--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> <snip>
> > > Didn't they try to spread some kind of food poisoning at local
> > > restaurants also or some such thing?
> > 
> > Hadn't heard that part. Would NOT surprise me. The Rajneesh
> > followers I knew in England were kinda crazy but not THAT crazy. 
> > The ones that lived in the same community as he did apparently 
were.
> 
> I think it was mostly the woman who was
> Rajneesh's second-in-command, Ma Sheela.
> She was totally bonkers, ultimately went
> to prison for the Salmonella stunt, which
> sickened a whole bunch of people, and some
> other outrageous stuff, death threats and
> things.  It's not clear Rajneesh was aware
> of everything she and her henchpersons were
> doing.
> 
> I saw her interviewed on Nightline when all
> this was going down.  She was pretty clearly
> a raving loony, a real paranoid Dragon Lady
> with delusions of grandeur.


I remember her from a Nightline appearance. What struck me was her 
use of four-letter-words which is/was quite unusual for broadcast 
TV...and it must have been "live" because the words weren't bleeped 
out...



> 
> There are a couple of good books about the
> whole Rajneeshpuram/Antelope era.  The commune
> seems to have worked out brilliantly for the
> first year or so, then went bad quite rapidly.




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