That is one way of looking at it but you are not dealing with rational people you are dealing with the Christian Reich not rational, have seen Maharishi as a threat to their reality. Maharish is doing things like creating alternative money system talking independent government self governance these things the Reich do not like. They will attack a family who has lived in a specific city for a number of years never having been involved with anything adversive and hold them for an unlimited amount of time because of possible terrorist threat. Why not TMO as something that influences the thinking of a large number of people?
------It's funny how often I forget this, that part of the whole Movement was mere performance to loosen the strictures of societies at this time.
