Pinkhasov Pinchas Viewpoint On Ciss

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THE 2005 CISS PRESIDENCY CANDIDACY BY DEAF ANARCHIST AMMONS:
THE PINKHASOV PINCHAS VIEWPOINT

SUMMARIES:

*AMMONS DECLARES HER CANDIDACY FOR CISS PRESIDENT

*SIX ( 6 ) DIFFERENT CASE STUDIES

*ITALY’S CONTINUED FRICTION WITH AMMONS

*RUSSIANS PAID $2,500 FINE AND COLLECTED 49 MEDALS AT 2001 DEAFLYMPIC GAMES

*MY VERY PAINFUL AND HEARTBREAKING REVELATION TO THE WORLD

*15 DIFFERENT RULE VIOLATIONS BY USA

*USA ILLEGALLY CLAIMED 85 MEDALS AT 2001 AND 2003 GAMES
IN SPITE OF ITS FAILURE TO PAY CISS MEMBERSHIP DUES IN FULL

*USA FOOTBALL TEAM GETS “FREE RIDE†TO 2005 DEAFLYMPICS

*USA IGNORED 2003 PAN AM GAMES BY SHOWING NO RESPECT TO
DEAF LATIN AMERICANS

*THE GREATEST LIE IN THE CISS HISTORY

*“I JUST WANT TO RETIREâ€

*IS AMMONS, AS A PROVEN ANARCHIST AND LIAR, AN IDEAL AND APPROPRIATE CANDIDATE
FOR THE TOP POSITION IN THE CISS?


On the eve of the coming 39th CISS Congress in 2005, in which it was yesterday (
October 2, 2004 ) learned that Donalda Ammons of USA has placed her candidacy
for the position of the CISS/Deaflympics President, it will be helpful for you
to better compare, examine and evaluate as to how Ammons – as the so-called
CISS Secretary General/Interim President – treated different countries - CISS
Nation-Members between 2000 and 2004.

Here are separate Case Studies of the following six randomly-selected countries:
Indonesia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Russia, Yugoslavia and USA.

Case Study Number One: Indonesia

Facts: By the start of the 37th CISS Congress held in Rome, Italy, in 2001, this
country failed to pay in full the annual CISS Membership dues ( $1,200.00 ).
Such a non-payment was a violation of each of the following CISS Constitution
7.1.2, 7.1.3, 8.1.1, 8.1.1.1, 8.1.1.2 and 8.2 rules.

Actions taken: A delegate of this country, who was in Rome, Italy, was denied
the right to take part in the Congress sessions plus this country’s declared
nominee for the CISS Executive Committee ( "EC" ) - Harpalis Alwi - was not
allowed to run as a candidate for the EC Member position.

Case Study Number Two: Italy

Facts: Since the end of the 19th Deaflympic Games and to now, the Italians have
been having a multitude of problems with Ammons and her CISS administration,
including the fact that there are still the two different national deaf sports
organizations - FISS and CSSI. Each of these two organizations is claiming to
be as an official representative of the deaf sports in the country. This
situation, for instance, is in violation of the CISS Constitution rule 6.3.

Actions taken: Per instructions by the CISS, including by Ammons personally:
1) the Italian tennis teams - men and women – by showing up at the Team World
Championships/Dresse and Maere Cups held in Poertschach, Austria, in June-July,
2003 - were not allowed to take part in the competitions;
2) the European Championship in Handball in Palermo was cancelled in May, 2004,
and
3) this country was forbidden to send its team to participate at the 12th IMAFD
Deaf World Martial Arts Championships held in Moscow, Russia, in May, 2004.

Case Study Number Three: Kazakhstan

Facts: By the start of the 37th CISS Congress this country failed to pay in full
the annual CISS membership dues ( $250.00 ) plus it did not submit final entry
papers in timely manner in order to allow its athletes to participate at the
19th Deaflympic Games. These two situations were in the CISS Constitution 7.1.2,
7.1.3, 8.1.1, 8.1.1.1, 8.1.1.2 and 8.2 and Deaflympic Games Regulations 14. D
rule violations.

