How Will the Court Deal With Deceit?

by compound complex 23 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  compound complex

  Given the recent information on Lawrence Hughes' days in court the last of May, how could "Caesar" deal with the deceptive methods of the WTB&TS? I understand that such information has been entered into the court record.

  Please consider an example of what JW children are coached to say and NOT to say:
  
  
                                          Direct and Cross-Examination Questions in Child Custody Cases

  WTB&TS, page 42

  "Be careful that they [JW children being questioned] don't get the impression that they are in a demonstration at the circuit assembly, when they would show that the first things in life are service and going to the Kingdom Hall. Show hobbies, crafts, social activity, sports, and especially plans for the future.

  "Be careful they don't all say that they are going to be pioneers. Plans can be trade, getting married and having children, journalism, and all kinds of other things. Maybe you can show an interest in art and the theatre. They must be clean, moral, HONEST, but with interests you would expect from other young people." [CC: emphasis]

  Thank you.

  CoCo
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  Junction-Guy

  I am not sure, but I hope the Judge administers justice to the WT Society, How in the world can they keep on lying to the courts like this and get away with it ?
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  dinah

  CoCo,

  How in the world do they get away with that? Telling a kid to show normal interests in front of the judge, while beating them into pioneering at the Kingdom Hall is deceptive. How are they going to go into journalism when they aren't allowed to go to college?

  These snakes will say anything to protect their assets, and keep the rank and file under their control. They make me sick.

  It's good that this information go out. Any judge who is deciding custody shoud have a copy of the WT gameplan.
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  Eyes Open

  Devious, manipulating b45t4rds!
  
  (Where) can one get an online copy of this publication?
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  cognac

  Holy crap. What the heck publication is this in????????????
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  compound complex

  http://www.freeminds.org/doctrine/lyingincourt.htm

  Lying in Court and Religion: An Analysis of the Theocratic Warfare Doctrine of the Jehovah's Witnesses

  Jerry Bergman , Ph.D.

  Northwest State College

  Archbold , Ohio

  Abstract

  This review of the problem of religious justified lying in court focuses on the Jehovah’s Witnesses and their theocratic war doctrine. The history of the development of this doctrine and the problems of lying in society are reviewed. Also discussed are examples of the use of this doctrine in court and a survey of active and former Witnesses designed to determine the awareness level of this doctrine among the average Witness. It is concluded that the longer someone is a Witness, and the higher the attained rank in the Watchtower, the more likely the person is to understand and to use the doctrine.

  Introduction

  Please click onto the above link ...
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  compound complex

  The Preparing for Child Custody Booklet

  Watchtower legal battles have “become so common [that] they offer its followers a pamphlet entitled ‘Preparing for Child Custody Cases’ (Montgomery, 1992, p. 14)” intended for Witnesses facing court custody battles. The booklet, which openly advocates deception and advises Witnesses to deceive the court, was

  … designed for their internal use in helping their members prepare to discuss custody matters in divorce hearings [and] encourages Witness children, under oath, to present a distorted view of the opportunities that a Witness child has to assume a place in the larger world. An example of this is the comment in this publication that Witness children could become journalists (a vocation requiring a college degree), when attending college is at best strongly discouraged, and at worst condemned by the Witnesses as a vehicle by which Witness children can lose their faith and be subjected to immoral association (Duron, 1991, p. 18).

  Court testimony states:

  Watchtower attorney Wah also stated under oath that she assisted the Society in writing the booklet Preparing for Child Custody Cases in about 1986, and admitted the booklet was produced because of a growing concern about articles published in the social science and psychological literature by Watchtower critics that were detrimental to the Society’s interests.

  (From the above source)
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  compound complex

  The Watchtower legal department is now to be contacted by the congregation elders in all custody and other cases involving individual Witnesses and religion (Confidential Watchtower letters dated 1989, 1991). Not uncommonly, even if the Witness hires a secular attorney, the Watchtower Society will provide extensive free-of-charge legal services and assistance by the Watchtower legal staff (see Watch Tower, Our Kingdom Ministry , Aug. 1992, Vol. 35, No. 8, p. 7 and Feb, 1996 p. 3). Because several of the Watchtower’s full-time attorneys focus on defending Witnesses in custody cases, they have developed an enormous amount of experience and expertise in this area, and they know how to deal with the courts to their advantage.

  Walker (1990) concludes from his study of the custody booklet and the Watchtower's letters relating to this issue that the Watchtower advises Witnesses to paint a decidedly untrue picture in court to the extent that they are in certain situations “to say in court the exact opposite of what they would normally say in a Kingdom Hal l” (p. 7). An example is the Watchtower booklet, School and Jehovah’s Witnesses , and official teachings that for years have openly condemned involvement of Witness children in organized sports and all after school activities, hobbies, and higher education, concluding that this time should be used principally to pursue Watchtower interests. The Watchtower, though, instructs Witnesses to imply exactly the opposite in court of what they actually believe (Walker, 1990, p. 23). In Tanya A. Stevens v. Max P. Stevens (District Court of the 5th Judicial Court of the state of Idaho , in the county of Blaine , Case no. CV-96-2858 Judgment 10-17-96 for Max Stevens, defendant) the Judge ruled:

  It is detrimental to the best interest or welfare of the children to teach them that their father, as a non-Jehovah’s Witness, is not entitled to the whole truth, or that it is proper to hide the truth from God’s enemies (particularly in a courtroom situation). Neither Tanya nor any other person or party may do so. (p. 42)
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  compound complex

  The earliest printed reference to the Theocratic Warfare doctrine in official Watchtower publications dates from 1936 in a book titled Riches ( Rutherford , 1936):

  A lie is a false statement made by one to another one who is entitled to hear and to know the truth, and which false statement tends to work injury to the other. A false statement made for the purpose of deceiving and working injury to another is a deliberate and malicious lie. (Rutherford, 1936, p. 177)

  Raines concludes that the quote above implies some people are not “entitled” to

  … know the truth and that if a person makes a false statement without intending to “work injury” to another, it isn’t a lie ...
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  asilentone

  what is "work injury"?