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The AnticultLook at these news reports...translated from the french!
Perhaps someone from "Europe" will cross-post the entire article in this thread, to archive it.
There is some interesting stuff all through it, and near the bottom.
Soka Spirit Forever! California is the land of Soka Spirit Forever!
Reunion at the Top Secret Area General of the SGI-USA
The Weekly Bunshun
Edition of 04-11/01/96
pages 210 to 214
(Premiere Party)
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It was that Linda Johnson, who was employed at the department already possessed the absolute authority on religious corporations, which obligingly agreed to meet a demand search Odano. Worse still, she signed the "Memorandum of Agreement The obligation of confidentiality" with grace.
Within a few days, the lawyers had prepared their reports and were together 'in one place. The prosecutor, Linda Johnson, had also prepared a long report of more than ten pages. The report of Johnson, we have obtained, said: "On the foundations of the Office of the Attorney General of the State of California, in determining the feasibility of contraidre the Temple of Nichiren Shoshu and Hokkeko of Nichiren Shoshu has dissolved "she research the applicable laws and precedents. Attorney Linda Johnson had concluded his report as follows (paraphrasing '): On the foundations of the Office of the Attorney General, seeking a dissolution is an exceptional case. Accordingly, I do not know if it is possible to order the dissolution of the Temple of Nichiren Shoshu. From another species, there is a precedent or dissolution as decided on the basis of a petition of members and shareholders. If there is an illegitimate action consisting of priests has to pay high wages so unusual, so they can be prosecuted. Actions against members of the SGI resulting in the inability to let them enter a temple may also be deemed unlawful. "In other words, the search for a solution through the Office of the Attorney General is somewhat delicate. However, if the prosecution came from within the Nichiren Shoshu, the dissolution is possible.
Scandalous publicity, as elaborated at the Reunion Subversive
Reports of lawyers, including that of Linda Johnson, were groups into a single report (written in Japanese) by Akio Ohtsuka, one of the lawyers who attended the reunion secret. The report made several proposals Ohtsuka. Among them, however, we note one. Its title was: "9.
Survey on the private life of priests." She continued: "In America, the scandals involving religious figures are specially Devastating ... (omission) if we can report this type of information that we would be very beneficial. "He was referring to the 1987 sex scandal involving Jim Baker, the TV evangelist and a prostitute. He continued: "Two years ago, when the incident Baker, based on the discovery of tax evasion and a sex scandal, Baker, who until then had been a very popular evangelist, was baton 'by the media and ultimately lost everything he had. "
Keep in mind though that this report was written over a year before the "propaganda about the incident in Seattle" which was the subject of an advertising campaign in newspapers of Gakkai, the Soka Shimpo and the Seiko Shimbun (the United States, the World Tribune)Later, a sex scandal broke out, but it was almost as if the lawyers Gakkai and the government prosecutor had given notification as a warning that all they had concluded that a sex scandal they would " beneficial ". First there was the plot, then just as they had planned, a scandal was the subject of campaign advertising.
In other words, after investigating and obtaining information such as address, bank account, the type of vehicle, property, etc ... then they will use "other methods". Even if the cause of Daisaku Ikeda and Soka Gakkai, is that these lawyers did not allow himself to be a sprain to the law?
Another problem that the public prosecutor, Linda Johnson. The object of his inquiry: "We THERE is possible to use the authority of the Attorney General to compel the Temple of Nichiren Shoshu has dissolved?"
In fact, Johnson, to investigate this issue, use the library materials of the Department of Justice, the machine processing of text of his office to write his report and then fax the office to forward his report to the Legal Ohtsuka. Even more, it used the letterhead of the Attorney General to submit its report by fax. This amounts to a full cooperation of the Department of Justice with the request for an inquiry by the Soka Gakkai.Counsel Attorney Johnson, at the time to recognize its real participation in this case and the trial between the Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu in the United States, gave this explanation.
