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Montreal student detained in Philippines
Montreal Gazette ^ | 09/14/2013 | Montreal Gazette

Posted on 09/14/2013 8:25:04 PM PDT by TexGrill

A 24-year-old Montreal student is being detained in the Philippines after taking part in an anti-government protest in July.

Kim Chatillon-Meunier was about to leave the South Asian country Friday when officers from the Bureau of Immigration arrested her at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila. The Université de Montréal student was in the Philippines working with women in a Manila slum on an internship funded by Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada. During the internship, she also joined several humanitarian and political groups.

Chatillon-Meunier acted as a delegate to the International Conference on Human Rights, which culminated in a protest against the alleged human rights abuses of Filipino president Benigno Aquino’s administration. The July rally saw hundreds of riot police clash with protesters in the streets of Manila.

“This is blatant harassment and a violation of Kim Chatillon-Meunier’s fundamental rights, including the right to free expression,” says Malcolm Guy of the Centre for Philippine Concerns, a Montreal-based activist group. “It is also a clear violation of Kim’s right to study and support human-rights issues in the Philippines.”

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To: WVKayaker

No anger here whatsoever! I have a wonderful life with everything I could ever want. Everyone should be so lucky. I’m just calling out the arrogant, conceited and condescending attitudes you come with. The, ‘I’m better than you all’ your posts convey, because we are supposedly ‘stuck’ here in America, are pathetic. You are not better. Go ahead though, keep posting your slams on how terrible things are in America. We will stay here and fight to get our Country back while all you do is bash America.


21 posted on 09/20/2013 10:12:06 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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To: bobby.223
I’m just calling out the arrogant, conceited and condescending attitudes you come with.

Back at you, FRiend! I hear that in your every post!Keep telling yourself that everything is going great in America. But, like you say, I had a wonderful life with everything I could ever want. I'm not lucky, just blessed by God!

22 posted on 09/20/2013 10:58:57 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda..." -Sarah Palin)
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To: WVKayaker

Where did I tell myself, you, or anyone, everything is great in America? I believe I stated there are problems here. BIG problems. VERY BIG problems. Problems that are getting worse. The difference is I am staying right here to attempt to somehow, someway help right the ship ....not cowardly slither off to some other country because the going got to tough here. I could live any where I might want to but I’d never leave America. Getting older doesn’t mean one has to turn gutless and pull a chicken run out powder on America like you have. Heard about it?


23 posted on 09/22/2013 12:34:52 AM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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To: bobby.223
....not cowardly slither off to some other country because the going got to tough...

Boy, you have a comprehension problem along with that sour attitude! Maybe you should have read my posts before you popped off. You are surely shooting blanks.

I now live in the Philippines. I came here because I can live cheaply on my retirement income and contribute to furthering God's plan of salvation. I didn't run away from America, but I did note that the America I once loved is not the one we see now. I see the people here as contented and happy. I go into the stores and the clerks are all singing with the music. Not just a few of them, but in every place I go. It is a great place to live, and the people are good to be around.

Yesterday, I went for a haircut (50 pesos, or about $1.25), and while there I got to talking with a stranger. He invited me to come to his house about 30 Km south of my city, and I took him at his offer. I went there about 3pm and his wife barbecued some chicken and made some things to go along for us to eat. We sat around and talked about life and he took me to his beach. He owns five fishing boats and is a millionaire. He owns acres and acres of rice fields, a big coconut farm, two piggeries, and yet, lives a simple life among his employees, who he teats as friends. The sea has been too rough for fishing this week, but he invited me to come along next week when they go back out.

I will be there and be happy to work alongside him and his crew. I won't accept money, but I found a new friend. He even gave me a key to his two room beach house made from bamboo. It has a toilet and bed, and I can use it as my own, he tells me. How many strangers in America would even think to such a thing. Yet, it is not uncommon here.

You came onto this thread berating with with all of your RKBA crap and claims of desertion from "the good fight". You talk real brave, but you display the intellectual equivalence of a 6 year old.

I replied to your spew again, and gave you some of my thoughts. But you came back again with more drivel and you couldn't even show a fluid thought, by posting without formatting. So, I will respond to you this last time because I want more folk to see how simple people think! Have a nice life. I sure do!!!


24 posted on 09/22/2013 1:14:24 AM PDT by WVKayaker ("The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda..." -Sarah Palin)
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To: WVKayaker

Format this you gutless snob. Well, it took a few posts from you but your true anti America feelings finally came out for all to see. “RKBA crap”? The backbone of our country, the RKBA is crap? Or speaking or discussing it or stating it’s great value to our country is crap? (I can think of someone else whom might be interested on your last comment on the RKBA). Many years ago, and still today, America bashers and the anti RKBA folk were known as ‘commie rats’. You fit. Now, reading back among the past 2-3 weeks of some of your posts it is apparent you are also one of those condescending damn ‘holier than tho’ arrogant folk. Yep, you are perfect. Your ‘way’ is the only ‘way’. You believe that you are the greatest man put on this earth by the BIG GUY. What a crock. You have made it very plain just what you are. Format that you conceited jerk.


25 posted on 09/24/2013 10:08:47 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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To: bobby.223

26 posted on 09/24/2013 10:15:33 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda..." -Sarah Palin)
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To: bobby.223
Now, reading back among the past 2-3 weeks of some of your posts it is apparent ...

Obsession;

n.

Compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea or an unwanted feeling or emotion, often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety.

A compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion.

