@ Beth Sarim...
The actions they're taking more and more are, IMO, definitely the ones that only full-on True Believers would take when feeling severely threatened for a whole shit-ton of reasons, but simply can't budge for ideological (or even practical) reasons....
...delay, obfuscate, and attempt to manipulate the courts (not to mention the membership)...
...which has the effect of simultaneously - albeit passive-aggressively - provoking said courts and legal systems even further, in the mistaken and deluded hope that if/when they're actually on the cusp of losing tax-exemption (or worse), God will reward them for their obedience and vindicate them, either by...
a) ...miraculously allowing them to keep it, since the Org's survival has become so dependent on it (in spite of all indications to the contrary, and basic common fucking sense)...
b) ...showing how much they're the "True Religion" by how much they're being "persecuted" (because having to pay back Caesar's things to Caesar is definitely "persecution" ), or...
c) ....simply going all-in, and dropping the Big A to bail out His "Exclusive Earthly Organization" (despite just how much something like that would seriously fuck with the WTS's established WT eschatological chronology... after all, isn't "Babylon the Great" supposed to be attacked first? 
)...
I can totally imagine the WT leadership gambling on this if they felt desperate enough, even if they thought there was a chance it would all go to shit... simply because authoritarian regimes would rather crash-and-burn than capitulate to their enemies (regardless of whether said opponents are "Satan's World" or not).
Hell, the GB could even have a contingency to "rapture" themselves away to some third-world country if it all went circling the drain...
...they've certainly got all the money they'd need to facilitate it stashed in overseas accounts.
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