Yes, Lil, you got punished. Rick took it personal, very personal, that you would even question Johnny. You obviously cannot be handled, so you were publicly humiliated. Rick took this too personal and calls into question many things regarding what he feels he has invested in this Johnny charade.
Listening to the audio of the conference call some things really struck me- your first question to Johnny regarding whether he was afraid somebody would recognize his voice, etc.
The explanations were ridiculous.
1. His voice is being disguised
2. He works in clandestine IT apostate website monitoring, the WT equivolent of CIA, covertly gathering intel about the aposate and fringe JW stayer world, and it is his job to monitor specifically the Sex Screens website.
3. That ONLY HE "is privy" to that and the only one who monitors it.
Wow. If Johnny is the ONLY ONE who monitors Sex Screams, then somebody at Bethel gave him that assignment. Everyone who knows about the "IT" internet site monitoring at Bethel knows who is monitoring Sex Screams and it wouldn't even take a half-wit to understand that Johnny's true identity can easily be narrowed down to just ONE PERSON.
The Obvious Scenario: Joe Bethelite hears the portion of the conference call where Johnny says he works in IT and it is his job to monitor specifically the Sex Screens website.
Joe Bethelite drops a dime to let somebody know there is a defector and what his job is at Bethel.
These people are utterly stupid all the way around. Their explanation is the give away. Their cover is their undoing. I've set up a test, a trap, for Johnny. Let's see if he passes.
Rick is a fraud. Johnny is a fraud, and this not-so-cleverly crafted explanation is an obvious lie. I would assert that if one lie is detected, nothing else said by Johnny, Rick, and the other Sex Screams sycophants can be held as credible and truthful. This is not a little thing. If we are not going to be honest and truthful as apostates, if we are not going to take a firm stand for the truth after having been damaged by the lies, then what are we doing here? I am hoping for more than a politician's answer by credible movers and shakers in the apostate world. They do not defend Rick, but seem to give their tacit acquiescence to this type of spiritual buggery. Maybe we should not expect a public statement denouncing Rick Fearon by the heavy hitter apostates who have good credible reps, however, it will be interesting to see whether there is a "stepping away from" this carnival sideshow hawker and his circus of lies and intellectual sodomy.
Everything Johnny talks about does not smack of any insider knowledge, but smacks of the endless threads of information as related by xJW's on sites like this one. It's like he is reading from "Bethel experiences" threads.
I have to go work. More later.