sparaig wrote:
> --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> jim_flanegin wrote:
>>
>>> --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Sounds like the Maharishi Gulag program. I think 60 Minutes might
>>>>
>>>>
>>> want
>>>
>>>
>>>> to do a story.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> There is a unique feature here in Santa Clara, California where I
>>> live; a convent pretty much in the center of town, surrounded by adobe
>>> walls, about ten feet in height, the grounds sheltered by palms and a
>>> large grove of olive trees. There is a long driveway of about 75 yards
>>> to the main building, and although I have passed it many times, I've
>>> never been able to see anyone within the grounds. No windows are
>>> visible from the outside either. It has been around for about one
>>> hundred years. Poor bastards.
>>>
>> I have no problem with the privacy of ashrams, monasteries, or
>> convents. But those aren't prisons. People can still usually come and
>> go. This just adds to the cultist reputation of the TM movement.
>>
>>
>
> Perhaps, but there is an issue with what visa was obtained for all these
> guys. What kind of
> commitments did the TMO have to make to get the visas for hundreds
> (thousands?) of
> unemployable young men to come to the country for 2 years?
I would highly doubt that confinement was part of the commitments. If
so it will make an issue to alert progressive leaders about.
