A recently deceased human right worker Howard Clark who worked for Watchtower co rights, remembered....
"I knew Howard basically on the C.O. issues which had become an agenda item at the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, which met in Geneva. However, as countries dropped conscription in favor of a professional military or developed alternatives to military service, the only C.O. s left were members of the Watchtower Society (Jehovah’s Witnesses), whose theology seemed strange to Howard, all the more so that in some Watchtower publications, the returning Jesus seems less nonviolent than the first time around! Since I have worked on freedom of conscience and belief in U.N. human rights bodies, I have had many contacts with Jehovah’s Witnesses, explaining to them that I was not into reading the Book of Daniel or Revelations, but I would defend their right to have Kingdom Halls in Central Asia."
http://forusa.org/blogs/rene-wadlow/memoriam-howard-clark/12709
