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CHAPTER 3. THE NUCLEAR FAMILY – THE IMMINENT MELTDOWN
And who are they? But they are cashing in on us.... Now, by telling the Oregonians that I have called
all of them idiots, he is trying to cash in on us. And I have not said that at all. But now I say: the first
idiot, I have found. He himself has declared it. And I will wait for the second, because Oregon has
two senators, so the second will be just... he is already late. Don Quixote has come first in the race.
My statement is so simple that even a child can understand it. I said the Oregonian idiot is a class
in itself How does he manage to understand from this statement that all Oregonians are idiots?
Then what about me? Then what about you? We are all Oregonians. And we are going to remain
Oregonians.
These people can do, can say, anything. He was saving just before... our sannyasins were there in
this hearing where he spoke. He had called the hearing and two or three of our sannyasins were
present but we never participated because what is the point of participating in all these nonsensical
things? It was so absurd a hearing – one cannot imagine how people go on tolerating such things.
On our property we have a few small pieces of land which belong to the government, the federal
government. They are leased for fifty years; and just as we purchased the land, the lease also came
to us. This hearing was about us not allowing people to approach the government land – which was
absolutely false, because even the officers who look after the government land said that we had
never done anything illegal, we had never prevented anybody – and there is no reason for anybody
to go to the bare land or hills.
So we never participated and argued there, for the simple reason that the government office itself
was arguing for us, that we had never done anything illegal and everything was absolutely as it
should be – so there was no case at all. But all the bigots who have been against us since we came
here were all present there, giving their evidence against us. Strange evidence....
One commissioner said that when six months before he had visited Rajneeshpuram, he was given
poison in water. One thing – if we do anything we do it properly. It is proof enough, if you are alive
after six months, that we have not given poison to you; otherwise, you would not be alive. We never
do anything halfheartedly. And where have you been for six months? For six months you have been
silent, and now, after six months, you go before the hearing.... Because now he has been chosen
commissioner again in this election. He may have been afraid, in these six months, to say such a
thing; he may have lost our votes. So he was silent about it. Now the election is over – he has won
– now he can say it.
What proof has he got that we poisoned him? And the senator asked him, ”There was another
commissioner with you. What happened to him?”
He said, ”He was also poisoned. He is still alive.”
And the senator asked, ”There was a third man also with you” – the police commissioner or
somebody – ”what happened to him?”
He said, ”He is a little more friendly towards the Rajneeshees, so perhaps he was not poisoned.”
Just anything these people can say – and these people are commissioners – with no evidence. And
if you were poisoned you should immediately have gone to the hospital, immediately gone to be
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