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Part IX : World Tour - American and German governments pressure
Spain to refuse Osho's visa
On 14 March, Osho and his party are promised visas to Spain,
but on 17 March, they are refused on the basis of dossiers supplied
by the American and German governments.
In Spain they decided in the parliament, they decided in the
cabinet, that they would like to have me in their country. But
the question was: who was going to sign for my permanent residence?
And in the cabinet, nobody was ready. They said, "We are
perfectly willing that he should be allowed—there is nothing
against him as far as we are concerned—but I don't want
to put my neck out, because if something goes wrong tomorrow then
the person who signs will be caught." mystic16
The government of Spain was wondering for one month continuously
whether to allow me into Spain or not. They have nuclear bases
for the American army; they are members of NATO, and the man who
is the prime minister became prime minister by promising the people
of Spain that he would pull Spain out of NATO, and that he would
order the American bases to be removed from Spain….
They voted in this man on a single point—that he was promising
that he would pull out of NATO and force the Americans to leave
Spain. Two years have passed and the people have been asking,
"What happened? You are not pulling out of NATO, and neither
are the American bases moving out of Spain."
In these two years, the man…when he had come to power he
was not a politician, but these two years have turned him into
a politician. He said, "My experience of two years in power
makes me change my idea: we are going to remain in NATO, and American
bases are going to remain in Spain."
It was such a betrayal that the people demanded a vote on the
point, a referendum. But the prime minister, the whole bureaucracy,
the whole government, is now for American military bases and membership
in NATO. Still, they do not have a big majority. The young people
of Spain have still voted against them: forty-five percent of
the people have voted against NATO. But the government with all
their powers…certainly they managed to get just a little
bit bigger number of votes in favor.
If this man had any sense of dignity he would have resigned, because
he was chosen for a simple program. HE was not chosen—the
program was chosen, and because he has dropped the program he
should resign immediately. But these politicians seem to be so
shameless, with no dignity, with no honor, with no self-respect.
He wanted me to stay in Spain, but the problem was the American
pressure. For one month he went on postponing. He informed me
that I should not leak the news that Spain had invited me, because
the royal family of Spain, the prime minister, the president,
the cabinet—they would all be at the airport to receive
me. I was going to be their invited guest, so THEY would proclaim
the date and time, and they would inform me.
But slowly, slowly he saw that if forty-five percent of the people
can vote against him, then to bring a man like me into the country
is dangerous because these young people are bound to be influenced
by me.
The parliament decided that I should be welcomed, the cabinet
decided that I should be welcomed, but finally the prime minister
informed me that it would not be possible; politically it would
be difficult.
I know the difficulty; the difficulty came after the referendum.
And I have been telling John every day that if any decision has
to be taken, it should be taken before the referendum. After the
referendum I don't see any hope, because once the prime minister
sees how many people can vote against him, he will not be courageous
enough to invite a person who can influence his people.
This is the fear, and the fear is now almost all over the world,
in every country—strange fears. psycho10
One man in Spain, a famous novelist, was very much interested
in me because he has read a few of my books which have been translated
into Spanish. He was working for one month continuously for me
to go to Spain, and he is well-known in the whole Spanish speaking
world, well respected, even by the politicians. He was talking
to the president, to the prime minister, to the royal family,
and they were all willing for me to come there. Then these letters
from America, from Germany, from Greece, from Italy, started pouring
in.
Just yesterday he informed me, "Now it has become difficult.
Even the president has told me, `You don't get involved in it.
That man is very dangerous. Even your association with that man
may bring difficulties to you; you just keep out, don't mention
his name!'"
But he asked, "What danger is there?"
He said, "You don't ask! It is a very dangerous situation."
psycho37
Then came a letter from the German government that three criminals
are traveling with me. They called my secretary, Hasya, and told
her,"We don't have anything against Osho, but from the German
government there is tremendous pressure that three criminals are
with you."
She asked, "Who are the three criminals, and what crimes
have they committed?" By insistently asking, we have come
to know only that one is German, one is Canadian, one is American.