Action taken: Although the 14-member delegation arrived in Rome for the 19th
Deaflympic Games competitions, the CISS, including Ammons, completely denied for
each Kazakh athlete the chance to participate at the Games. Instead, all of
these athletes were sent back home "empty-handed,†that is, without competing
at the Games at all.

Case Study Number Four: Russia

Facts: This country registered its Women's Handball team to compete at the 19th
Deaflympic Games. But, later on, that is, before the start of the Games, it
decided to withdraw its team. This situation was in violation of the CISS
Constitution rule 7.1.3 and Deaflympic Games Regulations rule 12.G. As a result
of this team's withdrawal, this country was fined $2,500.00 by the CISS.

Action taken: After repeated warnings by the CISS, including by Ammons, before
and during the 2001 Games that Russia would have to pay the $2,500.00 fine in
full or all of its athletes in individual and team sports would have been
disqualified from competing at the Games and denied the chance to receive their
already earned medals at the Games, the Russians paid off the fine. As a result,
Russia was allowed to collect a total of 49 medals (13 gold, 18 silver and 18
bronze ) its representatives won at the Games, which was the second best medal
showing among the competing nations at the Games.

Case Study Number Five: Yugoslavia (now called Serbia and Montenegro )

Facts: This country failed to pay its annual CISS Membership dues ( $250.00 )
plus Games participation fee ( $480.00 ) by the end of the final matches of the
Greco-Roman wrestling at the 19th Deaflympic Games on July 26, 2001 ( this
country won two gold and one silver medals in this sport on that date). These
situations were in violation of the CISS Constitution 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 8.1.1,
8.1.1.1, 8.1.1.2 and 8.2 rules.

Action taken: On July 26, 2001, after a warning by the CISS, including by
Ammons, to pay the CISS membership and Games participation fees in full or its
three Greco Roman wrestlers - Games medal winners: Senad Rizvanovic in the 48 kg
category ( gold ), Atilla Vajda in the 58 kg category (silver ) and Peter Tot
in the 69 kg category ( gold ), would have been removed as the Games medal
winners in the sport, the Yugoslavs paid off in full these fees.

Case Study Number Six: USA

Facts: This country in 2000, 2001 ( that is, before the start of the 37th CISS
Congress and 19th Deaflympic Summer Games ) and 2003 ( that is, before the start
of the 38th CISS Congress and 15th Deaflympic Winter Games ) failed to pay in
full its annual CISS Membership dues ( $800.00 and 10% interest penalty ). Such
situations were in violation of six ( 6 ) various rules of the CISS
Constitution, namely, rules 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 8.1.1, 8.1.1.1, 8.1.1.2 and 8.2.

Actions taken: Unlike the other above-mentioned countries, USA, by not paying
the CISS membership dues in full, received by the Ammons-led and influenced CISS
organization a very preferential treatment.

In lieu of failing to meet the requirements of certain CISS Constitution and
Deaflympic Games Regulations rules, among the other things:

1) USA delegates were still allowed to participate and vote at the 37th CISS
Congress and 38th CISS Congress sessions;

2) USA nominee for the CISS EC - Ammons herself - was still allowed to
participate in the 37th CISS Congress election session as the incumbent
candidate for the CISS Secretary General position;

3) USA athletes were allowed to march in the Opening Ceremonies of the 19th
Deaflympic Summer Games ( this was also done in additional violation of the
Deaflympic Games Regulations rule 9.G );

4) USA earned an aggregate of 70 medals ( 25 gold, 22 silver and 23 bronze ) at
the 19th Deaflympic Summer Games competitions - the most medals won by any
nation at the Games;

5) Ammons - as an USA representative in the CISS EC - was still allowed to lead
the 38th CISS Congress session meetings;

6) USA athletes were allowed to march in the Opening Ceremonies of the 15th
Deaflympic Winter Games ( this was also done in additional violation of the
Deaflympic Games Regulations rule 9.G );

7) USA was given the right to act as a host of the 16th Deafllympic Winter Games
in 2007 (this was also done in additional violation of the Deaflympic Games
Regulations rules 3.A and 3.G );

8) USA athletes earned an aggregate of 15 medals ( 2 gold, 5 silver and 8 bronze
) at the 2003 Deaflympic Winter Games competitions ( six of these medals,
including one gold, three silver and two bronze , were earned in additional
violation of the Deaflympic Games Regulations rule 7.E ).

