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Part IX : World Tour - Osho is arrested and deported
Now, here again the same question arises: they want me to stay
here, but the problem is who is going to sign the papers? The
president is willing for me to stay here, but he does not want
to take the responsibility of signing the papers. The foreign
minister is afraid, and the minister of the interior is afraid.
He is willing…it is absolutely right, there is no problem:
I should stay here. But how can I stay here? Nobody is ready to
take the responsibility. They have their fears. If something happens
tomorrow, then that person will be caught; then his political
career will be lost.
The foreign minister is supported by the American government
to be chosen as secretary-general of the U.N. Now he wants me
to be here but he cannot sign, because if he signs his career
is finished. Then he cannot be the secretary-general of the U.N.
These people have changed. At least, as far as they are concerned,
they are ready to accept me here; just they don't want to take
the responsibility wholly on themselves. That much courage is
not in them. But this is also a development. Perhaps somebody
may gather courage, risk his ambitions or politics. It is risky,
because once anybody signs papers then the whole force of the
American government and the Spanish government and the German
government will be used to throw that man out. That man should
not remain in the ministry because he did not listen to all these
governments' advice and he went against them.
And the people who are all saying yes, in such a situation will
say, "We had warned you before. You did not listen."
mystic17
They agreed, unanimously—and it is a very difficult situation
here. It is a coalition government, it is not a single-party government;
three parties together have made the government. To come to a
unanimous decision is a very difficult thing, but they came to
a unanimous decision. And the minister of the interior even informed
the press that "Osho is welcome to stay here and do his work
here." mystic25
In Uruguay, the president had been reading my books, listening
to my tapes, and he was very happy to welcome me to become a permanent
resident in Uruguay. All the forms were ready. He had given me
a one year's permanent residency card, so that all the bureaucratic
procedure was fulfilled, and nobody could say that I had been
favored. And he said, "Then I would like to give you three
years' permanent residency, which will turn automatically into
your citizenship."
Uruguay is a small country, but very beautiful. I asked him, "Why
are you interested in me?—because all the governments are
passing orders that I should not enter their country. Not only
that, my airplane cannot land at their airports.
He said, "They don't understand you."
The day the president was going to sign the forms, the American
ambassador was continually watching, and the American government
dogs of the CIA and FBI were following me everywhere. Their plane
was either ahead of me or behind me. When they saw that he was
going to sign for a permanent residency, which would turn automatically
into citizenship, they immediately informed Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan phoned the president of Uruguay, and said, "My
message is not big, it is small: either force Osho to be deported
within thirty-six hours from your country, or I will cancel all
the loans for the future that we have agreed on"—which
amounted to billions of dollars—"and I will demand
back all the dollars that we have given to you as loans in the
past. If you cannot pay, then their interest rate will be doubled.
You are perfectly free to choose."
I have never seen such a soft-hearted person. With tears in his
eyes, he said, "Osho, I am utterly helpless. For the first
time, your coming to Uruguay has made us aware that we are not
free. Our country is economically a slave. Our sovereignty, our
freedom is just fake. These are the alternatives given to me.
"I asked Ronald Reagan, `What is the need to deport Osho?
I can simply ask him to leave—because for deportation, when
he has a one year permanent residency, he would have to commit
a heinous crime like murder, then only can he be deported.' But
Ronald Reagan insisted, `I have said what I wanted to say—he
has to be deported.'"
The president's secretary came running to me and said, "It
is better that your jet plane leaves from a small airport, not
from the international port, because there the American ambassador
is present to see whether you are being deported or not."
It was an absolutely illegal demand, a criminal demand—a
man who had not left his room…all those days I was there.
I said, "On what grounds can you deport me?"
He said, "There is no question of demand, no question of
any law. It seems that for you, law does not exist." mess201
He said, "It is unfortunate that I have to do it. I am doing
it against my own conscience."
Even this much the American president was not willing to concede:
that I should simply leave the country. My plane was standing
at the airport…I said, "There is no problem; I can
leave the country. I will not put your country into such jeopardy."
He said, "The American president insists that You should
be deported; You should not leave the country without being deported.
