Children: The First Casualties of War

And you thought I was joking?

Imagine this screaming and dying child as your only son? What would you do if that happenned? Would you run after and kill the soldiers who impaled your dying son, or would you beg them to help you bring him to a hospital? In this unnerving moment, would you still have the luxury of choosing a side in the war or would you rather start throwing down your weapons to help save your son's life?

The answer is obvious. What can you do?

The pain in this man's eyes is worse than the pain killing his son. The father is confused, angry, powerless. He knows that his son is dying and that he can't do anything about it. Regardless, he panicks and then begs for help. Someone nearby should help them and yet while the seconds turn into hours, no one listens!

A wise man once said that the first casualty of war is truth, and yet he is wrong for the first casualties of war are children.

The great nations of our world today, have systematically slaughtered, abused and even enlisted children in their countless wars for gold, glory, and gods. They have put their selfish interests and above human life, and in the process have fueled hatred in the hearts and minds of their enemies. Then they predictably label their enemies as terrorists, catch them and then imprison them without trial. The media claims that the casualties of bombings in the wars destroying the middle east alone, consist mostly of women and children. This is common sense because the men in their families leave their homes to fight the jet planes that bomb their country. Gone are the days of the Liberation where soldiers gave clothes, chocolates and cans of SPAM to children. Today, they make chocolate and SPAM out of children!

Yet, there are a chosen few who still stand up for the rights of children and lay down weapons to protect them. They suffer greatly and even die in the process, while their own families mock them in their graves for the crimes committed by their leaders. Bless them Oh God for their compassion! The Earth would be a lifeless place without them.

We supposedly live in a modern world composed of civilized people and yet we allow our leaders to force us to wage war against the weak for the sake of petty things like beautiful faces, pride, and oil.

Shouldn't civilized people see the stupidity of war? There are more wars raging in the earth now than the total number of wars that were waged by our primitive forefathers in history.

You know what?

To hell with the oil!

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Sports Cars vs. Street Children

The Filipino painter Joey Velasco has given us his solution to this existing problem. He got a canvass and painted pictures of real street children sharing the last supper with a Carpenter from Nazareth, Someone we all know and love.

If you look at their faces closely, you will notice that they are real people, children who's lives have been torn apart not by fate but by our arrogance and greed. Arrogance, because we believe that their plight is not our problem, and that we are not responsible for them. Greed, because we put our selfish wants above the basic needs of these children.

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Mr. Velasco, through his masterpiece, makes us realize how far we have fallen away from God's love because we have abandoned the least of our brethren. For to remain in His love, we should follow His commandments.

Yes. The plight of our street children is our problem. It is a manifestation of a an evil so perverse that the sin of Lucifer himself pales in comparison to it!

And yet we have ignored the fact that to protect their rights is a mission that we are obliged to accomplish not only as individual Christians but also as a Christian nation.

Purchasing a Ferrari worth millions of pesos, bragging about it to your friends in the internet, and then going to church and worshiping God while doing nothing about the plight of the street children in your neighborhood is utter hypocrisy. Waging war against our Moslem brothers and sisters in Mindanao without providing food and shelter for the street children of Metro Manila, Metro Cebu, and Metro Davao is not only self righteousness, but also incomptence and stupidity.

How can we even dare live lives of comfort and prosperity when we allow these boys and girls to suffer hunger and poverty each passing day? How can we dare say that we are a Christian nation when we harbor 1.4 million street children in our country? Ultimately, how can we dare say that we have faith in Christ if we do not put our faith into action?

On the other hand, the plight of our streetchildren should be the priority of not only the Philippine Government but also the priority of every Filipino.

" Article 15 Section 3: The State shall defend the right of children to assistance, including proper care and nutrition, and special protection from all forms of neglect, abuse, cruelty, exploitation and other conditions prejudicial to their development;" The 1987 Constitution of the repulic of the Philippines

If the primary law of our land recognizes and promises to defend the rights of children, shouldn't we first provide for the the basic needs of our streetchildren before we invest in costly roads, invest in costly government rest houses and costly government buildings, and spend fat pork barrels on costly state visits?

