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TESTAMONIALS
I have received literally hundreds of thousands of letters of support. Read the following and add your own!
Martin has been my business guru from the start and I don’t know if I can survive without his management wisdom.
If you need me to organise a campaign for the release of this 110% innocent man, just say the word.
Victor Arotsky
From: The Committtee To Protect The AB Global One.
New York
Dear Sir,
I am writing to draw your attention to a scandalous human rights case taking place under your very noses. Martin Lukes, the British head of AB Global, who’s correspondence appears each week in your newspaper, has been held for at least three weeks by US authorities, apparently incommunicado. The committee, which is a loyal FT subscriber, makes no comment on the substance of the case against him but your newspaper could surely demand that he has access to a computer, if only to give some winter cheer to his many fans.
Yours sincerely
Chris Stephen
It is awful that we haven’t heard from Martin since his incarceration. I hope that his case can be brought to a speedy resolution, hopefully in Martin’s favour. However, if he is guilty I am sure that he will have some profound reflections to share on what must have been a 220% tough experience for him and also hope that any sentence is not too long. In an odd way, I think Martin might enjoy “giving something back” through a community service sentence on either side of that pond which must so often have looked up on Martin jetting from one key business assignment to another.
If you do manage to swap emails with him, please give him my bestest.
Regards
Jonas Cunningham
where is Martin? – or is he simply unable to send emails from Jail (gaol?)
please advise asap - nobody can do any work in our office this morning without knowing what has happened !!!!
Regards
Glyn James
Sir,
I think I speak for all your readers in expressing my most fervent desire to open tomorrow’s (1/17) FT and find waiting a Mind Bullet from everyman’s favorite encarcerated champion of industry, Martin Lukes. Integethical footprints are shrinking with every week that FT readers and A-B Global employees are deprived of Mr Lukes’ paternal guidance and encouragement. Going forward, let us all stand in solidarity as co-colleagues with Martin, who needs our support more than ever, and urge the US authorities to release a man who is guilty only of keeping it authentic.
Carl Aldrich
Integethical Co-Colleagues for Truth
New York, NY 10006
The news is that this year’s Davos lacks the panache, the vibrance, the creovation© that our friend Martin Lukes added last year. If there is a chance that this is all a mistake, and he will be sprung from the slammer, I would have thought that properly chastened by his run-in with the law that his career path could now migrate toward a position in a Big 4 accountancy as a SARBOX compliance executive. Either way, Thursday mornings are just not the same without Martin.
Best regards,
Harry F. Eustace, Sr.
Martin Lukes’ mind bullets have sustained me through volatile markets and I wonder where I might turn for guidance in the moral maze with ML incarcerated at the Presidents pleasure.
I hope that the Governor may be persuaded to allow him to have a blackberry to continue to share his thoughts with the FT ‘s readers as I am sure the breadth of his opinions and views will shift during his years washing vegetables and it will be fascinating to monitor this migration.
James Fairweather
We are all praying for Marty, Sherril and the kids.
That witch Dame Jenny had better watch her back.
Nigel Whittaker
Martin has been a role model for many of us and deserves a second opportunity, maybe as a business consultant, religious leader or politician, don’t you think?
Ignacio Gómez Montejo
Dear Martin
I am hoping you will come to see your ‘time’ as a creovative opportunity to share more of your wisdom via a follow up to Who Moved My Blackberry – but I guess you may find God in Florida instead!
Bon voyage and hopefully Au Revoir
Ruth McDonough
A sad commentary indeed that a talented and resourceful leader like Martin Lukes can be brought down by small thinkers utterly lacking the bold, creative skills he so magnificently personifies. He is an inspiration and pioneer and like so many pioneers has taken the arrows.
But where he stumbled, his legions of fans will surely rise to embody and bestow his teachings upon our staff. They look to us in times of distress. I am taking the rest of the day off in sympathy for the injustice.
Christian W. Thwaites
President and CEO
Sentinel Asset Management
Now that Martin Lukes has himself become a “key takeaway”, can we assume
that the FT is doing its utmost to secure the release of a man 150 per
cent committed to his own personal, trademarked brand of ethics. Without
ML and the positive role model he represents, the Thursday space will be
seriously light on authenticity, going forward.Tony Golding
London, W4 1TX
Cliché
(for Martin Lukes)
We hardly speak without cliché
What’s trite is often also true
It is what it is, at the end of the day
Not knowing what we mean to say
Our honest words amount to few
We hardly speak without cliché
Searching for a role to play
Waiting for an actor’s cue
It is what it is, at the end of the day
Our crown of thorns, our feet of clay
The daily grind we muddle through
We hardly speak without cliché
By listening to ourselves, we may
Choose silence, more often than we do
It is what it is, at the end of the day
Or not, whatever, it’s OK
That’s a lonely path for the precious few
We hardly speak without cliché
It is what it is, at the end of the day
Roger Carpentter
January 2008
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