Vart Land:
Won in the Supreme Court: - We are grateful JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES: - It confirms the reputation of Jehovah's Witnesses as loving, caring and law-abiding citizens, says the religious community's spokesperson after they
won in the Supreme Court.
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BREAKING:
It is France’s turn to expose Jehovah’s Witnesses and consider withdrawing benefits of their Organization.
This started based on the reports by a French government agency called MIVILUDES.
Its job is to track and counter those religious and other groups it considers as being sects. MIVILUDES is an acronym of the French phrase ‘Mission interministérielle de vigilance et de lutte contre les dérives sectaires, i.e. ‘Interministerial Mission for Monitoring and Combating Cultic Deviancy.’
A sect is defined here as being any religious organization which can be characterized as employing any of the following methods:
"Mental destabilization, exorbitant financial demands, a rupture with members’ original environment, power in the hands of one person, the invasion of a person’s physical integrity, the recruitment of children, antisocial preaching and troubling public order, activities which lead it to be tried in a court of law, using parallel economic structures, attempts to infiltrate the workplace, schools, and public powers.
There are around fifty religions or groups which are being tracked, the most commonly known of which are Jehovah’s Witnesses, Scientology, Mormons, The Universal Church, Raelians, and The Unification Church (Moon.)”
Barbara Anderson was the one to crack this open with the MIVILUDES back in 2009.
BREAKING:
#JWvsNorway
The Appeals Committee has decided and accepted the State's Appeal.
We will get a full Norwegian Supreme Court hearing and decision on the JW vs Norway case.
State tuned for scheduled dates.
BREAKING: Former Epstein lawyer Alan Dershowitz says he has personally “seen the entire list” of individuals in the Epstein case, and that it is being deliberately suppressed to protect certain powerful figures.
Happy 56th Jehovah Witnesses!
'you will never grow old' 💯
- How many myriads and myriads of brothers/sisters did y'all royally 🪛 out of a decent education and career?
@KMikeyb Yes ... while we've been distracted with things like Trump and his circus show of cabinet appointees, Ukraine will have to continue defending itself somehow.
BREAKING:
After more than 5 years of investigation, litigation, depositions, and multiple fines and sanctions against the Jehovah's Witnesses, two Federal Court child abuse cases have reached a confidential settlement.
Multiple victims of abuse alleged that they suffered at the hands of numerous Elders and Ministerial Servants in Hardin Montana during the 1970s and 80s, and that these allegations and facts were known to countless other elders, Circuit Overseers, District Overseers and the men who operate the Legal and Service Departments at the world headquarters of Jehovah's Witnesses.
These cases were scheduled for consecutive trials in August and September, but the sudden settlement signals the end of litigation and a small measure of justice for the victims of these men and the organization that failed to notify law enforcement of these alleged crimes.
The Jehovah's Witnesses sabotaged their own ability to stand trial in both cases due to legal practices that caused Federal Judge Susan Watters to issue a series of sanctions and penalties for judicial misconduct.
Some of these sanctions included instructions to the jury in both the Caekart and Rowland cases that the Jehovah's Witnesses had intentionally destroyed key documents when creating "Memorandums," or summaries of child abuse cases.
During the course of this case, Watchtower's own chief counsel Philip Brumley was fined more than $154,000 for his role in misleading the Court and filing two false and deceptive affidavits.
Brumley appealed these sanctions to the 9th Circuit, but the Appellate Court upheld his fines and will forever be a stain upon the Church of Jehovah's Witnesses.
While these settlements normally come with Non-Disclosure Agreements attached, the amount of information gained during the past 5 years will be instrumental in helping countless other victims of abuse within the JW Church.
It will also provide a historical analysis of the extent of child abuse and lack of reporting among the Witnesses, driven by the policies of its Governing Body and their lawyers.
More analysis will follow in the coming weeks and months.