I.C.S.D. or C.I.S.S.?

From: DeafSportLawsuit.com - Apr 15, 2006
 
PRESS RELEASE - APRIL 15, 2006
 
From: www.deafsportlawsuit.com
 
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I.C.S.D. or C.I.S.S.?
 
JANUARY 4, 2005 CISS FUNERAL SESSION ( PHOTO )
 
DEAF SPORTS ANARCHIST JERALD JORDAN IS LYING AGAIN!
 
 
By Rafael PINKHASOV PINCHAS, CISS Ombudsman
 
SUMMARIES:
 
*APRIL 6, 2006 ANNOUNCEMENT BY JORDAN
 
*CISS OMBUDSMAN ISSUES REBUTTAL AND PRESENTS QUESTIONS

* THREE FOOLS - JORDAN, AMMONS AND SONDERGAARD - BURY CISS FLAG ON JANUARY 4, 2005 ( SEE PHOTO )

*JORDAN RESURRECTS NAME OF CISS

*ICSD/CISS IS NEW RULE VIOLATION

*FOUR ( 4 ) DIFFERENT NAMES FOR ONE ORGANIZATION
 

New York, USA - Read the following announcement posted on www.deaflympics.com on April 6, 2006:
 

ICSD ? CISS ? DEAFLYMPICS ?? Which One?
 
Some confusion has resulted from the use of ICSD (International Committee of Sports for the Deaf) to identify our organization. What happened to DEAFLYMPICS?
At the Melbourne Congress in January 2005, many changes were passed in our Constitution to change the name of our organization from CISS (Comité International des Sports des Sourds) to DEAFLYMPICS, pending approval of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Then, in the summer of 2005, the IOC reminded us that their permission to use “Deaflympics” only applied as a substitute for “World Games for the Deaf” and that we could not use it in any other way. We were unable to persuade them to change this so we had to change our name back to CISS.
However, since our organization is incorporated with a home office in the United States (USA), our name must be in English, so we now use the English translation of CISS. This is similar to the case of the IOC which is also known as the CIO. Our legal name is now International Committee of Sports for the Deaf (ICSD) in English and also Comité International des Sports des Sourds (CISS) in French.
We hope that this explanation removes all confusion. Nothing has changed except that our name has gone back to ICSD/CISS. We hope that at some future date, the IOC/CIO will be more flexible in allowing us greater use of the term "Deaflympics".
 
Jerald M. Jordan
Chairman,
Legal Commission
 
The above announcement apparently appeared following this Ombudsman's  latest March 27, 2006 Press Release, in which the issue of an acronym change  for the International Committee of  Sports for Deaf such as ICSD  was raised and questioned
www.deafsportlawsuit.com/update94.htm
 
Mr. Jordan's announcement is perceived as his another sophisticated and masterful act  to cover up his new wrongdoing or new  rule violation/s inside the still-messy and disorganized structure of the International Committee of  Sports for the Deaf.
 
There are  four different statements made by Mr. Jordan, which this Ombudsman views as questionable, inaccurate and untruthful ones.
 
First, Mr..Jordan states that "at the Melbourne Congress in January 2005, many changes were passed in our Constitution to change the name of our organization from CISS ( Comite International des Sports des Sourds ) to DEAFLYMPICS, pending approval of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC )."
Ombudsman's rebuttal and questions:
See a historic photo below taken at the floor of the last, 39th CISS Congress, in which a smiling Mr. Jordan, standing up along with his cronies Ms. Ammons and Mr. Sondergaard and holding up a wrapped CISS flag, managed to arrange a propaganda showcase -  "a funeral" session for the acronym of  CISS. That is, the CISS and its green-blue-yellow flag have now become obsolete and that the "CISS flag is being taken to the Museum" ( source: Minutes Report of the 39th CISS Congress ). Argumentatively, if this name change - DEAFLYMPICS - was "pending approval of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC )," as Mr. Jordan stated,  then why and for what purpose did Mr. Jordan himself hurriedly arrange and participate in  "a funeral" of the name of CISS and its flag at the very floor premises of the 39th CISS Congress in Melbourne on January 4, 2005? Because the IOC had not yet approved or disapproved the name change - Deaflympics, was it wise, necessary and obligatory for Mr. Jordan to organize  the most obnoxious event in organization's 82 year-old history - the "funeral" of the CISS and its flag on January 4, 2005, was not it?
 

