-Caveat Lector-
Who will be plowed under? Well start with David Kore(sh) for that guy
knew too much; then add Heaven's Gate for they were in my opinion
murdered in their beds....as Do said "Planet Earth is about to be plowed
under", we are to be recycled.
So who will the chosen ones be - and I always think, chosen for what?
Recycling? Is it true Queen Elizabeth and Ted Turner and Robert
Redford have all bought safe houses and millions of acres of land in the
West - so will they start with New York? Does Hill and Bill know what
will happen?
Stop and think what we are witnessing today; cattle being slaughtered,
their dead bodies stacked high - in order to expedie their removal and
without crematories - they are being burned in pyramids......then will
come the disease?
Keep remembering and found this item, re Jehovah's Witnesses - how did
they know that blood banks and blood had been polluted? This is first
hand information I received from two Witnesses trying to stop a blood
transfusion for they told me the blood was poisoned....
William Jefferson Blythe aka Clinton aka who knows what - distributed
poisoned polluted blood to Canada - HIV/AIDS blood which went around the
world and this blood bank was a private blood bank. If I lived in
Canada I would get that guy for murder for do you think this CFR member
did not know what he was doing?
David Kore(sh) knew what was going to happen - Do of Heaven's Gate knew
- for he said Planet Earth is about to be plowed under.....well Kore(sh)
and his flock were burnt alive and then plowed under, like the symbolic
murder of the cattle on a worldwide level - tell me then will Mad Cow
disease then become a plague to certain people? Have the cattle been
fed maybe poisonous genetically engineered foods.......you now have
seeds that self destruct? More birth control plans?
So who are these chosen people who will survive??? Who wrote the Old
Testament which is the master plan for murder politely called
"genocide".......
Never believed Do and Heaven Gates Cult died from suicidie.....it was
obvious - it was murder......with computers set up they were ready to
make big books and I have Do's tapes - over and over he repeats Planet
Earth is to be recycled and people are doomed - is Garden Plot the
master plan? Has it become a problem of survival - get them before they
get you?
This item while unusual made me think of these two Jehovah Witnesses -
both men, both well trained and the one highly intelligent for you read
that in his eyes - he looked almost like some Mafia Dons I have had the
pleasure to witness.....
So what else is new - we slaughter babies who took maybe one breath of
life before its head is bashed in - sell baby body parts and the Chinese
have gotten into this big - we slaughtered babies at Waco and at
Oklahoma - people want excitement, why CNN is there with cameras
sometimes before the slaughter begins? See story of Littleton......
Saba
Heaven's Gate Tragedy Is Behind Us
But Second Sect's Leader Is Still at Large -- with Rising Death Toll
Milton G. Henschel
still at large -- has
led more followers
to early death than
Marshall Applewhite
"Beth-Sarim" mansion
in San Diego
near Heaven's Gate
was westcoast center
for Henschel's sect
Followers expected
to rendezvous with
Pleiades star cluster
rather than comet
Hale-Bopp
23 young victims
displayed as heroes
for dying refusing
blood transfusions.
Death toll rising.
Similarities to Heaven's Gate, but with a rising death toll In a nearby
San Diego mansion another sect awaited the resurrection of long-dead
patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and King David -- while expecting at
their own death to rendezvous with the Pleiades star cluster.
Not far from the Heaven's Gate suicide scene stands the terra
cotta-roofed mansion named Beth-Sarim (Hebrew for "House of Princes")
built in 1929 by the Watchtower organization, better known as Jehovah's
Witnesses.
"Transplanting organs is really cannibalism," current Watchtower
President Milton G. Henschel told FREE PRESS religion writer Hiley B.
Ward in 1968, when he was still rising through the sect's leadership
ranks. The sect banned organ transplants and even skin grafting for
thirteen years, but then dropped the ban suddenly in 1980, without any
apology to members who had gone blind refusing cornea transplants or
relatives of those who had died refusing kidneys.
