Trump / Duterte


Trump / Duterte



August 6, 2016

Trump names Philippines as terrorist nation, implies Filipinos are 'animals'

 

This is the first thing Trump has said that I agree with!!!!

 

The Philippines Response To Trump's Comment:

 August 9, 2016

House reso seeks to ban Trump from entering PHL

A resolution filed at the House of Representatives seeks to ban US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Sr. from entering the Philippines for supposedly “being inimical to the national interest.”
House Resolution 143 was filed by Albay Rep. Joey Salceda following Trump’s mention of immigrants from the Philippines who may pose threats to the United States.
"We are letting people come in from terrorist nations that shouldn't be allowed because you can't vet them," Trump earlier said.
Salceda said Trump has no basis nor justification to the labeling of Filipinos coming from a terrorist state.
He said such “ugliness of utterances, largely unprompted and undeserved” are in contrast to the hospitality shown by Filipinos towards Trump when he launched a property in Makati City called Trump Tower.
“Trump has clearly generated impressions not conducive to public good and has shown disrespect or makes offensive utterances to the Filipino people,” Salceda said in the resolution.
“Be it resolved, as it is hereby resolved, that the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation permanently refused Donald J. Trump entry into the Philippines,” the resolution added.
Malacañang had earlier taken offense over Trump’s remarks, and reminded him how he once described the Philippines as a “special place.”
“Mr. Trump has even professed his love for the Philippines during the launch of his 57-storey luxury apartment in Makati," Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said. —Kathrina Charmaine Alvarez/KBK, GMA News



Bitter truth: Do we deserve to be called a 'terrorist nation' by Trump? 

August 9, 2016

Last week Donald Trump, the U.S. Republican Party's presidential candidate for the upcoming polls, was at a rally in Portland, Maine, where he reiterated his stand against taking in immigrants from what he referred to as "terrorist nations.""We are letting people come in from terrorist nations that shouldn't be allowed because you can't vet them. You have no idea who they are. This could be the great Trojan horse of all time," he said. “Terrorists, including members of the Islamic State extremist group, will sneak into the U.S. as refugees.”Reports noted that Trump then went on to list several countries that he felt the U.S. should be wary of: Afghanistan, Iraq, Morocco, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia, Syria, Uzbekistan, and Yemen.These countries, he said, had immigrants who were arrested for conducting or threatening to carry out violent attacks, teaching bomb-making to recruits, and otherwise supporting terror groups.An Agence France-Presse (AFP) report observed that the countries enumerated by Trump were "mostly Muslim-majority nations." The Philippines, of course, is not counted as a Muslim-majority country, as it is identified as predominantly Catholic. Also, most Filipinos who migrate to the US are not Muslims but Catholics.Trump may have gone overboard in calling the Philippines (which, by the way, has allowed a Trump Tower to be built) a "terrorist nation" but his accusation isn’t entirely baseless.In April this year, local terrorist group Abu Sayyaf — who are supposedly fighting for autonomy in Mindanao but whose members have been known more for kidnapping for ransom — beheaded Canadian national John Ridsdel.Ridsdel, along with fellow Canadian Robert Hall, Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad, and Filipina Marithes Flor, were kidnapped from the Holiday Oceanview Samal Resort on Samal Island on Sep 21, 2015, by the extremist group.They initially demanded a ransom of PHP1 billion (or around US$21,306,060) for each hostage. The amount was brought down to PHP300 million (or around US$6.4 million). The ransom was never paid.Two months after Ridsdel's beheading, they also executed Hall.Since the Abu Sayyaf Group was formed in the 1990s, the Philippine government has not stopped its efforrts against them, but, so far, it has failed to wipe out its members.ASG has been described as a splinter group of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a rebel faction that wants greater Muslim autonomy in Mindanao, the island located in the southern part of the Philippine archipelago.The Washington Post recalled: "ASG kidnapped 20 people from a resort in 2001, including three Americans, one of whom was beheaded. In 2004, Abu Sayyaf carried out the worst terrorist attack in the history of the Philippines, targeting a ferry in Manila Bay, leaving 116 people dead. The following year, its militants carried out bombings across the country."Although the Abu Sayyaf has been considered as "largely subdued" at the moment, it's reported ties with al-Qaeda and, subsequently, the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is definitely cause for alarm.An April 2016 TIME feature noted that "Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon — now styled Sheik Mujahid Abu Abdullah al-Filipini — has been appointed ISIS’s leader in the Philippines."Rohan Gunaratna, an international terrorism expert at S. Rajaratnam School of Security Studies in Singapore, told TIME that "it’s very likely that [Abu Sayyaf] will declare a satellite of the caliphate in the coming year. Once that is done, it will be much more difficult to dismantle these groups."By "groups," Gunaratna is referring to other extremist outfits who have hosted training sessions with foreign terrorist operatives.It may be recalled that in January 2015, Zulkifli bin Hir — a Malaysian described as a key facilitator between Indonesian and Filipino extremist groups — was cornered and killed in Mamasapano in central Mindanao.The government paid a heavy price for that encounter. Forty-four members of the Philippine National Police's Special Action Force were killed. The event stalled President Benigno Aquino III’s administration's peace negotiations with the Moro separatists.Decades before Mamasapano, the Philippines was also used as a launching pad for the Bojinka Plot, which was funded by none other than Osama bin Laden and Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin (also known as Hambali).It turns out that Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, bin Laden’s brother-in-law, had moved to the Philippines sometime in the late 1980s to set up numerous financial fronts to benefit al-Qaeda.The Bojinka plot was a three-pronged attack by Islamists Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for Jan 1995.They planned to assassinate Pope John Paul II who was in the Philippines for the World Youth Day celebrations, blow up 11 airliners in flight from Asia to the United States to shut down air travel around the world, and crash a plane into the headquarters of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Fairfax County, Virginia.The Bojinka Plot was disrupted after a chemical fire started at the apartment where the Yousef and his group were staying.Cops later descended on Room 603 of Doña Josefa Apartment along Quirino Avenue in Malate, Manila. While Yousef and his other companions fled from the scene, a man named Abdul Hakim Murad was caught and later interrogated.Yousef and Mohammed were unable to stage any of the three attacks.The only fatality resulted from a test bomb planted by Yousef on Philippine Airlines Flight 434 which killed one person and injured 10 others in Dec 1994.They had also planted other test bombs in various locations. These tests didn't have any casualties.While Yousef was later arrested in Pakistan, Mohammed went on to become the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks.With that said, we ask: Is the Philippines a terrorist nation?For now, there is no clear answer. What we know is that there is a definite terrorist threat in the country that seems to be gaining strength. For people like Trump, that's enough to get a country branded as a terrorist nation.