Is is sad that most Filipino solons would rather donate Basketball courts to well to do subdivisions than provide shelters for thousands of street children that roam the streets of our country. These politicians would rather spend fortunes suing one another and killing one another than helping these children improve their lives.

What a waste!

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Why Were We Given Fathers?

Why would a Father love his children so willingly and so unconditionally? Why would He go out of his way to conquer everything just to show his children that He cares so much for them?
There are no words to best describe His love just as there are no words that can define the origin of the universe. It is simply beyond human comprehension, a matter of faith for every man, woman and child. Arrogance is the word for people who would even dare to define it!
Nevertheless, the most we could do to describe His love is to witness its results in our lives.
From the first day we born, our Father defied the world to provide us food on the table, and sometimes even went to the extent of giving his share of bread to us during rough times. When we were young, He taught us how to walk, and more importantly He taught us how to play. Time and again, He would help us solve our homework and help prepare breakfast for us even if He was busy. He would walk us to school and help us carry our school bags everyday until we grew strong enough to walk to school alone and carry our school bags ourselves. He would give us sound advice in almost everything we encountered, especially in our darkest hours. Sometimes, He would march out to protect us from our enemies and often bail us out from the mess we would inflict upon others and ourselves. Ultimately, He helped us achieve the impossible.

Where then would we be without His love? Nowhere. What would we be without His love? Nothing.
No one else but our Father guided us in our life's journey. Even a bicycle can bring you to places, especially when our Father rides beside us. The journey, after all, is more important than the destination.
Here and there, we often ignore the result of His love in our lives. The fact that we breathe is proof enough of how much He loves us. Because of this love, we were given the chance to make a difference in our dying world.
Shouldn't we share this unconditional love with our children, so that they, too, can make a difference in their life's journey?
Think about it.

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Filipinos and Hannibal Barca

In 249 B.C., Hannibal Barca, the greatest enemy of Rome, grew up in a military camp commanded by his father, the famous Hamilcar Barca, who led Carthage in the first Punic War. Hamilcar would bring his son to battle whenever he could, so that the boy would become a great warrior and leader one day. Thus, young Hannibal learned how to use weapons of war and how to command men even before he had learned how to read and write. Historians even say that Hamilcar taught his son to hate the Rome at a very early age so that Hannibal dedicated his entire life to wage war against the eternal city. According to the Roman historian Livy, before embarking to Spain, Hannibal swore an oath at the behest of his father: "I swear so good as age will permit... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome."

Carthage, Rome's greatest rival city, held a few colonies in Spain, but because of general Hamilcar's ambitions and desire for vengeance against Rome, Carthage conquered the majority of the Iberian Peninsula. He conquered the area in order strengthen his family's political power and influence in Carthage, and consequently reaffirm Carthage as the greatest naval and military power in Europe. Carthage had lost of Sicily to Rome in the First Punic War and this greatly tarnished his city's prestige and reputation in the entire mediterranean.

Thus, in 236 B.C., Hamilcar, with his son Hannibal, set out for Spain. There he spent several years conquering the Spanish tribes and states in the area, and there, Hannibal was versed in the ways of the Spanish sword. In 228 B.C., his father fell in battle, and Hannibal became the leader of a powerful army composed of soldiers, mercenaries, and criminals.

He then used this army to cross the Alps and kill thousands of Celtic tribes in the process. His goal was to invade the Italian peninsula and pillage Rome herself. After crossing these mountains, he challenged Rome's best legions, destroyed them, and then sacked Italy. In the pivotal Battle of Cannae alone, Hannibal and his men annihilated 70 thousand Romans in a single day. There Hannibal cut off the fingers of hundreds of dead Roman nobles and offered their fingers and rings to his patron God Baal as thanksgiving!

