THIS IS A WAR TO SAVE LIVES AND IT CONTINUES!  HOW YOU CAN EASILY HELP WITH THE BLOOD ISSUE WHETHER IN OR OUT OF COURT, IN THE MEDIA ETC Cover of Watchtower's own May 22, 1994 Awake! magazine shows photos of 26 kids up to 17 years old whom Watchtower bragged in it bled to death rather than get emergency blood. 1Samuel 14:31-35 shows Jehovah forgave Saul's men who ate unbled meat to stay alive; Christ at Mt 12:7 says God wants Mercy not Sacrifice.  An estimated up to 250,000 Jehovah's Witness men, women and children have senselessly, unbiblically bled to death since 1945 and still are. CLICK PHOTO FOR VIDEO OF LAWRENCE SPEAKING TO YOU TOO KEEP HELPING LAWRENCE HUGHES WITH THE WAR AGAINST WATCHTOWER  IN-COURT OR OUTSIDE IN THE PUBLIC OVER THE BLOOD ISSUE: Donations can help keep informing the public even after the lawsuit.  Lawrence battled Watchtower attorney by lawsuit  9 years into 2011 and will continue battling to inform people regardless of in or out of the courtroom including via websites like this, the media, possibly a book, youtube or other videos, public talks before groups etc.  When a boulder blocks you in one direction you can move around it and continue, which is what he's still doing.  So please give now to help save the lives of more people including helpless Jehovah's Witness children.  Lawrence lost his daughter Bethany and doesn't want others to lose their own sons and daughters.   You can make a difference!  The more of us who give the better!  Pass the word along now please.   The war continues!   Go to www.paypal.com and use www.watchtowerlawsuit.com for sending your donations to. Just below notice some of various victories from the blood lawsuit effort.  As said Lawrence will also be able to publicise the matter by a book, talks before groups etc.   Let's help him achieve even more; and, again, lives definitely do depend on it! Jehovah's Witness Woman Gets Imitation Blood With Cow's Blood In It Watchtower Quietly Permitting Transfusions Of Cryosupernatant Watchtower lets Nigerian woman in India use own blood for transfusion!

