Hi Shelagh,Great post. I agree with everything you say. Especially with the point that the best we can do is provide the information necessary to be able to make a legitimate choice. Beyond that, we all have an inalienable right to be stupid and to learn about things the hard way.
Alot of us have already said that if Prem Rawat wouldn't have become the artist of deception that he is today, if he wasn't hiding the fact that he used to hop around in giant rooster costumes and all that goes with that, then we wouldn't even bother with this.
Though to be fair to ourselves, there was a con going on back then too, it just wasn't even in the same league of deception as what goes on today.