Who bombed the Hilton? by Rachel Landers

Author:Rachel Landers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NewSouth
Published: 2016-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

Krawczyk asks him what these feelings are.

S. Well my feelings are that they are an extremely dedicated, very very dangerous, fanatical religious group. They believe their leader is God and so anything they do in defence of him is justifiable. They believe they’re the new saviours of mankind … they believe in the wholesale destruction of our present day society and replace it with Prout.

This is pretty strong beer but also pretty true — Margiis do believe Baba is a god and they do believe that Prout should replace both capitalism and communism as the third force. But it is also immediately tempered by the answer Seary gives when Krawczyk asks, ‘Do you feel they could be capable of carrying out some of their ideologies?’

Seary replies, ‘Well, they are a very strange, very mixed breed.’6 He tells his handler how a lot of the Margii ideas are very good, such as their social service activities (disaster relief, soup kitchens and such). It’s their rigidity and extremism that he thinks will prevent them from gaining popular support. Having to believe that the leader is a god (as opposed to a guru) and members burning themselves to death to protest Baba’s imprisonment are not exactly the ideology of peace and love that attracts most Westerners to Eastern religions. Even if Seary’s testimony is a pack of lies, he surely makes a good point when he observes that self-immolation reveals ‘the mentality of the people you’re dealing with. You know, if a person is prepared to burn himself to death you know than [sic] to die in a gunfight is nothing.’7 Despite this assertion he seems reluctant to paint them all with one brush.

As to whether his compatriots at the VSS camp were of that persuasion, Seary talks at length about a ‘very nice chap’, a school principal and single father he met there who didn’t strike him as the type to blindly follow orders. But he believes followers are kept in the dark about the inner workings of the sect. Seary guesstimates that maybe two-thirds might carry out such acts — ‘especially the women whom I’ve found to be more fanatical than the men’ — and a third probably wouldn’t. All through the debrief he repeats general suspicions but punctuates his answers about what he has heard with the phrase ‘no specific mention’ and provides no concrete evidence pointing to violent tendencies in any particular sect member. Asked again if he’s yet met the ‘two radicals’:

Seary. No, I haven’t and whether they are operating as Universal Proutist Revolutionaries Front which is a separate deal with all the Margiis but it is controlled by Baba but they are the very extremist wing.

J.8 Very extremist?

Seary. Yes and the only thing that I’ve heard was that they do exist in this country.

J. How many do you know?

Seary. I don’t know. I’ve got no idea how many.9

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