Even after Scipio Africanus had defeated him in the Battle of Zama, Hannibal served the Seleucid King Antiochus III and led the Seleucid navy against the Romans at the battle of Eurymedon.

Defeated there, Hannibal the Great died poisoning himself near the sea of Marmora, before being captured by Roman agents.

This man hated Rome so much that he killed hundreds of thousands of people, marched hundreds of miles with a band of murderers, and then travelled to the most inhospitable places the world had to offer. He wasted his entire life hating a nation that could have been a loyal ally and friend to his family and his country. Because of hate, he destroyed the not only the lives of his enemies, but also the lives of his loved ones.

Filipinos should learn from Hannibal Barca. Simply put, we should learn from history.
Children in the war-torn areas of Mindanao are taught how to use automatic machine guns in a very early age. Worse, their parents teach them how to decapitate their captured and defenseless enemies. Remember what happened to an Italian priest in Mindanao years ago? This unnerving hate has been passed on from father to son, so that the cycle of violence in Mindanao has kept on repeating itself for decades. This, together with the problems of poverty and unemployment, create a hopeless situation for children living in these affected areas. Why wouldn't these children want a piece of the action? They can get paid handsomely if they work for separatist rebels, as they are offered wages way above the minimum wage and their families get cash benefits and protection as well. Kids their age are more heavily armed and better supported than government soldiers and can get to eat three times a day out there in the battlefield!
And if they ever get caught killing a dozen government soldiers, all they have to do to be set free is to start crying "Human Rights!".
Then come Human Rights lawyers from Manila ever-ready to defend them.
Being a soldier in Mindanao is clearly a better deal for these children than begging on the streets, selling drugs, and even becoming child prostitutes.
Solve this hate and you end the war.
Fuel this hate and our country will be burned to the ground like the great Carthage, by an angry mob of vengeful and desperate children!
It wouldn't be a good idea to breed an army of Hannibal Barca's, not in this day and age, since the Hannibal Barca's today carry machine guns!
So, take my advice and restart the Mindanao Peace Talks.
It's the Christian thing to do.
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LSGH Batch 94

Fifteen years ago, a group of children who knew nothing about life graduated from arguably the best High School in our country, La Salle Greenhills.
The LSGH dome, stood proud that drizzling March day, when 417 students marched up her catwalk fearlessly. They would be tried and tested in the days and years to come, and yet they walked on stubbornly. They dared the fates to break them. Because they knew that they could not be broken.
Were it not for their teachers, they would not have learned the colors of life.
Were it not for their friends, they would not have enjoyed the miseries of life.
Their Alma Matter taught them well.

Fifteen years later, I see them transformed into adults, preaching about destiny and social responsibility in the world wide web. Boy have they grown into dependable and responsible men, a far cry from the greenhorns they were during the good old days!
Then I look at myself in the mirror and notice my weathered face, mangled countless times by the uncertainties of life and the trials of our faith.
Time is upon me.
True friendship conquers time and everything in between a straight line, and very rarely does it transcend the limits of brotherhood. Lucky for me.
In this regard, children make the best of friends even when they grow old. In some cases, though, they sadly make the worst of enemies, and yet inspite of petty differences, they get together each year to celebrate their youth. Then they realize the grand design of things.
And finally notice that the fates are upon them.
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Poverty and Filipino Children

One plus One is equal to Two.
Unicef reports that more than 26,000 children below five years old die in our world each day due to preventable causes, and that most of them live in developing regions comprised of 60 countries.
In our country, there are about 250,000 street children living below the poverty line who are forced to work so that they can feed their families and contribute to the income of their families. Then again, these children are not registered in the National Statistics Office and lack legal birth documents, which means that they are denied basic health, educational, and protection services. Consequently, they become victims of abuse, violence, and exploitation, especially in Metro Manila, Metro Cebu, and Metro Davao. Girls below fifteen are forced to work as prostitutes in these large cities and often get gang raped in the streets. Time and again, we hear stories of G.I.'s and Solons brutally rape young Filipina prostitutes and get away with their crimes because of money and corruption. On the other hand, boys below fifteen join criminal gangs and often become runners for drug pushers. They soon get caught and get imprisoned for their crimes. The problem is that these children are not sent to juvenile detention centers. They are sent to city jails, where adults teach them how to become cold-hearted criminals through inimidation and violence.

