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I spoke to the man who heads the NGO office at United Nations headquarters. I will not release his name at this point because I was asked not to by the individual who gave me the contact information. In all likelihood, his name will find a broad audience as per the information he will provide.
He said that many persons had called regarding the Watchtower's involvement with the United Nations, and expressed curiosity with this phenomenon.
What I told him.
I told him first of all that I was risking much by speaking with him. I told him how my family would be affected if my connection in this regard became known. I explained the shunning and slander I would undergo, and how I would end up in divorce court fighting for custody of my children. I told him how my house would need to be sold, as our assets would be divided. I made it clear that my way of life would disintegrate and my relationship with my wife and children would never be the same. He seemed to understand, although outsiders can never really grasp the gravity of it, and the reality of the pain. Outsiders seem to think it's an easy thing to just walk away. In any case he listened as I pleaded my case.
What he would do.
He said that he would be willing to draw up, on UN stationary, a letter stating that the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society has voluntarily withdrawn association with the United Nations Department of Public Information as an NGO as per October 10, 2001.
What he said he could not do.
He explained that the information, like the actual copies of the Watchtower's application, would not be available. This made me very sad and I began to get somewhat desperate, although I kept my demeanor. He also explained that the Watchtower had called this morning, October 10, 2001 and withdrew their association. His did not indicate that the UN in any way initiated any action to precipitate this.
Will the United Nations take any action against the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society?
Unfortunately not. Apparently, submitting a false and misleading application or supplying false information to the UN is not a crime. The penalty for doing what the Watchtower has done is the loss of status as an NGO, and this, the WTBTS has willingly thrust aside in their present attempt to whitewash this chapter of their history.
I was in the parking lot on my cell phone pleading with him, asking him to understand that six million Watchtower constituents have been lied to by this duplicitous organization, which is now going to get away with this.
I explained thoroughly the shunning doctrine and how this organization is corrupt, how this incredibly arrogant institution had repeatedly derided the UN, even going as far as the time they quoted the preamble to the UN charter and then making fun of it in a Watchtower article in 1995. I explained how the WTBTS referred to the UN as a "counterfeit peace organization" which God will destroy. I told him how the WTBTS jeered at the UN as a "disgusting" "failure" and a "beast". I told him that I would send him the WT library Cdrom with the manual so that they could see how the Watchtower views them, but alas it was a moot point since the WTBTS had already withdrawn association.
He wanted to know why all this fuss, so I explained how the truth about the Watchtower would pull off the wool from so many eyes, such that millions of people would be spared a wasted life and the many people that are enduring ruined families could once again be united. I compared the situation to being a Catholic and finding out that the Vatican has joined the KKK -although I made clear that this comparison really did not do the situation justice- since in the eyes of the JWs in the world, the UN is like the Devil. I pleaded again with him for help in exposing the Watchtower.
He offered me luck on my quest.
I hope that we can make good use of what he would provide, and this letter will be up on the www in a few days or so.
In closing, I would like to note that I am somewhat disappointed, although I suppose we all knew the route this would take. I even tried to light a fire underneath him by explaining a page from the Watchtower's history regarding the letter that the president JF Rutherford sent to Adolf Hitler -as recently uncovered from Nazi archives.
I told of the manner in which JFR taught about himself, bequeathing himself a type of Godship. I explained that Hitler slew 6 million Jews and Rutherford gave Hitler encouragement to commit such by deriding the Jews to him. That's all that that maniac needed was encouragement. I also told of how the WTBTS (via JFR) ran down the United States and Great Britian in this letter to Hitler.
I spoke of how JW's view the WTBTS today, like God, and how any help he could offer would be doing a service to millions.
At least we will have something.