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Something fishy about Myanmar
techalive.com ^ | 5/9/08 | antonia

Posted on 05/09/2008 4:02:11 PM PDT by antonia

I smell a rat. Look at this picture, the signs are printed and in English. Notice the machine gun in the right hand, bottom corner.
The picture in it's original context can be found here: Aid Shipments to Myanmar to Resume; More Rain on the Way


TOPICS: Government; Society; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: myanmar
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1 posted on 05/09/2008 4:02:14 PM PDT by antonia
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the caption says they are in front of the Embassy in Manila, the firearm is probably in the hand of either an Embassy guard or filipino paramilitary police. it is not unusual to see fully auto weapons in this part of the world


2 posted on 05/09/2008 4:19:19 PM PDT by rontorr (It's just my opinion, but I am RIGHT!)
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That poster looks like it was done by a professional graphics person.

Or what ever you call that.

Never seen one of our Freepers with such a clear clean home made sign, right?


3 posted on 05/09/2008 4:30:57 PM PDT by Global2010
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The gun in question is an AirSoft gun. It's a realistic-looking toy that shoots little plastic beads about hard enough to break through a sheet of tissue paper.

I've seen this pic and others during the day of these demonstrators holding AirSoft guns. Notice the orange ring of paint at the muzzle of the toy.

By the way, these AirSoft guns are often mistaken for the real thing because of their realistic look at a short distance. Some of you might recall how the NYPD displayed dozens of these toys at a press conference after they'd confiscated them from some young adult that was pointing them at passersby. The media covering the story made it out to be that they'd taken dozens of illegal machineguns off the streets of New York, but it was quite obvious that they had nothing but dozens of realistic-looking toys and knew it.

4 posted on 05/09/2008 4:53:39 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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The gun in question is an AirSoft gun. It's a realistic-looking toy that shoots little plastic beads about hard enough to break through a sheet of tissue paper.

Using a prop like that makes it seem, even more, as a set up,a staged scene.

5 posted on 05/09/2008 5:10:09 PM PDT by antonia ("Information is terrain and someone will occupy it.")
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Where do they get the idea they have a “RIGHT” to anything?

Does their “Right” to it give them to right to make me pay for it


6 posted on 05/09/2008 5:11:03 PM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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Yep it's an airsoft. Here is a slightly larger version of the pic. You can just see the end of the "barrel"

LINK

7 posted on 05/09/2008 5:12:29 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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So the "Burmese people have a right to clean water, food, etc". Fine. I will not interfere with their buying those items on the free market.

What? They demand that I PROVIDE those items to them out of my pocket? No, you do not have the right to demand things out of my pocket. Or rather, you can demand and I can laugh at you

8 posted on 05/09/2008 5:14:04 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." — George Orwell)
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Please don't get me wrong, I am all for aid and helping those who are in need. I just don't appreciate being manipulated, let alone by false pretense. We have had more than enough of that, thanks to our 'free press'. Remember Katrina ? See:

Police Chief Says He Exaggerated Post-Katrina Crime
By CHANNING JOSEPH
Staff Reporter of the Sun
August 21, 2006

and

"If Anyone Rioted, It Was the Media"
February 22, 2006
House's Katrina Report Knocks Early Coverage

or

Media outlets exaggerated some of New Orleans' woes
By ERIC DEGGANS
Published September 28, 2005
It's the story of the moment regarding coverage of Hurricane Katrina: The news media likely passed along exaggerated tales of lawlessness in New Orleans in the storm's early aftermath, repeating accounts of murder, rapes and child molestations often delivered by misinformed public officials and traumatized hurricane victims.

and that was an event right here in America, let alone on the other side of the world.

9 posted on 05/09/2008 5:22:01 PM PDT by antonia ("Information is terrain and someone will occupy it.")
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The gun in question is an AirSoft gun. It's a realistic-looking toy that shoots little plastic beads about hard enough to break through a sheet of tissue paper.
Using a prop like that makes it seem, even more, as a set up,a staged scene.

