FRANCE IS AFTER THE WATCHTOWER WITH NEW ANTI-CULT PASSED IN THE ASSEMBLY

by raymond frantz 29 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  raymond frantz

  https://youtu.be/UvdmjpMGxK8?si=qDvGimKtEgX4FEPm
  

  The Watchtower's nightmares have just began in France. On April the 9th the French Senate passed a new "anti-cult" law that will basically strengthen the hands of MIVILUDES, the French Agency, the official anti-cult Agency that is cracking down on dangerous cults. And guess who is their new target?

  The Watchtower has been in their crosshairs for years with the Watchtower having been branded as a "sect" , a name that the Watchtower didn't like it one bit and has fought the Agency long and hard for years to reconsider. Well now with this new "anti-cult law" that the French Senate approved with 146 "yes" votes against the 104 "no's" the anti cult Agency MIVILUDES has been given new powers to go after cults that cause psychological traumas to their members. Reminds you someone you know?

  The law’s name refers to “reinforcing the fight against cultic deviances.” The reason offered for a new crackdown on “cults” is that the number of reported incidents, received by the governmental anti-cult agency MIVILUDES is growing. So here really some of the main changes in the fight against cults that this new law introduces:

  CHANGE 1:

  Note that the State Council, when examining the draft law, recommended to drop this article as dangerous for freedom of speech and “the freedom of scientific debates.”

  However, the government rejected the recommendation of the State Council and kept the article. The fight in the Senate only led to the introduction of a new paragraph protecting the “whistleblowers” who reveal questionable practices of medical companies. Although this primarily applies to medical companies it has broader ramifications in the way the French goverment will go to protect whistleblowers that expose cults and their practices. That of course extends to exjws who go after the Watchtower, as it stands in most cases they are not protected by the Law and Watchtower lawyers are free to go after them with the threat of legal repricautions....

  more here...

  https://www.jwupdates.com/post/against-senate-s-opposition-france-passes-new-anti-cult-law
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  DesirousOfChange

  Another domino falls
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  KerryKing

  I don't feel sympathy for them but I do see the hypocrisy on the part of the State, considering how much psychological torture they put their own citizens through with their COVID restrictions and mandatory vaccinations. France is not exactly known for it's personal freedoms, probably one of the most restrictive EU countries.
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  Beth Sarim

  Religions who demand exclusivity deserve this

  Especially on those who victimize child sex abuse victims and those born in the cult. Who had inherited beliefs from their families & have no choice but to uphold their beliefs from birth.
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  ThomasMore

  Some years ago, France was forced to restore what it took from Watchtower and I assume that they did. WTC did not crow about the win - they probably knew that France would be back later - now they are.

  JWs never see these losses as indication of a systemic problem within their religion, so they don’t reform, they only become compliant- begrudgingly.

  The good ole days of winning cases seems to be ancient history.
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  LV101

  Great news anytime a government protects citizens -- especially children. WT cult is dangerous and destructive and the abuse needs to stop.
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  Vidiot

  ThomasMore - “JWs never see these losses as indication of a systemic problem within their religion…”

  Not the hard-core loyalists, anyway.

  The rest, though?
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  Vidiot

  This bit jumped out at me…

  “…France has now become the first country as far as I can tell in Europe that recognises coercion to remain in a religion with the use of family pressure or application of punitive measures like disfellowshipping and shunning as a crime called ‘psychological subjection’ and in that way the open the door for hundreds or even thousands of exjws to take the Watchtower to court for having been subjected to such coercion…”

  Its funny…

  …the WTS always assumed that “Satan’s World” would try to destroy them with violent militant force.

  Getting sued, taxed, and legislated into oblivion never seems to have occurred to them.

  😏
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  Beth Sarim

  Should the Borg lose the appeal to the Norway government....they could be so stupid as to appeal to the European Supreme court..

  That would be the death knell to JWdom in Europe

  Esp with France breathing down the Orgs neck now.
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  KerryKing

  Indeed, they seem to be handing the courts their own noose