--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote:
> >
> > sparaig wrote:
> > > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@>
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.
> >
>
> Are the young men actually confined?
>
chained in place is what I heard...
