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Part IX : World Tour - Osho is forced to leave, in Geneva, Sweden,
London, Ireland, Spain And is denied entry in Canada, Antigua,
and Holland
Osho flies via Geneva, Stockholm, London, Ireland, Senegal,
to Montevideo, Uruguay.
We have not been able to create a sane humanity.
So on the periphery I thought what happened in Greece perhaps
may happen in other countries, because it is the same structure—and
it happened.
From Greece we moved to Geneva, just for an overnight rest, and
the moment they came to know my name they said, "No way!
We cannot allow him into our country."
I was not even allowed to get out of the plane.
We moved to Sweden, thinking that people go on saying that Sweden
is far more progressive than any country in Europe or in the world,
that Sweden has been giving refuge to many terrorists, revolutionaries,
expelled politicians, that it is very generous.
We reached Sweden. We wanted to stay overnight because the pilots
were running out of time. They could not go on anymore; otherwise
it would become illegal. And we were happy because the man at
the airport…we had asked only for an overnight stay, but
he gave seven-day visas to everybody. Either he was drunk or just
sleepy—it was midnight, past midnight.
The person who had gone for the visas, came back very happy
that we had been given seven-day visas. But immediately the police
came and cancelled the visas, and told us to move immediately:
"This man we cannot allow in our country."
They can allow terrorists, they can allow murderers, they can
allow Mafia people, and they can give them refuge—but they
cannot allow me. And I was not asking for refuge or permanent
residence, just an overnight stay.
We turned to London, because it was simply a question of our
basic right. And we made it twice legally—we purchased first-class
tickets for the next day. Our own jet was there but still we purchased
them in case they started saying, "You don't have tickets
for tomorrow, so we won't allow you to stay in the first-class
lounge."
We purchased tickets for everybody, just so that we could stay
in the lounge, and we told them, "We have our own jet—and
we also have tickets." But they came upon a bylaw of the
airport that the government or anybody cannot interfere with:
"It is at our discretion—and this man we won't allow
in the lounge."
In the lounge, I thought: How can I destroy their morality,
their religion? In the first place I will be sleeping, and by
the morning we will be gone.
But no, these so-called civilized countries are as primitive and
barbarous as you can conceive. They said, "All that we can
do is, we can put you in jail for the night."
And just by chance one of our friends looked into their file.
They had all the instructions from the government already about
how they were to treat me: I should not be allowed in any way
to enter into the country, even for an overnight stay in a hotel
or in the lounge; the only way was that I should be kept in jail.
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It is a coincidence that the day England allowed Ronald Reagan
to use England as a base for bombing Libya, the parliament of
England did not allow me to stay at the airport, in the lounge,
for six hours—because I am a dangerous man! And Ronald Reagan
is allowed to use England to bomb an innocent country which has
done no harm to him. splend07
A flight plan is made for Osho to go to Antigua, refuelling at
Gander airfield in Canada, but Osho is prohibited from both countries.
From London, he flies to Shannon, Eire.
I have been in Ireland. Perhaps the man at the airport had drunk
too much beer so he simply…we simply wanted one day's stay
to give a rest to the pilots—he gave us seven days. He did
not bother who we were, what the purpose was. He must have been
really drunk.
We reached a hotel, and in the morning the police came, asked
for the passports, and canceled those seven days.
And we said, "We will make an immediate exposure to the world
news media. You have given us seven days, and you have canceled
them without giving any reason. None of our people has gone out
of the hotel; they have not committed any crime. You cannot do
this."
They were afraid, because they were caught in a dilemma. They
had given seven days; now they had canceled them, and they didn't
have any reason to show why. So they said, "You can stay
as long as you want, but don't go outside the hotel."
"But," I said, "that will be illegal because we
will not have any visa."
They said, "Nobody will be bothered by it; you just remain
in the hotel." We remained there for fifteen days because
we needed some time. Our people were working in Spain and the
Spanish government was willing to give me permanent residence….
So we just wanted time: if Spain was ready we could move from
Ireland to Spain. We stayed in Ireland for fifteen days without
any visa.
We left Ireland; and the day we left, in the parliament of Ireland
the minister concerned, the minister of the interior, informed
the members that we had never been in Ireland.