To further worsen the problem, there are about 50,000 children-refugees affected by armed conflict in our country. The war in Mindanao and the war against Communist Insurgents have taken its toll on innocent Filipino children. After witnessing the horrors of war, these kids now prefer seeking revenge rather than reading books, and consequently, the circle of hatred and violence in Mindanao never ends. Everyone loses - especially our Muslim brothers and sisters who have all the right to live in Mindanao.
There's more: "More than half of the over 42,000 barangays in the country do not have provisions for a pre- school. Only 19% of children aged 4 to 6 years old are able to go to public and private pre-schools. More than 1/3 of the more than 42,000 barangays in the country could not offer the required six years of elementary education. -Sixty percent of the children drop out of school when they reach the second grade." - PDI, May 18, 1997 .

Don't these underpriviledged children also have the right to education, as stated in the Philippine Constitution? I'm not a lawer but shouldn't our lawmakers make laws that can be implemented?
Bla. Bla. Bla.
You know, it is easy to blame our government and our leaders for everything we see on television. We blame them for abandoning our children to poverty and war even though many government units, led by a small number enlightened government leaders, have cooperated with non-government organizations to implement concrete projects for these children. How about the DSWD's and Don Bosco's Tuloy sa Don Bosco Streetchildren Village in Alabang, Muntinlupa City? (Visit http://www.tuloy.org/ for more information regarding this project.) How about the partnership of Caritas Manila and our Government on distributing NFA rice to the urban poor of Metro Manila?(Visit www.caritasmanila.org.ph for information regarding this project.)
I can name many more noble and inspiring projects like these to prove to everyone that our government and some of our leaders are doing something about the problem.
How about us? Are we doing something about the problem?
Can't we do more proactive things than blaming others for things that we ourselves have failed to do. Whenever faced with a problem, shouldn't we find solutions to the problem rather than blaming others for the problem and doing nothing about it?

One plus one is not equal to "It's Gloria's fault!" - it is equal to two.

Before we blame our government and our leaders for the miserable plight of our children, we should do something about the miserable plight of our children.
So, let's give our government and our leaders some slack and solve the problem oursleves.
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Manny Pacquiao - Your Hero

We all need heroes today, selfless men and women who bring out the best in us by showing us what we are capable of achieving. Without them life would devolve into an utter state of savagery since no one would willingly sacrifice anything for anyone at anytime and place.

Nations would not have been formed were it not for the daring seafarers who challenged the elements with their filmsy boats and landed on the unknown beaches. Countries would not have been founded were it not for the blood and guts of their leaders, patriots and martyrs. And were it not for a certain Jewish Carpenter who gave up carpentry to proclaim His Father's love for mankind, we would still be pagans today, children who would have had no idea that our Heavenly Father loves us!

Children, in particular, need heroes more than adults do. The very first heroes a baby girl learns to love, admire, and imitate are her parents, without which, she would not have been created in the first place. No one would have guided her and molded her into to be the best that she could be the way her parents would have.
Even the Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao, a child at heart, found heroes in the sparring partners, trainers, opponents, coaches and boxing greats that molded him into the champion he is now. Manny started out as a chunk of marble that was carefully chiselled and sculpted by masters into one of the greatest boxers in history. His skill level now is far greater than what it was ten years ago, thanks to Freddy Roach! People have admired and loved Manny so much that they leave their families, homes and jobs to travel to Las Vegas and support him everytime he fights! Manny Pacquiao WINS because of the millions of HEROES that have supported and loved him through the years!

