Susan, as to your question I think you will like this.
Of bullies and pig-heads and Looking for Ambercrombie...
It is a funny serendipity how things get put in to your hands at times. I
walked by a bookshelf today, pulled a book opening it to a page and read:
"I turned in disgust, and my associates followed -the Colonel's question was
not answered. We then went to the Lieutenant-colonel and told our story. He
said, "I am not in command of this regiment." We then went to the Major, and
when we had finished he said, "The dn fool". We then went to the Adjutant, a
little, lean, brainy, sensible young man, and told our story. He said: "I
cannot act; if you have got anything to say, put it in writing; file your
charges."
I have often wondered how the officers of that period got such bad cases of
swell-head. It was perhaps because they were no-bodies when they went in. Men
must get acclimated to power or they will handle it foolishly. Power, unless
it comes slowly, spoils its possessor. Men and families must become acclimated
to power the same as to wealth, or it will make fools of them, or lead them to
disgrace. Here it was in our regiment, that the field officers could not
listen to and redress a flagrant military wrong. They could not do the right
and proper thing. They were alive only to the subjects of their own separate
importances. They could not get down low enough to do a private soldier
justice. Grant could, and Sherman could, and Thomas could and so could other
great generals. Our field officers were not Grants, Shermans, Thomases and
hence we never have since heard of them, and their names do not appear in
history, and ought not to.. We were disgusted.
Somebody must have told General Lyon. Probably he got it from the people of
Boonville. Nobody knows; we never knew. The records of the War Department
show the following: "George Spreaper, absent in arrest in Keokuk since July 1,
1861." The above sentence is on the August muster-rolls of the regiment. It
is probable that he was put onto a steamboat and hustled off. There was a
rumor afteerwards that Streaper go into a Missouri militia regiment, as Second
Lieutenant, and quit in January, 1862, after three month's service, to go South
and join the Confederacy...
All at once the First Lieutenant, Abercrombie, asserted himself. He had sort
of been in the background. He had been handicapped by the jealousy, envy and
dislike of the Captain. The Captain had been snubbing him, and keeping him
dormant. He now announced that he was in command of the company; he restored
all the corporals. We began to get care and attention. The boys began to
appreciate him, and no company in the service had a better commander. That he
afterwards became one of the famous Iowa colonels was a natural sequence. He
was kindly and was very brave, and shirked nothing. Good-by Streaper; you were
one of the thousands of worthless officers whom we had to unload before we
could put down the rebellion."
page 145
-The Lyon Campaign and History of the 1st Iowa Infantry, 1861.
1991 reprint by Camp Pope Bookshop
>From the title page:
"War is the schooling of the nations"
-Buck in the Dome
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote:
>
> In the New TM Movement the leadership coming next will tell us all a lot
> about which direction it [the SBS Trust] will go in response to everything
> that Girish raises with this. We'll see if they can assert themselves with
> upright control over Girish and his people now.
>
>
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" <wayback71@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > You should know that this guy is MMY's nephew. In India, due to
> > > > > > their belief in reincarnation, nepotism is the norm and is usually
> > > > > > celebrated as the proper way things get done. The first Prime
> > > > > > Minister of India was named Jawaharlal Nehru. Coincidentally,
> > > > > > Indira Ghandi was his granddaughter, and Rajiv Ghandi was his
> > > > > > great-grandson.
> > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_India#Prime_Ministers
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The swami named in the will to succeed Gurudev was Gurudev's
> > > > > > nephew, it turns out. Indians just assume that their relatives are
> > > > > > the best person for the job because the cosmos chose them for it by
> > > > > > causing them to be born as relatives of the person in power.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > That said, I've heard the rumors of the nephews of MMY being bad
> > > > > > people for years. But those same rumors say that TM doesn't work,
> > > > > > that all the research is bogus and so on. It wouldn't be surprising
> > > > > > if some of the rumors were true. It also wouldn't be surprising if
> > > > > > some of the rumors were false.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > L.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > We've been hearing about Girish extorting kick-backs and such around
> > > > > pundits in the pundit program for some long time. I would not want
> > > > > to be the Westerners wading into figure out what is going on in the
> > > > > workings of the TM movement there. Sociopaths are not likely to put
> > > > > capable honorable people around them either. For as big as it is
> > > > > this is going to be extremely complicated for Tony and the board of
> > > > > trustees to manage. I'd really fear for their safety if and when
> > > > > they go over there to help straighten it out.
> > > >
> > > > You mean, that despite the huge piles of money Girish and family have
> > > > stashed away, and living very well indeed, he felt the need to make a
> > > > few dollars from kickbacks from pundits? And people in Fairfield know
> > > > about this for a long time? Bevan and John H knew this and stood by?
> > > > The Rajas? They all looked the other way? If that is true, then
> > > > trouble is ahead, big trouble.
> > > >
> > > > So Buck, are people talking about this is Fairfield? What is the
> > > > general feeling about this? About the TMO's future given this?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
> > > Folks are only just finding out about this. Within the Fairfield
> > > meditating community, yes people are talking about this amongst
> > > themselves as they learn about it. In Fairfield there are different
> > > elements to the whole meditator community. Only a very few people
> > > actually have a place or participate at the upper level. Most meditators
> > > do not have much contact or much interaction with the organizational
> > > movement as such.
> > > -Buck
> > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" <wayback71@> wrote:
> > > > > > [...]
> > > > > > > Given that perspective by people who knew him when, how did he
> > > > > > > come to run the hugely lucrative TMO India? And why didn't
> > > > > > > people speak up? (Maybe they did but we would never know). Why
> > > > > > > did the American Rajas over there put up with this crap all these
> > > > > > > years? Surely they must have seen and sensed that things were
> > > > > > > not right.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> > Susan, you know our TM organization is not known for its transparent
> > process. Everything is opaque but they do give us a lot to talk about.
> > However, even with all the rackets the guy evidently had going in the end
> > it was tax evasion that got Al Capone his hard time. [Old Proverb: When
> > prominent people fail, their failure is more dramatic.] The Indian
> > government will probably have something to say at some point about Girish
> > as its depositions get going and the fourth estate it seems is already
> > interested and ready to find out. We'll all know more in a while.
> > -Buck
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok <no_reply@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > That said, I've heard the rumors of the nephews of MMY being bad people
> > > > for
> > years.
> > >
> > > Me too, as soon as the late 70ies.
> > >
> > > > But those same rumors say that TM doesn't work, that all the research is
> > bogus and so on.
> > >
> > > I heard those reports from people in the movement who had no doubts about
> > > TM,
> > who were dedicated governors, some working in India, no anti TMers at all. I
> > also saw him giving a talk to movement people late 80ies, it was all about
> > money, he needed a special introduction, because people there, again no
> > anti-TMers, were all repelled by him.
> > >
> >
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