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oriented government--or one Nazi-oriented? Are your constitutional and civil
rights
being destroyed--your LIBERTIES our forefathers fought and died to secure for us
stealthily
being taken from us?
This case is JUST THAT SERIOUS! Many old and established churches--
including
the National Council of Churches, the Methodist Church, the Baptist Church, the
Roman
Catholic and others have prepared strongly-worded protests and legal petitions,
sent
to the California Supreme Court. Such established and powerful church bodies
have
doctrinal differences from us, and from one another--BUT THEY SERIOUSLY REALIZE
THAT THEIR RIGHT TO EXIST IS ALSO THREATENED in this state government action
to take over and operate the Worldwide Church of God and its affiliated
corporate
organizations mentioned above. They know it is a threat to them as well as to
us.
The secretly court-appointed receiver, without a shred of evidence, but on
the
trumped-up ridiculously false allegations of six expelled former members, came
with
an armed task force to take over $80 million worth of headquarters property
(including
the most beautiful campus in America).
This invasion of state against church was made solely for the witch-hunt
purpose
of seeking to find some evidence to support the baseless allegations of
embittered expelled
members. There was no evidence. Hence there was no criminal charge.
Records were taken by them. The Church, which sponsors its associated
educational,
publishing and cultural organizations, had, of course, always employed competent
certified
public accountants. But after this unconstitutional invasion, we employed the
CPA firm
which I understand to be the largest in the United States, at our own expense,
to make
a thorough examination, to check and verify the audits of our smaller previously
employed
CPA firm.
Now, after ONE YEAR, not a particle of wrongdoing of any kind has been
found.
Meanwhile Church members filled the campus buildings--about 5,000 members,
including
women with children and babies, so the receiver could no longer gain entrance--
unless
by force, which he did not choose to use. The receiver resigned, and by a bond
supplied
by many local members, the receivership was side-tracked, while the case
continues