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This is too hilarious. Perfect example of the naivete of the "commie-chic peace and justice activists." I call them "useless hippies" but V. I. Lenin referred to them as "useful idiots." Here's what happens when you take the commie-chic naivete on its logical course. Monday. November 26. 2007Associated Press
BOGOTA. Colombia — The army stumbled on the handwritten diary during a raid on a guerrilla camp. It lay near the embers of a communal kitchen where fleeing rebels left their breakfast untouched."I'm tired tired of the FARC tired of the people tired of communal living. Tired of never having anything for myself," wrote the author a 29-year-old Dutch woman. Colombia's government couldn't have hoped for better propaganda against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC. It leaked excerpts from the diary found last June to the media even making available an English translation of the Dutch entries.
The first known person from outside Latin America to join the region's largest rebel army wasn't just disillusioned. Like most FARC foot soldiers. Tanja Nijmeijer apparently wasn't permitted to leave."This would be worth it if I knew I was fighting for something. But I don't really believe that anymore," she wrote on Nov. 24. 2006 according to the excerpts released by the government. What exactly impelled Nijmeijer a child of Europe's bourgeoisie to take a journey from peace activist to guerrilla fighter with the nom-de-guerre "Eillen" remains largely a mystery — even to people who knew her well before she joined the FARC in early 2003. More than a dozen friends former colleagues and fellow peace activists interviewed by The Associated Press described a young woman deeply disturbed by social inequalities and guilt-ridden over her privileged life. Nijmeijer's family refused to discuss her plight saying doing so could endanger her life. Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos meanwhile was happy to use the case to counter "guerrilla chic" in Europe where the FARC — classified a terrorist group by both the United States and the European Union — has a small but determined group of supporters who run pro-rebel Web sites. In the diary. Nijmeijer abhors the strict discipline imposed by FARC's male commanders — no smoking no phone calls no romantic relationships without their consent. She says the rank and file are hungry and bored and describes FARC leaders as both materialistic and corrupt."How will it be when we take power? The wives of the commanders in Ferrari Testa Rossas with breast implants eating caviar?" she writes.
Santos told AP that the Nijmeijer case should help dispel foreign leftists of the notion that the FARC is heroic."In certain circles in Europe there still exists the romantic image of the guerrillas as Robin Hood or Che Guevara fighting the bad guys for the benefit of the poor," he said. "Nijmeijer fell into this trap."Nijmeijer wrote her thesis on the FARC at the University of Groningen in her homeland then traveled to Colombia in 2000 on a work-exchange program. She taught English to well-heeled children at a private school in the western city of Pereira winning praise from fellow teachers for professionalism and a gentle classroom demeanor. But Nijmeijer socialized little and worried colleagues at the Liceo Pino Verde with her weekend excursions on Colombia's perilous highways where rebel roadblocks and banditry were then frequent."I remember arguing with her that it was unsafe to travel by bus at night but she was very independent and didn't listen," said Diana Angel head of the school's English program. One destination. Angel and other colleagues said was the southern town of San Vicente de Caguan at the center of a Switzerland-sized safe haven ceded to the FARC to facilitate peace talks that collapsed in 2002. Nijmeijer's political education was also shaped by her experience volunteering almost daily in a poor shantytown near Pereira."Colombia was the turning point," said a college friend from Holland who worked with Nijmeijer in Colombia. "She was so shocked by the gap between the rich and poor and was determined to do something about it."
In August 2001 she got her chance joining a humanitarian mission organized by leftist European groups to one of Colombia's most conflicted regions southern Bolivar state. The monthlong "International Caravan for Life" sought to deliver three tons of humanitarian aid on a barge to peasants caught in the crossfire between right-wing paramilitaries and leftist rebels. At the steamy port of San Pablo on the Magdalena River the aid workers encountered resistance from local authorities. For two days people believed to be acting on orders of paramilitaries detained the barge."We were all frightened," said Jacqueline Downing of Oakland. Calif. then an undergraduate at Oberlin College in Ohio. "But Tanja was very composed and helped others overcome their fear."To ease the tension. Nijmeijer picked up her guitar and led 60 fellow activists in a sing-along of "One Love" by U2. The group later advanced into rebel-controlled territory where their arrival was celebrated by guerrillas and delivered the cargo. What subsequently prompted Nijmeijer to join the FARC remains unclear."In February 2003 she sent an e-mail saying she was going to the jungle to teach indigenous people and couldn't be reached by phone or e-mail. I had my doubts but no firm evidence she ran off to join the rebels," said the friend from Holland who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid causing problems with Nijmeijer's family by violating their wish for privacy. Nijmeijer's parents in a brief statement to Dutch media said a faxed letter arrived in 2003 that "made it clear" their daughter had joined the FARC. They said the mother visited her daughter in a jungle camp but couldn't woo her back home: "Tanja's mind was not to be changed.""By joining the FARC she has gone extremely far in her idealism," the parents said. "The family has the strong impression that she has been influenced badly by certain contacts."
