Planning a Comeback

An obvious addiction to flamboyant
showmanship motivated the man's
entry into the political arena just as much
as his commitment to human rights and
rigorous principle. He would be someone
to watch, and he most certainly was; the
delight of the news media in portraying
the latest of his madcap escapades himself
at the centre of the stage choreographed to
embarrass those countries of the world and
their leaders who failed to observe those
most basic of governing attributes; fairness
rule of law and the desire to improve life
in every conceivable civil matrix one
might imagine. Firebrand, he was called
inciting him to ever greater spectacles of
one man braving potential slapback from
enraged politicians of the right who were
clearly wrong in all their miserable initiatives
as he wound his way through a litany of
international discrepancies in observing the
most basic of human rights and obligations.
He alone bore the distinction of a member
of Parliament refused entry to nations whose
records he deplored, even once bodily pitched
back onto a plane he had just deboarded.
Effervescent personality, celebrated orator
he strode the world stage rather than confine
himself to the boredom of Parliament. Until
one fateful day when he was observed lifting
and pocketing a luxury diamond ring he
meant to gift for his husband's birthday.