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they had every bit as much firepower as the Rajneeshees.

The agents were able to bring everybody off the plane without a shot being fired.

The police officers informed us that they had arrest warrants

- That's all I have. - Can you tell us the charges?

one of the offices looks like a flower shop.

Last week, the Bhagwan was indicted for immigration fraud.

The best precaution was to detain him, return him to Oregon,

The leg chains went on.

Uh... There was an arrogance about it that's almost breathtaking.

They take as long as legally possible

I don't want the man to die in jail.

You cannot betray people for their own freedom.

And when I was in prison, Peter came to visit me.

And I said, "These other men are experts in this area of the law.

The biggest one occurred just a couple of hours ago

Mr. Turner, let me ask you this.

They've loaded the plane with various pieces of luggage and boxes.

have produced a situation where it is no longer viable

And because we were so raw, you know, it was just like such an explosion.

with profound implications for really the whole course of my life.

And I don't want for people to meet me

Bhagwan called Rajneeshpuram a beautiful experiment that failed.

trying to give my life energy to him.

And then it was taken from there to the burning ghats.

there was still an international arrest warrant hanging over my head.

And therefore, he was sentencing me to time served.

and telling the truth about what happened."

But in the moment before his death, he became enlightened.

and my children showed remarkable courage and strength to come through all of that

It is a political victory for followers of the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

He was gone.

I couldn't see them, but could hear them.

cars with lights on them and the lights would be flashing

and took him to Wasco County jail.

I've seen them come out of Dachau.

Bhagwan told me to be very, very strong in the media.

You seem to be enjoying it, almost giving them your finger.

When you include Bhagwan's followers who are not Sannyas...

and you've got food and people are buying stuff.

You bet I did.

taking all I could grab.

I could fire off a letter to Dave and say, "Hey, here's what's happening."

was that the two were inextricably linked.

and then they staged elections, but it was all a show.

the Establishment Clause of the Constitution,

were a huge majority and totally ran the government.

Everybody knew that their loyalty was not to their badge,

that would repeal the city charters in both Rajneeshpuram and Rajneesh-Antelope.

And so with time, I just became more and more devoted to her.

At some point, I was woken in the night. Eleven o'clock, I was fast asleep in bed

Any indication of the magnitude of that announcement?

The latest controversy is a program to recruit the down and out, the homeless.

Up till now, society had abused these people all their lifetime,

Well, you don't have no crime.

says five more busloads of the homeless arrived there today.

Antelope started to change when the ranch doubled in size.

So you want to control Wasco County?

They told me they wouldn't have me.

How is it legal for people to step off a bus and literally vote?

There's no crime. That's what I said, there is no crime.

was not paved with money.

to fraudulently register people in Wasco County to vote

It was really as though a bomb went off in the middle of the community.

And the whole Peace Force,

The conversations were taking a very bizarre turn.

I got picked up by a guy in a bus and drove out to the ranch.

because a prominent Indian guru and his followers bought it

a shrine for Bhagwan while he's still alive.

We were in a grand experiment to create something from scratch. From scratch.

we built everything you would have to build.

It was city planning on a level that nobody had ever seen,

I say this is Shangri-la that everyone dreamt of.

We make this land alive with our sweat and our hard work.

Such a-- Such a reflection of love from his eyes towards me.

Almost like under the influence.

Oh, absolutely. Just really destroyed.

As soon as the reality of us came in...

but basically it wasn't until they really started throwing their weight around.

the so-called therapy, which took many forms

The work we were doing was really God's work.

Yeah, he said something about rob and choke and kill,

and he would have been totally supportive.

it conjured fear.

And tonight, are the Rajneeshees dangerous...

We didn't like being told how to believe, how to pray, how to live.

This Wolfgang, he takes the hidden camera in one of the therapy group,

Well, the Bowerman history in this region goes back to about 1869,

He won four collegiate national championships

designed the famous waffle shape sole.

They wanted to keep Oregon, Oregon, so to speak.

I said we will come in and seek action to require you to remove those buildings

They need to drive over me, it's their choice.

Until last month, this was the Antelope Café,

"I'll never sell to them."

And it would be very easy for them to have control of our town.

And you start bowing down to a man, why, you're just letting Satan push you.

They wanted literally for us to pack our bags and leave.

You get that helicopter and you get that helicopter out of here!

Form of harassment.

Their only defense they decided is to commit municipal suicide

Can't really talk about that.

And while federal and local bomb teams

However it comes, we're going to be prepared for it.