Retroactive filth

Skickat: den 6 mars 2001 06:13

Dear Edgar,

I have just read yours. You were wondering why a promise to not visit the disturbed people in Alberta would have been sufficient to have enabled Marg to stay in the work. That is actually not the case. We had five requirements to present to Marg and we were asking for a commitment on all five of them. Before we brought up any of them, Marg asked us if these requirements would affect who and where she visited. So, when she was unable to comply with this part of it, we brought up nothing further. A simple understanding that workers recognize the world over is that we *don't go into other fields and get involved without the knowledge and sanction of the workers in that field. That applies to the field bordering us,** let alone the neighboring province.

Dale Shultz

* The above quotation from Dales email is a direct and  complete misrepresentation of truth -- and Dale was well aware of this  -- I was in the work for 16 years (Dales companion several times) and quite often visited bordering fields and countries (a number of times with Dale)  without applying for worker 'sanctioning' for visiting people -- especially people outside the fellowship that were personal friends. I have been companion with a number of the senior workers, often going across internal (and international) borders. It was never a question of asking permission first! This only becomes an issue when power politics becomes involved.

This was obviously power politics of the most ungodly sort. The completely counter-Christian 2x2 policy that workers 'own' visiting rights to all people (both proffessing and non-proffessing) within their leadership allotted borders is absurd -- and completely without scriptural or moral  merit. The only issue here was power-political, and at that time leadship obviously felt they needed to show their muscles, in an attempt to conceal major earlier violations of the Christian spirit in those fields.

** Check this link, where Dale himself had been brought to task and forcebly extracted a promise (both orally and written) from Willis Propp for the exact same 'crime'. This was nothing but a high ranking prestige issue by leadership in panic.. very unbecoming to the basic Christian spirit that has long since been forgotten in the group.