HOW THE eSTIMATION OF UP TO 250,000 NEEDLESSLY DEAD  JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IS DERIVED Sometimes people ask why so many websites have noted that up to an estimated 250,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs) have died from 1945 to now by following the directives of the Watchtower Society over JWs to never take emergency whole blood even if it could mean that they die.  The main pioneering, primary source to which can be credited to David A. Reed who wrote Blood On The Altar, published by Prometheus Books in 1996 at Amherst, New York. At the time that Reed wrote his book he noted that Watchtower then had 5 million active JWs, but in 2011 an estimate was that there were by then some 7.3 million active JWs.  The estimation of up to 250,000 dying needlessly from 1945 to now thus entails 67 years of such deaths for around the entire earth.  All interested in this topic should get a copy of the book. Directly quoting three highly relevant paragraphs from the book, it states going from the bottom of page 25 onto page 26:  “How many, altogether, have followed Watchtower commands to their deaths?  American Red Cross figures published in 1980 indicated that one hundred people per thousand, or 10 percent, need blood in some form every year.  With today’s Watchtower organization drawing more than twelve million people worldwide to its meetings, nearly five million of these being active Witnesses and the rest children and new converts in the process of joining, 10 percent would mean that between 500,000 to 1,200,000 among them  “need” blood in some form every year, yet refuse treatment.  (The lower figure represents 10 percent of the fully committed, active Witnesses, while the  higher figure is based on the same percentage of those attending meetings but not yet fully committed, so the number obeying Watchtower instructions would lie somewhere between the two.) “How many of those needing blood would actually die without it?  Again, few statistics are available.  A chart published in the February 1993 issue of the American Journal of Medicine shows that studies based on 1,404 operations—mostly cardiovascular surgery and hip replacement—performed on Jehovah’s Witnesses without blood transfusions reveal that 1.4 percent of the patients died due to lack of blood as a primary or contribution cause of death.  Extrapolating that figure to the entire membership, if 1.4 percent die in cases where a JW “needs” blood, and 10 percent of the five million active Witnesses and twelve million attending JW Kingdom Halls “need” blood each year, that 1.4 percent death rate would mean that between seven thousand and 16,900 die by refusing blood each year. “However, that 1.4 percent death rate in scheduled routine surgery suggests a much higher figure in cases of uncontrolled hemorrhaging due to childbirth complications, automobile and industrial accidents, and other common causes of extreme blood loss.  But even if blood products were critical in only 1 percent of the cases where a JW “needs” blood, and 10 percent of the five million active Witnesses and twelve million attending JW Kingdom Halls “needed” blood each year, a 1 percent death rate would mean that between five thousand and twelve thousand die by refusing blood every year.” The American Red Cross and the American Journal of Medicine are considered of highest quality in terms of reputation, not given to an exaggeration of the facts.  Thus there is a solid basis for the 7000 to 16900 statistic for back in 1993 which is a date almost 20 years ago from 2012.  Per year figures for membership of active JWs and those associating with JWs will vary, going lower as one goes back through the 67 years this has been happening.  However, the figure for JWs dying needlessly has also gone upward as one goes forward in time.  Even if you choose the lowest figure of 7000 then multiply it for 40 years, that would be even more than 250,000.  Similarly if the intermediate figure of 10000 is used and multiplied by only 25 years, then the total comes to exactly 250,000. So, with all the mountains of dead people why has there not been more publicity?  After all far, many fewer people died at the shocking mass suicide at Jonestown, Guyana.  Reed points out that news reporters who went to Jonestown were able to take photos of the many dead people but in the case of the Watchtower deaths there are no photos of dead bodies lying all over the ground.  The dead JW men, women and children are buried scattered about the globe, privacy laws commonly hiding what happened. However, the cover of Watchtower's own May 22, 1994 Awake! magazine did show photos of 26 kids up to 17 years old whom Watchtower bragged had bled to death rather than get emergency blood.  That magazine with its photos may well have had a negative effect on JW readers as true also of the revealing information cited in Reed’s book, the constantly mounting number of highly expensive lawsuits, and news reports coming in from nation after nation about the deaths of vulnerable mostly older JWs and sometimes also children.  Further, the internet has also had a tremendous impact for saving more lives.  Scriptures posted on the internet have counter-balanced the scriptures which Watchtower had used to convince JWs that the Bible wants them to not use blood even if it means death.  For example 1Samuel 14:31-35 shows Jehovah forgave Saul's men who ate unbled meat to stay alive; Christ at Matthew 12:7 says God wants Mercy not Sacrifice.  All the same, so far Watchtower does not allow the use even in emergencies of whole blood transfusions, it does allow the use of many blood fractions and blood volume expanders, which, although helpful, still in critical life-and-death situations where there is major rapid loss of blood (e.g. major car wrecks and operations), are not good enough to prevent the deaths that are continuing.  Further, most new JWs are coming from lands in Africa where there are relatively few hospitals and clinics with the quantity or quality of treatments available for example in Europe and the U.S. A May 5, 2011 news article in the Herald Sun newpaper of Victoria state in Australia says the Australian woman Tamera Coakley, identified as a Jehovah’s Witness, took a transfusion of an experimental synthetic blood which, ironically though, includes blood from cattle, and the transfusion saved her life.  There is no statement that Watchtower disfellowshipped Tamera Coakley so perhaps they had given her permission to take it since it was not a transfusion of whole human blood. (See http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/revolutionary-blood-hboc-201-saves-tamara-coakley/story-e6frf7jo-1226050068016)  It appears that not one single news account about this was ever put into a newspaper in the United States, and readers who report news, publish research, etc are encouraged to look into and publish about or at least refer to it, too.  Not unlikely Watchtower fears the adverse reaction that some of its most fanatical supporters in the U.S. who donate a lot of money to it might have upon learning that it has had to permit at least the transfusion of a cow's blood product. It should also be noted that the earlier mentioned David A. Reed himself was a reputable JW elder with many JW family members and friends until Watchtower disfellowshipped him for having promoted reforms.  Today he is a highly regarded author of many books on different topics and is also a highly regarded Baptist preacher.  Watchtower not only calls all such exJW critics names such as “apostates,” but it has also told JWs to try to ignore negative publicity about Watchtower’s various policies from reputable news publishing companies and journalists, labeling those as prejudiced, biased, of Satan.  That’s stunning but fact.  Further weighing in support of his presentation though is that others have used statistics from still other primary sources such as medical studies published in hospitals in different states, and those too have been supportive.  Besides which, not even Watchtower has challenged him on this, and they beyond the least doubt would have if they could have. Certainly websites such as www.christianwitnesses.com and www.ajwrb.org have had much additional material that is also helpful about this topic.  Barbara Anderson has also written about it, and her article was published on Randy Watter’s website www.freeminds.org.   Randy himself has also written much on the blood issue and about top level men in the Watchtower who have kept the policy in place.  Lawrence Hughes of Canada has done more than any living person to put Watchtower’s policy into the media spotlight (including once on CNN) while suing Watchtower and its attorneys in court for a decade (see www.watchtowerlawsuit.com) incredibly not being himself an attorney but a parent extremely concerned about the danger he sees hovering over his two other daughters who along with their mother have stuck with Watchtower.  Marvin Shilmer’s blog (http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/) has numerous revealing older Watchtower magazine and book quotes as well as many more recent documents of correspondence by Watchtower itself to highly concerned elders etc:

