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| From: | SP52948 owner |
|---|---|
| To: | Russell Young BCS Strata Management |
| CC: | Greg Freeman Pica Group |
| Subject: | Re: Updated Request SP52948 Strata Manager and EC promoting religious intolerance and discrimination |
| Date: | 23/11/14, 9:50 am |
Hello,
Back on 11 November 2013 I wrote email to Strata Manager Mr. Peter Bone, Mr. Paul Banoop, and the whole EC about religious intolerance and wrong judgement for a quiet owner who was celebrating millennium-old festivity in a dignifed and decent manner.
Reply was never provided.
Not only the Strata Manager and the EC took wrong action, but never apologised in public way to owner as well (although Lot owner 159 was publicly "shamed" in the BCS document on the web site).
It is fact in this complex that number of owners display their religious background on common property. That is fine, but cannot apply selectively to some and not the others.
It is good time to hear your comments before I take other measures.
PS. For the record, I accept what people believe in as long as it is private to those that practice it (for example, do not push people to change religion for the sake of love and marriage), promote peace, support law and practice ethics, and do not support discrimination of any kind.
Hello,
It seems I have to get involved in more issues than I wish to (by the way, today I found out that ThyssenKrupp credited our next invoice for lift maintenance on 25 September 2013, due to overcharging for the last two years, as reported and discovered by me in August 2013). You and EC will probably try to get credits for that "work" although you did absolutely nothing to manage the contract properly. It does not matter to me, the facts will always prevail in the end. That is why I carry on with my quest to save money to owners and provide better services (levy savings of around $500.00 per lot owner per year are easily possible if proper duty of care is implemented).
Recently, a letter surfaced with warning to owners of Lot 159 about their usage of a specific religious sign during their festive season. These are wonderful, old Indian couple, with humbleness that is exemplary.
They are my neighbors, and good ones in every sense of the word.
I am appalled by the ignorance in the letter because swastika sign that was used in Nazi's Germany has nothing to do with 5000-year old swastika sign used in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, for example.
Note that India's and China's population alone comes to around 2.5 billion, so every third person in the world is either an Indian or a Chinese (simple mathematics). Telling them that they should stop using 5000-year old symbol is horrendous. Of course, there are people who use swastika in many other regions too.
I would suggest a careful review of this issue.