18 months ago I was looking for work and I had an interview with an employment agency. The girl who I spoke to was great and I was amazed at how much she CARED about my welfare - it was such a contrast to how I'd been treated in the past.
She rang me a few months later and said they may have temporary work for me but I was NOT to buckle to the employer's demands to stay back and meet deadlines if it IN ANY WAY meant I was fatigued - she was adamant about that.
I was gobsmacked - I'd never had an employer put my health and safety above "getting the product out" before.
A few months after that, I went back to driving buses and I had my boss tell me in no uncertain terms "The most important thing is you leave here in the morning and you come back in the afternoon."
His concern was genuine.
I've been continually stunned by how much folks outside the cult actually care for those they have a limited association with. I've been out several years now and come a long way further than Debbie has in that time. I've had a lot more time to decompress than she has (as have we all here.)
She, like me (and Rathbun, Rinder etc.,) is doing all this in the public eye. Unless you've been there and done that, you have no understanding of it really. Sorry if that sounds pompous of me or whatever, but that's a fact of life as I see it. I've had great friends and ESMB, wwp etc. to help me along with recovery. And my hands are nowhere near as dirty as she knows hers are.
Give her space and time to sort it out and help her if and when she needs it. She'll be exhausted right now and needs support - doing what she's done in the last 6 weeks would have exhausted me and I'm about the same age as her and in a lot better shape physically. She'll have been living on the edge all this time and I doubt there are many here who really knows what it's like publicly taking on this toxic cult. It's easy to exhaust yourself planning and carrying out media, protests, etc. - the adrenaline you use up is surprising.
Endless speculation about motives, crimes, etc. may be entertaining but ultimately it doesn't bring this toxic cult to an end. Debbie's working on that in a very hazardous (for both her and DM
) way. I don't care what she personally believes about Hubbard, his cult and his writings. I don't care if she thinks she's channelling him from Target 2 (altho' she hasn't said that.
)
I'm backing her 100% because she's after real justice and just beginning to discover that there's a hell of a lot of us outside this cult with exactly the same purpose. She wants the slaves freed and so do I.
TG1 - I loved your rant. I don't believe any of us here have the faintest idea where Debbie's coming from or where she's going with this.
But I sure want to be there for the ride.