Can anyone out there offer references to any criminal or untoward
activity on the part of members or leaders of the Saiva Siddhanta
Church, based in Hawaii?

I think they're clean.

Check out a picture of the grinning gurus for yourself:

http://www.himalayanacademy.com/ssc/hawaii/images/swamis.jpg

tell me augusta,

on what basis do you come to this conclusion?

just curious . . .

Clean? They have something white on their foreheads!

Timespacette, 

As you well know, it is very difficult to give a negative answer.
However, I have found nothing that indicates some illicit activity
there and what's more - even sites that specialise in digging the dirt
on "cults" and New Religious Movements - such as the Rick Ross site -
have not come up with anything.

The reason that I think their clean is because I did Google searches
using the following terms and found nothing:

Saiva Siddhanta Church Hawaii +court
Saiva Siddhanta Church Hawaii +police
Saiva Siddhanta Church Hawaii +prosecutor

I think they may be tainted in 2 ways: -

1)they can't decide if they're Christians or Hindus
Lets do a witch-hunt on these people out, they seem like the formation
of a new cult of old religions. Both Christianity and Hinduism are
over 2000 years old and are pretty much stable religions. So this new
cult is unlikely to fight back.

2)they seem to be harmless people with integrity
But we can as a society still attempt to find some dirt on them.
Groups with integrity are usually infiltrated by a baddy or 2. If we
work as a team, we may be able to find a prospective Judas to bring
these people down.

don't know where you're coming from, but I'm not interested in
'bringing these people down' for anything other than legitimate
reasons.

don't you mean to say that they're 'vulnerable' in two ways, rather than 'tainted'?

ts

Satire darling,
Satire.