ISKCON Constitution

Our constitution committee wish to involve experienced and thoughtful devotees from around the world. Not just GBC members and deputies. We need broader input as we devise a constitution relevant to everyone connected to ISKCON.

I want to make a submission, but I need some assistance in how to approach this.
Can anyone who has read my ebook (get it here), please help me to formulate a way to speak into this commitee:

Check it out:

1.Defining ISKCON What is its purpose?

2.What are the lines of authority? Organizational Structure - Definitions and roles of GBC, TP, Guru. Clearly defining the roles and relationships between temples, preaching centres, Nama Hattas and other ISKCON related entities, etc.

3.Who is a Member? Are there different levels of membership? What’s a clergy? A congregation member, etc.

4.What is ISKCON’s responsibility to its members? How do we define “devotee care”

5.What are the rights and responsibilities of the members.

6.How is justice to be administered?

7.Responsibility for properties/Protection of Assets.

Point 2 screams: Hierarchical Organizational Structure!!!

Roles are cool - "understand what you are and become more that". Relationships - well, they arise naturally from roles, don't they? But "lines of authority"? Unfortunately they have assumed a hierarchical structure as their paradigm..

As far as my making a submission to this committee is concerned, it's like Chomsky said: if you go on TV and say: "Osama's a terrorist", you can get your point across in 2 seconds. On the other hand, if you want to go on and say: "The Moon landing was a hoax", you are going to need significantly more than 2 seconds to not come off looking like a nut job. The medium is biased.

Unless I can get the right approach, the guys on this committee are going to look at me like I'm speaking Classical Greek.