Dangerous messages should be exposed to protect others

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> Hare Krsna dasi comments:

>

> I must agree with Jatukarnya prabhu's point. Rules of confidentiality are

> superceded when the contents of messages are dangerous or criminal. This

> has already been demonstrated on a non-devotee chat room where a man

> confessed that he set his house on fire and deliberately burned up his

> eight year old daughter. Because his offense was considered so serious,

> his message was exposed and he was sent to jail for his offense.

 

Your example underlines the point I made earlier about going to the right

authority. The guy's email was exposed to the proper authorities and he was

put on trial (another very important point) and then convicted. Accepted.

 

Mahanidhi dasa (by his own admission) took ISKCON's dirty linen to VNN on a

smear campaign, bypassing all lines of authority - COM administrators, gurus

and GBC - and you (and some others who think like you) are glorifying his

actions.

 

Something is seriously wrong here - seems like incitement to defy authority

or a complete breakdown of faith in authority.

 

Your servant,

Goloka Candra dasa

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At 22:13 -0800 1/16/99, COM: Goloka Candra (das) JPS (Malaysia) wrote:

 

 

>Mahanidhi dasa (by his own admission) took ISKCON's dirty linen to VNN on a

>smear campaign, bypassing all lines of authority - COM administrators, gurus

>and GBC - and you (and some others who think like you) are glorifying his

>actions.

>

 

It appears that you are still confusing GHQ and ISKCON. It wasn't ISKCON's

dirty laundry. It was the GHQs dirty laundry.

 

If you're still suffering from problems differentiating the two entities,

the fact that both the Executive Officers of the North American GBC *and*

the Executive Committee of the GBC have distanced themselves from GHQ

should make that separation perfectly clear.

 

So yes, the GHQs dirty laundry was exposed, but no, ISKCON's dirty laundry

wasn't. At least not this time and not by Ardhabuddhi.

 

Ys,

Madhusudani dasi

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At 22:13 -0800 1/16/99, COM: Goloka Candra (das) JPS (Malaysia) wrote:

 

 

>Mahanidhi dasa (by his own admission) took ISKCON's dirty linen to VNN on a

>smear campaign, bypassing all lines of authority - COM administrators, gurus

>and GBC - and you (and some others who think like you) are glorifying his

>actions.

>

 

It appears that you are still confusing GHQ and ISKCON. It wasn't ISKCON's

dirty laundry. It was the GHQs dirty laundry.

 

If you're still suffering from problems differentiating the two entities,

the fact that both the Executive Officers of the North American GBC *and*

the Executive Committee of the GBC have distanced themselves from GHQ

should make that separation perfectly clear.

 

So yes, the GHQs dirty laundry was exposed, but no, ISKCON's dirty laundry

wasn't. At least not this time and not by Ardhabuddhi.

 

Ys,

Madhusudani dasi