Comments on: Jehovah’s Witness Elders Physically Assault Film Crew on Their Property

By: Mary Carroll

Mary Carroll — Sat, 21 May 2016 01:06:58 +0000

The point of this whole story is the fact that the elders outright lied to the neighbors, when they told them they would not build their Kingdom Hall to block the view of a severely disabled man. A man whose life consists of living in a wheel chair looking out the window to the mountain view or to the hot air balloons in their newly built retirement home, which was custom built just for this reason. If you’ve followed the story, before the Kingdom Hall ever broke ground, they promised Jim and his wife they would build so as not to obstruct Jim’s view. See FB page: https://www.facebook.com/SaveJimsView/?fref=ts Jehovah’s Witnesses preach that they are the only true religion, the only ones to gain everylasting life, everyone else is going to die. How can this be true when they lie, when they preach the end of the world time and time again, when they harbor pedophiles, when they force the cult-like practice of shunning one’s own children if they don’t want to remain JW’s. There is no freedom of choice, they tell you what you can and cannot read, what you can and cannot do, who you can and cannot talk to. They are no different than any other Cult that follows these same practices. Yes, there are many who are nice, sincere people, but they are misled and are following men, not God. So, yes, there are people who have rallied around the fact that Jim’s View is now the back of the Kingdom Hall and a brick wall. There are people who are angry that the JW’s lied and now the JW’s are reaping what they themselves have sowed. #jehovahswitnesscult

By: John McCarthy

John McCarthy — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 09:01:50 +0000

Randy, you make a very good point. A lot of people here in the US are legally carrying concealed firearms. Had one of those individuals on the film crew been armed and produced a firearm and pointed it at those Elders, that would have only made a bad situation exceedingly worse! Now fortunately, nothing like that happened. The film crew seemed to handle the unpleasant situation quite well. Yet, it’s another good reason for individuals (Elders) not to over-react and start pushing and bullying people around for whatever reason, as you never really know what type of reaction one might receive from this kind of treatment.

By: Alexandra James

Alexandra James — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 18:21:29 +0000

Completely agree! There were many other ways to handle this and the elders choose the bullying tactic, so typical.

By: John McCarthy

John McCarthy — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 06:02:52 +0000

The film crew may have been trespassing, but those Elders had absolutely no right to touch or push them or their equipment. All the Elders had to do was to simply and politely inform the film crew they were trespassing on private property and to leave. Most people, especially film crews, are not going to create a scene and insist on staying there when being told they must leave private property. If they had refused to leave or if anyone refuses to leave, you simply call the police and let them handle the situation. This is not the time to start pushing, shoving and bullying people. Like a lot of Elders, these guys over-reacted and only made the situation worse by their inappropriate criminal conduct. As stated, it certainly does reveal the attitudes of these so-called “Christians.” I hope the film crew affected have a police report made of the incident.

By: Alexandra James

Alexandra James — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 23:43:48 +0000

No, we won’t leave alone a religion that routinely and systemically hides pedophiles, shuns family when they leave the religion even if they leave because of being molested and abused, shuns rape victims for “fornication,” puts even minors and young people through obscene, disgusting questions when they’ve been molested, and so on. They do damage every single day with their teachings and obscenities and as long as they create victims, we will continue to speak for the victims and make their voices heard.

By: Randy Mabused

Randy Mabused — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 23:03:09 +0000

Tyler tells me that they have had the Sherriff constantly patrol that area since this happened?

By: jenny black

jenny black — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 11:52:47 +0000

I have no sympathy with jehovah’s witnesses but, although there is some kind of fracas, I cannot see any actual assault by the elders and the film crew were on private property. They may be sad people trying to convince everyone that they are the true church but so are all those other christians who criticise them. Every single christian religion thinks they have a monopoly on truth – jehovah’s witnesses are just one. Leave them alone and they will leave you alone.

By: Alexandra James

Alexandra James — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 18:12:19 +0000

I saw so much domestic violence and condoning of that violence on behalf of elders, blaming the wives for “not being submissive enough,” not to mention child abuse under the guise of discipline, that nothing surprises me anymore. I have no idea how anyone can claim they are somehow special or different than anyone else or any other religious group.

By: Alexandra James

Alexandra James — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 18:10:18 +0000

I don’t believe they had permission but as I said, it was probably an honest mistake on their part and even so, they were in a corner of the lot, not bothering anyone, and certainly not doing anything deserving of an assault!

By: shyn43

shyn43 — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:23:45 +0000

Alex,
did the film crew seek permission to film from the elders?