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Burma Out! Sig Freud Goes On Strik



Subject: Burma Out!  Sig Freud Goes On Strike

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There's a lot about the use of the mind that one does not 
know. Some minds are considered sick and primitive, pre-
buddhist. Some minds are considered as something called 
"human" or "advanced".

While one wonders which the Generals consider as the better 
of  the two. One also imagines under thes circumstances, it may 
not be the Generals who know best about such subjects. But 
only those who know how to use something that we all called 
"the mind".

Burma Out!  is a cynical b'stard of a campaign. And doesn't 
beileve in anything except its mandate. And, it never ever 
believes what it reads in the newspapers nor sees on TV 
as 100% pure uncut truth.

Let me tell you a story. Way back in around 1989, we 
published the definitive article on sports sanctions in Europe's 
numero uno sports magazine. Which in truth, although going 
out under my own name had some of the best editors in the 
world working harder than usual to perfect its quality.

1/ The editor of Europe's number one, Golf World. Robert Green.

2/ The political companion of the assassinated Steve Biko, 
founder of the  Black Conciousness Movement, journalist, editor,  
and chess player Donald Woods.... The eventual subject of 
the movie, "Cry Freedom"..

3/ Deborah Ewing, then still "part of the family" and the first 
member  of the Anti-Apartheid Movement news team to visit 
South Africa.    Now living in Durban

And me.

This was the first time that Europe had read the "believable
side of golf in S Africa."  For previously that had only been
the propaganda of such as Gary Payer, whose family still 
drips with diamonds, similarly to the female side of the family 
of Margaret Thatcher. A well known handbag wealder from
the Outa Conservativeshires and who took Dennis her bleary-
eyed  little englander husband on a lot of golf holidays on the 
Cape. .

BO does not want to get into "in-house" politics herein but 
the  media lesson was well learned. And still goes. For the 
sheets are absolutely full of Rach today. (All that emotional 
stuff, about )

"Hey Rach" we love you beyond the cause of Bingoland!".
She even held the front page of the  Evening Standard yesterday. 
(Monday).

Meanwhile, BO was talking about its plan for the ousting of 
the  worlds numero uno drug dealer to Australia, on two 
popular radio  shows. One in the morning, which was repeated,
and one late at night. One of which will be followed later in the 
month by an interview with the UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook. 

Buit to cut a long story even longer. After the article on S Africa 
was published. Those lovely people from white Bopothutswanna 
called. 

"Mr Bunn, you are wrong, you are wrong, you are etc etc.
"Bopothutswanna (Sun City) is a wonderful place, we are making 
Real Progress" They said.

"We want you to change your mind and tell the world" They said.

"We want to fly you to Sun City for lunch!" They offered.  
(I thought about that one for a moment for the snow was on the 
London streets and Sun City seemed a great place to have a 
what?       A golf holiday? No, thanks.)

"M'dear fellow," Replied  Bunn, "No thanks. " I shouldn't even be 
talking  to you. Let alone listening to you talking to me about 
going to your fair sunny land, currently being held under a real
b'stard of an ilegal and racist regime." 

"But I will drop by your London office sometime." "Goodbye."

Now Burma is vastly different from another great drug producer,
Columbia. But the Burmese may be becoming as smart as the 
S Africans. For when S Africa called for sports sanctions, at Tokyo 
in 64, things "developed nicely".    Burma has Buddhism.

              The first Noble Law of Buddhism is

                  "If something exists, it suffers" 

(Are the Generals listening?)

But what Columbia has yet to realise is that, if you want to 
genuinely get rid of the bad guys. There has to be a "sacrifice". 
In Columbia's case, a more peaceful method of anti-drug 
censure shoud be innitiated instead of waiting for a lethal 
visit from the Green  Berets and the Regiment, accompanied 
by the US Drug Czar General Barry McCaffrey and 3/4 of a
billion dollars of US taxpayers money, into 40% of what soon 
could become an already misbegotten land under "almost" 
foreign military control.

Rach made a bit of a sacrifice huh? Two months in Insein and 
no pay? Jeez, what a life. And now she is all over the papers. 
It's not quite the same emotional ratio as when Diana hit the 
wall. Or when comrade Mandela came home to Soweto. But, 
if one can believe the UK "sheets", almost.

There are violin sections on the streets playing weepy music 
to the massed  ranks of the unexplored liberal. So can't someone 
send her her butt back now!? It's awful, here. The tears are 
jerking from Del Monte to De Beers and even the neobunkers 
are getting flooded. And while Rach is happily (one may wonder)
touring Bopothutswanna, sorry my mistake, north Burma. 

We are all drowning in sentiment.. 

Rr






Follow the plea by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and the appreciations 
of HH the Dalai Lama, the Shan Democratic Union,  film maker John 
Pilger, the Free Burma Coalition,  author Alan Clements, Dennis 
Skinner MP, Tony Benn MP, Ann Clwyd MP, Congress-woman  
Maxine Waters,  Socialist Workers' Party,  Dr and Welsh rugby  
star JPR Williams, Hendrix  bassist Noel Redding,  S African jazz 
pianist Abdullah Ibrahim,  All Burma Students Democratic 
Organisation,  All Burma Students Democratic Front, Tasmanian 
Trades & Labour Council, Tim Gopsill, editor. 
The.Journalist@xxxxxxxxxx, and numerous others.   

Supporting a Genuine war upon drugs and human rights abuse.
Sydney 2000 : Burma Out! 
http://www.mihra.org/2k/burma.htm

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Union Action http://www.mihra.org/2k/Union.htm

Founded during UN50. Mihra's roots are in music and anti-racism and 
was first in line in calling for a sports boycott of Burma for the Sydney
2000 Olympic Games. Mihra also advances protection of creators rights 
in an anti-cultural market, currently 93.8% monopolised by the recording  
/ publishing Grand Cartel. 

Major solo work "Piece of Mind". With orchestra, Holland 69. same  
time as Beatles "Abbey Road".   http://onlinetv.com/rogerbunn.html
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