She said (paraphrasing '): "I write my reports outside of office hours. I did it by kindness to my friends." (Tire 'of the deposition as a declaration of the investigation report) However, regardless of the value of her claim that she did outside of office hours, but a mixture of genres between personal a symbol of public concern and the other is a statement of behavior that gives goose bumps, a prosecutor in the case of public activity ', whose task is to serve the public good, but participating at the same time has a reunion with subversive aims to attack an organization that is the enemy of one of his devotions, and above all, use his office to that effect.
We tried to keep the Attorney Johnson. We asked her: "You, as an advocate of public ministry, which seeks equity 'for the public good, which holds immense authority', how could you participate in a reunion FOR subversive attack an organization Specific religious? " She replied (paraphrasing '): "I am ready' my assistance as a private citizen who has the right to freedom 'of religion, that's all. Moreover, the work (to dissolve the Nichiren Shoshu) that the 'I was asked, was not feasible after all. So that we can not speak of attack'. " That's all she had to say in speaking to us through his front door ajar. Then she shut the door, went into his garage, got into his van and left.
A specialist of American law could not hide his astonishment at hearing the remarks of Johnson. "Not only acts of the Ministry of Public Counsel Johnson deviate from the neutral position of a public officer, in addition, she committed a crime. If she has received a fee for his actions, this may be a case or it can be investigated and prosecuted for accepting a bribe or payoff. In the United States, each state has an authority equal to that of national government. This is no small matter when Public Advocate, which is located inside the Department of Justice, took steps to eliminate a specific organization. "
Counsel Attorney Johnson said the meeting was secret (paraphrasing ') "a kind of brainstorming, and that (our plan) was not feasible." (After the declaration in the form of deposition of the report of survey mentioned above) but according to a specialist of American law, "the office of attorney general or she officiates has the authority of life or death over religious organizations. This should not be simply regarded 'as a small exercise in logic. is a serious violation of freedom 'exercise of religious faith. "
In the same series, we already publish on the use of the courts and legal system by attacking Soka Gakkai Nichiren Shoshu.
In Japan, similarly, there was a case where a senior official of Soka Gakkai and member of parliament (former member of the Komeito), Takenori Kanzaki, was involved, when the seat was a lawyer in a case of illegal telephone tapping of the residence of the president of the Communist Party. The Soka Gakkai, Japan and the United States is able to obtain counsel of the seat they behave in this manner.
The Advocate of Siege Johnson made his debut in the Big League
The former superior of the seat Johnson's lawyer, Advocate General for the State of California JV DeCamp commented: "I am a member of the Catholic faith. Even if one works in the Office of the Attorney General, go at the church, or become a director of an organization of members of a church, it is not forbidden. It does not just involve his work.
She (Johnson) has used the office for his report. This does can not be permitted '. "In fact, after the discovery of acts of Attorney Johnson in the Department of Justice, as she reprimanded and punished. (she was demoted to his former position) Despite this, it seems she did not think. She said (paraphrasing '): "I no longer use the equipment of the office again. However, if you ask me, I will make inquiries as a private', outside of office hours." (pulls 'the survey report on the statement in the form of deposition mentions' above)
Soka Gakkai (SGI) praised the conduct of Attorney Johnson. It was announced in 1995, four years after the reunion subversive it was one of the executive director of the "General Meeting Commemorative Japan Exchange of America Division of Women "in 1996. On behalf of the Attorney Johnson was quoted just after the wife of the Director General of the SGI-USA. In other words, she made her debut in the big league.---------------------------End of Quote----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interesting article despite the bad English translation. So our gal Linda's office regulates religious organizations in California...and SGI asked her to look for ways to close Nichiren Shoshu down, which she did -- writing the report on her office's letterhead. And she really doesn't consider that an ethical problem or a serious conflict of interest, despite the fact that her office demoted her for it.
I never saw that experience in the World Tribune.
When I read her statement in the second-last paragraph as "I'd do the same thing again, I'd just be more careful not to get caught the next time."
And all's well that ends well; for proving her undying loyalty to SGI, Linda's now in the big leagues of SGI, the inner circle. Such wonderful, ethical leaders SGI has, both in the United States and Japan -- apparently the same kind of thing goes on in Japan too.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/05/2010 06:25AM by tsukimoto.