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Predictably, the Daily Telegraph has recieved complaints about its comment pieces expressing worry that the 9/11 rememberance is being overtaken by kitsch. In today’s DT, there is a measured response to these criticisms. It is rather sad to see anyone suggest that the author of the peice wanted those who died on 9/11 to be “forgotten”. I am in no doubt that she has spared us some of the nastier emails she must have gotten. As I have said before, we should remember those who died that horrid day, but we need not turn it into a Disney-esque cavalcade of mourning. It will, as it has with Diana, cause sympathy fatigue, which will ultimately do harm to the memories of those who died.
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Well, the letters have changed a bit. But its the same ole’ fraudulent bullshit:
From: skomobutu20@runbox.com
Date: Sat Sep 07, 2002 11:50:43 AM Europe/London
To: skomobutu20@runbox.com
Subject: PLEA FOR ASSISTANCE
DEAR FRIEND.
I AM MRS.MARIAM SESE-SEKO WIDOW OF LATE PRESIDENT MOBUTU SESE-SEKO OF ZAIRE NOW KNOWN AS DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO.I AM MOVED TO WRITE YOU THIS LETTER,THIS WAS IN CONFIDENCE CONSIDERING MY PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCE AND SITUATION.I ESCAPED ALONG WITH MY HUSBAND AND TWO OF OUR SONS TIMOTHY AND BASHER OUT OF DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC) TO ABIDJAN,COTE D’IVOIRE WHERE MY FAMILY AND I SETTLED, WHILE WE LATER MOVED TO SETTLED IN MORROCO WHERE MY HUSBAND LATER DIED OF CANCER DISEASE.HOWEVER DUE TO THIS SITUATION WE DECIDED TO CHANGED MOST OF MY HUSBAND’S BILLIONS OF DOLLARS DEPOSITED IN SWISS BANK AND OTHER COUNTRIES INTO OTHER FORMS OF MONEY CODED FOR SAFE PURPOSE BECAUSE THE NEW HEAD OF STATE OF (DR) MR LAURENT KABILA HAS MADE ARRANGEMENT WITH THE SWISS GOVERNMENTAND OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TO FREEZE ALL MY LATE HUSBAND’STREASURES DEPOSITED IN SOME EUROPEAN
COUNTRIES. HENCE MY CHILDREN AND I DECIDED LAYING LOW IN AFRICA TO STUDY THE SITUATION TILL WHEN THINGS GETS BETTER.
THE SON TAKING KABILA">OVER.ONE OF MY LATE HUSBAND’S CHATEAUX IN SOUTHERN FRANCE WAS CONFISCATED BY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT,AND AS SUCH I HAD TO CHANGE MY IDENTITY SO THAT MY INVESTMENT WILL NOT BE TRACED AND CONFISCATED. I HAVE DEPOSITED THE SUM OF TWENTY-FIVE UNITED STATES DOLLARS WITH A SECURITY COMPANY, FOR SAFE KEEPING. THE FUNDS ARE SECURITY CODED TO PREVENT THEM FROM KNOWING THE CONTENT. WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO IS TO INDICATE YOUR INTEREST THAT YOU WILL ASSIST US BY RECEIVING THE MONEY ON OUR BEHALF IN EUROPE .I WILL ALSO WANT TO BUY PROPERTIES AND STOCK
IN MULTI-NATIONAL COMPANIES AND TO ENGAGE IN OTHER SAFE AND NON SPECULATIVE INVESTMENTS.MAY I AT THIS POINT EMPHASISE THE HIGH LEVEL OF CONFIDENTIALITY, WHICH THIS BUSINESS DEMANDS,AND HOPE YOU WILL NOT BETRAY THE TRUST ANDCONFIDENCE, WHICH I REPOSE IN YOU.IN CONCLUSION,IF YOU WANT TO ASSIST US , OUR ATTORNEY SHALL PUT YOU IN THE PICTURE OF THE BUSINESS,TELL YOU WHERE THE FUNDS ARE CURRENTLY BEING MAINTAINED AND ALSO DISCUSS OTHER MODALITIES INCLUDING REMUNERATION FOR YOUR SERVICES.I SINCERELY WILL APPRECAITE YOUR ACKNOWLEDGMENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
BEST REGARDS,
MRS M. SESE SEKO Comments are off for this post
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Since Amish Tech Support can’t pull his finger out of his arse and blogroll us, he is getting dumped from ours. In a recent post he slags off Andrew Sullivan; what a total toser!
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You are a multi-millonaire, millon selling heavy metal singer, and you are bored, so what do you do? You become a a charter pilot, if you are Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson. Well, I suppose he is too old to fence for his country anymore, so being a charter pilot is the logical thing to do. He is still singer for Iron Maiden, solo artist, and author, so being a pilot makes sense, right? I have never been into hero worship, me, I have too much of an ego, but Dickinson is as close as it gets.
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