Ge·sta·po (g?-stä'po, -shtä'-)
n.
- The German internal security police as organized under the Nazi regime, known for its terrorist methods directed against those suspected of treason or questionable loyalty.
- gestapo pl. -pos . A police organization that employs terroristic methods to control a populace.
After barreling down into a dark puddle of indifference upon leaving the watchtower group, I had a rare uninvited lightbulb moment this morning.
Like so many abused children who grow up only to abuse others, the watchtower has reversed it's roll from persecuted to persecutor.
per·se·cute (pûrs-kyt) tr.v. per·se·cut·ed, per·se·cut·ing, per·se·cutes 1. To oppress or harass with ill-treatment, especially because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or beliefs . 2. To annoy persistently; bother.Not that I want to spend too much of my precious time before my demise at Armageddon on things as inconsequencial as the watchtower group.
But, it dawned on me this morning (right after dawn) that the watchtower publishing house has spent it's entire life turning into something it itself despised. They have gone from freedom fighters and victims of religious persecution to *gasp* a filthy group of double talking GAG MEN.
Now that their propagandic public pamphlets have done a good enough job in sequestering millions of malleable minds, they have downsized the printing facilty and shifted focus to the new work at hand. Stamping out the thousands, if not millions of fires they have started along the way.
A fire is created when a watchtower created atomoton actually begins to think for himself.
These fires are dangerous and left unchecked could threaten the entire watchtower empire with obliteration.
Thus, the watchtower freedom fighters have now become fire fighting lawyers.
Ah yes, the victim certainly has become the abuser. Once the brave David, fighting for religious freedom against the giant Goliath US government. Now, the watchtower has turned into it's most hated and vile enemy...the nazi gestapo.
Shining it's ridgid fascist flashlight into every crevice of the internet searching to supress the opposition through terror and censorship.
fas·cism (fash'iz ' ?m)
n.
- often Fascism
- A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship , and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
- A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.
- Oppressive , dictatorial control.
If the watchtower's fight for freedom of speech means not having to play "mother may I" with the government, then certainly we have the right to free speech not to have to play "mother may I" with the watchtower.
-whip
(clicking the lightbulb off, jumping back into the puddle)