If the WTS likes to brag about anything other than themselves and how great they are, it is their boasts about their triumphs in the United States Supreme Court. They brag about how much the people of the United States owes them and their God Jehovah for their part in championing freedom of speech and religion in America.
We've seen all of those Supreme Court Cases paraded about in various WTS publications, haven't we?
Well, not ALL of them. I recently found one of them that is nowhere to be found on my WT CD ROM. It was decided in 1942 by a vote of 9 to 0, and in terms of freedom of speech issues, it was a landmark case. I found a reference to it while doing research on something entirely unrelated to JW issues. I looked up the case in my copy of "The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States", 1992 Edition, Oxford University Press.
The "Mother"in Brooklyn could have chosen to discuss this case in its publications as an example of everything a good Jehovahs Witness should NOT be, but it is such an embarrassment to them that they never even mentioned it.
Being the good, mild-mannered and humble JW that he was, Chaplinksy was passing out WT crap on the street and calling other religions "a racket," just as his religious master Joseph Frankem Ruthlessfraud Goebbels had instructed him to do.
Needless to say, he pissed off a lot of people, so an official came on the scene and told Chaplinsky to tone it down. Realizing the command in Romans 13:1 to be in subjection to the superior authorities, and knowing that those superior authorities were Jehovah and Jesus, Chaplinsky carefully considered his Christian options. (Since then, new light has blazed forth and told us that the superior authorities really ARE the worldly authorities, after all: just like they were before they weren't.)
After carefully weighing his Christian options and in a humble and sincere desire to emulate his mediator (or emulate his "Mother" if he didn't happen to be "anointed") Chaplinsky under Jehovah's Holy Spirit Direction called the cop "an agent of Fascists", and a "god-damned racketeer." It seemed like a good thing to say at the time.
He was arrested and convicted for using "lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, insulting 'fighting words' against a public official", which was not protected by the First Amendment.
When Jehovah Spirit Directed His Organization to appeal the case and bring the case up to the United States Supreme Court, the Court affirmed the decision. Jehovah lost the case and so did Chaplinsky. Ruthlessfraud would have been PISSED OFF over that had he still been alive!
Since that time, the Courts have allowed a less restrictive interpretation of the First Amendment. Today, one might just be able to get away with calling a public official a "big weenie."
The Watchtower Printing Corporation never saw fit to milk that case like they did all the others. I wonder why.
Farkel