--- In [email protected], bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "nablusos108" <nablusos108@> 
> wrote:
> > This little thing, changing a word here and there in a silly 
article, 
> > and all the TM-haters goes bananas. They seem to become more and 
more 
> > desperate as the success from the Invincible America course grows 
> > stronger.
> > 
> > There is a great purification going on worldwide, and the TM-
haters 
> > are just in the middle of it.
> >
> 
> **************
> 
> It is because I am not a TM-hater that I object to the pointless 
> rewriting of an article in order to give TMers a distorted view of 
what 
> is going on in the press. This sort of suppression of actual facts 
is 
> typical of weak regimes, like North Korea and other Communist or 
3rd 
> world dictatorships. 
> 
> The WP article was read by lots of people (their print Sunday 
edition 
> goes to one million, plus however many read their free web 
edition). 
> The invincibleamerica.org site is read by a handful of TMers. So 
> editing out material that the TM PR guys found objectionable has no 
> effect on the public, but is intended merely to make TMers feel 
good 
> about what a great job they are doing spreading good news about TM. 
> This false and self-congratulatory attitude does the TMO no good, 
and 
> sooner or later, when these Scientology-like gimmicks become well-
known 
> in the media world, TM PR efforts will be derided, just as Stalin's 
> airbrushing of photos to eliminate enemies.
> 
> Logical and adult people would have written a letter to the editor 
of 
> the WP explaining what TM is (certainly not a breath-control 
technique 
> as described in the article) and ignored mentions of homeopathic 
> remedies,etc. What the TMO gets instead of logical and adult is Bob 
> Roth's pathetic lying...

Agreed. My point is only that it is not much of a big deal. This 
fellow makes a small mistake in his eagerness and them he apologies. 
Why all this agitation over a small thing ?


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