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article published: thursday, july 03, 2003 - 8:38:27 am est .
witnesses to abuse
Flyers and news releases help to do so. So does exposure on CBS and the like.
By the way, I believe it correct that New Hampshire's Supreme Court justices made a similar past ruling in the Brian Reece (spelling) case and it has come out that most of the SC justices in NH are Catholic and so not wont to speak much about pedophilia in churches.
see the article entitled "palmyra sued in blood use.
the attorney for a woman's estate says hospital officials knew of her objections to blood transfusions.".
http://albanyherald.net/front.html#palmyra
The hospital and its attorney should be informed so that they can make it known to the Liason Committee and others that normal identical twins transfuse their blood to each other via a shared placenta.
Why?
Because it shows that the person doing the suing (and also the LC members) was mistold by Watchtower that the Bible shows God disapproves of blood transfusions.
http://silentlambs.org/lambstoprotectkidsresults.htm
for how many places were hit, names0 and a link to more photos than those shown below:
pictures: kentucky illinois missouri:draffenville, murry, mayfield, fulton, paducah, cairo, cape girardeau, scott city, sikeston; arizona; wisconsin; california .
http://silentlambs.org/lambstoprotectkidsresults.htm for how many places were hit, names0 and a link to more photos than those shown below:
Pictures: Kentucky Illinois Missouri :Draffenville, Murry, Mayfield, Fulton, Paducah, Cairo, Cape Girardeau, Scott City, SIkeston; Arizona; Wisconsin; California
As a first example, here's one of the photos taken for the recent Memorial Day 2003 informational actions at various kingdom halls in California
Here's one for the kingdom hall at Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Symbolic lambs and flyers were distributed.
Here's places around the rest of the earth including the United States, UK, Canada, Germany and other locations where similar actions took place:
Selters, Germany (2)
London, UK (7)
Gravesend Kent, UK
rochester, Kent, UK
Canada (22) etc (and four other nations)
New York (15)
Kentucky (5)
Illinois (1)
Missouri (4)
Nova Scotia, Canada
Dartmouth, NS
Halifax, NS
Hubbards, NS
Charles St, Halifax, NS
Atlantic, Dartmouth, NS
WT Brooklyn, NY
Georgetown, Ontario
Las Vegas, Nevada (2)
Wilmot Flat, NH
Athol, Mass
Fort Garry, Canada
Waverley Heights, Canada
Fort Rouge, Canada
River Park, Canada
Southdale,Canada
Glenlawn, Canada
Phoenix, Airzona (5)
Phillips, Wisconson
Abbotsford, Wisconson
Ladysmith, Wisconson
Downey, California (2)
Paso Robles, California (2)
Atascadreo, California
San Louis Obispo, California
Pico Riveria, California
Bellflower, California
Woodland Hills, California
Reseda, California
Van Nuys, California
Torrance, California
Canyon Country, California
Sacramento, California (3)
Pico Rivera, California
Bellflower, California
Las Vegas, Nevada (2)
Kansas City, Missouri (3)
Worcester, Mass
Spokane, Washington (5)
Seattle, Washington (6)
Portland, Oregon (7)
Goshen, Ohio
Salt Lake City, Utah (7)
Tuscon, Arizona (3)
Parker, Arizona
Atlanta, Georgia (10)
Satler, Texas (2)
Dallas, Texas (6)
Orlando, Florida
Louisville, Kentucky
Draffenville, Kentucky
St Louis, Missouri (4)
Dayton, Ohio (4)
Spotsville, Virginia area (15)
Nashville, TN (5)
Maine (4)
"it is estimated around 400 lambs were delivered in six different countries, the information above is what has been confirmed by email. We appreciate all the work and support for the silent lambs. Your efforts are what make the message of protecting children not go away.
thanks,
silentlambs"
For more about how to help the molested children and battered adults please go to and carefully look at the numerous links at silentlambs.org website. There are many good people who have been "silent" lambs or persons victimized while they or loved ones were influenced by Watchtower which is over Jehovah's Witnesses.
Abused? Battered? Been feeling helpless? Why not stop being a powerless victim?
Now you too can show you care beyond using words alone. Help silentlambs.org make future informational campaigns even more successful! Readers, you too can also use your feet or donate to this super worthy nonprofit cause, etc! http://silentlambs.org/donations/index.cfm
Posted by Rainbow ([email protected]) who is delighted to help!
could bethel be trying to tell us something?
could there be a bethelite artist lurking here lusting after our womenfolk?
three guesses what the caption says?.
They sometimes take pictures of dissidents then give those to their magazine artists, so please do not suggest someone among you is working with them which could be false. I speak from experience.
