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Title: Yankee Sins Come Home To Roost
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Rebellion blog
URL Source: http://lsrebellion.blogspot.com/201 ... e-sins-come-home-to-roost.html
Published: Oct 19, 2016
Author: Old Rebel
Post Date: 2016-10-19 11:30:41 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 336
Comments: 5
The joints and trusses propping up the DC Empire are groaning and straining under their unbearable weight. The Empire's satrapy in the Philippines is vigorously reasserting its independence from its former colonial master: Sometimes Americans think we have won a war, only to realize years or decades later that our victory was incomplete. Now we are facing an eruption of anger over a war we waged more than a century ago. Rarely has blowback from an overseas intervention come back to haunt us so long after the shooting stopped. This unexpected challenge has emerged from the Philippines. The new president, Rodrigo Duterte, recently announced plans to pull his country out of America’s orbit and adopt an “independent” foreign policy. “I am anti-West,” he explained. “I do not like the Americans. It’s simply a matter of principle for me.” Duterte’s grievance is rooted in history. Americans, he asserted, unjustly seized the Philippines in 1899, waged a horrific military campaign to suppress native resistance, and “have not even apologized to the Filipino nation.” He waved photographs showing bodies of Filipinos killed in that war. Soon after Duterte made that startling speech, his foreign minister, Perfecto Yasay, went even further. In 1899, Yasay asserted, the United States “arrogated our victory in the struggle for freedom” and then used “invisible chains” to bind Filipinos into “shackling dependency.” Americans, he said, treat Filipinos as “little brown brothers not capable of true independence or freedom.” To escape from that humiliation, he concluded, the Philippines must end its “subservience to United States interests.” All the Yankees did in 1899 was to slaughter some 300,000 civilians resisting foreign domination, depriving them of self-determination. Some people really know how to carry a grudge. Speaking of old sins and wars thought to have been won, there's also the little matter of DC's immoral and brutal invasion of the Southern States, an act of naked aggression and exploitation that took the lives of hundreds of thousands, maimed thousands more, and plunged millions into poverty. I'm reminded of an observation by Jefferson Davis: "A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever." Or, as in the case of the Philippines, resettled later.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡ "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson
To be blunt, those little yellow bastards will never respect females or nigger foriegn heads of state. It's their culture.
Yes, indeedy. I love my country, but don't ask me in polite company what I think of Washington. When you contemplate the current stance of the Philippines, you see what is the damned problem with the Grand Chessboard conception of the world & our amoral field of action. In treating all those in any way your inferior in power like pawns and any equals like sworn enemies, you sooner or later become an unloved dinosaur like the old Soviet Union. If we keep it up this way, we'll soon be headed for the historical dustbin. It’s All About The Supreme Court
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡ "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson
Notice that the Hawaiian secessionists, few as they are, get more respect right now than the CSA did in 1861.
#2. To: X-15 (#0)
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#3. To: ghostdogtxn (#1)
Escaping us is a good thing for all of them.
#4. To: randge (#3)
#5. To: randge (#3)
In treating all those in any way your inferior in power like pawns and any equals like sworn enemies, you sooner or later become an unloved dinosaur like the old Soviet Union.
-Alex Kurtagic
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