you are either a liar of you have been duped by the TMO - I'll give you the benefit of the doubt for now and say its the latter.
And you don't know what you are talking about. Short term visas are visas for stays of between 9 days and less than six months. The pundits are here for longer periods than 6 months. They are here on R-1 visas R-1 Temporary Non-immigrant Religious Workers "An R-1 is a foreign national who is coming to the United States temporarily to be employed at least part time (average of at least 20 hours per week) by a non-profit religious organization in the United States (or an organization which is affiliated with the religious denomination in the United States) to work as a minister or in a religious vocation or occupation." I have looked over the government rules for these R-1 visas and there is NO rule WHATSOEVER about keeping the religious workers (which is what they are under the R-1 rules) penned up. You are incorrect on this. The fences are there to keep them from running away. Period. Now given the fact that the TMO is bringing the pundits over on R-1 visas, note the rules set by the US government. "An R-1 is a foreign national who is coming to the United States temporarily to be employed at least part time (average of at least 20 hours per week) by a non-profit religious organization" This means the TMO or at least the Global Country of World Peace is admitting to being a religious organization. http://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers/r-1-temporary-religious-workers/r-1-temporary-nonimmigrant-religious-workers http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Outreach/Upcoming%20National%20Engagements/National%20Engagement%20Pages/2011%20Events/July%202011/RW%20National%20Stakeholder%20Engagement%20QA%20OCC%20cleared%20clean%20_8-12-11_%20_4_.pdf http://www.uscis.gov/archive/archive-news/fact-sheet-uscis-publishes-final-rule-religious-worker-visa-classifications On Fri, 3/14/14, nablusoss1008 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Disciplinary action expected after riot Today's FF Ledger To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, March 14, 2014, 3:30 PM The reason why the Pundits are locked up is because of the requirements for obtaining short-term visas. MUM didn't invent these rules. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : I think there is a lot of "Brahmin-worship idealism" not just from Maharishi, who at least understood it from his own culture. Mayor Winner and the others were probably too star struck by the "holy" pandit boys, to do anything, but imprison them, in this idealism - "our little brown brothers, of inestimably high consciousness are too pure to join the ranks of us western sinners", or some such crap. Someone needs to go in there, and watch a football game (not soccer) with these guys, or take them to a country and western saloon. Its a good program, but only if the culture gap can be resolved. Otherwise, adios, muchachos! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote : "And how odd that you would find Lawson's speculation about the pundits' isolation to be blaming them for it rather than those responsible for keeping them in isolation." And that may be the most important issue here: the pandits may feel so isolated that they are lashing out or getting exploited by jumping ship on the way back to India, etc, and it may be the root of all the problems we've been hearing about. Maharishi, in his Brahmin-worship idealism, may have thought that it was enough simply for Brahmins to participate in the revival of their cultural tradition, but real world issues have shown that there's something lacking here and the local TM organization has to figure out what it is. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote : This had nothing to do with a "celebrity endorsement," you twisted twit. Lawson is addressing a specific factual issue, as to whether Mishra is the "head pundit," as the news reports have said; and if not, what his real status is, since he appears to have been central to what took place.. The truth is, Barry, you don't want to know what actually happened. You want to be the one who establshes the story according to your own bilious viewpoint, regardless of the facts. And anyone who goes in search of the facts and reports on what he finds, if it isn't 100 percent negative to the TMO, is to be demonized as a cultist. And how odd that you would find Lawson's speculation about the pundits' isolation to be blaming them for it rather than those responsible for keeping them in isolation.