That said, can the fifty Filipino Solons who had reportedly travelled to Las Vegas using their own money and time to watch the Hatton vs. Pacquiao fight be considered heroes? They spent millions in travel and lodging expenses so that they could "SUPPORT" and "NOT BET" on their hero Manny Pacquiao. Who in his right mind would go to Las Vegas, watch a great boxing match, and NOT BET?

Don't these lawmakers have more important things to do like legislating new laws to put a final end to corruption and to improve our impotent justice system? How about helping to the poor and sick? I have yet to see a member of the Lower House who would personally minister to the poor and sick at the Culion Leper Colony in Palawan. On the other hand, don't the children of the Payatas dumpsite barely eat once a day? Can't these leaders do anything about this severe problem with their FAT pork barrel funds?Pasong Tamo Avenue in Makati City floods terribly during the rainy season. Can't they do anything about this SIMPLE PROBLEM? I'm sure they could fix this if they really wanted to because even a private firm can fix this flood problem given a chance to do so.

Democracy is democray is democracy.

Are these leaders the kind of heroes we would want our children to admire, or better yet, are these the kind of leaders we would want to vote for and follow?

Okay then, let us all vote for them in the next election!

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Philppine Elections 2010:ERAP Reelection

The definition of a TRAPO in Filipino is a piece of cloth used to wipe dirt off something. It may also be described as a dirty piece of cloth used to clean floors, dishes, bath tubs and toilet seats. Personally I do not know if the word TRAPO has an equivalent in the English language or any other language for that matter, but whenever I go home and clean my dirty shoes, I use my handy and age old Philippine TRAPO. Thus, to describe a Filipino politician as a TRAPO is no doubt unchristian and insulting. And though it is true that Filipinos have wittingly coined the word TRAPO as an acronym for TRADITIONAL POLITICIANS, it is still obviously a very shrewd way of calling politicans who have served our country for five or more years DOWNRIGHT DIRTY !

So much for the Christian virtue of respect!

Do we see the Amercian media and American Christian churches call their congressmen, senators, and president TRAPOS?

Never.

That's because Americans know the value of respecting their leaders, even if they do not support the occupation of Iraq and even if they have lost confidence in some of their leaders. In my opinion, this is what makes them a great nation.

Is this what we Filipinos would want teach our children - how to insult our duly elected public officials? We live in a democracy, and no matter how you look at it - democracy, being merely a creation of man, will never be a perfect system, where popular leaders, regardless of their educational backround or social status, will be surely and duly elected.

Look for the giant concrete bust of former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos which was built on a mountainside in Tuba, Benguet. It's not there anymore. It was dynamited two years ago by suspected Filipino rebels and now stands as a memorial to Filipino fickle-mindedness and disrespect. What will they dynamite next - the Marcos Highway? Haydee Yorac's grave perhaps? Regardless of how evil many Filipinos claim the former President to be, (His guilt was never proven in courts both here and abroad) respect is still a value we should teach our children not just because we are a Christian nation but also because it is the right thing to do.

So, before we begin to teach our gradeschool and highschool students that former President Marcos is this and that, let us first look at the good things he had contributed to our country - things that we now benefit from.

And before we begin insulting the intelligence and integrity of former President Erap Estrada for possibly running for President in the Philippine 2010 elections, let us remember that we were taught to respect even the worst of our enemies.

For like many public servants, both Marcos and Estrada are still men - created in the image and likeness of God. They, therefore, deserve our respect - thesame respect that we are obliged to give to the least of our brethren.

How then can we expect our children to respect us, if we teach them to call our leaders DUMB and DIRTY TRAPOS?

God bless our Philippine Presidents!

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The Big Bang or God?

A simple question deserves a simple answer.

