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2007-09-14 Southeast Asia

Philippine president to commies: Accept amnesty or face obliteration

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Posted by Fred 2007-09-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Hey hey! my kind of President.

How Communism can continue to be perceived as something worthwhile, in the face of all the evidence to the contrary, is totally beyond me.

Brilliant idea Ms President, tell them the amnesty program is open until ... yesterday! >:)

Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-09-14 00:48|| 2007-09-14 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 How Communism can continue to be perceived as something worthwhile, in the face of all the evidence to the contrary, is totally beyond me.

Tony - how can you say that? In North Korea, citizens can get all the rocks and tree bark they can eat! Michael Moore says that Cuba has the best health care in the world. It's even brought Fidel back from the dead (although he's developed a taste for 'brains'). And Bob Mugabe after nationalizing everything in sight has achieved record levels of inflation.

Posted by DMFD 2007-09-14 14:58|| 2007-09-14 14:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Ah silly me DMFD, I *completely* missed the bark bonanza in North Korea. I myself, being a Western running dog, am completely restricted from enjoying this bounty, no doubt by a Zionist-Amerikkkan conspiracy which is designed to keep me, the lumpen proleteriat, firmly ensconced in my role as footstool to the capitalist fatcats.

I shall storm the nearest Winter Palace immediately! Join me and we can wave bits of paper at each other whilst designing great bark-based projects for the glory of the people!

Jeez - it's dead easy to get into this psycho-babble mode isn't it - heh ;)

Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-09-14 16:42|| 2007-09-14 16:42|| Front Page Top

#4 How come she's going all hard ass on the commies but bending over for the muslims?

Posted by tu3031 2007-09-14 16:51|| 2007-09-14 16:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe cause there are a lot of muzzies.

You see, the Spanish lied that they own the Philippines when they gave it up to the US around the time of the turn of the last century. The Spanish managed the northern part, but only sorta flew the flag in the southern part. More to keep the other colonial powers away more than any real exercise of control over the locals. The people in Washington, not being aware of that point, thought they were getting something that was an integral entity of the treaty package. So when the muzzies objected to the Americans acting like they now really owned the place, the muzzies down south acted up. Tie that in with the fact the muzzies were actively engaged in slave trading as big commerce and the Americans were still on a crusade against slavery [post Civil War], resulted in a really messy quagmire(tm); tribes, burnt villages, dead civilians. However, the end result was that the Americans nailed the south down pretty well through military action. It did not set about to integrate the cultural differences that existed between the north and south that existed before the war. Of course, America unloaded the Philippines less than fifty years later, without that little issue really resolved. We've seen how friendly they are together as in Lebanon when the population ratio is close enough for them to force the issue of putting the infidel in his place.

For the north, they really don't have the military capacity to impose their will. So, its either try to negotiate [and we know how well that works] or cut them lose [which most countries are loath to do] or continue to muddle on hoping that either (a) they are able to convince the locals that union is better [with Christian corrupt pols and crooks running things] in the long run or (b) their own program of resettlement and displacement is able to marginalize the original locals [sorta like the American West].

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-09-14 17:46|| 2007-09-14 17:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Perhaps if the government wasn't so corrupt the communist wouldn't get so much popular support.

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-09-14 19:24|| 2007-09-14 19:24|| Front Page Top

#7 How come she's going all hard ass on the commies but bending over for the muslims?

Just the southern commies. They don't play well with the northern commies. The latter a) have a lot of influence on the government and b) are in sympathy with the muslims. Hence Arroyo's stance.

Posted by Pappy 2007-09-14 22:56|| 2007-09-14 22:56|| Front Page Top

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