I am forced to commit crimes: first, to tell You for no reason
to leave the country, You have done nothing. Second, to deport
You. But I am absolutely helpless. Still, I want one thing: that
on Your passport there should be no stamp of deportation from
Uruguay. We have a small airport—so move Your airplane to
that airport, and in the evening leave without informing us; so
we can say, `He left without informing us. There was no time to
deport him.'"
But he was wrong. As my jet moved to the small airport—the
American embassy must have been watching—the American ambassador
was there with all the stamps and the official whose business
it is to deport people. I was delayed there, because they had
to fill in all the forms, and as I left the country, I said, "It
doesn't matter…. " In fact, my passport has become
a historical document: I have been deported from so many countries
without any reason.
When I left Uruguay the president was invited to America immediately,
and Ronald Reagan gave him thirty-six million dollars as a "gesture
of friendship." That was a reward because I was thrown out
within thirty-six hours: exactly thirty-six million dollars, one
million dollars per hour! In fact, I should start asking these
governments for my percentage: You are getting billions of dollars
because of me—I should get at least two percent.
America has been informing all the governments…I have seen
the documents that they are sending to every government. All that
those documents say is: "This man is dangerous. He can corrupt
the morality of the country, the culture of the country; he can
corrupt the youth of the country. He can destroy the religion
of the country."spirit25
The president of Uruguay told me that it would be better for
me to stop my world tour, because he was concerned about my life.
What he had heard in the White House is that they have a contract
with a professional assassin for half a million dollars, if he
can kill me. A single man without any arms, and the biggest, most
powerful country in the world is so afraid?
The attorney general of America told the press that he does not
want to hear my name, does not want to see my face in any newspaper,
in any news magazine; he does not want to know whether I am still
alive or dead. I should be completely erased. And what crime have
I committed? Just to think is the greatest crime; and to show
people that they are wrong is the greatest crime. last605
From very reliable sources in Washington—and not from one
source, but from three different sources the same message has
reached me—the American government is ready to give half
a million dollars to any professional killer, to kill me. upan15
They released the people who were arrested with me in America—three
were simply dismissed because they were in a different plane,
and the three who were with me were released on bail for seventy-five
thousand dollars.
Just yesterday we received a letter from the attorney-general's
office, with the seal of the department of justice, and it is
such a cunning letter—one cannot imagine! Seeing that they
are going to fail completely, they have nothing to prove, they
want to drop the case. They harassed me for twelve days; they
took the personal things of all the people who were on the plane
and they have not released those things. And seeing that they
cannot prove anything—they don't have anything—they
want to drop the case. But dropping the case meant that they would
have to return the seventy-five thousand dollars deposited for
bail for three persons—because if there is not going to
be any trial and you are dropping the case, then that money should
be returned. Why should that money be kept?
But you can see the greed and cunningness…They did not want
to return the money and they wanted to drop the case. So with
the magistrate's seal, what they did was they claimed that they
had called these three witnesses and they did not appear in the
court; hence their deposits of seventy-five thousand dollars are
confiscated by the government, and the case is dropped.
They never informed us that there was any hearing, and they don't
have any proof that we have refused. Our people were ready to
go and we were asking, our attorneys were asking continually,
"When is the date?" They never told our attorneys, never
informed us. Even courts, federal courts, are lying that they
informed us, and because we did not appear in the court we have
lost the money. And they don't even mention the personal effects—which
are worth nearabout three million dollars. They have not returned
them either. psycho37
Why do people bug our telephones everywhere we go? Are they looking
for spiritual guidance on the cheap?
Certainly. Let them have it. We have nothing to hide. They can
come and be here and enjoy, but poor people!—they feel embarrassed
to come so they bug.
So whenever you are phoning just put in a few spiritual things
for the buggers! transm43
On 19 June 1986, Osho flies from Uruguay to Jamaica, where he
has a two-week visa, but the following morning the police tell
him to leave by that evening. On 20 June, Osho flies to Lisbon
where he stays quietly in rented villa for few weeks. Police surround
his villa, and on 30 July, Osho flies to Bombay.
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