TERRY: OMG - you were jailed over alternative service? TELL

by hamsterbait 2 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  hamsterbait

  I remember an old guy in my Kingdumb Hell when I was little, saying one night after the book study how he had to do the two years jail. The elders told him he couldnt do alternative service. He was sharing his experiences of that time. When he got onto the anal rape and other stuff he started mouthing the words silently, as he realised others might be listening.

  I am really angry now after the Witchtower Babble and Trash society said "What should those who refused alternative service feel, now that it can be done WITHOUT RECRIMINATIONS"?????

  The recriminations were from THEM!!!!!!!

  How many young guys got raped in jail over a policy that suddenly was never necessary.

  They ignore the cries of the little ones.

  How many other older guys on this board suffered prison, only to find that all they saw and went through was not Jehoobies will, merely the mistaken expectations of those eager to see the fulfilment of the DIVINE CROSSWORD

  HB
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  NeonMadman

  I was never drafted, but some of my JW friends were, and a few went to jail over it during the Vietnam era. From most of the stories I heard, they were sent to "country club" style minimum security prisons, usually with sizeable JW populations, and I never heard any tales of abuse or anal rape. However, that was in New England; I can't know what conditions were like everywhere, and I'd imagine there was certainly potential for such abuses in some prisons. Typically, though, draft dodgers were not sent to maximum security prisons with hardened criminals.
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  finally awake

  My uncle went to the federal pen in 1960 due to the neutrality rules. I'm not 100% sure where he was, either Springfield MO or Leavenworth KS.