"Since fanatical defenders of Sathya Sai Baba and his abuses attack me constantly, I can confidently say that I have told not one single lie. I am confident that fair-minded readers will see this from the breadth and depth of my output."
Needless to say, Robert Priddy's amusing claim that he has not told "one single lie" is his penultimate lie. Robert Priddy's numerous bold-faced and gutter untruths have been thorougly exposed by Joe Moreno on his Pro-Sai website, saisathyasai.com. Robert Priddy has noteven attempted to refute Moreno's fully documented webpages exposing his penchant for prevarication.
The following list contains a small sampling of numerous pathological lies that Robert Priddy has told and which he has never retracted or apologized for up to the present date:
In addition to these fully referenced webpages, Robert Priddy also accused Joe Moreno of (again, a small sampling):
Having "no other work but is well-funded"
Using "dirty tricks, like posting names of his opponents on porno sites, then publicising it"
Being "an old friend of Robert M. Baskin"
"widely propagates lies and slanders and the wildest kinds of misinformation"
Having his website linked to by RadioSai (an official Sai domain)
"openly claiming to have contacted the Sathya SaiOrganisation in U.K. by telephone (Mr Bhagwani) who has replied to his questions etc."
Breaking "US copyright laws and would also be liable to conviction for unsupportable slander and defamation in a court of law" (although Priddy and other Ex-Devotees have not even attempted to file any kind of legal suit against Moreno)
Using "sexually explicit language" on Yahoo Groups (see my response)
Of course, one will not find Robert Priddy substantiating any of these bold-faced lies with any referenced or verifiable material. I, on the other hand, have fully responded to Robert Priddy's libels and slurs in three seperate articles entitled "Defamatory Attacks Addressed" (See: 01 - 02 - 03).
The truth of the matter is that Robert Priddy's rodomontades are full of anonymous accounts, exaggerations, conflations, illogic, fanaticism, irrationality, extremism, speculations and outright prevarications.
Despite Robert Priddy's loud whining and gnashing of teeth (for about 8 years now), it is significant that Sathya Sai Baba has never (ever) been formally charged with any crime (sexual or otherwise) and not even one alleged victim has even attempted to file a basic police complaint or a court case against Sai Baba in India (Ref). Nor have any alleged victims come forward stating that Robert Priddy can speak on their behalfs. Since Robert Priddy was never an alleged victim of Sai Baba, his second-hand commentaries, observations, arguments and articles about alleged victims and their alleged sexual abuse are entirely hearsay.
I would welcome any dialogue with Robert Priddy (or any other Ex-Devotee for that matter) on an open forum to discuss the issue of "slander", "libels" and "defamations". Any non-partison individual(s) interested in hosting or mediating an open forum regarding these issues is encouraged to contact Joe Moreno.
On digg.comRobert Priddy said (under his oxymoronic name “truthpromoter”):
“To defend my reputation in advance it has become necessary to point out how every posting made by any ex-devotee anywhere on the Internet is followed wherever possible by defamatory comments by GM108 or joe108 (Gerald Moreno) fanatical web-stalker who posts links to side-issues, libel and his trivialities daily. Employed full-time doing dirty tricks to defend Sai Baba and his Organisation. He twists the truth to claim that I am stalking HIM, but I have made no blogs about him (as he has about me) nor any webpages against him (which he has on a grand scale against me!). I am simply warning against his libels.”
Robert Priddy has yet to refute what he calls my “side-issues”, “libel” and “trivialities”. I FULLY reference my articles, unlike Robert Priddy who simply denies, deflects and foams-at-the-mouth (as can be seen by his comments on the screen-cap above). The only person “employed full-time” and using “dirty tricks” to attack Sathya Sai Baba is Robert Priddy (as can be seen on his six Anti-Sai Websites). The reason why I have so many webpages about Robert Priddy is because my thorough documentation of his massive fraudulence is very well established.
Robert Priddy said (about me):
“I have made no blogs about him (as he has about me) nor any webpages against him.”
Needless to say, this is yet another bold-faced untruth from Robert C. Priddy. Take a look at the following webpages where Robert Priddy directly and specifically attacks me. Some of his comments are many paragraphs in length and one webpage anonymously defames me and makes numerous unsupported comments against me:
Robert Priddy created an anonymous website attempting to libel me on angeltowns2 and they terminated his account for defamatory content and for violating their terms and conditions (Refs: 01 - 02). Robert Priddy also attacked me anonymously on the QuickTopic forum using the fake name “bandbox” (Reference). Robert Priddy lied about me on a public forum and I responded to his untruths in my article entitled Robert Priddy And His ‘Babafan’ Lie. In addition to these, Robert Priddy made numerous gutter untruths against me on Wikipedia. See:
Therefore, when Robert Priddy said “I have made no blogs about him (as he has about me) nor any webpages against him”, he lied because his numerous comments, libels and defamations against me are not only published on his Anti-Sai Webpages, they are fully recorded on Wikipedia and other public forums.
