From: "Linda Muller" <linda@buchanan.org>
To: brigade@zeus.wwol.com
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000
Subject: [BRIGADE] Cultist Hagelin Following Orders
Dear Brigade,
"Gathering behind John Hagelin, the founder and the 1996
presidential candidate of the little-known Natural Law Party, the
group is planning to turn the convention into a raucous mob
scene that will be portrayed as a party of disorganized rabble
by the Establishment media and thus destroy Buchanan's
chances in November. ...The Maharishi ordered his followers
to enter politics to reshape the "world consciousness" by
means of government institutions. Hagelin is following his
master's orders...."
GO PAT GO!!!!!!!!!!
Linda
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From: reformjamie@webtv.net (Jamie Hurst)
To: linda@buchanan.org
Date sent: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 21:47:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Skip Foley" -mereform@megalink.net
Establishment Attempts to Derail Buchanan
The strange tale of how the Establishment will stop at nothing
to derail the biggest threat to its strangle-hold on power: Pat
Buchanan.
EXCLUSIVE TO THE SPOTLIGHT
By Mike Blair
A faction of far-out members of the Reform Party, joined by far-
left environmentalists, feminist extremists, gay rights activists
and anarchists, are hoping to derail the campaign of Pat
Buchanan and capture the party's nomination at its August
convention in Long Beach, Calif.
Gathering behind John Hagelin, the founder and the 1996
presidential candidate of the little-known Natural Law Party, the
group is planning to turn the convention into a raucous mob
scene that will be portrayed as a party of disorganized rabble
by the Establishment media and thus destroy Buchanan's
chances in November.
That's the fallback plan if Hagelin is not nominated, as seems
likely.
Hagelin has an odd personality. He believes transcendental
meditation, or TM, is the key to solving all human problems.
According to his own literature, Hagelin's trances have
produced these positions:
. "Reduce crime by rehabilitating offenders and reduce the
dangerous build-up of stress that pervades our cities and the
nation as a whole." Hagelin criticizes "more prisons, stiffer
sentencing, more police."
. "Improve education through programs that develop the inner-
creative genius of the student." He cites no source for the
conclusion that inside every student is a genius struggling to
get out. Under the Constitution, education is a state-not federal-
responsibility.
TM is an offshoot of the Hindu religion led by a "guru" called
the Maharishi. Its leaders once argued that TM is not a religion
but merely a form of meditation that cures the body's ills
without the use of medicine-establishment or alternative-while
solving all social problems.
TM's argument was once so successful that public schools
used federal funds to teach its "meditation." But when The
SPOTLIGHT revealed TM's religious nature in stories on Oct.
18 and Nov. 8, 1976, things began to change.
A year later, on Oct. 20, 1977, U.S. District Court Judge H.
Curtis Meanor ruled that TM is a religion and cannot be taught
in public schools.
The Newark, N.J., judge cited information contained in The
SPOTLIGHT stories about students being forced into "incense-
filled rooms" barefoot to worship the so-called "Geru Dev," a
"Divine Master." They had to sing Hindu chants (SPOTLIGHT,
Nov. 7, 1977).
The Maharishi ordered his followers to enter politics to reshape
the "world consciousness" by means of government
institutions. Hagelin is following his master's orders. Those
who follow Hagelin are also following the Maharishi's orders,
although most are unaware of this.
Most political pundits believe at this point that Buchanan has
the Reform Party presidential nomination about wrapped up.
However, the big danger seen by Buchanan's followers is that
the funny people backing Hagelin will destroy the party's
credibility at the Long Beach convention and thus destroy the
party nominee's chances at the polls.
The Hagelin crowd is accusing Buchanan of promoting a
"message of exclusivity and intolerance," which has been
trumpeted by those within the Republican and Democratic
parties who are trying to limit his presidential chances.
On July 5, Reform Party members started mailing in their
primary ballots to nominate the presidential candidate of their
party.
The party's selection of a presidential candidate is a
complicated process.
State parties have been holding conventions to name
delegates, which required Buchanan followers to go into the
state parties in many states and elect their own people.
However, the party must nominate whoever wins the mail-in
primary unless two-thirds of the delegates at Long Beach vote
to override the mail-in results which would be a public relations
nightmare.
The party has mailed out a million ballots to party members as
well as to anyone who has ever signed a party petition. The
ballot must be mailed back by Aug. 4.
Buchanan and his followers are convinced that they can win
the primary and defeat Hagelin with an overwhelming number of
delegates at the Long Beach convention.
Buchanan is also convinced that the courts will overturn the
current stranglehold the Republicans and Democrats have on
the nationally televised presidential debates, in which "good ole
boy" rules currently allow only the GOP and Democrat
candidates-Tex. Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al
Gore-to participate.
Buchanan backers are certain that their candidate, a master of
debate, will easily overshadow the lackluster "Gush and Bore"
and awaken the American public to the righteous cause of the
Re form Party candidate.
Recently, following Bilderberg, Lenora Fulani, the far-left
political activist who had become the national co-chairman of
the Buchanan campaign with the hope of making Buchanan's
bid a right-center-left coalition, abruptly changed her mind and
backed away from her support of Buchanan's candidacy.
Hagelin's followers view this as a plus for their man. But most
Buchanan supporters, who were concerned that their political
hero, Buchanan, had allied himself with Fulani and her socialist
followers, view her defection as a bonus.
