Great story!

Sorry I haven’t mailed you recently. Speaking about tears, might I put you onto two movies with a deep message. One is a Slavo-Belgian production, called “No-Man’s Land”, which portrays UNPROFOR and the Western media as they are: totally indifferent to suffering humanity. In this tragi-comedy of life, Simon Callow brilliantly plays a political Colonel, the anithesis to my Comrades in Arms (I was a Vietnam Conscript, and knew many sufferers from PNG and the Burma Rail during WWII). In our Army the Colonel would have been shot down by his own troops in his helicopter. We would sympathise with the two local protagonists (indeed one of mates shared General Dalaire’s anguish in Ruanda in 1992: never the same again).

The other is “Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” set in Nazi Germany, a stunning story of divine retribution. In the former I am in essence the guy in the last scene. In the latter I relate to Pavel (“He says he’s a doctor, but he can’t be much good: now he’s peeling potatoes”).

You know, if I’d been PM of Australia instead of Howard when Bush insulted me publicly as “an ugly little short bald guy” I would have decked him, and told him he doesn’t get away with insulting my Country. Probaly would have got gunned down by the CIA goons, but you know! I would have died a hero to 3/4 of Australia, maybe 90% of the world, and perhaps even 3/4 of the USA.

Now we have Obama making a “core” political promise, “There will be more violence in Iraq” (Bush would have said Ai-rack). None of them get it, Thou shalt NOT kill: thou shalt NOT covet. There is no Commandment (or ethic in any other society except the “Culture of Greed” – the worship of Mammon) which says “Thou can kill to gratify thy covetousness”. What have the people of Afghanistan EVER done to the West before two centuries ago? What did the people of Iraq EVER do to the USA before 1962?

I tell you: these Rabid Lemmings as I call them, who “Rule ze vorldt” are totally without any Conscience. Or Commonsense.

Well, I LIVE…..still, though even my undeluded friends often think that is a dubious proposition.

Love, because it is MY God’s Love to be shared

Ex “coon” Dr Maarten de Vries (“coon” is a term of abuse against non-whites like me)