Strangely enough, there is no German in the group, so one third
of the information is absolutely wrong. There are a few Americans,
but none of them are criminals, and none of them remembers that
he has committed any crime! One is a Canadian: he is shocked by
hearing it—that he is a criminal. There are no charges against
him. psycho27
Just a few days ago, it was reported to me that the American
government has finally succeeded in putting my name on the wanted
list of criminals with Interpol—the International Police.
Now I am a "wanted criminal."
I am not hiding—but it is just to make every government
antagonistic to me. There is no crime that I have committed, but
any government seeing my name among the "wanted criminals"—those
are the international criminals—will immediately stop me
if I ever want to enter their country. Interpol cannot do anything—because
I have not done anything. But just the name on the list will help
the American government to convince other governments that the
man is an international criminal.
If to help people to become lions instead of sheep is a crime,
I am a criminal. If to help people to be just human beings—not
Christians, not Jews, not Hindus—is a crime, I am an international
criminal. And all the religions will agree, because nobody wants
their sheep to be taken away from the fold. I am a robber.
No country wants nationality to be condemned. I am against nationality,
because it is one of the worst things that has happened in the
world. I want a world without nations. Nationality is not something
to be glorified; it is the cause of all the wars, all the bloodshed.
Naturally, all the nations will agree I am an international criminal.
zara106
On 18 March, Osho's jet lands in Madrid and is surrounded by
Guardia Civila, while the Uruguayan consul stamps Uruguayan visas
in the passports of Osho and his attendants. Osho then flies to
Dacca, Senegal, where they stay overnight in a hotel. On the same
day, the European Parliament discuss a motion to prevent Osho
entering any EEC country
Because I said in Crete, "If you don't allow me any land
anywhere, I will have a jet plane and I will be living on that,"
they immediately started a movement that I cannot land at any
airport in Europe.
I am really enjoying that a single person who has no power can
make these pygmy politicians just go out of their minds! I had
just mentioned it, and immediately the European parliament tabled
a resolution, which they will be discussing soon and passing,
that I cannot land at any airport in Europe. psycho42
Countries like the Bahamas, and other countries—Panama,
and a few other islands near Panama, I have not even heard their
names—and their parliaments have started discussing and
deciding that I should not be allowed in their country. psycho37
Just today Anando informed me that Venezuela—I have never
thought about it!—has passed a resolution that I am banned,
I cannot enter into the country….
The European parliament has a resolution now to ban me collectively,
rather than separately, so all European countries who are members
of the parliament automatically become closed. psycho23
They have nothing against me, but my ideas seem to be more dangerous
to them than their own nuclear weapons. In a world where one mad
dog from America bombs a small country like Libya, where a Russian
nuclear project (Chernobyl) just goes berserk almost like human
beings…amongst all these problems, the parliaments of the
world are discussing me, discussing whether to allow me into their
country or not. It is hilarious. mystic21
The German government allowed all the terrorists of Europe—skinheads,
punks and all kinds of idiots—to have a world conference
in Germany. These people are making bombs, these people are creating
terror everywhere, killing people. These people are allowed…I
am not allowed into Germany.
You can see the mind: I am more dangerous to them than all these
terrorists. And they are having a world conference…? No,
they are not afraid of terrorists; they have enough armies for
them, they have enough weapons for them. They are afraid of an
unarmed man who simply teaches people to love, to be silent, to
be blissful.
You can see that blissfulness is more dangerous to these people,
silence is more dangerous to these people, meditativeness is more
dangerous to these people. socrat18
Just the other day a German court has given us its verdict, that
the German government was wrong to declare me dangerous.
A fight was going on between sannyasins and the German government
in the courts, and the German government was trying to prove that
I am a dangerous man. And all that they could prove was that I
could prove a dangerous man. And the magistrate seems to be a
fair man, intelligent. He said, "That can be said about anybody—could
prove—but you don't have any proof that this man has been
dangerous. On what grounds are you predicting the future? And
just on your assumption?" So he has prohibited the German
government from using such words against me, or my followers—that
they are dangerous, that they are a cult.
This government's effort to prove that I am dangerous because
I could prove dangerous…but in what ways could I prove dangerous?
Can I manufacture nuclear weapons there? They cannot even say
it. They know what the fear is, but to say it will expose them,
it won't help them.
