---thx...great ideas. Churchill:
Many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that Democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Lady Astor once told Churchill: "If you were my husband, I'd poison your coffee." Churchill replied: "If you were my wife, I'd drink it." "Why do you paint only landscapes?" a friend once asked Churchill. His reply: "Because a tree doesn't complain that I haven't done it justice In [email protected], "guyfawkes91" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There seems to be quite a lot of head whirling going on over M's > support for a lot of extremely nasty dictators. The simple fact is > that M seemed to use one criterion only for supporting a head of > state, "do they support us?". In Mugabe's cases he had promised land > for a new meditation center, probably thinking it was a tourist hotel > near Victoria Falls. Similarly with Marcoses in the Philippines, they > were searching for a way to control violent unrest and heard about how > the ME was supposed to help, so Imelda gave some support and we went > there and embarrassed the hell out of everyone, as we always do. (It > was a great 4 months though!) If Bush and Blair had offered to build a > peace palace somewhere then everything would have been forgiven and > they'd have been praised to the sky. Maharishi was never hot on > ethics, utility was always the be all and end all. Couple that with > the fact that authoritarian dictators can steal land from people and > give it away to some group that promises to relieve them of their > troubles and you've got a perfect partnership. The TMO promises to > subdue a restless population through the ME, and the dictator buys > into it because they're running out of bullets and friends. It looks > like a cheap way to stay in power, but of course it never is because > the ME doesn't work. > > The only reason these unpleasant people were ever supported was > because they had, or might have, or suggested that they might get > around to it someday, given some material help to the TMO. > > The motto of the TMO is "Utility before Ethics" >