Take for example the hundreds of thousands of Somalis who have died because of the brutal civil wars that have ravaged their country for decades. How can God allow Somali women and children to be slaughtered violently in the hands of evil men? How can the all-knowing and omnipotent Creator allow chaos to destroy Somalia? Don't the Somalis also deserve His promise of eternal life?
Atheists and agnostics have asked me questions like these time and again and I have found it quite hard to answer them bluntly without sounding too righteous, overzealous, and overbearing. Would a loving father allow his children to be murdered in cold blood? Would a father subject his children to pain and suffering in the first place? If no father on earth would willingly do this, why then would our Heavenly Father willingly allow us to suffer? Is God, therefore, out there!?

Yes.

You see, God has never abandoned us. It is we who have abandoned Him. We create criminals. We create the evening news. We create polarized societies. And we create corruption, hunger and poverty. We also created Marijuana, Cocaine, and LSD. We created child-porn, and ultimately, we created the Atomic bomb. We make our world the miserable and dark place which it is not supposed to be.

God has nothing to do with the evil we harbor against each other. So, stop blaming Him for what we do. Would it be just to blame and punish your mother in law for a crime that you have committed?

Whether you like it or not, He is out there.

There are hundreds of billions of galaxies in our Universe that are larger than our own Milkyway galaxy, and each of these galaxies have billions of stars, blackholes, and other stellar bodies moving about them. A creation this vast and mind-boggling would surely need a purpose and, consequently, need an architect. For everything has a purpose, as every action produces an equal and opposite reaction.

And though the Big Bang theory quaintly explains how the Universe came to be (most scientists have unreasonably accepted this theory as fact) this theory cannot be proven by science and, as such, can only be taken as a matter of faith by scientists.

The better question is; what then provided the energy needed to produce the Big Bang?

A Japanese diesel generator!?
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The Slave Nation

When Julius Caesar and his Roman Legions invaded Gaul, Germania, and Britannia, millions were murdered. It is estimated at least 2 million barbarian people perished in his decade long racial genocide, which left western Europe almost empty and devastated. In one of the battles of this successful campaign against the Celtic and Teutonic tribes of Europe, Julius Caesar exterminated 400,000 men, women and children in a single day. Moreover, after this unquestionable act of evil, he invaded Germania and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Germanic tribes just to scare them away and make them think twice before invading the western Roman provinces.
Because of Caesar's harrowing acts of cruelty, the famed Cicero and Cato and many more Roman Senators denounced him and threatened to remove him from his office and army. Embassies and leaders from the tribes Caesar had destroyed visited Rome and pleaded the Roman Senate to spare their women and children from him, while he continued to plunder and burn their villages unchecked.

Yet, many would have none of this temporary peace, as they valued their freedom more than Roman commerce. Generations later, many German tribes stood their ground against the Legions of Varus and Germanicus and earned their freedom through sheer and indefatigable willpower. Seeing this, the powerful Romans learned to fear the German tribes and decided to leave them alone - a fatal mistake because many centuries later, the German tribes grew strong enough to invade the Roman Empire and sack the eternal city herself.

It makes you wonder, why many historians throughout history have transformed Julius Caesar into a much admired historical figure like Alexander the Great and Napoleon. Kill a man and you are a murderer. Kill a million men and you're a Hero!

