As posted on here earlier (Syl?) the organization is repeating the name calling and demonizing of the 1980's. Found on "watchtower the critical years"1975-97.
As previously mentioned, several of the key doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses are based on 1914, such as the choosing of the organization in 1918 as the "faithful and discreet slave" and the separation of the organization into two classes in 1935.
To destroy the credibility of 1914 as the invisible return of Christ would truly devastate the entire authority structure of the Governing Body.
They could not be pointed to as the "appointed channel" of communication (actually, the mediator) between God and unregenerate man.
Readers of the Bible within the organization would then be obliged to conclude that all true Christians would be with Christ and must be born-again, as Jesus insisted (John 3:3,7).
They would have no need for any man or organization to teach them, for, as 1 John 2:27 says, the Holy Spirit would teach them, even as Jesus promised in John 14:16-26.
The "straw" of factual historical evidence had begun to break the camel's back.
Same old garbage!!
clarity
While it appeared as if nothing became of this for a few years, much trouble was brewing.
Changes in organizational structure put more power in the hands of several key men on the Governing Body, who were not about to allow their power structure to be undermined by such self-destructive evidence.
A lid was officially sealed on any discussion of these matters, yet individuals within the organization asked questions, especially at Bethel.
By 1979, the evidence became known to several in the Spanish JW community in New York City, and it got back to the Governing Body around Memorial time in 1980.
Those who "talked" were dragged before special committees set up after hours in isolated parts of the factory at 117 Adams Street.
Cris and Norma Sanchez, who aided in translating the New World Translation from English to Spanish, and who had lived at Bethel for many years as faithful servants, were accused of "conspiring against the organization" and were called names before the others present, even by a member of the GoverningBody, Dan Sydlik. Denounced as leeches, a cancer, and worms, they were given a few hours to pack up their belongings under total silence and leave the headquarters - they were now disfellowshipped. They appealed their disfellowshipping but the appeal was denied immediately.
Their presence in Brooklyn was too dangerous - others might discover the secrets they held and blow the whole organization wide open.
Others were implicated and disfellowshipped as well, such as fellow translators Nestor Kuilan and his wife, as well as Rene Vazquez.
The local elders who at first believed the testimony of these ones were later exonerated by reporting them to the Service Department, the "right arm" of the Governing Body.
Members of the Bethel family were generally in the dark about the whole thing, and most remain so to this day, believing simply the explanations that are offered by the Governing Body that it was a planned conspiracy against Jehovah's organization, and that these men and women were apostates and "spiritual fornicators" being "mentally-diseased" and "corrupt."
Little did they know that the real problems had just begun. "
