WHY THE WATCHTOWER SOCIETY’S KINGDOM HALL
PROPERTY GRAB WAS A CATASTROPHIC MISCALCULATION
When the Watchtower forced all congregations to:
• sign over ownership
• centralize deeds
• relinquish local control
…they thought they were:
• protecting assets
• streamlining management
• and consolidating power
What the Society actually did was:
Attach every liability, tort, abuse claim, negligence case, and injury suit directly to the central corporation.
That is corporate law 101.
Before:... moreWHY THE WATCHTOWER SOCIETY’S KINGDOM HALL
PROPERTY GRAB WAS A CATASTROPHIC MISCALCULATION
When the Watchtower forced all congregations to:
• sign over ownership
• centralize deeds
• relinquish local control
…they thought they were:
• protecting assets
• streamlining management
• and consolidating power
What the Society actually did was:
Attach every liability, tort, abuse claim, negligence case, and injury suit directly to the central corporation.
That is corporate law 101.
Before:
• a local congregation could be sued
• a local body could be named
• a local entity could absorb impact
Now?
It’s:
“Watchtower did this.”
“Watchtower failed.”
“Watchtower knew.”
They centralized risk.
And risk aggregation is how empires fall.
