QUOTE(Herschelkrustofsky @ Thu 19th August 2010, 3:43pm)
As he did with the LaRouche articles, WB has now
constructed an
enormous edifice of articles about TM and TM-related issues. He has taken care to
highlight any event that might embarrass them, by making sure that a
special article is created to draw attention to it.
It should probably be noted that this article (
Maharishi University of Management stabbing (T-H-L-K-D)) was started well before this thread was started... it may be that Beback has expansion plans, but that one seems to be the only really obvious attack article in the category, at least by title.
FWIW, I've met some former Maharishi University student-cultists personally (Fairfield, IA isn't far from here), and without exception they had nothing but bad things to say about the experience. One thing the Maharishi people do is offer student visas to people in poorer countries as a means of getting their foot in the door for US citizenship. Then they make them sign away their rights to just about anything they might create, invent, write, or whatever during the course of their entire lives, after they've already arrived and settled in and have almost no alternative but to sign. And then they put them to work, basically - they have all sorts of little businesses run by "students," and the vast majority of the revenue goes back to the Maharishi, usually under the table. They even have their own currency, the "
RAAM (T-H-L-K-D)," to help facilitate this. Things like this are common among nearly all eastern religious cults in the US, to some degree, but the Maharishi University folks are bigger and more skilled at it than most, if not all, of their competitors.
I guess this is just my way of saying that Beback's opposition to the Maharishi people is more righteous than his opposition to the Larouche people, which at times has been decidedly un-righteous (though I'm not at all happy with the way the Larouche people are treating Pres. Obama these days). I'll admit that I'm saying this mostly to reflect the obvious reflexive counter-criticism, but the fact remains, at least the Larouche people don't claim to be a "religion" or a "charity," and they don't make wacky/outlandish claims of miraculous health benefits that you get just by joining. I suppose they do try to impose control over their members to some extent, but they don't seem to want to do it from cradle to grave like some of these quasi-religious cults do.