Silence is Acquiesence

the so-called holocaust denier has dome damage to a number of people, or so they think. but he uttered only words, & words can't hurt me.

what's worse are the fascist "racists," they who maim, torture & kill mostly innocent people.

take the case of the philippines.

there's a new threat of a "reverse racism" that's endemic in the Philippines--& it's mostly perpetrated by the Chinese pretending to be Filipinos.

top of the list is the manila hizzoner himself, alfredo lim, a former police general notorious for cutting corners in his treatment of crime suspects during his stint at the manila police & other postings, & branded as manila's "dirty harry." this was also the same guy who masterminded the infamous "Mendiola Massacre" during the early years of the Cory Aquino rule in the mid-1980s where a dozen or more farmers where butchered--upon Lim's order--while protesting on Mendiola St. near Malacanang Palace in Manila.

Today, he has made Manila probably the dirtiest & most cramped city in the Philippines, & the most unsafe. Imagine a devotee who has exposed shenanigans & corruption of Manila policemen getting "poisoned" by police hitmen in collusion with the church security guards at the Sta. Cruz (Catholic) church in Manila, as he devoutly says his prayers thrice over or more. Imagine walking along cramped Manila streets once branded by an American actress who once visited the as the "foulest & dirtiest" in the world. There's practically no more space for pedestrians to walk through in Sta. Cruz, Escolta & Ongpin & elsewhere, with street hawkers & parked private cars hogging entire stretches of roads.

Worst, buying foods sold at some Chinese eateries are a veritable invitation to committing suicide, as these stuffs are mostly infected with disease-carrying germs. Two establishments have "proven track record" in this regard. One is the JG Merchandise Jewelry & Gift Shop at the China City Gold Center at 1051 Ongpin St. in Sta. Cruz. Under what permit has this jewelry store got to sell "hopia" (Chinese pastry) and other bread and pastry foodstuffs--more so when the hopia it sells are mostly "infected" with really, really toxic germs, that has infected a number of buyers already.

The other one is Chowking Restaurant ( on Libertad St. corner Roxas Blvd. in Pasay City), owned by the Chinese proprietor of Jolibee chain of fast food stores. Chowking is notorious for intentionally infecting diners who get the eatery crew's goat, serving them, for one, with steaming hot & heavily spiced beef stew where urine in the store's cr has also been added. Ask the Chowking outlet on Libertad St., which has been complained against by a number of customers, or the Jolibee branch in a Laguna town near Manila, where a customer found worms in her burger. Excuse me while I puke.

Do the Chinese in the Philippines want to kill the Filipinos so they can take over control of our country?

The entire war-time atrocity 'denial' is even more subtle, subversive, and repugnant than most are conscious of.

While debate rages in the West, the Japanese have erased all mention of their incredible genocidal acts from their chldrens history books.

Of the millions slaughtered in Northern China, Mongolia and areas like Nanjing and Shangyang, there is no mention of the hideous experiments done by the Japanese Imperial Army Unit 571 -- where animal limbs and organs were sewn onto living humans and horrific chemical 'cocktails' used on children and elders in an effort to 'significantly reduce population burden'. It appears there were no limits on their imagination when it came to hideous torture and human experimentation.

An entire division of Japanese troops were deployed with the sole purpose of destroying all records of the people they massacred -- from small village to major city. To this day it is still difficult to accurately tally the numbers of Chinese and other ethnic groups that were murdered.

Roaming the modern world with profoundly polite manners, with their sense of superiority more than intact, the masters of Japanese Bushido strike richly lucrative business deals, while in the heart of the Japanese homeland, white vans roam the neighborhoods with the war-time Imperial flag (rising sun with rays) emblazoned on the sides.

Holocaust denial is alive and well -- mainly because we who know better have chosen to look the other way -- to forget. What remains of the historical evidence is being continuously disintegrated, obfuscated, and buried by the willfully ignorant and denialists.

Only through intense effort can we keep the memory of the fallen alive, and to keep the memory fresh of just how terrible we humans can become.

What was once known in my youth as indisputable fact is now being more energetically denied by those with equally evil vested interests.

While the insensitive, inferiority complex-driven leaders of modern Japan still lay flowers and prayers at the graves of the Imperial Army monsters that believed the Japanese race was superior to all, I and educators like me will continue to tell the truth.

While companies like Mitsubishi today rake in huge profits, we cannot let ourselves forget -- it was Mitsubishi aircraft that murdered 3000 unsuspecting Americans at Pearl Harbor and countless numbers of innocents in Asia -- no matter how hard they try to buy our memories and erase the past.

"Lest We Forget"

Further on the Relative Growth Rates of the Catholic Church versus the Umbrella Organization (the Assemblies of God) in which Rodriguez peddles his notions. Rodriguez wrongly claimed that the Catholic Church was diminishing around the globe, so I pointed out that, to the contrary, the Catholic Church has been growing by about 18 Million persons a Year.

What's more, when one looks at the USA, the Catholic Church is actually growing at a faster rate than Rodruiguez's overall sect, the Assemblies of God (his own church is not reported on separately so far as I could see). Here is the comparison that the National Council of Churches made about the two churches in the release (http://www.wfn.org/2008/02/msg00105.html) accompanying its 2008 Yearbook figures:

"Other bodies in the top 25 churches that reported membership increases were the Southern Baptist Convention (0.22 percent, to 16,306,246 members), the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (0.21 percent to 1,443,405 members) the Roman Catholic Church (0.87 percent to 67,515,016 members) and the Assemblies of God (0.19 percent to 2,836,174 members)."

Thus, the Catholic US growth rate was more than four times as fast as the AOG rate (.87 versus .19). Clearly, Rodriguez's "Catholics diminishing" claim is just a cheap shot without substantial support.

Samuel Rodriguez (who probably runs a church with no more than 10,000 members) thinks he ought to be giving the Head of the Catholic Church advice on how to retain members because the Catholic Church is " diminish[ing] in both size and influence" around the World. WRONG. In fact, the Catholic Church grows by about 18 Million people each Year. The Catholic Church has almost 1.2 Billion members. Does Rodriguez have even 1% that many in his Church (i.e., 11 Million Members)?

Going on to the "substance" of Rodriguez's argument: he contends in an outrageous headline that "Silence is Acquiescence." How Pope Benedict supposedly has been silent is not explained. For good reason. In truth, of course, the Pope had unequivocally condemned Williamson's position long before Rodriguez wrrote his screed on Feb. 9.

You seem to attempt to proselytize Hispanic catholics on the grounds that Pope has reinstated some forgotten bishop, who is a holocaust denier.

I an neither a Catholic nor a holocaust denier.

However it is my understanding that what the Pope really did has been an attempt to avoid a possible schism within the church he is leading. As of that I believe he acted rather wisely.

As far as I know the bishop's positions are personal and as such typically they regard only himself and none other.

And do you really fail to understand that this "many former Catholics today call Pentecostal churches the preferable place of worship" sounds like a cheap shot in the dark? I am sure if you try again you could devise something a little bit more creative than that.

In the end it appears that all you are trying to do is to gain the support of the publishers. LOL.