They won't let her go. Married to the collective she is.
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.
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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!
No Way! Say it ain't so Joe! ROFLMAO
Doing Penance, the liberal guilt-ridden way. SO FAR from reality, unfortunately.
Suck it up.
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
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."
My Empathy meter just went off scale!! WOW!!
Commie “revolutions” are ALWAYS a power grab by another group of thugs.
The moonbats never seem to learn though.
Is becomes was.
They won't let her go. Married to the collective she is.
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?
She didn't change at all. Only her environment and opportunities changed, and she changed that herself.
Maybe the cool kids back home (you know, the deep thinkers) will be sporting their new CHE-TONJA shirts soon.
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.
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.
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.
The poor girl deserves a second chance. Besides they say a conservative is a liberal that’s been mugged.
Greedy capitalist pig!
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.
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.
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