These recruitment promises, and heavy strings (loans), sound ominiously parallel and reminicient with global sex-trafficing tactics where eastern european or asian girls are recruited as waitress and tricked/forced to become heavily indebted, imprisioned prostitutes in foregin countries, passports taken away, heavy financial debts forced via onersous contracts, threats to families at home for dissidents, etc.
--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some pundit news from a well-informed inside source: > > > > . The pundits were not given a clear idea of what their living > conditions here would be. They were not told they would be cloistered behind > fences. They understood that they would be free to move about and see new > things here. Most of them are very frustrated and stir-crazy in their > confinement. > > . The tuberculosis rumors are true. I don't know how many are > infected, but anyone who has had contact with the pundits has been tested. > > . In his sales pitch to lure them here, Bob "Raja" Wynne promised > them a $300 monthly stipend, but they are only getting $30. > > . The pundits are indentured to the TMO for at least 20 years. They > were all obligated to take out loans to help build some SV structure. It's > not clear to me what the structure is. Perhaps their living and chanting > facility in India. I'll find out. Anyway, as long as they are punditing, the > movement covers the payments, but if they leave, they have to cover them. If > they don't Anand and Prakash Srivastava sic the police on them. This > happened to the ex-pundit from whom I got this information. > > . This pundit also said that the Srivastavas are very rich and > basically say to MMY, "Look, you're very old. Don't worry about these > financial matters. We'll take care of them." > > > > On a related note, I'm always arguing that MMY micromanages the movement and > no one tells him what to do. I think that generally this is the case, but I > can think of one incident which refutes this. When the Natural Law Party was > doing its thing, John Gray donated $50,000. He was promptly invited to come > to Vlodrop. When he got there, there was a tussle between Bevan and Hagelin, > Bevan arguing that John wrote "inappropriate" books and shouldn't be > permitted to meet with Maharishi and Hagelin arguing that the books helped > people and that he should meet with him. Apparently MMY let the two of them > work out the issue, although I've often seen him do that and then in the > end, do what he wanted to do anyway. A compromise was reached in which John > talked with MMY on the phone. I don't know whether that reflected MMY's > desire or not. In the conversation, MMY tried to recruit John to do stuff > for the movement, but John declined, saying he liked the way his life was > going. >