However, before selling their San Diego mansion in 1948, Henschel's
associates drew up their ban on blood transfusions, a ban that has "led
thousands to die needlessly" according to charges cited recently in
JAMA, the JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
(Feb. 5, 1997, Vol. 277, No. 5, page 425)
This suicidal act by Milton Henschel's followers is aided by a "Medical
Alert" card members are instructed to carry in wallet or purse telling
doctors that "no blood transfusions be administered to me" even if
"necessary to preserve my life."
The facing page of THE WATCHTOWER magazine with these instructions
suggests members first make the Watch Tower Society a beneficiary of
their life insurance policy. (How many insurance companies have paid
money to the sect under these circumstances? Does this constitute
insurance fraud?)
To assure that these instructions are carried out, a four-page
"Health-Care Advance Directive and Power of Attorney" signed by each
member declares that even if doctors determine "that only blood
transfusion therapy will preserve my life or health, I do not want it."
The form assigns medical power of attorney to an elder or other
dedicated member who stands by to prevent death-bed treatment of an
unconscious patient.
While the Heaven's Gate members expected to be transported at death to a
location in outer space associated with the Hale-Bopp comet, for many
decades Watchtower believers hoped to go for their heavenly reward to
the Pleiades star cluster in the constellation Taurus ("the Bull").
Jehovah's Witnesses believed Christ traveled there after his
resurrection, and they identified the Pleiades as the residence of
Almighty God Jehovah himself. (See their WATCHTOWER magazine, May 15,
1895, p. 1814, and their book RECONCILIATION, page 14.)
Going to "heaven" meant going to the Pleiades. The sect's leaders did
not repudiate this teaching until 1953 when THE WATCHTOWER stated, "it
would be unwise for us to try to fix God's throne as being at a
particular spot in the universe." (November 15, page 703)
While Heaven's Gate believers were covered with purple cloth at death,
Watchtower founder Russell had his traveling companion fashion a white
Roman toga from railroad sleeping-car bedsheets as he approached death
on Halloween, October 31, 1916. A massive stone pyramid measuring nine
feet across its base with the name WATCH TOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY
engraved in large letters on its side stands next to Russell's grave,
marking the sect's burial plots in United Cemetary north of Pittsburgh.
Until 1928 the sect taught that the Great Pyramid of Egypt was lined up
with the Pleiades star cluster and contained in its measurements
prophecies of the life of Christ and the end of the world.
With more than 900 deaths, the People's Temple sect led by Rev. Jim
Jones holds the modern record for its mass-suicide in 1978 at Jonestown,
Guyana. However, a greater number of Jehovah's Witnesses have died in
obedience to their leadership's ban on blood, according to a recent book
reviewed in the February 5, 1997 issue of JAMA. The medical journal
departed from its usual subject matter to review BLOOD ON THE ALTAR:
CONFESSIONS OF A JEHOVAH'S WITNESS MINISTER, on the grounds that the
book "would be most useful to clinicians who treat Jehovah's Witnesses
and to emergency and critical care providers who often must deal with a
patient's refusal to accept a blood transfusion when death is otherwise
imminent," according to Marianne Mann, MD, who wrote the review.
The book by former Witness elder David A. Reed features media reports
documenting scores of Witness deaths, as well as medical statistics
released by the Watchtower Society pointing to a death toll in the
thousands.
"In former times thousands of youths died for putting God first. They
are still doing it, only today the drama is played out in hospitals and
courtrooms, with blood transfusions the issue."--the Watchtower
Society's AWAKE! magazine May 22, 1994, page 2
HANDSOME boys and beautiful smiling girls--"Youths Who Put God
First"--brighten the magazine cover, making it an issue easy to place in
the hands of unsuspecting millions answering the knock at their door.
Only upon opening the May 22, 1994 AWAKE! magazine do readers discover
that the appealing photos represent kids who died in obedience to the
Watchtower Society's ban on blood transfusions.
