Excellent article ! Thank you ! (and it definitely clarified something for me)
The WT Society is also not above unscrupulous ad hominem attacks, presenting wholly inaccurate evidence against the people who testify in these kinds of cases.
My brother, years ago when he was still an elder, testified in court on behalf of a JW whom was fighting his newly apostized ex-wife for custody of their daughter. He was beaming at the fact that they had been successful in taking the daughter from her mother. (In other words, at the WTS's win, for the WTS provided the lawyer.) He was so pleased, that I, not being familiar with the couple, thought the mother must've been a drug addict, boozer, or something equally as harmful that rationalized her not having custody of her child. We got into a bit of a "debate" when he told me she was none of the above. Actually, he thought she was a very decent person and had been a "good" Witness, she just began questioning the "truth" and had ultimately been df'ed for it. He almost gloated about how "she didn't have a chance against the lawyers provided by the Society. I knew he must have altered the truth in court and I was naive enough to believe, at that time, that that was one thing a Witness would never do. yea right.
Porkchop, do you suppose that Franz had an "agenda" also ? (yea, he just WANTED to be df'ed so he could write, he didn't get to write enough when he was a JW in good standing.......)
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Edited by - deddaisy on 13 December 2002 17:46:49