I found it particularly ironic for this tract to lament the fact that families were torn apart by persecution, children taken from parents, never to be reunited. They themselves do the EXACT SAME THING with the disfellowshipping policy. They dismiss people who are expelled in just the same way, as if they were "enemies of the theocratic state". And guess what? They also spend a great deal of time PUBLICLY DENOUNCING those who disagree with their doctrine. [Extreme sarcasm follows:] When it happens to Jehovah's Witnesses, oh, how humiliating! How terrible it is to be publicly denounced for no reason! What suffering we must endure!!
My only pity is for the poor souls who suffer the brunt of the punishment for what the bastards in New York push on them. Examine the literature, and any unbiased person will acknowledge extremist statements. Period. The Society is responsible for setting them up!!!!! Period. If you want to punish anyone, punish the Writing Committee. Punish the Governing Body. They're the ones who need to suffer.
The Witnesses are not in themselves enemies of any particular state, but they are by definition enemies of freedom of mind, enemies of decency towards their fellowman, and they can cause just as much harm as any government's war with the destruction they wreak upon the lives of so many good people. You can look at it as not entirely their fault. But just as in every other similar scenario, they're going to suffer the consequences of going along with it. No one can protect them from that. Injustice breeds injustice. If they'd done things the right way in the first place, maybe, maybe some of this stuff wouldn't happen. I may be wrong.