Posed together in a group portrait in the foreground of Awake!'s cover
are three extremely photogenic youngsters. Fifteen-year-old Adrian
Yeatts died September 13, 1993, after the Supreme Court of Newfoundland,
Canada, declared him a "mature minor" and rejected the Child Welfare
department's request for court-ordered transfusions.
Twelve-year-old Lenae Martinez died in California on September 22, 1993,
after the Valley Children's Hospital ethics committee ruled her a
"mature minor" and decided not to seek a court order.
Twelve-year-old Lisa Kosack died (no date given) in Canada after holding
off transfusion therapy by threatening that she "would fight and kick
the IV pole down and rip out the IV no matter how much it would hurt,
and poke holes in the blood." (page 13)
Did the Watchtower Society actually summon Adrian, Lenae, and Lisa for a
group photo session in morbid anticipation of their martyrdom? Evidently
not, since each is shown in the identical pose in separate photos with
different backgrounds on pages 3, 9, and 12 of the magazine. The group
portrait was produced, no doubt, in the photocomposition lab at the
sect's Brooklyn headquarters. Individual photos of 23 other attractive
youths fill the background on Awake!'s cover. These other youngsters are
neither named nor discussed, but the implication is that they too all
died refusing blood products.
The feature articles on "Youths Who Put God First" fill the first
fifteen pages of the May 22 Awake!--nearly half the issue.
More than a third of this space is devoted to handsome, dimple-cheeked
Adrian. The story relates cute anecdotes from his early childhood and
reveals him to be a sensitive, intelligent, lovable boy anyone would be
proud to have as a son.
At age eleven he rescued three orphaned raccoon babies he found
alongside the highway and escorted them to a safe home at an animal
shelter. The kindness and respect he showed for a mentally challenged
girl in his class at school--the butt of other children's
jokes--endeared him to the girl's mother. Adrian was fourteen when
doctors found a fast-growing tumor in his stomach.
A series of autopsies revealed a large lymphoma in his abdomen, plus
evidence of leukemia in his bone marrow. Oncologist Dr. Lawrence Jardine
at the Dr. Charles A. Janeway Child Health Centre in St. John's,
Newfoundland, prescribed aggressive chemotherapy accompanied by blood
transfusions. When it became clear that Adrian, at his parents' urging,
refused the transfusions, child welfare workers went to court seeking
protective custody.
Watchtower lawyers produced a strongly worded signed affidavit from the
teenager: "The way that I feel is that if I'm given any blood that will
be like raping me, molesting my body. I don't want my body if that
happens. I can't live with that. I don't want any treatment if blood is
going to be used, even a possibility of it. I'll resist use of blood."
On July 19 Justice Robert Wells of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland
ruled the boy to be "a mature minor whose wish to receive medical
treatment without blood or blood products is to be respected."
With only weeks to live, the brave young man fulfilled a few wishes. He
visited the Watchtower branch office at Georgetown, Ontario. He went to
a Blue Jays baseball game and had his picture taken with part of the
team. On September 12 a handful of Jehovah's Witnesses held a special
service in the hospital's physiotherapy room and baptized Adrian in one
of its steel tanks, thus officially inducting him into membership, and
he died the next day.
Why did young Adrian take this course? The AWAKE! article mentions that
he "felt that his Biblical hope of eternal life would be threatened" if
he agreed to a transfusion. (page 5) Like other JW children he had been
taught that death on a hospital bed was to be chosen over "an even
graver risk, the risk of losing God's approval by agreeing to a misuse
of blood."
His parents no doubt followed the organization's instructions to "review
these matters with their children" and to "hold practice sessions in
which each youth faces questions that might be posed by a judge or a
hospital official." (THE WATCHTOWER June 15, 1991, page 15) In other
words, Adrian was thoroughly indoctrinated.
Virtually all JW youngsters receive this training to one extent or
another, but not all end up in circumstances that require them to go
through with it. How many actually do? The caption for Adrian's cover
photo states that "thousands of youths died for putting God first" in
"former times" and adds that "they are still doing it, only today the
drama is played out in hospitals and courtrooms, with blood transfusions
the issue." Nowhere, though, do the articles specify exactly which
"former times" are referred to. (AWAKE! May 22, 1994, page 2) Nor are
any statistics provided on whether the number of Jehovah's Witness
youths dying "today�with blood transfusions the issue" similarly runs
into the thousands, or not.
