Please accept our most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

We are also disturbed that the bona fide objectives of GHQ have been portrayed as repugnant. The elephant is noble and majestic, whereas a poisonous snake is a justly condemned creature. If a trickster leads a blind man to touch only the trunk of an elephant, the trickster could easily convince him that the noble elephant is actually a loathsome snake. And this is exactly what "Ardhabuddhi Dasa" has done to the innocent devotee public----who are effectively blind to the factual reality of GHQ, by not having access either to the 911 texts that were exchanged on GHQ (as of November 17, 1998) nor the hundreds or perhaps even thousand(s) of e-mails exchanged between individual members before and after the formation of GHQ. By showing the innocent readers a mere 49 of those texts, "Ardhabuddhi Dasa" has succeeded to deceive most into believing that an "elephant" is actually a "snake."

However, having said that, even though we have all suffered greatly none of us regret that this has happened. The reason for that being that prior to the distorted revelations of "Ardhabuddhi Dasa" the members of our think tank were concerned that no matter how hard we worked to make a presentation to the GBC it would be put on the back burner because of so many other pressing issues such as the Rtvik heresy. But now because of "Ardhabuddhi Dasa" our concerns will surely get much greater notice than they would have before, this has made our suffering tolerable.

The GHQ event has prompted many devotees to focus upon an extremely important and relevant issue; and that will prove only beneficial for the future of ISKCON. As with the rtvik heresy, the feminist heresy also must be confronted if we are indeed serious to fulfil the orders of our beloved founder-acarya, Srila Prabhupada, to establish varnasrama-dharma. We have reached a fork in the road: one path leads us to secular feminism (just another "ism" for fulfilling material desires); the other path takes us to the ideals of Vedic culture and pure Krsna consciousness. On which path will our leaders take us? Will they be courageous and adhere to the path of varnasrama-dharma, as Srila Prabhupada has shown us? Or, to maintain temporary popularity or prestige or to avoid criticism, will they unceremoniously lead us down the path of heretical feminism?

While we are happy that our cause is drawing so much attention, we are genuinely dismayed that the tender sentiments of others have been disturbed in the process. To redress this hurt, we propose to demonstrate to our respectable readers the actual mission of GHQ; we will also answer the various charges placed upon our heads by "Ardhabuddhi Dasa." We will present volumes of exculpatory texts which "Ardhabuddhi Dasa" hid from the reader in order to create a false impression; and we will venture to speculate on the motivations of "Ardhabuddhi Dasa."

And finally, we will now also apologize for the long duration of time it took for us to prepare our response. The research of looking through several thousand texts and the coordination of several devotees for the gradual compilation of this report was indeed an arduous task. (It takes a gunman only a moment to pull a trigger and flee----the medical team will take weeks to put the patient back on his feet.)

We therefore humbly request that you, O respected reader, be kind and patient enough to read through the entire presentation. Since by now, much vitriolic cyber-ink has flowed on this topic--mostly from our opponents-- we therefore appeal to your sense of fairness and veneration for the truth, so as to give us a fair and full hearing. And we beg to remain,

Your humble servants,

Members of GHQ