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I found this story to be almost too offensive to post, but I changed my mind after thinking that there might be some FReepers who may have been wondering what Imelda has been up to lately and if she may have magically transformed into an actual human being over the course of the past few years. Unfortunately, it appears that this 'woman' is beyond redemption, and continues to be an insult to all of humanity, and particularly the people of the Philippines, with every moment that her hideous life continues.

I certainly can appreciate your opinion on Imelda, but I'd like to tell you a little bit about (as Paul Harvey says) the rest of the story...

I was in the Marcos mansion in the metropolitan Manila area in 1987. I was actually in Imelda's famous dressing room where, according to all of the presstitute accounts, over 2,000 pairs of shoes were to be found.

Not true.

Fact is, there were many shoes, maybe 5-600 pair, but not the touted 2,000+ pairs. I even saw light-up disco shoes with lights in the gigantic heels, but I did not see "thousands of pairs of shoes" as hundreds of news whores shrilled. I asked the person I was with about this detail then being screamed about in world headlines. She claimed there was supposed to be that many but they had been removed from the mansion and placed into storage. Even if true, the point is that the presstituted didn't know jack about the facts and only aped what some other jackass claimed in another article.

Same ol' same ol' MSM.

Now, don't get me wrong. I was never a Marcos fan, but I think that there are a few more things to consider here. Yes, Imelda was made a nice target for Saturday Night Live and for the preening leftist harlots in the Western press, but one thing the Marcos regime did, and did well, was to lock up the commies and scumbags where they couldn't work their mischief. Only after Corrazon Aquino (the Aquino family was, I believe, the No.2 landowning family in the P.I.) came into office did the Marxists get let out of prison on 'humanitarian' grounds and they refueled the NPA and promptly began the terror campaigns in the mold of the SE Asian template for rural insurgency.

To a large degree, the NPA has made the Philippines are favorable environment for Abu Sayef to operate. With Clark AFB gone and American military involvement at a low ebb, the weak domestic government needs help combating homegrown terror. Luckily, we are happy to share our experts and toast some bad guys into the bargain.

For my money, damn few third world nations will ever get - or want - real democratic reforms. Instead, the usual roadblocks of crappy primitive cultures, nutbag religions or corrupt political classes will do in the spark of freedom and hope every time. Looked at from that prism, a corrupt and greedy regime like the Marcos, who crush the bad guys, are better than corrupt and greedy "reformer" clowns who will give away the circus to the bad guys almost every time.

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
Imelda Marcos

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Imelda Marcos

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.
Imelda Marcos

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
Imelda Marcos

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
Imelda Marcos

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
Imelda Marcos

We practically own everything in the Philippines.
Imelda Marcos

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
Imelda Marcos

Sep 13, 2005

The government says the gems are being held in the vaults of the central bank. Imelda Marcos says that when the government took them 19 years ago, they were in "32 to 34" Louis Vuitton cases.

Marcos is also pressing the government to allow the burial of her husband's remains in the country's National Heroes Cemetery in the capital, and said supporters had gathered a million signatures in favor of the plan.

After his death in 1989 Ferdinand Marcos's body was preserved and kept in an air-conditioned glass case at the family home in the northern town of Batac. The government had refused to allow a burial at the Manila cemetery.

His widow said supporters plan to present the signatures to Arroyo.