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into forests, into small reservations. They even changed their name; they are called "Red Indians."
Even Ronald Reagan is not an American; neither was Abraham Lincoln. So there is no problem: if other foreigners can be chosen to be the president of America, I am also eligible.
When they deported me... after that the Supreme Court of Oregon declared my commune to be victorious and the opposing party in the case -- "One Thousand Friends of Oregon" -- was defeated. They appealed to the Supreme Court of America and the Supreme Court also gave its decision in my favor.
The destruction of the commune and expulsion of me and my people have been absolutely undemocratic, unconstitutional. This proves an old saying that justice delayed is justice denied. Now what is the point of being victorious in the court, the highest court in America, when they have crushed everything? -- destroyed the commune, in which five thousand sannyasins worked for five years, ten hours, twelve hours per day, to transform a desert into a beautiful city.
It was a great experiment of brotherhood, of love, of peace -- no crime, no court, no law. And five thousand people created all the roads, transformed the whole desert into an oasis. It was not a small place, it was one hundred and twenty-six square miles. It was almost a country.
What was the fear of the American politicians? The fear was of our creativity, our laughter; the fear was of our joy. For the first time in the history of the world, five thousand people have lived as a family. Nobody asked anybody's country or religion or caste or race. Every year twenty thousand people from around the world used to come to see this miracle. The American politicians became disturbed by the success of the commune.
There has been a great deal of research conducted by psychoanalysts on eccentric people. Their findings are very revealing. First, that eccentric people are more intelligent, more creative, more joyous than the ordinary mediocre masses; the so-called sane people are not so creative. Secondly, in every profession the eccentric person will rise higher just because of his creativity, sensitivity, intelligence.
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