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  Interesting Commentary in New Statesman Article About Candace Conti

  by DT in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  here is the article http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/world-affairs/2012/06/secrets-and-lies-have-no-place-when-dealing-child-abuse.

  here are some quotes.. "jim mccabe, a lawyer for the jehovah's witness congregation, said that they plan to appeal the decision, contending that kendrick was just a member of the north fremont congregation, not a leader or pastor.

  he said: "this is a tragic case where a member of a religious group has brought liability on the group for actions he alone may have taken."".

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  DT

  Here is the article http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/world-affairs/2012/06/secrets-and-lies-have-no-place-when-dealing-child-abuse

  Here are some quotes.

  "Jim McCabe, a lawyer for the Jehovah's Witness congregation, said that they plan to appeal the decision, contending that Kendrick was just a member of the North Fremont congregation, not a leader or pastor. He said: "This is a tragic case where a member of a religious group has brought liability on the group for actions he alone may have taken.""

  This has been mentioned in dozens of other news article, generally without any comment. However, this article had this to say as a response.

  "Had the secrecy around Kendrick's 2004 conviction not been put in place, that might have been a semi-valid point - demonising a whole faith and community because of individual incidents is absolutely not what this is about. That said, it's the idea that a church-wide policy enforced the silence that is so disturbing. Traumatic as this case will certainly have been for many involved, part of me can't help hoping that it sets a precedent and we see many more like it come to light, until every institution, religious or otherwise, understands that hiding things like this is much, much worse than exposing them - for everyone."
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  The Richard Dawkins Foundation has tweeted Candace Conti's case against WTBTS

  by Amelia Ashton in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

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  http://richarddawkins.net/articles/646267-jehovah-s-witnesses-told-to-pay-in-abuse-case.

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  It's fun to read the comments and get the perspective of some atheists, who usually have a better understanding of the harm that can come from religion.
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  has the Conti case hit australia's media?

  by Aussie Oz in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  have been looking but cannot see anything.... hope they do before it's old news.... oz.

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  I hope this will be an embarrassment for the officials who let the prosecution of the Watchtower die because "it wasn't in the public interest".
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  Watchtower Lawsuit on Twitter

  by purplesofa in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i just checked twitter and the story is picking up tremendously there.. many people only get their news from twitter now.. i encourage you to use twitter, you can do this anonymously.. rt (return the stories) get familiar with twitter if you are not already.. it's a wonderful format for spreading the news.. many activist will see this and spread the story that have many followers.... the time to do this is now, before the story gets too old.

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  DT

  I wanted to point out that you can set up rss feeds to post automatically to your Twitter account. This could be a great way to post articles from XJW blogs and websites. This isn't suitable for everyone, but it could be pretty helpful for some. Twitterfeed.com and dlvr.it are good services for this. Yahoo Pipes is good for merging and editing RSS feeds.

  There are also some easy ways to increase your followers, especially if you don't care who you follow. If you just follow people, many will follow back. You can always unfollow those who don't after a week or so. Twiends.com is a great place to go to get extra followers. You earn credits by following people which are used to reward others for following you. I wouldn't recommend using the paid options. The free option works good by itself.
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  Facebook page for Twitter users!!!!

  by purplesofa in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i started a fb page hashtags for jw issues.

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/194310234028973/.

  we can discuss/ suggest strategies for using twitter to our best advantage.

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  DT

  Good idea. I signed up. Twitter is one of the best tools for advertizing news stories like this.
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  The Candace Conti Case Is Now In The New York Times!

  by DT in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html?_r=1.

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  We may want to like and tweet this article so they will be more likely to do a longer follow up article.
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  The Candace Conti Case Is Now In The New York Times!

  by DT in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html?_r=1.

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  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html?_r=1
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  For now...all hope has faded

  by outsmartthesystem in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my wife asked me if i believe that christ came to power in 1914. sadly this question shows how little she knows even about her own religion as she knows the heart of my problems with the society start with the 607 bc debacle.

  obviously no 607 means no 1914. alas....the conversation eventually morphed and it got to the point where i decided to ask her a point blank question.

  what would it take to get you to realize that your religion is false?

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  It's a difficult situation, but you got your wife to admit and verbalize an absurd position. If you give it some time, it may start to bother her.
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  Watchtower Lawsuit on Twitter

  by purplesofa in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i just checked twitter and the story is picking up tremendously there.. many people only get their news from twitter now.. i encourage you to use twitter, you can do this anonymously.. rt (return the stories) get familiar with twitter if you are not already.. it's a wonderful format for spreading the news.. many activist will see this and spread the story that have many followers.... the time to do this is now, before the story gets too old.

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  DT

  It's good that we are talking about this now. We never know when a JW related news story will go viral. It pays to be prepared so we can help it out at short notice.
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  WTS pays 7.56 Mil, Congregation 3.64 Mil; Kendrick (perpetrator) 16.8 MIL

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the court documents indicate that the $28 million is to come from the following sources;.

  kendrick (perpetrator) 60% = $16.8 million.

  wtb&ts of ny 27% = $7.56 million.

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  DT

  I believe that was the division percentages of the original $7,000,000 compensatory damages. I thought I heard that the entire $21,000,001 punitive damages was owed by the Watchtower Society.