The fear I felt after the phone call from JMac telling me to be careful after the goons had harassed his daughter was not so intense and not like riding a wave, it was not a release of emotion, it was something I had to live with for a while - not huge, I could easily be left alone, (I was), but there - I might get a visit from some thugs wanting to scare me.

To be honest it probably didn't last more than a matter of minutes - I must have put it to the back of my mind in a forewarned is forearmed sort of way.  I just remember sitting at my desk after the call feeling a bit uncomfortable for a while.

The other call, that I spoke about in my last post was upsetting.  I had been meeting him for a coffee just about every week for 6 months.  He had literally let me talk him out of Knowledge.  I felt responsible and now he was talking about pinning these documents up on a billboard in Byron Bay and seemed to think everything would be fine because he was hightailing it out of here, slinging his briefcase in the car and driving all the way to Western Australia.  (put two and two together and the pumped up emotional mess he was in is clear).  I have a vague memory that he said he was followed and his briefcase stolen out of his car at a petrol station.

He had not talked with me at all about his interactions with other ex-premies.  I didn't know much about it all, just what he told me on the phone during the court case - he did not have confidence in the judge.  He felt it was a foregone conclusion, it didn't matter what he did, he would be ruled against. 

The next I heard he was in Asia.  And it was after that, here on the forum I discovered ex premies had been supporting him, giving him funds to fight the case and maybe a lawyer?  anyway it was a brutal act of betrayal that I know he was reluctant to do. 

And then there was a court case going on in America, the cult wanted his letter of retraction for that and he gained the safety of his family and his return to Australia for it.  It was the efforts of Marianne, if I remember right who rescued that court case and made it so Rawat would have to appear in court and so the cult backed off anyway.

Sort of bottom of the barrel moment in life for JMac I guess.  He put himself first and it worked.  He has a good life I think, not that I know for sure as I haven't heard from him in a while now - getting divorced tends to disrupt friendships too, I've found.