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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