"may," "likely" - and many more are weasal terms. Juries are not stupid. Imagine if the text had no qualifiers. When I read the policy, I see complete discretion in the hands of the elders. Men with no experience in exercising discretion. The message from the Society is so waffly that its intentions seems to be to encourage pedophiles.
Recently, I spoke with some Witnesses concerning quoting a Nuremberg convicted Nazi theologian, which was not necessary to bolster their argument, and the Selma and Steve story, which also was not necessary to makek their point. Indeed, Selma and Steve's story was edited in European countries. Such incidents of boldly going where only an idiot would stand out to the world and to apostates. The Witnesses seemed nice. Yet they clearly had NO recall of these very recent accounts.
His closing was so weak. Why not state exactly they are changing - list every single detail that is changed. A new policy could have been implemented before the closing argument. Basically, it was trust us.....we covered up in the past for long periods of time, and even tho our policy has not changed textually. we are evolving. What is the rate of evolution? Everyting on earth evolves. If he said that this case and the others provided such stories that policy needed to change quickly, and cited a commission, anything concrete with deas, rather than a vague assurance.
I certainly hope Conti wins the appeals.
