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Paramendra Bhagat
to woodguy@nysenate.gov
cc jiwanlife@yahoo.com
date Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:25 PM
subject Need Bill as Chief Guest for event June 25
Jun 8 (2 days ago)

Hi Linda.

I just talked to Kevin at 212-222-7315 and he has suggested I email you since you are Bill's scheduler and then to call him back.

Bill is a friend of mine. I was Barack Obama's first full time volunteer in NYC, and Bill was the first elected official in the city to come for Obama. So we got to know each other pretty well. http://democracyforum.blogspot.com Check out the second video here http://democracyforum.blogspot.com/2007/11/new-york-city-for-barack-obama-1-10.html It is me capturing Bill at a Harlem event in 2007.

Well, I grew up in Nepal, and the Nepali leaders representing 100,000 Nepalis all across America are having a gathering in NYC on June 25, Saturday, and I would like to invite Bill to show up as our Chief Guest. We would be very happy to send a limo to pick him up and drop him off.

June 25
Intercontinental Hotel
44 St 8th Avenue
Times Square
Saturday
5:10 PM to 9:00 PM
6:30 Time for the Senator to show up for as little as 10 minutes or he can stay all the way to 9 PM and have dinner with us
(Please tell him I'd like for him to stay the entire time)

NRN (Non Resident Nepali) Meeting
75 leaders from across America
16 organizational leaders
Representing 100,000 Nepalis all across America

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Update: Program details have changed.
11:00 AM 12:50 PM NRN Executive Committee Meeting
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Questions Prepared By My Lawyer For Immigration Court Date Tomorrow

Image via WikipediaImmigration Court Date: June 6, 2011: Prepared Statement
June 3 Immigration Court Date

1. What is your name?

My name is Paramendra Bhagat.

2. Where were you born?

I was born in a hospital in the city of Darbhanga in the state of Bihar in India. I don't have a birth certificate. They don't do that where I grew up.

3. Why are you seeking asylum in the US?

I show up in Nepal and I am dead meat. My instincts tell me so. It is the same instincts that told me in February 2007 that Barack Obama was the next President of the United States.

4. By whom you fear for your life in Nepal?

There are a few different actors and groups that might want to harm me. The people who lost power in 2006, the Maoists who still dream of a one party dictatorship brought about by an armed revolution, rivals in the Madhesi groups, violent and nonviolent, who might be dead set in their own views and methods, separatist armed Madhesis.

5. Why do you think you will be subjected to political assassination?

I am high profile. I spent six months in jail in America for being the top Obama volunteer in the city of his primary rival. That was political. I was the only Nepali in America who did full time work for Nepal's democracy movement of 2006 and the Madhesi movement of 2007. That kind of visibility puts you in harm's way. If my political enemies in New York City can do what they did to me, what do you think my political enemies in Nepal will do?

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Image via WikipediaThe UN is not it, the US is not it, the Internet is it.

I have made that statement a few times at this blog.What do I mean?

I do not imagine a future where the UN as an organization has been dissolved, and the US federal government no longer exists. But I do imagine a future where the Internet has fundamentally altered the very fabric of what the UN is, how it functions, how far it reaches, how well it functions. I imagine a US federal government transformed by the forces unleashed by the Internet.

The Internet is transformative technology. But it does not operate in a vacuum. You take away people and you end up with computers. It is adding people to the equation that gave us the Internet. And so human institutions are very relevant to what the Internet is all about.

Rootlessness And The City

Image by joiseyshowaa via FlickrI was born in India. I grew up in Nepal next door. I came to America for college. When I was applying for colleges while in Nepal, I did not have a favorite college in mind. I liked all sorts of colleges. Every prospectus I picked up I absolutely fell in love with. Now I realize what I was really applying for back then was to get into New York City. People who go to all those colleges all end up in New York City.

I have something akin to a PhD in race relations. There is the conscious level of the mind, the subconscious level, and there's deeper stuff. Racial identity can inhabit the mind at several levels. That's what makes a white guy high school drop out detain the top movie star in India for an hour at the New Jersey airport. Your name is Khan? You must be a terrorist.