Most hospitals and courts nowadays grant adult JWs the freedom to refuse
blood products even when it means certain death for them. On the other
hand, when the patients are babies or young children, physicians secure
court orders almost automatically. A battle continues to rage, however,
as the Watchtower Society attempts to persuade medical and legal
authorities to view JW kids in the 12-through-17-year-old range as
"mature minors" who should be allowed to die.
Courts are caught in a dilemma when faced with ailing youngsters
determined to resist blood therapy with whatever strength they are able
to muster. Some teenagers and pre-teens are simply repeating
well-rehearsed arguments drilled into them at congregation meetings and
at family study practice sessions.
Others have become persuaded in their own minds that it would be wrong
or immoral for them to accept blood products. All know that they face
disgrace before their peers, loss of parental approval, and disciplinary
action from the organization if they accept the forbidden blood
products.
Some doctors hesitate to force blood products on such youngsters for
fear that the resulting emotional stress might offset the medical
advantages. They do not want to see their patient deprived of needed
blood products, but they also hesitate to force a treatment that would
leave the youngster feeling violated, polluted, guilt-ridden, and
lacking the will to live.
Why, though, are parents willing to sacrifice beloved children on the
altar of organizational doctrine? Little meets the eye when outsiders
puzzle over the unnatural actions of Witnesses in the hospital or the
courtroom. Specially trained JW elders serving on "hospital liaison
committees" quickly step in to make the organization's voice heard
alongside the patient and his or her family.
The elders appeal to the broader issues of patients' rights and personal
conscience, but they make no mention of secret Watchtower judicial
committees that enforce blood transfusion rulings on JW parents. Doctors
and judges are largely unaware of the intense indoctrination Witnesses
undergo daily.
In the New Testament account, when confronted with objections against
his healing a man who was ill on the Sabbath, Jesus knew that his
opponents took a much gentler view of religious restrictions when their
own vital interests were at stake, so he asked the Pharisees, "Who of
you, if his son or bull falls into a well, will not immediately pull him
out on the sabbath day?" (Luke 14:5 JW New World Translation)
The parallel question to JW parents would be, "Who of you, if his son is
bleeding to death, will not immediately give him a transfusion?" Yet,
Witness parents in case after case have shown themselves willing to
sacrifice the lives of their offspring, as well as their own lives.
Onlookers are troubled when they see 39 dead bodies being removed from a
California mansion, or nine hundred bodies covering the ground at
Jonestown, Guyana, but we manage somehow to dismiss these incidents with
the thought that the world has always had its share of kooks and
lunatics. When a hundred or a thousand of them assemble together to
perform their lunacy in unison, they grab world attention for a brief
time but are soon forgotten.
Jehovah's Witnesses, however, deserve closer scrutiny because although
their people are just as committed as those who died in the Heaven's
Gate suicides, they are not huddled together in a small group in some
far off cult compound. More than 12 million people follow Milton
Henschel -- ready to die in obedience to his instructions -- and they
are living in our neighborhoods, shopping in our stores, sending their
kids to school with our kids, working alongside us at our jobs, quietly
going about their business in our midst--like a timebomb waiting to go
off.
Vaccinations and organ transplants
previously banned, now allowed
During the 1930's and 1940's Watchtower publications denounced
vaccination as a procedure that was not only worthless but actually
harmful from a medical standpoint, and that was morally wrong from a
religious or biblical standpoint. The latter, of course, was the
deciding factor for Witnesses. The organization had made clear to them
that "Vaccination is a direct violation of the everlasting covenant that
God made with Noah after the flood."
(GOLDEN AGE [former name of AWAKE! magazine], February 4, 1931, p. 293)
So JWs routinely refused vaccinations for themselves and their children.
