MORENO NEVER PRESENTS TENABLE EVIDENCE: Joe Moreno presents no documentation showing that Priddy previously called 'Joe' Moreno 'a liar' outright or that he defames him. This is typical his constant unsubstantiated claims with his bogus 'reasons' for them. What Priddy wrote about Moreno was that he "spread lies and disinformation" and - among many examples - this is conclusively proven alone by his defamation of Barry Pittard, past and present. It is an observable fact (on Moreno's websites, board postings and blogs) that Moreno repeatedly has called Priddy a liar and slanderer. He does this always without credible evidence, as can be seen by a close comparison of Priddy's and Moreno's writings. In contrast to Priddy's restraint in his hitherto very few, brief comments about Joe Moreno, Moreno continues to reproduce his slanders in ever new places, eg. latest being http://robert-priddy-exposed.blogspot.com/).

PRIDDY'S STATEMENTS DO NOT LIBEL MORENO: The link Moreno gives to the comments about himself on Priddy's webpages show no defamation of his character, it is a red herring doubtless to mislead the unwary and lazy. As can be seen - also on this page - Priddy's statements are backed up by genuine evidence, both official and circumstantial.

For Moreno, a liar is virtually anyone who questions Sathya Sai Baba, describes him or his words with a critical eye, or makes any statement Joe finds fault with, often because they will not entrust him with sensitive information. Any question which might be cleared up in an atmosphere of trust and maturity is ruled out by Moreno's crusading zealotry. He soon calls all of the dozens of alleging victims of Sai Baba's homosexual molestation 'liars', without any proof (of course), without regard for what they credibly claim to have undergone. He also regularly calls any minor factual mistakes or imprecision by his opponents 'lies' and names them "blatant liars" [thus undermining his own credibility]. However, he disregards the fact that - to tell a lie - one has to know that one is stating an untruth wilfuly, knowingly misrepresenting the facts. A lie can only be proven by independent evidence showing that it was a wilful deception.

THE IDENTITY OF GERALD MORENO IS NOT INDEPENDENTLY CONFIRMABLE Joe Moreno admits that he did not post any details about himself - and he has still not made his identity known beyond the name he uses on-line. There is no independent information of identity or status available about Moreno anywhere! He conveniently assumes that Priddy had found information about him on some [defunct] web pages by Reinier van der Sandt. Moreno admits to using anonymous identities - including false names with untraceable IPs and nonexistent e-mail addresses his in bogus submissions to the Sai Petition in efforts to sabotage it. This is 'dirty tricks' cultist activism against the JuST Group, a ploy to deny the unhindered right of freedom of speech through trying to sabotage their petition. Some initial shortcomings of the setting up of the Petition (eg. the inability to block pro-Sai vulgarities and spam submissions) were deemed nefarious by Moreno. They arose due to a certain naïve assumption that there was no-one around like Moreno determined to sabotage and try to make false submissions.

GERALD MORENO DEFENDS SATHYA SAI BABA AND THE SAI ORGANISATION CONSTANTLY Priddy's comment about Moreno is correct as can easily be discovered - namely, that he acts as a 'stooge' in attacking critics of Sai Baba on behalf of the Sathya Sai Organisation. Nothing could be more obvious! He has this function because this otherwise silent and unaccountable Organisation - which is involved in extremely serious cover-ups and cannot face the light of day - never responds to any of the many who legitimately question its leaders. Their intense need to 'respond' dirtily - despite Sai Baba's denial of their right to do so - is satisfied for them on the web by Moreno. Though he denies being a devotee of Sathya Sai Baba, Moreno most heavily defends him on all counts against all comers on any occasion or pretext on his websites! He argues their corner constantly - and to amazingly convoluted and implausible lengths.

PRIDDY WEBSITES WERE NOT CLOSED DUE TO DEFAMATION Moreno claims Priddy has five anti-Sai websites, then in the same breath increased it to six. Then he states that three of them were removed. This way of creating false impressions is part of Moreno's stock in trade. To our knowledge, there is no independent evidence available (i.e. from the hosts involved) that any of the web servers closed Priddy's sites due to defamation of Moreno. Priddy never received any information from the free web servers that his webpages had been contested for defamation. Had they done so, Priddy could and would have contested this, and those hosts were well aware that they could then be liable for an allegation which they would be unable to defend legally. The explanation for their closure is that most free web servers have the right to close down any free website so as to avoid legal complications when controversy has arisen over any part of it, especially by threatening complainants.

