The member "Johnnier" is none other than an SSPX priest, Fr. Raymond Taouk (pronounced "tooke"), an Australian priest who is ethnically Lebanese. He is about 5'5".
Fr. Taouk is notoriously against the Resistance. Fr. Chazal mentions him in a recent letter:
http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php/Letter-fo-Fr-Chazal
I began with Sydney having around thirty people interested in the resistance and several scattered groups nearby. Brisbane and Melbourne-Tynong are the biggest groups though, numbering kind of fifty people each, with a distinct reaction from the XSPX, leading basically to the same result. The reaction of Fr Taouk in Brisbane is near hysterical, given the tune on his cell phones, the threats to the faithful, the refusal of absolution and even the slamming of the confessionnal door. Another Brisbane priest made an interesting comment when presented with complaints about the AFD of Bishop Fellay: "and so what? there are good things in Vatican II!".
He is also one and the same as Anthony Malleus, of Ignis Ardens fame.
For those who wonder how I came to this conclusion, I have a myriad of evidence, some of which comes from reports on the ground in Brisbane, Australia:
(In no particular order. In fact, some of the weaker evidence is presented first, so please read to the end!)
1. They all have the same favorite phrases: "necessary distinctions", "basic", "reality", "a little honesty", "grasping/grasp" (he loves this word!), "the Archbishop" (he says this a lot, rather than "Archbishop Lefebvre")
A.
http://www.sspx.com.au/parish/brisbane/bulletin/2013/Twentieth-Sunday-After-Pentecost-Brisbane.pdfIncludes: "The Archbishop", "grasp", "basic" prudence...
B.
http://www.sspx.com.au/parish/brisbane/bulletin/2013/Fifth-Sunday-After-Easter-Brisbane.pdfThis bulletin was the real doozy, right after Fr Pfeiffer's visit (the first resistance priest to visit Brisbane in April this year). It contains the 1983 Long Island conference (Fr T loves citing this one... "Anthony Malleus" posted the exact stuff on IA around this time). Coincidentally, Johnnier also referred to this conference on CI recently:
http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php?a=topic&t=27744&min=47&num=3C. The bulletin also has an item on Fr Themann's conference, titled "clarity amidst confusion". Interestingly, Johnnier referred to this conference on CI, except it's "clarity amidst so much misinformation":
http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php?a=topic&t=27731&min=6&num=32.
He misspells his own name. Not believable. He called himself "Jonny" in a PM, his CI handle is "JohnnieR", but his e-mail address is johnnyrivers975@[omitted].au No one would be that ambivalent about the spelling of his own name.
How often do I spell my name Mathew or Matthieu? And what man goes by "Jonny", yet uses a completely different spelling in his e-mail address? Wouldn't that cause countless lost e-mails? What's the point of an e-mail address if everyone's going to spell it wrong?
3. He claims to be "Jonny Riveria" in a PM,
but there are NO men with the last name "Riveria" in Australia.4. His "Johnny" name reeks of a pseudonym. Just the fact that he's using a name at all in his e-mail address is the equivalent of "protesting too much", as if he's trying to say, "This is my identity here. Please don't look for another one..." Besides,
Johnny Rivers IS a pseudonym, albeit an obscure one. It's a
famous rock star that many of us haven't heard of!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Rivers5. The CI member Johnnier is posting from Australia -- specifically, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Right where Fr. Taouk is currently posted.6. As for being Anthony Malleus, that's a no-brainer. IA has been completely shut down, so Anthony Malleus had to go somewhere. He was obviously interested in arguing against the Resistance on Trad Catholic fora. Is that going to cease just because IA shuts down?
7.
Fr. Taouk was the only seminarian at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary (in the early 2000's)
to have his own website. (He studied Theology at STAS, even though he spent his first 3 years at Holy Cross and was later ordained there. Holy Cross didn't offer Theology at the time). There were other "computer" guys, but none of them had a website. Fr. Taouk always loved apologetics -- his website was CatholicApologetics.info. I just looked, and the website is still up.
8. As a very small side point, his website has been "Sestak-ized". The current Flash menu is unmistakeable Michael Sestak -- another diehard Bishop Fellay supporter (and Resistance hater), I might add.
So Fr. Taouk is known to be young (mid 30's now), online, with a love of Internet-based Catholic apologetics, and a disgust for the Resistance. He has always loved to be a "hammer of heretics" -- a
malleus, if you will. He is stationed in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, which is where "Johnnier" is posting from. Their phrases are the same, and their beliefs/attitudes toward the Resistance are the same.
If Fr. Taouk isn't Johnnier, then he must have a twin brother.
Personally, Fr. Taouk is a very fervent man. He feels very strongly about that which he believes. That includes the Catholic Faith, as well as the "goodness" of the SSPX, or the "badness" of the Resistance. One thing I would say about him: at least he is not "worldly". But, like St. Paul pre-conversion, he is on the wrong side right now. Let us pray that the scales will fall from his eyes.