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Originally Posted by awareness
It's perhaps the plight of Steve Isitt. Who LSM promised to give a hearing if he removed all his websites exposing Lee & Co. and reneged when he did it. They'll do anything to cover their business, like a cat.
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Mysteria, I don't know if you've heard the story: one day in a meeting, Witness Lee brought up those who'd left, and said someone needs to go & help them, find out what happened. Not really sure what he was thinking when he said that.
Well brother Steve Isitt took him at his word, went out & talked to those who'd left & he was expelled from the LSM/lc. Turns out talking about what happened is not allowed.
I read about an American and a Chinese walking down a street in So. Cal. in the mid '60s. The Chinese said, "You really have to watch out for Brother Lee's family", then he immediately clapped his hand over his mouth and said, "I should not have said that."
You see, in Chinese culture it's considered bad form to criticise leaders. Group cohesion and social stability are predicated on the inviolability of authority. In the PRC today you can get fired for publicly criticising Mao, 40 years after his death. You think the Mafia has a code of 'omerta' - you ain't seen nothin'.
So Lee's lieutenants already knew about Timothy & Philip. But it was considered an unforgivable breach of etiquette to talk about it. And this is what Steve Isitt found out, eventually.