Barbara Boxer Invites A Murderer to Speak
and the irony-o-meter gets pegged in the red zone
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presented with a major h/t to wretchard at The Belmont Club
Manila. The Philippines. The morning of April 21, 1989. The US military attaché, US Army Colonel James “Nick” Rowe was being driven to work in a chauffeured limousine.
Rowe was assisting the Philippine army in combating a bloody communist insurrection and knew he was a marked man with a bounty placed on his head by the New People’s Army.
A small, innocuous white car pulled along side the limo and fired a fusillade of 5.56mm automatic rifle and .45 caliber pistol bullets at it. Some accounts say it was unarmored. Others say it was armored but the air conditioning system had failed and the chauffeur had opened the small vent window a crack. Whatever the case, Nick Rowe was hit by several rounds and died instantly. The New People’s Army claimed responsibility for the killing.
His killers were apprehended. One is still in prison. And one of those responsible for ordering the killing is being feted as a witness at a hearing Senator Barbara Boxer is holding on human rights abuses. He will be testifying as a victim.
Read on.
The Philippine government has finally gotten serious about cleaning up the detritus of the decades long communist insurgency it suffered through just as it is finally taking the Abu Sayyaf movement seriously.
A member of the Phillipine Congress, and former leader of the New People’s Army, Satur Ocampo has been ordered arrested on charges of mass murder stemming from internal purges of the communist party and the NPA in the 1980s. Hundreds of bodies have been disinterred and the body count is estimated in the thousands.
One of the dimmest bulbs in the Senate, Barbara Boxer, has scheduled a hearing, ironically, into extra-judicial killings in the Philippines:
The United States Senate is set to start an investigation into hundreds of unexplained killings in the Philippines.
An announcement on the US Senate website said the initial inquiry would be conducted by the East Asian and Pacific Affairs subcommittee at 2:30 p.m. (Washington time) at Room SD-419 of the US Congress.
The investigation aims "to examine strategies to end the violence relating to extrajudicial killings in the Philippines," the announcement said.
The inquiry was arranged by Sen. Barbara Boxer, a Democratic deputy whip and and influential member of the foreign relations committee, upon request by Filipino-American organizations in the US and by militant groups here.
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One Filipino official invited to participate in the US Senate inquiry is House deputy minority leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo, who has made himself scarce due to the issuance of a warrant for his arrest by a Leyte judge.
When a leftist European parliamentary bloc asked Ocampo to denounce the recent assassination of politicians by the Philippine Communist Party, Ocampo demurred:
It is not for us either to denounce another organization for engaging in a revolutionary struggle which it sees as the most appropriate response to address the social condition unique to the Philippines.
So Barbara Boxer is inviting the testimony of one of the men responsible for ordering the deck of Nick Lowe, an indicted murderer, and an unrepentant apologist for extra-judicial killings to testify on alleged extra-judicial killings by Philippine security forces.
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Thou art the Great Cat, the avenger of the Gods, and the judge of words...-Inscription on the Royal Tombs at Thebes
Because I have looked and looked and found it explained Nowhere.
Whatis with the text in the brackets? In your post you wrote "[be]". What does that mean?
There are those who look on Dresden and Tokyo and Hiroshima as some of the greatest evils ever perpetrated by man. I look on them and thank the perpetrators for saving millions.
in brackets, I omitted a few paragraphs
"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition." -- Rudyard Kipling
With the "certificate of accomplishment" for CAIR.
Is there any doubt Democrat's are working against this country either out of abounding ineptitude or a loathing for all things Democratic?
BTW Senator, support the troops is not a bumper sticker.
"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori"
Contributor to The Minority Report
We can blame the liberal media all we want. But if every Republican member of the Senate spoke up on this and expressed outrage, something might be done.
Will our cowardly little Republicans remain silent even over an outrage like this?
No excuse.
I used to live in California and Boxer makes Feinstein look rather conservative although she obviously is far from it.
Many bodies dumped daily during the Eighties on Filipino streets were those of merchants, workers, farmers, and simple peasants who refused to pony up the few pesos they had to extortionists. Thieves simply joined the Communist Party and were allowed to rob at will, as long as they flipped a little back to the higher ups. While speculative, many of the Filipino emigre "progressives" who lobbied for this monster to testify on human rights probably made a few bucks at this racket themselves.
Boxer should be ashamed. All partisanship aside, she should be very ashamed. The gravity of this just hit me. Boxer has transformed the United States Senate into the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Dear God in heaven.
It just goes to show that their is a profound divide in the country.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
If Boxer wants to put on this, well, witness, the electorate needs to know who he is. Let me just post, from a personal standpoint, that if Boxer entertains this testimony, it will be the equivalent of a small-time Pol Pot telling Americans what he thinks. The signifance is that this particular mindset will be echoed from the Senate chamber for the first time to my knowledge.
All this assumes the hopefully clueless Boxer knows who Pol Pot is. Forgive my very, very, latent religion, but I will turn the cheek and assume Boxer does not know what she is about to do. But in my very human gut, I don't think she cares. California voters, please take note.
Among many others it was only an American soldier who was killed & if he was alive today Senator Boxer would surely be supporting him.
But if I was cynical I might think that murder doesn't matter to Boxer. Not that she would be alone in her party.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
Nick Rowe is a god amongst the Special Forces Community in particular, and special operations forces in general. While serving at and near Ft. Bragg I heard Nick Rowe's name at least weekly and always in reverence. My step-father knew Nick Rowe personaly, and one of the rare times my step-father ever shed tears was when a friend notified him of Nick's death.
Boxer's actions go beyond reprehensible in this matter. The concept of democrats being unpatriotic and opposing our men and women in uniform is dead on accurate, and stunts like this prove it time and again.
"Greater is an army of sheep led by a lion, than an army of lions led by a sheep" - Defoe
Not even the arroyo administration has made the claim that ocampo is responsible for nick rowe's death. not even wretchard. ocampo's an ex rebel that who given amnesty a long time ago (like 20 years ago) in exchange for giving up the armed resistance and joining the political process. and as far as i can see, there's nothing linking him to the current extrajudicial killings taking place under the corrupt and thuggish arroyo regime, nor is he involved in any terroristic activities by the NPA.
and wouldn't the US admin protest his inclusion in the Senate hearings, if he is indeed guilty of that? :rolleyes:
as for the leyte massacre, they were in jail at that time (that was during marcos' time) when the incident occured in 1985. duh!
look, if you're not aware, we'll be having an election 2 months from now, May 2007. and ocampo and other leftist party list groups are running for a seat in congress. the timing of the arrest warrant is questionable, to say the least.
Arroyo is angry at the left for attacking her on the legitimacy issue. but she and satur were tight back in 2000 when they were trying to oust joseph estrada.
These days, I'll just [be] surprised if anything's done about it.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.