ANOTHER CISS PANDORA BOX: PRESIDENT, SECRETARY GENERAL
            AND NINE ( 9)  CONSTITUTION RULE VIOLATIONS

This exclusive material should educate the world about the many sensitive facts that have, to this moment, been unknown, unrevealed and inaccessible to the many organizations and persons.  In order to better understand and clearly familiarize with its contents, this long material is  broken up into seven different parts.


PART I -  SEVEN SCENES IN THE CISS HISTORY

Imagine the seven different scenes in the eventful moments of the CISS history.

Scene Number One: Washington, D.C., USA, March 1, 2000 - At a gala reception and dinner hosted by the USA Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, many of its attendees in a standing ovation applaud Dr. Donalda Ammons, the CISS Secretary General,  as one of 32 Millennium International Volunteer Award winners by presenting to her  with  a $5,000 check, which she, in turn, donated to the World Federation of the Deaf. What these State Department people and guests, however, did not know was that they gave away a cash present to  the soon-would-be  suspended CISS Secretary General in office!

Scene Number Two: Lausanne, Switzerland, May 6, 2000 - Senor Juan  Antonio Samaranch, the IOC President, and Mr.Gilbert Felli, the IOC Sports Director, officially and warmly greet all 8 members of the CISS Executive Committee at their fashionable IOC headquarters' premises by graciously agreeing to get photographed along with these deaf leaders there. What both Senor Samaranch and  Mr. Felli, however, did not know was that both had an official audience with the 8 CISS Executive Committee members, in which the two of them - John Lovett and Donalda Ammons - were  the suspended CISS President and CISS Secretary General, respectively!

Scene Number Three: Melbourne, Australia, July 31, 2000 - The organizers of the Sydney Olympic Games' Olympic Torch  Relay event selected John Lovett to be one of the 10,000 Australian runners to carry the Olympic Torch around the towns. Many people in the streets waved their hands off  and wildly cheered up when Lovett ran the 500 meter distance and who, after his distance running completion, was mobbed by people, including children, for the photo and autograph sessions. What the event organizers and spectators, however, did not know was that John Lovett was a suspended CISS President in office!

Scene Number Four: Rome, Italy, August 1, 2001 - Approximately 20,000 athletes, officials, dignitaries and spectators witnessed the festive Closing Ceremonies of the XIXth Deaflympic Summer Games at the huge Olympic Stadium, in which the public with its thunderous applause and hand-waving received John Lovett who announced that Melbourne, Australia, welcomed everyone to come to the next XXth Deaflympic Summer Games in  2005. What these 20,000 people in attendance, however, were not aware of were  that  Lovett was a suspended CISS President in office and that his own  Australian Deaf Sports Federation Ltd, the event organizer in 2005, was a suspended national member of the CISS!

Scene Number Five: Annapolis, Maryland, USA, August 12, 2001 - A well-respected and much-admired American on-line editor distributed his widely-read internet communication, in which he called  Donalda Ammons "a hero" after she, posing as the  self-named  deaf empowerment advocate, annoyingly infuriated a great deal the non-deaf Italian officials of the XIXth Deaflympic Summer Games Organizing Committee in Rome by single-handedly pulling the Public Address electronic voice system off at the stadium. What that  American on-line editor, however,  did not know  was that Ammons was a suspended CISS Secretary General!

Scene Number Six: Sundsvall, Sweden, February 22-24, 2002 - The organizers of the next year's XVth Deaflympic Winter Games accorded a red-carpet treatment to the two English-speaking  members of the CISS Executive Committee, who happened to be John Lovett and Donalda Ammons, the CISS President and Secretary General, respectively, during their  official three-day stay in  this snowy town. What the Swedish organizers, however, did not know was that they were dealing with the suspended CISS leaders in the office - President and Secretary General!