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Please go to and sign up for the brand new ajwrb.org forum (That’s Associated Jehovah’s Witnesses for Reform on Blood, i.e. supportive active and inactive JWs, exJWs, exiting JWs etc and Friends http://ajwrb.org/phpBB3/  Once you register you post new messages on a forum by noting that at the start of it toward the bottom of your page on the left side is a rectangular box saying NEWTOPIC*. Click there.  To post on a message string someone else already started, click POSTREPLY.  The forum has subforums including one on the topic of Bible, one for Doctors only, and one for "Jehovah's Witnesses" which would include those still active JWs and/or those interested in JW/Watchtower-related matters. STALKING BY JEHOVAH'S WITNESS CONGREGATION IN OHIO IN OCTOBER 2011 PER POLICE BLOTTER

SOUTH FLORIDA BLOOD SITUATION “State butts in to give kids a reprieve on life.  South Florida judges order transfusions after parents refuse on religious grounds.” In the August 27, 2011edition of the Sun Sentinel Columnist On Aug. 10, 2011, Broward Circuit Judge Michael Kaplan ordered a transfusion for a 4-year-old girl undergoing brain tumor surgery at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in Hollywood, Florida. On June 24, 2011, a 3-year-old boy with pneumonia and a blood-clogged spleen triggered by sickle-cell disease at Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale had a transfusion ordered by Circuit Judge Susan Aramony.  "My son's doing fine – that's over with," the boy's father, Rock Sanozier of Plantation, told me last week. "I really don't have anything more I want to say about it." mmayo@tribune.com or 954-356-4508. http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2011-08-27/news/fl-transfusions-mayocol-b082811-20110827_1_transfusions-on-religious-grounds-parents-judges

POSTED MAY-JUNE 2011:  PLEASE SHARE COPIES: Last heard the Watchtower Society (WTS) over Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs) was not telling even its own Hospital Liaison Committee (HLC) members if a JW patient calls world headquarters of the WTS and asks if cryosupernatant can be used, it is now authorized by Watchtower.  This may be because WTS fears hard-line members may secede over the blood issue etc.   Commendably the life of JW Tamara Coakley of Australia was saved when she received a synthetic blood product that included cow’s blood; her having the product apparently approved by WTS.  This news appeared in Australian and UK papers but not in the US where most JWs are located, again possibly because out of concern some may secede.  This particular product does not yet appear to have US FDA though the article says that it was flown in from the US.  http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/revolutionary-blood-hboc-201-saves-tamara-coakley/story-e6frf7jo-1226050068016 WTS HLC members often act as if all JWs don’t want blood transfusions although in fact many JWs do not agree with the ban but are unable to “openly” voice their disagreement for to do so makes them subject to Watchtower’s cruel shunning and discrimination policy called “disfellowshipping.”  As a result of being disfellowshipped a person who had been a JW loses all social ties to his/her JW family and friends, are labeled “apostate” and some have said they also lost employment they had had from JW employers; others have said that they were self-employed when disfellowshipped and immediately were boycotted and/or had to go bankrupt when JW customers complying with Watchtower stopped purchasing their goods or services.  Being disfellowshipped is like having a gun put to your head; disfellowshipped persons have committed suicide….   Concerned writer Marvin Shilmer has put on his blog website excerpts from reputable sources which demonstrate that coercion is not only likely to occur when HLC members who are Watchtower’s JW elders are around patients but in fact it does occur.   Articles from all the way back in the 1950s show the extent some JW elders have asserted themselves to inappropriately influence treatment options even of family members not JWs.  References there show how the coercion continues although in a more structured and sophisticated way. http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2011/02/blood-how-resolute.html  Watchtower elders may disengenuously say “we shun nobody who takes a transfusion” implying those JWs who do take transfusions shun themselves by the very act of taking the transfusions “unrepentantly.”  This seems a way for Watchtower heads to try to duck liability and bad publicity. “Obstetrics professor Deirdre Murphy said hospital staff often became uncomfortable when members of the Jehovah’s Witness hospital liaison committee came into the hospital.  The perception was that they were putting the patient under pressure.” (Call for new approach to transfusion refusals, by Alison Healy, Saturday February 27, 2010, The Irish Times.) …… “I met with the patient and his son in my office and the son informed me that he and his father were Jehovah’s Witnesses and that he didn’t want his father to receive any blood or blood products before, during, or after surgery.  I asked the father if that was his wish and he sheepishly agreed that it was his decision as well.  I had him sign a consent form, with the appropriate documentation, that would absolve me of any negligence if he should require a blood transfusion and didn’t receive it.  The night before surgery, I met with the patient alone in his room.  He confided in me that he was not as “religious” as his son—if he needed blood, he wanted to receive it.  However, he requested that I shouldn’t tell him or his son if he received a transfusion.” (Transfusing a Jehovah’s Witness during surgery, by Dr. Neal Baum, published at KevinMD.com, May 2011.  Downloaded from http://www.kevinmd.com

THE WATCHTOWER SOCIETY OVER JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES AND DEATH BY BLEEDING The Watchtower Society heads over Jehovah's Witnesses don't know their Bible as well as they like to think because 1 Samuel 14:31-35 shows God forgave Saul's entire army for eating unBLED meat to stay alive; plus Christ says God want Mercy not Sacrifice at Matthew 12:7.  Estimations are that currently up to 9000 JWs including children and babies die around the globe annually, but it rarely is noted by the Media as the corpses are, as said, scattered globally.  The actions of courts and parents who sue are more than justified.  And a final point is that blood "fractions" don't act fast enough to save the lives of those bleeding rapidly after car wrecks, birth complications and the like.  Watchtower likes to imply to the contrary, but that's wrong... dead wrong.

