HARE KRISHNA ISKCON EXPOSE CONCLUSION...

At this point we have concluded our expose of the ISKCON organization, especially regarding its operation on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville. One family recently has already been destroyed by the on-campus recruitment / indoctrination of their son and we are asking UF how many more will it take before they will take notice and do something about it. We certainly will not stop until Carl Woodham / ISKCON have been completely banned from the UF campus to prevent any more victims and families from such needless pain and suffering.

We hope that the University of Florida will wake up and follow in the footsteps of the University of Arizona, who recently banned three on-campus groups because of “financial coercion, alienation from parents, shunning of those who leave the church or question its leaders” and more.

According to the complaints and evidence we’ve received, the same thing is happening at UF with ISKCON and yet they are still allowed to operate not only on the UF campus but on campuses all over the US and abroad. For whatever reason, they have been given permission to recruit “young westerners wholesale” as Carl Woodham once stated in one of his letters.

We at FACT will make sure at this point that our efforts will be addressed by the leadership of the University of Florida and other affiliated entities (like the Florida Department of Education and the U.S. Secretary of Education for examples), not to mention all relevant lawmakers in an effort to make sure that Carl Woodham / ISKCON will leave the campus of UF permanently.

We believe these religious high-control cultic groups have no right going after impressionable students and should be barred from any such activities to safeguard students from these insidious recruitment and indoctrination practices.

Thank you to everyone for your involvement and sharing of this expose. Please stay tuned for more exposes by FACT on currently active destructive cults operating in the U.S.

FROM THE PARENT OF A YOUNG VICTIM OF THE ISKCON CULT...

[name has been changed to protect the victim’s identity]:

Without telling us, for the group, Craig cashed in his gift trust account and changed his bank accounts. He gave up his car, health insurance, Visa, his family and friends, which has been very hard on us. We are going through a period of numbness and its hard to think with the emotional toll we are going through right now. The group purposely moved him away in fear that someone would try to deprogram him and as of now we have no idea as to his exact whereabouts, we only know he is somewhere in India completely dependent upon the ISKCON organization for survival.
They don’t want Craig to communicate with us in fear that he might wake up. He cannot go on the Internet or talk to former members of the group. Unfortunately the group like all cults needs to keep its members away from the support group, which is family and friends.

The group knows seeded down deep in Craig’s persona there is a loving caring family bond that is strong and good though because of the group, he will not associate with or spend any meaningful time with his family including attending a family wedding as he would be around non-devotees which the group is concerned that he might snap back.

Craig’s family is now the controlling ISKCON organization. He has given up his body, his soul, his mind for Krishna. He is a fanatic. And it’s not his fault.”

In our opinion Carl Woodham’s iSKCON activities on the University of Florida campus (Gainesville) causes only the destruction of families fraught with pain, suffering and loss, both now and for generations to come.

A GURU WHO DISAPPROVES OF HIGHER EDUCATION IS ALLOWED TO RECRUIT STUDENTS ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS.

We just discovered a shocking quote by Carl Woodham, the Secretary of the Board for the University of Florida Campus Multi-Faith Cooperative, where he states, “Although my parents had kindly offered me many good opportunities to establish a professional career, I kept finding "higher education" empty and unsatisfying.” This explains why Mr. Woodham never achieved more than a high-school diploma with his formal education, yet he is allowed to continually connect with and influence students at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

It is no wonder why a student named James [name has been changed to protect the victim’s identity], who happened to be a devotee of guru Carl Woodham, didn’t even bother to show up for his college graduation ceremony, leaving his family (who drove all the way up for the special event) completely broken-hearted by his absence How is it possible that Woodham is allowed to connect with and teach / influence young college students when he is obviously against higher education?

In our opinion the only reason his ISKCON chapter is operating on the campus of UF is to recruit the “young westerners wholesale” (as Carl once stated in a private email to a fellow guru). We believe ultimately there is no true educational benefit to students by keeping ISKCON / Carl Woodham on the campus of the University of Florida. On the contrary, their recruitment efforts on the campus pose a serious threat to the 50 thousand plus attending students and their families.

THE HARE KRISHNA ISKCON ORGANIZATION SEEMS TO HAVE A PROLONGED CONNECTION WITH THE ABUSE OF CHILDREN

Starting as far back as the 70’s, there is ongoing proof of child abuse in one form or another connected with the ISKCON organization. In the year 2000, there was a $400 million dollar lawsuit filed against the ISKCON organization for the child abuse/rape of potentially more than one thousand innocent young kids. Plaintiffs' attorney Windle Turley called the abuse "the most unthinkable abuse and maltreatment of little children we have seen. It includes rape, sexual abuse, physical torture and emotional terror of children as young as 3 years of age.”

"Robin George contended that the Hare Krishna’s prey on minors, she was 14 at the time when she left her parents' Cypress home to join the Hare Krishna’s. At a civil trial later, jurors found that the Krishna’s had brainwashed her and kept her hidden from her frantic parents. They even found that her father's fatal heart attack was related to the stress from the months he spent searching in vain across the country for his daughter. The group was not protected by the Constitution for the emotional distress it caused in deceiving the parents by pretending not to know their daughter's whereabouts, the court held."

