A fifty something plus American male called John Yettaw (real name?) swims across a lake in the dead of night, enters the most heavily guarded house in Burma, that of Aung Sang Suu Kyi completely undetected and then refuses to leave. The fellow is detected after two days following which Suu Kyi is sentenced to hard labour reduced to 18 months house arrest in a magnanimous gesture by the slugs who rule Burma. An unknown US senator Jim Webb turns up in Burma and Yettaw is promptly released. Life is not a chocolate commercial that you just swim to the most heavily guarded political prisoner in a foreign country. Clearly the Burmese slugs are ecstatic because Suu Kyi is now barred from standing in next year's fraudulent elections. How did they get an American to play the part? Advertise in a newspaper? ' Wanted stupid looking man to swim to Suu Kyi, ah so ' will certainly not work. So who organised this farce? Do the Americans want something so badly from Burma that they organised this comedy? Or is the foul hand of the murderous Chinese helping their equally murderous brothers to secure rights to Burmese gas? I just hope that our politicians are not so preoccupied with Pakistan that they neglect our malignant eastern neighbour.