Words – True and Perceive

Now that the United States President Mr Barack Obama has settled in to the White House, it was time to write to him on my thoughts on his Presidency and his immediate past incumberant plus copies of my two essays; Think – An Essay on Governance and Think – A Proposal for a major change within the world financial system and matters relating.

I hope that he or and his advisors read them and thay help in some way. He may not like some of the commentry , either in the letter or my February blog – Truth tell hard facts. Mr President does not appear to like spending time in his office, something he will learn in time, so it is probably up to vice President Mr Viden to attent to running the White House and possibly hear about my letter.

I came to thinking about the Swat Valley and my indications in 2004 in the essay and letter to President Bush about the possible where a bouts of Bin Laden and his brothers in arms The Taliban and El Queda – it all came true didn't it and seen at last. Its all to do with advisors who pass on the messages or shred them. In the Clinton era Mr Clinton somehow found time to attend to correspondence, always the British Prime minister of the day including Mr Browns office now and my own Australian PM, although not so good as his predecessor plus a number of others who search and are interested in the word 'True'. Hopefully I am doing my bit for a better world.

Perceive, is a world of its own, as we and I have seen, a few examples come to mind. The detainees at Guantanamo Bay or camp delta is good for starters, in that following the paymen t of about one thousanUS dolars to 'bounty hunters' in Pakistan and Afghanistan etc, the Bush administration really did 'perceive' the detainees to be Enamy Combatants . I supported Australias Mr David Hicks ; Mr Mossam Begg of the UK plus another Australia Mamoud Habbib . In Mr Habbibs case I wrote Mr Bush informing him that some time agoe I helped a young man out of Saudi Arabia who was in trouble with the countries authorities politically I think and so Mr Bush owned me one. A few weeks later he was released, coincidence or not we will never know of course. Anyway David Hicks is slowly recovering from the awful treatment he received in Camp Delta and so is Mr Habbib . Mossam Begg wrote a very intelligent book of his experiences , I wrote to him explaining some matters he got wrong concerning the UK visitors he had, he didn't respond as I think he got a little above himself. Now we have the lad ,'UK again telling his story it is ongoing so will come back to it later.

Still on the word 'Perceive' , I am thinkin g of the Brazilian man shot dead on the London underground last year - perceived to be a terrorist and dangerous, shot by a left handed policeman, I believe one eye witness said, just once on radio but not repeated. Londons Chief of police tried to excusse, by saying , police caught up in the moment and under stress make mistakes – rubbish anti- terrorist operatives are trained to be indifferent to stress of the moment as are police horses , SAS soldiers and the like. As always I wrote to the fello of the day of my thoughts.

Back to 'True' and some good thoughts and news in my families lives. A year agoe my sisters grand daughter and colleage won the World championship in France for Body Painting, the images are quite stunning and its on again this european summer no dought. Whow and behold , my sister Joyce in Kent has sent me a newspaper cutting annoucing that a couson one Douglas Birch has been awarde the MBE this year for services to his community and the old mining industry (coal).I last met him when I was about ten, goodness me there is a likeness,well he is my late mother brothers son.

The Birch's are or were a well known coal mining family in the English midlands and here in Australia/NSW, where a number are buried in Bulli, 80 klms south of Sydney. Way back the late 1800's it was others went to India and I have photograghs taken in Bombay 1897 0f my mums mothers sister and her husband and another sister. Its very frustrating not to be able to post pictures yet,but its all coming folks, please hang on.

A true little story to finish off a Pakistan story – I was walking down the maun street of my local town of Batemans Bay, not unlike any town in the UK or US, anywhere really. An Indian lady was sitting at an outside cafe with her young daughter. As I passed she looked at me a smiled, good morning I smiled back. I went to the post office and saw her again and she said may I speak to you, certainly went the reply, well I saw you walking down the street and you so reminded me of my father ,same colour clothes small old breif case and even brown shoes.

Ah, my memories of Pakistan , so I told her that I had always felt at home in Pakistan,when on business there, to which she replied that although she comes from India the family left at the toime of partition. So I said to the good lady that the place I really felt at home with was Pesawar and to our amazment she smiled again and said , yes thats where our family came from. I have kicked myself so many times for not getting her name and address, for it was only weeks later that I received the photograghs taken in 1879. Intrigue, of course.

Thats it for March.

Recommended book for people interested in fiction based on possible fact and inbuilt pyhcy of security operatives ' At Risk' by Stella Rimington – former head of M15 Arrow books, Random House.

Bye for now
Malcolm Mason.