Elder Yung Ji Lin reneged on his promise to send me more IA documents and instead changed his mind and tune, claiming that the above-mentioned 37 pages of IA document on various issues are all I needed to know on the matter.
a. Several weeks after the Sept 16, 2010 meeting, I had still not received any other IA documents; I therefore emailed Elder Lin asking him for the reasons for the delay in sending me additional documents.
b. Through Preacher Chao, Elder Lin strongly insisted that
i. these 37 pages of IA document handed to me by Elder Lin and Elder Tse of the IA on Sept 16, 2010 are all I needed to know on the matter.
ii. Elder Lin’s decision and message implied that I, the go-between between him and Preacher YM Yang, should not ask too many questions nor read too much - all I need to do is be submissive to Elder Lin and do whatever he asks.
3.5
During an IA Standing Committee meeting held in October 2010 in Tokyo, Japan, Elder Lin persuaded the other Standing Committee members that “IA documents contained personal and private information and should not be disclosed to outsiders”.
Note: It was Preacher M.Y. Chao who notified me of this IA resolution in the beginning of 2011.
a. On the surface, it was clear that this resolution was drafted and passed in response to my repeated requests that Elder Lin fulfil his promise of providing additional IA documents to me as he promised. In reality, the resolution is not applicable to me and to the information that I requested. because:
i. In 2006, Elder Lin on his own initiative told me that “The IA needs to let you know matters relating to Preacher YM Yang.”
ii. Ever since Elder Lin personally invited me in April 2010 to assist the IA, I had become one of the IA’s workers and was no longer an outsider.
iii. The IA cannot have been so muddle-headed as to fail to give its worker the information that he needs in order to facilitate and empower the worker to perform the task that the IA had entrusted to him?
iv. Most ironically and importantly, at the end of 2010, Elder Lin was already very openly criticizing Preacher YM Yang, and frequently issuing letters to all the churches worldwide on the matter! As the whole world was already knowing and openly discussing the alleged misconducts of Preacher Yang, how could Preacher Yang have any personal or private matters to hide!
v. Looking back over the past two years, I suspect what Elder Lin wanted to hide and protect was not Preacher YM Yang’s privacy, but his own secrets, deeds and conducts that were neither glorifying to God nor beneficial to man.
3.6
In the 88 days during which I communicated with Elder Lin to obtain additional IA documents, he and Preacher Chao sent me a total of 6 mutually contradictory instructions.
a. In order to obtain additional documents from the IA, I communicated with Elder Lin and Preacher Chao for 88 days (from 2010.09.16 to 2010.12.14). During this period of time, the IA (i.e. Elder Lin and Preacher Chao) sent me a total of 6 conflicting explanations and instructions. For example:
i. What Elder Lin wrote to me
● “I have been quite busy recently, but I shall submit to you by 2010.10.10 the information you have asked me to provide.”
ii. As the messenger of Elder Lin, Preacher Chao wrote to me
● “the information is already contained in the material previously [Sept 16, 2010] provided to you”
● “Preacher Yang has all the other information, can you ask him for it”
● “However, if you are not satisfied with my response, your request must be submitted to the IA Executive Committee for discussion. You should submit a formal request to the IA and explain your motives in making such a request.”
b. After the 88 days of back-and-forth communication, I felt extremely pained, surprised and troubled.
i. I was pained at learning
-1) how undisciplined and untruthful IA operation was including, flipping and flopping in keeping its promise and
-2) how subjective, self-centred, selfinflated, and unreasonable IA workers had been in their dealing with church members.
ii. I was astonished to learn that in dealing with a dispute which has lasted for more than 7 years and has more than 700 pages of document in the archive, Elder Lin/IA subjectively and biasedly handpicked 37 pages (out of more than 700 pages of document in the archives) and told me these 37 pages of document are all the information I need to know!
iii. I was troubled by how could I go about advising Preacher YM Yang and asking him to admit wrongs solely relying on these 37 pages (a partial data of the dispute)?
3.7
Having come to a dead end, I was left with no choice but to act according to that Pr. Chao/the IA instructed and
1) appealed to the IA Executive Committee, and
2) gathered the relevant information from Preacher YM Yang and other sources.
a. I took me more than 5 months (2010.10.22 – 2011.03.15), to gather
-1) documents relating to the Preacher YM Yang Incident, which turned out to be more than 700* pages and
-2) talked with principal participants cited in some of these documents to understand the events and verify the contents of key documents.
*Note: It goes without saying that these 700+ pages of document do not include those “private” materials retained by the IA or by Elder Lin himself. If these “private” materials were to be included, it is very likely that the documents pertaining to Pr. YM Incident over the past 6–7 years would exceed 1,000 pages.
b. After carefully review of these 700+ pages of document, I made a thorough comparison of what depicted in these documents against the contents/messages of the “selected” 37 pages of document given to me by the IA (Elders Yung Ji Lin and Fe Ming Tse). I was totally shock and extremely surprised to discover that the 37 pages contained only one-sided information; what was recorded in the 37 pages was drastically different in content and nature from the actual facts surrounding the Pr. YM Incident.
c. From a mathematical point of view, 37 out of 700 is only a small fraction (5.28%); 37 out of 1000 is even a smaller fraction (3.70%).
d. From the content point of view, the 37 pages only present a one-sided, narrow, very biased and extreme view of the dispute; they certainly do not represent the whole truth and complete story of the Incident and of the dispute between the IA and YM Yang.
e. If anyone were to express any opinion(s) or make any judgment(s) by relying solely on what are recorded and stated in these 37 pages, that person’s comment(s) and conclusion(s) would be incorrect and biased.
f. In spite of these deficiencies, Elder Lin insisted that I rely solely on these 37 pages of document (which were specially handpicked and selected by the IA) in carrying out my work for him and for the IA. This example clearly shows that Elder Lin often makes use of incomplete and onesided messages or documents in order to mislead those whom he wishes to mislead.
g. Think about it: By acting in this manner, is Elder Lin being honest, fair, just and righteous?
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