Posts by Oubliette

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The sheer lunacy of Jackson's view regarding mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse.

by DATA-DOG in

lunacy?

insanity?

without a doubt.

Oubliette

As both Justice McLellan and Angus Stewart pointed out, Australia has a legal concept known as misprision which requires all citizens to report any criminal activity to the proper authorities.

Vincent Toole claimed to not know about that particular law and how it applied. He also said that he believed that mandatory reporting laws somehow over-ruled the concept of misprision (never mind that he contradicted himself in saying that).

Even still, there are states in Australia that do have mandatory reporting laws and yet not one of the 1,006 known abusers in Australia were ever reported to the authorities by JW elders. Not one!

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Using Governing Body Member Jackson Testimony To The Royal Commission, For A Defense Before A Judicial Committee Meeting

by Brokeback Watchtower in

i think that a person that is called before a judicial committee can use a recording of the trial and force the elder to view it because of jackson's statement to the commission and get off.

i think mr jackson has said enough about people who wish to leave the witnesses as not being harassed, hunted down, or spied upon and such to get the elder off your back and give them a "good witness".. also to be highlighted is the fact that jackson has stated under oath that the governing body is willing to reexamine doctrine and policy in order to conform to the law,.

i think many statements by gb jackson to the commission can be used by some one clever and thus escape the label of apostate and be unhindered to a large extent of speaking to others.. .

Oubliette

BW, while the idea in your OP makes sense, it is based on the presumption that Elders care about logic, justice and acting in ways in harmony with those precepts.

Elders are just like the average JW (actually more so): they are indoctrinated, mind-controlled people that will do whatever the WT Leadership tell them to do.

The fact that, over the last 65 years, not one out of 1,006 cases of known abusers in the organization in Australia was reported to the proper civil authorities proves that.

The elders are tools. They just do what they are told. Thinking isn't something they are told to do.

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To the Royal Commission: A JW's thank you note... from Mexico!

by avaddohn94 in

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note: i sent this e-mail to their contact mail address and now, i wish to make it public for it truly expresses my current thoughts!.

a jw's thank you note... from mexico!.

first of all, let me tell you i am still one of jehovah's witnesses.

Oubliette

Great letters avaddohn94 and Heaven!

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Mr Jackson said the GB has apologized in the past?

by notsurewheretogo in

please enlighten me as to where and when...

Oubliette

Let's just say that if YOU made a "mistake" along the lines that landed YOU in a JW Judicial Committee and YOU offered the kind of "apology" that the WTBTS leaders have made in the past, you would be disfellowshipped faster than you can say, "As A. H. Macmillan once explained, 'We should admit our mistakes ...'"

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Mr Jackson said the GB has apologized in the past?

by notsurewheretogo in

please enlighten me as to where and when...

Oubliette

I'll tell you where: NOwhere!

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I watched Mr. Jackson last night with my super cult minded parents

by Magwitch in

i have seen some ask on this site how the active jw's are handling what is happening in australia.

here is my little experience from last night........ my parents were baptized in the late 30's as children and have never faltered in their determination to survive the great tribulation and live forever in paradise (even though they actively associate with all their df'ed kids).

my father is still actively serving as an elder and my mother has always been by his side.

Oubliette

It's funny how different Jackson's answer look depending on one's particular perspective.

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Phone call straight after the Royal Commission

by umbertoecho in

straight after the commission ended today within minutes, the phone rang.

it was one of the people who are working on it.

firstly she established if i was alright and did i want to talk.. i said i was too tired and unhappy that geoffrey jackson managed to do some preaching....she said they were aware of that.

Oubliette

Umberto, thank you very much for sharing this.

I didn't think for a second that anyone on the RC was fooled by Jackson's duplicity and evasiveness, but it is nice to get confirmation.

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Washington Post: JW the least willing religion to deal with child sexual abuse

by adjusted knowledge in

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the church, which was founded in pennsylvania in the 1870s to promote a first century interpretation of the bible and is now headquartered in brooklyn, has emerged as the least able or willing to deal with sexual abuse within its ranks, according to annie cousins, a law professor at the university of new south wales and an expert in sex crimes who is a consultant to the inquiry.. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/jehovahs-witnesses-face-child-sex-abuse-investigation-in-australia/2015/08/14/d8a58eda-406e-11e5-9561-4b3dc93e3b9a_story.html.

now i know that annie cousins is not of the high caliber expert witness as the jw expert monica applewhite but i think cousins makes a great observation..

Oubliette

I loved this excerpt:

"The church, ..., has emerged as the least able or willing to deal with sexual abuse within its ranks, according to Annie Cousins, a law professor at the University of New South Wales and an expert in sex crimes who is a consultant to the inquiry.

“'I find their approach to the issue and victims extraordinarily bizarre — almost medieval,' she said in an interview."

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Geoffrey Jackson - Freedome Of Religon Within Jehovah's Witnesses - VIDEO

by C0ntr013r in

a summary for you guys of the rather lengthy discussion about peoples ability to leave the organisation:.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpir8vjsdre&feature=youtu.be.