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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
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VOL.2, N0.31
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
AUGUST 1, 1980
BOLD NEW THRUST ANNOUNCED AT PRESS CONFERENCE
After 19 months of the Church's defending itself against an unjust as
sault, Mr. Rader, in a news conference held in his office Thursday after
noon, characterized those past months as "the 'big lie' phase of the
Attorney General's efforts to take over the Worldwide Church of God, to
bend it to his will or to destroy it.'' Mr. Rader, who has consistently
been forthright, announced that he has been fighting the lies with truth.
Mr. Rader announced that we are about to enter into the second phase of
the battle--"a battle [the Attorney General] can't win," quoting from one
of Mr. Armstrong's upcoming ads. Mr. Rader proceeded to tell representa
tives of the media that they might want to call this next phase "the stage
of the 'big shoot-out.'" First, however, we have to clear the way by re
solving a major area that the Attorney General has capitalized on in his
blatant efforts to mislead the courts and the public.
The Attorney General kept misleading the media, the public and the
courts by alleging that Mr. Rader was hiding behind the first amendment
guarantees of the constitution, as well as other constitutional rights
such as privacy, freedom of association and due process. But now that
Mr. Rader is producing all of the documents that were demanded of him
and is answering every question that has been posed to him under penalty
of perjury, the Attorney General will not be able to say "the Church is
acting to protect Stanley Rader or that Stanley Rader is acting to pro
tect Stanley Rader" by hiding anything.
!n response to a reporter's question whether this was a defeat for the
Church or at least a concession, Mr. Rader replied in the negative. He
stressed that his privacy has been invaded. But he was willing to answer
all questions long ago, but Church attorneys resisted his wishes to turn
the documents over before now. In effect, Mr. Rader was standing for the
rights of God's Church, all members' and other churches' rights too. Since
the Church was "held on the horns of a dilemma in a 'damned if we don't
and damned if we do"' situation, Church attorneys felt that he should at
last clear his name. So Mr. Rader has made all his personal documents
available to the press. Now they can see all or any part of his personal
documents going back to 1957!
Explaining further, Mr. Rader said that the "big lie" was the Attorney
General saying that Mr. Rader (and others) were hiding behind the first
amendment. Added to that were his trumpeted claims of pilfering and si
phoning, even after many of those same charges were found to be untrue
many months ago in Superior Court.
So Mr. Rader said that we will give first the press and la�t the Attorney
General, the documents he has been wanting "not because I lack faith in
our position. I must strip a man who has lied and slandered. I must
strip him of that weapon so that he can no longer say that he has posed