by OnTheWayOut 16 Replies latest watchtower scandals
Another thread made a similar suggestion, so I thought WHAT IF....?
What would happen if you put an envelope in the donation box with a check, and on the
envelope (also on the comments portion of the check) it said "For the child-abuse lawsuits"
or "To help the organization pay off the greedy victims in the lawsuits"
You all get the idea. What would they do? You are only trying to help.
That is a very interesting question. I think they, in my old hall, would scratch their heads then ask the wts what to do, who would then probably cash the cheque.
"For the child-abuse lawsuits"
or "To help the organization pay off the greedy victims in the lawsuits"
I'm sure the WTS has a plan in mind for this very thing.
I can just see the conventions and CO visits coming up talking about how they are "under attack from Satan and wicked apostates" who have persecuted God's Chosen People™ and dragged them before worldly courts and tried to Bring Reproach On Jehovah™. They'll say how all this fighting to preserve their good name has forced them to divert funds from the World Wide Education work, and how they still need to keep operating and it takes lots of money in the form of Voluntary Donations™ to make it happen.
What would be even better would be to use Richie Rich's WT cheques to let them know that people are NOT donating on the grounds of the sexual abuse coverups within the WTS, or on the grounds of sheltering 27,000+ pedophiles, etc.
The guys in the finance department must be crapping their pants.
If they can avoid addressing it at all to the R&F, they will.
They'll just keep quietly selling (and buying) real estate and the R&F will continue building Kingdom Halls and donating them to their (600+billion dollar) enterprise known as the WTB&TS.
I don't think the Society has any legal obligation to use "donations" for what the donor requests and how could one ensure it would happen anyway? If it were an enormous sum of money donated, maybe, but not a bunch of itty-bitty checks/cash in envelopes. The society will probably just use those "donations" as they see fit.
If they really are worth +600billion dollars, the 16 lawsuit settlements might be a "drop in the bucket," even if they add up to multi-millions of dollars.
I just can't even wrap my mind around the concept of anyone religious cult having +600 billion in assets. Even with all the donated kingdom halls, financed by individual congs, and then handed over to the society for free.
600 bill is a he$$ of a lot of money.
I really prefer the idea of sending them "funny money" with protest info regarding the sex abuse scandals (or UN scandals Or Blood scandals) instead.
The funny money statements would be far more educational, but the idea of putting a dollar or two in an envelope and asking your local congs to earmark it for the sex abuse law suits is a great idea for education, too.
I suspect that writing letters to individual congregations asking innocently how you might help them in their struggles against the sex abuse cases, pointing them to the appropriate ("Satan-influenced") news and website resources might too be educational. You don't have to follow up with the offer to "help" and could use bogus name/address.
For many here, the idea of sending a check with their name and address on it would not be acceptable, anyway due to the need for confidentiality.
OnTheWayOut:
I have several suggestions for donating at the conventions, assemblies, etc (but not the local KH of course...too easy to track)..... lets start putting in Monopoly Money in the contribution boxes. (If you put your check they know who you are. And why would we give REAL money to the Borg (other than as cover in the below continuation of this suggestion)
Here's what I think we should do....go to the (non-commercial) link below and print the PDF files of monopoly money.....make lots of them....use a color printer if you can. BUT... make sure you either write or print across the face of it "For The Watchtower Sex-Abuse Settlements". Feel free to "donate" as much as you want. As a further suggestion, make sure to do it early in the program (Friday morning for District Conventions, Saturday morning for circuit assembly, first thing in the morning at the SAD)....maybe you will get to hear an "announcement" by Administration about abusing the contribution boxes....
Of course, this will either amuse or pi** off the people who have to dump the money boxes on the tables in the rooms they hide in. Make sure if you do it, you put it in an envelope, or fold it over with a real $1 bill so the sister watching the box does not catch on to our fun and games.
OPTIONAL FUN: Put in a TON of change...NOT in an envelope...... bring several rolls of pennies. Dump them in loose in the box.,,,makes it a nightmare to count.... If you have your kids with you, let them put them in....
SnakesInTheTower (of the Prankster Sheep Class)
What would happen if you put an envelope in the donation box with a check,
Since a cheque would have your name on on it, I guess you would be invited into the back room pdq to explain what it was all about. Around here only a very few might have any idea about lawsuits and the like. They do not know, and would not believe you.
I wonder if they'd cash MY check?
Ah, but then, that would be sort of redundant.
Kimberlee D. Norris
attorney at law
You guys have some great ideas. V's "Beth Sarim" check is about the best.