Scene Number Seven: Washington, D.C., USA, July, 3-13,2002 - Over 13,000 deaf and non-deaf people from more than 100 foreign countries attended  the two major deaf events in this America's capital  - the 46th  USA National Association  of the Deaf Conference ( July 3 -7 ) and Deaf Way II ( July 8-13 ).  
The organization of the CISS, led by its Secretary General, Donalda Ammons, had a notable and visible presence in these two important events ( for example, the CISS had its widely-visited public information booth at Deaf Way II). What  the NAD and Deaf Way II Organizing Committee officials  and  visitors, however, did not know  was that they were greeting at these events  Donalda Ammons who was a still-suspended CISS Secretary General in office!


PART II - SEVEN CISS CONSTITUTION RULES AND FAILURE BY USA AND AUSTRALIA TO PAY CISS MEMBERSHIP DUES AND INTEREST PENALTY

Well, how many of you have been aware of the blatant rule violations commited by the two current supervisors of the CISS, who are the defendants in my still-ongoing lawsuit case? Do you  know that the two - John Lovett and Donalda Ammons -  are still, in fact,  holding the offices of the CISS President and CISS Secretary General, respectively,  in the highly-questionable  manners?

The eloquent answer to the above questions  is that the two are still occupying  the top positions in the CISS in spite of violation of numerous CISS Constitution rules!

Let me elaborate further.

Consider the definition of seven different rules in the CISS Constitution presented below:

Rule 7.1.2. Full Members shall pay the annual membership fee as levied by CISS by April 1 of the applicable financial year. Interest will be due and payable at ten per  cent each month  for late payments until October. All other levies and fees are payable within 30 days of their imposition.

Rule 7.1.3 A full Member shall be permitted to exercise its rights pursuant to article 7.1.1 if the annual membership fee and any outstanding levies have been paid and received by the CISS.

Rule 8.1 The membership of Full Members, Associate Members and Honorary Life Members may be suspended or terminated by the Congress on the recommendation of the Executive Committee of the CISS.

Rule 8.1.1 A member from any category of membership may be suspended for:

Rule 8.1.1.1 breach of the terms of this Constitution;

Rule 8.1.1.2 non-payment or non-renewal of the annual membership fee
      by October 1st of the applicable financial year or any other levy.

Rule 8.2 A member under suspension loses all rights and privileges of membership. In particular a suspended member shall not be entitled to attend or vote at  the Congress or enter athletes in any events or activities organised or sanctioned by the CISS.

Now, consider the following facts:

- there is a documentary evidence showing  that throughout the entire year of 2000, that is from January 1 through December 31, 2000,  the two National Sports Associations of the USA ( USA Deaf Sports Federation or USADSF )  and Australia  ( Australian Deaf Sports Federation Ltd or  ADSF ) failed to pay to the  CISS Treasury their annual membership fees (USADSF  was supposed to pay $800.00, while ADSF -  $300.00);

- there is a documentary proof showing  that USADSF  paid its 2000 CISS annual membership dues on or
about January 23, 2001, while ADSF has been reluctant to disclose the approximate date in 2001  it very belatedly paid its 2000 membership dues to the CISS;

- even though the two nations paid their dues for the year of 2000 very late, that is, in 2001, they have not yet added any interest penalty to be paid to the CISS Treasury as required by the CISS Constitution Rule 7.1.2

The crux of this story is that Ammons is a member of USADSF, while Lovett is a member of ADSF, therefore, the two are the nominees of their respective organizations to the CISS Executive Committee ( or CISS EC ).

What does all the foregoing  mean? How does one interpret all the above occurrences?

In 2000, Lovett conducted the two CISS EC  meetings in Lausanne, Switzerland,  and Taipei, Taiwan. Did he run  these meetings as a law-abiding or suspended CISS President because throughout the entire year of 2000 Lovett and his ADSF organization were  in violation of six  different CISS Constitution rules, that is, rules 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 8.1.1, 8.1.1.1, 8.1.1.2 and 8.2? This  similar scenario, by coincidence, also happened to Ammons and her USADSF organization in 2000.

In 2000, besides Lovett and Ammons, there were other six seating members of  the CISS EC. They were Renzo Corti - Vice President, Ole Artmann - Treasurer  ( Mr. Artmann, thanks for sending your mail to me recently ), and four EC members - Rudolf Gast, Vojtech Volejnik, Lennart Edwall  and Chou Tung.