9) The CISS Home Office was relocated to the state of Maryland, USA. This was
done without prior permission, consent and approval of the CISS Congress
delegates (this was also done in violation of the CISS Constitution rules 10.2.7
and 10.2.7.11 ).

10) The CISS Finance Report, including taking away $15,000.00 from the CISS
Treasury funds by Ammons and Jerald Jordan ( he is an ex-CISS officer from USA
) for their personal legal expenses was approved by the delegates at the first
day session of the 38th CISS Congress ( this was also done in additional
violation of the CISS Constitution rules 10.2.3, 10.2.3.1 and 10.2.3.3 ).

In addition, there is a possibility that USA received another preferential
treatment by the Ammons-led CISS recently.

It is still unclear as to how and why USA Men’s Football team ( this team
finished a distant 10th at the football tournament of the last Deaflympic Games
in 2001 ) got “a free ride.†That is, USA did not participate at the 2003
Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which also at the same time
served as a qualification round for gaining of the two berths from the region of
the Americas for the coming 2005 Deaflympic Games’ final round in Australia.


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Four nations – Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Mexico – showed up and competed
at the Buenos Aires football tournament, while USA chose not to take a long trip
there.

As a result, USA still somehow received a berth – an automatic one – to
compete in the final round of the coming Deaflympic Games’ football tournament
in 2005 ( Argentina got the second berth ).

CONCLUSION

If the CISS strictly observed its Constitution and Deaflympic Games Regulations
rules and if the CISS was free of autocratic presence and influence by both
Ammons and her “behind-the-scenes advisor,†so-called CISS Honorary Member
for Life and “retiree,†Jerald Jordan, inside its organization, then USA
would have been banned from participating at the CISS Congress sessions in 2001
and 2003 as well as at the Deaflympic Games - both Summer in 2001 and Winter in
2003. With this scenario Ammons would not have herself been permitted to perform
any role in the CISS hierarchy, including her being “re-elected†as the CISS
Secretary General in 2001

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By violating an aggregate of fifteen ( 15 ) rules: eleven - in the CISS
Constitution and other four in the Deaflympic Games Regulations, USA received,
unlike other above-mentioned countries, an unusually special treatment from the
Ammons-influenced and controlled CISS organization.

Such a special treatment – a very unjustified and biased one - among the
other things, included the fact that USA won a combined total of eighty five (
85 ) medals, of which twenty seven ( 27 ) were gold, at the Deaflympic Games
– Summer and Winter – in 2001 and 2003, respectively.

As a long-time and diligent student of the CISS/Deaflympic Games affairs, true
internationalist as well as an ardently loyal patriot and proud citizen of USA,
my adopted land of freedom, democracy and free speech, it is very painfully
heartbreaking for me to reveal now to the world the following saddest and most
regrettable fact: all these 85 medals were won by USA athletes illegally and
in blatant violations of the CISS Constitution and Deaflympic Games Regulations
rules!

For example, at the 2001 Games the final rankings in Men's Basketball were as
follows:

1. USA
2. Slovenia
3. Lithuania
4. Sweden
5. Italy
6. Greece
7. Germany
8. Australia
9. Poland
10. Cyprus
11. Israel
12. Argentina
13. Ukraine
14. Japan

Since USA was in violation of the above-mentioned rules, the final rankings in
Men's Basketball should be such as,

1. Slovenia - 2001 Deaflympic Games Champion
2. Lithuania - Silver Medalist
3. Sweden - Bronze Medalist
4. Italy
5. Greece
6. Germany
7. Australia
8. Poland
9. Cyprus
10. Israel
11. Argentina
12. Ukraine
13. Japan
14. USA - disqualified.

