E-mail sent to Kazakhstan Embassy in Japan

Edwin C. Llaneta
January 12, 2009

To The Honorable Ambassador and the Concerned Citizens of Kazakhstan:

I am a Filipino citizen and I belong to a group of Filipinos that are presently residing here in Japan.

As a group who belongs to the Unification Movement, we hereby condemn the incarceration of the religious preacher in your country in the name of Elizaveta Drenichiva and thereby appealing to your good office to let our voices heard for the reconsideration of the verdict. I don't personally know her but I believe that she is only a victim of prejudicism and religious persecution or maybe a casualty of political games.

It is very disappointing to know that people who are honestly and boldly advocating values for the realization of world peace and with no intention of giving harm but of hope are being misunderstood and mistreated like this even in this modern times. I believe that her intention is not to demean anybody but she is just applying pedagogical methods to make the presentation clear for the audience and just probably "quoted" and was used against her.

The argument that she divides people into righteous and sinful, perfect and imperfect is a crime against peace and humankind is questionable in the light of exercising her role as a preacher or lecturer that could lead to her arrest. Is it not the judicial system committing the crime if we are to consider the said argument true?

Every religious group teaches what is right and what is wrong and even parents themselves do; the very basic unit of our society teaches their children to embrace righteousness and abhor what is evil or sinful..are they going to put them in jail sooner too? Or is it because she is a member of Unification Movement becomes the whole basis behind the Judge's verdict?

I believe in the universality of truth and the truth in Kazakhstan must be a truth in every corner of the world for if it is not universal it cannot be called truth. It must be beyond ethnicity, religion or races to be considered genuine truth. History shows the evidence of this for us to learn the lesson that those who embraces "subjective truth" is only headed for its own decadence.

We cannot tolerate prejudism and persecution to perpetuate in this information age. For if this is happening in your country, there must be something wrong in a particular institution which is supposed to deserve respect and protection of the citizens of Kazakhstan that needs to be quickly resolved before its too late.

We believe that you can do something to provide positive results for our appeal and make TRUE JUSTICE happens once and for all.

Thanks and God Bless.

Respectfully Yours,

Edwin C. Llaneta