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Part VIII : Government and State conspiracies escalate
For the third time since 1982, Oregon Attorney General Frohnmeyer
orders the National Guard on alert, and also declares a state
of emergency. There are rumours of the arrest of Osho and hundreds
of sannyasins. On 30 September 1985, Osho confronts Frohnmeyer
live on television.
I heard a rumor that the attorney general of Oregon is in a great
panic. He has alerted the National Guard again. What is his fear?
Please comment.
Politicians are always cowards. Politicians suffer from an inferiority
complex. The attorney general of Oregon has not enough courage
to come here and see what is happening. But I think he cannot
sleep; he must be dreaming about us, continuously thinking of
us.
The governor wants to declare a state of emergency, to impose
on Rajneeshpuram something absolutely absurd—because there
is no violence happening, nobody is fighting, nobody is killing,
nobody is doing any harm to anybody.
The state police are here, the county police are here, the city
police are here, the FBI people are here—nobody is hindering
their work. Whatsoever they want to do, they are doing. They cannot
find any tension anywhere. And still the governor wants to declare
a state of emergency, and the attorney general has put the National
Guard on alert.
My suggestion is, they should also have hydrogen bombs, missiles
aimed at Rajneeshpuram. America misses not having a Hiroshima—this
opportunity they should not lose.
It is simply idiotic what he is doing. I feel like calling him
the Idiot General of Oregon, not attorney general of Oregon. bond16
The attorney general of Oregon had an interview with me the other
day, and I told him that I have always been against organizations
and organized religions. And before I went into silence there
had never been anything like Rajneeshism, there had never been
the word "Rajneeshee."
The attorney general has declared Rajneeshpuram an illegal city,
because religion and state are mixed, which is unconstitutional.
So I told him, "Now you withdraw your case. There is no religion
here, so the question of mixing religion with state does not arise.
Your case has gone down the drain." I insisted, "Answer
me directly," and he went on saying that time and the court
would decide.
I said, "Time and the court will decide, but what do you
say? If there is no religion, then if you have any grace, withdraw
your case. It is absolutely absurd."
The attorney general has been trying—and he has done it.
The National Guard is on the alert against a peaceful group of
people who have done no harm to anybody.
Now, it is a well-known strategy of all these dirty politicians
around the world: somebody can enter here and put a time-bomb,
and you will be responsible for it. And because the bomb explodes,
kills a few people, they can plant people here who can start shooting
somebody. And that will be an excuse for the National Guard to
come in.
The governor is thinking of putting martial law on the city.
It seems the third world war is happening between Rajneeshpuram
and America. What is the need of martial law?—because we
are not committing any crime. They cannot find any society anywhere
which is so peaceful and silent, which just wants to be left alone
to do its own thing.
Now, these are the people who are forcing us to check people
before they enter the commune, it is not our desire. It is their
intention to destroy us. And we are nonviolent people, vegetarians;
we don't want any violence here—but that is their desire.
Otherwise, what is the point of collecting National Guard troops
in Madras and keeping them on alert any moment, so that you can
be destroyed?
The governor and the attorney general are in conspiracy to destroy
the commune. I am not going to let them do it in any way. If they
have any sense at all they should keep off, they should not interfere
at all illegally. They are getting into unnecessary trouble. But
they are welcome. We have nothing to lose, and they have everything
to lose. They will be condemned all over the world.
I have been talking to the world media for almost one-and-a-half
months every night, just to create the atmosphere around the world
of what the real situation is. And everybody is aware of it. The
governor and the attorney general should know it, that it is going
to be very tough. America will lose all the respect of the world,
because they have no grounds to arrest me or to arrest one hundred
sannyasins. We are cooperating—and you want to arrest people
who are cooperating? And these are not the people who have done
any harm. It seems they want to protect the criminals and destroy
the community. They have got a good chance to, but they should
not remain in any illusion. Up to now they have been fighting
with politicians of their own kind. We are not politicians, and
they don't know how to fight with mystics. bond18
It is a rumor in the air that You are being arrested today or
tomorrow. What is Your comment?
