Lawrence,
Welcome and very glad to see you here. I would like to thank you and let you know how instrumental you and your childrens videos were in helping me to leave and get the rest of my family out.
I was a professional before joining the SO and many of the betrayals and broken promises that you ran into were very similar to mine. It was really incredible to listen to your story and realize just how pervasive and similar the deception is throughout the cult. When I was in the process of leaving I looked at the various anti-scn sites and boards, looking for reasoned, sensible, well-thought out criticisms of the cult. You were that for me, your calm demeanor and rational discussion of the cult was exactly what I needed to hear. I showed my wife your videos and she felt the same way and it helped get her to wake up too. It started the ball rolling and we ended up getting our kids out too. So big thanks to you, for speaking out openly
and doing so in such an un-SP like manner. That brit accent too adds a measure of respectibility.
I also would like to add that I knew Leslie while in and we had many conversations about the tech but not much more outside of that, (can't be wasting time discussing unimportant matters like family). She did tell me how she joined the SO, but this was a "theta" version. I also knew Matt while he was in the RPF. Outside of her mother I had no idea about any other family of hers until I was out. Of course she never discussed her involvement in the Lisa McPherson case and I had no idea what it was at the time. In case you didn't know, around the time I knew her in 2003, she was s staff auditor for CTO WUS, on her SHSBC internship as well as C/Sing the purif for LA org. I'm sorry to say she looked older than her years, I suppose the SO was really wearing her down hard. In fact, it took me quite awhile to reconcile that she could be the mother of your children. I thought there must be some other connection.
Hope to see you around here more.