well done, im marking this for potential future reference.
And those saying they will announce it....they will not announce it. When legal action is threatened they will leave you well alone.
after listening to the hearings of the australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, i am no longer content to have simply walked away from the organization.
as a matter of conscience, i do not want my name linked with the organization in any way.
i know this letter has been posted previously, and i thank the author.
well done, im marking this for potential future reference.
And those saying they will announce it....they will not announce it. When legal action is threatened they will leave you well alone.
pray for brother jackson of the governing body!.
in todays news from australia it appears that, despite his previous declination to appear when invited, justice mcclellan from the australian royal commission on child sex abuse will officially summon brother geoffrey jackson to the stand after all.. ..... the commission was due to conclude its hearings into the jehovahs witnesses on wednesday but justice mcclellan said he will now call geoffrey jackson, a senior member of the churchs governing body in new york who is currently in australia, to appear next week.. .
source.
It's a lose lose for Jackson and the GB
If he turns up and answers questions, it will be be all over the news.
If he doesn't turn up for whatever reason it will be all over the news.
If he goes to Jail, he may face rejection of entry back into U.S.A. And i doubt he will get a fine. The RC knows the riches of the JWs.
Which means he will probably turn up. Which means it is is going to be all over the news.
as far as i am aware, it's not within the power of the australian royal commission to call as a witness a non-australian.
it is confined to dealing with the jws and child abuse as it is handled within australia.
it is clear from the testimonies so far that it is the branch office that gives the elders direction as prescribed ultimately by the governing body.. there are two witnesses who have been called up to attend the rc from the branch office in sydney, one is rodney spinks from the service desk and the other is vincent o'toole, overseer of the legal department.
I think someone should make the court aware that Geoffrey Jackson is indeed Australian.
You would think that the RC has enough power to get him over.
What are he chances of 7 GB members, and one just happens to be Australian?
1 in a million really.....
this "confession" should be aired on the tv channel in regards to the investigation into jw's cover up of child abuse.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8cctyxnr-w. quite fitting, don't you think?
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this is in the july 2015 monthly program on tv.jw.org cedars wrote about it too.. starting at around 42:30 in the video, morris talks about the child abuse situation for almost 10 minutes.
link to video.
i'm writing a transcript right now.
this "confession" should be aired on the tv channel in regards to the investigation into jw's cover up of child abuse.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8cctyxnr-w. quite fitting, don't you think?
xd.
this story will not be kept silent.. thank you cbc.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jehovah-s-witnesses-church-hid-child-abuse-cases-for-decades-australian-inquiry-told-1.3168944.
the press is reporting that over 1,000 cases of abuse were hidden from authorities in australia.. australia has around 68,000 publishers.. if you that ratio applied to the u.s. also, there could be over 14,700 cases that were covered up here.. if the ratio held the same worldwide, that would be over 117,600 cases.. just let that sink in a little..
I think they have been given an impossible task IMHO
What confuses me, is if these guys think its impossible, and are stressed and don't agree with the "rules" in dealing with sex offenders, why didn't they all go on strike or something. Or refuse to work?
Safety in numbers. The GB can't get rid of all the lawyers and solicitors. It will be suicide for the GB.
has anybody confronted any jws with the royal commission reports on the news yet?
i showed my 8-year old daughter a newspaper headline about it, and when she told my jw wife that the jws in australia were in trouble for not reporting over 1,000 child abusers to police, her response was "oh, really?
well, i don't know what the rules are over there.
the governing body have painted themselves in a corner, so to speak.
if they acknowledge their response to abuse claims was insensitive, unloving and inadequate they are denying the belief that "god's way" is best and risk losing abuse cases.
if they stick with it and say it is "god's way according to the bible" they will be seen as cult leaders and risk losing abuse cases.
I'm still in, and if any one breaths at word of this to me, i will full on tell them all the details.
There is going to be some very upset JWs in the next few weeks.
Are we going to see a decline in JWism in Australia because of this? I hope so.