Hi Everyone,
First, and possibly last post. And please forgive me for any spelling errors
A short background, I officially disassociated myself from the watchtower in 2004. I have absolutely no anamosity towards the people in the society, I do however, have a REAL hatred for child abusers, or ANY people that abuse their positions.
Victorian schools are currently on a term break, that commenced Friday 09 April 2011. We receive the Herald Sun at the school daily, Mon to Friday. However this article unfortunately appeared in the Saturday Herald Sun on Saturday 10th April 2011 not as large a circulation.
I missed the article heard about it here and did a search.
So why am I posting now? Don't really know except I thought you might all be interested in seeing what a WWC card looks like. Why do I have one? I work in a Victorian school and ALL school employees MUST have a WWC card before they can be employed, this includes a police background check. I think this requirement was only introduced in Victoria around 4 years ago. As you can see by the expiry date on my card October 2012. That's when I first had to get it. It has to be renewed every five years.
When I first read this article, TODAY, I was a little amazed, that anyone would be willing to take the society to court to try and force the government to make their members get these cards. BUT, kudos to him.
Personally, I hope if he hasn't already done so, it may be a good idea for him to approach his local MP in his area and explain the situation to him/her so they can bring the matter up in Government. Infact, a letter campaign to the Victorian Government from all over the world, but especially from their constituants here in Australia wouldn't hurt.
Maybe Barbara could draw up such a letter, what with her background in the society she could maybe include valid facts then post the letter on here so we could all print it out and send it to our local MP.
I haven't read all the posts here so if someone already suggested this fantastic, and I'm not trying to steal your thunder. Ok, well keep this article active, it's VERY important.
I don't see absolutely ANY reason why the society would fight this, and I can't understand why they would allow it to go to court. It is an EXCELLENT idea to get Elders and MS and anyone who has access to children privately in a congregation to be cleared by a background check. In fact it would really cover the society to some extent if someone is there now and found to be a registered paedophile. I would think the GB would JUMP at the idea. Ok that's my 2 cents.....take care and Christs Love to you all.
Please be nice to each other guys, I know you all have a right to your opinions and I respect that, but if you really want to help others, be nice and don't exagerate on your websites, even if you think it is some sort of Theocratic Warfare type lies. Why be as bad as the originators of that idea?