Thus, there came a point in Roman history when there where at least three Roman slaves for each Roman in the Italian Peninsula. The slave markets of the eternal city, Campania, and Tarentum were flooded with thousands of slaves for sale whenever the Roman Legions won battles and wars in the east and west. The Roman Legions in the frontlines sold captured slaves "wholesale"to the Roman Equestrian merchants, who a acting as middle men, then sold these poor souls "retail" in Roman cities. Consequently, slave nations, comprised of Gauls, Spaniards, Carthaginians, Africans and more, unwillingly served wealthy Roman whorehouses, latifundias, public baths and sweatshops.
So what!?
Well, as I have said, the Roman slaves 2000 years ago became slaves unwillingly. They were forced out of their homes, made to walk a hundred miles, and the were forced to plow the fields of wealthy nobles.
Slavery of the 21st Century, on the other hand, has not changed one bit!
Filipinos living in the world today are also forced to work thousands of miles away from their homes and family. Promised with a better life abroad, they unwillingly perform menial work for foreigners, foreign organizations, and foreign companies who pay them meager wages. Filipino dancers,pipefitters, sailors, carpenters, janitors, maids, and cooks earn less than their Western counterparts in most countries, for the simple reason that they are Filipino.
Yes, the Filipino Nation has become a SLAVE NATION - a nation of blue collared workers.
Do not get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with blue collared work for work, as long as it is moral, exemplifies the dignity of a person.The issue here is why Filipinos today allow themselves to be paid less than their western counterparts whenever they work abroad, even if they are better workers than foreigners. Since when did less pay become a competitive advantage for job seekers?
Allowing yourselves to be underemployed is the worst form of slavery! And your children suffer for it!

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The Children of Cain

The M1A and M1A2 main battle tanks continue to play an important role in conventional warfare in the middle east, as they have helped western countries conquer their enemies and, in so doing, maintained an uneasy peace in the region. Whenever these warmachines enter villages and cities, freedom fighters surrender at once for few would ever dare challenge the might of these terrifying monsters.
But here's the rub.
It costs 4.35 million U.S. dollars, roughly 218 million Philippine pesos, to build one M1A2 main battle tank, which makes it a very expensive and extravagant weapon of war. An able military commander can defeat enemy army without a multi-million dollar weapon like this. It has been done before. Take for example, how the Mujahedin of Afghanistan defeated the hordes of Russian tanks that were sent to exterminate them back in the 1980's?
Hasn't anyone considered that the cost of an M1A2 battle tank is equal to the amount necessary to send 1,090 less fortunate Filipino chilren to school - from grade one to highschool @ Php 200,000.00 pesos per child? And yet The U.S. Army alone has 1,174 operational M1A2's and 4,393 M1A1's!

But that's nothing compared to Tomahawk missles!

One Tomahawk Cruise Missile costs $569,000.00 - roughly 28,450,000 million pesos. In the 1991 Persian Gulf War alone, 288 Tomahawks were launched! That's 8,193,600,000.00 wasted Philippine Pesos! With this vast amount of money, the Philippine government could have either built 1,639.00 public schools @ Php 5,000,000.00 per school for Filipino children or could have sent 40,968 Filipino children to school from grade one to highschool @ Php 200,000 per child.That's how expensive it is to wage war in thge 21st Century.

These facts only show how deranged man is because he prefers to kill his brother rather than send his children to school. He would rather kill for power, money and oil rather than help his brother provide a better future for all children.
How can we truly say that we are civilized and sentient beings when we would rather follow corrupt governments and selfish politicians than protect the basic rights of our children?There are no but's, if's, and impossible's when the rights of children are at stake.

We are still, after all, the children of Cain.
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Baby Killers!

Other than man, no other species on earth kills its young for senseless reasons. Even though only humans have the technology to perform this outrage, none of the lesser animals open their own wombs to kill their young simply because they would rather procreate than destroy. Survival is a primeval and basic instinct that all animals have and when put to the test, mothers of all species would rather die than murder their unborn babies.

It’s also sad that the number of abortions each year (There are an estimated 1.4 million abortions per year in America alone) is greater than the number of Americans soldiers that were killed during the Vietnam War. So why should a country wage a costly war when it can decimate the population of its enemies by using abortion, the practical alternative to conventional warfare? Abortion is an even more effective weapon than both the nuclear bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki where only 200,000 people were estimated to have died. Madmen like Adolf Hitler can conquer the world with abortion.