SHILMER EXPOSES WATCHTOWER WITH ONE OF ITS OWN LETTERS ON THE BLOOD ISSUE! Marvin Shilmer points out that in correspondence dated February 1, 2007 a writer asked Watchtower to explain why Watchtower refuses to allow use of platelets and leukocytes when the Bible is as silent about those as hemoglobin and albumin from blood; then in a replying letter dated   February 21, 2007 Watchtower, unable to find any scriptures says “whole blood of any of one of its four primary components—plasma, red cells, white cells, and platelets—should not be used. That is how unfractionated blood components settle out naturally.” To the contrary, blood does not settle out naturally into four components of plasma, red cells, white cells, and platelets but in only two primary parts known as clot and serum. So Watchtower’s position is either one of gross ignorance or an outright lie.  Jehovah’s Witnesses and their children are still dying senselessly, without scriptural basis.  1 Samuel 14:31-35 shows God forgave Saul’s men who ate unBLED meat to survive; Christ at Matthew 12:7 says God wants Mercy not Sacrifice.  Click to see the original letters: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2010/09/watchtowers-answer-shows-blood-doctrine.html  Click to read comments about the letters and Watchtower's anti-emergency whole blood transfusions policies http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/198908/1/Watchtower-Letter-Shows-Blood-Doctrine-Is-False

EX-JEHOVAH'S WITNESS LAWRENCE HUGHES LED TWO PROTESTS IN 2010 IN OTTAWA AND TORONTO Lawrence Hughes in May 2010 protested at two over (1) the Supreme Court of Canada's decision to not hear his application regarding "Conflict of Interest" of the Watchtower lawyers and 2) the refusal of the Law Society of Upper Canada to recognize his formal written complaint and to do an investigation into the misconduct and conflict of interest of the Watchtower lawyers.   Other friends from across Canada assisted and it was also broadcast on French language radio.   His lawsuit continues.  watchtowerlawsuit@yahoo.com  http://www.watchtowerlawsuit.com

At Matthew 12:7, Christ says “If you had known what these words mean, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the innocent.”  Yet Watchtower's policy has caused some JW parents to sacrifice the lives of their children. Isaiah 25:6 in Watchtower’s own New World Translation says “And Jehovah of armies will certainly make for all the peoples, in this mountain, a banquet of well-oiled dishes, a banquet of wine kept on the dregs, of well-oiled dishes filled with marrow, of wine kept on the dregs, filtered.”   Bone marrow is the flexible tissue in the hollow inside part of bones which in large bones of adults produces new blood cells. David A. Reed's Blood On The Altar and ajwrb.org have told more about the blood transfusion deaths.

JW COUPLE DISOWN 5 YEAR OLD CHILD  AND DISTURB THE PEACE BECAUSE HE GOT A LIFE-OR-DEATH BLOOD TRANSFUSION - IN GHANA, AFRICA Two JW parents of a five year old disowned the child after a doctor gave the child an emergency blood transfusion.  They also burst into the hospital with a gang of JW friends in protest so that the hospital had to call in the police.  This happened in Ghana which is in West Africa.   It does not show on the map here but is inland near Kumasi which is shown.  It's in the The Adansi South District in the Ashanti Region entirely in a forest with eight forest reserves.  Income sources include hardwood lumber, pineapples, black peppers, cashews, tomatoes; and there is eco-tourism with many scenic waterfalls and mountain ranges. The article also correctly explains a lot about the Watchtower Society's history and doctrines, including that it looks forward to Armageddon any day now.  Now click on the following link for the original article with far more details: http://www.citifmonline.com/site/news/news/view/5368/1