 
Second, Mr. Jordan makes another statement such as, "however, since our organization is incorporated with a home office in the United States ( USA ), our name must be in English, so now we use the English translation of CISS."
Ombudsman's rebuttal and questions:
How and under whose orders could the relocation of the organization  to the USA be officially and properly done  if this organization established its home office in this country in 2001 illegally, that is, in violation of  its own CISS Constitution rules 7. 2, 9.2.7  and 9.2.7.10  ( previously known as CISS Constitution rules 8.2, 10.2.7 and 10.2.7.11  )? The fact remains that Mr. Jordan as the Chair of the Legal Commission allowed to set up the CISS Home Office in the USA without advance knowledge, consent and approval of the CISS Congress, which is the supreme governing body of the organization. Mr. Jordan also ignored the fact that by 2001 the USADSF  did not  ( and still has not  ) meet its financial debts before the CISS Treasury in full. In addition, Mr. Jordan evaded to explain whether the USA Trademark and Patent Office requires the organization  to have its organization's acronym - such as ICSD  - in English. Could Mr. Jordan post up in a website a scanned document from the USA Trademark  and Patent Office by supporting his claim that an English acronym is required for the organization, etcetera? In any case, this Ombudsman's steadfast position has been that  before officially incorporating organizaton's new home office in  the USA, first and foremost the USADSF must fully comply with all CISS Constitution rules, then the CISS Congress delegates must debate and  vote on whether to accept the USA as a new home for its organization's office.
 
Third, Mr. Jordan goes further by stating that "our legal name is now International Committee of  Sports for the Deaf (ICSD ) and also Comite International des Sports des Sourds ( CISS ) in French."
Ombudsman's rebuttal and questions:
There is no problem  with the three wording items - International Committee of Sports for the Deaf, Comite International des Sports des Sourds and CISS since all these three names knowingly received attention, blessings and approvals of the delegates at various CISS Congresses before. However, the newest wording item in question is ICSD. Who did give Mr. Jordan  the right to use an acronym such as ICSD? Did the delegates of the last CISS Congress in 2005 ever propose, debate and vote on such an acronym - ICSD, did not they?
 
Fourth, Mr. Jordan concludes that "nothing has changed except that our name has gone back to ICSD/CISS."
Ombudsman's rebuttal and question:
Now note the three differing and confusing versions.
1) On its March 11, 2006 USADSF e-Newsletter release in www.usadsf.org there is a headline APPLY FOR 2007 US CURLING TEAM, which  refers the statement such as "per regulation of  the International Committee of Sports for the Deaf ( ICSD, formerly CISS )" ( note the three words "ICSD, formerly CISS" );
2) On March 26, 2006, this Ombudsman attended the celebratory luncheon in honor of the 100 year anniversary of the  Gallaudet University Alumni Association New York Metropolitan Chapter, in which he met and conversed with one high-ranking Gallaudet University official who has close links to Mr. Jordan  and Ms. Ammons. That official, in the presence of many luncheon attendees, informed  this Ombudsman  that the acronym of CISS is no longer in use and that, instead, the organization is now officially and briefly called as ICSD;
3) Now, Mr. Jordan brings up in his announcement the other and new acronym - a joint one  - ICSD/CISS.
Who did present the right version: the USADSF website or Gallaudet official or Mr. Jordan?
Again, Mr. Jordan chose not  to explain in his announcement as to who did give him the right to use the new joint acronym - ICSD/CISS - and why such an acronym is being now used in spite of the fact that this was not proposed, debated and voted at the last Congress in 2005 yet? Introduction of a new acronym - ICSD/CISS - into light is another violation of the CISS Constitution rules because the issue of this new acronym was never brought up in front of the Congress for debate and approval yet! Moreover, since Mr. Jordan, a slow learner in the international sports administration matters, was the one who publicly "buried"  the CISS acronym and flag on January 4, 2005, it was again him who, strangely and amazingly, resurrected or brought back into existence the wording such as "CISS" recently!
 
Although Mr. Jordan's statements were vaguely-worded  and unspecific, it is this Ombudsman's opinion that Mr. Jordan, a sly manipulator and skillful Gestuno orator in the CISS politics, failed, on the whole, to clarify the still ongoing  and highly-questionable status of an ICSD acronym.
 
The April 6, 2006 announcement by Mr. Jordan  is clearly viewed as his another new tactic of deception in most recent times.
 
Several months ago, for example,  Mr. Jordan adamantly denied his role in the 2005 CISS Congress election procedure, in which over 270 votes were missing or went unused.
 
For details, visit
www.deafsportlawsuit.com/update82.htm
http://www.deafbase.com/article-print-1141.html
 
Because of  Mr. Jordan's inept, unintelligent, imprudent and not prophetic handling of the issue of organization's name change, our world - deaf and non-deaf -  is still in a state of confusion or misunderstanding, that is, many people and organizations do still use the four different names - CISS, ICSD, ICSD/CISS and Deaflympics - in identifying one and same organization called International Committee of  Sports for the Deaf.
 
P.S. It is this Ombudsman's sincerest hope that National Deaf Sports Associations - Nation Members of the CISS, including Liga Portuguesa de Desporto para Surdos ( LPDS ), after reading this relevant Press Release, will bring up a proposal motion about the appropriate and official acronym use of the organization to the floor of the coming 40th CISS Congress in 2007.