In Australia, A $3 Billion Jehovah’s Witnesses Class Action Over Child Abuse looms Large

by Scott77 24 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse

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  Scott77

  	"...So the civil rights groups only wanted to take the best cases to the Supreme Court. Similarly the cases they picked were decided in a way calculated to be sympathetic to their cause and influence public opinion..."
  	Chaserious

  Hi Mr Chaserious,

  Cannot we draw inference from the above to Mr. Steve Unthank' case? I assume that his case is 'calculated to be sympathetic to their cause and influence public opinion'

  Scott77
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  Chaserious

  Well, I don't know enough about the case to express a strong opinion, Scott. But it seems to me that if you want to influence people who are currently indifferent, a case where there are victims who were actually harmed is a lot more sympathetic than one where someone possibly didn't file the right paperwork at first, but then filed it later.

  Rather than condemning Mr. Unthank. I was simply encouraging an examination of the details of the case instead of just thinking "This is a lawsuit against the Watchtower, so it must be good".
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  Scott77

  	Rather than condemning Mr. Unthank. I was simply encouraging an examination of the details of the case instead of just thinking "This is a lawsuit against the Watchtower, so it must be good".
  	Chaserious

  Hi Chaserious,

  Please, can you provide details on that above? Please, expand on that that stamement
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  Eustace

  But it seems to me that if you want to influence people who are currently indifferent, a case where there are victims who were actually harmed is a lot more sympathetic than one where someone possibly didn't file the right paperwork at first, but then filed it late

  The congregations were specifically ordered not to comply with the law by their superiors in the Watchtower Society. It was a brazen act of defiance that had no possible moral or Biblical justification.

  And how do you know no one was harmed because of that act of defiance? The working with children checks were put in there for a reason.
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  Scott77

  	And how do you know no one was harmed because of that act of defiance? The working with children checks were put in there for a reason.
  	Eustace

  Hi Eustace, I thought that was a good comment even best at that. Iam wondering what Mr. Chaserious is going to say. I now of course he is never short of ideas.

  Scott77