The purpose of a preemptive strike against those involved in Dateline is to throw them into the "enemy camp." Any bad PR can be countered as: It's them against us ; persecution; enemy attack. This tactic has worked in the past to their advantage.
Their aim is to keep the R & F in the pen.
Mulan has a good suggestion. Namely: "If the Dateline show is on in two weeks, they can't have a disfellowshipping done and announced in that time. They can't have a hearing (you don't have to be immediately available either, and make them wait a week or so) a decision made and announced, with appeals pending in two weeks, so it looks to me like you have some time."
Stall, stall, stall.
What isn’t so obvious is the observation of TMS.
"But if those being summoned before judicial committees are from different congregations, wouldn't this be evidence of orchestration from the top as opposed to local control of matters? Are the Society's lawyers really thinking the asset protection issue through if they allow these cases to be concurrent? It appears to this feeble brain that if individuals in different congregations were simultaneously brought up on the same charges, it would indicate hierarchal, not grass roots control and open the floodgates for a hierarchal legal remedy."
This could come back to haunt them.
M