an hour agoLMS, do you have a link or document substantiating this claim or is it yet another rumor so common in the Witness world?
As I mentioned in the OP, some would think it's a rumour/hoax etc. I could post the recorded meeting, but that would out me. And I'm sure you don't want bad stuff to happen to me ;)
Others have said that this is not new. Well, I say I have been "in" for a half century and counting and I have never heard what I was just hearing...
I imagine that in the past, a few bro's gave a few beatin's but I'll bet the WTS got sued and the bro's got charged. It's ain't the 'twenty's anymore. Lawyers are big business.
If elders can respond with violence at the KH, then why can't kids in school fight back? Why can't kids go to karate class? And if elders can fight back, why only with fists? Why not have a taser?
Oh, and by the way, tasers were mentioned at 'da meetin'. Of course they are a no-no, as of right now anyway. But time will tell. Did not the Israelite's have swords? Were they not commanded to smite the infidels?
And if the elders can fight back, then what of law enforcement? What of the bros in Russia? Can they put the beatin' on those nasty apostate Russians with the balaclavas?