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/obsession#ixzz2fsbDNt8n


27 posted on 09/24/2013 10:37:47 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda..." -Sarah Palin)
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To: WVKayaker

Good God but you are a piece of work you commie apologist. Christian my old butt. You are nothing more than a arrogant rabble moving punk. (Know what that means sonny?) Take your ‘holier than thou’, ‘I’m better than you all’ crap back to your other anti American sites I’m betting you frequent. You are a fake, a fraud. You will be judged when your time comes. The Lord does not abide conceited liars. Get lost junior.


28 posted on 09/27/2013 10:14:05 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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To: bobby.223
Good God but you are a piece of work you commie apologist.

I don't know what you're drinking when you post to me, but you must have had too much. You accuse me of ill, without foundation in the truth. Did you quit taking your meds?

If you consider FreeRepublic an anti-American site, you are at the wrong place, not me. This is where I spend most of my time.

Punk yourself!


29 posted on 09/27/2013 10:35:55 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda..." -Sarah Palin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Reminds me of something that happened 10 years ago.

Darwin was a genius!

30 posted on 09/27/2013 10:58:09 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: WVKayaker

Get lost jerk. No meds taken here, other than 2 caps. of over the counter Bayer Aspirin per day. No booze for two months, at least. So take your no nuts, America bashing, holier than thou commie rat ass to hell. Christian? My old can you are. You are nothing but a fraud. You think are better than everybody, still acting the big shot. What a crock.


31 posted on 10/06/2013 2:28:39 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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To: bobby.223
What a crock.

Yep, you are, indeed!

You sit there spouting off nonsense like a broken record. You call me all sorts of vile names. No booze for two months, I doubt it. Your posts sound like you're deep in the bottle right now.I don't bash America, I'm just glad I'm not living near you. I doubt I could take the stench!

You're a big man there, Bobby (NOT!)! "Get lost jerk" back to you!

32 posted on 10/06/2013 3:55:13 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda..." -Sarah Palin)
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To: WVKayaker

Okay sonny, once again try to keep up. New perscription for myself from a while back...no booze allowed while I have been taking it and no booze for art least another 3 weeks. Got it fraud Christian? Speaking of booze, so you put alcohol into your Christian body huh? (Let’s see, I’ll bet you use the old all-purpose convenient ‘Moderation’ lie/dodge to justify that, right America basher?) Stench? Yep, in every arrogant post of yours to other Religious FReepers who don’t understand that you are a ‘holier than thou’ acting big shot and your views only must be obeyed.


33 posted on 10/17/2013 6:12:44 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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To: bobby.223
Okay sonny, once again try to keep up.

Waaaahhhhhh! You are such a whiner. Get a life. I am way ahead of you, apparently. While you bitch and moan, some of us actually do something with our lives!

Fraud Christian? Hah! Bashing seems to be your specialty! BTW, I like dark chocolate, as well. They grow that here in the Philippines abundantly!

1 Timothy 5: 23 Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

Forget apples. Instead, it’s a glass of red wine a day that may keep the doctor away. Studies show red wine may protect the heart and help control cholesterol levels, among other benefits. ...- Health.com


34 posted on 10/17/2013 6:46:25 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda..." -Sarah Palin)
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To: WVKayaker

Red Wine?? Is that the same thing as the Tequila and White Rum you defile your body with, the body God gave you? Good grief. I have not read the Bible in a while but I do remember seeing many verses warning against alcohol AND wine consumption. You are nothing but a false witness.


35 posted on 10/17/2013 7:24:13 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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To: bobby.223
Hahahahaaa. It's pretty good to hear you have such a vast Bible knowledge. /Sarcasm

I see what's coming out of your mouth (fingers)... "envy, slander, arrogance and folly". Maybe you should spend more time in Scripture and less time posting your nonsense!

Mark 7: 18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? 19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)

20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. 21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”

36 posted on 10/17/2013 8:31:10 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda..." -Sarah Palin)
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To: WVKayaker

Envy? That is rich. Envy of a gutless chicken sh$t coward like you who ran away from America like a scared rat? Go drink yourself some more of your White Rum or some more of your Tequila. Continue to defile your body with that alcohol while you preach to one and all here on FR. You are a ‘holier than thou’ hypocrite and a fraud.


37 posted on 10/17/2013 9:18:30 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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To: bobby.223
... New perscription for myself from a while back...no booze allowed while I have been taking it ...

Ahhhh, I got it now. You're off your meds! That explains all of your trash talk. I did find your pic, though, and you look great! Look in your hip pocket for that chicken crap!


38 posted on 10/17/2013 9:26:37 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda..." -Sarah Palin)
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To: WVKayaker

2 weeks to go on an allergy medicine, are you that damn dumb? Again, try to keep up. You just keep exposing yourself as a ‘False Christian Teacher’ don’t you. Can’t help it huh fake? Now posting a picture of an obviously challenged young person, accompanied with more of your derogatory comments, using that picture in a poor attempt to degrade me.....that was a real Christian thing to do wasn’t it ‘False Christian Teacher’? So lay off of your White Rum and Tequila sonny. Those two wonderful ‘Jesus Approved’ beverages you defile your body with are just helping you dig your fraud hole deeper.


39 posted on 10/17/2013 10:44:36 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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To: bobby.223
are you that damn dumb? Again, try to keep up.

No, but you seem to be pretty dull. I am so far ahead of you, I have to back up just to see you in my rear view mirror.

I don't know what your problem is, but it isn't me. You show a definite lack of education or intelligence. You keep exposing yourself as looking like an idiot, hence the pic of you I posted. If not you, maybe your twin.

Preach to somebody ignorant. I am fully aware... and you obviously don't know much about Christianity. You show a profound obedience to some church's false representations, with your ranting.

Fraud? yes, you are, and a loser, too!


40 posted on 10/17/2013 11:01:00 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda..." -Sarah Palin)
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