Chuck Wyatt is the guy who posted as Investigator; at least, that's my impression.
I have a few thoughts on why people aren't flocking here or flooding Twin Peaks Sheriff's office w/ sworn statements.
There are a couple of built in hurdles to people in our position getting anything done. Nothing that can't be overcome, though.
First, have you noticed that we're a rather strident bunch? I mean, not to put too fine a point on it, but we're a bunch of frelling a-holes who, for the most part, can barely stand each other's company and tend to run off more mellow types. Not that we're bad people at the base of it. Just that we tend to have a brash style of communicating, to put it lightly. That's no coincidence and you know very well we weren't all jerks before recieving the blessed gift of Synanon style "help'. We have to try a little harder to be polite and civil. It can be done, though.
Second, you mention how they hammered it into your heads that everyone who leaves the group winds up a skidrow junkie. Even though most of us never fully believed that, it does tend to effect the way we think of each other. Until I decided to investigate programs, the
last think I ever wanted was to chum it up w/ Program people! The few times I've run into someone I knew from back then, I never even thought of trying to stay in touch. In fact, the first thought to enter my mind was "Is that so-and-so? Shit! It is! God, I hope they don't recognize me!" You guys seem to have had more opportunity to form some bonds w/ fellow ceduites so you probably won't have as much trouble w/ that aspect of the aftermath as some others do. But it's there.
Finally, I think it just can't hurt to get your story documented in the form of a LE investigation. I don't think this one investigation will be some kind of silver bullet to shut down the industry. But it may well take a few bad actors out of the game and put others on notice. Once the investigation is completed, much of that information can also help inform the public by way of the media. And that can't hurt either. I just don't see where you have anything to lose by talking to the guy, except a little time on the phone and, possibly, the time it may take to write and have notorized a formal affidavit.
Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
--Rep. Robert L. Henry, TX December 22, 1914 (quoting Lincoln)
