Mexico ends use of House-to-House Record & Please Follow Up (page 2)

OrphanCrow

This new directive from the Tower is likely the result of consideration of recent changes to laws in Mexico concerning door to door solicitation.

Mexico wants to ban a law evangelization "door to door"

BY CARLOS RODRIGUEZ / PERIODICO DELAZONAORIENTAL.NET- POSTED ON MAY 6, 2016

http://www.delazonaoriental.net/2016/05/06/mexico-quiere-prohibir-con-una-ley-evangelizacion-puerta-a-puerta/

(translated with google)

MEXICO. - Mexico's Senate vote on a new law that will take care of the household privacy and religious freedom in the country. The aim would be to "prevent and eliminate the difficulties that many people are subject in their homes because of religious fanatics".
The new law, called the Domestic Protection Act establishes penalties of "fine or imprisonment for persons carrying domiciliar harassment by religious propaganda.
"Justification is the result of a national survey that showed that it is a" serious problem "in some cities.
For the majority of people, this practice hitting 'door to door' with a message of religious causes discomfort of various kinds. Complaints include the methods used by the evangelizers, as several times in the same direction, as people wake Sundays morning and insistence is annoying when someone says they do not want to hear your message.
If approved, the law provides for sanctions "to force a person to read the Bible and offend other forms of worship."
According to Mexican senators, this is a law not only protect the homes of such abuses, but is a "method of social control". The vast majority of Mexican Catholics complain about all of the actions of the evangelical groups, and Jehovah's Witnesses.
The Domestic Protection Act, will be voted on 25 May this year. And it provides for penalties of up to six weeks in prison people who, once apperceived user's home who do not wish to receive them, insist on a recurring basis. To report these abuses, he will go to the public prosecutor or the complaint may be made to 066.
court reprimand is expected to primarily responsible. If the behavior persists, it will earn sanctions. It has come to Jehovah's Witnesses, the Church of the Third Day and The Church of the End Times as the most persistent and troublesome religious groups.

ILoveTTATT2

Hi Orphan Crow,

That news is fake. I have actually called the Mexican Senate and there is no such thing.

OrphanCrow

ILTTATT:
Hi Orphan Crow,
That news is fake. I have actually called the Mexican Senate and there is no such thing.

Oops.
My mistake. Thank you for the correction
*to add...why do you think the news was faked? What purpose would a fake article like that serve? persecution complex? who would make that up?

Anders Andersen

Yeah those forms were abandoned sometime in 2000's in the Netherlands as well. Privacy protection laws indeed.

Not that those laws seem to apply to data on active dubs, DA and DF; your very personal records will be stored for years both local and at the branch.

slimboyfat

We were given similar instructions to stop using S-8 forms in the UK around about 1997. They cited UK data protection law.

Slidin Fast

There are three advantages to the borg that I can see.

1. It separates them from any legal liability for data collection.

2. It saves money for printing.

3. The data is collected just as effectively but the buck stops with the R&F. The weasely paragraph give instructions about how to perform the same functions by saying "some brothers ....."

Londo111

A way to get the "branch or congregation" off the hook legally, but in practice it changes nothing.

It is appalling how bad the Mexican news system is. Literally an "Onion-like" article went even into the "mainstream" media.

I run an exJW page on Facebook for Hispanics and of course this news was interesting. So I called the Senate, they told me that no one can know what will be discussed in the Senate previous to it being discussed unless you actually know the Senator who will introduce the bill and he lets you in on it.

I called the "mainstream" newspaper that ran the story and the reporter REFUSED to give me any information regarding source... none of the names of the people mentioned in the story checked out, also.

(I.E. that "minister of religious matters" is nonexistent).

Then I called a couple of other newspapers to see if they knew anything and they said they got the story from the first newspaper I called.

Zero investigative journalism.

OrphanCrow

IlTTAT - thanks for that leg work. It doesn't surprise me. The news media is full of planted stories of all kinds.

And, the WT is notorious for planting 'news' stories. So many JW stories are simply press releases that originate from the Tower.

Mexico ends use of House-to-House Record & Please Follow Up

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