According to one highly-reliable document source, here is the list  of  all eight CISS EC members' national organizations and the amount of their respective organizations' paid/unpaid annual CISS membership dues in 2000:

$1,000.00 - Germany ( this nation dutifully paid this amount to the CISS Treasury  and its nation's nominee on the CISS EC in 2000 was Rudolf Gast )
$800.00   -  Sweden ( Lennart Edwall, he was and still is the CISS EC member through his Pesidency of the European Deaf Sport Organization )
$600.00  -   Italy ( Renzo Corti )
$600.00  -   Denmark ( Ole Artmann )
$600.00  -   the Czech Republic ( Vojtech Volejnik )
$300.00  -   Taiwan ( Chou Tung, he was and still is the CISS EC member through  his Presidency of the Asia/Pacific Deaf Sports Federation )
$0            -   USA ( Donalda Ammons )
$0            -   Australia ( John Lovett ).


PART III - FOUR QUESTIONS TO CISS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Constitutionally speaking, was it appropriate for these six named CISS EC  members to allow the two - President Lovett and Secretary General Ammons as members of their respective non-paying dues' national organizations like ADSF and USADSF  - to perform their respective supervisory duties on behalf of the CISS  pursuant to the CISS Constitution rules 7.1.3, 8.1.1, 8.1.1.1 and 8.1.1.2?

Why did these six CISS EC  remain silent and indifferent when both Lovett, Ammons and their respective national organizations - Australia and USA - were in clear breach of various CISS Constitution rules in 2000?

Or, in a strict adherence to the CISS Constitution Rule 8.1, why did not these six CISS EC members propose to the CISS Congress held in Rome, Italy, in 2001,  to suspend or terminate Lovett, Ammons, ADSF and USADSF?

Could it be possible that each of these six men, unlike Lovett and Ammons, were not well-versed with the Constitution rules mainly because of their inadequate English language familiarity and/or  their non-fluency in English, the official language of the CISS and CISS Constitution?


PART IV - CISS CONSTITUTION RULES 10.2.7 AND 10.2.7.11

Moreover, how was Ammons, with Lovett's tacit support, able in 2000 to skillfully  and masterfully convince the CISS EC  to agree to open the CISS Home Office in  the USA in spite of the fact that Ammons' USADSF  did not pay the annual CISS membership dues  during the  year of 2000 at all?

Another wrongdoing - new CISS Constitution rule violations -  Lovett and Ammons commited was that they were the ones to attend a celebratory event at the new CISS headquarters called CISS Home Office in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, on  February 22, 2001. They did so in spite of the fact that they did not receive any advance consent and approval from the CISS Congress delegates to set up such an office in the shores of the USA.. Therefore, both Lovett and Ammons were again in blatant breach  of the CISS Constitution rules 10.2.7 and 10.2.7.11. These rules state the following :

The responsibilities and powers of Congress include: to approve any change
in the country of location of CISS headquarters.

Back to the issue of the CISS membership dues'  non-payment.

How and why were both Lovett and Ammons allowed to place their candidacies for renomination as  the CISS President and Secretary General, respectively, at the ill-fated CISS Congress election session  held on July 21, 2001, even though their national organizations  did not wholly yet  pay their respective annual membership dues, which covered  the years of 2000 and 2001, including the still-outstanding levies, that is, the 10 percent interest penalty accrued monthly?

Because  both ADSF and USADSF  failed to pay their respective dues in a timely fashion plus 10 percent accrued interest as stipulated by the CISS Constitution rules 7.1.2 and 7.1.3, why were not both Lovett and Ammons excluded from running for the top  positions of the CISS on July 21,2001?

In addition, why did not both Lovett and Ammons honestly and openly tell to the world, more specifically, to the 37th CISS Congress delegates' audience in Rome  that throughout the entire year of 2000 their two nations - Australia and USA - failed to pay their  2000 CISS membership dues? Was there the so-called Lovett-Ammons' preferential treatment or conspiracy in the CISS?

