CultNews would like to follow-up on the previous story about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) lecture at the “cult” compound of a controversial New Age guru in Yelm, Washington.
Last week JFK’s nephew dropped in at the “Ramtha School of Enlightenment” run by J.Z. Knight, where he addressed over 1,000 of her devoted followers (called “Ramsters” by residents of Yelm) literally camped out in the group’s “Great Hall.”
The school is largely based upon the rather bizarre belief that Knight can channel a 35,000-year-old spirit from the lost continent of Atlantis named “Ramtha.”
Kennedy appeared unfazed by questions raised about the lecture venue.
“Someone who doesn’t like you very much told me I was speaking at a cult,” Kennedy joked to his audience of Ramtha devotees reported The Olympian.
The Ramsters responded with laughter.
Needless to say cult members rarely acknowledge the reality of their circumstances and RFK did little to dissuade them. Instead, he was so focused on attacking President Bush, that he barely seemed to notice his surroundings.
Kennedy compared his appearance at the “cult” compound to a Bush speech given at another school infamous for racism.
“I guess it would be OK if I spoke at Bob Jones University,” he said.
But two wrongs don’t make a right and someone as supposedly sophisticated, as Kennedy should know that.
Based upon his strained rationalization maybe those opposed to Mr. Kennedy’s environmental policies should say, “Well, don’t other countries have polluted waters, what’s wrong with dumping a little toxic waste here”?
RFK Jr. not only lent his name to the “cult,” but dined with its mistress within her palatial French Chateau.
“(Kennedy) is a golden boy from a golden family,” Ms. Knight told the press, keenly aware of the promotional value that his appearance offered her school.
“I was really excited, because I just really wanted to see this place…You’re good people with good values, and all the values this country is supposed to stand for,” RFK Jr. gushed.
“Values”?
Who’s “channeling” what now?
The Ramtha School is essentially run like a dictatorship. And its authoritarian ruler J.Z. Knight has been accused of making “homophobic comments,” and exploiting her followers.
Would these be the “good values” RFK Jr. means to extoll?
Interestingly, at his lecture Kennedy derided George W. Bush by comparing him to Hitler and claimed that his governance “borders on fascism.”
Well, at least President Bush was elected, unlike Ms. Knight who seems to have more in common with a fascist regime than the White House.
But never mind the facts.
This Kennedy seems to have little of his father’s common sense, let alone the historical insights of his uncle JFK.
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