All members are told to report on each other. Ray Franz documents that a JW came up behind elders hiding in bushes spying on his house with binoculars and snapped their pictures. Also that JW staff at Greece's Bethel headquarters went to court after police found they were videocamcording a private Memorial meeting in Greece by some former JWs, after which the Awake magazine was used to say Greece's government was anti-JW without mentioning the crime. Ray had been on the Watchtower's Governing Body and now lives in Georgia.
Not only have friends and myself been spied on but I have know many other instances involving other JWs. Paul Blizard tells of his being assigned by elders to spy on people in a local congregation after he went there from world headquarters at the Bethel in Brooklyn. He notes that such tactics were also required of him at Brooklyn to control other Bethelites. He's now a Baptist preacher since Watchtower's teaching against blood transfusions impacted his daughter Jenny who later died.
William Schnell's book tells of spying instituted against himself when a Zone Servant long ago, also of secret files which the Watchtower kept on him and were in the then President's own desk. Euphimisms for it are on the order of "we don't spy, we just faithfully make discrete observations of the brothers." Schnell's book is titled something like Thirty Years A Watchtower Slave.
If you surf the net you'll find more references but usually at google.com it will give you first items telling of governments spying on JWs. This may be because Watchtower pays to get those items placed first.
i was talking to my mom the other day and this subject came up.
she was telling me that she believed in demons/spirits because she studied with a "possessed" woman.
she was telling me of those experiences.
Since you bring it up, micro-electronic sound and voice devices are used to harass members and ex-member by fruitcakes in various cults who also wiretap. Some get nasty and stoop to this when afraid of going to prison over pedophilia or to protect mother cult from critics. Such stunts can backfire big time. Not to single out just one cult, but intimidation can come from people in different cults, be they satanic or mock Christian imitation groups, anytime they fear prison time or losing their wallets.
with all the recent failing legal issues the wts has been involved in, i'm starting to wonder if the wts is trying to do their own fading.
just think of it, the scarlet colored beast has attacked them (they run themselves broke), and armageddon is due any day.
this would be the perfect way for the wts to disappear from earth, including all the accusations, lawsuits, etc.
Their money is tied up in real estate while cash is relatively low. If they lose some pedophilia cases they will have to sell off properties, and in fact are this moment considering the sale of a waterfront skyscraper, perhaps anticipating losing some cases.
although cbs, dateline nbc etc have also correctly documented the child molestation situation involving the watchtower society (wts) over jehovah's witnesses (jws), this, which is also shocking, is to even better inform the general public including medical personnel, jws themselves and persons studying bible subjects with them.
your sharing copies of this will can help save many lives even as others have already told us.
christmas: the wts teaches that christ was likely born about october 2, so why ignore that this means that he must have been conceived 9 months before, meaning in late december.
Jessica, ask her about this point that was brought out, "Leaders call a cross is a repugnant murder weapon but Paul said boast in the stauros as a symbol of resurrection over death. Read Galatians 6:14, 1Corinthians 1:17-18. "
To whoever said I was preaching to the choir (those already convinced), you are, yes, but not those persons to whom you can mail or email copies of the material.
i have read alot on this site for a while and just have been absorbing it as i make my way.. one thing i noticed was alot said about abuse of children... i experienced the reverse...false stories told..believed by elders because of hidden agenda and 20+ years as special pioneers ..etc.
as of no count and belief in a new publisher destroyed our lives and children's lives.
the horror never stops ...some of our family is disassociated...some disfellowshipped...some inactive...some active..some on a fence...mostly because of one or two elders and the misapplication of their power and lack of love to our family.
REASONING WITH THOSE "SURE" ARMAGEDDON IS ALMOST HERE: Diehards among the WatchtowerSociety over Jehovah's Witnesses hint Matthew 24 is about today’s earth which entered a Last Days period ofunusual war, disease etc in 1914. China's Taiping Rebellion of 1850-1864 actually killed 40 million people,far more than the 10-12 million who died in World War I, and World War II eclipsed WWI by killing 54 million.Not even a million died in the Iraq War of 2003. During 1925-1976 China's Communist doings, mostly underMao Zedong , led to up to 100 million deaths, coming from Civil War, the murder of landlords, religious groupsand others suspected of opposing Comminism, Mao's "Great Leap Forward" flop that also brought deadly famine,and Mao's bloody Cultural Revolution.The worst disease was a series from syphillis and smallpox killing 95 million Amerindians 1500-1800. In 542-65A.D. some 100 million Mediterraneans died of a bubonic plague series. AIDS has slain just 20 million. Theworld's harshest famine slew 4 million Chinese 1333-37 A.D. and likely led to Europe's Black Death, and in1876-79 drought in China slew 9-13 million. The number and intensity of earthquakes worldwide 1900-2003 didnot increase in intensity and frequency. The worst killer quake slew 1.1 million in 1201 in the easternMediterranean.At Matthew 24:21 Christ said along with his return or presence would be the greatest tribulation ever. AtMatthew 23:34-36 he says those in his own time period or generation would see the start of great tribulation.There has been a continuous tribulation or persecution of Christians since Christ, first in one land then another,the Sudan being an example for 2003. So the "Great Tribulation" is great because of having lasted 2,000 years,and its severity and intensity are also great. But it is not something only beginning 1914 or just for now wheninvolving modern terrorists, or even just for up in the future. Christ said a wicked generation looking for a signgets nothing but Jonah’s sign, meaning that like Jonah he himself also spent 3 days in the bowels of death beforeresurrection.So Christ’s resurrection is the only real sign needed. He said “nobody” knows the hour or day ofthe end of the "aion" which means eon, age or time period rather than "world" as some have mistranslated it.(Mt 24:36) He himself is the spiritual Leader wherever two or more Christians gather. We are to stay alert forhis return bit he did not ever say to interpret what he had said to mean be so much on the edge and or sounbalanced as to be deprive our families of normal enjoyable times together such as picnics and vacations. God isthe happy God of love who made our universe, and love and joy are fruitages of His Spirit. (Ga 5:22) He wishesthat all humans might live and enjoy life, (Jn 3:16, Ec 1:4) not be put on edge with paranoid mispredictions.
