Brodie Finegan Forbes

They're not part of the evil empire.

You know, they're just doing their job.

They're just like, they're treating me like someone who is just a human being.

And I was like, I was shocked.

That's why I call it the decentralized cult because you, there's like, like we had the alpha male and all that, but there's no big leaders.

It's just big egos.

What's central is the ideology.

And there's lots of different avenues, which that takes and wherever your predisposition towards, you're going to kind of lean into it and it's going to drag you further in and, and that.

So with the,

Me, me coming out and going to the place, it was, it was the biggest betrayal.

Yeah, they did.

Um, immediately I was the enemy.

I was getting, I started getting threats.

I started getting immediately, uh, like just looked at different by a lot of people in the movement.

Um, and that scared me.

Yeah.

So the police actually, the police actually, uh, when I came to them,

I got a call from them later on, and this was another officer who, like, I knew who knew me, and we'd gone into this argument.

This was, I went into Horsham, and I apologised to the bloke.

I went into Dimboola, and I apologised to some other officers at the stations there.