Swimming to infamy

Just as I suspected, it is at the moment popular to be mad at John Yettaw for swimming to Aung San Suu Kyi’s house and spending the night, an action that led to her being given another 18 months under house arrest. People say he has done her cause harm, and “played into the generals’ hands”.

Now, I know it’s a fun and challenging intellectual pastime to find blame in odd places, but the way I see it, the fault lies with the Burmese junta for making it an offense to provide shelter to people from other countries. The generals of Burma are the ones that are continuing to hurt Ms. Suu Kyi’s cause by placing her under house arrest.

John Yettaw may be confused, be he is not the one who is evil here. All he did was swim to a house and spend the night there with the owner’s permission. Did you know that was a crime?