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Date Posted: Fri, 03/28/03 9:48am
Author: sunny
Subject: the part that got left out ..... sorry :o((
In reply to: sunny 's message, "Re: A little about me" on Sat, 01/25/03 10:47pm

>And here's a quote from Osho in 1986 that I thought
>you might enjoy:
>
>"The whole world has forgotten completely that the
>real Americans are the red Americans who are living in
>reservations in the forests. They have been forced to
>live almost in concentration camps, an American
>version of the German concentration camps -- far
>better, because the German concentration camp was
>barbed wire, guns all around, very crude. The American
>concentration camp is very sophisticated -- no barbed
>wire, no guards, you cannot say that this is a
>concentration camp. But this is a concentration camp
>-- of a higher order, of a more subtle and delicate
>quality. What they have done is to give every red
>Indian a pension -- because America belongs to them,
>it is their country. They don't have any work, but
>they get enough pension...... Salary for nothing,
>salary for remaining silent about the fact that
>America belongs to them, that the people who are known
>as Americans are not Americans. Somebody is from
>England, somebody is from Italy, somebody is from
>France, somebody is from Holland, somebody is from
>Germany, somebody is from Switzerland -- from all the
>European countries, but nobody is an American. They
>are all foreigners.
>
>And my first conflict with the government was that I
>told it exactly the same way I am telling you: that
>the American president is as much a foreigner as I am
>a foreigner. The only difference is that he has been
>here perhaps for two generations, three generations --
>he is a two hundred year-old foreigner. I am fresh.
>And the fresh is always better than the old and
>rotten. I told them: Neither does the land belong to
>you nor does the land belong to us. And we purchased
>the land, we paid money; you invaded the land, you
>killed people, innocent people. You are criminals. If
>anybody needs permission to live in America, it is you
>-- from the American president to the last American
>beggar. And if you really mean what you say in your
>constitution -- that you are for democracy, for
>freedom -- if you are sincere and honest, then give
>the country back to the red
>Indians. It belongs to them. And apply for your green
>cards. If they want you here, you can be here;
>otherwise go home. And you have killed, you have
>invaded, you are criminals. We have simply purchased.
> [snipped for length]

Here's part of what was snipped .... my cowardice, sorry :
"And America must remain the only country in the world where people like the poor red Americans cannot revolt. Its such a cunning strategy that you are giving them money. They think, "Revolt? for what? We are getting money, enough money, no work ... enjoy, dance, sing, take all kinds of drugs. No problems worrying about poverty or anything -- why bother about revolution?" The very idea is not possible.

And they are all drunkards, opium addicted, lotus eaters. They are not in a position to fight a revolution. Their revolution has been killed, their spirit has been killed by money."

>Because I said it clearly.... And because the land we
>purchased had belonged to an ancient red Indian tribe
>which
>lived just nearby in a forest.... And they had a
>prophecy from the old days: that a man from the East,
>with his
>followers wearing red clothes, would come to this land
>and free them from the slavery imposed on them by the
>invaders. By coincidence, my people were wearing red
>clothes; by coincidence, I was coming from the East.
>And red Indians started coming, saying that "We have
>been waiting -- because this prophecy we have heard
>for generations." These were the fears the government
>would ever talk about. They wanted to destroy me and
>the commune as quickly as possible.
>
>-- "Beyond Enlighenment", Chidvials Foundation, Inc.
>1986
>(Cap.32 "Truth has to Wait.... But Not to Wait
>Forever")

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