The Judy Stein Junkyard Dog Web Site

> Lawson English wrote:
>
> Andrew A. Skolnick said:
>
> >Come off of it Lawson, the TM movement isn't a charity. It
> >doesn't throw money at anything. It invests in real
> >estate, yes. Human services, no. Name one TM center in one
> >ghetto in the entire United States that provides free TM
> >instruction to the poorest of the poor. You can't. The
> >Maharishi and his lieutenants don't want to recruit
>.>welfare recipients. There ain't no money in it. Like all
> >cults and cult-like groups, TM spends money on
> >recruitment, otherwise, money flows in one direction only.
> >If you can't afford the high cost of TM courses, the
> >movement doesn't want you.
>
> Name a ghetto in the US where the "poorest of the poor" can even *qualify*
> to learn TM.
>
> You can't.
>
> TM instruction requires that one refrain from alcohol use for at least 24
> hours, and non-alcohol, recreational drug use for 2 weeks, prior to
> instruction.
>
> Also, most of the poorest of the poor have known mental health problems
> that would require them to coordinate with a physician/mental-health-care
> professional before learning TM.

Why you small-minded racist, bigot. In your view (and
perhaps the Maharishi's?), the residents of America's
ghettos are all mentally ill, drug addicted, alcoholics
who couldn't possibly qualify to learn TM. They're even
incapable of not taking a drink for a day.

You hypocritical, little disingenuous fool: the only thing
that the urban poor lack to qualify for TM membership is
money to feed Maharishi's money grubbing machine. He
doesn't care about helping the needy. He cares only about
helping himself. The pickings are too few for him in
America's ghettos.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

But you're more likely to be proud of yourself: I'm adding
this post to the Junkyard Dog Web site. Congratulations.
You're about to have a second Web page there.

-- Andrew Skolnick
http://nasw.org/users/ASkolnick
http://www.aaskolnick.com/junkyarddog

P.S. Lawson's explanation for why the TM movement writes off people who live in the ghetto should not be a surprise when you consider the man he follows belongs to one of the most bigoted cultures on earth. The Maharishi's culture considers millions of people in the lowest class of his society to be "untouchables."

Subject: Re: Lawson says U.S. ghetto residents are drunks, addicts, or mentally ill
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 11:03:03 -0500
From: "Andrew A. Skolnick"
Reply-To: askolnick@blockspam.nasw.org
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental, sci.skeptic