First off, you’d have to work your way up to that point, and to do so you’d have to fully believe everything.

Secondly, if you DID punch him, you’d not only have to fight off a bunch of guards, but he’d sue you and likely win. They have the cameras, they have the lawyers, and they have a bunch of witnesses who would testify against you. Your lawyer would get to deal with the entirety of the CoS harassing them, plus you and anyone you know.

Ever hear those stories where someone breaks into a house, gets beaten or shot repeatedly, then turns around and sues the owner of the house they broke into– and wins? Exactly.

It’s easy to be tough when you’ve never been in a situation where there were at least ten other people who would readily give their lives to protect the person who just beat you and would lie in a court of law to protect that person.

This is why it’s a cult, it doesn’t play by society’s rules. Marc would have killed David given the chance, but then HE would have been the bad guy. Instead of trying to figure out why people haven’t responded the way you *think* you would have, how about you consider the idea that our country has allowed this type of behavior to exist and rail against that instead.

Disparaging people like Marc Headley or Jeff Hawkins not only makes you look like a jerk, but it’s starting to piss me off. So, I am politely asking you to change the subject to something that’s pertinent to the conversation and that’s dismantling the CoS and bringing DM to justice. All the rest is just chest-puffing and pointless.

If DM punched me, DM would have no teeth himself right now and that’s all there is to it. Not to mention he’d find himself in a very public and very messy legal brouhaha. Some people need to grow some spines, but if they had them I guess they wouldn’t be joining cults in the first place.

“Honestly, I just don’t see DM letting this guy walk, knowing he has the power to potentially bring down the house of cards.”

Actually, there are so many stories of the same thing happening– DM assaulting people– that under your logic, DM would have to be a mass murder in order for you to believe that he “assaults” those people. That’s not great logic.

Rather, logic dictates that if DM did outright start killing people, rather than assaulting them, locking them away, driving them clinically insane via an “introspective rundown,” or driving them to commit suicide, as is his modus operandi, he would have been brought down a long time ago.

You entire post is silent to the COS “Fair Game” policy, and the policy of disconnection. Both of these are used to systematically silence opposition, to great effect. Thus, your failure to acknowledge them is curious, or in the least, uninformed.

Also, you seem to miss the part wherein the victim stated he was about to hit DM back, but was pulled away by his thugs. Your primary premise is that it is unbelievable that he did not strike DM back. Thus, your primary premise fails also.

Man-0-man….

Hmmmmm. I think it’s fair to say, once again, where are the feds? WHere is the state police? Why is this not assault? Why is this not an abusive and illegal labor practice? How man people does DM have to assault? How many people have to allege kidnapping and assault before anything is done?

DM runs a secret underground base that is essentially like a miniature city unto itself. He has goons and thugs doing his bidding, which is why Marc says he didn’t hit him back.

I have two questions.

Number one, why didn’t Marc call the police and/or launch a civil suit for assault? I cannot conceive of letting someone punch me repeatedly without either getting a couple good punches of my own in before the bodyguards break it up, and/or calling the cops on him afterwards. If it came to a trial for criminal assault, DM would probably win, but it would sure harass the hell out of him - and that ain’t bad.

Number two, if DM is as evil as they say, I don’t understand why all these people lived to tell their stories. There’s nothing stopping DM from putting these people in irons in his secret S&M dungeon. (Some people even think Church President Heber Jentzch is being held against his will.) Honestly, I just don’t see DM letting this guy walk, knowing he has the power to potentially bring down the house of cards. Same goes for all the other people who tell horror stories.

It’s not that I disbelieve that DM is capable of the horrors, but for that very reason, I question why he didn’t just make these people disappear when he had every opportunity to do it.