"Marcos seeks comeback in Philippines; Former first lady campaigns for seat in Congress" by Jim Gomez, Associated Press | March 27, 2010
BATAC, Philippines — Imelda Marcos, the former first lady forever associated with diamonds and a huge shoe collection, put on a bright orange tunic and hit the campaign trail yesterday in a bid to reenter Philippine Congress — a remarkable feat for the widow of a dictator seeking to clear his sullied name.
Oh, this is insulting!!!
The 80-year-old Marcos, her hair coiffed back and elegant leather sandals on her feet, led journalists at daybreak to the mausoleum of Ferdinand Marcos in his northern Philippine stronghold, where she kissed his glass coffin as cameras snapped.
That's not going to win her any votes!
“This is one of our major injustices,’’ she said, adding her victory would bring closer her dream of burying her husband in a heroes’ cemetery in Manila. Such a move has been denied by successive governments since Marcos’s death in US exile in 1989, three years after his ouster in a “people power’’ revolt.
I think you better ask the Filipinos about that!
I'm sure they simply loved the looting of their treasury for such extravagances.
Related:
"The U.S.-orchestrated coup which overthrew the government of Philippines' President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 was a classic case study of what John Perkins describes in his recent book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, as the post-World War II preferred method of imposing colonial control under another name. In the Philippines case, George Shultz performed the roles of both the economic hit man, destroying and taking full control of the Philippine economy, and the coup-master, deposing the Philippine President in favor of an IMF puppet—while calling the operation "people power.""
More: Shultz and the 'Hit Men' Destroyed the Philippines
But your AmeriKan newspaper is telling you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, dear readers!
The Marcoses were accused of corruption, political repression, and widespread human rights abuses during Ferdinand Marcos’s 20-year iron-fisted rule. After fleeing the presidential palace aboard US choppers — and leaving behind stunning jewels and 1,220 pairs of shoes — Imelda Marcos and their three children were allowed to return to the Philippines in 1991.
How do you like the DOUBLE-CROSS, 'eh?
Despite her reputation for extravagance, including shopping trips to the world’s poshest boutiques and lavish beautification projects in a nation wracked by poverty, Imelda Marcos retained supporters and even won a congressional seat in 1995. She ran unsuccessfully for president in 1992 and again in 1998.
“My ambition is to serve without end and to love without end,’’ Marcos said at a news conference in a hotel discotheque before her long convoy hit the road.
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"PHILIPPINES FIRE -- A resident tried to help with water from a river as a fire consumed 100 houses and displaced at least 400 families yesterday in the metro-Manila area (Boston Globe March 19 2010)."
So what other stereotypes can the Zionist War Daily hammer home?
"Devoted Filipinos nailed to crosses" by Associated Press | April 3, 2010
SAN FERNANDO, Philippines — Filipino faithful had themselves nailed to crosses yesterday to remember Jesus Christ’s suffering and death — an annual rite rejected by church leaders in the predominantly Roman Catholic country.
Isn't that a little extreme?
And just another rip job of Catholics, huh, BG?
At least 23 people were nailed to crosses in three villages in northern Pampanga Province’s San Fernando city to mark Good Friday, with foreigners banned from taking part this year except as spectators, said Ching Pangilinan, a city tourism officer and one of the organizers. She said the ban was imposed after some foreigners took part in previous years to make a film or make fun of the rites.
I'm not making fun; I find this horrific.
I think even Jesus would beg them not to do that for him.
The event yesterday drew more than 10,000 Philippine and foreign spectators, she said.
Many gathered at San Pedro Cutud, a farming village where devotees dressed in robes and tin crowns walked to a dusty mound carrying wooden crosses on their backs. At the mound, men nailed their hands and feet to the crosses. Among the devotees was Ruben Enaje, a 49-year-old sign painter who was nailed to a cross for the 24th time as his way of thanking God for his survival after falling from a building.
As his way of thanking God for surviving a fall from a building, 49-year-old sign painter Ruben Enaje was nailed to a cross for the 24th time during a ritual rejected by church leaders. (Aaron Favila/Associated Press)
Mary Jane Mamangon, a 34-year-old rice cake vendor, was the lone female devotee to be nailed to a cross this year in San Juan village. It was her 14th time. She said she started when she was 18 and has taken part in the annual rites on and off to seek God’s help in saving her ill grandmother and now her younger sister, who is suffering from cancer. “I do it because I have seen that it works,’’ she said. “I saw how my grandmother recovered from her illness.’’
Hey, it is their life.
People are free to make their own decisions in my world, and as abhorrent as I may find this I have no right to stand in their way.
Similar rites took place in nearby Bulacan Province, while in other parts of the country, half-dressed, barefooted flagellants walked the streets, whipping their bloody backs with pieces of wood dangling from ropes as a way to atone for sins.
Please don't do that! There must be another way.
Church leaders reject such practices. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines said the real expression of Christian faith during Lent is through repentance and self-renewal, not flagellation or crucifixion.
Yes, I agree.