Another example was with the final rankings of the Ice Hockey event at the 2003
Deaflympic Winter Games:

1. Canada
2. Russia
3. USA
4. Finland
5. Sweden
6. Germany.

Since USA was in violation of certain rules, the final rankings should be such
as,

1. Canada - 2003 Deaflympic Games Champion
2. Russia - Silver Medalist
3. Finland - Bronze Medalist
4. Sweden
5. Germany
6. USA - disqualified.

Thus, Ammons, along with her two accomplices in the CISS, utilized the tactics
of lying, misleading, prejudice, secrecy, favoritism, intimidation, suppression
and manipulation, by covering up the many facts before the world, especially
among the non-English-speaking CISS Nation-Members.

More specifically, by concealing the fact – USA’s CISS membership dues
non-payment in full and in timely manner – Ammons, again, along with her two
accomplices in the CISS, committed the greatest lie in the CISS history.

Ammons performed this inexcusable act – grand deception - in her
self-interest, personal ambitions and to the huge detriment of the deaf sports
movement.

Such an irresponsible behavior in the CISS by Ammons was ( and still is ) a
complete contradiction of ideals, aims and spirit of fair play, rules compliance
and implementation, international camaraderie and trust among the deaf people
all over the world.

Unlike the two border neighbors of USA - Canada and Mexico ( athletes from these
two nations took part at the 2003 regional Games ), the non-presence of a single
USA athlete, including its football team, at the 2003 Pan American Games in
Argentina was viewed as the acts of affront, disrespect and non-solidarity
towards our deaf brothers and sisters in Latin America.

Again, a big question is up in the air: how and in what manner has USA Football
team ( to this minute, USA is still the violator of the CISS legal structure )
got such “a favorable treatment†from the Ammons-managed CISS organization?

By abusing her positions in the CISS, Ammons also demonstrated her cowardice and
total disregard to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport ( briefly
known as CAS ). By breaking up over three hundred forty three ( 343 ) rules in
the CISS legal system in the last four years, she had been adamantly evasive to
voluntarily agree to submit to the full jurisdiction of this Lausanne-based
international sports dispute judicial forum in order to contest my meritorious
Statement Claim against her and her other two accomplices

www.tas-cas.org

( also read 9-17-2003 PENDING STATEMENT OF CLAIM BEFORE CAS under
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Now, the USADSF – an affiliate member for the nation of USA in the CISS –
for getting the many “favors†done for USA/USADSF by Ammons, has apparently
decided to unanimously “reward†Ammons by re-nominating her name to a new
2005-2009 CISS EC term, including for the top position of the CISS President.

By reviewing all of the above, it can be clearly judged as to what kind of a
CISS presidential candidate we have in Ammons these days. It can also be seen
and compared as to how Ammons has, let me repeat, been treating different
nations in the CISS family in spite of her fond and tireless publicizing of the
famous CISS Motto – “Equal Through Sport†in English or “Per Ludos
Aequailitas†in French!

Moreover, another fact should not be forgotten and overlooked: Ammons’ July
21, 2001 statement made in front of the large foreign delegates’ audience at
the 37th CISS Congress floor podium such as,

“I have health problems, I want to retire from the CISS by 2005†or

“I just want to retire.â€

This public statement by Ammons – made both verbally and in print - in light
of Ammons’ recent renewed interest to serve the CISS EC for another term, now
appears to be an empty talk, misleading and irresponsible public relations stunt
scheme!

Finally, it should be noted that:

1) given Ammons’ past and present performance as the fundamentally
incompetent, inadequately-qualified and unsophisticated international sports
administrator,

2) her inability to combat lawlessness, disorder, stagnation, discrimination,
cronyism and even nepotism in the organization of the CISS,

3) her proven failure to professionally and ably cope with her different tasks
in the CISS: General Secretary, Interim President, member of the Legal
Commission and a person in charge of editing of the CISS e-News Magazine, and

4) in the event the coming 2005 CISS Congress delegates again decide to select
Ammons to lead the organization of the CISS,

then it should be cautioned that the pattern – Ammons’ rule violations, her
questionable treatment of the Nation-Members and her staunchly pro-USA stance
and advocacy in the CISS structure – will most likely continue!

Sincerely ( and Sportingly ) Yours,

Rafael Pinkhasov Pinchas

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