“Of course, for 5 and 6 year-olds, all that meditation, chanting and bowing seemed unbearable, particularly since they were ordered not to talk, fidget or slouch during the four-hour program. Only then would they be served breakfast — a cup of hot milk and cold oatmeal slapped on wax paper, to be eaten with the right hand only. Too often a cockroach found its way into the meal. The temple was infested with these "flying dates" since it was against the teachings to exterminate anything. "If milk spilled on the floor, you had to lick it up," Rittenour recalls. There was no such thing as leftovers; what you didn't eat at one meal, you were served at the next, or the next. "One time as a kid they forced me to eat some ginger root and I threw up. They made me lick the vomit off the floor."

It is not that the woman do not like rape. They like sometimes...

From the founder of ISKCON in his own words:

For all WOMEN, BLACK, GAY, JEWISH students (and anyone with a moral conscience) at the University of Florida Campus.

According to its very founder Swami Prabhupada, The Hare Krishna / ISKCON organization is undoubtedly a religion that advocates racism, bigotry, anti-Semitism, misogyny and the like. How is it that a religion advocating these terrible ideas is allowed to coexist within our education system and teach these corrupting ideas to impressionable students?

Just some examples of what the founder of ISKCON believed and taught followers:

“Swami Prabhupada spewed vitriolic racial hatred toward black/African people -- repeatedly and explicitly. Examples of his racial bigotry are numerous and frequently recorded in lectures and private conversations by his many devotees and disciples over the decades.”

“It is all [a] nonsense civilization,” he declared. “A first-class Rolls Royce car, and who is sitting there? A third-class Negro. This is going on. You will find these things in Europe and America. This is going on. A first-class car and a third-class Negro.”

“It is not that the woman do not like rape. They like sometimes. They willingly. That is the psychology. Outwardly they show some displeasure, but inwardly they do not. This is the psychology.”

“Now, in the Manu-samhita it is clearly stated that a woman should not be given freedom. That does not mean that women are to be kept as slaves, but they are like children.”

“It appears here that the homosexual appetite of males for each other is created in this episode of the creation of the demons by Brahma. In other words, the homosexual appetite of a man for another man is demoniac and is not for any sane male in the ordinary course of life.”

“They [Jewish bankers] were financing against [the interests of] Germany,” Prabhupada said. “Otherwise, he [Hitler] had no enmity [against] the Jews… The Jews have got money. They want to invest and get some profit. Their only interest is how to get money, [not] nationalism, [not] religion, nothing of the sort ... Therefore [William] Shakespeare wrote [of] ‘Shylock, the Jew.’”

FOR CARL WOODHAM (AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA), NOT ALL MATERIAL POSSESSIONS ARE BAD WHEN IT SERVES HIM

The Hare Krishna / ISKCON organization teaches all devotees that the love of money is the root of all evil and strongly encourages devotees to give up this “material possession” so that ISKCON can make use of it to spread the word of Krishna to the lost souls of the world. Or at least that is what they claim; what they actually do with these funds it seems is a different matter entirely (according to the evidence uncovered from our investigation).

Case in point, the Chaplain of the University of Florida Krishna House / ISKCON of Gainesville, Carl Woodham, ordered last October a brand new extravagant swim spa for his private residence, according to a Notice of Commencement filed with the Building Division of Alachua County. The estimated cost of this spa we believe is around $20,000.

Kids everywhere are being recruited / indoctrinated into the ISKCON Hare Krishna group and, according to many ex-devotees, are being manipulated into believing that the material world is evil and to give away their possessions / savings to ISKCON. This of course forces them to be poor and live in the Krishna temples / boarding houses, further trapping them inside the organization by making them completely dependent. At the same time however, it seems that their gurus are free to live in private residences and buy swim spas (contrary to their preaching, they are pampering themselves).

Moreover, Woodham claimed once to Tibor Stern, the President of F.A.C.T., during a phone conversation that he earns a mere $1500 a month, just over the minimum wage rate in Florida. If so, how could he possibly afford to purchase a $20,000 swim spa?

Judge for yourself. We uncovered a lease agreement between the Alachua ISKCON temple (the property owner of a 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom house) and renters that states, “Elias Johannson [on behalf of ISKCON] will collect rent the first of every month in cash (preferably larger bills), to bring it to the Alachua ISKCON temple the next Sunday to the landlord.”

Needless to say this organization prefers to deal will cash, which of course is untraceable. On the campus of UF alone they sell around 1,000 meals a day at $5 each, none of which has to be reported to the IRS because they are classified as a “church”. According to Guidestar.org, one of the largest non-profit information reporting services in the world, ISKCON declares $0 to the IRS (see image). Even though legally allowed to do this, contrary to their example there are many religious organizations with the same IRS tax-exempt filing status that still account for and report their income every year, which we believe is the earmark of any trustworthy organization who is making sure to be honest and transparent.

We will put all our effort and forces together with different organizations to change this terrible law. All religious organizations that receive funds from the public should be completely transparent in our opinion, and certainly not requiring payments in cash, “preferably in large bills”.