When we give our Thanksgiving blessings around the dinner table on Thursday, let’s all give thanks that we live in a country where ACORN’s influence and accusations of election fraud are our greatest cause for concern:
Manila, Philippines (CNN) — Search teams pulled 24 more bodies out of shallow graves in the Philippines Tuesday bringing the death toll to 46 in a massacre linked to local elections, state-run media reported.
The Philippine government declared a state of emergency in southern parts of the country following Monday’s shooting, which government officials called the worse pre-election violence in the country’s history.
The victims include journalists, lawyers, and relatives of local politicians.
The Southern Philippines have long been dominated by the warfare violence and insurgency of Moro (Muslim) tribes. Nevertheless, Filipinos are shocked by Monday’s massacre:
Election violence is not unusual, even including the assassination of rivals. But this incident has shocked all observers for its scale and apparent brutality.
“Even to our enemies, we don’t do this, not to women, not the mutilations. Even the most violent of our warlords, no-one can imagine this,” said Amina Rasul, director of the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy.
The Philippine Star mentions beheadings done by chainsaw.
The blame is being placed on clan warfare and rivalry.
It is normal for clans to have large private armies of scores and in some cases hundreds of well-armed, ill-regulated men.
In Mindanao, this mix is made more dangerous by the decades of Muslim and communist insurgencies. This has given more power and budgets to local police and military operations, and led to the formation of volunteer squads intended to assist in counter-insurgency.
I’d like it to be noted in the records that these clans are also Islamic in nature. And really, given the history of the region, I don’t quite understand why this violence is somehow “unprecedented”. As one commenter at Jihad Watch notes,
The decades-long Muslim insurgency has killed about 120,000 people since the 1970s. But a presidential adviser, Jesus Dureza, said Monday’s massacre was “unequaled in recent history.”
Maguindanao is part of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, which was created as part of a 1996 peace agreement with a large Muslim rebel group.
A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.
The wordsmith has never been to Nantucket.
Islam is a religion of pieces! Heads, arms, legs, etc, etc,.
Here is an interesting article on what the political culture there is like:
http://pcij.org/stories/amid-the-fighting-the-clan-rules-in-maguindanao/
I hope whoever is responsible for this pay this with a life full of really bad karma.