Advice? DASSK "wholly out-of-touch (r)

[dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Subject: Re: Advice? DASSK "wholly out-of-touch with reality" says  			"Nicholas"

greenwood and people like this are like flies, they keep coming back
from time to time until they get smashed. he wrote a guidebook? i think
he's dreaming to have a street named after him. only in his dreams, or
perhaps he'll sneak one into his guidebook. 

the "myanmar 96" promotion didnt work because people like greenwood were
promoting it. 
greenwood IS history, only he's trying to revise it.
> 
> Mate, let me say you honestly. I can see you in one of those uniforms worn by East
> Timorese pro Jakarta militias with cheque book in hand.

to sell them life insurance with a bank in the caymans.


Panyoma/syd
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> Dawn Star wrote:
> 
> > Nicho, you know what I really think of you, and your ideas, selling the
> > tourist industry, trying to promote business in burma, well, let me say
> > this, and my apologies to the light hearted and the overly sensitive,
> > dont read on, but a lot worse has been posted of the brutality of the
> > regime and its crimes, nicho, let me tell you that with the deepest
> > respect for the wholeness and goodness of human life, you and your anti
> > sanctions movement, and your talk, you are like the old pimp trying to
> > sell a used whore made up to look like something it is not, and parading
> > it hungry and pathetic parasite eager to do it, without any respect for
> > human values and morality. if fact, when i think about it, and you
> > invited this, you may very well be the lowest they come, perhaps even
> > willing to supply the western tourists some back door pleasures that
> > must surely be available to the unabashed immoralists.
> >
> > a cheap wolf in sheeps clothes? or just someone who went astray too long
> > ago and never made it back to the path. i suggest you look through the
> > forest and see the trees, and with a little light, perhaps you might
> > read the works of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, instead of getting off on your
> > great literary guidebook. and give us all a break and save  your insults
> > for another country. you may be an expert on travel books, but you are
> > surely ignorant about the struggle for human rights and democracy. which
> > is why you do what you do, and nothing more.
> >
> > this is my last email to you so dont send another, my delete button is
> > set. you are cut off now here. adieu!ds
> >
> > NGreen1723@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > >
> > > Typical of you lot - can't see the light for the trees. One word against your
> > > heroine and that person is a traitor, a spy, an SPDC stooge/puppet, fan of
> > > the generals, blah, blah, blah. No wonder that you have achieved nothing.
> > >
> > > I have made no secret of the fact that I am wholly opposed to both
> > > sanctions/boycotts and  a call for a tourism boycott of Burma. And I am not
> > > so overcome by the aura of your heroine that I am prepared to stand up and
> > > say this. You lot, on the other hand, simply kowtow to her every word - if
> > > she said the Shwedagon Pagoda was made of cream cheese, you'd believe her.
> > >
> > > Since, unlike I, you do not travel regularly inside Burma, you cannot
> > > possibly be aware what the "man on the street" feels about tourism.
> > >
> > > I am a trifle surprised that it has taken you so long to abuse me; my views
> > > have been well known for many years. And indeed my guidebook may just
> > > surprise you - I suggest you read it, along with the reviews of it by the
> > > likes of Bertil Lintner and John Pilger. Even Dr Sein Win has a signed copy,
> > > along with your great heroine, to whom it was actually dedicated and to whom
> > > I presented a copy at her Rangoon home in December 1995.