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Conti Appeal Oral Arguments slated for 9 A.M., Jan. 14, 2014. Recap of Defendant Watchtower's Complaint of Errors for your info.
by AndersonsInfo inconti appeal hearing-summary of watchtowers complaint of errors with plaintiff's reply.
the following statements were taken from the introduction of respondents brief a136641 -attorney richard simons' response for plaintiff.
defendants argue that the affirmative duty imposed by the trial court impinges on their religious freedom.
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Canada's MACLEANS article "Against their will: Inside Canada’s forced marriages." The main subject in the story is an XJW we all know.
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/against-their-will/.
forced marriage is one of the last taboos to break.
a new law could make it a crime.
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http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/against-their-will/
Forced marriage is one of the last taboos to break. A new law could make it a crime. So why do those who champion prevention oppose it?
January 5, 2015
Two weeks after her 18th birthday, Lee Marsh was sitting at the kitchen table one Sunday, reading the Bible, when her mother came in and announced that Marsh would marry a 20-year-old member of their Jehovah’s Witness congregation in Montreal. The girl was stunned; she had met her husband-to-be just once. Five weeks later, it was done.
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My college essay, "Racial Hatred," was based on an actual frightening field service experience I had while I was in Bethel
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://watchtowerdocuments.org/racial-hatred/.
racial hatred.
i knew i was in danger.
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Neat comment, Simon. Not sure how to reply to it though.
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My college essay, "Racial Hatred," was based on an actual frightening field service experience I had while I was in Bethel
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://watchtowerdocuments.org/racial-hatred/.
racial hatred.
i knew i was in danger.
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http://watchtowerdocuments.org/racial-hatred/
Racial Hatred
I knew I was in danger. As the pitch of the woman’s voice was getting higher and volume louder, a creeping, nervous feeling was moving along my whole being. Without a doubt a physical attack was next.
That bright spring Saturday morning, I was with my African-American friend Rose in the Flatbush Avenue section of Brooklyn to interview John, a young man from Kenya.
Twenty years ago, Flatbush was a Jewish area, but now it is black, with most of the people living there coming from Africa, Haiti, and other areas of the West Indies. That day, hip-hop music, mixed with rap and reggae, boomed from open apartment windows. It was easy to imagine that this was a foreign country. Read More at:
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Conti Appeal Oral Arguments slated for 9 A.M., Jan. 14, 2014. Recap of Defendant Watchtower's Complaint of Errors for your info.
by AndersonsInfo inconti appeal hearing-summary of watchtowers complaint of errors with plaintiff's reply.
the following statements were taken from the introduction of respondents brief a136641 -attorney richard simons' response for plaintiff.
defendants argue that the affirmative duty imposed by the trial court impinges on their religious freedom.
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Conti Appeal Hearing-Summary of Watchtower’s Complaint of Errors with Plaintiff's Reply
The following statements were taken from the Introduction of Respondent’s Brief A136641 -Attorney Richard Simons' response for Plaintiff
Defendants argue that the affirmative duty imposed by the trial court impinges on their religious freedom. However, it is well established that a religious organization cannot insulate itself from liability by designating legally-proscribed conduct as “religious belief.” ---
First, they claim error in the trial court’s refusal to instruct the jury on the requirements of California’s mandatory child abuse reporting statute in effect in 1993. The claimed error is actually evidentiary, not instructional, because defendants contend the refused instruction was necessary to “correct” expert testimony concerning the mandatory reporting statute.
Watchtower invited this error by eliciting the allegedly improper testimony and the Congregation waived it by failing to object to the testimony. In any event, mandatory reporting responsibilities were not part of the case and thus the trial court properly instructed the jury not to consider the statute or the expert’s testimony concerning it in deciding defendant’s liability.
Defendants claim error in the court’s decision to exclude plaintiff’s parents and law enforcement agencies from the special verdict form as potential tortfeasors. However, the evidence was insufficient to raise a prima facie case of liability as to any of these nonparties.
Finally, Watchtower attacks the punitive damage award. First, it contends that the evidence was insufficient to establish malice. Substantial evidence, however, established that Watchtower consciously disregarded the risk that Kendrick, a known child molester, posed to children of the Congregation, including plaintiff. Although Watchtower knew child molesters are difficult to identify and often reoffend, it nevertheless chose to keep secret from Congregation members the fact that Kendrick had abused a child in order to protect itself from civil liability. Furthermore, it actually assigned plaintiff to perform field service with Kendrick.
Second, Watchtower contends the punitive damages were unconstitutionally excessive. The jury awarded $7,000,000 in compensatory damages and $21,000,001 in punitive damages, the latter being remitted by the judge to $8,610,000. The punitive damages were firmly supported by the reprehensibility of Watchtower’s conduct. They were not based on evidence of harm to others because no such evidence was admitted; furthermore, the jury was instructed not to consider any such harm in assessing punitive damages.
