If you are a lurking Circuit Overseer, or you know a
C.O., you might want to think about updating
resumes - or getting help with a career change.
Why?
Because the authority, privileges and employment
of Circuit Overseers may be in doubt over the next
few years.
Please consider that the Society is likely to be
deluged with legal woes for years to come. These
lawsuits are likely to portray the organization as
a unitary structure, a hierarchy, a neat chain of
command stretching from the lowliest publisher,
thru the elders, thru the C.O. upward to the Society.
Thus, just like McDonalds getting sued for coffee
that's too hot - the liability travels to the top,
where financial rewards can be greater.
Now, the Society has been doing a legal dance over this
issue for years. For example, when the Circuit Overseers
secretly READ VERBATIM the instructions for filling
out a disfellowshipping form to bodies of elders,
it should be apparent to anyone more than brain dead
that they are trying to stop any chain of legal
responsibility from getting to them. ("Never refer to
the Society, or its legal counsel....).
However, the Society is now confronted with a mountain
of legal trouble, growing worse by the day. They don't
have deep pockets like Catholics, so what can they do?
How do they sever the chain of liability?
Circuit Overseers!
They may reduce their number, their visits, or limit
them in other ways THAT ARE REAL AND DEFENSIBLE.
Otherwise, the threat of local trouble moving up the
ladder to the top never goes away.
And their old methods of trying to maintain control
by depending on the discretion and confidentiality
of countless local brothers isn't going to save them,
like it used to either. Why?
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