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

[dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

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

i'm sorry, i didnt mean to insult flies, i like flies, and i don't make
a habit of smashing them, like the HH the Dalai Lama says, who knows, it
may be your Mother. actually a Buddhist monk told me in Lumbini,
birthplace of Buddha, not to smash even mosquitos, and greenwood isnt
worth the bad karma. cheers, metta, ds

Dawn Star wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
> > 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.