Ray Franz explains Jehovah's Witnesses victims of indoctrination, subordination (Franz freedom 199)

[thumbnail pic: William Sargant's "Battle for the Mind" -- quoted by the Watchtower in praise, ironically, of Jehovah's Witnesses' resistance to brainwashing!] Chapter 12 of Ray Franz's "In Search of Christian Freedom" is given to the subject of "Indoctrination and Subordination". Ironically, Watchtower/JW.org has boasted about how Jehovah's Witnesses, in extreme situations such as concentration camps, have been able to resist brainwashing by totalitarian regimes. The irony is that it is the victims of brainwashing who are LEAST likely to succumb to other forms of brainwashing. And it is those who have strong convictions who most likely can successfully resist the propaganda of totalitarian regimes, or any other form of mass persuasion, such as advertising. Indoctrination will work most often where there is little conviction in the victim. Jehovah's Witnesses, like soldiers under totalitarian control or subject to vicious war propaganda, often show great resistance to counter-indoctrination.