In an article dated September 23, 2015, Trey Bundy reports what happened when one of the Watchtower Society’s Governing Body members testified during two weeks of hearings before a Royal Commission in Australia.
Geoffrey Jackson, one of seven current Governing Body members, and several other high-ranking members of the organization in Australia testified for hours after swearing to tell the truth. In his article, Bundy asks, “Were any of them really telling the truth?”
Those of us who have been Jehovah’s Witnesses who are intimately familiar with the Watchtower organization know that everything elders, branch representatives – even members of the Governing Body – speak or write, even under oath, is questionable. We’ve learned that they are willing to hide, distort, ignore, and deny the “truth.” Even those who know that they are not being truthful to news reporters, investigators, and even the police will do or say whatever is necessary “to protect Jehovah’s earthly organization.” They learn how to do this as part of Watchtower strategy known as “Theocratic Warfare.” The recent Commission hearings in Australia provided us with a grand and endless display of their official use of that “theocratic strategy.”
We will be presenting more information on this story and the Australian Commission Hearings over the next few weeks. We are in the process of editing an entire section dedicated to the Commission hearings that included videos of all the sessions, links to transcripts of all the public sessions, more news articles, and all official exhibits released to the public.
Since the 1950s, the Witnesses have preached a doctrine allowing “Jehovah’s followers” to deceive anyone outside of the religion if doing so protects the organization. They call it “theocratic warfare.”
The Commission hearings and Trey Bundy’s thorough and concise investigations have done a great deal toward opening up the Watchtower to closer scrutiny and exposure. This is hopefully only the beginning leading to full exposure of Watchtower’s policy of hiding the truth.
REVEAL article by Trey Bundy on Watchtower’s use of “shunning” to enforce their policies: Link to Article // Link to PDF