You don’t give a guy like Evans carte blanche for a family trip to Australia for “activism”. Why did he need to take the family? He didn’t think twice about leaving them shortly after Christmas for Thailand.
If anything you collect what you can and then tell him what you have money for and equally importantly what you DON’T have money for. The rest can be picked up by the TTATT guys (who were there filming and were collecting donations), Lloyd’s Patrons who were already funding his worldwide activism trips and documentaries, or Lloyd out of his own savings which were excess donations.
So a well intentioned if a bit misguided exJW couple had to go out of pocket for $15K AUD so Jabba the Hutt could order the lobster on the menu and take a trip to the Great Barrier Reef. Part of me wants to sympathise with them and another part wants to tell them what happens to fools and their money.
Now imagine the conversation to be had if that same couple, after hearing what he did in Thailand with mostly donated funds, publicly brought up the fact they felt a bit deceived by him and his claim he didn’t have enough money for the Australia trip:
You are being misled by “Kim’s lies”
You are behaving like JWs, always judging others.
You are such a puritan. Stop thinking like JWs and be a bit more understanding about people’s sexual needs and urges.
This is none of your business. My wife was the only one deceived, not you.
I didn’t pay for sex. I was dating the sex worker. Duh!
It looks like you never really left the organisation. Such a pity.
I am blocking you on social media until you apologise to me.
You are cyber-bullying me.
I am sending you a legal demand letter to pay me €8000 or you will be sued.
Since you didn’t pay me €8000 you are now a “defendant” in a Croatian criminal lawsuit that I filed.
So you made a livestream about my legal threats? Well you are misinformed and I’ll see you in court. I’d recommend getting a good Croatian lawyer.
So after putting up $15K AUD, they didn’t get a “thank you”. They got a “fuck you”.
THIS IS WHY YOU DON’T GIVE STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET MONEY.