JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES in Argentina continue to be under government ban. But not everyone agrees with what the government is doing.

Some members of the federal judiciary have gone on public record in behalf of the Witnesses. And on February 14, 1980, an editorial by James Neilson in the Buenos Aires Herald gave evidence that he was not afraid to state how he felt about the situation. He wrote:

“The government’s objective in treating the Witnesses in this shameful manner is hard for a rational mind to grasp. It cannot seriously expect to convert them. So far not one single Witness has renounced his beliefs as a result of the government’s heavy-handed campaign and, indeed, they are accustomed to outfacing far tougher and far more unpleasant enemies than the present authorities. The Jehovah’s Witnesses, a stiff-necked people if ever there was one, have survived the attentions of the likes of Hitler and Stalin and they will no doubt survive whatever President Videla has in store for them. Elsewhere they have gone to their deaths singing the praises of the Lord and they will be quite prepared to do the same here should it ever become necessary.