Bare-Faced Messiah (PDF) - Apologetics Index

work and I knew reports could bother him and governments were against him.
The messengers would vie with each other to perform little services. They had statistics like
everyone else and would think of all the things to do that would get him to be pleased with them. So
they were working busily on how they could serve him.
After his motorcycle accident he sat in his room in great pain. Bellows were coming out and
messengers were the only ones allowed in. The messengers had to wash and feed him. This was
in '73, early in the year. He was bellowing with pain and frustration, he kept finding out people were
making mistakes. Messengers were running around all the time - they were happy to give him bad
news. He sent Jill Goodman round to all the top executives saying the Commodore says that his
officers are not making enough. She delivered the message to Mary Sue who promptly boxed her
ears.
They were not encouraged to be promiscuous, Mary Sue wouldn't have it. She chased one guy off
the ship with a knife because he'd messed around with one of the messengers in Morocco. It was
very weird, they were not educated. He began to have less confidence in me after his return from
the States and took the messengers from out of my control. He went through the usual thing - "I
can't trust them, you help me." He gave them a lot more power.
You had to treat the messengers as though they were the Commodore.
NY trip. He had to leave Morocco, but couldn't stay in Europe because of the Paris case where he
was charged with criminal offences and he was going to be extradited at time it blew up. I got a
message on ship that I and John Bragon had to go to a hotel in Lisbon. He was there and said,
"You have to get me out of here at once." That day we got him on a flight to New York. We booked
him through to Chicago so people would think he was going to Chicago but he got off in NY.
He couldn't go back to the ship because it was in Lisbon doing another refit in dry dock. He could
have been arrested on the ship because it was in port and couldn't put to sea. He was in a fix. He
had flown from Morocco to Lisbon and then sent a message for me. In the hotel he was fairly
relaxed and gave us a little lecture about safe spaces, a little briefing. He wasn't panicked. He left
that day. He left in September '72 and came back in September '73.
Savage ethics were in during the earlier years, 67/8. It was less savage later.
You could be thrown overboard, put in a chain locker - either by yourself or with other people. I was
told the people in chain locker were a fed from bucket of slops lowered down. I can easily imagine
it.
The RPF [Rehabilitation Project Force] came into existence while he was in his cabin after the
accident. A guy called Gary Watson, who was the port captain, sent in some kind of programme of
action to the Commodore and the Commodore set up a unit to take care of rebellious people or
those not fitting in. I set up the RPF but it became very much different from what I envisaged - which
was a place where you could be removed from the stress and strains of bureaucracy, with some
physical work every day to take their attention off themselves and in the other half of day they could
audit each other on problems they had.
After the accident people were asking themselves why he was making such a fuss. Indeed, why
was he in pain? The justification was again he was doing such an important job. He was going
round a curve on a hill on his motorcycle. He got himself back to the ship and walked on board. He