>Gubler signed a totally false statement and you say he was "shanghied?" I don't understand<

OK - this is how I understand things went from reading the various statements, comments, etc. I am not claiming this as definitive.

1. JM receives documents from TG

2. JM at some subsequent point - ( I've never been clear about how long JM had the digital material - hours, days, weeks ?) posts (via an intermediary) unedited copies on F7.

3. The F7 posts allow identification of the document's source (this is careless and for a journalist positively neglectful).

4. Depending on your viewpoint:

            a) the publicly presented capacity to identify the document source i.e TG, allows the EV 'trap' to be sprung by taking an afadavit from the 'compliant' TG.

            b) the identification of the previously unknown source (TG) to Elan Vital allows EV's lawyers to sandbag the unsuspecting TG, who faced with having been dropped in it by the careless JM makes the best of crappy situation in terms of salvaging something for his private life.

Frankly I find 4. a) to be way too tenuous - for it to have worked as a planned strategy it requires an expectation that JM would indeed act very stupidly.

As I said I don't believe in the situation is one of good guy, bad guy. Both JM and TG made errors - it's screw up not conspiracy. What happened thereafter lay very much with JM who IMO made a bad situation worse by making a whole series of bad judgements including his failure to take the most basic precautions in managing his legal situation.

Identifying one individual in all this as being to 'blame' (again IMO) misses the point, the contributory factors are important - a manipulative cult - an inadequate and partial judicial system, a confusion on the part of JM as to whether he was a cult busting activist or professional journalist - a lack of any effective support structure for those wishing to take on the Rawat cult face to face.

This is all stuff we should seek to learn from, especially as with a bit of caution and the exercise of foresight what happened to JM was avoidable, and avoidable without any loss to effectively challenging Rawat.

nik