Idi Amin Dada - Francis Pym

The death of Francis Pym on March 7, 2008 at age 86 has opened up some old wounds. The Pym family had been in politics since the reign of Charles 1st. He was educated at Cambridge at a time when it was rotten with Russian sympathizers. Politics was always in his blood and would later be serious contender to Margaret Thatcher for Conservative leadership.

It is said he was a voice of moderation in the" Thatcherite" government, and while Defense Secretary in 1979-81 he argued against the savage defense cuts she wanted to make, and had she not listened to him we would not have been able to win back the Falkland islands in 1982, but it was Monetarist policies which he fought against the hardest.

The Thatcher open door economy meant buying from the cheapest source no matter what, and because buying from abroad was cheaper. Thatcher smashed the heavy industries: shipbuilding, steel, cars, motorbikes, fishing etc, the mines were all closed, and small businesses were saddled with a 17 1/2 % V.A.T (value added tax) which killed off busy.

It's nice when the politicians keep their promises to work for the British people and then do the opposite.

But what has always interested me is the connection to Idi Amin Dada, better known as Idi Amin. Lord Pym, while defense secretary, signed a security document, that looked like an M.I.6 I.O.P.S memo, (Information operations Planning System) on the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. Amin was the son of a well known local sorceress, who before she became pregnant, told her small Muslim Kakwa tribe, that her boy would go on to do great things and would be a much feared warrior, the practice of Kendocki magic was alive and well as his birthday was kept secret to ward off enemy astrologers and psychics.

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