I think the organization is no better or for that matter, no worse than untold numbers of other religious groups.
That is a far cry from saying, "Therefore JWs are perfectly fine and we should all go home and chill out".
I find it haughty at best and downright silly at worst when internet groups adopt an attitude of "we're gonna expose JWs and force internal change" -JWN is a refreshing exception.
By contrast, AAWA comes perilously close to pomposity in its dead-serious but silly invitation for the GB to meet with them and/or pushing hard to shame or corner the organisation into stopping its practice of shunning. It creates a false moral high ground - which is rich coming from a bunch of former Witnesses who were in an organization that turned taking the moral high ground into an art form.
Remember too the sheer unbalancing intensity of Stephen (?) Unthank's vow to bring the Watchtower to account through secular Courts. He said he wanted to see the organization stripped of its power and authority and demanded via unintentionally hilarious court documents that specificslly-named GB members were required to publically apologize.
Unthank would hate the connection, but his purple-prose revealed an unconscious imitation of Joe Rutherford's 1920s and 30s fire and brimstone denunciations of worldly governments and the churches of Christendom.
As for Unthank, the hubristic denunciations met with an almighty secular yawn of indifference and - for the Witnesses - a sense of moral victory. One more persecution safely navigated with Jehvah's loving protection.
The irony, though, breaks the yawn: A solo nutter draws attention to a group of nutters by acting nuttier than they do. Oops. We expose our trouble moving forward by falling back on the tricks of the trade we claim to have risen above.
And the wider public give it a second or two - if that.
