



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