although cbs, dateline nbc etc have also correctly documented the child molestation situation involving the watchtower society (wts) over jehovah's witnesses (jws), this, which is also shocking, is to even better inform the general public including medical personnel, jws themselves and persons studying bible subjects with them.
your sharing copies of this will can help save many lives even as others have already told us.
christmas: the wts teaches that christ was likely born about october 2, so why ignore that this means that he must have been conceived 9 months before, meaning in late december.
ALTHOUGH CBS, DATELINE NBC ETC HAVE ALSO CORRECTLY DOCUMENTED the child molestation situation involving the Watchtower Society (WTS) over Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs), this, which is also shocking, is to even better inform the general public including medical personnel, JWs themselves and persons studying Bible subjects with them. Your sharing copies of this will can help save many lives even as others have already told us.
CHRISTMAS: The WTS teaches that Christ was likely born about October 2, so why ignore that this means that he must have been conceived 9 months before, meaning in late December. Similarly, why insist that Christmas came from the pagan Saturnalia when John 10:22-3 says Christ also celebrated the Jewish Festival of Dedication or Lights, i.e. Hannukah, which first began December 25 but has varied since because lunar-based, and which includes lights, tree ornaments, singing and gifts?
BIRTHDAYS: You must read all three verses of Job 1:3, 3:1 and 3:3 but after doing so will see that Job's kids celebrated their days of birth, meaning birthdays with Job's approval. Another reasoning point is: doesn't the Bible itself state that angels celebrate Christ's own birth! The figure of Santa Claus is from Nicholas, a famous Christian gift-giver who lived in the Middle Ages, not a wizard or pagan god. Why call compromises holidays that attacked and replaced paganisms, and besides, doesn’t Colossians 12:16 says let none judge you about a holiday! The WTS teaching that Christmas is definitely pagan and must not be celebrated because two persons were killed in the Bible during birthday situations ignores the facts and destroys normal family ties.
SEVERE SHUNNING CALLED "DISFELLOWSHIPPING:" 1 Corinthians 6:1 only says judge "trivial" things as in business, James 2:4-13 calls judging harmful, and Paul says the "majority" (2 Corinthians 2:6), followed his advice to shun a wrongdoer, meaning a minority chose not to and yet he nowhere condemns them. Christ said families would be divided by some members doing good and others doing wrongs but never ever advocated destruction of families. So we ask why the formal Judicial Committes destroying families via numerous formal renderings of disfellowshipping which is severe shunning?
BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS: Most normal identical twins use a shared placenta to transfuse blood to each other, showing that God Himself uses transfusions. Although Acts 15:20, which the WTS singles out, says abstain from blood, 1 Samuel 14:32-5 says Saul's entire army ate "unBLED" meat to not starve and no verses show God not forgiving them. Too, Christ (Mat 7) says God also forgave David's eating temple holy bread and that God wants Mercy Not Sacrifice. The May 22, 1994 Awake tells of 26 JW kids who died without transfusions, and by common sense in massive bleeding as in car wrecks blood expanders won't save lives. Also, an estimated 3 JWs die daily earthwide from the WTS’s unscriptural policy (Blood On The Altar by David Reed)! Why don't WTS heads teach members these additional facts? Why should anyone's kids, grandkids etc be endangered? Medical doctors etc are encouraged to get this information to JWs and those studying with them so as to save lives!
CROSS: Human remains and inscriptions show archaeologists the stauros was a cross not stake, Dr F Zugibe's research shows suffocation would be in minutes if on a stake but in hours if on outstretched cross per Luke 23:44 and Matthew 27:45-6. Leaders call a cross is a repugnant murder weapon but Paul said boast in the stauros as a symbol of resurrection over death. Read Galatians 6:14, 1Corinthians 1:17-18.
