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Russian Branch Office of Jehovah’s Witnesses
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Dear Honorable Vladimir Putin:
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. I know you and your staff are working hard to provide a fair and peaceful environment for the citizens of your country. At the same time I would like to implore you to
expand the treatment of Jehovah’s Witnesses in your country.
In 1633 Galileo was convicted of heresy for publishing information that the earth was not the center of the universe. The Church used heavy-handedness to silence anything or anyone who challenged their authority. It took 300 years for the Church to admit that Galileo was right and clear his name of heresy.
Today in the 21st century,
Jehovah’s Witnesses have continued the tradition by crushing dissent in their ranks. It's takes great effort to silence they who would speak the modern "
Earth is not flat" truths, that, for instance we conceal child abusers and punish victims and their families, that we break up families, that our doctrines are lethal and unscriptural, that
we try to fool public officialdom at every turn and use them to our advantage as in our secret affiliation with United Nations.
We hope that we can go past 300 years without EVER having to admit anything, and we need your help. We are more than a third of the way there, but with your help, with a little more obfuscation and lies, and a heap more persecution of our brethren who would dare to speak out the truth, we can get there.
Step 1) Ban our publications. When any of Jehovah’s Witnesses publications are outlawed and labeled “extremist,” we comply with the law and remove it from our places of worship and homes. However, this does not stop the persecution. The Russian authorities consistently find our secret stash and prosecute us for breaking the law.
Step 2) Ban us from teaching the Bible outside our places of worship. The study aids we publish are not essential to our faith. We need only the Bible. Except that ...
- "All who want to understand the Bible should appreciate that the "greatly diversified wisdom of God" can become known only through Jehovah's channel of communication, the faithful and discreet slave."The Watchtower, Oct. 1, 1994, p. 8.
Step 3) Ban Jehovah’s Witnesses, by labeling us “extremists.” This will effectively allow Russia to take over all of our legally registered and established places of worship throughout the country affecting over 100,000 Russian citizens. In doing so, Russia would be able to prosecute criminally any members of our faith.
I am writing, Honorable Putin, to respectfully request your official intervention.
- Continue applying legislation on extremism to the peaceful worship of Jehovah’s Witnesses
- Advance the claim filed with the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation seeking “to declare the religious organization, the Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses, extremist, ban its activity, and liquidate it.”
- Widen the list of WTBTS religious publications in the Federal List of Extremist Materials
- Ensure that Jehovah’s Witnesses cannot peacefully enjoy freedom of religion and assembly without interference
- Enforce media standards prohibiting libel and slander (this needs no modification)
Jehovah’s Witnesses may disagree with certain practices, for example, smoking. But they are taught to love the “smoker” as themselves. They never promote the hatred of another human being. In fact, Hitler sent German Jehovah’s Witnesses to concentration camps for refusing to take up arms and kill. This, after our beloved President JF Rutherford sent Hitler a letter schmoozing up to the 3rd Reich
(see 1935 yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses)
