Hi Hawk,
Is there anything else up your sleeve or can people who are considering contacting the press move ahead? Below is another sample of the pseudo-press release. And don't hammer me folks, I'm not a professional so have mercy. Anybody can use any part of it they like. I'm thinking it's getting on time to circulate the word to the outside world?
Ready to go, Hawk?
For immediate release:
Contact:
Controversial Religious Sect's association with United Nations
withdrawn after former sect members blow the whistle.
Former members of Jehovah's Witnesses recently made a
scandalous discovery when they learned the Watchtower Bible
and Tract Society, also known as Jehovah's Witnesses, had
affiliated itself with the United Nations by soliciting to
become an associated Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).
Former members flooded the United Nations and The Watchtower's headquarters in Brooklyn with phone calls, protesting that for years the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society has issued scathing statements in it's magazines and from the pulpit that malign the United Nations, dubbing it the "disgusting thing" and likening it to the "scarlet colored wild beast" of the bible. The Watchtower Organization seemingly bowed to pressure from former and current members alike by withdrawing it's status earlier this week.
While a seemingly harmless affiliation to most of us, the
reckoning of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society's quietly
associating itself with the U.N. is the making of a substantial scandal for the controversial religious organization. Former members of Jehovah's Witnesses argued that the Watchtower Society has repeatedly painted a vile description of the United Nations and it's goals before an audience of about six million adherents. Recently, however, the United Nations received an unprecedented number of phone calls from outraged former members who stumbled upon the news that the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, who made an art out of skewering the United Nations in it's publications, has been an affiliated NGO since 1991, a far cry from standing apart from the "disgusting thing" they have often described it as.
Why is is this newsworthy?
Stunned former members of Jehovah's Witnesses who learned of
the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society's association with the
United Nations and intitated a grass roots effort to draw
attention to the situation that could prove enormously
embarassing to the United Nations and spark revolt among the
rank and file members of the sect. This revelation could be
highly detrimental to the credibility of Watchtower Bible and
Tract Society in the eyes of both the United Nations and of
the religious organization's millions of adherents. Former members allege that the sect misled the United Nations by petitioning to
support and promote it's purposes while simultaneously
maligning it before the Watchtower Society's millions of
faithful believers.
Most rank and file members had no knowledge of the Watchtower
Society's affiliation with the United Nations, and, as they
have been led to believe the United Nations represents the
"Scarlet-colored wild beast" of the bible, they would be
shocked to learn of this affiliation.
To further investigate this unfolding controversy, you may contact me at...
Additionally, you will find further information below to assist you in your research.
For the United Nations:
An address to send correspondance regarding an NGO
NGO Section
Department of Public Information
Room S-1070 L
New York, NY 10017, USA
Tel: (212) 963-6842
Fax: (212) 963-6914
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