This early morning I was very surprised to find my blog
Christadelphian World blocked for public viewing because of a complaint to
Google for inappropriate postings.
I am convinced this action against my writings and also taking away others to react on my writings is a breech of freedom of speech, plus a childish and cowardly action undertaken by a person living in a country which was part of the
Soviet Union. Though that person living it that country up North came originally from
the United Kingdom he might have taken over dictatorial ideas of the previous oppressors.
He took care that my defence on the accusations he had made publicly were placed on my own website and where supplemented by other people who have seen the same atrocious action that person undertook in the Christian community.
His behaviour and managing to censure other people calls for the question how it is possible that one person can get so much power that he can silence those he does not like! This is bringing democracy and the freedom of speech in danger.
First of all I apologise to those people who made a comment on my articles:
Duncan Heaster en Carelinks onverbiddelijke verhinderaars and
No reconciliation possible between CBM and Duncan Heaster from Carelinks and could not find their remarks published. it sincerely is not my fault, and I find it strrange that I do not have any control over the texts that are written and comments that are made on the writing on thise platform. Very scary!
I did send a request to Google to reconsider the accusation of inappropriate writing.
Either it was one person on his own who wants to silence me, or it is an organisation which backs their dictatorial leader and is prepared to do anything to please him, not considering if it is right and justified. The organisation which has the element "care" in in its name as such did not proof until know that it wants to care for those who want to share the love of God. it also has the element "link" in its name, though since years our small community wants to link with other baptised Christadelphians which reside in
Belgium. We also would have loved to give people who ask us for an address to meet, an address of a meeting place where they could find like-minded people.
It is because that person and his organisation do not want their members to meet with CBM members that it is impossible for us those who are in need of fellowship.
In the past we always have made advertisement for a book written and edited by the person who is against us. We also still said the last weeks, to people who phoned us to take contact with that organisation which refuses to arrange contacts with us. We did not mind to send them forwards to an organisation who did not want to share brotherhood with us. But for us it was more important that the people interested to learn about God and his Son could have regular fellowship and
Bible study with people who believed in the same things we do.
For the same reason I also ask people when we can not reach them are they are unable to come to us, that they would take up a Bible study with the
Jehovah Witnesses, and ask them to come to us if they have further questions. We also ask anybody interested to pose their questions on the internet itself.
Naturally when an other organisation seems to be able to stem the course of our replies, we have entered a very dangerous situation of an outsider bringing censorship on our own, and not their site.
Clearly someone of their organisation is taking much care to follow everything I am writing; Either there is a mole by my subscribers or there is someone taking much time to follow the many websites I present to the general public. In case there is a spy under my subscribers we do find it a pity such a person comes to us with such bad intentions and to cause such nuisance.
I do hope by Google would be people with more sense, than those childish persons who are fighting against such a small fly like me.
Though I must confess the Australian organisation of the above so called Christian and Christadelphian organisation seem to have weird ideas of my power. (See about that lower concerning taking somebody in fellowship and putting him out of fellowship)
In Belgium, we always have been open to the man who accuse me now of slander and who is trying to block me from writing. He even asked
Facebook to withdraw me. Probably it is also him who asked Google to withdraw the writings on Blogger. (For that part I must say I do not know if it is him, so it could also have been somebody else who this time managed to do what the leader or the man living in Riga could not do).
We would have loved
to welcome Mr. D.H. and people he had baptised in our midst and we did not want otherwise that those baptised
Christadelphians in Belgium and Holland, would come together in
unity. Our world is to small and we are not with enough to go into
small units which would have no voice as such. Combined forces
could do so much more.
Because in May 2012 we still had not come to a conclusion and could not have the so called caring Christadelphians meeting with us because the sir of the North refused us to fellowship with them, I called him Mr. ('mister') in the term of address, instead of 'brother', so the organisation took it as I had disfellowshipped him.
In October last year having seen that the person also was on a Christadelphians Unite Group and he himself asked for addresses of other Christadelphians I thought the time was ripe to come to reconciliation and offered him to join forces again. He kept refusing and coming back on my old writing.
We (the Belgian Christadelphians) let the person know that for us it would be best if we could bury the previous period of
conflict as one to forget and make steps to rebuild trustworthy
contacts. We wanted and still want unity and respect for all members in the
Body of Christ.
After months of trying to come to reconciliation I at last went into the pen publicly and defended myself in front of those who questioned me. It was no intention of me to make false statements that could damage a
person his reputation. The things brought forward in the Dutch and the
English articles can be crosschecked for their viability. (In the comments I also had given a translation of the Dutch text in English and told the Flemish readers the part I forgot to write in the Dutch article but wrote in the English article.)
To
Christadelphians we can show the files from the CBM and our discussions with
D.H. and C.H. his wife, so that the readers of my articles can make
up their mind and see if I did tell lies or that I reacted on facts
which did really happen and where said by D. H..
After I had written the articles on this platform I got to know from a member of the Belgian Christadelphians that the organisation from
Australia, with the C from Care in their name, would be willing to continue talks in case I re-installed Mr. D.H.
So in Australia they consider my talking to the person of the North by not calling him brother any more, would have included a worldwide taking away of his fellowship in the Christadelphian community. I would never have thought that I would ever be considered to be so powerful to be able to decide who can fellowship or can not fellowship in the worldwide community of Christadelphians.
So it was a strange reaction of that organisation. For my part there was no reason at all we would not take in Mr.D.H. as our brother.
! But what he has done now, after still refusing to have brethren and sisters in the faith meeting with each other, continuing to blame me and to assault me, accusing me of slander, plus him trying to block everything I bring into my defence, so that I could have the right to speak, makes reconciliation impossible.
I can
only sincerely state that the whole situation of Mr. D.H. not
allowing baptised C.l. members to have fellowship with our CBM
baptised Christadelphians, in my eyes him not willing to have us meet
together in Belgium, is an unchristian act, which after many trials to
come to reconciliation got us nowhere further, except much more
agitation and extra difficulties for our members with the CBM now too.
A person being able to stop having published reactions on what I placed in my articles, is a very dangerous person and also a very dangerous situation for the freedom of speech. It is a real infringement of what people should be able to share ideas and communicate with each other. Taking away such a possibility to communicate and to exchange ideas is going into the law of democracy and liberty.
I also do not know how it comes that I can have no control myself of what is written on my own webpages, and why I myself am not able to judge what can, may or could be added as comments to what I have written.
I wonder what organisation is behind such censorship and why they do not have to come those matters with the people involved.
All bloggers should be aware of such a dangerous situation of censorship by somebody, out of our control.
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Please do find the concerned articles where the comments disappeared:
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