If the inoculation against smallpox was required for admission to public
school, some would have a friendly doctor burn a mark on the child's arm
with acid to make it look as if the youngster had been vaccinated.
Others went so far as to have papers made out, falsely certifying that
the child had been vaccinated. JW publications dropped the ban on
vaccinations in the early 1950's, and today they recommend the procedure
and credit it with curbing disease.
Jehovah's Witnesses received important new medical instructions in the
November 15, 1967, issue of THE WATCHTOWER. An article in the "Questions
from Readers" section on pages 702-704 presented a new ruling handed
down from Brooklyn headquarters to the effect that "sustaining one's
life by means of the body or part of the body of another human...would
be cannibalism, a practice abhorrent to all civilized people" and
condemned by God. The article explained that organ transplants were
"simply a shortcut" to cannibalistically chewing and eating human flesh.
This pronouncement, in effect, banned organ transplant operations for
Jehovah's Witnesses. No longer could a JW with failing kidneys accept a
kidney transplant to keep him or her alive; nor could one losing vision
receive a cornea transplant. Bone marrow, skin, or anything else taken
from another person could no longer be received in a medical procedure.
The transplant issue immediately took its place alongside the blood
issue as a life-or-death matter for Witnesses hospitalized for illnesses
or accidents.
However, the Watchtower Society's ban on organ transplants lasted only a
bit under thirteen years. In 1980 it was quietly repealed. The March 15,
1980, WATCHTOWER said, on page 31, "there is no Biblical command
pointedly forbidding the taking in of other human tissue." Recent
Watchtower Society publications applaud transplants as procedures that
have "helped" people. (AWAKE! August 22, 1989, page 6)
A cult?
Certain studies in the field of psychology have revealed a significantly
higher incidence of mental illness among Jehovah's Witnesses compared
with the general population. JWs cry "persecution" and dispute such
claims. Although featured prominently in the book titled THE FOUR MAJOR
CULTS by Anthony A. Hoekema (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publ., 1963) and
listed among cultic groups in COMBATTING CULT MIND CONTROL by Steven
Hassan (Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 1988) sect leaders deny that
label. THE WATCHTOWER of February 15, 1994 acknowledges, "Occasionally,
anticult organizations and the media have referred to Jehovah's
Witnesses as a cult" (page 4) but then argues to the contrary.
Children in crisis
In any case, the children of Jehovah's Witnesses carry burdens and face
daily stresses not encountered by others. When classmates salute the
flag, celebrate a birthday, exchange Valentine cards, or sign up for
extracurricular activities after school, JW kids face conflict between
personal inclination and their sect's rigid prohibitions. Some obey to
the letter, while others live double lives, but all experience inner
conflict trying to sort these things out.
Youngsters with both parents in the sect live under constant pressure to
meet demands ranging from reciting prepared material before church
audiences to selling Watchtower literature from door to door. Those with
one non-Witness parent in the home or in a non-custodial visitation
relationship hear frequent reminders that this parent belongs to Satan
the Devil and faces a violent death at the hands of God's executioners.
What can YOU do?
Professional ethics and legal restrictions usually limit the influence
that outsiders can have on the children of Jehovah's Witnesses--no
matter how much one's heart goes out to such entrapped youngsters. But
there are a few things you can do.
In some circumstances older teenagers trying to break free may be
directed to helpful literature, counselling, or support groups.
Kindness, acceptance, and genuine loving attention can help even the
very young to question the teaching that outsiders belong to the Devil
and serve Satanic interests.
Learn more about Jehovah's Witnesses so as to be better equipped to deal
knowledgeably with them.
BLOOD ON THE ALTAR
-Confessions of a Jehovah's Witness Minister
by David A. Reed
ISBN 1-57392-059-2 published by Prometheus Books
See this book reviewed in JAMA Feb.5,1997 p.425
JAMA="Journal of the American Medical Association"
MORE on Jehovah's Witnesses
Online quarterly publication on Jehovah's Witnesses
BOOKS on Jehovah's Witnesses
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