Aha! That's really groovy. That's the only experience I have missed
in my life. And knowing that this is my last life, I would certainly
want to be arrested. Make sure that I am handcuffed, because whenever
I do anything, I do it totally.
Arresting me, an absolutely innocent person who has done no
wrong, is the beginning of the end of American hypocrisy about
democracy. It will be a great help to the whole world to understand
that America is not what it pretends to be. It is not following
its Constitution. It has the best Constitution in the world, but
the worst politicians also.
The politicians of America are prostituting the Constitution.
They should stop calling it "Constitution," they should
start calling it "prostitution."
I have been for three and a half years in isolation, in silence,
just remaining in my room, no contact with sannyasins, and still
I am a criminal. If I am a criminal, then nobody on this earth
is innocent.
It is perfectly good; if they have guts they should arrest me
and show their real faces to the world, show that democracy is
just fake. America and the Soviet Union do not differ in any way.
Perhaps the Soviet Union is more straightforward; it says what
it does, it is not phony.
The Soviet Union may be doing all kinds of wrong things—it
is—but it calls itself the dictatorship of the proletariat.
America calls itself a democracy—a government by the people,
of the people, for the people. Arresting me, they will destroy
their own image in the whole world.
I am perfectly happy. I don't want to miss this opportunity.
But why tomorrow?—because tomorrow never comes. It is better
today. Arrest me today.
And arrest me as a criminal, handcuffed, so the whole world can
see that this government is not for the people, of the people,
by the people. That this government is, behind a mask of democracy,
as dictatorial, as fascist as it can be.
But they should remember…. I inquired of a few of my sannyasins:
they are all wanting to be voluntarily arrested, they want to
be with me. So they should come with five thousand handcuffs.
It is not going to be an easy thing. And we know how to make history.
We don't read history, we make history. Five thousand sannyasins
will offer themselves voluntarily to be arrested. And that will
make what I say is the beginning of the end of American hypocrisy.
We are for the American Constitution, but not for American dirty
politicians. We will fight for the Constitution against the politicians.
I have tremendous respect and love for the Constitution. It has
all the great JUSTIFY">We are for the American Constitution,
but not for American dirty politicians. We will fight for the
Constitution against the politicians. I have tremendous respect
and love for the Constitution. It has all the great values that
humanity needs. But these politicians are not Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln must be tossing and turning in his grave. The
best in America will feel it, and will be with you.
Not only here—if five thousand people are arrested here,
then the same is going to happen in every country. Sannyasins
will offer their governments, "Either disconnect all connections
with America, throw out the American embassies, or arrest us."
In every country thousands of sannyasins are going to do the same,
because they feel the same as you feel. It is going to be a world-wide
phenomenon.
To arrest me is not so simple. These politicians are just simpletons.
But I welcome their idea. As far as I am concerned, I will really
enjoy it….
So only a few sannyasins will remain to take care of the commune;
otherwise every sannyasin has to offer himself for voluntary arrest.
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For two years continuously there was a rumor that they were going
to arrest me, but they would not dare to enter the campus of the
commune for the simple reason that they knew that unless they
killed five thousand sannyasins they would not be able to arrest
me. And they were not ready to take that risk—killing five
thousand people, most of them Americans, would condemn their democracy
forever.
They wanted me in some way to be out of the commune so they could
find me alone. That's why they waited for two years.
And we were hearing the rumor continuously, so by and by it became
accepted that this was just a rumor, they didn't have the courage.
They had their National Guard just twenty miles away in the American
town, every day collecting more and more army forces, so that
if there was a need they could be ready to kill five thousand
people. enligh32
But if they do any harm to the commune…. They are keeping
their army alert, they are keeping their national guard alert
to attack Rajneeshpuram. If this happens, then I am going to tell
my sannyasins…I am also keeping them alert.
They have already got this message, that they have to be alert.
Any moment any nuisance American government does, then you have
to demonstrate, meditate, dance, do Dynamic Meditation before
every American embassy.
It will be worth seeing, because nobody has ever done meditation
as a protest. last315
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