INSIGHTS ABOUT THE BLOOD ISSUE HARMING JWs & JW CHILDREN: CoCo WROTE: "After the Judge's death, as World War II was ending and persecution against the Witnesses began declining, along with the attendant drop in news-media publicity, Hayden C. Covington told the author [of THE FOUR PRESIDENTS] that Fred Franz saw the prohibition against blood transfusions as a way to accomplish two things: to continue to publicize the religion, and to create an uproar in the community. This reaction would convince the membership they were being "persecuted" and "suffering for righteousness sake," a sure sign they were 'in the truth.'" According to Jerry Bergman, author of BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS: A HISTORY AND EVALUATION OF THE RELIGIOUS, BIBLICAL, AND MEDICAL OBJECTIONS, 1994 "The blood issue has brought witnesses more publicity than any other issue in the last twenty years." "The ban on blood transfusions was an effort to solidify the Knorr administration." [Knorr initially objected to the weird scriptural interpretation justifying the abstaining from blood; he understood the scriptures to be in reference to animal blood only. Nevertheless, he went along with the ban. While Rutherford swallowed some irrational rantings by Franz and Woodworth over the beginnings of the blood issue, he would not allow publication of FWF's "special knowledge" as "new light" in THE WATCHTOWER. The two mischief makers kept things stirred up and began convincing others, including Knorr. The author was told that now that "King Saul" [FWF] is dead, the leadership would like blood transfusions to be a matter of conscience and lay the blame for all the suffering at the feet of Franz and Woodworth. ALSO FROM "COMPOND-COMPLEX":  DEATH PREFERABLE TO HAVING A BLOOD TRANSFUSION      "If followers of the Watch Tower Society understood the source of the edict for the refusal of blood transfusions, they would reject it immediately, as having no relevance to the passages of Scripture they use to impose this restriction.      "All responsible Bible scholars reject this unscriptural Watch Tower edict, and for the first sixty years of the Society's existence, it was not even suggested by founder Russell, or his successor Rutherford.      "Clayton Woodworth, editor of THE GOLDEN AGE magazine (renamed CONSOLATION, now AWAKE!) from 1919 to 1946, was eccentric and wildly irrational. He hated the medical establishment with a passion, and especially the American Medical Association.      "Unbelievably, this man, who later would advance the view that members should die before submitting to a blood transfusion, also denied the germ theory of disease, condemned all vaccinations and medicines (including aspirin), warned against "poisonous" aluminum cookware and the chlorination of water, and held a number of other strange notions on healthcare treatment. The more he jostled with the medical establishment, stirring up controversy, the better Rutherford liked it." Information on the Watch Tower's 60-plus-year battle with the medical establishment will follow. Woodworth was a major contributor, but the lambasting of orthodox medical treatment began long before he took the helm. THE FOUR PRESIDENTS OF THE WATCH TOWER SOCIETY (JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES), Edmond C. Gruss, Editor, pp. 74, 230. Compound-Complex

WATCHTOWER CRACKS MORE ON THE BLOOD ISSUE (March 1, 2010) Last night after talking some about other things Barbara Anderson (well-known in our community of ExJWs&Friends) told talk show host Derrick Whitt that the Watchtower Society forbids Hospital Liaison Committee elders from telling dying Jehovah's Witnesses that "cryosupernatant" plasma can be administered to them although if a doctor mentions it and a JW patient happens to call in to Watchtower about it then Watchtower will tell them that, yes, they can use it too in addition to the other blood fractions it does not hide that it permits. She asked why this is, and, you know, it does seem significantly odd as well as senselessly murderous.  I wonder if Watchtower is also forbidding HLC elders from telling JW patients of other items they would also approve?  Maybe Watchtower’s Governing Body group is so chicken of anti-transfusionists that they don’t word to get out but they are semi-secretly (or secretly) allowing use of these plasmas (not as good as whole blood transfusions but still life-saving) on the quiet because the Watchtower Society’s legal department attorneys have pointed out they had better. The BJH is a journal for hemotologists (blood experts) in the United Kingdom and on page 25 of the following link it mentions Jehovah’s Witnesses can use both cryosupernant and still another blood plasma product called cryoprecipitate:  http://www.bcshguidelines.com/pdf/freshfrozen_280604.pdf Does anyone know if JW elders are permitted to tell JW patients that this other product (cryoprecipitate) is also permitted for them? Lawrence Hughes has told me that, since he began his lawsuit in 2002 against Watchtower, which lawsuit ultimately has come to be against its two most involved attorneys and two doctors who collaborated in the senseless tragedy in which his daughter died, fewer and fewer bleeding deaths have been reported to him.  Apparently this is why.  So much bright light shone upon Watchtower from his thus far eight year long lawsuit that Watchtower legal lobbied the Governing Body about it to “keep all sides happy,” the result being that Watchtower has tried to split the baby down the middle.  I believe that Kerry Louderback-Woods’ treatise as to possible lawsuits as a result of material Watchtower put or mis-put in a blood brochure has also been a torch under the Watchtower Governing Body’s attorneys feet. Isn’t it a shame, indeed very shameful that Watchtower has to be drug screaming and whining about it to adjust its blood policy?  At that, people in poverty-smitten lands where cryosupernatant and cryoprecipitate are not available are also dying and going to die.  Too, as said, these two types of plasma are not as good as whole blood plasma so here in the West, Jehovah’s Witnesses will also keep on bleeding to death, although not as many as before ............ provided Watchtower continues to allow the products to be used and gets shoved, howling about it, into telling all the JWs members that the products can be used. I say tell JWs by anonymous letters if that’s what it takes about the two products and how Watchtower’s Governing Body is too chicken to tell them about it.  Remind them too that Watchtower allows use of some other blood fractions.  Refer them to read Matthew 12:7 and 1 Samuel 14:31-35 to know some scriptures positive about life and blood usage.  Also please donate some money to help Lawrence Hughes proceed with his lawsuit so that we can really pop this thing wide open!  Send it via paypal.com; to do so you’ll need to tell paypal that his email is watchtowerlawsuit@yahoo.com.  Don’t think your $5 or whatever is too little, it isn’t!  Ask other friends to also donate.  Our telethon continues (see christianwitnesses.com) but we need your participation with donations, and this news shows that Lawrence's lawsuit has already helped pay off big; add some donations and we can get even more done!  Email this on to other Friends, post copies etc, please.  Watchtower itself will go into denial, put posers up to posting "no big deal" and the like.  Let them.  The fact is that more people will be living, and with your help even more will. March 1, 2010