Moreno has also falsely claimed that Priddy's posting concerning him on his chello website was "deleted for defamation". Now that is a direct lie, the material is still there and has never been removed. However, other places where he had posted the same were replaced with a link to the chello text, so as to avoid undue duplication. Moreno refers to a (defunct) website http://robert-priddy.fulldisclosure.dyndns.org/ which he says was deleted for defamatory content. But I never had any such website, so there is no shred of independent evidence to back this false claim. I wonder - but can guess - who made that website using my name?

Exactly the same materials that were on the Sai Baba websites that were discontinued are all still on-line but now only with dedicated web hosts! This shows that any allegations of defamation by Priddy are invalid and contrived. However, the infamous Rebello - himself a major slanderer by self-admitted massive e-mail bombing - as was shown on the website exposing him - threatened to sue the free website (angeltowns) for major compensation, and that was enough for them to get cold feet! After all, they were receiving no fees whatever.
That Moreno very selectively posts some of Rebello's sick allegations on his website (without including any of Priddy's refutations, none of which were defamatory) illustrates further his determination to use foul means against Priddy.

MORENO'S 'DIRTY TRICKS' USING PORN SITE Worse yet, Moreno's allegations about Priddy having subscribed to two porn sites is the grossest of defamation. On his site he states: "I have directly cited Priddy's dirty and filthy websites (which were even indexed on pornographic sites due their vulgar content" and "It appears that Priddy paid to get his Anti-Sai Site listed on SeekInsider.com" Note Moreno's crafty use of "seems" to cover himself! Priddy has never visited porn sites, and there is absolutely no proof as to why his website URL was registered there, or by whom. Priddy would obviously never post his website URL on a porn site to defame himself! So what does Moreno think he is proving by this calculated ad hominem attack - that all Priddy's statements are invalid? Moreno uses the same dirty tricks against at least two other critics of Sathya Sai Baba (van der Sandt and Dadlani), backing his two close constant collaborators on Yahoo groups sathyasaibaba2. Which of them - or whoever else - posted these things on the porn site is anybody's guess.

PITIFUL CLAIMS ABOUT INTEGRITY Joe Moreno's claim that Priddy's integrity was lacking by not signing one of his websites (still under construction for a few days) is invalid for the content alone made it completely clear within the pages that Priddy was their author. Moreno has at least two anonymous blogs which anyone can see have his stamp all over them, both solely devoted to slandering Priddy. Moreno's contrived claim extends to accusing Priddy of "illogical speculations and conspiracy theories". However, it is Priddy who is exposing the major conspiracy to cover up the legally unresolved [quashed] case about four cold-blooded murders in Sai Baba's bedroom, the many credible allegations of homosexual abuse by Sathya Sai Baba, including pedophilia, and more besides. Moreno claims on his website "SaiPetition.net and Robert Priddy banned my site from linking to their sites" (put this quote in Google and search to see). This it totally untrue - none of the JuST Group has any idea how to ban a person from linking to a website. So much for integrity! The obvious reason for Moreno to do this is to hinder people seeing what actually has been written by anyone except himself and his gang. That he persists in stating this proves that he is knowingly upholding a sheer untruth.

As a former lifelong lecturer in logic and argumentation, Priddy's writings are logical and very seldom speculative, and do not indulge in undue "faultfinding and insidious attack". They contain serious documentation and far-reaching circumstantial evidence and reports on many events he experienced and investigated by him during and after his two decades of close involvement with Sathya Sai Baba and several close insider contacts. As pointed out, Moreno clearly has funds to run four expensive websites (three at lunarpages.com, one with his fatuous paid-up 'Public Petition' directed solely against the Sai Petition) posting at all times of most days, year in year out. He lays claim to no proper employment. Yet he tries to turn this around by charging Priddy with having no other work but is well-funded. However, Priddy is retired and is funded exclusively by his university pension and savings and is neither backed by nor represents any organisation.

SELF-EVIDENT UNTRUTH BY MORENO Moreno wrote:"I fully know the depth of corruption and decay prevalent among Anti-Sai Activists" but is actually unable to back this up in any reasonable way, and most certainly not about Priddy.
Moreno further claims: "Robert Priddy is relating more scurrilous fabrications and gutter untruths against me under the guise of anonymity". This is itself self-evidently flawed and is completely untrue into the bargain. Moreno wrote "Priddy's dirty and filthy websites". No dirt or filth is found on any of them, no sexually-explicit or 'low' language! Moreno's invented claims -reproduced again and again - are attempts to make his self-made mud stick. In his stalking work, whenever discover anything about any former devotee, he straightaway springs to worst-case conclusions about them, twists the facts trying to belittle and demean, as can be seen throughout his 'deception' web pages.

