Blues brother. I doubt the elders know. I was an elder less than a year ago and I had no idea about any of this. Once I knew I was floored with the amount of lies from jworg. One of them principally being that "apostates" are liars, manipulative, and so on.
One of the things I told my siblings as I was walking away was that what fear does light have of darkness. If it's the truth it has nothing to fear.
I for one would like to participate. I have hundreds of addresses in the socal area mainly.