To believe that somehow people on this message board will organize to prevent the Watchtower from moving to a new location is beyond satire.
The proposed property is currently one of many undeveloped brownfield sites that littler the north eastern rust belt. The economic and enviromental benifits derived from the Watchtower developing this plan will take precendent no matter what you say. While the article mentions concerns from the local school board regarding kids attending their schools without their parents paying property taxes (I infer this from the article, it is not explicitly stated), the fact that JWs with kids must live off of the WTS campus likely makes this point null.
" The citizens of Warwick and surrounding areas should be aware of how dangerous and destructive the Watchtower Org. is. This Organization is more of a threat to this country then most people realize. The Watchtower Organization should be ashamed of themselves for breaking up families, causing the deaths of untold thousands because of their no blood transfusions policies,pushing people to suicide by instilling so much guilt in them and hiding child molesters. For more information go to our website www.sixscreensofthewatchtower.com "
Your extremely generalized and exaggerated fear mongering regarding the Watchtower Society is laughable.The WTS is primarily "dangerous" (a term I use with great hesitancy) to individual members of the faith, not society as a whole. While it could be counterargued that society is threatened because of door-to-door proselytizing (in which people are converted to JWs), I fail to see how this specifically relates to the Warwick community. JW's will continue to engage society as a whole regardless of their HQ location.
On a more practical level, a number of issues could be made regarding how the city will effecitvly manage the increased level of public services needed to facilitate a new Watchtower campus. However, many states provide 10-15 year (or more!) tax abatements for redeveloped brownfields. This being the case, the fact that the Watchtower is non-profit changes very little.
This is property development. Nothing more, nothing less.
Don't get me wrong, I always appreciate your ability to venture off into the absurd. Sixscreensofthewatchtower.com © , with its blood dripping fonts and 80's horror movie soundrack is a great form of comedic entertainment.
The proposed Watchtower redevelopment site has been vacant since the mid 1990’s. Two other tax-exempt entities - Kings College and later Touro College - each abandoned plans to redevelop the site. The org. for the most part is tax-excempt.