PUBLIC WARNINGThose who may be tempted to "chat with a JC" on the JesusChristian homepage should NOT assume that the contents of any discussion they may have , are in any way personal or private, despite what they might have been led to believe. The continued abuse of such discussion though does make one wonder how close we might be to one of these days, laying charges against Apostle McKay.
I believe that David McKay has actually officially registered thee name of his religious empire under the Australian Corporations Act, with a NSW address. As he and Cherry remain Australian citizens, this would of course make them subject to the laws of the State of New Wales in Australia. The computing (keyboard) input into the JesusChristian website can of course be easily traced back to the computer that David himself employs.
Looking once again at the NSW Crimes Act (1900), while I have long thought in general the fraud McKay perpetrates should make him subject to Subdivision 10 s.178BA (
Obtaining money by deception) and Subdivision 11 s.178BB (
Obtaining money by false statements) and Subdivision 13 s.179
False pretences.....i.e. the "forsake all" requirements whereby one secures "life-long" membership into the JesusChristians and subsequent eternal salvation...with no contractural protection, shareholder privledges, voting rights (by secret ballot), independant audit of the books or (legally enforceable) joint ownership of the goods and chattels of the JesusChristians.
...the current unconscionable conduct on the part of the Jesus Christians does bring some other statutes to mind.
Clearly the JesusChristians are
"Inducing persons to enter into certain arrangements by misleading statements" (Subdivision 14 s.185A) with the intent then of commiting a
"Blackmail Offence" (Division 2, Part 4B s.249K) with
"Menaces" (s.249) of
"Criminal Defamation (Division 2, s.529) through
"False and Misleading information" that amount to
"False Accusations" (Division 2, s.314).....the
fundamental principle of law being of course that,
307B False or misleading information
(1) A person is guilty of an offence if:
(a) the person gives information to another person, and
(b) the person does so knowing that the information:
(i) is false or misleading, or
(ii) omits any matter or thing without which the information is misleading,(partial extract........[
www.austlii.edu.au] )
The "omission" of contextural material....being a favourite method of deceit for David!We would seem to be so close to a possible conviction.....to my reading of the law, the JesusChristians currently would only just be technically "within" the law (morally they have been outside it for decades) as many of the above statutes apply to obligations relevant to the operation of statutory authorities of to the larceny of tangible property or the printed written word and other restrictions in their application......
I request that those who are slandered by McKay reprinting (without permission!) extracts of "private conversations" with him please retain the details of these. Possibly more stringent laws do exist for the commerical activities of business enterprises.....a category under which I believe that a man with enough money to throw about engaging Scientology lawyers to harangue the parents of those he has entrapped, deserves to fall under.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/27/2010 02:54AM by Malcolm Wesley WREST.