--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > It did seem like an awful lot of words just to > > > > > say, "Mike should just be complacent like the > > > > > rest of us and allow the TM movement to do > > > > > whatever it wants." > > > > > > > > You're contributing to the defense fund, I take it? > > > > > > There will never *be* a "defense fund" because the > > > TMO will be too terrified to allow the issue to come > > > to court. This is all bluster and threats. > > > > > > But if it did, I don't really have the money to be > > > of that much use to a "defense fund," but I would > > > certainly volunteer to be a witness for Mike's > > > side of the case. > > > > What side would that be? > > The side of a dedicated TM teacher who wishes to > continue honoring his original commitment to teach > a potentially valuable technique of meditation at > a reasonable price and who wishes that the organ- > ization that represents that technique still felt > the same. >
But that's not what the court case would be about. All of that is immaterial to someone using a registered trademark without permission. More than likely, a good TMO lawyer could get any and all witnesses/testimony/facts pertaining to these points excluded automatically. > They *really* wouldn't want me as a witness in > such a case. I spent several years at the TM National > Center in L.A., in a position where I was privy to > all sorts of illegal moneylaundering and coercive > activities with regard to TM teachers. And you probably wouldn't be called because any such testimony is irrelevant to the question: does the TMO have the right to say who can and cannot use its registered trademarks? > > Me, I don't teach TM any more and never will again, > but I do feel for someone who wishes to do that, > honoring his original commitment to the TMO and > wishing that they had a similar sense of honor to > those they had commissioned in the past as teachers. > Again, irrelevant to any court case the TMO would bring. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Dying to be thin? Anorexia. Narrated by Julianne Moore. http://us.click.yahoo.com/abEMxA/sbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
