This week, I have written three separate articles on the recently-published Atheist Alliance International (AAI) ‘Disclosure Document’. A full copy of that document is available at the bottom of this page. Those three articles have described:
- admissions from AAI in their own ‘Disclosure Document’ of the most serious corruption within their so-called Board over many years
- omissions by AAI in their ‘Disclosure Document’, where they still refuse to disclose the most important issues relating to their corruption
- new lies that have been told by AAI in their ‘Disclosure Document’, which attempt to cover up more serious wrongdoing
Following these revelations, the self-styled President of AAI has invited members of the organisation to “contribute to the online discussion” about the AAI ‘Disclosure Document’. An extract from that letter written by Brian Kernick is illustrated below:
A current member of AAI has sent me some of the questions that have been submitted as part of this “online discussion” within AAI. At the time of writing, none of these questions about the AAI ‘Disclosure Document’ have been answered by Brian Kernick’s Board, who published that document and invited “online discussion” about its contents. It will be interesting to see if Brian Kernick thinks that the AAI membership deserves answers to these questions in advance of their so-called EGM, or if he will just ignore the most serious corruption and carry on regardless as AAI has been doing for years now.
Mandate of the Board
The AAI ‘Disclosure Document’ admits that contrary to the Bylaws, none of the Directors on the Board of AAI had obtained a democratic mandate for many years. They never received a single vote from a single affiliate member ever, and so they had no authority to do or say anything at all on behalf of AAI. They were merely a group of individual charlatans and frauds, who were not valid Directors of AAI under any definition of those roles. Within the AAI ‘Disclosure Document’ they suggest a mechanism through which they could have been appointed, if they had wanted to be. The question illustrated below is related to that proposed mechanism.
Building Bridges With The Disenfranchised
The AAI ‘Disclosure Document’ admits that the Directors of the organisation have manipulated the electorate for key votes over many years. They excluded many valid members from votes, while packing the voter roll with their friends who were not entitled to vote. In publishing the AAI ‘Disclosure Document’, the comments illustrated below were made about efforts to “build bridges” with the unlawfully excluded members that were disenfranchised.
Having admitted packing the voter rolls with their friends, the subsequent AAI solution to every problem has been to hold a vote among those friends. Up to and including the proposed EGM in January 2023, AAI have never proposed a vote among the valid members that they unlawfully disenfranchised, even though this is exactly the vote that the Bylaws required, and that they have admitted improperly manipulating the electorate to avoid. The question illustrated below relates to this issue.
Directly Contradictory Investigation Reports
The present AAI ‘Disclosure Document’ is a result of an investigation of the records relating to some key votes that radically changed the alliance. However, the same people within AAI also investigated the same records last year, and published results that directly contradict those within the current AAI ‘Disclosure Document’. Those responsible for serious wrongdoing have now investigated their own actions twice, and published mutually exclusive results on each occasion. In this context, how can Brian Kernick justify reneging on the previous AAI promise that an independent investigation would be carried out? How can anyone trust the wrongdoers to report on their own wrongdoing, when they have now published multiple directly contradictory reports of what the AAI records say about those events?
Conclusions
There are several other questions on the internal AAI forum, where Brian Kernick has invited an “online discussion” among members. At the time of writing, no answers have been provided by the authors of the AAI ‘Disclosure Document’. It remains to be seen whether Brian Kernick will provide answers in advance of the so-called EGM in January 2023.
