Today I attended the Special Assembly Day (SAD lol). I overheard a conversation between an elder and another elder. We'll call this guy a super elder because he's on all sorts of committees in the area. He coordinates builds, assemblies, conventions, etc. You get the idea. Anyway, he was discussing with this other elder the international conventions. Most of the congregations are going to an international convention in Landover, MD, which is basically Washington DC. This brother was involved with several video conference meetings with the convention people at HQ and explaiend why Washington DC and London were chosen. He said that (and these are his words not mine) 'the society' put a lot of effort, money, time into those two sites because they wanted to show the world on the 100th anniversary of god's kingdom, here were god's people right in the back yard of the capitals of the two biggest world powers.
I thought to myself, 'does anyone in either city give a shit?' Fedex Field fills up to max capacity all the time for football events and I'm sure the place in London is the same deal. No one at all in the government cares. Typical JW hubris.