Dutch diplomats in Bogota would not discuss the case citing the family's desire for privacy. Snapshots of Nijmeijer's family vacationing in Turkey — without her — were found stored in a laptop found by soldiers during the June 18 raid that yielded her diary. Also on the computer shown to AP by military intelligence officers. Nijmeijer appears in a photo holding what appears to be a rifle. Other files contain instructions on how to build bomb detonators with cell phones. Nijmeijer has not been heard from since the diaries were found which would not be unusual given the FARC's status as a clandestine rebel army. Former FARC members say they believe that whatever privileges Nijmeijer had such as e-mail have certainly now been rescinded. Felipe Salazar who quit the rebels last year said Nijmeijer likely was severely punished for indirectly aiding the enemy — forced to build trenches or demoted to cooking duty — but not killed. He said Nijmeijer's only hope of being reunited with her family probably would be to embark on a risky escape. But FARC spokesman Raul Reyes disputed that view during a recent interview with the Dutch network TV Nova although he gave no details about Nijmeijer's location or health. He said Nijmeijer was more than welcome to go on holiday with her family. "If she needs a month then fine."
This is too hilarious. Perfect example of the naivete of the "commie-chic peace and justice activists." I call them "useless hippies" but V. I. Lenin referred to them as "useful idiots." Here's what happens when you take the commie-chic naivete on its logical course. SNIPPropaganda? The diary of a FARC soldier is "
deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person group movement institution nation etc.
2 the deliberate spreading of such information rumors etc. 3 the particular doctrines or principles propagated by an organization or movement. 4. Roman Catholic Church a a committee of cardinals established in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV having supervision over foreign missions and the training of priests for these missions b a school (College of Propaganda) established by Pope Urban VIII for the education of priests for foreign missions. 5. Archaic an organization or movement for the spreading of propaganda. [Origin: 1710–20; < NL short for congregātiō dé propāgandā fidé congregation for propagating the faith; propāgandā abl sing fem gerundive of propāgāre; see
Propaganda Roman Catholic Church A division of the Roman Curia that has authority in the matter of preaching the gospel of establishing the Church in non-Christian countries and of administering Church missions in territories where there is no properly organized hierarchy.
Not trying to do anything. You painted Propaganda as a "dirty" word in your post. It's not. Hence my posting of the definition. The AP reporter used the term quite correctly. Otherwise I haven't anything else to post on the article. When one decides to run around the jungle (a hard life even if you're not being chased by the government) with a "revolutionary" band of drug smugglers well then "you takes your chances" and live with the results......
Yes by the strict definition but you must admit that to most Americans the word Propaganda has pejorative connotations. I can see where he is coming from in the way he uses the words. Most Americans use the word in negative ways only. Probably thanks to Joseph Goebbels.
Otherwise I haven't anything else to post on the article. When one decides to run around the jungle (a hard life even if you're not being chased by the government) with a "revolutionary" band of drug smugglers well then "you takes your chances" and live with the results......
What about all the lies she was told all her life that led her to do that? What about all the ideological indoctrination by her university "professors" and the media and others? What about the systemic intellectual problems manifested in this symptom of "guerilla chic?" You don't care about those? You only care about lying and brainwashing when "Bush does it?"
What about all the lies she was told all her life that led her to do that? What about all the ideological indoctrination by her university "professors" and the media and others? What about the systemic intellectual problems manifested in this symptom of "guerilla chic?" You don't care about those? You only care about lying and brainwashing when "Bush does it?"
First you'll have to find any post that I've made were I've said that the President lied etc. My contentions have always been that they've made very poor decisions etc. Even in my retired status I'm a commissioned officer and take Art 88 seriously:But please enlighten us and show me where I've made any statement of that type......
Back to the original posting. If you're not able to make good decisions based on the information (correct or incorrect) given to you oh well it sucks to be you. Evolution in action she will be taken out of the gene pool before she can breed.....
OS the woman seems to be a complete idiot or "Gobshite" as we say in Ireland. She is fighting for a totalitarian terrorist group so she is clearly screwed up. From your post you seem to think that peace and social justice are bad things. Can we take it then that you are in favour of conflict and social injustice?
Yes by the strict definition but you must admit that to most Americans the word Propaganda has pejorative connotations. I can see where he is coming from in the way he uses the words. Most Americans use the word in negative ways only. Probably thanks to Joseph Goebbels.
Ah Yes American Definitions. How parochial. A word can have a different meaning in EVERY other country in the world but we have to watch out in case the "American" meaning is taken. Its like the word "Liberal". In almost Every other country in the world the Term "Liberal" is a positive word except for um Guess Where????? Talk about the tail wagging the dog
OS the woman seems to be a complete idiot or "Gobshite" as we say in Ireland. She is fighting for a totalitarian terrorist group so she is clearly screwed up. From your post you seem to think that peace and social justice are bad things. Can we take it then that you are in favour of conflict and social injustice?
I think groups that have "peace and justice" or "social justice" or similar meaningless bromides in their names are inevitably front organizations for larger communist umbrella groups. The names are flat out lies designed to appeal to (and deceive) naive "progressives," usually college students. You can see documentation of the connections at. It is just another door for the sheep to enter the collectivist slaughterhouse.
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