The "shadow" guy who was assigned to me was there through all of this and after I got through with the conversation without giving up my request to record, he told me that they don't usually get people "off the street" like me. I gave him a puzzled look and showed him the print out from the jw-media.org web site that said that the public was invited and encouraged to attend the conventions... he didn't have much to say to that and was forced to allow me to continue... I, of course, had word directly from the Faithful and Discrete Slave!!! How could he contradict that???
that deserves a gold medal!!
I wouldn't be surprised if later on in a service meeting, one of those BOE letters from Brooklyn announces a new policy about not letting "outsiders" attend the conventions at all. I can just see them doing that!!