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Part VIII : Osho is transported to Portland via six airports
On 7 October, Osho is transported to Portland via six airports
including Seattle.
They went on lying to me on every point. I was surprised that
so much lying; they will take me from one jail to another jail
and they will say to me that they are taking me to the airport
so that I can be taken to Oregon. Even the pilot of the airport
started feeling sad and sorry; and he told me that, "This
has happened for the first time. They suddenly change our route.
Just to drop you in the middle, somewhere in some jail, they avoid
Oregon. They change our route. This has never happened in my life."
Because they knew perfectly well, as I reach Oregon and before
a judge, I will be released. I will be immediately bailed out
because they have done absolutely wrong.
Even on the last day, they told me that "We have reached
Portland, Oregon," where I was supposed to reach. It was
not Portland, it was Seattle. But I had no idea. Then I am sitting
there in the aeroplane, nobody comes, all the passengers are gone.
I asked the pilot.
He said, "Don't tell anybody, it is not Portland. It is
Seattle. They are lying. And they are keeping you here, they are
bringing a small plane which they can take directly to the jail
to avoid the news media; because on Portland airport the greatest
gathering of news media has happened."
So two hours I am sitting, when they bring a smaller plane, and
then they tell me that this is Seattle. I said, "I know this
is Seattle. But what was the reason to tell me a lie, that this
is Portland? You could have told from the very beginning it is
Seattle, and a new plane will take you to Portland?"
But the news media in America is really very alert. When the
plane did not reach there, they immediately understood that it
has been prevented. They managed to find out where it has been
prevented; it is in Seattle. They figured it out that now they
will be flying me in a small plane to the jail directly. So the
whole media moved to the jail.
They had a small airstrip there, and I told them that "You
are simply being stupid, what is the point. All those people are
here. You have been trying to deceive the media, but you have
not been able to deceive them."
Many things I could see which I may have missed without going
into jail. last428
But to me it is a hilarious phenomenon, seeing the whole world
in such a mess, in such a deep insanity that no intelligent communication
is possible.
I was talking to the pilot of the U.S. Marshal's plane, because
that plane was taking me from one jail to another jail, and the
pilots and the air hostess became deeply interested in me. They
started feeling that injustice was being done to me.
They said to me, "We are in the service of the government,
but still we cannot see any justice. It is absolutely pointless—a
six hour journey from North Carolina to Oregon was enough and
they are taking you from one city to another city, for no reason
at all." They took twelve days while the journey was only
of six hours. And even the pilot, who was a well-educated man,
started seeing the ugly strategy, that they wanted simply to harass
me. They would bring me to the airport…At five o'clock in
the morning they would wake me up in the jail, saying, "Your
plane is ready," and the plane would leave at five o'clock
in the evening. And the plane was ready.
The pilot said, "This seems to be absolutely absurd. The
plane is ready. I am ready, I am waiting; you are ready, you are
waiting, and they are simply delaying for twelve hours, for the
simple reason that you can reach the next jail in the middle of
the night. And orders are given to us: `Go as slow as possible,
there is no hurry.'"
But they saw me on all these twelve days handcuffed, my feet
chained, on my waist another chain. And because all over there
was media, to prevent me from waving my hand to the media they
put another chain on my handcuffs, a small chain, and joined it
with my waist chain so I could not move even my hands.
The pilot said to me, "This has never happened…and
particularly in the plane you cannot escape. Even criminals, even
murderers are allowed to take their chains off, their handcuffs
off, but they are not allowing you to take your handcuffs, your
chains off. This is sheer revenge. But you look so calm and so
quiet, almost enjoying the whole trip."
And finally they started asking me, "What is the secret of
your calmness? You are not angry, you are not criticizing, although
everything that is being done is illegal."
I said, "This is an opportunity. I have never before in
my life had a twelve-day holiday! They are very understanding
people."
Finally the air hostess said, "We have been asking, `What
crime can this silent man commit?' And they all said—the
marshals, the jailors—`He has not committed any crime. His
only crime is that he was teaching people to be silent and to
be rejoicing.'"
The day they left me in Oregon they had tears in their eyes—the
pilot, the air hostess, the co-pilot. They said, "Whenever
we can get a holiday from our jobs, we are going to come to your
commune, because you have made us, without saying anything, aware
that we are missing something. We don't know what it is, but we
are missing and we want to learn. We have gathered information
from others that you call it meditation; we want to learn meditation."
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