Many countries who outlaw weapons of mass destruction, murder, and genocide have legalized abortion because their leaders do not have the moral integrity and political willpower to ban it. These countries implement strict laws that protect the rights of animals. In fact, there are American television programs that show police officers who arrest dog owners for killing their dogs. Why then does a dog have the right to live while the unborn human fetus does not? Pro-Abortionists argue that because fetuses are not yet living things, they can be aborted. Take a look at the pictures of the fetuses in this blog and decide if they are living things. Regardless of your answer, these fetuses are undeniably human! And they deserve more love and respect from us!

In 18 days, your baby's heart began beating. You would have recorded her brain waves in 40 days and after 11 weeks she would have squinted, swallowed and clenched her fist. She would have fingerprints and would have been sensitive to heat, light, touch and noise. In 11 weeks, she would have been sucking her thumb, weighed 1 ounce and would have been 2 1/2 to 3" long. And you would have carried her comfortably on the palm of your hand.

So, go to the abortion clinic around the corner and have yourself an abortion this Christmas. Don't forget to go to church the next Sunday and thank God for His love after you have killed your baby. And be grateful that your mother did not abort you when you were merely 18 days old!

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Children of War

Though children can barely carry AK 47’s and Bazookas, they often make better soldiers than adults, because of their unquestioning loyalty . Have you ever wondered why children are mobilized by countries as their last line of defense against invaders?

The infamous PolPot used comrade-children, comrades who were pure and unsullied by the corrupt past of adults, to murder thousands in his bloody revolution, where over one million Cambodians were murdered and over two million more died of starvation aand obedience. Warlords have greatly depended on them throughout history and have used their innocence and inexperience to conquer their enemies. Warlords like PolPot often saved their best troops for last, and many hopeless battles were turned into undeniable victories because of children-soldiersnd exhaustion in labor camps. PolPot and his thugs forced children to denounce and kill their elders and at the age of twelve, many of these comrade-children managed labor camps where they inflicted severe violence against adult inmates. Pol Pot separated children from parents and brainwashed them to hate their families and relatives. He understood the hidden resentment these children had for adults and how, by fueling their hatred for authority, he could set them lose against his enemies. Thus, he overtook his country on April 1975, with a huge gang of young teenagers called the Khmer Rouge. Through these obedient subjects, Pol Pot murdered one-third of the population in less than four years. His country became a vast forced labour camp, and turned into a peasant economy without class divisions, money, books, schools and hospitals.

Adolf Hitler, the lunatic leader of Germany, mobilized the Jungvolk (boys 10 to 14 years old) and Hitler-Youth (14 to 18 years old) to defend Germany against the invading allies during the Second World War. When the war started, the Hitler Youth alone totaled 8.8 million, but these numbers changed dramatically as the war progressed when Youth leaders of draft age where drafted into the army and when the Jungvolk and Hitler Youth united into a single organization.

Because of the dwindling supply of manpower, Adolf Hitler formed the 12th SS-Panzer Division Hitlerjugend, consisting of 15, 16 and 17 year old boys. Ten thousand boys were trained in Beverloo, Belgium, and on D-Day, June 6, 1944, they were sent to fight the Allies in Normandy. On May 8, 1945, remnants of the 12th SS-Panzer Division, consisting of only 455 boy soldiers and one tank, finally surrendered to the American 7th Army. By the end of the war, over 9,000 of these boys were either dead or missing in action.

That’s not all. When the Russians invaded Berlin at the end of the war, 5,000 German boys armed with rifles and Panzerfausts, fought the Soviet Army maniacally at the Pichelsdorf bridges. After five days of battle, 4,500 children were either killed or wounded. Many of them committed suicide rather than be captured by the Red Army.

Why violate the rights of children and turn them into cold- blooded murderers? What happened to us? Are we truly civilized? Are we truly children of GOD? Do we truly have souls?

Sometimes, being human is simply beyond my comprehension.

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