KW13 said: AK-Jeff i am not doubting you personally, but can i ask, how sure are we this letter is authentic? Seems to me, if it is real, something should have been done about it, although it'd probably be met with denial.
Yep, that's the whole point hon: something should have been done about it, but as per usual, the WTS was (and remains) far more concerned about protecting their pitiful reputation, than in dealing with serious problems. Note that the letter expresses far more concern with the possibility that this brother smoked a joint than what they did with the idea that he could have "committed several murders". Murder you say? Paaaaah. Don't worry about something so trivial brothers. We can't have you wasting valuable time questioning a serial killer about the murders he committed; we need to focus on the really important issue of whether or not he smoked a joint, which would bring reproach on Jehovah's Organization.
I have no problem believing that the letter is genuine because if follows the pattern that the Organization takes on many such things. They strain the knat and swallow the camel on many such issues. Too bad they didn't pursue murderers and pedophiles with the same gusto and enthusiam that they do pursuing those who smoke the occassional joint, buy a lottery ticket, celebrate Christmas or attend a birthday party.
Of course they protect pedophiles. It's not that they want children to be molested, but obviously when this problem was brought to the ears of the GB, they decided to treat the problem the way society in general treated it back in the 1950s: 'let's ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist.' Their decision was probably based partly on the fact that they did not have any children of their own and simply could not appreciate the horror of what this did to a child. It probably concerned them a bit, but obviously they were far more concerned with their reputation than what they were in protecting children from some of the scumbags roaming the KH's looking for victims. If they reported the pedophiles to the police, it could become public, and if it hit the media, they'd become a laughingstock and would be viewed as being no better than their arch-nemesis, the Catholic Church. And there's no way they wanted that to happen. So they put the lid on it, discouraged victims from coming forward, discouraged elders from reporting it to the 'worldly authorities' and instead, pretended that no crime was really being committed.
Plus, the GB was and remains so far out of touch with reality it isn't even funny. Their world consists of keeping control of 7 million people, squashing any hint of "independent thinking", travelling around the world giving useless discources on how 'close the end is', and revelling in the adulation that so many of the R&F display towards them. They have no real desire to expose themselves to worldwide ridicule by admitting that their policies in fact, suck dead rocks and basically created what Bill Bowen described as a "pedophile paradise". They acted with inpunity because the 'two-eye witness rule' was rarely (if ever) used against the molester, because that's the very nature of what they do: they make sure there are no witnesses to the molestation. It's only because of people like Barbara Anderson and Bill Bowen that the horrific truth finally came out as to what they were doing.
So MadJW, don't be a dickhead. Lady Lee's horrifying experience of what she went through was, unfortunately, not an isolated incident. This religion is run by a bunch of chauvanistic old men who have always viewed women and children as second class citizens. It mattered little to them that children were being raped by fellow believers because if it did, they would have dealt with the problem head on decades ago instead of sweeping it all under the carpet.
