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Dutch Woman Joins Guerrillas in Colombia (and now she hates it!)
http://wral.com/news/national_world/world/story/2084603/ ^ | November 25, 2007 | JOSHUA GOODMAN

Posted on 11/25/2007 12:31:09 PM PST by navyguy

BOGOTA, Colombia — The army stumbled on the handwritten diary during a raid on a guerrilla camp. It lay near the embers of a communal kitchen where fleeing rebels left their breakfast untouched.

"I'm tired, tired of the FARC, tired of the people, tired of communal living. Tired of never having anything for myself," wrote the author, a 29-year-old Dutch woman.

Colombia's government couldn't have hoped for better propaganda against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. It leaked excerpts from the diary found last June to the media, even making available an English translation of the Dutch entries.

The first known person from outside Latin America to join the region's largest rebel army wasn't just disillusioned. Like most FARC foot soldiers, Tanja Nijmeijer apparently wasn't permitted to leave.

"This would be worth it if I knew I was fighting for something. But I don't really believe that anymore," she wrote on November 24, 2006, according to the excerpts released by the government.

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More than a dozen friends, former colleagues and fellow peace activists interviewed by The Associated Press described a young woman deeply disturbed by social inequalities and guilt-ridden over her privileged life.

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In the diary, Nijmeijer abhors the strict discipline imposed by FARC's male commanders - no smoking, no phone calls, no romantic relationships without their consent. She says the rank and file are hungry and bored, and describes FARC leaders as both materialistic and corrupt.

"How will it be when we take power? The wives of the commanders in Ferrari Testa Rossas with breast implants eating caviar?" she writes.

...See complete story at link above

(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: colombia; columbia; delusionalleft; farc; gloriesofcommunism; moonbat; radicalchic; radicalleft; usefulidiot
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To: navyguy
Dutch Woman Joins Guerrillas in Colombia (and now she hates it!)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Well FARC her. FARC her real good.

She has FARC'd herself.

She is a FARCing idiot.

Being in FARC is no walk in the PARK.

May the FARC be with her.

FARCin' awesome!

21 posted on 11/25/2007 12:52:30 PM PST by Candor7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_(1258))
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To: navyguy
She says the rank and file are hungry and bored, and describes FARC leaders as both materialistic and corrupt.

No Way! Say it ain't so Joe! ROFLMAO

22 posted on 11/25/2007 12:53:38 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I could be Agent "HT")
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To: navyguy

Doing Penance, the liberal guilt-ridden way. SO FAR from reality, unfortunately.


23 posted on 11/25/2007 12:54:25 PM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: navyguy

Suck it up.


24 posted on 11/25/2007 12:55:29 PM PST by monkeycard (There is no such thing as too much ammo.)
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To: CAP811
and eat caviar????????????

Yes, the new Ferrari's run on bio-fuel and if you can afford caviar, (and who can't?) why not fuel your Ferrari on it? /humor

25 posted on 11/25/2007 12:56:13 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I could be Agent "HT")
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To: Gay State Conservative
Sounds like she's lost that revolutionary fervor.And the fun thing is if her new best friends find out they'll leave her in the jungle with a bullet in the back of her head.

You mean you can't just walk up to your C.O. and say "you know, boss, I'm tired of this and I want to quit. Please drop me off at the next big city. I'll stay with you and help out 'till then."

26 posted on 11/25/2007 12:57:11 PM PST by Steely Tom (Steely's First Law of the Main Stream Media: if it doesn't advance the agenda, it's not news.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

My Empathy meter just went off scale!! WOW!!


27 posted on 11/25/2007 12:57:56 PM PST by Mojohemi
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To: AppyPappy

Commie “revolutions” are ALWAYS a power grab by another group of thugs.

The moonbats never seem to learn though.


28 posted on 11/25/2007 12:58:06 PM PST by Let's Roll (As usual, following a shooting spree, libs want to take guns away from those who DIDN'T do it.)
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To: LdSentinal

Is becomes was.


29 posted on 11/25/2007 12:58:49 PM PST by bvw
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To: LdSentinal
Looks like FARC hit it!

They won't let her go. Married to the collective she is.

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30 posted on 11/25/2007 12:59:20 PM PST by Candor7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_(1258))
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To: monkeycard

I’m not sure she can surrender. She’s not a Colombian. She’s a foreign national who took up arms against the Colombian government without being part of a regular army. Firing squad, everyone?


31 posted on 11/25/2007 12:59:20 PM PST by GAB-1955 (Kicking and Screaming into the Kingdom of Heaven.)
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To: navyguy
The article states that her friends don't understand how she went from Left wing "peace" activist to gun toting Communist rebel. But I suspect everyone here on Free Republic understands EXACTLY how it happened.

She didn't change at all. Only her environment and opportunities changed, and she changed that herself.

32 posted on 11/25/2007 12:59:41 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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Maybe the cool kids back home (you know, the deep thinkers) will be sporting their new CHE-TONJA shirts soon.


33 posted on 11/25/2007 1:01:48 PM PST by xmission (Democrats have killed our Soldiers by rewarding the enemy for brutality)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Sounds like she’s lost that revolutionary fervor.And the fun thing is if her new best friends find out they’ll leave her in the jungle with a bullet in the back of her head.”

I’m guessing by now she’s already dead.


34 posted on 11/25/2007 1:02:04 PM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
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To: GAB-1955

It might be in the best interest of the Goverment not to shoot her. It would show the others that they can surrender without fear of being shot.It would defeat all the propaganda the commies use.


35 posted on 11/25/2007 1:04:01 PM PST by Yorlik803 ( Please dont drag your filth into my swamp...........)
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To: navyguy
Looks like Lefty Tanja's gonna be made an example of.

Lie down with dogs, wake with fleas.

Or, a FARC round to the brain stem.

Fighting for "the children" and "freeeeeeeeeeeedom" and "peace".......

If evolution were a fact, one would think that humans would evolve, not devolve or fail to become smarter.

36 posted on 11/25/2007 1:04:03 PM PST by Thumper1960 (Unleash the Dogs of War as a Minority, or perish as a party.)
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To: LdSentinal

The poor girl deserves a second chance. Besides they say a conservative is a liberal that’s been mugged.


37 posted on 11/25/2007 1:06:47 PM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: navyguy
Tired of never having anything for myself," wrote the author, a 29-year-old Dutch woman.

Greedy capitalist pig!

38 posted on 11/25/2007 1:07:54 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (If Rudy's an influential conservative, then I'm an award winning concert pianist.)
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To: purpleraine
Instead of joining these commies, she should have given all of her money and possessions away and joined a convent.

I was thinking the same thing for a while. Its unfortunate that the post Christian Dutch have lost the monastic system, which would be a good, productive place for her. Unfortunately, the monastic system was mostly destroyed by the socialists and communists in the 19th and 20th centurites, whose heirs she is now with.

The problem with her, though, is that in a convent, its all about God. She seems the type where she wants it to be all about her.

39 posted on 11/25/2007 1:08:41 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: navyguy
To ease the tension, Nijmeijer picked up her guitar and led 60 fellow activists in a sing-along of "One Love" by U2.

Parts of this story read almost like a parody. It would be funny, had it not been likely that this poor stupid woman is being tormented and tortured, if she is not already dead.

40 posted on 11/25/2007 1:09:00 PM PST by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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