SLANDER BY ANY COUNT Moreno drags up any data he can find on anyone, from as far as 60 years back in Priddy's case, as if one had not changed or developed in the least through all that time. He harvests out-of-context quotes and bends them to his own hostile interpretations. One typical example is his attempt to slur Priddy as a "drug user" through his having taken LDS-25 back in 1963 when he was a student - LSD provided to a group of psychology students including Priddy by a neurologist/psychiatrist, following a request from the Norwegian Minister of Health, Karl Evang, who supplied the LSD for the purpose of volunteer testing its effects and reporting back! This was done for investigating psychotic states and other unusual mental conditions which the authorities then believed LSD-25 could induce temporarily
[and well before LSD became controversial in the media]. Moreno makes much of this ancient news and other out-dated incidents, providing it repeatedly on Yahoo groups to back his fellow slanderers there.This speaks far more loudly about Moreno than of those he attacks in this way.

NON SEQUITUR AGAIN Moreno wrote: "Priddy also sees nothing wrong with the "pornographic kind" of image that Reinier posted of Sathya Sai Baba holding a barbell with his penis. Apparently, these images meet Priddy's low standard of morality! Priddy thinks that those images are perfectly justified, but when the tables are turned, it is so unfair. Tough luck, Priddles! Robert Priddy has become a babbling, acidic and dark personality..." Priddy has never seen any such pornographic image from Reinier van der Sandt! Consequently, Priddy has never thought or said that such images were "perfectly justified", nor the contrary! While Basava Premanand considers that Sai Baba's taking down Joe Moreno's pants and oiling his "lower stomach" [which Moreno admits without explaining 'lower stomach'] is a sexual molestation whether or not Joe perceived it as such, this is not Priddy's fault. He has not supported that claim.
The same rampant illogic is seen in Moreno's constant attempts to attribute to Priddy anything or everything that Sanjay Dadlani writes or stands for. Priddy agrees with Dadlani on many substantive exposé issues, but also (being an agnostic) differs with him in important respects, nor does Priddy necessarily approve of the tone and language of some of Dadlani's counter-attacks on those who slander him daily in the coarsest language on Yahoo groups sathyasaibaba2. See also Moreno's 'research' on http://sanjaydadlaniexposed.blogspot.com/2006/05/sanjays-views-on-teen-porn-child.html.
How much more defunct can allegations get? Well, see Moreno's concocted sexual perversion slander against Reinier van der Sandt, Afshim Khorramshahgol, Sanjay Dadlani too.

Moreno gave full support to Lisa de Witt's serious, baseless defamation of Barry Pittard, taking pains to maintain and develop it (see http://www.saiguru.net/english/articles/new1.htm). The same he did against Reinier van der Sandt (with minimal credence and blatant disregard by Joe of what Reinier van der Sandt has explained concerning this matter). Priddy cannot be wrong in stating that Joe supports the vulgar flamers and defamers in a class of their own with thousands of vulgar, ignorant and offensive postings, namely Lisa de Witt (conscientiousobjector2000) and Simon Brace on Yahoo groups sathyasaibaba2 where he posts regularly under the pseudonym 'vishvarupa 108'.

FALLACY OF AD HOMINEM Moreno's pages contain are based almost entirely on attacks using the ad hominem fallacy, that is - to smear the person to distract attention and avoid real issues. This fallacy is not a subjective judgement, as Moreno claims (illogically as ever!), but are demonstrable logical fallacies recognized as such since the ancient Greeks until the present day. Priddy does not use ad hominem arguments against Sathya Sai Baba's words, because he rather shows Sai Baba's many faults one by one, using known facts, testimonies and public sources - frequently using Sai Baba's own published words and other documents as incontrovertible evidence.

Those who read Moreno's pages with an independent spirit and discrimination - i.e. not as blind faith believers in Sai Baba - will easily be able to see and judge this matter for themselves. Moreno seems driven by some inner rage into puerile antagonism. Whether Moreno's motivation in becoming one of the most active defamer, stalker and invader of privacy on the Internet is an obsessive hatred for anyone who criticises the guru he deeply admires (but whose teachings he points out he does not even follow) - or some basic cognitive disorder of a compulsive and paranoid kind, or both at once - is anyone's guess.

We conclude by suggesting those who may be interested to follow the obfuscation of Gerald Moreno further to view these independent links:
Gerald Moreno's deceptions    A hypocritical 'flamer'    Gerald Moreno by Sanjay Dadlani     Defamation attempt by Gerald Moreno