IMPORTANT!  FROM LAWRENCE HUGHES!  READ NOW PLEASE!! There has been alot of misinformation concerning the Wrongfull Death lawsuit I filed against the Watch Tower Society (WTS). That misinformation is due to the fact that the media has not been accurate in their reporting and because of the WTS propaganda machine.  I wish to explain to you the facts as I know them. Recently the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) turned down my application to hear arguments on the issue of,  “Conflict of Interest”.  The SCC only decides to hear cases that would help make certain laws better. The SCC only hears about one case out of ten. The application I filed, I knew would be a long shot but I felt it was worth the effort.  The fact that the SCC decided not to hear the arguments concerning  “Conflict of Interest” has no impact on my lawsuit.  The lawsuit against the WTS Lawyers and Watchtower itself can go to Trial.  I will explain! The  WTS filed an application at Queens Bench ( Q.B.) for Summary Judgement.  In June, 2008, Justice MacLeod decided that there was not enough evidence to warrant going to Trial against the Religious Defendants and granted Summary Judgement.  That judgement did not apply to the Medical Defendants.  I filed an Application at the Alberta Court of Appeal (ACA).  In June, 2009, the Panel of three Judges unaminously overturned the lower court’s decision.  It is important to mention that there were three issues before the Court. 1)      Consent. 2)      Conflict of Interest. 3)      Misrepresentation and Deceit. The ACA decided that there was sufficient evidence to go to Trial on the issue of  “Consent” against the WTS Lawyers and the Medical Defendants.  The panel of three Judges were visibly upset with the WTS Lawyers because they had given Bethany medical advice and the Judges hammered the  WTS Lawyers with questions concerning the medical advice they gave.  When Bethany was in the hospital, the WTS Lawyers came up with ten different alternative treatments which they said offered Bethany a much better chance of a cure which did not require blood transfusions.  It was proven in court that all those alternative treatments did not offer Bethany any chance of a cure.  Finally, the WTS Lawyers convinced Bethany that arsenic would cure her skin cancer.  The WTS Lawyers had also instructed Bethany to sign her affidavit without reading it.  The ACA  also decided that there was not enough evidence to warrant going to Trial on the other two issues.  Now, as most of you know, there is a huge “Conflict of Interest” issue pertaining to the WTS involvement in Jehovah Witness (JW) blood transfusion cases.  The WTS deliberately misquotes secular authorities concerning medical treatments and misinforms Jehovahs Witnesses about medical treatments, and uses co-ercion and pressure to force Jehovah Witnesses to refuse blood transfusions.  As a result, thousands of Jehovahs Witnesses have died and are dying each day.  This is  INSTITUTIONAL MURDER. I felt that it was important to file an Appeal to the SCC.  Unfortunately, the SCC chose another case to hear.  So, I can go to Trial on the issue of Consent against the WTS Lawyers, and the Medical Defendants.  The WTS, although they are not a Defendant, are tied to the Lawsuit through Fiduciary  Duty.   Also, at Trial the facts pertaining to the “Conflict of Interest” and “Misrepresentation and Deceit” issues will come up during the course of the Trial, be filed at the Court House for the Public to access at any time and will be reported by the International News Media during the course of the Trial. Because of the WTS propaganda machine, I think it is important that I review the facts of the case. This is a brief Over View and does not cover all the facts.  In February, 2002, there was a Court Hearing at the Alberta Childrens Hospital (ACH). At that Hearing, Justice Jordon found that Bethany was not capable of giving consent concerning medical treatment and made Bethany a ward of the Province.  The Director of Child Welfare obtained an Apprehension and Treatment Order.  As part of that Order, Bethany was to receive chemotherapy and blood transfusions to treat her leukemia.  Bethany told the Psychologist at the hospital, that her Lawyer David Gnam, was pressuring her to physically resist the chemotherapy and blood transfusions.  As a result, Bethany physically resist treatments.  In April, there was a Trial and Justice Kent refused to hear testimony from Bethany.  Justice Kent, in paragraph 78 of her decision stated, “ I am told that B.H. wanted to testify before me. I  read her affidavits and viewed her video. Can I now or could I, if she did testify, rely on the evidence coming from a free, informed will? I could not, not after the pressures and influences that have been brought to bear on her in the last few weeks to maintain her position on blood transfusions.” Bethany did receive chemotherapy and blood transfusions and the desease was in remission. Bethany was scheduled to be soon discharged from the hospital.  It was then discovered that there was skin cancer on her back.  The doctor had numerous tests done and all the results from the tests were conclusive that there was no leukemia cells in the vital organs, her spine or in her blood.  That meant she only had skin cancer.  The Head of the Oncology Department, Dr. Coppes, testified in court that the skin cancer was not life threatening and could be treated without the use of chemotherapy or blood transfusions.  The skin cancer could be treated with radiation on an out patient basis.  Dr. Coppes also testified that he contacted the world expert of Pediatric Oncology, Dr. Arceci and that the Dr. Arceci believed that the leukemia had relapsed and that he recommended Paliative Care.   I have since sent the medical records to the World Expert, Dr. Arceci and he said to me that Dr. Coppes  did  NOT contact him and that he would never have recommended Paliative Care and that with a conventional treatment, Bethany would have had a fighting chance to live.  If Bethany only had skin cancer than Bethany’s chance of being cured of leukemia would have been the original chance when she began treatments which was approximately  65%.  Bethany was discharged from the hospital. The WTS lawyers convinced Bethany that arsenic would cure her skin cancer and they took her into hiding and arranged for Bethany to be given the arsenic on an out patient basis.  During the two months she was in hiding, I did not know where she was nor could I contact her.  The WTS was contacted by Child Welfare and the WTS Lawyers refused to tell Child Welfare where they were hiding her.  Of course Bethany died.  The arsenic slowly killed off all of her blood cells and she died of congestive heart failure. The World Expert of Pediatric Oncology is one of my star witnesses.  This expert has already given testimony under oath and has said that arsenic is not a cure for skin cancer or for AML subtype M1 which is the desease Bethany had when she was in the hospital.  Bethany might be alive today, if she had received proper medical treatment. I wish to continue this lawsuit. I believe this lawsuit and the issues surrounding it are very important.  Unfortunately, I have to pay court costs.  In order to proceed, I need your help.  In the past there have been a small goup of supporters who have donated money.  The vast majority of xjw’s have not donated.  I am not sure why that is.  I believe that if I were succesfull in winning this lawsuit, it could be the straw that breaks the camels back, so to speak.  Winning this lawsuit could be the beginning of bringing an end to the blood policy and the WTS.  I was told that if this case were to go to Trial, that it would be one of the most publicised lawsuits in Canadian History.  The Trial would generate news coverage around the world.  Will you help me put an end to the senseless deaths of Jehovah Witnesses?  Will you help me prevent the needless deaths of your loved ones and family members?  This is a temporary window of opportunity. This may be your only chance in your lifetime to make a significant difference.  If you do not help me, then this lawsuit will be discontinued. I need you to send me a donation NOW.........not two months from now. Two months from now will be too late.  If I am not able to pay the $10,000 in court costs in three weeks time, then the Judge will throw the lawsuit out of court.  This is a serious lawsuit.  A panel of three Judges from the Court of Appeal unaminously decided that there was enough evidence to warrant proceeding to Trial.  The World Expert of Pediatric Oncology believes it is a serious lawsuit and is willing to travel to Calgary to testify in court on my behalf. The WTS regularly monitors xjw websites.  Each time I would post on a forum, the WTS Lawyers would show up in court with a copy of my post and try to use that against me.  No doubt, the WTS will try to discourage you from helping me.  Pretending to be a xjw, they will post messages that are negative and will make wild accusations against me.  Please do not allow them to cloud your vision or put you off balance.  Please remain focused on the task at hand, to put an end to the needless deaths of Jehovahs Witnesses and to put an end to the Watchtower Society.  This is WAR.  The WTS declared war on mankind, on your family and on you personally.  Millions of lives have been ruined.  Tens of thousands of Jehovahs Witnesses have died prematurely.  If one Jehovah Witness dies, it is one person too many. That is the crux of the situation.  We can not afford to waste time.  That is what the WTS wants is for us to become complacent...........to do nothing..............to wait.............and to slip into oblivion.  Please send a donation as soon as possible.  Paypal or Western Union is preferred.  Cheques or money orders from the USA take 6 to 8 weeks to be received and to clear the bank. That is too long a time.  I only have about three to four weeks to pay the court costs before the WTS appears before a Judge asking the Court to have the lawsuit  thrown out. To send by Paypal:      watchtowerlawsuit@yahoo.com To send by Western Union or to mail cash:   Lawrence Hughes, 14315 Parkland Blvd. S.E., Calgary, AB, Canada  T2J 4K3, (403) 271-9606 I would enjoy hearing from you and to answer any questions.  Feel free to email me at watchtowerlawsuit@yahoo.com Please forward this message to anyone whom you think would be interested and please post on forums that you visit. MOVIE – I feel it is important to have a movie produced on the subject of the Watchtower Society’s ban on blood. If you know someone who may know a movie producer in the USA then please contact me. Thankyou for your support. Lawrence Hughes