 

Filipinos are so thin skinned. They can criticize and insult others, but God forbid somebody should tell the truth about them.... Pathetic Filipinos... 

 

 

August 6, 2016

Duterte calls US ambassador 'bakla' over campaign comments

 It looks like President Rodrigo remains at odds with United States Ambassador Philip Goldberg despite having met a few times after the elections.

In a speech delivered late Friday night at Camp Lapu-Lapu in Cebu City, Duterte called Goldberg “bakla” or “gay” for comments the envoy made during the campaign.

 

Duterte insults U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines... Biting the hand that feeds him, so to speak... Yet another genius move by a Filipino...

 

U.S. Response To Duterte's Comment:

US summons PH envoy over Duterte’s ‘bakla’ tag on Goldberg


August 9, 2016
MANILA — The US has summoned Philippine Charge d’Affaires to Washington D.C., Patrick Chuasoto, to clarify “inappropriate comments” made by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte about US ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg.
“We’ve seen those inappropriate comments made about (U.S.) Ambassador (Philip) Goldberg. He’s a multi-time ambassador, one of our most senior diplomats,” U.S. State Department spokesperson Elizabeth Trudeau told a news briefing.
Trudeau, however, declined to disclose the meeting between US officials and Philippine CDA Patrick Chuasoto.


“I’m not going to read out that detailed conversation, but it was specifically on those remarks,” said Trudeau.Mr. Duterte last week detailed the meeting last week between he had with  US Department of State Secretary John Kerry, who visited the Philippines from July 26-27. Ambassador Goldberg was also present at the meeting.
Duterte, known for his foul mouthed manner, belittled the US $32-million fund donation announced by Kerry and has called ambassador Goldberg “bakla” or “gay ambassador” and “son of a bitch” during the recent meeting with soldiers in Davao City.
“I am pissed with him” (referring to ambassador Goldberg).  He meddled during the election, giving statements here and there. He was not supposed to do that,” Duterte told the audience of soldiers.
Goldberg has earned the ire of Mr. Duterte after he criticized the President’s joke during the campaign about the rape and murder of Australian missionary Jacqueline Hamill in 1989.
Meanwhile, the US government has raised deep concern on rising number of vigilante style killings of people linked to drugs in the country, reaching more than 400. It called on the Duterte administration to uphold rule of law in implementing war on drugs.
Elizabeth Trudeau, spokesperson of the US Department of State, said the US would continue to call on Philippine officials “to emphasize the importance of this fundamental democratic principle.”
“We strongly urge the Philippines to ensure its law enforcement efforts comply with its human rights obligations,” said Trudeau in a press briefing at the US State Department on August 8.
She said the US-Philippines partnership has beenbased on respect for rule of law. “We believe in due process. We believe in respect for universal human rights. We believe fundamentally that those aspects ensure and promote long-term security.”
Legal experts have warned Duterte that he could face charges of crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.  SFM

 

 

UPDATE:

Duterte Response:

Duterte won't apologize for calling US ambassador 'bakla' 

August 13, 2016

President Rodrigo Duterte maintained he was not going to apologize to United States Ambassador Philip Goldberg, saying it is the envoy who needs to apologize to him first.
"Hindi nga siya nag-apologize sa akin, why would I apologize to him? Siya mismo ang nag-una," he said in an ambush interview after a speech made in Camp Teodolfo Baustista in Jolo, Sulu.
In a speech last week, Duterte called Goldberg "bakla" over the envoy's comments during the campaign period. That resulted in the US Depart of State summoning the Philippines envoy in Washington to explain Duterte's comments.
The rift between Duterte and Goldberg started after the former Davao City mayor made a controversial remark over the rape of an Australian missionary in 1989.
Australian Ambassador Amanda Gorely reacted saying rape and murder should never be trivialized.
Goldberg, in a television interview, supported Gorely's position.
Duterte said he was hurt by Goldberg's statement during the campaign.
"Talagang nasaktan ako kasi election time eh. Ngayon, medyo okay na ako. Sino ba ang hindi magalit, election time tapos magbitaw ka ng salita na ganoon?" he said.
Washington summoned Filipino charge d'affaires Patrick Chuasato to explain Duterte's remarks, which the US called  "inappropriate and unacceptable."
Presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella on Thursday that explanations have already been made to the State Department, while defending the comments as not meant for the public. Duterte himself expressed confidence that US-Philippine ties remain strong. —JST, GMA News

 

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