by Gill 46 Replies latest jw friends
If a lot of the negative experiences and comments about the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and Jehovah's Witnesses on the internet really was all apostate lies, surely the WT Society would have a legal right to take such supposed slanderers to court and sue to have the information removed.
They were able to remove Quotes site just for repeating what they themselves HAD said. Why do they not take the same action with regard to information they insist is just apostate lies?
They don't want to agitate this issue because they know they can't win in fact their policy is one of minimum publicity, when was it ever that a JW leader accepted to debate publicly their doctrine and history with people that never were JWs let alone with ex JWs?
They are shy of proper publicity so they won't raise issues that will lead to it. They will never enter a question and answer debate and the JW drones should see a big clue about their leaders credibility in that.
They do whatever suits their purpose
Quotes was particularly damaging due to the fact that it quoted what they had themselves printed. However any "apostates" comments can be used by them as fuel to prove the persecution they receive. It seriously would not surprise me if they actually supplied some of the disinformation themselves
The main reason they went after quotes is because he owned the watchtower.ca domain. They believed it was their property and sued to get it.
Because many of the quotes came from the CD-ROM they stated that he had violated the legal software agreement that you comply with when you install the software.
Great question Gill.
I think they feel genuinely overwhelmed by all of it.
It's just easier to tell the brainwashed ones to stay the hell away from the internet.
They don't really want the ones that end up looking anyway. An informed JW is soon an ex-JW.
Another good question would be: Why hasn't Jehovah struck us all dead 100 times over, like he would have in the good old days?
If a lot of the negative experiences and comments about the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and Jehovah's Witnesses on the internet really was all apostate lies, surely the WT Society would have a legal right to take such supposed slanderers to court and sue to have the information removed. They were able to remove Quotes site just for repeating what they themselves HAD said. Why do they not take the same action with regard to information they insist is just apostate lies?
They can't. We're not infringing upon any copywrite laws, we're expressing our own opinions. For example, this recent thread that Lady Liberty started on the blood issue. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/136144/1.ashx We are taking the scriptures, which they do NOT have copyright protection on, and expressing our viewpoints on them. There's absolutely nothing they can do about it.
Same with Alleymom's thread on 586/607 BCE thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/55372/1.ashx
Once again, the WTS does not have any copywrite laws on the bible, and there's nothing they can do about it. Besides, the goons at Bethel know full well that these are not 'apostate lies'. If anything, alot of their doctrines are 'apostate lies' because it can be easily proven that they are dead wrong in their application of the scriptures. This is something that they refuse to do when challenged: they will not specifically state what it is that us so-called 'apostates' are saying, because they don't want the R&F to see that we're right and they're wrong. That's why they never actually named Ray Franz or what transpired at Crooklyn in the early 80s----because they knew full well that they were wrong and they tried covering it up.
They know it would be foolish to try and take down sites like this one or Randy Watters site----they wouldn't have a legal leg to stand on.
There a plenty of lies about Witnesses on the Internet, David Icke only being one of the more extreme examples for instance. That Witnesses do not pursue any given lie in no way indicates concession, or more dubiously still, its veracity. This is such a weak argument that I suspect few here would countenance it for a minute, except within the context of accusing the Witnesses.
The Watchtower organisation went after quotes simply because they were motivated to assert their rights over the literature, on a slippery slope principle. I don't imagine it was mentally framed by any of the Witnesses involved in the action as an attempt to suppress, or even combat apostate discourse. It is certainly not to be compared with the aggressive strategies of Scientology in suppressing opposition for instance that goes far beyond mere considerations of copyright. That apostates here have generally construed it as such is more an indication of their inflated sense of self-importance as regards the impact apostates have on the Witness organisation. If quotes had confined its presentations to pre-1950s literature (or whenever the copyright expires) or placed the quotes within the context of an argument (yes I understand that to have done such would have been against the purposefully gentle approach of the site, but there you have it) it would not have run into trouble.
Slim
Because they are miserable hypocrites. They demonize the web then go and surf the web to visit apostate sites and harrass people with law suits . They apparently love to piss money away on these things .
Because there are to many with life experiences, to many with the same story, to many that have done their research from sites on the net (or library) that speak truth, they can't sue truth, because the truth won't set them free.
We all have a right to OUR opinion even if we were wrong and there is nothing the Watchtower could do about people having their own opinion.