As you may recall, at the end of 2001, I openly and publicly aired my reservations about  the questionable USA-Australian  involvement inside the CISS  establishment by publishing my exclusive story titled   THE USA-AUSTRALIAN PRESENCE AND INFLUENCE IN THE CISS AND HOW IT BEGAN  ( log on to  www.deafsportlawsuit.com/update6.html  ).

Thus, in Rome, on July 21, 2001, Lovett and Ammons, apparently in their desperate and vain pursuit for  power retaining and personal ambitions, had intentionally and sophisticatedly chose to  mislead the world  by not disclosing, implementing and enforcing, for example,  the contents of  the CISS Constitution Rules 8.1.1, 8.1.1.1 and 8.1.1.2 and their violations.


PART V - FIVE EXAMPLES OF LOVETT'S AND AMMONS' TREATMENT OF OTHERS

On the other hand, consider, for example, the five  following facts that implicate Lovett and Ammons  and their treatment of other persons and national organizations in the CISS family in 2001.

Fact  Number One: I know, for instance, one person  who was not permitted by Lovett and Ammons to take part as a delegate at the CISS Congress session in Rome because his national association failed to pay the CISS membership dues  in full before the start of the 37th CISS Congress.

Fact Number Two: Lovett and Ammons  forbade the delegation of Kazakhstan ( all of their 14 members were already  in Rome ) to take part at the XIXth Deaflympic Summer Games competitions because the Kazakhs violated a certain  rule.

Fact Number Three: Lovett and Ammons  penalized Russia $2,500.00 because the Russians failed to send their women's handball team to the Games in Rome.

Fact Number Four: Lovett and Ammons  imposed hefty penalty fines to each of  the following National Sports Associations for their failure to bring their respective teams to the final rounds of the XIXth Deaflympic Summer Games:

$5,000.00 - China, men's basketball
$5,000.00 - Spain, men's basketball
$5,000.00 - Argentina, men's volleyball
$5,000.00 - Cuba, men's volleyball
$5,000.00 - India, men's volleyball.

In case all these five mentioned nations fail to pay their penalty fines, Lovett and Ammons, according to the rules, will not allow these nations to participate in a future CISS-sponsored Games. Furthermore, Lovett and Ammons may also expel these nations from the CISS for their penalty fines'  non-payment!

Fact Number Five: All 16  teams, which took part in the final round of the July 20-August1, 2001 football tournament at the Rome Games, had their players penalized for their receiving of either  red or yellow cards during the matches. It is a known item that the tandem of Lovett and Ammons heartily supported the idea to charge $50.00 for red card and $30.00  for yellow card for a punishing player. Here is the list of the total amount of money and name of each nation that would have to pay to the CISS Treasury the penalty fine ( source: The Final Results Book of the 19th Deaflympic Summer Games produced by the FISS) :

$110.00 - Denmark ( this nation would have to pay this total amount because its players earned 2 yellow and 1 red cards  during the 13-day football tournament matches in Rome )
$120.00 - Malaysia ( 4 yellow and 0 red )
$170.00 - Iran ( 4 yellow and 1 red )
$190.00 - Uzbekistan ( 3 yellow and 2 red )
$200.00 - Algeria ( 5 yellow and 1 red )
$210.00 - USA ( 7 yellow and 0 red )
$250.00 - Turkey (5 yellow and 2 red )
$260.00 - Ireland ( 7 yellow and 1 red )
$290.00 - Croatia ( 8 yellow and 1 red )
$340.00 - France ( 8 yellow and 2 red )
$350.00 - Ukraine ( 10 yellow and 1 red )
$380.00 - Italy ( 11 yellow and 1 red )
$400.00 - Germany ( 10 yellow and 2 red )
$460.00 - Spain ( 12 yellow and 2 red )
$470.00 - Greece ( 7 yellow and 4 red )
$520.00 - Argentina ( 14 yellow and 2 red ).

No question, these red and yellow card penalty fines would have to be paid by the punishing players'  respective national associations to the CISS Treasury sooner or later.  Otherwise, Lovett and Ammons, the supreme officers of the CISS, would intimidatedly issue harsh sanctions against those who would refuse to pay the penalty fines.


