--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <groups@> wrote:
> >
> > on 8/25/06 1:21 AM, bob_brigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > 
> > >> > But to claim that there is some current and persistent 
> government
> > >> > campaign against the TMO without any evidence (and there is 
> plenty
> > >> > of evidence that the govt gives millions to the TMO and MUM 
> in grant
> > >> > money, etc) is just the sign of a defective brain and 
> personality.
> > > 
> > They government is huge and internal communications are sloppy. It 
> is not
> > unlikely that one branch is giving money while another is hassling 
> the
> > movement. When I was teaching in DC soon after Jonestown, I¹m 
> quite sure our
> > phones were tapped.
> 
> 
> Just to put things in perspective (now that you've invoked 
> Jonestown): my best friend went down to Guyana to teach TM for over 
> a year in '78-79 and was there when Jonestown happened.  According 
> to him, the communist dictator running the country and his 
> government thought the TMers were all CIA agents.
> 
> Kooks are quick to assume the CIA are interested enough in them to 
> start tapping their phones.  We all like to think that what we're 
> doing is important enough that large, powerful governments are going 
> to spend money, time and resources to listen in on what we're doing.
> 
> It's sad that MMY puts himself in the same category as dictators and 
> disreputable cult leaders (who all, by the way, inevitably start 
> blaming the CIA when their cults get bad publicity).
>


Yeah, that Castro: always paranoid that the CIA and US military were out to get 
him...









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