SIMPLE and easy way to prove Jehovah's Witnesses are
a dishonest organization
Most Jehovah's
Witnesses do not realize that their elders secret manual instructs the elders
to deny people their rights to record their own conversations and interactions
with the elders. This includes judicial meetings and so-called shepherding
calls.
Elders have even been
warned at their elder training classes that if they allow themselves to be
recorded the watchtower Society will not defend him in court if they are sued.
Elders fear being
recorded because they do not want to be held accountable and responsible for
their words and actions. No elder has ever given me a cogent reason for
refusing people their rights to record interactions with elders.
What this creates is
a unfair power balance between the elders and anyone they are talking to or
judicially dealing with. If there is any doubt over what transpired during a
interaction the elders have each other as witnesses to what happened and what
was said. The unfair advantage occurs when the congregation members or the one
being judged wishes to have a witness for themselves of what occurred.
Many people have
dealt with elders that straight out lie or dishonestly twist what happened and
what was said.
This also creates a
secrecy barrier that hides elders transgressions, crimes, and violations of
people's rights, both under the Jehovah's Witness rules and the rules of civil
law .
One elder recently
inanely spouted to me that the reason they don't allow recording is for
confidentiality. I responded that there is no confidentiality involved because
it's the person at the meeting was recording their own conversation so
obviously they know what transpired.
Elders in the past
were self-assured that any outlandish conduct or words would be hidden and kept
secret from anyone outside the meeting. This is no longer true.
This policy and
procedure of not allowing congregation members to have their own record and
witness of what occurs when they deal with Jehovah's Witness elders is a policy
in place and relied on for decades by the Jehovah's Witness hierarchy including
the governing body to hide their conduct. To protect them from criminal
prosecution, civil suit and being reported to their higher-ups in the Jehovah's
Witnesses power structure.
This is a dishonest
policy and highlights and exposes that the entire Jehovah's Witness power
structure including especially the governing body are seriously concerned only
with protecting themselves and avoiding responsibility rather than any kind of
honest biblical justice.
This policy also
exposes the Jehovah's Witnesses as a secret organization that relies on
covering over sometimes outrageous and criminal conduct. Which they
hypocritically have decried as something only a false religion would do.
"True religion
in no way practices secretiveness"
Watchtower 1997 6/1 pp.
5-6
