8/27/2010

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.
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.
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Hurrah again then for Jimmy Carter,
who was accompanied by his devoted
wife Rosilynn at Pyongyang.
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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 ...
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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.
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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!!
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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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Comments & Feedback:
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hurrah
hur·rah/ho͝oˈrä/
Verb: Shout “hurrah.”
Noun: An utterance of
the word “hurrah.”
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1 comment:

Marge Ladd. said...

Hi U.M. I do think Jimmy Carter deserves praise for his Christian
endeavor to help a fellow American
in prison in North Korea. Therefore, it was nice to read your
praise of him. What you wrote had
the ring of a quite personal feeling toward President Carter.
Thus, your praise was touching
and real. I liked your story as
an New Englander and Democrat.
Have a good day, Marge Ladd.