You may be right here but i dont condone fizzy's continuous stirring.
Yawn. Call the waaaaaaaahmbulance.
Besty has openly used his real name on here and on freeminds so it s ridiculous to lambast julia for using it on facebook.
WRONG. Whether his name is already widely known or not is irrelevant. She publicly libeled him. She made false accusations against him (to deflect, she projected her own despicable behavior onto him) and then tacked those accusations onto his name and photo on a public Facebook page and basically asked everyone to shun him. She had the audacity to vindictively retaliate against him for exposing a few of the lies that AAWA told to cover its ass. It's everything AAWA is not supposed to be about.
Not to mention, AAWA wants to play "legal corporation", so they are held to higher standards than the average Joe Schmo. Richard Kelly is their Secretary-Treasurer and Incorporator, and he "liked" Julia's post and made a derogatory comment on it aimed towards Besty. So one of AAWA's directors has directly sanctioned Julia's actions. No distancing themselves from this one by blaming it on some "overenthusiastic volunteer". They've learned nothing. They still think they're random internet users who can sling whatever mud they like within their new official corporate capacities. They just do not get it . They are a corporation now and that means corporate responsibilities - they don't get to pull this shit without consequences.
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To recap:
1) AAWA told a bunch of lies this past week to try to downplay their role in compromising people's privacy. We're past "stretching the truth" here, people. These were flat-out lies .
2) Besty posted the names of the three major culprits - all open/active apostates with no worries about being "outed" - and the number of people each had force-added to the group. This exposed several claims from AAWA's official statements as completely false.
3) AAWA's Facebook page moderator, Julia Barrick Douglas, uses one of their official Facebook pages to publicly libel Besty, accuse him of putting group members at risk (false), and project her own misbehavior onto him. She publicly calls for his shaming and shunning by other AAWA members.
4) Richard Kelly, one of the two remaining AAWA corporate officers (seeing as Barb Anderson bailed), someone who should maintain the utmost professionalism, "likes" Julia's post and joins in bashing Besty. (By the way, given the current shaky legal ground Richard Kelly stands on by knowingly signing and filing incorporation papers containing misrepresentations of material facts, he's the last person who should be invoking the word "crime" against Besty.)
Your donations at work, people. I mean, seriously, look at what this "remarkable organization" has "accomplished" so far. A self-serving, falsehood-filled, puff piece blog post smearing JWN as a whole (that they deleted all negative/questioning comments from), and the director-sanctioned use of an AAWA official social media page to publicly settle a personal vendetta and libel somebody with a conscience who made them look like the idiots and liars they are by simply...telling the truth.
Besty's very simple and forthcoming post exposed about 5 different lies that AAWA has told in the past week to cover their own asses, and he did it without putting a single fader at risk or divulging any sensitive information. AAWA's response is so unprofessional, hysterical, fearmongering, and shrilly over-the-top it is beyond belief. They can't defend their own behavior, so instead they pick a target to demonize to their members..."pay no attention to the man behind the curtain". Where, exactly, does this petty, vicious, indiscriminate, vigilante score-settling fit in with their "noble" mission statement? I'd love to know. It would actually be hilarious if it weren't so depressing. Every time I think they can't sink lower or it can't possibly get any worse, they manage to make some new wtf-worthy faux-pas. They are their own worst enemies.
Anyways my response was:
Thanks for the free PR :-) the 3 individuals I named on JWN should have thought about privacy issues before attempting to add 700 people to an anti-cult group, without their permission. I didn't name the numerous people who added just a few friends (in cluding the folks that added me and my wife without permission) as they have used facebook innocently and responsibly - naively maybe. But ye - make sure everyone knows I'm the bad guy. This is like watching amateurs crashing trains - you're doing it - you're just not sure how. Or how to stop it.
Nice response, Besty. And of course, they immediately deleted it, but I'm sure you realized they would, because information control seems to be one of their new favorite tactics. They only have a problem with it when the Watchtower does it.