Finally, the remitted amount was only three times the “base level” of compensatory damages as found by the judge (7 AA 1938)—well within constitutional limits.
Defendants fail to demonstrate any error, much less prejudicial error. Their selective and highly inaccurate reporting of the facts along, with their failure to cite relevant and controlling authority, are tacit admissions that the appeal is without merit. The judgment must be affirmed.
The following list contains the title of each of five sections as seen in the Respondent’s Brief that were then argued therein.
DEFENDANTS’ SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH PLAINTIFF AND KENDRICK IMPOSED A DUTY TO PROTECT PLAINTIFF; IN ANY EVENT, THEY COMMITTED ACTUAL MISFEASANCE BY ASSIGNING HER TO FIELD SERVICE WITH KENDRICK.
IMPOSING A DUTY TO WARN DOES NOT VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION.
THE INSTRUCTIONS ON DUTY TO WARN, THE MANDATORY REPORTING STATUTE, AND ALLOCATION OF FAULT TO OTHERS WERE NOT PREJUDICIALLY ERRONEOUS.
THERE IS NO EVIDENTIARY OR CONSTITUTIONAL BASIS TO VACATE OR FURTHER REDUCE THE PUNITIVE DAMAGE AWARD.
DEFENDANTS’ FAILURE TO FOLLOW THE RULES OF COURT PREJUDICES THEIR APPEAL.
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OMG! The world is worse than ever! This system can't last! Violence is increasing! Wait, what's that you say?
by sir82 inif you read jw literature, the world has been progressively getting "worse and worse" since 1914.. is that really the case?.
for a more rational analysis, look here:.
a few highlights:.
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I was so impressed by what Finkelhor wrote in a recent Washington Post article about the behavior of today’s youths getting better that I wrote an article about it and posted it on my website. Today, when I saw that “sir82” quoted Finkelhor’s words on this thread as follows, I decided to point readers to more information.
Finkelhor wrote as quoted by sir82 at the beginning of this thread:
“Kids are undoubtedly safer than they were in the past. In a review of the literature on violence against children in the United States published earlier this year, the sociologist David Finkelhor and his colleagues reported, “Of 50 trends in exposure examined, there were 27 significant declines and no significant increases between 2003 and 2011. Declines were particularly large for assault victimization, bullying, and sexual victimization.”
See more evidence taken from Finkelhor’s statements in my article, “Youths are surprising us” where statistics show that the behavior of our youths is changing for the better: http://watchtowerdocuments.org/youths-are-surprising-us/
“Youths are surprising us”
As far back as the first century BC, youths were criticized by the Greeks for their bad manners, contempt for authority, tyrannizing their teachers, love of luxury, etc., but Grecian writers didn’t attribute that behavior as a sign of the end of the Grecian world.
It appears that throughout history, adults were not happy with the general disobedience of young people and it was not any different in the 19th-century and 20th-century. If asked, most adults, during these centuries and before, thought that youths’ behavior was worse than ever.
However, Jehovah’s Witnesses have taken bad behavior on the part of the young to mean fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Since the beginning of their religion in the late 19 th -century, they have contended that disobedience of young people is on the increase and is one of the marks of the “last days.” Here are some examples of this:
Read More: http://watchtowerdocuments.org/youths-are-surprising-us/
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Rutherford's Hostile Welcome in New Zealand
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://watchtowerdocuments.org/hostile-welcome-new-zealand/.
rutherfords hostile welcome in new zealand.
posted on december 23, 2014 by barbara on www.watchtowerdocuments.org.
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I read about that placard while I was in Bethel while reading an article in the March 1, 1985 Watchtower and had to laugh. In fact, in the article, it said that Rutherford laughed at what he read on that placard. Recently, when looking through the 1985 Watchtower, I ran across that article once again. It was a personal story as told by Harold E. Gill. We have only his word that this event actually happened.
When reading about the placard for the second time, I realized that although it was somewhat humorous, it couldn't have been funny to the people in the early 1920s who put faith in Rutherford's words, "Millions Now Living Will Never Die," which misled them into believing in something that turned out to be a lie when 1925 arrived and nothing happened.
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Rutherford's Hostile Welcome in New Zealand
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://watchtowerdocuments.org/hostile-welcome-new-zealand/.
rutherfords hostile welcome in new zealand.
posted on december 23, 2014 by barbara on www.watchtowerdocuments.org.