The fear is that I can catch hold of the younger people, and they
don't have any way to prevent it. Their philosophies are dead
and their theologies are dead, their churches are graveyards,
their priests and their popes are just corpses from the past.
They don't have any argument for the present, for the new age,
for the new man. transm11
It is such a strange world. Just a few days ago, a court in Germany
in a way decided in my favor against the government, but in a
way the judge could not understand my approach to life. The government
was trying to prove that I am not a religious person, because
I myself have said that religion is dead, I myself have said that
I am not a serious person, and the judge said: "Those statements
were made in a press conference, they cannot be taken seriously.
And we do not know the context. You have to produce statements
from his written books. I consider him to be a religious man,
and I consider his teachings to be a religion. And whatever he
is saying and doing is a serious work."
Although we won the case, the judge could not understand, neither
could the government. transm12
You will be surprised: I am being discussed in parliaments of
countries where I have never been, even in countries where not
a single sannyasin exists, as if I am the biggest world problem
to them. They are facing the nuclear third world war, but their
worry is about me!
It is significant that they have recognized that if I am allowed
to go on teaching, their rotten societies will start collapsing.
And I am going to continue no matter what; they cannot prevent
me. I will find my ways. And now more than ever I am going to
sharpen every argument against them and expose every government
that has been preventing me from reaching my own people.
And of course my people are with me. Once I make a declaration
that now we are on the warpath and that in every country the sannyasins
should go to the courts and start fighting the governments, we
are going to create worldwide chaos. I am just waiting for the
right moment. Once we have a settlement of our own, we are going
to fight each and every single government that has been nasty.
And we are sure to win.
And you will be surprised that even attorneys…One topmost
attorney from Germany has asked if I can give him my authority
to fight the case, because it is absolutely against the constitution
and he knows that that case will make his name international.
Another attorney, again a topmost attorney, from Spain, is just
waiting for the signal. He wants to fight the government. He says,
"There is nothing. I have looked in all the files of the
government and there is nothing against you. All they are saying
is nonsense without any proof, saying that you have avoided taxation."
Now the Indian parliament itself will be a proof that I have not
avoided any taxation in India or in America or anywhere else.
We are going to fight. It is going to be joyful. Just for a
few days I am preventing them. Let us settle somewhere; otherwise
it will become difficult—any country will become afraid
that these people can go against their politicians, their government.
So once we have settled we are going to fight all around the world.
It is going to be a merry-go-round. mystic06
Sannyasins are protesting it because it is absolutely against
the German constitution, against German law. There is not a single
precedent! Not only in Germany but all over the world, there is
not a single incident prohibiting a man who has never before entered
your country. How can you judge that he is going to be dangerous?
So they asked five hundred world-famous, prominent intelligentsia
from different fields—professors, scientists, poets, painters,
dancers, actors. Up to now they have received one hundred and
fifty letters of strong support, an absolute protest against the
government.
They have also received a few letters which are in support of
the government. A few points in those letters were so hilarious
that they have sent me those few points. One point was: One Protestant
high priest has supported the government because he thinks I am
a Catholic, and Germany has to be saved from the Catholic religion.
Such fear shows deep doubts. You are not certain about your
Protestant theology; you are afraid somebody may make punctures
in the balloon of your faith. sermon12
Sixty-five prominent figures in Italy, internationally known
people who have contributed in different dimensions, have protested,
"Why is he not being allowed to enter?" transm45
And what is happening there, will happen in Germany, will happen
in Greece, will happen in England, will happen in Spain, is going
to happen everywhere. Sannyasins have to create a worldwide chain
of protests, signed by all the important creative artists, novelists,
musicians, sculptors, dancers, actors, directors—people
of all dimensions who have made an impact on the world.
Collect their names for the protest first, in every country,
and then send a final protest to the U.N., with all the protests
of all the countries together—because now it is not a question
of one country; if the European parliament decides that I cannot
even land my plane at their airports, you cannot now take me just
as an individual.
I have become representative of a worldwide intelligence of
creative, talented people.
That is my country.
And my sannyasins have to go to the U.N., because this is simply
ugly. psycho10
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