Charming fellow.
Dishonorable mention
by Norm 14 Replies latest jw friends
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Seeker4
Wow, PUC, pretty unprofessional response there!
So are you the Rev. Brown? I need a play card here to figure out who's who.
I also take issue that disfellowshipping is not "torture cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment" intended to get someone to repent from a supposed sin.
For a child to be forbidden to talk to a parent or grandparent, or vice versa, would be considered cruel, inhuman and degrading by a lot of people I know.
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Seeker4
Just realized the original posts go back to October 2006.
So, did the good reverend just find this thread?
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Seeker4
Just read his 2008 paper. According to it:
John Bowen Brown II was a JW from 1984, when he was 14, until 1995, when he left the group.
Brown belonged to an anti-cult group for six years and was associated with Wally shiel, a deprogrammer.
In 2003 he had a break with Shiel, and also became involved in the Wicca movement. He left the anti-cult movement and has subsequently been involved writing about groups that he considers are attacking the human and civil rights of cults and religious groups like the Witnesses.
It's not exactly clear, but it seems that Brown's argument is that "only governments can legally commit human rights violations," while private organizations can't. BUT, then he goes on to write that when a private organization commits the same things, it amounts to "an illegal act within the framework of international human rights law, a human rights abuse has been committed." The government is then responsible for punishing that private organization.
I'm not sure that I understand why there is a difference between a human rights violation by a government and an illegal human rights abuse by a private organization. Maybe this is on a legal level?
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ozziepost
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