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Date: 12-05-02
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From: Pittard, Barry
To: All
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 11:31 PM
Subject: A Friend in India to All the World.jpg
Dear all,
Lionel Fernandez is spot-on in his comment on
http://www.saiguru.net/english/news/021201nytafriend.htm
"... anyone who has been in Putttarthi recently knows that SB does not sport such a mane at his present age. Was this picture taken during this visit? If so, it is quite a miracle or the work of a very apt hairdresser. Let us not forget that the person who provided these photographs to the NY Times is SB's interpreter and a top echelon member of the Sathya Sai Organization."
Buggervan God definitely needs a good hair day, since soon enough it will be just about all he has left ... Up to the time I left Puttaparthi for the last time (August 24, 1998), it was evident that the ssb hair was thinning considerably. He must be getting his coiffure organised for some appearances of world television (he being all-knowing) which we are in the throes of arranging for his infinite and peculiar benefit.
Please let everyone be inspired and come up with plenty of material for the New York Times. We must network what is happening out to as many friends and helpers as possible. Please remind them of our JuST Petition on: http://www.petitiononline.com/saibaba/petition.html
Our many signatories can write to the NYT stating that they are a signatory to the JuST (Just Seekers After Truth) Petition, and state their own unique reason why they felt moved to sign. Nearly three hundred personal, felt statements can surely suggest to the NYT that we are finding a voice.
Please (how may I say it politely?!) do not allow the NYT to think that merely a few score activists are steamed up about this poor little rich man who is naught but a "friend to India and the whole world. We are already many hundreds at least, and the truth of the dissent, and of the ever enlarging exit of responsible, people of excellent repute from his following needs to be made loud and clear."
Other campaigns have worked because of intense pressure from right round the world. Even a brief note to NYT, stating your essential position, and copying (preferably in the body of your email rather than as an attachment) any supportive material will assist. Since some of us have swiftly forward to NYT materials which may be considered obvious candidates for inclusions, may I suggest that you hunt and peck among your databases or the websites for material which, while of a high standard, may all too easily be overlooked in the grand flurry of our present activity. In my sends to them I am including the following recipients: foreign@nytimes.com ; managing-editor@nytimes.com ; executive-editor@nytimes.com If only one of them takes us seriously, then we're IN.
Nor shall we let them off the hook - in the headline over the award-winning Ben Bradsher's article of December 1, they have actually told millions of readers that ssb is: A Friend in India to All the World Shall you and I swallow that without choking?! Let us act fast and efficiently, for we may just be timely enough to hand the Supreme Molester a Christmas present via the New York Times ... Love, Barry