PART VI - SANCTIONS AND PENALTY FINES AGAINST LOVETT AND AMMONS, NEW ELECTIONS IN 2003?

You see how Lovett and Ammons  treat the other parties  when they  violate the rules.

How about sanctions and penalty fines being imposed on Lovett and Ammons themselves for their ethically irresponsible and unprofessional conduct as blunderous administrators and inept supervisors of the CISS?

Shall the two - the reputed rule violators - be punished, too? Or, shall the two be allowed to run away from justice?

Because both Lovett and Ammons were "re-elected" for the highest positions of the CISS in an unlawful manner  in 2001, shall there be, under exceptionally unusual and reasonable circumstances,  held new elections - in a just, fair, democratic and lawful way - for the two top CISS positions during the coming 38th CISS Congress, which will take place at the end of February, 2003, in Sundsvall, Sweden?

By continuing to artifically, cosmetically  and deceivingly showcase  themselves in the public as the "successful" high-ranking CISS officials and prominent members of the CISS Legal Commission, on  the one side, and by breaking the many rules, on the other side, are the two - Lovett and Ammons - genuinely appropriate role models for all of us?

Do the two still merit to be  the members of the CISS Legal Commission in spite of the fact that they both have been  - with their shrewdness and manipulative tactics - concealing in front of the public their own acts of multiple rule violations  derived from  the three "Bibles" of the CISS - CISS Constitution, Deaflympic Games Regulations and Deaf World Championships Regulations  for four consecutive years, that is,  in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002?

For how long will Lovett and Ammons continue to conduct their daily, medievally and autocratically-managed CISS business in the manners of lawlessness and disorder, hypocricy  and favoritism, injustice and inequality, information secrecy and  disinformation?

As the principal leaders of the CISS, Lovett and Ammons were supposed to act  in their forefront struggle for law and order inside the international deaf sports organization. However, very regretfully and quite unfortunately, Lovett and Ammons not only violated the many rules, including the  CISS Constitution rules, but they also violated their oath as the CISS EC officers as well!

As long as ADSF and USADSF do not pay in full to the CISS Treasury the still-owed and still-monthly-accrued ten percent interest penalty/outstanding levies being imposed on these two organizations since 2000, according to the CISS Constitution rules 7.1.2 and 7.1.3, these two organizations should, from the legal point of view, be considered as the still-suspended organizations by the CISS!

As for their high-profile members Lovett and Ammons, the two are not only the defendants in my still-ongoing lawsuit case, but they both should also since April 1, 2000 and to now, in legality and reality, fairness and logic, be viewed as the still-suspended  CISS President and still-suspended CISS Secretary General, respectively!


PART VII - THE OCTOBER 9, 2001 CISS STATEMENT BY LOVETT

Finally, on October 9, 2001, the still-suspended CISS  President Lovett issued to the world his infamous CISS Statement message, in which he attacked  this author by uttering, among the other things, the following statements such as


"The CISS believes that the lawsuit is a groundless attempt to force the non-profit organization to give the Plaintiff ( Pinchas )  special treatment above and beyond other members."

"We  will not allow this action to divert CISS from its obligation and commitment to serve all its members fairly and ethically while promoting the ideals behind the
CISS Motto - Per Ludos Aequalitas - Equal Through Sports."

How beautifully-sounding  statements Lovett articulated on October 9, 2001!

However, by violating the many rules of the CISS Constitution, Deaflympic Games Regulations and Deaf World Championships Regulations, 1) is Lovett himself, along with Ammons, in practice ( not in theory ) still receiving  "special treatment above and beyond other members", is not he? and 2) is Lovett again himself, along with Ammons,  in practice ( not in theory ) still serving the CISS family members "fairly and ethically, while promoting the ideals behind the CISS Motto - Per Ludos Aequalitas - Equal Through Sports," is  not he?

Sportingly Yours,


Rafael Pinkhasov Pinchas

www.deafsportlawsuit.com