RESULTS OF THE SPECIAL ZAIMU CAMPAIGN:
MEMO # CJT-69
DISTRIBUTE TO - TERR/HQ
INFORM TO - HQ CHIEFS
MEMORANDUM TO ALL TERRITORY AND HQ CHIEFS
FROM CHICAGO JOINT TERRITORY OFFICE
DATE: OCTOBER 9, 1989
SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION WEEKLY REPORT - AS OF 10-8-89
CHICAGO TERR 1 -------------$106,821.87
" " 2-------------$39,132.89
" " 3-------------$128,991.81
" " 4-------------$240,519.73
Heartland terr.--------------------$111,964.62
Tennessee Terr-------------------$51,102.06
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$678,514.98
We are at 1/3 of our goal at this point. This month, October is the originally scheduled month for the Special Contribution, and we have to do our VERY BEST! [sic] The most important point is "Promotion of Significance." There are so many members to reach and explain this historic campaign.
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The Ikeda auditorium in Chicago was never built.
Chinberg responds: The new Chicago Culture Center was built instead, Craig.
Response:
AT A COST OF 1/5 OF THE 3.5 MILLION COLLECTED. What happened to the other 2.8 Million?
The members who dared ask the question "Where'd all the money go?" were sent personal letters of expulsion via certified mail. Six in all.
That tells you all you need to know about where the org is focussed and what it cares most deeply about.
ReplyDeleteQuite apart from the fact that they shouldn't have needed to ask because open and transparent financial reporting procedures and good financial controls should have been in place, that they did and got that response from a supposedly religious organisation that claims to value each individual is shameful.
And I bet there was no right of appeal and no published process in place to ensure fair treatment. Someone (or a secret committee) just decided that such questioning was a threat and no doubt justified its expulsion of these people because it was damaging to the "harmony" of the org. or likely to "disrupt the community of Belibers".
What next with such people? What will their questioning minds or self confidence turn to next? The glaring inconsistencies in their teachings and those of Nichiren? The glaring inconsistencies between their teaching of yesterday and today? Their realisation that a teacher is only as good as the results, self reliance and the genuine understanding they facilitate in those they teach? The realisation that they now equal or are more capable and have a better understanding than their teacher (which is every good teacher's or parents dream)?
"Heaven forbid, let's get rid. Ikeda a spare part? And upset our bountiful apple cart? Out, out, out - can't take that kind of risk. Cozie-rufu is at stake...talking of steaks, shall we discuss this over a Kobe and Chardonnay?... "
Shameful behavior indeed but they probably did those six a favour and saved them from much, much worse.
" And they slander me as a Hobo (evil) priest who is not following Nichiren's teachings. "
ReplyDeleteIn America, *hobos* aren't evil, just down on their luck... maybe you are over reacting?
~Katie