Dear
Secretary Clinton,
Please
note, this letter was written and co authored by a *third party with my full
editorial control.
I
require assistance to communicate my thoughts and understanding of my
environment as I suffer from aphasia.
I have suffered severe injustice as a
disabled United States citizen in Bahrain.
My
rights as an American business owner and job creator have also been abused.
My American
heritage traces back to the Mayflower. Winston Churchill was first cousin to my
great grandmother. I was born to a life of privilege and wealth. But I am no
stranger to adversity.
My
father took his own life after losing our family’s fortune. I was homeless at
fifteen. I dropped out of school and got a job. I attended trade school. I
worked hard and took risks.
I
was driven to regain the honor of my family and remake the riches lost. From
Woodstock to Moscow, my life became an international expansion of the American
dream.
On April 29, 2002 I addressed the
Russian Institute of American Businesses as a guest speaker. I challenged them
to establish real partnership with our former enemies. I challenged our
congress and our chamber of commerce to use the tactics that had made my dreams
possible, be sincere in their dealings with these new capitalists, and our
banks to be ethical in their practices. I had recovered from my hardship and was electrified by the
prospects of building a peaceful international economy. I was committed to doing
my part creating jobs here, in the United States, as well as in over twenty
foreign countries.
I
was rushed to the hospital with chest pain just six hours later. With surgery,
I survived a massive aortic rupture. Only one person in ten can say as
much. I awoke with a disabling
case of aphasia.
Suddenly, my capability to articulate my
thoughts and direct my international operations had been drastically
altered. I could not manage my
investments in Bahrain, Russia, or here in America.
I
worked diligently to recover with the help of Gennadiy, my good friend and
Russian business partner. Five months later, ITIC’s Vice President tragically
died from injuries sustained in a plane crash. Without him and I, the
businesses were taken over. I pushed on. I worked with others recovering from
brain injury, serving on the board of the Aphasia Foundation and contributing
part of my small fortune to helping others struggling to feel understood and
represented, respected and loved.
For years, I continued to recover
physically and regain some of my speech, but my aphasia makes it impossible to
articulate verbally or in writing the complexity of my thought and
understanding. I understand actions more clearly and I have been wronged.
I request to meet with your department
in order to explore resolution of my debt and to potentially bring relief from
the continued suffering of millions in Bahrain and throughout the region.
My
personal grievance involves the Al Khalifa family and a debt of $650,000 owed
to me.
I
loaned one million dollars interest free in 2008. Our U.S. economy was
collapsing from the reckless speculation in the unregulated financial industry.
Even at no interest, my capital at least was safe. Or so I thought. Repayment
is long overdue. The few payments I have received, leave me little as I lose
nearly half to taxes, too little to pay my growing bills.
You
could not ask for a more motivated or determined partner in bringing about a
sustainable and replicable solution
in
Bahrain. We believe we can help.
I am now compelled to return to Bahrain
and collect my debt.
My
aphasia often compels me to act with direct action, unfiltered.
I have found throwing my shoe is a
widely recognized substitute for the spoken word and I use it as an expression
of free speech. This caused my arrest here in Washington D.C. last year and my
near arrest last trip to Bahrain. I do not wish to recreate this spectacle
needlessly.
We
wish to help the administration reduce the conflict of the region and establish
a model of hope and respect. We believe it possible to bring about a dignified
reconciliation in Bahrain and around the world. We look to help develop a
universal focus of hope for an abundance in this and future generations.
We
are in need of an innovative solution to the economic and social chaos present
today.
Developing
means and providing access to food, water and shelter for community is not only
the moral minimum or our humanitarian responsibility, it is the basis of a
sustainable economy.
I understand what we are faced with
requires high hopes and our most imaginative demands.
Times
that are upon us require extraordinary design. Let me talk to a trusted
delegate and explore the feasibility of a proposed project that has come to my
attention and is worthy of support.
I
am a patriot of my country and a strong supporter of human rights at every
level.
I
anxiously await your reply and focusing our resources more effectively on all
of our shared objectives, Peace in the middle east and around the world.
Respectfully,
Winston Jerome Lindsley
703
405 1732
“In
my country, as in yours, public men are proud to be servants of the state and
would be ashamed to be its masters.”
Winston Churchill 26 Dec 1941
“He
turned to face the Capitol and gave his shoe a mighty toss in its direction.
Although no one was actually hit this time, he symbolically decimated every
lawyer, lobbyist and member of Congress in one stroke.” Bob Ballard, of Winston Lindsley 26 Dec
2011
*this
letter co crafted by Charles Holsopple ,
veteran
U S Army, 1972-1975, independent journalist, friend and vigil keeper.
813
357 9037
“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the
climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have
been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate
possible for human life itself.”
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, Second Inaugural Address,
Jan. 21, 1957
The
people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are
going to have to give in and give, it to them.
Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
The two are frame photo'ed here, Bahrain and Britain.
