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I'm proud to be an American
I for one, am glad to have come back home, I got to meet George!
We found him to be such a gentleman, and kind, no matter what anyone thinks of George!
We found him to be such a gentleman, and kind, no matter what anyone thinks of George!
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MAD wrote: I for one, am glad to have come back home, I got to meet George!
We found him to be such a gentleman, and kind, no matter what anyone thinks of George!
I am glad you are back home also Mad, welcome home and glad you enjoyed meeting George.
I am also very proud to be an American.
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Biker wrote: Well Shirleypal, it appears that I somehow offended and that was not my intention.
Apologies.
Biker
No you did not offend me, the other guy has his own deck and this is the Art Bell deck. This thread and others all over this great forum try to stay on topic otherwise it causes problems with some. It it kind of an unwritten rule. Art reads here and I am sure he doesn't want to be compared to anyone or hear negative things about someone else. Don't worry about it Biker.......btw where to you hail from?
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Personally, If Art stays in Manila, moves to the Himilayas, or returns to the US, it's his live and his choice, not mine. I wish him well no matter what he decides to do.
Art. Follow your heart. Be happy with your live. That's all anyone can do.
Art. Follow your heart. Be happy with your live. That's all anyone can do.
"You have forgotten the face of your father." Roland Deschain
Hi Neighbor (Biker) I live in NW Idaho...
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I saw this in DU about the Phillipines:
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Activists, peasant leaders live in fear of death squads
The Philippine Star 11/13/2006
Peasant leader and Protestant pastor Isaias Sta. Rosa was enjoying the company of his children on a balmy August night when 20 heavily armed men barged into his home and forcibly snatched him. Thirty minutes later he was dead, his bullet-riddled body dumped on the muddy banks of a creek less than 100 meters from his modest two-bedroom home in Malobago, a quiet, impoverished farming village in the eastern Bicol region.
Sta. Rosa’s case got little attention in the national press, his death only a statistic added to the more than 700 activists gunned down by so-called paramilitary "death squads" in the Philippines in the past five years alone.
But what made this case different was that it offers the first real hard evidence that the military was involved in the killings: one of the abductors was accidentally killed in the burst of gunfire that also felled Sta. Rosa.
An ID card in the gunman’s pocket identified him as Lordger Pastrana, a member of the army’s intelligence group who was out on a "secret mission" to liquidate leftist dissidents.
http://www.philstar.com/philstar/News200611130402.htm
Background: A killing season
Saturday, November 11, 2006
...Human rights groups here and abroad say the government of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has crossed the line with an anti-left campaign that some say has claimed nearly 800 lives since she took office in 2001. Amnesty International says 51 leftist leaders were assassinated in the first half of 2006 and the group earlier in the year condemned the killings in a strongly worded report. "Attacks rarely lead to the charge, arrest, or prosecution of the murderers," Amnesty said. "A long-existing failure to prosecute and convict those suspected of human rights violations is having a corrosive impact on public confidence in the rule of law."
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/weekend_n ... l.asp?p...
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I saw this in DU about the Phillipines:
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Activists, peasant leaders live in fear of death squads
The Philippine Star 11/13/2006
Peasant leader and Protestant pastor Isaias Sta. Rosa was enjoying the company of his children on a balmy August night when 20 heavily armed men barged into his home and forcibly snatched him. Thirty minutes later he was dead, his bullet-riddled body dumped on the muddy banks of a creek less than 100 meters from his modest two-bedroom home in Malobago, a quiet, impoverished farming village in the eastern Bicol region.
Sta. Rosa’s case got little attention in the national press, his death only a statistic added to the more than 700 activists gunned down by so-called paramilitary "death squads" in the Philippines in the past five years alone.
But what made this case different was that it offers the first real hard evidence that the military was involved in the killings: one of the abductors was accidentally killed in the burst of gunfire that also felled Sta. Rosa.
An ID card in the gunman’s pocket identified him as Lordger Pastrana, a member of the army’s intelligence group who was out on a "secret mission" to liquidate leftist dissidents.
http://www.philstar.com/philstar/News200611130402.htm
Background: A killing season
Saturday, November 11, 2006
...Human rights groups here and abroad say the government of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has crossed the line with an anti-left campaign that some say has claimed nearly 800 lives since she took office in 2001. Amnesty International says 51 leftist leaders were assassinated in the first half of 2006 and the group earlier in the year condemned the killings in a strongly worded report. "Attacks rarely lead to the charge, arrest, or prosecution of the murderers," Amnesty said. "A long-existing failure to prosecute and convict those suspected of human rights violations is having a corrosive impact on public confidence in the rule of law."
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/weekend_n ... l.asp?p...
Hurst wrote: Well, Hi, nieghbors... more Idahoans here than I realized. I live in Pocatello...southeast Idaho. I used to live in Lava Hot Springs....a special place near here. Someone on either this site or the C2C message board [Detloff, if I remember correctly] lives in Pocatello also.:
I was in Boise for two years in the mid nineties but basically from CA and just moved up to the panhandle of ID three months ago.