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http://watchtowerdocuments.org/hostile-welcome-new-zealand/
Rutherford’s Hostile Welcome in New Zealand
Posted on December 23, 2014 by Barbara on www.watchtowerdocuments.org
When “Judge” Rutherford visited New Zealand in 1938 he met a mostly hostile reception. As Rutherford was driven to the Auckland Town Hall to deliver a lecture, “…his attention was drawn to a newspaper placard bearing a distortion of the title of a lecture he had given years earlier.” [Watchtower, March 1, 1985, p. 28]
What was the name of that original lecture? What was the theme and promise that was part of Watchtower President J. F. Rutherford’s world famous public-speaking program that began on September 25, 1920 and continued for many years after?
“Millions Now Living Will Never Die”
In 1920, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society also published a booklet of the same name. On page 97 it stated:
“…that the new order is coming in, and that 1925 shall mark the resurrection of the faithful worthies of old and the beginning of reconstruction, it is reasonable to conclude that millions now living will never die.”
The passing of 1925 and the embarrassing failure of these predictions by the Watchtower under the direction of “Judge” Joseph F. Rutherford were well-known and remembered by many people living in 1938.
The people of New Zealand were slow to forget or forgive. It was no wonder that on that newspaper placard displayed upon his arrival in Auckland it was written in big bold letters: Read what was written on that placard at http://watchtowerdocuments.org/hostile-welcome-new-zealand/
And while you're at the website, look at the Rutherford video.
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UPDATE: JW jailed for five years for indecently assaulting young girls
by AndersonsInfo inupdate: jehovah's witness jailed for five years for indecently assaulting young girls.
barry furlong.
first published monday 22 december 2014 in news last updated 10:41 monday 22 december 2014 by will frampton.
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UPDATE: Jehovah's Witness jailed for five years for indecently assaulting young girls
Barry Furlong
First published Monday 22 December 2014 in News
Last updated 10:41 Monday 22 December 2014 by Will FramptonA RESPECTED Jehovah’s Witness has been jailed for more than five years for indecently assaulting young girls.
Barry Furlong was convicted today of four counts of indecency with a child and four counts of indecent assault, offences which took place during the 1970s, 80s and 90s when he was a ministerial servant in the faith’s Kinson congregation.
Bournemouth Crown Court heard the 69-year-old grandfather had indecently touched the four girls – one of whom was nine years old – over their clothing in all but one of the offences. On that occasion he put his hand in the victim’s underwear.
Jailing Furlong for five years and three months, Recorder Stephen Climie said: “These offences involved, in my judgement, an extreme abuse of trust.
“You were highly regarded within the local congregation you attended within the Jehovah’s Witness faith.”
The judge said Furlong had taken advantage of the naivety of his four victims, which he said was instilled in them by their religious community “as was perfectly proper”.
He said there had been “a significant impact” on each of them.
The jury of six men and six women took eight hours and 51 minutes to decide their verdicts, three of which were passed by a majority of 10-2.
Furlong, a former fireman and Post Office worker who strongly denied all the charges against him, was acquitted of four counts of rape and two of indecency with a child.
Speaking in mitigation, James Newton-Price said the convictions had been a “devastating blow” to his client and his family.
He said the father-of-two and his wife of 42 years had “effectively lost” their home “because of the publicity” surrounding the trial, and that the defendant suffered from back pain and depression which would make any prison term a greater hardship.
“I don’t in any way wish to minimise the mental anguish of the complainants as a result of his actions,” he said.
“That said, with the exception of count three, all are offences in which there has been either touching or rubbing over clothing.”
Furlong, of Keeble Crescent, Bournemouth, received a Sexual Offences Prevention Order prohibiting unsupervised access to minors for an indefinite period, and was ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life.
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Steve Pinker ... evidence on the surprising decline in violence
by digderidoo inthis is an interesting lecture.
one that flies in the face of current jw and i assume most non jw thinking.
evidence shows that when examining history mankind was more violent over the centuries than they were during the 20th and 21st century.
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Coincidentally, I just posted the following article on my website which I wrote two days ago - watchtowerdocuments.org. See the evidence for yourself that the behavior of our youths is changing for the better:
As far back as the first century BC, youths were criticized by the Greeks for their bad manners, contempt for authority, tyrannizing their teachers, love of luxury, etc., but Grecian writers didn’t attribute that behavior as a sign of the end of the Grecian world.
It appears that throughout history, adults were not happy with the general disobedience of young people and it was not any different in the 19th-century and 20th-century. If asked, most adults, during these centuries and before, thought that youths’ behavior was worse than ever.
However, Jehovah’s Witnesses have taken bad behavior on the part of the young to mean fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Since the beginning of their religion in the late 19 th -century, they have contended that disobedience of young people is on the increase and is one of the marks of the “last days.” Here are some examples of this: Read More: http://watchtowerdocuments.org/youths-are-surprising-us/