Robert Priddy also promotes Alan Kazlev’s defamatory pages against me in which he plays the role of bogus psychiatrist (because he has no credentials in the medical or mental health fields). It is also amusing that Robert Priddy promotes Alan Kazlev when Priddy made fun of the “lunatic fringe” often seen in cults and religious movements (Reference).
As I have said many times before, the more Robert Priddy says, the less I have to defend. Robert Priddy makes the case for me that he is a mentally unstable defamer who lies about others unapologetically (all the while harping on morality, ethics and honesty). Robert Priddy stands exposed, humiliated and ashamed, all from his own doing. He has no one else to blame but himself and no amount of deflection, foaming-at-the-mouth and denial will save him now.
MAJOR UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 13TH 2007 After publishing this page exposing Robert Priddy’s easily verifiable lie about not having created any webpages against me, Robert Priddy went about secretly deleting content against me (offering no explanations, apologies or retractions). The pages deleted or modified were:
Robert Priddy is now (for the most part) including one paragraph garbling about Alan Kazlev’s webpage against me along with a link going to home.chello.no/~reirob/sorg0.htm#joe. The following screencaps show how information against me was published on the websites above. Another perfect example how Robert Priddy & Co. stealthily attempt to do damage control when their bold-faced lies are thoroughly exposed and documented:
Below: Screen Shots Of The Deleted Anonymous Webpage Against Joe Moreno (click on images to enlarge):
Below: Screen Shots Of The Deleted Anonymous Webpage Against Joe Moreno:
Below: Google Results Showing Joe Moreno’s Name:
Below: Before & After Screen Shots Showing Deleted Section:
In addition to deleting his drug-induced hallucinations, Robert Priddy also deleted an article entitled "At Wistborough Lodge Prep. School" in which he related his penchant for prevarication tracing back to his childhood.
Robert Priddy related the following experiences (which he since deleted) about his tendency to tell lies, make up stories, act like a fool and gain sympathy by talking about committing suicide by jumping into a flood:
"One evening I found I could command the attention of most of the sixty boys in the dining hall by standing up and making faces behind the back of the duty teacher...
It turned out that I had a fairly lively fancy myself for I was able to convince my close friends of several stories that were quite untrue. I got a bit of a name for cooking up stories on our long and rather boring school walks at weekends. Once I tried a dramatic trick of putting myself at the centre of an account of hardy life in a croft in the northernmost wilds of Scotland near Wick amid snows and glens with red deer and polecats. It was a bit of a sensation and I had to tell all my friends in turn, then they wanted more of my experiences. I obliged as best I could and, when they were in doubt about the authenticity, I found it quite easy to counter their queries and doubts. The fact was, they wanted to believe me. So I was able to excite them with my exploits while living on the south coast (where I had only been on a few weekends) where I knew of smuggling runs and many things, the commonplace as well as the spine-tingling. They said that they hoped it was all true. For my part, I began to feel trapped in a complicated web I had woven, as I had done once before about having gypsy friends. It sprang of the desire to entertain and gladden, but I now knew somehow that it was also out of a sense of gaining some extra popularity. I had projected myself into those tales as if they were really true in order for them to seem true, and I even began to wonder where I had it all from myself. The stories, or the most tangible parts of them, must have come from somewhere...
On a school walk we were taken to see some dramatic flooding in the spring of 1947 when the excessive snow of that longest of winters was thawing. We stared down into the violent over-swollen brown flood waters in a branch of the river Arun only inches below the bridge we were on. The river banks were broken and huge torrents bearing debris crashed over a fall downwater from the bridge. I had recently received the news that my parents had moved away from our home at North Lodge in Roffey Park, and no longer had a house. Roffey Park and all it meant to me was irretrievable and I felt intensely the loss of the beauty of the lake and of every spot of the woods and fields I knew better than the back of my hand. Something told me that the home atmosphere in the cosy lodge, tea-times before the fire was gone forever. There was also the insecurity of not knowing why this had happened, where my parents would live next and a family crises beyond my ken that I must still have sensed somehow.
