Hurrah. By Uncle Monty.

Hurrah For Jimmy Carter.

By Uncle Monty At Bratislava.
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Off to China did North Korea's ailing dictator

Kim Jong-il go with his anointed son and heir in

their armoured train from Pyongyang to Beiing,

while former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, 85,

arrived on his humanitarian mission to rescue

one fellow American called Aigalon Gomes of

Boston from his eight-year jail term for illegally

entering the world's last communist state.

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Although it appears Jong-il snubbed Carter,

the mission set out by the former president

was accomplished nevertheless with the re-

lease of Gomes who is expected to arrive

safely back home to Boston later today.
Hurrah for Jimmy Carter is now in place.

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Jimmy Carter secures North Korean release

of Boston man. By Associated Press.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1277279
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Yet, it seems that Gomes was headstrong,

even stupid and irrational, to go to North

Korea like he did from South Korea at

where he was teaching English. He want-

ed to help a fellow Christian already in

North Korean custody for violating en-

trance requirements. He has since been

released while Gomes became almost

suicidal while inside the hellhole DPRK

prison. An African-American, too, there

seems to have been an utterly naive notion

by Gomes as to what he was getting him-

self into. Luckily for him, a former U.S.

president came to his rescue who also

happens to be an Evangelical Christian.

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Boston prisoner in North Korea seen as man of conviction.
By Associated Press.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100826boston_prisoner_in_north_korea_seen_as_man_of_conviction/

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Hurrah again then for Jimmy Carter,

who was accompanied by his devoted

wife Rosilynn at Pyongyang.

http://pyongyangnews.com/

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On a personal note, I have met Jimmy Carter

twice. First at the 1976 Presidential Debate

held at The College of William & Mary and at

where I was at graduate school at the time.

I also met there Jerry Ford, then President

of the United States. He lost his presidency

to Jimmy Carter who then lost it four years

later to Ronald Reagan in 1980.

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Then 32 years later, in the middle of a cow

patch, I literally bumped into ex-President

Carter at The Hay Literary Festival in Wales

two years ago now. We had a lovely Sunday

morning chat and his face lit up as we talked.

We had both been to Pyongyang and we had

both been at the Presidential Debate and now

we had both been at The Hay Festival, which

included Gore Vidal (in his wheelchair) and the

first ugly gay Episcopal cleric Gene Robinson

of New Hampshire. I then met and photo-

graghed all three of them, separately.

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What is so good is to see Jimmy Carter in

the news again doing good and using his

good office to help others like he does.

Once again, "Hurrah For Jimmy Carter."

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North Korea's Ailing Dictator (Shown Below)

Kim Jong-il Waves From His Amoured

Train. He Fears Flying Since Such Makes It

Easier For Any Attempts To Assassinate

Him, So The Story Goes ...

Who's Riding on Kim Jong-il's Armored Train This Time?

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Within a year, two former U.S. presidents

have gone cowtowing to North Korea.

Bill Clinton, who I have met on numerous

occasions, was the last one there and was

successful in obtaining the release of two

American news reporters last year. I wrote

my story on that called "Well Done, Bubba."
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Looking at such former presidents doing

good for their fellow Americans makes me

wonder why one never reads of any former

British prime ministers ever going out on a

limb for their fellow Brits stuck in some foreign

jail and hellhole without ever lifting a finger

to help such a captive become free? We have

ex-PM's Baroness Margret Thatcher, Sir

John Major, and hideous Tony Blair, who

have never done a good thing like Carter

and Clinton. Shame on them, praise on

Jimmy and Bubba!!

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:: News Update ::
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Testing North Korean Waters
Former President Jimmy Carter deserves great credit

for traveling to Pyongyang and securing the release

of a U.S. citizen, Aijalon Mahli Gomes, who had been

sentenced to eight years North Korean imprisonment

for illegal entrance to DPRK.

The New York Times

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Kim Jong-il poised to announce son as successor
North Korea news agency hints Kim Jong-il will

use Workers party assembly to confirm third

son, Kim Jong-un, as next leader.
By Tania Branigan in Beijing.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/31/kim-jong-il-son-successor

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Idiot Aigalon Gomes of Boston.

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Greeting from Bratislava, Uncle Monty.

+St. Monica, 2010.
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PS. Thank u, thank u, and thank u, for all

the many, many e-mails while I'm still away

from England now on the last leg of my eight-

nation adventure that has taken me from

Baghdad to Bratislava for now. Before I

forget - HAPPY BIRTHDAY JILL

on the 29th!!

.

I'll not have my dongle via my laptop

for the next few days, so please don't

expect any replies until I hit homebase

late next week. But u can still send

welcome messages to me ...

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