To: Martin Smolensky Re: FAIR IS FAIR Dear Mr. Smolenski, Although I have stated I would n

WARNING: The Cult Awareness Network was destroyed by the Scientology
crime syndicate in court and, when CAN went bankrupt, the Scientology
criminal enterprise acquired the use and title of the Cult Awareness
network.  Now, if you call CAN, you will find yourself talking to
the Scientology crime syndicate!  This gross injustice was due to a
massive frame up concocted by Scientology to destroy CAN and it
worked, prompting a Judge to order all of CAN's records handed over
to the very same criminal enterprise that most people contacted the
real CAN to complain about and to acquire help fighting.  Spread
the word that the new Cult Awareness Network is now a Scientology
crime syndicate front! - flr, feb 2003

From: Janardana Dasa on 1:115/800
  To: Martin Smolensky
  Re: FAIR IS FAIR

Dear Mr. Smolenski,
  Although I have stated I would not post here further, I am inspired by
  your recent posts, and the posts of others, to comment on the attacks
  I'm receiving.  Since you are a lawyer here in Chicago I am inviting
  you personally to come to my house, or we can meet anywhere you'd
  like, to review my record in full, including all newspaper accounts,
  police reports, court transcripts, prison files, and anything else I
  have in my possession.  So many folks seem so interested in it,
  including yourself, that I'd be more than happy at this time to open
  my records to anyone.  I am, however, filing the complaints as you so
  correctly warned.

	 I also have the same NCIC pages you and everyone else has.  One
	 thing people fail to notice regarding NCIC reports is that they list
	 numerous entries for the same offense.  Yes, I was in five seperate
	 institutions, federal, Illinois State, and Texas State.  Ten, total,
	 if you count all the transfer points and hold-over prisons.  The
	 actual court documents and sentences and time served do not reflect
	 or match the NCIC record in the least bit.

 Yes, I was in prison.  Yes, I committed felonies.  Yes, I ESCAPED, as
 it was pointed out (if you call failing to return to a weekend halfway
 house escape, well, I'm a real Dillinger, eh?).

	Not one person on this echo, aside from perhaps yourself, that has
	commented on my record, has ever asked what went on, why, or why is
	it that I'm no longer in prison.  Recidivism is at 80%, meaning that
	8 out of ten go back.  Unemployment among ex-offenders is at an equal
	80%, yet I have worked almost constantly since release.  70% of those
	released on Parole are returned before completing their parole
	agreements (violators).

 Everyone I know personally, everyone, family, friends, the police in my
 hometown, teachers, preachers, etc., have forgiven me and have welcomed
 me back.  I have done video's for police usage for juvenile offenders
 and have talked with people in jails following the same path I was
 leading in hopes of helping them out of the criminal mind-set.  The
 police have invited me to do this, not as a standard procedure, but
 because they saw somehow that I have reformed.

	To be honest, I was a wild kid with ideas of becoming a grand
	gangster, like Clyde Barrow or something.  I was in trouble everyday
	practically.  The police in my hometown would pick me up everytime
	they SAW me, just to check if there were any warrants.  Yet this is
	so distant from me now that I don't even think about it.

 If you want to examine my whole record, you're welcome to it.  I've
 spoken about it on other echoes, myself, openly.  My neighbors know,
 and occasionally they ask questions, like what jail is like.  Sometimes
 parents have tried to get me to talk to their kids because they ditch
 school, and the like.

	So why am I not in prison now?  If I were condemnable as much as you
	folks promote, surely I'd be there now and forevermore.

 The fact is that in Federal prison there were visiting Hare Krishna
 chaplains who preached to me and asked me essentially "what right do
 you have to cause distress to others?"  It was the first time I heard
 it put that way.  Instead of cops telling me I was no good, or parents,
 or probation officers, etc., these people were simply asking me not to
 cause distress to any other living entity, and from that day on I have
 done my best not to cause such distress and my life has certainly
 turned around completely.  But that wouldn't interest those who like to
 condemn and sling crap, would it?

	The people I work with, my place of employment, Krishna Yoga
	Foundation, Religious Freedom project, etc., all know of my past
	behavior.  THEY have forgiven me.  To God, none of this matters.  To
	you folks, it's a big deal.  Why is this?

 I've been getting a real kick out of the trouble some of you folks have
 been going through to get info on me, especially when no one has asked
 me for it directly.  That's typical of closed-minded folks who already
 know everything they need to condemn and burn the so-called witches.

	So, if a criminal record is indicative of a man's integrity, are we
	supposed to advocate life in prison for all offenses?  Eternal
	incarceration?  Why is it that the government only sentences people
	to set terms?  Why not lock anyone who has been convicted away
	forever?  You people certainly would seem to be in favor of that, eh?

 If anyone wants to know about me, ask for crying out loud.  No more
 namby-pamby little secrets, half-statements, accusations, etc.  What's
 the matter?  Even CAN (Cult Awareness Network) knew of my record when I
 was helping them deprogram Krishna's, and that is also provable,
 documentable, by a Chicago Police Documentary film I did sponsored by
 CAN wherein I talk of all the prison experiences, etc.  Question that,
 if I'm so bad now, why not then, when still I was an ex-convict?

	At the same time, anyone who wants a list of references, people who
	know me, who I work with, including one FBI man, who will vouch for
	my present day integrity, including my employer, who entrusts
	thousands of dollars a day to my accounting, etc., just ask.  Thank
	you.

  Hare Krishna's FORGIVE.  Not just Hare Krishna followers, but they
  forgive everyone.  Even Jesus asked God to forgive those who killed
  them, "for they know not what they do" (probably not a technical
  quote, I got it from the album Jesus Christ Superstar).  I'm not
  asking for your forgiveness, unless somehow you were the victim of my
  criminal past, which I doubt.  All I hope is that some of you will see
  things the way they are, not through some totalist condemnation
  mind-set.
	 Thank you.