BLOOD AND THE WATCHTOWER IN HAWAII (A 100% true story) I was sitting on a bench resting at an intersection along Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, when an immaculately dressed man stepped toward me and offered an "Awake!" magazine published by the Watchtower Society over Jehovah's Witnesses.  It was against blood transfusions. I looked up at him and said, "Hi.  Would you read a scripture I want from your Bible for me?" "Sure.  Which scripture?"  He asked as if stunned that I was witnessing back to him. "1 Samuel 14:32-35, please." He read it.  I said, "Did you notice that it shows God forgave Saul's men who ate UNBLED MEAT, therefore meat with blood in it, in order to stay alive?" He blinked, looked visibly upset. "One more scripture, please.  Matthew 12:7." He read that one as well, and I responded.  "So there Jesus Christ is telling us that God wants Mercy not Sacrifice.  Even the sacrifice of one single child or adult shows a lack of godly mercy." At this point he looked totally stunned, his eyes rolled back as if in great inner turmoil.  I saw clearly that the Bible had hit him head-on in heart and mind.  Watchtower teaches JWs to live and sometimes die by Acts 20 saying "abstain from blood." These other two Bible passages counter-balance the misinterpretation which has cost countless lives of Witnesses. At this point a second man, his preaching partner approached from across the street, casting suspicious eyes at me. I smiled, said "Have a nice day" and left.  The real truth can and does set people free, and I encourage you the read to also memorize and, better yet, get those scriptures to other JWs so that more can live.  Freely make and share copies of this.   christianwitnesses.com

