--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This week is the 30th anniversary of Jonestown. I was in Iran on the world > peace project when it happened and my buddies freaked out when I went > missing one night. I didn't show up for a meeting because I was in a > friend's room reading about the incident in his TIME magazine. When we got > back to Switzerland Maharishi commented that "a Christian cult had committed > suicide." He was gloating a bit, as he was pissed at the fundamentalists for > opposing TM in the schools, etc., and he was lumping the Jonestown cult in > with them. A year or two later, MMY send a small delegation to Guyana to ask > government officials there to give land and support for a Sidhaland in the > jungle. The government bureaucrat's reaction was basically, "Are you nuts? > Don't you know what we've been through down here?" >
My recollection is that MMY's response was: if they can't see the difference between us and Jim Jones, we're not interested in them (either). Lawson
