{"id":348,"date":"2006-07-06T18:07:36","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T17:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=348"},"modified":"2007-02-14T10:50:36","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T09:50:36","slug":"wheels-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"Wheels of justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/AnivPrabBostonsw.jpg\"  align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>By Malati Devi Dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear All,<\/p>\n<p>It is said, the wheels of justice slowly grind, and they grind exceedingly fine. And sometimes, beyond the slow wheels of &#8220;justice,&#8221; it seems that it is time to &#8220;do the right thing.&#8221; Silence = Death (this was the motto of Act Up, an early AIDS advocacy group). I cannot remain &#8220;silent&#8221; any  longer.<\/p>\n<p>I used to counsel warring factions in the Brahmacarini Ashram days of Columbus:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being &#8220;right&#8221; doesn&#8217;t make you &#8220;right&#8221; (or, doesn&#8217;t mean anything) if everyone else is disturbed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I humbly ask DDS to consider this: Right or wrong, you are wrong if you cannot hear the strong voices of recommendation that are entering the ether and the Internet. Even if you are 108% &#8220;right,&#8221; you are 100000000008% wrong if you cannot accept the voices of the devotees who are calling out loud and clear for you and the GBC to &#8220;do the right  thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Your servant,<\/p>\n<p>Malati devi dasi<\/p>\n[kqf=13]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/AnivPrabswswBoston.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Malati Devi Dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> It is said, the wheels of justice slowly grind, and they grind exceedingly fine. And sometimes, beyond the slow wheels of &#8220;justice,&#8221; it seems that it is time to &#8220;do the right thing.&#8221; Silence = Death (this was the motto of Act Up, an early AIDS advocacy group). I cannot remain &#8220;silent&#8221; any  longer.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,40,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-malati-devi-dasi","category-ongoing-debates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}