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my name. You are forcing me to do something illegal."
He said, "I cannot answer you. Whatever I have been told from above" -- and this "above" always means Ronald Reagan, because who is above? -- "I am simply following. Please, don't be angry with me."
I said, "I am not angry with you, I am simply surprised at you and your integrity. You don't have a backbone, any spine. You write it!"
He had said, "If you don't sign it then the whole night I have to sit here, you have to sit here. Neither can you sleep, nor can I. If you sign, then you can go to the cell and you can go to sleep."
I said, "I will not write it. I can sit the whole night here, but I will not do anything illegal. You write the name, you fill in the form. I will simply sign it. I don't want to keep you awake the whole night."
So he filled in the form. And that was my strategy, that he fill in the form in his own handwriting so that becomes the proof that I have not filled in the form. And I signed my own signature. He looked at my signature and said, "What have you signed?"
I said, "It must be David Washington. Can't you read?" He looked at it -- it was in Hindi; I always sign in Hindi. And I told him, "You will repent for it. You cannot keep me forever in jail without my having committed any crime. Soon the whole world will know. Most probably tomorrow morning all the television channels and all the newspapers will know."
While I had been going from the airport to the jail, there was also a girl who was going to be released that night. So I had told her, "You just listen to whatsoever happens between me and the Marshal. You are going to be released, and outside there will be hundreds of news media people. Simply go out and tell them everything that you have heard. Just be alert and listen carefully to what transpires between me and the U.S. Marshal."
And she did a perfect job. As she went out she immediately told the news media people, and the next morning at six o'clock it was all over America. By seven they had to change my jail again.
I asked the U.S. Marshal, "What happened? Why are you changing jails so soon? Now you are afraid that
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