A Call To Conscience
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 04:23:07 -0500
To: FreeUrantia@cuenet.com, UBtalk@Utalk.org
From: Norm Du Val
Cc: mlt@linkzone.com
Subject: FreeUrantia: FWD - A Call To Conscience>Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 00:20:20 -0600
>To: Choi <kchoi@iastate.edu>, du Pont <gdupont@isp.fr>,
> Siegel<msiegel@ctea.com>, Jameson <gjameson@pbtk.com>
>From: Terry Kruger <SenSa@dimensional.com>
>Subject: A Call To Conscience
>Cc: kathleen@www.urantia.org, swadling@www.urantia.org,
urantia@ozemail.com.au,
> urantia@pp.kolumbus.fi, afllu@www.urantia.org,
> flrohlec@lmgc.univ-montp2.fr, dominique.ronfet@hol.fr,
> auq@jonction.net, brownter@gte.net, marcb@aloha.net,
bruceport@aol.com,
> kanerva@personal.eunet.fi, louie888@istar.ca, urantia@lander.es,
> tonia.baney@www.urantia.org
>
>
>To Georges DuPont, Kwan Choi, Gard Jameson, and Mo Siegel:
>
>
>You four Trustees as well as Trustee Richard Keeler, were recently made
aware through an email communication, as were hundreds of other Urantians,
of serious threats made against the life of David Kantor.
>
>David Kantor wrote:
>
>"A couple of months ago I received what I take as a serious threat to my
life by a trustee for my opposition to their program. This same trustee
indicated that various ways were being considered for destroying me
financially. My former wife was interrogated by a trustee seeking
information which could be used to publicly discredit me in the movement."
>
>"The statements which I attributed to a trustee were made to me by Richard
Keeler minutes after he was on stage doing his unity performance in San
Francisco. Among other threats he told me about how much time he spent
thinking up ways to have me killed; that he spent a lot of time thinking
about what it would be like to watch me die a slow, painful death."
>
>According to David, Richard Keeler threatened his financial livelihood-
and his life- on two occasions.
>
>Allegations of such reprehensible criminal conduct by a Trustee warrant
your immediate attention and full investigation. If these charges are
found true, they further require your appropriate action.
>
>Furthermore, you four trustees are hereby informed or reminded of formal
allegations made against Richard Keeler by ex Trustee Martin Myers. In
recent years since, various stories purporting to exonerate Mr. Keeler of
child molestation charges have been circulated among Urantians. However,
none of these "explanations" account for actions detailed in a twenty-two
page document written by Mr. Keeler. A characterization of this document
was put forth by ex Trustee Martin Myers in a sworn deposition, who called
for Richard Keeler's removal as one who "has admitted actions in writing
which show his unworthiness to continue to be a Trustee."
>
>From the deposition:
>[Myers'] reference to the unworthiness of one of the Trustees to continue
sitting as a Trustee related to a certain document (the "Keeler document")
given to plaintiff on August 21, 1992, in good faith, independently of its
author Trustee Keeler, said document consisting of 22 typewritten pages
containing information about Mr. Keeler, Mr. Keeler's 4-year old daughter,
Liberty, his daughter's mother, Mr. Keeler's former wife and her daughter,
and their relationships with one another."
>
>There is additional testimony that others familiar with the "Keeler
document" were equally adamant that Mr. Keeler resign or be forced to
resign immediately. Sadly, those persons do not include several Trustees,
whose resignations now allow EACH ONE OF YOU to confront a burden they
would not.
>
>While it may be understandable that the Trustees, in the midst of removing
Martin Myers, could not then address removing Richard Keeler, it is NOT
excusable that it has never been investigated since.
>
>Yet another disturbing accusation warrants investigation: a charge of
first degree sexual assault occurring in Hawaii, was purportedly filed by
the victim. While there are numerous other details that could be included,
they are not pertinent to the request for investigation.
>
>
>Can it be necessary to remind each of you of the sacred trust you hold as
Trustees of Urantia Foundation, and the profoundly important
responsibilities you each accepted with that Trusteeship? Can you
recognize your credibility as self-appointed leaders of our movement is at
stake? Can you comprehend each one of you are before the bar of God in
this matter?
>
>Chief among those responsibilities is the ability to comport yourselves
with the moral and ethical dignity of the very teachings you have sworn to
disseminate. Commensurate with that is the duty to hold each of your
colleagues to the high standards of spiritual behavior revealed in The
Urantia Book, even as our society delineates acceptable standards of
conduct through its laws.
>
>
>Your bylaws state:
>
>SECTION 2.4. REMOVAL OF TRUSTEES: When, in the opinion of a majority of
the Trustees, any Trustee has failed or refused to assume and perform his
duties and responsibilities, or has done or permitted any act or thing
which is inconsistent with or in degradation of the teaching of the URANTIA
BOOK, or by his acts or omissions has brought disrepute upon himself or
URANTIA FOUNDATION, then, the Trustees shall cast a ballot on the question
of whether or not such Trustee should be removed.
>
>
>Now is it incumbent on each of you to demonstrate your commitment to the
values we in the Urantia movement hold preeminent; now are you called to
determine if Richard Keeler shall be removed from his Trusteeship for just
cause. Each of you is hereby afforded opportunity to experientially live
the values you have sworn to uphold; and now you are charged before men to
carry out such righteousness in the Father's name.
>
>
>Signed,
>
>Jeff Abercrombie
>Claudia Ayers
>Lenny Cowles
>Linda Du Val
>Norm Du Val
>Arley Grubb
>Jill Kaveny
>Terry Kruger
>Kristen Maaherra
>Les Rogers
>Carol Setters
>Larry Watkins
>Daniel Woodward
>Eric Cosh
>
>"New religious insights arise out of conflicts which initiate the choosing
of new and better reaction habits in the place of older and inferior
reaction patterns."