All this shook me up and made me feel quite forlorn as I stared into the flood. My closest companions noticed this and I eventually told them that I felt like jumping into the flood, more so as to dramatise my feelings than in all seriousness. They were shocked and frightened on my behalf and the whole thing became rather melodramatic. At length I had to reassure them that I wouldn't really jump in. Despite having moved twice and having had to part from friends at several schools, the loss of my Roffey home was the worst I had suffered...
Apparently, Robert Priddy's tendency to lie, embellish and tell stories originated from his traumatic childhood. When one listens to Priddy talk about Sathya Sai Baba, one is under the impression that he is still traumatized and he is resorting to childhood habits to cope with his current need for vengence and retaliation. Robert Priddy is sadly trapped in "projecting" his negativity on Sai Baba.
The so-called “photographic evidence”rumor was originally started by a guru-wannabee named “Sekharji” (real name “Chandrasekhar Balasubramanian”) who carefully primps his hair and wears an orange gown to make himself look like Sathya Sai Baba (click thumbnail to enlarge):
The Sai Guru Wannabee: "Sekharji"
Sekharji sent the following post to Ex-Devotees:
Sekharji: “Today, there are so many Extortionists, that SSB is letting most of them go on telling stories without the reward for silence. It seems that the money supply is now getting low. So now, there are a whole lot of exDevotees attacking each Other to achieve the status as being the last One standing for SSB to deal with. There are even Imposters planted to help confuse and frighten the whistleblowers. I enforce My claim for the previous statements to You in the following way.
here is a Swamiji named ‘Kaleshwara’ somewhere near Banglore. He was a young Boy when SSB molested Him. He, however, brought a camera and took pictures of the activites without SSB knowing. Later, He extorted SSB and got $1 million dollars to start His own ashram. Go to Him in Banglore, and privately ask. He is quite open and honest about the whole matter. He may still even show You the pictures as He did to many Others.
Sekharji - 06-28-2002 08:43 PM ET (US)
There are several profound problems with Sekharji’s claims:
First of all, Swami Kaleshwar has never lived “somewhere near Bangalore” and his ashram is not in Bangalore, Karnataka. Kaleshwar’s ashram is in Penukonda, Andhra Pradesh (250kms away from Bangalore and in another state). Therefore, Sekharji’s information about Swami Kaleshwar is whollyincorrect and is therefore highly suspect.
Secondly, Sekharji never said that he saw the alleged pictures himself, first-hand. Sekharji simply repeated a rumor and gossip he allegedly heard.
Lastly, why would Kaleshwar publicly admit that he blackmailed and extorted $1 million from Sathya Sai Baba when extortion and blackmail are illegal and criminal acts punishable with incarceration and/or hefty fines?
How can anyone believe anything Sekharji (a Sathya Sai competitor) has to say when he disseminated totaldisinformation about Kaleshwar?
As if Sekharji’s claims were not ridiculous enough, Robert Priddy (an Ex-Devotee) actually had the audacity to say (click thumbnail to enlarge):
saibaba-x.org.uk/6/saisex4.htm Robert Priddy: “I have ascertained that both prints and a negative of this former student engaged in oral sex with Sathya Sai Baba are extant and will eventually be made public in the appropriate legal setting.”
Why should Robert Priddy wait for a legal setting? Why not anonymously send the alleged pictures to the Indian Media or publish them anonymously on YouTube as has been done with Swami Nithyananda? What faster way to bring down Sathya Sai Baba than by publishing the alleged photos? One video of Swami Nithyananda engaged in questionable behavior was enough to bring him down completely. What are Ex-Devotees waiting for?
Robert Priddy himself claimed that hepersonally“ascertained that both prints and a negative of this former student engaged in oral sex with Sathya Sai Baba are extant”. Robert Priddy is a pathological liar of the worst order and is a total fraud adept in peddling rumors and gossips as the “irrefutable truth”. Robert Priddy never saw the alleged pictures and therefore never“ascertained” anything.
Whenever anyone demands evidence or proof from Robert Priddy, he flares his nostrils, reddens his cheeks, bulges his eyeballs and shrieks shrilly at the top of his voice “confidentiality”, “in a legal setting”, “only to bona fide investigators”, etc. However, when it comes to Sai Devotees or Pro-Sai Activists, Robert Priddy demands evidence, proof and explanations from them that can never meet his expectations.
Ex-Devotees had every opportunity (and still do) to give the alleged pictures to the BBC and/or various other journalists sympathetic with their cause. To Date: No one has EVER done so. Why not? Because the “$1 Million Picture Extortion” story is $1 million fraud. That’s why.
