How You Can Prevent Watchtower Kingdom Hall Theft

by metatron 8 Replies latest jw friends

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  metatron

  The Watchtower has a neat little scam going, which you may have heard about. Various brothers, such as Regional Building Committees, will encourage selling off Kingdom Halls and building new ones. However, somewhere along the way, the funds from selling the old hall are quietly diverted to the Watchtower Society without any notice given to the congregation that paid for it. Funds are sometimes diverted without even informing all of the congregation's elders.

  They will often make a pretense of informing the friends as to building and contributions but ignore such notifications when the congregation's hard earned assets are given away.

  If this is about to happen to you or your Hall and you object to it, don't confront the elders about it and get yourself 'marked' as disloyal in opposing such a giveaway fraud. Rather, send letters to the Circuit Overseer and Service Dept. anonymously (!), stating your strong objections and that intend to expose such corruption to all the publishers involved. This will likely put a damper on the whole affair. Don't use personal handwriting and use the Hall's address as the return address.

  This corruption should stop. I have experienced this nonsense as an elder.

  metatron
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  leavingwt

  Are you saying that the proceeds from the sale of the old Hall are not being used to help pay for the new Hall?
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  daniel-p

  It sounds like it. From how I understand it: 1. Sale of old Hall = $$$. 2. $$$ goes to Society coffers. 3. Society LOANS $$$ for new property and Hall. 4. Congregation never gets the $$$ and continues to pay $ to Society on loan. 5. Local brothers who own businesses make $$$ on construction of new Hall.
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  WTWizard

  Better yet, if no one donated anything toward the new Kingdumb Hell, they wouldn't have any money to give to the Worldwide Pedophile Defense Fund.
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  minimus

  Metatron, this won't affect anything (your suggestion). They do what they wanna do and we all know it.
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  metatron

  Not necessarily, minimus. Threatened exposure to an entire congregation or circuit or even to a whole body of elders(!) is detrimental to their plans. They depend upon secrecy and discretion in furthering these fraudulent schemes Believe me, these sort of building plans can quickly descend into an open congregational war, if the 'right' information gets to the right people. (Yup, I have direct experience therein!)

  All you need to consider to understand this is the direct experience of how Witness building projects often turn into a mess. Take an organization lacking in critical, balanced judgement and what do think is likely to happen ?

  metatron
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  minimus

  Well, then you couldn't do it clandestinely and get everyone to call or write the CO. People WOULD talk. Then they'd get into trouble, therefore no major group will secretly complain (unless they're secret apostates).
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  metatron

  come on, minimus, use your imagination! Anybody can send anonymous letters ( all at once) to congregational members exposing the crime! You can pretend to be foursquare loyal and still do it. They lost a Kingdom Hall in Texas to apostates amidst rumors of 'bugging' devices in the Hall's conference room.

  Imagination, I say!

  metatron
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  no more kool aid

  Kind of along those lines. Congregation ( with a paid for hall) in our area received money from an old sister that died. Next thing you know they tell that congregation to move in with another congregation at a different hall location (out of there territory by the way) because they are restructuring everything. They move a Spanish congregation into the paid for hall. The congregation that received the money had to pay the note on the new hall location. I don't think that is what the old sister intended, she wanted to make it easier on the brothers in her congregation ( who are all quite elderly). So now all these old people are traveling across town and having to pay more for the new hall. The Spanish people are sitting in a paid for hall.