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The Republicans are still working on getting John Negroponte confirmed as Ambassador to the UN. I guess if George Bush was dictator like he'd like to be, Negroponte would be a done deal. Hopefully, the Democrats won't allow this weasel to represent us in the UN. He served as ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985, and looked the other way when the US backed Honduran military regime was accused of gross human rights violations.

A letter of testimony from Sister Laetitia Bordes, s.h. chillingly describes her meeting with Negroponte in May 1982. She was trying to get information about thirty-two women who had escaped from the death squads in El Salvador after the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, had taken refuge in Honduras, and had subsequently disappeared. Even though there had been eyewitnesses to the kidnapping of these women, American Ambassador to Honduras, Negroponte, refused to get involved, and said he had no knowledge of their whereabouts.

Jack Binns, Negroponte's predecessor during the Carter Administration, told the Baltimore Sun in 1996 that the United States government was aware of what happened to these women, but the Reagan administration was trying to follow through with a counterinsurgency policy against the so-called Communists in Latin America, and refused to get involved when their torture and murder became evident. Thirteen years later, Sister Laetitia Bordes finally found out that after the women were severely tortured, they were thrown out of helicopters.

After hearing this story, wouldn't you think that Negroponte had been in league with the Devil? Once in league always in league?

Evil infests specific areas of the planet. It gets into the soil and residents absorb the filth into their skins. During the 80's, there was a particularly rabid infestation of evil in Central America. The Ronald Reagan administration not only allowed it to fester, but tried to hide the plague whenever and wherever it erupted. George W. Bush is trying to resurrect these enablers of evil and put them into positions of power in dealing with foreign policy. Is the man mad? Or like Ronald Reagan, is George W. showing the beginning signs of Alzheimer's?

Sai Baba

Sai Baba is supposed to be a god-man from India. He materializes physical objects and summons people in their dreams. People that have never heard of him before dreaming about him, eventually end up in his ashram in India. He has psychic powers. There is evidence, however, that he is a pedophile. The last time I checked, being a god-man and a pedophile at the same time is incongruent. Last week I read an article in Salon by Michelle Goldberg about this guru and the accusations against him.

Sai Baba has been around for some time and has done many good works in one of the poorest sections of India near his birthplace Puttaparthi. He has established two free hospitals, a planetarium, built luxury apartment buildings, among other things. He has made a significant contribution to his country. However, the stories against him are disturbing and extremely unpleasant. If they are true, he shouldn't be allowed to get away with it. God men are not above the law, either, particularly when young people are victims of their lawlessness. Like Rajneesh, Sai Baba is a Sagittarius. This is a sign that when it goes wrong, thinks it can make its own laws. How about Ted Bundy?

I was first introduced to Sai Baba in the 80's when a friend of mine gave me one of his books and described his own journey to the ashram in India. Unfortunately, I can't remember what he said at the time except for describing some disturbing dreams while there and the materialization of vibhuti (divine ash). I read the book and was somewhat interested in it, but I couldn't get past a feeling of disquiet when I looked at Sai Baba's picture.

In the early 90's I bought a used book written about Sai Baba by a former disciple, Tal Brooke, mentioned in the Michelle Goldberg article in Salon. Lord of the Air is an expose written by a fellow that left the ashram in India, become a Christian, and later became president of the Spiritual Counterfeits Project. I'd left the book languish on my shelf until last week when I picked it up to read after coming upon the Salon article. Brooke's book was very disturbing. He was picked out especially to receive very personal attention from Sai Baba, which seemed to be a kudo, when you realize how many disciples the "god-man" has had. Instead, Brooke's special allure for Baba seems to have been sexual. Brooke describes the sexual advances Baba made upon him and other men in the ashram. Both for Brooke and other male victims, the sexual harassment was deeply disturbing because they couldn't integrate it with his supposed god-like nature. God wouldn't try to put the make on you, would he? Therefore, it must be something else. Sai Baba must be trying to do something else, other than sexually accost you. Any criticism or acknowledgement of Baba's sexual advances was considered a denial of Baba's godliness.

I'd read of other god men's sexual dysfunctionalism. There was Mukdananda who told his disciples that married couples should only have sex once a month, and yet had young women come through a secret passage in the ashram to his room to have sex with him. There was Jim Jones that not only peed on the Bible but accosted men and women sexually. Of course, there was Joseph Smith, a horny devil and founder of Mormonism, who created the doctrine of multiple wives in order to have sex with as many women as he could manage. More recently there was David Koresh who had sex with his disciples, including the children. Most of these phony god-men probably told the victim that having sex with someone as exalted as they were was bound to elevate the disciple's spiritual state.

I didn't realize what a good case Tal Brooke made for Sai Baba and demonic possession until I had horrible nightmares after finishing Lord of the Air (renamed Avatar of Night). The two nightmares were more frightening than any I'd had in a very long time. I was being pursued by demons and was unable to move or scream out. I had the impression, with my proclivity for traveling on the astral plane, that those nightmares were sent to me by Sai Baba himself. He makes a habit of entering the dreams of many other people that were unfamiliar with him, in order to attract them as disciples. After two nights of extremely frightening dreams, I had to use an invocation that I'd found in Christian occultist, Dion Fortune's, book, Psychic Self-Defense. Besides using this invocation, I also visualized putting on the armor of God as described by Paul in Ephesians, 6:10-20, for spiritual protection in my dreams. There was a third prong to my defense. I've been taking the Bach flower essence, crab apple, a remedy that is used for those that feel impure, for whatever reason. So far the three prong approach has worked, as I knew it would. I have not been troubled since.