James Thomas Rook Jr.

I thought it was self evident, but since you asked me to (partially) explain .......
Their Justice system is set up to be accessible to everyone,...open... transparent ... AND ACCOUNTABLE if someone screws up, is incompetent, or evil .... and does not require "two witnesses". 
Let's say a victim of CSA is also murdered.
NOW you have NO witnesses.
Congregationally,  using the rules we live by, the criminal COMPLETELY escapes Justice.he feigns innocence, and THAT is the end of THAT.
The systems the Nations have can unravel the mystery using detective work, forensic evidence, and if they have a suspect, can try him for his alleged crimes in open court, where he can have witnesses from the general public, witnesses for his defense, and character witnesses in his behalf.  If he is poor with words, or too ignorant to make a determined and competent defense, he will be appointed a Lawyer who presumably IS competent to represent him.
In OUR system you cannot even have present Jehovah's Witnesses from the Congregation present ... and that's the fact, Jack.
You cannot have a transcript, you cannot record it on audio or video, you cannot have competent counsel represent you, and you have to file an appeal in 7 days or there is no appeal available.  The ones judging you do not even have to TELL YOU THEIR NAMES.
... AT LEAST THEY ARE NOT WEARING HOODED ROBES, AND CARRYING A SCYTHE., which is the only "blessing" there.
The Nations closely imitate the system God set up for Israel in ancient times ... and OUR system resembles loosely one set up by any number of tyrants.
The Nations have the MORAL HIGH GROUND because their Justice system more closely imitates the one Jehovah God set up, and ours more closely resembles  a  Public Relations Corporation's damage control department.
 
And that's that's the fact, Jack.
 
 

Perhaps  because Secular Authorities doing JHVH will (maybe not always but still sometimes). Romans 13 explained this in preamble.   
13 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.

Well the Kid is unwell isn't he ? It's obvious that God does not control all governments. Not would God want to it seems.
The Devil offered all those 'kingdoms' of the earth to Jesus, so I think it's obvious that the Devil controls them. 

Billy:
All you just said is true...but War .. is when the people subjugated, enslaved, have their homes and resources confiscated, etc .... FIGHT BACK.
Otherwise, the Nazis could have politely marched backwards into Poland.
Armed Forces are used to make people do things they don't want to, under pain of death and deprivation.
Self Defense is a NATURAL RIGHT that every living thing has ..... if they can manage it ... and choose to try.
 
 
 

What irritates me the most ... really burns my overweight butt ... is that the Secular Authorities HAVE THE MORAL HIGH GROUND.

Explain please ?
 

What irritates me the most ... really burns my overweight butt ... is that the Secular Authorities HAVE THE MORAL HIGH GROUND.

Why? You ask why?!!! I am sure how you will recall why, if somebody say - Because all of you who are PROUD to call yourself JW's aka Christians  - need to be LIGHT of The World.
14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
Please reconsider again, in the LIGHT of verse above, how Funny, Spiritually Immature and Unscriptural is Lawyers words through the mouth of GB FDS individual !! 
Read Again:
.. if the Australian Government, in all the States, was to make mandatory reporting, it would make it so much easier for us.
NOTHING about LIGHT FROM ABOVE, but about - Make It Easier For Us.   :(( ... shame to them.
 

There it is again. An experience of writing letters containing “some comfort from the Scriptures.” Here is from the recent Watchtower article on ‘Show Fellow Feeling in Your Ministry.’
A letter was well-received in this instance of a family whose child had died. 
“‘I was having a horrible day yesterday,’ wrote the bereaved mother. ‘I don’t think you have any idea what impact your letter had on us. I can’t thank you enough or even begin to describe how much it meant to us. I must have read your letter at least 20 times yesterday. I just could not believe how kind, caring, and uplifting it was. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.’”
And to think that there are some on this forum of malcontents who have all but popped a vein over this venue.
I can’t quite recall whether I have ever done this or not. I don’t think so, but it is possible. What I do recall is that in the mid-seventies, when the Awake! devoted an entire issue to the subject of depression—back when the topic was seldom breached in public, as though it were something shameful—that I was so impressed with it that I sent a copy to all the psychiatrists in the phone book. One of them responded—to point out that his own research had been included in the magazine.
 
 
 
 

You gonna choke ... again ... anonymous BTK?

BTK --- you are a sad, angry, frustrated man, with delusions of grandeur, and a desire to hurt someone who is not intimidated  by your fantasies of scriptural superiority.
I could go on and on for several paragraphs ... but that about covers it.
You remind me of  someone from Christendom who when you disagree with them, their eyes get wide, they start salivating,  get loud, and threaten you with being tormented forever and ever in a burning hell, to the point that in a religious fervor, work themselves up into a rapturous orgasm of hatred.
The only difference is YOU threaten with the Elders, which you try to use as a weapon, to have people fear YOU.
The things you project on others ... is who YOU are.
Here is a good test for YOU, or ANYBODY to test and see if you are delusional, or not ....
1.) Please supply just ONE scripture I have misused, and explain just HOW I misused it. If you cannot do this .... you stand convicted by your own words.
....and by the way, I do not confront the Elders, because they do not confront me.  Every time they have, I have been forthright, and honest.
That's how they all learned to Moonwalk.
 

