The Modern Nazi Party

I highly recommend that you visit your local college, and talk to some
foreign students, they are a great souce of information, which our
corporate controlled media routinely covers up.  I remember when Reagan
was President, in the early 80's, talking to an Iraqi mother whose son
was tortured to death by Saddam Hussein, at that same time, Reagan had
sent Donald Rumsfeld to Iraq, to lavish praise on Saddam Hussein, shake
hands with him, and then thank him for his human rights abuses.  
             
I also remember talking to a Phillipino student back then, one of my
classmates, he suffered from constant and painful ulcers in his stomach,
which he got after he was subjected to months of torture, in one of
Marco's prisons.  After he was released, he left his country and came to
America, only to watch Bush sr., on TV, go visit Marcos and lavish
praise on him, shake his hand, and thank him for his human rights
abuses.  
        
Republicans are the biggest liars in the world, and the biggest crooks
ever, they are an abomination upon humanity, and a curse upon the earth,
they are the closest thing you can find to the Nazi party of the past,
because human rights abuses always go up under Republican Presidents,
always.  They support human rights abusers, that's why.  And read this
article below, get a load of what Republican President William Howard
Taft thinks of Phillipinos.  His racist comments reflects the attitude
that Republicans have towards all minorities.  
        
Abel Malcolm
http://www.amnesty.org
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Bush's revisionist history       
           
By Benjamin Pimentel, Chronicle Staff Writer
        
Sunday, October 26, 2003 
        
When President George W. Bush wore the barong Tagalog, the native formal
Filipino shirt, during his recent state visit to the Philippines, he
perhaps unintentionally carried forward a family tradition. 
        
More than 20 years before, in June 1981, his father, then-Vice President
George H.W. Bush, arrived in Manila, put on a barong and met with
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos. 
          
Marcos, who had been considered a friend of President Ronald Reagan's,
was then among the United States' most reliable allies in East Asia. 
"We stand with the Philippines," the elder Bush said then. "We love your
adherence to democratic principles and democratic processes.  We will
not leave you in isolation." 
            
The elder Bush's remarks created a stir in the United States and in the
Philippines: The leader of a government notorious for jailing political
opponents and for committing grave violations of human rights adheres to
democratic principles? 
         
Five years later, Marcos was driven out of the country in a popular
uprising after he was accused of rigging the presidential elections.
The Reagan administration sent a U.S. helicopter to pluck him from the
presidential palace under siege and take him to Hawaii, where he died in
exile in 1989. 
          
Two decades after Bush the elder's controversial remarks, the younger
Bush made pronouncements that have left many Filipinos scratching their
heads, if not outraged. 
         
During his short visit, partly to reward President Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo's support for the U.S. war on terror, Bush told his Filipino
hosts that the United States "liberated the Philippines from colonial
rule." 
         
Bush was referring to the defeat of Japanese imperial forces in World
War II at the hands of Filipino guerrillas and the U.S. military.  But
he skipped over a crucial fact: The United States was the colonial ruler
in the Philippines for half a century before the Japanese came. 
              
"America is proud of its part in the great story of the Filipino
people," Bush also said. 
            
In fact, that great story was a tale of American betrayal and bloodshed. 
In the late 1890s, Filipinos revolted against Spain, which had ruled the
archipelago for more than 300 years.  After the Spanish-American War
erupted, the United States supported the Filipino revolutionaries, who
proclaimed an independent republic. 
           
But eager to establish itself as a power in Asia, the United States
refused to recognize the new republic and bought the country from Spain
for $20 million.  When the Filipinos resisted, the United States
unleashed a three- year war of conquest that killed an estimated 200,000
Filipinos. 
            
The war set off a bitter debate in the States over U.S. involvement
overseas, a precursor to the outcry over the Vietnam War more than half
a century later. 
           
Many of the official justifications for colonizing the Philippines were
openly racist.  President William Howard Taft, who served as
governor-general of the islands, called Filipinos "our little brown
brothers.'' 
           
A former U.S. superintendent who helped set up an American-style public
school system in the Philippines argued that the Filipinos "are
children, and childlike, do not know what is best for them. . . . By the
very fact of our superiority of civilization and our greater capacity
for industrial activity, we are bound to exercise over them a profound
social influence.'' 
             
British poet Rudyard Kipling supported the U.S. colonization of the
Philippines and other former Spanish colonies in his poem, "The White
Man's Burden." 
            
Take up the White Man's burden 
Send forth the best ye breed 
Go, bind your sons to exile 
To serve your captives' need; 
To wait, in heavy harness, 
On fluttered folk and wild 
Your new-caught sullen peoples, 
Half devil and half child... 
          
The call to imperial conquest prompted another famous writer, Mark
Twain, who opposed the colonization of the Philippines, to call the $20
million the United States paid for the Philippines an "entrance fee into
society -- the Society of Sceptered Thieves." 
         
"The White Man's Burden has been sung,'' Twain wrote. "Who will sing the
Brown Man's?'' 
          
Despite the carnage and the intense emotions it unleashed in the early
20th Century, the conflict has virtually been erased from American
history books -- and from America's collective memory. Until recently,
the Philippine-American War was not even considered a war in official
history; it was "the Filipino Insurrection against the United States." 
             
The United States finally granted political independence to the
Philippines in 1946 after World War II.  But the United States'
influence has remained strong over the past half century. 
           
During this month's visit, Bush praised the emergence of a democratic
Philippine republic after the end of American colonial rule.  He
suggested that a similar transition can be achieved in Iraq with the
downfall of Saddam Hussein. 
           
Critics of U.S. policy have been quick to point out another historical
omission in Bush's remarks.  During the Cold War, Hussein and Marcos
were dictators backed by the United States. 
             
San Francisco academic Dawn Mabalon, who teaches Asian American history
at Stanford University and San Francisco State University, said the
attempts to draw parallels between Iraq and the Philippines are "just
chilling." 
            
"It just goes to show that government leaders would conveniently distort
history to make it seem as though the U.S. is the savior rather a
colonizer -- an imperial power in its own right," she said. "The U.S.
government knows what they did in the Philippines -- and it's counting
on the historical amnesia of Filipinos as well as the historical amnesia
of Americans to ignore what really happened in the Philippines." 
          
E-mail Benjamin Pimentel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

URL:
sfgate.com/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/26/INGCN2GEK21.DTL

"In the end, through the long ages of our quest for light, it will be
found that truth is still mightier than the sword":

Gen. Douglas MacArthur (Graduated from West Point at the top of his
class, then served brilliantly in WW1, WW2 & the Korean war)

Educate yourself and go to these links: 

http://www.buzzflash.com & http://www.moveon.org &
http://www.veteransforpeace.org & http://www.salon.com &
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/LiberalFAQ.htm &
http://www.barbrastreisand.com