by JRK 24 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse
JRk you are right on with the info. Sadly though as many finacial institutions and corporations have shown even in the last few years much infomration and data is destroyed to cover wrong doing. Example that comes to mind is the thousands of emails the Bush admin. lost or destroyed, cover up much?
Given the society routinely advises elders to destroy letters of recommendation because of the data protection act in Europe. who knows what else they will do to cover up things.
Was Bill Bowen and Barbara Anderson disfellowshiped for whistle blowing (checking the elders, checking the W.T.S. in the spirit of Revelation 2.) and did they try to fight the decission by the W.T.S.?
''Sarbanes Oxley has a provision that corporations cannot destroy emails or data that may be incriminatingand has to safely back up the files. I was wondering if the first amendment about religion or corporate law would apply to the Watchtower''.
According to the Watchtower, nothing applies to them...
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Unless Sarbanes Oxley has an express provision excluding religion, my guess, without research, is that it prob. applies. Retaining records for a certain amount of time is general practice. The WTS could be sued on a number of areas, unrelated to religion. If you destroy documents to avoid discovery during a lawsuit or criminal procedure, it is considered heinous. Yet lawyers don't want records hanging around forever. So businesses purge all records of a certain nature routinely. It is a complex calculation. The mere appearance of doing it to avoid liability is very bad.
This mega Famous and very good Wall St. litigator in one of the massive antitrust battles that took about ten years to complete came across one document that troubled him. He never discussed it with his partners. Rather than destroying it, he took it home. Something unusual happened and it came to light. It was such a scandal. After almost a decade of very hot litigation, with his client prevailing, the other side won. The document was not definitive at all. People adored him. The firm lost many clients. They said it was so against his character.
The Roman Catholic Church retained damning pedophile records.
From what i hear and this is coming from my brother who is in IT there are so many passwords protecting it and codes protecting the information and a system set that if an attempt is made to obtain information it will self delete all information within it.
No offense to your brother, he's certainly a great, nice and bright guy regardless, but having talked with some brothers from their IT staff a few years ago, they certainly aren't the sharpest tools in the shed - that's saying considering the security knowledge and habits of the average IT guy. They told me they were taught in, and they spouted enough nonsense in a few minutes of conversation (lots of IT urban myths...) to know they didn't have much of a clue about computing, let alone security (security is an expertise in itself). Anyways, the spiritual schedule at Bethel wouldn't leave the 12-16 hours a day computing/internet use necessary to keep up to date in the field, let alone teach yourserlf. Anyone with the computing habits tied to security expertise wouldn't cut it spiritually at Bethel, and would probably go mad in that stale environment or go back to civil life pronto.
As for the "self delete" part, that's exactly the kind of myth spouted to magnify the divine security at the Borg. There's far better ways to protect the information, the "self delete" is the kind of James Bond trick that looks cool at the Theater and impresses the newbies, but doesn't do anything. Quite goes along with the level of expertise in their staff that they can swallow that nonsense.
The Borg, like any cult, would try to keep that information at all costs, even if they have to lie about having deleted it (they'd just say they never had one). They thrive on control, and they wouldn't want to relinquish the power that list gives them on the sex offenders, the elders complicit in covering the case and the victims (since victimes are also culprits in the sick minds of the Watchtower, like an abused wife is the source of the abuse). The sex offenders are good high responsibilities material, since the Borg can hold them by their cojones the day they'd want to "betray" the hive.