If you have made that assumption, I'll leave that with you  
But it would be possible for a person to pretend to love, admire, follow, believe in, other people, so that they would not be suspected of any foul play if said people came to harm. 

The present policy of God’s organization is not to “taste” apostasy. I would never say that that is wrong. In fact, it is all but required by the Scriptures, such as at Matthew 11:19–they criticize you no matter what you do, so pay them no mind, and press full speed ahead. Or “Let them be. Blind guides is what they are.” That is why I am a bad boy for hanging out here.
However, just because a policy is right does not mean that there may not be a significant downside to it. As it is, many of our young have succumbed to the oldest temptation in the world, going where they have been advised not to, like the cat that curiosity killed. There they find material that they have never seen before. It is material that is mostly misrepresented, but they do not see how—some of it is presented convincingly.  It strikes a chord with some of them.
Ideally, parents or other older ones should be able to show them how it has been misrepresented and what is wrong with it, but they cannot because they don’t know what is there themselves—they have not “tasted” apostasy. That’s why I could see @Anna‘s point when she said that she kept on top of “apostate” things, lest one fine day her teenage son ask about them and she is not able to do more than say, “Don’t go there!” which the opposers unfailingly spin as evidence of trying to keep the kid in a “cult.”
As it is, last I heard, the kid is happily serving as a regular pioneer, has never displayed any interest in such things, and says: “Mom, what’s with all this goofy stuff that you read?” 
But he is not everyone.
 

Are you suggesting that Billy is out to destroy the GB? I never thought of that.

Wow what a lovely avatar for a spiritual person to have  Billy seems to like the idea that the Kid killed many more people. 
Just a point here, is a genuine photo and avatar ? 
avatar /ˈavətɑː/ noun. HINDUISM a manifestation of a deity or released soul in bodily form on earth; an incarnate divine teacher. 2. an icon or figure representing a particular person in a video game, Internet forum, etc. "conversation is depicted in a balloon over the avatar's head"   Billy says he's seen my 'avatar' on 'apostate web sites.  Whereas I only use real photos of me. 

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Au Contraire TTH .. I am not trying to portray myself as anything.   I just stated facts, and you can draw whatever conclusions you have to, based on your WDS.
I just thought it was incredibly rude, deceitful, and dishonest on their part, as I introduced myself, even though they had already been told my name, although we had never before met.  Also, I instantly determined that a Judge who will not divulge his name is one chain short of wearing a black hood, and carrying a headman's ax.
The reason I did not respond earlier is I do NOT assume motives for other people, where there are no clearly discernible facts in evidence ... or they TELL me what their motives are.
You have assumed quite a LOT about my motives ... without facts.
I feel I was grievously mistreated by their being anonymous, and therefore dishonest judges..
They had NOTHING to fear from me, based on 55 and more  years of hard facts .... unbroken by even a single instance of violence or threat of violence.  ( To be fair, about 1981 a rich and influential  Elder called me up on the phone and said he was going to DESTROY ME, and I replied he was welcome to try, and that I would be willing to meet him in the street outside my home, and we would shoot it out ... and he hung up and never bothered me again.).
The last time I was in a fight was as a teenager, at a school bus stop in Jr. High School.
Because i do not consider consequences once I decide what is right or wrong, I did not need their names to write in a book, and ambush them later. 
If I was a mind to (and I would like to EMPHASIZE that I was not then, and am not now...) I would have shot them to death in that room, at the time.
Basically, they were cowards, and bullys, pretending to be fair and impartial, and successfully deceiving themselves.
 
... and the hand, having writ, has moved on ... just another day in Margaritaville.
 

Oh YEAH!?
Just for that I'm gonna carve your BTK photo on a Coconut, put a handlebar mustache on it,  and throw it in the Ocean!
YEAH!
Take THAT!

Years ago at insane asylums, you could go on tours.
On the second floor overlooking the great room where the insane ...uh... "interacted" with each other they had doors that opened onto balconys, where you could with your friends stand and watch the show, below.
That is what it is like here. Perhaps I should be ashamed of thinking the show below is so very funny ...
...but I am not.
I am merely a humble Barbarian.
silly me.

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I replied her Mark zuckerburg might be listening us.

She laughed.

We laughed

Alexa laughed

Siri laughed.

Thanks for warning me about names of dangerous elements in this forum. 
So, you would like that i pay my attention to Billy? Because his name is not on your list?!
:))

Billy is strange, pretending to be a JW, using writings that are not for true Christians, just to try to back up his useless comments. I think the person is unwell. I was going to say man, but one never knows with stupid avatars, if a person is male or female. 
I think your own comment applies to you Kid 
 If you were a JW at one point, whoever taught you scripture did a poor job of it. 

Why would a JW use the Gospel of Thomas which is possibly fake and not inspired of holy spirit ? 
Remember 'all scripture is inspired ...... ' but the gospel of Thomas is not scripture. 
My feeling is this Kid is defo' not a JW but is trying hard to destroy the reputation of the JW Org in an indirect way.
Unlike me that uses direct means and am not frightened to speak my mind. I think the Kid has a grudge against the GB / JW Org / Watchtower and is being sneaky about how he is getting back at them. 

Remember that this was only an option because of those whom established this country. Without those freedoms, then those jws you mentioned would have nothing.