Obligated is the word, and many countries you can be compliant to the crime by not reporting it. Regardless, JWs do not live in theocracy in their own world, but are subject and citizen of the respective country, and thus they must obey laws or face felony charges. There is no excuse. This has nothing to do with freedom of religion. Can you imagine if someone in AU would start to stone people because his or her religious conviction says so. Either way, he will be charged with a murder, and religious freedom nothing to do with it as it is criminal to stone people to death. While religious organization can handle the problem within their theocratic boundaries, but ultimately, JWs in AU are the subject of the laws of the country and not of the WT HQ. So anyone who shield rapists and enabled their behavior should be prosecuted. No excuse.
Posts by kaik
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36Those aussie elders may escape repercussions after all....RC day 3
by Witness My Fury indamn those tricky state laws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeg1omfumk 15:30 on.
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Those aussie elders may escape repercussions after all....RC day 3
by Witness My Fury indamn those tricky state laws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeg1omfumk 15:30 on.
annoying no?.
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The law enforcement and the AG should do thorough investigation followed by arresting and prosecuting real offenders and the people who shield them and protect them. I do not know what are the laws in AU, but the idea that any organization would shield child-rapists and enable their crime for years makes me disgusting. -
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Cecil the Lion deserved what he got...That's right. I said it.
by cappytan inlions are notorious murderers of beautiful zebras, antelope and other graceful exotic animals.
cecil probably contributed to the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of animals.
what happened to him was justice.. you reap what you sow.
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What I have read, he returned to Minneapolis and published pictures from his kill within the USA. I think it was reported by MN Star Tribune. They also leaked the story that he had previous run with the law for poaching and killing bear outside approved region in WI, was fined for perjury by lying to Dept. of Interior, and had lawsuit by one of the female patient that he touched her in private parts during the dental procedure. I think more of the sh!t will be eventually reported. A guy, who claimed that he can shoot a card from dozens of feet in the air, and said that he could not see protective collar on the lion is lying. He knew what he was doing. The tormented the big cat for 40 hours or so, just for fun. As lover of big cat I hope he serves time for poaching in Zimbabwe. Poaching was crime in the medieval times, today, and will stay a crime in the future. The lion was living on reservation and they had lured him outside into the nature, which tells you that there are NOT many of them in the wild left. -
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Those aussie elders may escape repercussions after all....RC day 3
by Witness My Fury indamn those tricky state laws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeg1omfumk 15:30 on.
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In Czech Republic, castration is generally surgical, because is it prevents for men to have erection. Chemical castration was not effective, had side effects, and was costly. Surgical procedure takes two hours or so. It has been done since 1970's or even longer, and decades of the Czech crime statistics showed that was very effective. The biggest critics of this procedure is UK; Germany had never voiced criticism of it.
Similar procedure is also done in Poland. I am not sure on Slovakia since they are independent and have different laws and political structure than Czech Republic.
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Back again!!
by Sweetp0985 inback again since about 10yrs ago.
last year attended the international convention in new orleans and was feeling some type of way afterwards.
went to a couple of meetings and then the thrill was gone.
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I do not have urges to come back at all. I am out for 21 years, and I do not miss it. In first year, I felt bad for skipping memorial, but I realized that I am not the anointed so, the memorial does not associate with me as I do not partake. -
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JW Volunteer Who Died Translating Sign Language - How was he not missed for 48 hours??
by cultBgone inthis may have been discussed before, but this article just now popped up in my online search for "jw news": .
man at jehovah's witness facility died of natural causes.
does it not seem really, really strange that he would not have been missed all day saturday and sunday?
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He was lucky to be find after 48 hours. At my old KH we had elderly woman in her 60's who was not regular attendee, free thinker, but deeply spiritual. She dropped from the face of the Earth until months later DO visited and made a comment to look out for people who stopped to attend. In my KH nobody knew where she lived, but they had an general area of the neighborhood, where they find that this older lonely woman was not only dead (discovered by stench of body decay), but she was already buried at the city expenses... Nobody in my KH missed her for several months.... -
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Those aussie elders may escape repercussions after all....RC day 3
by Witness My Fury indamn those tricky state laws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeg1omfumk 15:30 on.
annoying no?.
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Blondie, Czech Republic castrates pedophiles, and they have high success rate on low re-offense rate. It was even reported in the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7871783.stm). This law goes years back and since 1977, there was only one violent recidivist who killed. Over 90% of the offenders after surgery (it prevent penile erection as well) have not offended. Czech Republic has the lowest recidivism rate of all of EU on sexual crimes. Poland and Germany has similar laws as well. -
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Cecil the Lion deserved what he got...That's right. I said it.
by cappytan inlions are notorious murderers of beautiful zebras, antelope and other graceful exotic animals.
cecil probably contributed to the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of animals.
what happened to him was justice.. you reap what you sow.
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Lions are soon to be endangered species. It is bad enough that they had to lure a big cat from national reserve and kill it illegally outside as it tells you how little of them is left in the wildlife.. I hope this boomer serves prison time in Zimbabwe for illegal poaching and on his return to Minnesota, he loose his practice. It is enough that he had illegal bear hunt in Wisconsin and was charged with perjury, and was forced to pay 127,000 to settle sexual harassment by touching one of his patient. -
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Those aussie elders may escape repercussions after all....RC day 3
by Witness My Fury indamn those tricky state laws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeg1omfumk 15:30 on.
annoying no?.
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International warrant and Interpol after GB asses, and they would not be safe anywhere. Every country would handed over as they do not like to shield pedophiles and their enables. Let's hope someone would face justice in the court for protecting pedophiles and rapists. They are lucky that this is not case in the Czech Republic where they castrate baby-rapists. -
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Governing Body, painted in a corner, now what?
by Wasanelder Once inthe governing body have painted themselves in a corner, so to speak.
if they acknowledge their response to abuse claims was insensitive, unloving and inadequate they are denying the belief that "god's way" is best and risk losing abuse cases.
if they stick with it and say it is "god's way according to the bible" they will be seen as cult leaders and risk losing abuse cases.
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I do not think WT has painted in the corner in relationship to their members. Majority of the members do not care about pedophilia scandals and cover up, they will support the FDS all the way to the Armageddon. Many organizations had similar scandals, but often close-knit communities like WT will not admit mistake. They will blame the world, Satan, demons, victims, but never will acknowledge any wrong doing. And the JWs would support them and shield them. Organizations that went through shakeup under such issues were forced by own members, but this would not happen with average, brainwashed JW. WT knows it and this is all what it matters. The HQ may sacrifice couple pawns in the process, but I agree with flipper on this.