Thought I'd put this out there to see if you knew of people in the Jehovah's Witnesses who were falsely accused or mistreated by the " police " or elders in the congregation. Many times it's been by experiencing injustices that get us to get shaken out of our cult thinking mode and reality kicks in and the scales fall from our eyes that the WT society is just a man made organization whose leaders are no better than us - actually in many cases more unscrupulous and conniving than any of us would have ever been to each other !
I was falsely accused 2 times . The first occasion led me to leave the organization cold turkey one night 6 years ago. The second occasion led me to fight the elders who DFed me in an appeal committee so I could still talk to my aged witness parents- and I won, got the DFing overturned.
I'll try to be concise and brief. The first occasion my non-witness wife had left me and I was separated 3 months , divorce pending. I was having coffee with a female friend at Starbucks and apparently someone ratted me out to elders about HAVING COFFEE. Within a day or so 3 elders called me into the back room asking me if my ex-wife and I were getting back together. I said, " No , she's a methamphetamine drug user , endangers my children. " That didn't matter to them. They asked me if I had touched this friend at Starbucks inappropriately, touched her private parts or fondled her breasts ? I said, " No, she's just a friend. " Then they told me that although I had received marriage counseling from a professional therapist - I must have not valued my previous marriage if I was out dating after 3 months. I was so mad- I wanted to crawl across the table and strangle the younger elder. But- I went to my seat, picked up my books and walked out- never going back to meetings.
The second time came AFTER I had not gone to meetings for three and a half years ! Even moved 80 miles from these former elders. My first ex-wife ( a fanatic JW who had remarried ) tried to malign me to my JW family by saying I was living with my fiance before marriage- one month before we were married. She drove 80 miles out of her way with her JW hubby and my youngest daughter to see if Mrs. Flipper and I were doing the horizontal bop on a Saturday morning ! I was fully clothed and had picked my fiance up to get tires on her car. No fornication.
Not satisfied with this , my ex-wife not only spread lies to my JW family, but took it to my former elders where I used to live ! The elders harassed me and Mrs. Flipper on the phone wanting to meet with me for 8 months. I kept refusing saying I was guilty of nothing ! So they invited me to a JC - I refused to attend. 2 months later they send 2 elders to inform me I had been DFed for " circumstancial fornication ". I appealed the DFing because I knew my 80 something year old parents would shun me . I threatened the elders with a lawsuit if they DFed me unjustly without proof. My son stood up for me at my appeal meeting as a character witness, the appeal elders sent a letter to WT legal to see how to handle it. They came back to me and said I was " free to go" they overturned the DFing and would not DF me. I told them, " It took you 10 months to figure THIS out ? " Ridiculous.
So since that time two and a half years ago- they haven't bothered me. My wife and I happily are free of the WT cult. Remember the WT society and elders will take whatever power you give to them. Don't give it to them. They bleed red like you and me. They are no better than you or me. They are not to be feared. Go live your life ! So have any of you had experiences of unjust dealings by elders- or heard of others as well ? Please share them here if you would. It may help others to stand up and not fear needlessly. Please keep pursuing freedom- and help others to do so as well ! Peace out to all, Mr. Flipper