Hello Bill, I have been thinking about one great method to make public awareness of child molestation and rape in the organization to explode like an 80 megaton hydrogen bomb!
Hollywood studios have an obsession with crime movies that chronicle the lives of the abused, and those like you, Bill, who make a major difference in protecting them.
There are two kinds of movie themes, the documentary and "docu-drama." It's the second that is ordinarily used because it's based on real life. However, it's "speculatively enhanced" to show hypothetical scenarios that will really stick with theater audiences. In an example, suppose the movie is named simply "SILENT LAMBS". In this brief example of a scene, two innocent looking and attractive fellows in suits and ties, carrying book bags, ring the doorbell in a classic looking upper-middle-class neighborhood. A little girl with pig-tails and bright pink dress answers the door and greets them with the smile of pure innocence. Sweet nursery music is playing in the background as they hold green NWT Bibles and tell the little girl how she will live forever in "paradise." They describe paradise as "a land flowing with milk and honey, where you can play with friendly lions and fluffy little sheep..." She looks so bright eyed and happy at hearing this, perhaps they fade to an idyllic scene where the little girl is running through a field of purple flowers with her mommy and daddy. She invites the two men inside the house, and tells them her mother left because of an "emergency" and will return soon. Friendly music fades to a quiet gothic melody as they enter her home.
Next scene shows police entering a Kingdom Hall during a meeting and whispering to an elder, who motions in the direction of the same two men sitting together near the front... I'm sure your imagination can fill in the rest as this thriller goes on an upsetting to shocking downhill ride into terror in its expose of child molesters and rapists. The Silentlambs Corporation and its founder Bill Bowen work with police to find a serial rapist, taking the audience on a horrifying ride from the streets of the door-to-door ministry and Watchtower conventions all the way to the Watchtower's headquarters in a desperate attempt to stop a serial child rapist.
Imagine the public awareness level raised if you could sell the movie rights to a movie about the problem you are trying to bring to light in this organization? Universal Studios, MGM or another motion picture corporation might be interested, who knows?
The issue of child molestation and rape within the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses could be graphically exposed in the most shocking way possible, Hollywood style! Think of the shock waves if one or more major stars were to take up this cause and appear in such a film. Give it some thought, and maybe a tangible way to get this kind of public awareness into a tangible form will take root. This is just some food for thought.
Keep up the fine work, Bill. You're an upbuilding role-model to so many people including the young ones whom, I have a feeling, view you like a mythical hero.
Derrick
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
-- William Blake (Auguries of Innocence)