{12/11/99

The Editor

International Herald Tribune

Sir,

Michael Richardson's mournful article (IHT, 09/11/99) tells us more about himself than about Segal. The demise of Segal is indeed a great loss to whiteman-kind, but to claim that he “defied conventional wisdom” is nothing less than turning oneself into a box of Kiwi shoe-polish-- Richardson manages to make both shine by smearing himself onto Segal's dead body.

What Segal had spurted out was nothing more extraordinary than those of Richardson or other propagandists of the demoncratic [sic] West. Sometime before July 1997, I sat in front of the TV set in Hong Kong and watched him declare that this place was China’s “soft underbelly”. As we now know, Hong Kong has turned out to be the hole on Britain’s backside, which the "over-ranked power", i.e. China, could poke at will and got away with doing so too. Conventional wisdom was defied here-- but not by Segal.

His lecture to India about Pakistan being “a basket case” is even funnier. Both these countries have, of course, inherited the “British system” and are run by Anglophiles trained in the same old schools. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what calling Pakistan "a basket case" says about India. You don’t have to scratch you head either to works out what that says about the Britain itself..

What Segal could see and “dared to express” was unremarkable enough. What he failed to see and the “free press” (like the IHT) dares not print are the real stuff that defy conventional wisdom. Genghis K has a few of the latter.

Segal was lucky to have been taken away by cancer before these mocking satires struggled free from the censorship imposed by the "free press" and reached him. Otherwise, he would have flipped his "soft underbelly" over in a totally different manner.

Sincerely

**Censored by "The Free Press", Refused publication**}

{12/11/99

The Editor

International Herald Tribune

Sir,

Michael Richardson's mournful article (IHT, 09/11/99) tells us more about himself than about Segal. The demise of Segal is indeed a great loss to whiteman-kind, but to claim that he “defied conventional wisdom” is nothing less than turning oneself into a box of Kiwi shoe-polish-- Richardson manages to make both shine by smearing himself onto Segal's dead body.

What Segal had spurted out was nothing more extraordinary than those of Richardson or other propagandists of the demoncratic [sic] West. Sometime before July 1997, I sat in front of the TV set in Hong Kong and watched him declare that this place was China’s “soft underbelly”. As we now know, Hong Kong has turned out to be the hole on Britain’s backside, which the "over-ranked power", i.e. China, could poke at will and got away with doing so too. Conventional wisdom was defied here-- but not by Segal.

His lecture to India about Pakistan being “a basket case” is even funnier. Both these countries have, of course, inherited the “British system” and are run by Anglophiles trained in the same old schools. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what calling Pakistan "a basket case" says about India. You don’t have to scratch you head either to works out what that says about the Britain itself..

What Segal could see and “dared to express” was unremarkable enough. What he failed to see and the “free press” (like the IHT) dares not print are the real stuff that defy conventional wisdom. Genghis K has a few of the latter.

Segal was lucky to have been taken away by cancer before these mocking satires struggled free from the censorship imposed by the "free press" and reached him. Otherwise, he would have flipped his "soft underbelly" over in a totally different manner.

Sincerely

**Censored by "The Free Press", Refused publication**}