It is also amusing to note how Robert Priddy referred to Swami Kaleshwar as a “former student”. Swami Kaleshwar was never a former student at Sathya Sai Baba’s Colleges and Robert Priddy cannot provide a scintilla of credible evidence to the contrary.
Sanjay Dadlani & Tony O’Clery Weigh In:
tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sathyasaibaba2/message/45454 Sanjay Dadlani: I’ve noticed that you pro-SB people are in complete denial of the fact that we have photographic evidence of SB molesting a child. Oh well, so be it. :-)
tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sathyasaibaba2/message/42227 Sanjay Dadlani: We even have photographic proof of his sexual molestation, which is red-hot proof that he is a sex abuser.
tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sathyasaibaba2/message/40041 Sanjay Dadlani: There is photographic proof of Sai baba performing oral sex on an ex-student. I don't know if it is Sai Baba who is the giver or the receiver, but oral sex is definitely involved in this photogrpahic evidence. When it finally becomes available, I wonder how the braindead devotees will react to it?
tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sathyasaibaba2/message/45339 Tony O’Clery: There is some kind of a photo...
tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sathyasaibaba2/message/45337 Tony O’Clery: Namaste, The photo exists. It was taken long before the easy internet photo editing, so I don't know the forensics of it. I have talked to Premanand about this, and indicated to him that it wouldn't be available for his law suit due to the ever present danger to the owner. This is what I understand........Tony
tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sathyasaibaba2/message/33930 Tony O’Clery: HOWEVER I KNOW FOR SURE THAT A CERTAIN PERSON HAS PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF SB MOLESTING!! He is at present too scared to release it for it would mean an certain death sentence and he lives in India, the prashanti goons would get him for sure, as they have so many others.
tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sathyasaibaba2/message/33961 Tony O’Clery: Namaste, You know cameras can be coin size now with wide lenses. I don't know the exact format used but the photos or whatever do exist, believe me and have done for a couple of years. They will come out eventually, now it is too dangerous for the boy he and his parents would be murdered by sb's goons from the prashanti mafia, or the pn police......Tony.
(QuickTopic Forum, post 1728) Tony O’Clery: Namaste, I have it on good authority that there is a photo of sb molesting a boy. However the parents are still devotees and the boy is frightened for his life if his name is revealed. His name has been passed on to a safe place in case he is murdered by sb or his gang of goons...Tony.
Notice how Robert Priddy, Sanjay Dadlani and Tony O’Clery cannot keep their stories straight and consistent? The alleged “victim” is changed from Swami Kaleshwar to an anonymous “former student” by Robert Priddy. The anonymous “former student” is then changed to an anonymous “child” by Sanjay Dadlani. The anonymous “child” is then changed to an anonymous “boy” whose parents are still Sai Devotees by Tony O’Clery. Notice how Swami Kaleshwar is completely filtered out of the story and he is replaced with an anonymous former student / child / boy whose story must be guarded out of safety concerns and confidentiality. What a bunch of rubbish!
Sanjay Dadlani first claimed that Anti-Sai Activists are in actual possession of the pictures. Then Sanjay Dadlani claimed that he did not know who was the “giver or the receiver” in the pictures (meaning he and other ex-devotees never saw them)!
Similarly, Tony O’Clery has never (admittedly) seen the alleged “photographic evidence” for himself. Tony O’Clery is simply perpetuating unverifiable rumors and gossips. Tony O’Clery has no information whatsoever about the alleged picture(s) and said that there is “some kind of photo” in existence. How’s that for objective? Tony O’Clery also alleged that the picture was “taken long before the easy internet photo editing”. This simply is untrue. Photo fraud has a long history that can be traced back prior to Sathya Sai Baba’s birth. For example, the famous Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Cottingley Fairies case of photographic fraud going back to the early 1920’s.
This is the type of typical sleaze that Ex-Devotee’s peddle and perpetuate against Sathya Sai Baba.
Objective & Verifiable Information About Swami Kaleshwar
Paula Gloria released some YouTube videos of Swami Kaleshwar in which a full-sized picture of Sathya Sai Baba could clearly be seen in Kaleshwar’s ashram in Penukonda (Refs: 01 - 02 - 03). Seeing is believing:
Swami Kaleshwar With A Garlanded Photo Of Sathya Sai Baba In His Mandir, Next To A Photo Of Shirdi Sai Baba And Himself
As one can see, Swami Kaleshwar has a garlanded photo of Sathya Sai Baba in his ashram. Why would an alleged sexual molestation victim keep a photo of his sexual abuser in his ashram and put flower garlands on it? Once again, another Anti-Sai rumor bites the dust.