SURVEILANCE TO KEEP THE ORGANIZATION CLEAN: Done mostly on the quiet by some JW elders and their cronies, surreptious surveillance has been done even on rank-and-file members, some of which is documented in the book Crisis of Conscience. Members are routinely told to report on each other "to keep the congregations clean" even though the Bible point-blank condemns "busy-bodying," comparing it to the crime of murder.
Regular JWs not allowed to read Judicial Committee "sin files" on themselves, many not even knowing they exist; often with misinformation.(photos: freeminds.org) See also a picture of the WTS's Pay Attention To Yourselves And All The Flock book on p 232 of the Insight book that elders have but which non-elders are not allowed to read. Judicial committee sin files on a person are supposedly to be destroyed after 7 years, but even when they sometimes are locally destroyed, the permanent file is kept forever in Brooklyn and, as said, is subject to abuse and falsification. Page 302 in the WTS's Daniel book and pages 88 and 651 in the Proclaimers book show photos of the swords and the cross-with-crown-and-wreath used by not only some Christian churches but also by the secretive Masons while some old WT books also have the winged sun god Ra on front covers - which never ever was a Christian symbol. Many regular JWs find it hard to believe but in fact Elders are encouraged to use "tested and true" "Theocratic Warfare" tactics for testing and training non-elders as to fitness, which includes misleading or false statements.
TRINITY: WTS heads say the Trinity is believing Father, Son, Spirit are one "identical" person yet most churches accept it as three totally different entities or persons forming one "Godship" (Ro 1:20) in which the Son and Spirit share age, power, knowledge inherited from God the Father just as an acorn may be only one day old but also have its genes inheriting its ancestral oak tree's age, capacity and information. The Catholic and most major Protestant churches do not even fit the WTS's description of the sameness trinity belief which is that Jesus the Son is identical to Jehovah the Father.
ACCUSED CHILD MOLESTORS ON THE WATCHTOWER SOCIETY'S GOVERNING BODY? Elders often hide local scandals, but also note that Leo Greenlees was a child molester who sat on the worldwide WTS Governing Body. He was reassigned but never disfellowshipped (excommunicated/shunned) in the 1980s (jehovahs-witness.com in the archives, etc). Child abuse coverups by Watchtower associates will cause costly, organizationally destructive court costs and has already brought grave reproach including articles in "Christianity Today" magazine, investigations by Dateline NBC in 2002, an airing on CBS evening news in 2003 etc. Copies of letters to the Bodies Of Elders which regular members aren't shown, including on child abuse etc, have been posted at http://www.silentlambs.org, freeminds.org etc. Pat Garza has publicly alleged to news media in front of Brooklyn headquarters that Ted Jaracz of the Gov Body molested her and other children when a District Overseer in Los Angeles, and he has refused to refute what she said even when it was openly posted on the internet, leaving big question marks.
HARASSMENT: Some regular JW members in places where illegal child molestation has occurred and elsewhere have complained of physical harassment (poking, shoving etc), platform talks with hints that "Jehovah’s eyes are everywhere" and complained that elders have divulged details of their (the non-elders) most private conversations and bedroom doings with marriage mates - strongly suggestive of wiretapping. Although WTS articles told elders not to “police” bedrooms in 1978, in a later during the week night-time talk (but not in writing) in 1983 elders told regular members "The Practice" of some marital intimacies can lead to Expulsion. (discussed also on Jehovahs-Witness.com) Some regular JWs absent for that evening's talk have indeed been expelled" (harassed/trained) without ever even being clearly made aware why it was done. This is an ironic contrast to the pedophilia coverups. Notice that WTS "Insight" book articles are on all Bible books except for the Song of Solomon (also called Canticles) which has much positive marital imagery out of line with the WTS Gov Body’s own views of what is “holy.” Instructed to keep such things "in-house," when asked most elders deny the 1983-onwards policy to protect the Gov Body.
UNITED NATIONS: WTS heads teach God does not like the United Nations but until exposed, during 1991-2001 they were a formal UN associate (called a Non-Governmental Organization), not just a UN library card associate as claimed. Read the November 22, 1998 Awake magazine very closely. Also see http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?tablet-00577 by highly reputable BBC writer Stephen Bates.
WHY THIS IS NEEDED: Not only do more people need to know about these things but also JWs are told they must not read such material if given it by hand, but when e/mailed it most do quietly read it, some then exit, feel angry at first then quietly decrease donations to the WTS, if not baptized a JW stay that way etc, some form independent nonWTS groups, go back to past beliefs or associate with less reproachful churches. Please make and share copies of this to help improve and save lives!
