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ESPAÑOLA — The Yogi Bhajan Memorial Freeway must be gone. Not the freeway, which is Freeway 106, however the identify.
A petition is being circulated by a former Bhajan affiliate calling for the freeway identify to be eliminated and changed by one thing apart from Bhajan’s identify. We agree with him.
You may’t prosecute a useless man, however you possibly can look at an individual’s historical past after they’re gone and attempt to set the document straight. Bhajan was at one time a preferred and charismatic Sikh chief in Northern New Mexico however because the years have handed, he has been extensively accused of quite a few misdeeds, most notably sexual abuse involving his followers.
The complaints are voluminous, and his alleged dangerous habits has been chronicled in books, on-line social media and a tv documentary on Vice. Two extra tv paperwork are within the works.
He died in 2004 and State Highway 106 was formally renamed after him on April 28, 2006. The freeway is in Sombrillo, between U.S. 84/285 and State Highway 76. It’s three-quarters of a mile lengthy. His accusers and detractors see it as a freeway of disgrace.
The New Mexico Transportation Fee would wish to rename the freeway. Clearly, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham might give the fee a nod to suggest renaming the freeway.
Bhajan’s identify on an indication is not going to be the primary to go to the junkyard. Only recently a mountain in Yellowstone Nationwide Park was renamed. What was as soon as Mount Doane grew to become the First Individuals’s Mountain on June 9. The mountain had been named for Gustavus Doane, who was a frontrunner in a U.S. Military regiment in January of 1890 that massacred 175 Blackfoot Indians — Indigenous folks. Doane is reported to have spent the remainder of his life bragging concerning the carnage he and his troops wrought in what was generally known as the Marias Bloodbath.
The mountain was named for him due to his efforts many months after the bloodbath in getting Yellowstone named as a Nationwide Park.
This simply occurs to be the newest instance of a reputation being modified — this time on a mountain — due to misdeeds that underneath the scope of historical past introduced shame to the one who had been honored.
Yogi Bhajan emigrated in 1968 to the U.S. from India. He grew to become recognized for his instructing and charisma. Finally, he established a non-profit (and) a number of for-profit firms. He later settled on a ranch and ashram in Española on SR 106.
He’s useless and can’t face his accusers, however there seems to be a mountain of proof that he was not who he appeared to be and that he took benefit of followers, significantly girls. Governor Lujan Grisham, down with the signal.