Ex-hostage Betancourt: Tone down 'hate' speech
Some people never learn:
"Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt urged Colombia's president and others in the South American nation Monday to tone down their "radical, extremist language of hate" toward the leftist rebels who held her captive for six years. Betancourt, a politician with dual French-Colombian citizenship who was released last week in a Colombian military operation, skirted questions about her own political future in the interview with French radio. She was campaigning for Colombia's presidency when she was captured in 2002.
Noting the possibility that Colombian President Alvaro Uribe could seek a third presidential term, Betancourt said, "Why not?" She praised his efforts toward her release, but also sent him a warning. "Uribe, and not only Uribe but all of Colombia, should also correct some things," she said. "We have reached the point where we must change the radical, extremist vocabulary of hate, of very strong words that intimately wound the human being."
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She is a Greenie and Greenies are usually extremely impractical so I guess this is not entirely a surprise. But I wonder exactly what she does want us to call kidnappers and murderers?
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Sounds to me as though she ought to have remained with the FARC. She seems to have willingly adopted their political philosophy.
Pax,
InFides
Stockholm syndrome.
I wouldn't be surprised if she for years has been an active member of FARC rather than a prisoner...
It's not Stockholm syndrome, since she's been a willing and active leftist for years. Also take note of the fact that she thanked all the countries involved in her "rescue", EXCEPT the US, without who's help (intell, $$$, etc.) the operation could not have happened. She's french alright!
Send her back to FARC & see how well she likes them then.
Stockholm syndrome only affects those with weak minds.
Yet we hear from another believer in the philosophy:
There's NO such thing as a bad boy/girl.
They've been isolated from a materialistic society and are simply misunderstood idealists.
And yet, we support ($$$) them all. What does that make us, aside from a nation of fools?
But I wonder exactly what she does want us to call kidnappers and murderers?
I'd suggest bloodthirsty Marxist pirates.
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