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  Convention “Highlights” - bwhahaha!

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  taking a walk down memory lane at those looooonnnnngg, tedious conventions... .

  (boy, they weren’t kidding when they spoke about being long-suffering and having endurance!).

  but what were some of your convention highlights, or lowlights, from back in the day?.

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  but little rings attached to a tab that would be completely pulled back & removed?

  Wow!! Thank for the memory!
  
  
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  why won't legal department simply release all the secret pedophile files?

  by poopie in

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  holding onto that kind of information sure gives somebody a lot of control.

  Dies not hinge on a written record. Knowledge is enough.
  
  
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  why won't legal department simply release all the secret pedophile files?

  by poopie in

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  And if wt wanted to protect a perpetrator, why record the incident?
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  why won't legal department simply release all the secret pedophile files?

  by poopie in

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  In the prison system if you are in jail for pedophile they call you Short Eyes....& they deal with you...& it's not pretty, they just may kill you....even a murderer looks down on a pedo's...what's that saying about us ?

  It is very easy for law enforcement, prosecutors, child welfare agencies to put anyone in jail or to kill them, or to destroy a person's good name, too bad if the person just happens to be innocent, the gov enjoys immunity.
  
  
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  why won't legal department simply release all the secret pedophile files?

  by poopie in

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  think the list should be turned over to an independent investigative body to be evaluated for possible criminal proceedings against known pedophiles in the database.

  In the US, doing that could violate the constitution and Federal law.
  
  
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  why won't legal department simply release all the secret pedophile files?

  by poopie in

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  It's what they do once the abuse is reported which is the problem. In many locations, even allegations of abuse are to be reported to authorities.

  Conflicting laws don't make it any easier. And if anyone actually cared about children, they could lobby the government and at least attempt to get laws changed.
  
  
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  why won't legal department simply release all the secret pedophile files?

  by poopie in

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  That aside, how do you suggest family incest should be handled? Who is responsible there? And, according to the WT itself, most of the sex abuse inside the JWs occurs within the family cirCle.

  Very sad for the kids. Government is very aware of this problem in society and does nothing significant about it, and should it, the number of kids is so many that gov is not equipped to somehow help the kids. The church should comply with the statute and it would be very easy to do if the church did not have to call a lawyer to figure out what is required in the specific place where the church is located.
  
  
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  by poopie in

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  Firstly, JW parents are taught by the WT that the "brotherhood" is to be trusted over and above anyone else.

  Not with their kids. Imagine that! Who in their right mind would trust their 10 year old girl or 8 year old boy with a grown man? --and then blame the watchtower using your excuse. Also, except for obedience to FDS in meeting attendance and FS, I never heard that JW should go around trusting their kids with other members.

  - "look out for the children of single parents or the child who has an unbelieving parent", encouraging 'brothers' to spend time with children from these "disadvantaged" families.

  Never heard that. And any special attention always involve parental supervision. I am not saying though that elders have no obligation to protect and watch but such obligation is religious not stauatory. Ultimately, the parents should protect their kids and when parents fail to do that, the kids suffer; and then the kids sue watchtower.
  
  
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  why won't legal department simply release all the secret pedophile files?

  by poopie in

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  Fink, what is so difficult about watching and protecting your own kids? Sad to say, parents who don't trust anyone with their valuable things, for example, go lend someone 10,000 dollars or less, but they are not that careful in trusting someone with their kids. Would they trust such a person they give their kids to with money or their car, etc?
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  why won't legal department simply release all the secret pedophile files?

  by poopie in

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  Not hard to get df from JW: If you watch porn, or smoke; and if you miss a lot of meetings you get shunned. How much more they will do to someone who is a child molestors. Albeit meetings and fs is not a daycare and parents should not trust anyone with their precious kids -and then blame watchtower.