Inside The TM "Green Zone" The Washington Post and Gary Lee, The standard FF tour given by the campus and the TMorg is really quite impressive, formidable. Savvy, the team of folks there are incredibly savvy at presentation. It would be easy to get only half of the story if that was just where you went..
TMorg PR'ers must have been doing hand-springs over this amazing pr- coup of that Washington Post article. Gary Lee, the Post travel writer obviously got in over his head evidently not doing much research before he came or much after and he evidently did not wander much outside of the "green zone". Not like the LA Times person did on her visit. The stunning thing is that they (the TMorg) then felt the need to sanitize the Post article as it was for the internal consumption of their own people. Is the kind of social engineering things Soviet or the Goering or Himmler would do or have good people under them do. A more interesting story becomes about integrity or its lack there of the TM movement under Maharishi. What were good people doing when they do these things? What were they thinking? Gary Lee, a travel section guy with the Wash Post got hit with broadsides and did not know he was sunk. Pretty funny to see really. Yes, it was travel writing, not usual Washington Post writing from the front sections that you would expect. >From the Washington Post article, look at how the guy was squired around a tight choreography. These guys are the best at the cult of themselves, of the craft of TM-movement pr-propodanda. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2006/11/10/AR2006111000463.html Some of the best at movement-ese spin: "According to TM spokesman Bob Roth, " " I met on campus with Roth and Norman Zierold, another spokesman for the TM movement." " offered by Dean and Christine Goodale on the hilly lawn of their Vedic City organic farm." " There I met architect Jonathan Lipman," "Even Ed Malloy, the amiable silver-haired mayor, " The travel guy never made it out of the TM-org "green zone". Now, for a different story The Washington Post ought to send out another writer better equipped to see what is going on here. Someone brave enough to venture outside the TMorg "green-zone" and for instance ask questions related to things like: http://www.give.org/standards/newcbbbstds.asp http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/83701 or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/121414 http://www.give.org/standards/newcbbbstds.asp documentation that they meet basic standards: In how they govern their organization, In the ways they spend their money, In the truthfulness of their representations, and In their willingness to disclose basic information to the public. Sanitizing the FF Story http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/123447 --- In [email protected], "dhamiltony2k5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FF essayist Thom Krystofiak, who used to write frequently and post on > FFL, has a piece published in this week's FF Weekly Reader. Entitled > Sanitizing the Fairfield Story. About the pr-people of the TMorg > taking the Washington Post's glowing uncritical article about > Maharishi's MUM, Vedic City and TM- Fairfield and their taking the > article, re-publishing it and sanitizing it further. More than a > couple of touch-up evidently as Thom reviews further what was done. > > What are they thinking when they do that? They really did not need > to, but the damage, to their credibility of anything else they say or > write becomes material. Their peer-review stuff,, their own press- > releases, their own explainations about what they do with the money, > their own explainations about what they may be doing for world peace > to what end. > > What were they thinking in their needing to sneak re-write that > Washington Post article without attribution? In itself it is just so > revealing about the cult of their culture up there inside. Is > stunning to watch them do it. Would be interesting to hear them try > to explain their actions in a critical interview. > > "What Maharishi is doing is more important than anything anyone else > is doing...", thus justifying anything they may do, to his end? > Becomes the take-off point where good people can do bad things they > may not otherwise do. Seeing this again with the TMorg and our > friends up there? It does become about the moral integrity of those > doing it and their cause they represent. The sanitizing of the > Washington Post story is pretty poor which crosses over to being > pretty bad. > > > JGD, -Doug in FF > ..
