To quote Mel Brooks: It's good to be the king.
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and is anyone checking what was done with all the money Obama gave the IMF?
Were US taxpayers paying for that $3000 a night hotel suite?
It's good to be the king.
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This FBI raid confirms what was found on a FARC computer: anti war activists who support terrorism.
Yes, they too are above the law, because they are on the side of the angels, never mind that the "good guys" they support kill, kidnap, terrorize, plant landmines, and are involved in drug smuggling.
The document goes on to say that people in the Minneapolis, Chicago, Phoenix, Detroit, Los Angeles and Charlotte, North Carolina, divisions have "provided and/or conspired to provide material support to the FARC and/or the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, also a U.S. State Department designated FTO."
A lot of the left, including the gov't of Venezuela supported FARC with money and areas to hide, even after two amnesties and reform led to most of their followers coming in from the cold, a million Colombianos demonstrating against their terrorism suggested they have little popular support, and that FARC and ELN have actually evolved into narcoterrorists.
Here is a typical cover up of the problem: left wing blog complaints that the raid was illegal (not that FARC was illegally in Ecuador or that Ecuador was aiding terrorists) and then quote some big shot activists with no computer knowledge who insist the information was made up, or the computers didn't have that much information, or even if they did, the hard drives and thumb drives must have been destroyed in the raid, or even if the computers were okay then it would take a thousand years to read the documents to prove the allegations.
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a similar scenerio is found with the left who supports the communists in the Philippines: it's not that "extrajudicial killing" doesn't occur and needs to be stopped (or that such killing is done by a lot of people on all sides of the argument) but that there are folks who literally got away with murder (often of kidnapped soldiers, workers or businesspeople) in the name of revolution, and now are given amnesty.
The dirty little secret is that these groups find funding by kidnapping and extortion: you have to pay a "fee" to run for office or start a business in certain areas. And even many of the "Islamic terror" bombings here are in retaliation against those who refuse to cooperate with their threats (i.e. don't pay them for not bombing their buses or ferries).
The rumor is that the killers of our nephew were ex NPA members who were thrown out for being too violent. They justified their killings by insisting they were "meeting out justice" to various people, where they were really only hired assassins who were hired by one politician or businessman to kill his rival.
In our nephew's case, the murder was rumored to be for political reasons: (either deliberate hit or a "warning" that went bad when the politician wasn't there, only his sons and wife).
In some ways, it was similar to the Maguindanao massacre on a smaller scale: the aim was to eliminate the candidate, but when they only found family members and witnesses, they just killed anyway.
Why the killings? Because they figured they could get away with it. In our case, they might be correct, but in the Maguindanao massacre the press will stay on it because of all the reporters killed.
This is not "left vs right" or even "infidel vs true believer".
in both cases it was about money.
Winning an election allows you to get rich.
In our case, there werer are rumors that the court case has been delayed over and over again because of "gifts" to the Ombudsman office (rumors say the money was diverted from the local government's account), but now that the head of the Ombudsman office has been removed, we are still waiting for justice.
Delay, however, means that witnesses will "forget", "disappear" or be killed.
When justice is delayed, some folks take things into their own hands. A couple years ago in our town, one low level politician was killed, and when the rival showed up at his wake, the son got angry and threw a handgrenade at him and his bodyguards.
Already one person slightly involved in our case has been killed in a hit job, and the question is was if for something he did, or because someone was afraid of something he might do (i.e. spill the beans). But we were told we can't ask for justice, since our nephew wasn't the target (only talking to the target when the hit men arrived).
The irony is that if this happened in the US, our nephew would have been carrying a gun for protection and probably would have gotten off a shot, but here permits are hard to find, and most "security guards" are poorly trained, and in the incident they were the first ones killed.
Speaking of terrorism: The mall not only frisked us but had three soldiers helping the security guard at the entrance. Is that because of OBL? Maybe, but it also could be because they caught five shoplifters a week ago for stealing thousands of dollars of merchandise and they are worried at a revenge bomb.
ah, the pleasure of living on a tropical island.
But of course, the chances of dying from terror are a lot lower than being killed by floods, mudslides, typhoons, earthquakes and Dengue fever.
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