--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "abutilon108" <abutilon108@> > wrote: > > > > I signed the pledge much later on and I'm quite sure the wording > > was different. It seems not everyone would have signed the same > > pledge, although as I remember what you were agreeing to was > > pretty much the same. > > > The later versions, like the one I signed, had the phrase that said > the movement could seek financial "equitable relief" if you spilled > any of the beans. Nice to have a little legal threat along with the > spiritual stuff before you get your mantras! No copies were allowed > to be kept of any legal document I ever signed in the movement. Do > they still have you sign legal waivers before courses? > > They did something really odd right before we became teachers. They > had us hold our movement "file" which we were not allowed to look > into. But we had to hold it. It was supposed to contain every > course we were on, all recommendation letters etc. I wonder what > that was all about? Perhaps it was a message "we have a file on you, > so be cool MF". But I suspect they were following the letter rather > than the spirit of some disclosure law. Very interesting, does anyone > know what that was about?
No idea, but it reminds me of a funny draft story from the late 60s. A fellow I knew got his draft notice and went to the Induction Center and they handed him his folder to carry with him as he walked through the physical and all the steps of being inducted into the Army. He started looking through the folder, noticing that everything in it was an original, not a copy, and slowly it dawned on him that not only was this his folder, it was *his folder*. It was the original. Taking a chance that it was not only the original copy but the only copy, he just stepped out of line, went back to the dressing room, put on his clothes, and walked out, still carrying his folder. He never heard from Selective Service again. Never. He just fell off their radar. Fortunately, this was before the era of personal computers, so I guess in his area everything was handled via paper, and no one had ever considered the possibility that someone, handed his entire folder, would just walk out with it.