There is nothing in that picture which convinces me of dire need. They have the time to go protest, they have the time and the materials to make decent signs. Other photos of the destruction; are of homes built with woven palm fronds in to mats that are hung on frames. leaning alarmingly, but are not so heavy as to be that difficult to fix. Clean water, and clean up and basic food is what they may need.

10 posted on 05/09/2008 5:29:29 PM PDT by antonia ("Information is terrain and someone will occupy it.")
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Great observation....you’re right.


11 posted on 05/09/2008 5:57:46 PM PDT by indcons
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That is a photo of an expat community of refugees of ethnic genocide, taken thousands of miles away from Burma.

They are like any other group of expats and erfugees in the world who exercise speech rights to protest and demonstrate.


12 posted on 05/09/2008 6:30:37 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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On the white sign at the bottom it is probably FBC-Phils.

Members of Free Burma Coalition-Philippines (FBC-Phils)

I expect they made the signs.


13 posted on 05/09/2008 6:43:14 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (The FReeper Foxhole. America's history, America's soul.)
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Gee, do Burmese people also has the right to have good grammar?


14 posted on 05/09/2008 8:07:54 PM PDT by Bobarian (Green: It's the new Red.)
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So if the real guns are painted with an orange ring on the muzzle, then the cops won’t shoot?


15 posted on 05/09/2008 10:05:00 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: JerseyHighlander
They are like any other group of expats and refugees in the world who exercise speech rights to protest and demonstrate.

Not only that, but the sign in the background makes an argument no American should have trouble with: It is the responsibility of Myanmar's government to respect its citizens right to life (and liberty, and property). These things are in short supply in Myanmar nee Burma. I wonder how many FReepers would remain unsympathetic to these expats' calls for aid if they understood the extent to which our enemy, China, has shielded the despicable thugs running this country from serious action by the rest of the world.

16 posted on 05/09/2008 10:15:19 PM PDT by FredZarguna ("I want that crazy uncle institutionalized, pronto.")
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To: FredZarguna; All
...to which our enemy, China...

China is not our enemy. China is our adversary.
The Democrats are our enemy.

17 posted on 05/10/2008 5:52:34 AM PDT by Bobarian (Green: It's the new Red.)
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Please don't get me wrong, I am all for aid and helping those who are in need.

From the Ayn Rand Lexicon:

What is the moral code of altruism? The basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue and value.

Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice--which means; self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction--which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good.

Do not hide behind such superficialities as whether you should or should not give a dime to a beggar. That is not the issue. The issue is whether you do or do not have the right to exist without giving him that dime. The issue is whether you must keep buying your life, dime by dime, from any beggar who might choose to approach you. The issue is whether the need of others is the first mortgage on your life and the moral purpose of your existence. The issue is whether man is to be regarded as a sacrificial animal. Any man of self-esteem will answer: "No." Altruism says: "Yes."

18 posted on 05/10/2008 6:41:24 AM PDT by Bobarian (Green: It's the new Red.)
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China is not our enemy. China is our adversary. The Democrats are our enemy.

So true.

Actually, the Democrats are necessarily our enemy, because the Democrats are everybody's enemy. Lately, they've come to realize they're even their own enemy. This is a necessary result of a party grounded in the animating influences of envy, slander, and greed. Nothing ultimately can remain for such people but grasping and bitterness--even when they get what they claim they desire--which they "ennoble" as altruism.

19 posted on 05/10/2008 10:44:23 AM PDT by FredZarguna ("I want that crazy uncle institutionalized, pronto.")
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China is not our enemy. China is our adversary. The Democrats are our enemy.
So true.

“Actually, the Democrats are necessarily our enemy, because the Democrats are everybody’s enemy. Lately, they’ve come to realize they’re even their own enemy. This is a necessary result of a party grounded in the animating influences of envy, slander, and greed. Nothing ultimately can remain for such people but grasping and bitterness—even when they get what they claim they desire—which they “ennoble” as altruism.”

You speak the Truth, Fred. Very good.

bL


20 posted on 05/10/2008 3:26:45 PM PDT by Beloved Levinite ("HOBo's already done more damage to race relations than Sharpton-Jacko combined.")
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