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For more information on how you can be more involved
in your own community complete the coupon below and return
to: Worldwide Church of God, Box 111, Pasadena, CA 91123.
Herbert W. Armstrong
Pastor General
(This information is in the process of being printed. Your name
will be added to a mailing list and you will receive it as soon as
it is available).
I have written you the story of how our approximately 5,500
Southern California members, enmasse, flooded into the Auditorium, the Hall
of Administration and the Student Center building, and barred the doors
against entrance by the Receiver. The main floors of these buildings
were well-sprinkled with women, children and babies. To force entrance--
which our people would not have resisted--would have forced the deputy
sheriffs to arrest and jail women with babies and children. The
sheriffs, the Receiver, and prosecuting attorneys threw up a white
flag of truce, so to speak (not literally), asking for a compromise.
Our attorneys said "NO COMPROMISE!"
Now the Receiver (who never came back after that day) resigned,
and Judge Title vacated the receivership. That means that the State
has given up for the moment on claiming all church property, assets,
incoming tithes and offerings--as well as the MANAGEMENT OF GOD'S WORK,
CHURCH, AND COLLEGE.
But the original lawsuit, charging me and Mr. Rader with "siphoning
off" millions of dollars for our own accounts still stands--but without
ANY EVIDENCE OR PROOF! Actually, the very reason for the receivership
was to seize all records before we could remove them (which was the
last thing we would ever have done).
We were accused of this gross theft and "siphoning off" without
ONE SINGLE BIT OF EVIDENCE OR PROOF. They sued us first, seizing
records, HOPING to find evidence to warrant their heinous suit.
We would never have hidden any financial records from them, had
they requested in a decent manner the right to come in and examine our
financial records. But, private correspondence in regard to legal
matters are matters of privacy and confidentiality, to which they HAVE
NO RIGHT.
This whole plot against us was hatched secretly in a judge's
chambers. It was a totally unwarranted and illegal maneuver.
In the Time magazine issue of January 22, 1979, was a two-page
essay questioning whether the judges in our courts have not gone too
far. The judicial system was called in this article "an
ever-more-activist judiciary." Judges were said to have become
"an Imperial Judiciary," having our republic in "its clutches."
Judges do much more than just judge--they involve themselves in
legislating, imposing policies and administering.
Brethren and Co-Workers, our attorneys are doing a fine job. They