Yup.
I'd call that authority.
The point is, once they've attended and given 'evidence' the commission had no power to punish or effect change, other than through publicity.
Posts by Landy
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221Judge sanctions WTS - $4k per day penalty for not producing sex abuse documents
by Simon injudge sanctions jehovah's witnesses.
imposes $4000-a-day penalty for not producing documents in sex-abuse case.
by dorian hargrove, june 24, 2016. a san diego superior court judge has ordered the church of jehovah's witnesses, also known as the watchtower bible and tract society of pennsylvania, to pay $4000 a day for every day that it fails to produce documents requested in a civil lawsuit brought by former parishioner, osbaldo padron, who claims a church elder sexually abused him when he was seven years old.. in a june 23 ruling, expected to be made final today, judge richard strauss admonished the church for willfully ignoring a court order to produce all documents associated with a 1997 body of elders letter that church leaders sent to parishes around the world in a quest to learn about sexual abuse of children by church leaders.. over the course of the past year, the watchtower society and its lawyers have fought hard to keep the letter confidential, claiming that turning over the documents would infringe on the privacy of those mentioned in the letter that were not associated with the case.. in march 2015, the church turned over a heavily redacted version of the letter.
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What did President Trump say about Sweden?
by kpop inthis you will never see on the mainstream media.
before you comment watch the whole video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqaigeqxqgi.
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Landy
The last resort of failed arguments on this forum. "My opponent is just like a JW"
Well perhaps. Doesn't mean it's not true though. It's a disctinctly noticeable trait on here.
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What did President Trump say about Sweden?
by kpop inthis you will never see on the mainstream media.
before you comment watch the whole video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqaigeqxqgi.
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Landy
But not as alarmed as I am at how bat shit crazy many other posters have turned. It's like tuning out of JWD and into right wing corner by mistake.
Scary isn't it. I go on other forums, particulary motorcycle forums where the conversation is a lot more combative, but even on there people are a lot less islamophobic than on here. Yes there are one or two, but the polarity seems reversed to here with one or two denouncing all muslims and the majority saying 'Hang on a minute'.
I wonder if it's anything to do with the JW mindset. I've always viewed JWs as being black or white in their thinking, with very little propensity for empathy or seeing things from other points of view.. People on here are generally very anti-JW (where they used to be very pro-JW, black and white?) and any comment seen as vaguely pro-JW has posters stabbing at the dislike button like a spastic chimpanzee. Bizarre.
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What did President Trump say about Sweden?
by kpop inthis you will never see on the mainstream media.
before you comment watch the whole video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqaigeqxqgi.
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Landy
wouldn't you be curious about your Muslim neighbours views on certain things?
Would your Muslim neighbour treasure our freedoms and democracy, or would they secretly yearn for Sharia to rule?
No more than I would wonder if the nice couple on the other side are members of the KKK or BNP.
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What did President Trump say about Sweden?
by kpop inthis you will never see on the mainstream media.
before you comment watch the whole video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqaigeqxqgi.
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Landy
And where's the cut off ... at what point do people stop being Muslim all together?
For all the people defending Islam, no one has ever come up with any explanation of what the actual difference is and why some are called Muslims and some are not.
It's up to an indiviual what he believes and what religion he considers himself to be. Freedom of religion remember.
A Muslim who doesn't agree with violence is a much a muslim, as a christian who accepts homosexuality is still a christian.
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What did President Trump say about Sweden?
by kpop inthis you will never see on the mainstream media.
before you comment watch the whole video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqaigeqxqgi.
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Landy
The Muslim you think might be your nice neighbour is not really your real friend anymore than the guy at the local car dealership is your friend even though he's super friendly if you go look at cars.
That's a hell of an assumption. And a nice neighbour is all I really need my Muslim next door neighbour to be.
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What did President Trump say about Sweden?
by kpop inthis you will never see on the mainstream media.
before you comment watch the whole video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqaigeqxqgi.
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Landy
What I said is that claiming the only "good" kind of Muslim is an apostate or ex-Muslim is an attempt to stigmatise anyone who claims to be a Muslim by forcing them either to renounce the identity or by categorising them as not "good".
That.
The extremist Muslims are (rightly) condemmed for being extremist, and on here the Muslims who want to bring their religion up to date are condemmed as not being Muslim.
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What did President Trump say about Sweden?
by kpop inthis you will never see on the mainstream media.
before you comment watch the whole video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqaigeqxqgi.
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Landy
Just been listening to an interview on Radio 4's Today progam where a Swedish law professor has been interviewed after spending the last year researching the issue. It will be on Radio 4 catch up if ayone wants to listen.
Contrary to the facebooks posts by a swedish policeman that have been taken as gospel, the ethnicity and status of criminals are recorded. The crime rate amongst the immigrant community is twice as much as for the general Swedish populaton. Yes, this isn't good but it can be explained (not justified) by the socio-economic condition the immigrants live in, and yes, to a degree due to the conditions in their country of origin.
What isn't happening in sweden is gangs of maurading islamic rapists running round causing mayhem with large no go areas.
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What did President Trump say about Sweden?
by kpop inthis you will never see on the mainstream media.
before you comment watch the whole video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqaigeqxqgi.
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Landy
Incidentally, Private Eye noted that on Feb 17th, the day Trump made the statement about 'look at what just happened in Sweden last night', there were zero homicides or shootings in Sweden.
In the US there were 128 shootings which related in 38 deaths. Time for the US to get its priorities right.
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What did President Trump say about Sweden?
by kpop inthis you will never see on the mainstream media.
before you comment watch the whole video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqaigeqxqgi.
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Landy
He took her when she was 6 and began raping her when she was 9.
And I'm sure there were popes of the same time period who did the same thing. It's about as relevant as anything that happened in the OT.
With regard to the behaviour of immigrants, while I'm sure there will be criminals amongst them, if there were hoardes of immigrants running round Sweden raping and grabbing pussy Trump style I'm sure I would have heard about it.
When it comes down to it humanity has a duty to provide refuge from those in fleeing in fear of their lives from a war zone. It really is as simple as that. Yes, it's going to cause social problems. Yes there are going to be criminals amonst them. There's criminals amongst every society.
Yes, I know you'll disregard it as it's written by the 'lefty' BBC but this probably gives a more thoughtful insight.