--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "guyfawkes91" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Reuters 05-02-2008:23:05 by our staff reporter. > > Today a small cult based in Holland founded by the Maharishi of > Beatles fame announced that its leader for Germany "Raja" Emanuel > Schiffgens has been identified as a government agent working for the > German secret service (BND). For many years the cult has been living > under the fear of infiltration by spies from the CIA and other > government agencies but it was always thought that the penetration was > limited to low level operatives. A spokesman said "We knew that > someone was sending us off in funny directions but we couldn't work > out who it was. In retrospect his performance in Central America > should have made us suspicious and standing up in front of a German > audience announcing that he planned to succeed where Hitler had failed > was a bit of a giveaway but because he was disguised with a crown we > thought he was one of us." asked how they finally rumbled him the > spokesman said "He overplayed his hand, for years we'd been told that > maintaining high prices meant we would take over the world by teaching > meditation to rich people but it didn't seem to be working and we > thought it must be government agents who were misdirecting us. We > caught him out in a vote over the prices. We all voted to reduce the > prices we charge for learning meditation and he was the only one > holding out for higher prices. He was isolated and it was clear > something funny was going on so we searched his room and found coded > messages from his controller in the BND instructing him to make sure > we kept prices so high no one would learn." > > Asked what they planned to do to him he replied "Well he has to have a > trial and it's well known that government agents float in water so > we've arranged a public test to see if he floats, either that or we'll > see if he's lighter than a duck" > > Another person in the cult claimed "He turned me into a newt! But I > got better" > > Professor Van Dyke a leading Vlodropolgist from the University of > Amsterdam said "We've known for years that they're stark raving > bonkers but we thought it was the lysergic acid in the Argyreia > Nervosa they put in their herbal preparations that was keeping them > tripped out. To discover that it was actually all part of a government > plot is quite a surprise. Though I think the agent must have had some > help from the wood gnomes camped out on the southern perimeter of > their compound otherwise he would have been outed earlier." > > -- ends >
Hey Guy, Nice piece of satirical work. I checked the Reuters website to see if this article was present in there. I could not find it. So, as everyone suspects, your article is a piece of fiction. You got us thinking about this one. JR