WHY EVERY JEHOVAH'S WITNESS NEEDS TO LOOK AT 1 SAMUEL 14:31-35 Under Mosaic Law then existing in ancient Israel at the time of King Saul, the normal penalty if a person ate blood or animal fat was death.  However 1 Samuel 14:32-35 shows that even under Mosaic Law, Saul's entire army of men ate unbled men to stay alive due to being exhausted and famished; yet they were forgiven by God.  Saul had his men make an altar which likely was not a small wooden altar but a large pile of heaped up large rocks or boulders to show remorse that they had had to break Mosaic Law to stay alive, and no scripture shows God punishing or slaying any of the men, so they were clearly forgiven.    If the men had not eaten the unbled meat of the livestock then they would have died, in other words committed suicide, and such self-taking of life was also forbidden under Mosaic Law; so their acting in the more logical and to God, more merciful way, was okay. Very, very few Christians wantonly eat blood puddings etc, but most do take blood transfusions as it is merciful and Biblically permitted as seen here.  Instead of noting this section of scriptures, Watchtower's heads ignore it; and meanwhile JWs, at times including children, bleed to death. Why not mail or email a copy of this to active JWs so they can find out about this grievous sin against Jehovah's Holy Spirit. 31 That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Micmash to Aijalon, they were exhausted. 32 They pounced on the plunder and, taking sheep, cattle and calves, they butchered them on the ground and ate them, together with the blood. 33 Then someone said to Saul, "Look, the men are sinning against the LORD by eating meat that has blood in it."        "You have broken faith," he said. "Roll a large stone over here at once." 34 Then he said, "Go out among the men and tell them, 'Each of you bring me your cattle and sheep, and slaughter them here and eat them. Do not sin against the LORD by eating meat with blood still in it.' "       So everyone brought his ox that night and slaughtered it there. 35 Then Saul built an altar to the LORD; it was the first time he had done this.

DONATE VIA PAYPAL.COM TO HELP END WATCHTOWER'S ANTI-WHOLE BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS POLICY; SPECIFY THAT YOUR DONATIONS GO TO WATCHTOWERLAWSUIT@YAHOO.COM CLICK TO SEE A VIDEO NARRATED BY LAWRENCE HUGHES ON THE SENSELESS DEATHS INCLUDING OF HIS OWN DAUGHTER BETHANY ABIGAIL HUGHES!  HE'S FOUGHT THIS 8 YEARS NOW; IT'S OUR PRIVILEGE TO HELP HIM SAVE THE LIVES OF OTHERS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCEx1EU5V6U CLICK THIS PHOTO TO READ/SEE MORE Christ said the stones can cry out. (Lu 19:40) Photo of Bethany's tombstone; One of many crying out!