Kirjoittaja Aaac » 08.03.2009 01:37
Rutherford salakuljetutti kieltolain aikaan viskiä Kanadasta ja oli elämänsä loppuaikana täysin alkoholisoitunut. Häntä pidettiin poissa silmistä Kaliforniassa, kaukana New Yorkin päätoimistosta.
One of these was W. F. Salter, who had been branch overseer in Canada. In 1937, Salter wrote and sent an open letter to Rutherford, also widely published in the religious press and distributed to all Witness contacts Salter had in Canada and the United States. The content of Salter’s letter was certainly a match for Rutherford’s style in not pulling any punches.
Among other things, Salter wrote he had been involved in smuggling Whiskey to Rutherford during the prohibition:
“As the scales by the Lord's grace, have fallen from my eyes I have been astounded to see how blinded I have been to your actions, through a superstition that the WATCHTOWER was the Lord's channel of meat in due season for the household of faith and that you as President of the Society were God's chief servant amongst His people, and that you being responsible we should be submissive to whatsoever you required done, foolishly thinking that I had no responsibility in the matter and that anything you did that was wrong, or that I did as ordered by you, the Lord would overrule. It was with this thought in mind that I, at your orders would purchase cases of whiskey at $60.00 a case, and cases of brandy and other liquors, to say nothing of untold cases of beer. A bottle or two of liquor would not do; it was for THE PRESIDENT and nothing was too good for THE PRESIDENT. He was heaven's favorite, why should not he have everything that would gratify his desires for comfort.”
http://home.broadpark.no/~jhauglan/rutherford.htm
Rutherford kirjoitti hurjistuneena Vartiotorniin artikkelin, jossa hän kuvaili kieltolakia Saatanan juoneksi:
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/his ... rford1.htm
Jehovan todistajat ovat tehneet parhaansa salatakseen Rutherfordin alkoholiongelmat, mutta siitä kertovat todisteet ovat yksinkertaisesti liian selvät, jotta ne voitaisiin jättää huomiotta. Monet Beetel-perheen jäsenistä ovat kertoneet hänen alkoholinkäytöstään, ja sekä Vartiotorniseuran erotettu lakimies Olin Moyle että Kanadan työstä vastuussa ollut maanpalvelija Walter Salter ovat kertoneet yksityiskohtia Rutherfordin alkoholinkäytöstä sekä niistä suurista alkoholimääristä, joita Rutherfordin käyttöön kuljetettiin kieltolain aikaan Kanadasta. Myös San Diegossa, jossa Rutherford vietti talvensa, tiedettiin hänen käyttävän suuria määriä alkoholia.
http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fra ... .A4m.C3.A4
Näillä pääset ainakin alkuun.
Rutherford salakuljetutti kieltolain aikaan viskiä Kanadasta ja oli elämänsä loppuaikana täysin alkoholisoitunut. Häntä pidettiin poissa silmistä Kaliforniassa, kaukana New Yorkin päätoimistosta.
One of these was W. F. Salter, who had been branch overseer in Canada. In 1937, Salter wrote and sent an open letter to Rutherford, also widely published in the religious press and distributed to all Witness contacts Salter had in Canada and the United States. The content of Salter’s letter was certainly a match for Rutherford’s style in not pulling any punches. [b]Among other things, Salter wrote he had been involved in smuggling Whiskey to Rutherford during the prohibition:[/b]
“As the scales by the Lord's grace, have fallen from my eyes I have been astounded to see how blinded I have been to your actions, through a superstition that the WATCHTOWER was the Lord's channel of meat in due season for the household of faith and that you as President of the Society were God's chief servant amongst His people, and that you being responsible we should be submissive to whatsoever you required done, foolishly thinking that I had no responsibility in the matter and that anything you did that was wrong, or that I did as ordered by you, the Lord would overrule. It was with this thought in mind that I, at your orders would purchase cases of whiskey at $60.00 a case, and cases of brandy and other liquors, to say nothing of untold cases of beer. A bottle or two of liquor would not do; it was for THE PRESIDENT and nothing was too good for THE PRESIDENT. He was heaven's favorite, why should not he have everything that would gratify his desires for comfort.”
[url]http://home.broadpark.no/~jhauglan/rutherford.htm[/url]
Rutherford kirjoitti hurjistuneena Vartiotorniin artikkelin, jossa hän kuvaili kieltolakia Saatanan juoneksi:
[url]http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/e1920/rutherford1.htm[/url]
Jehovan todistajat ovat tehneet parhaansa salatakseen Rutherfordin alkoholiongelmat, mutta siitä kertovat todisteet ovat yksinkertaisesti liian selvät, jotta ne voitaisiin jättää huomiotta. Monet Beetel-perheen jäsenistä ovat kertoneet hänen alkoholinkäytöstään, ja sekä Vartiotorniseuran erotettu lakimies Olin Moyle että Kanadan työstä vastuussa ollut maanpalvelija Walter Salter ovat kertoneet yksityiskohtia Rutherfordin alkoholinkäytöstä sekä niistä suurista alkoholimääristä, joita Rutherfordin käyttöön kuljetettiin kieltolain aikaan Kanadasta. Myös San Diegossa, jossa Rutherford vietti talvensa, tiedettiin hänen käyttävän suuria määriä alkoholia.
[url]http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Franklin_Rutherford#Rutherfordin_henkil.C3.B6kohtainen_el.C3.A4m.C3.A4[/url]
Näillä pääset ainakin alkuun.