One can see how politicians can be hypocrites, how they can
manage ugly lies. And this is such a lie—because we can
prove that we were in the hotel. When we were leaving the hotel
the press was present and photographers were present. They took
photographs of us in front of the hotel and they took my statement.
And the hotel is fifteen miles away from the airport.
But the minister deceived the parliament and deceived the country.
And perhaps…he must have forced the journalists not to publish
my statement and not to publish the pictures; otherwise I don't
see how he could have managed it. And these are all civilized
countries, cultured people, educated people—and flatly lying,
that I had never been in Ireland. And he knew, his government
knew, the chief of police knew.
I am thinking that once I get settled somewhere then I will
start…one by one each country has to be dragged into court
for their lies, for calling me "dangerous," for saying
yes and then refusing after one hour. I am going to expose it
to the world for the simple understanding that there is no democracy
anywhere. mystic39
Wherever we are looking, as we start looking at any country,
immediately American pressure reaches ahead of us—because
all our telephones are tapped. You will be surprised that all
our telephone calls go through the American Embassy, everything
first reaches to the American ambassador. They know where we are
searching, where we are going, where our people are working; and
immediately, before our people reach there, their pressure on
the government of that country reaches there. transm25
A request is made for Osho to visit Holland, but on 14 March,
the Ministry issue a press statement denying Osho entry; by Dutch
law this denial is illegal.
The Dutch minister for foreign affairs has said that I have been
denied entry into Holland because I have spoken against homosexuality,
I have spoken against Mother Teresa, the pope, the Catholic religion.
And each democracy contends that it is secular.
The pope can criticize any religion and he is welcome—I
cannot criticize the pope. If he has any guts he should reply
to my criticism rather than pulling the strings of these politicians—he
has a Catholic majority in these countries so the politicians
are afraid of losing votes.
I can understand catholicism, the pope, Mother Teresa; but homosexuality
is a totally new thing. I was not aware that homosexuality is
Holland's official religion—criticize homosexuality and
you cannot enter Holland. That minister has condemned the whole
of Holland as homosexual. If the people of Holland have any sense,
they should force that minister and his ministry to resign, because
he's abusing the whole country.
And I am dangerous because I have criticized homosexuality.
I am criticizing every perversion, and I will continue to criticize
them. transm34
Just the other day the secretary of the Dutch parliament, answering
the questions of journalists, said that I have not been allowed
in Holland and I will not be allowed in Holland because I have
said something in praise of Adolf Hitler. And the journalist pointed
out that I have contradicted it—and it was the German magazine
Spiegel which had misquoted me. And the secretary accepted that
that was true, it was a misrepresentation, but still…"His
coming may create a disorder." And the journalist said that
when the pope came there was tremendous protest against him and
great disorder, and yet he was allowed, and he was a guest of
the government.
And, as far as I am concerned, in no country have I been protested
against by the people. There is no precedent for it, it is just
their assumption.
"And Holland has thousands of sannyasins," the reporter
said, "who would welcome him."
And I am ready to face those protests. I would really love to
see who are those people who want to protest against me, on what
grounds. And I don't even want government security. I don't even
want them to be responsible if anything happens to me, it is my
responsibility.
But the fear is somewhere else. All others are excuses. The
fear is that I can change the mind of the younger generation….
There are six hundred fifty million Catholics—you don't
have a single Catholic who can argue against me? What is the problem?
It should be simple and human. I am ready for any public discussion.
I am ready to come to all these parliaments who are talking about
me. In fact, if they have any guts they should invite me to their
parliament—and I am ready to face their whole parliament.
But the fear is—they themselves know—they have no
future, their death is so certain that they are afraid that I
will expose them.
But they are not concerned that I am not exposing them in a
destructive way. I am exposing your fallacies so that I can substitute
the positive, the right dimension which can help the West, its
creative people, its intelligent people, to have a transformation.
In the West, enlightenment is an unknown factor….
The West has not known the experience of enlightenment.
But I am insistent that we are going to make hundreds of Western
people, for the first time in history, enlightened.
All these governments and their opposition are not going to stop
me. It is not a question of my idea; it is now an existential
necessity—that the West must have enlightened people. transm17
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