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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

We got plenty of those here in the good ole USA. Wish some of them would leave and join FARC.


61 posted on 11/25/2007 2:00:30 PM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: lilylangtree

This girl doesn’t know how bad it can really get. At least she didn’t get run over by a Caterpillar.


62 posted on 11/25/2007 2:06:51 PM PST by umgud (the profound is only so to those that it is)
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To: navyguy

I hope the Guerrillas make her attend a sensitivity class.


63 posted on 11/25/2007 2:08:50 PM PST by isom35
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To: navyguy
The wives of the commanders in Ferrari Testa Rossas with breast implants eating caviar

I'd love to get me one o' them caviar-eating Ferraris with breast implants...no reason to ever leave the garage!

64 posted on 11/25/2007 2:12:43 PM PST by TrueKnightGalahad (When you're racing...it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.)
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To: LdSentinal

Cousins?

65 posted on 11/25/2007 2:29:35 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Moonman62

My sympathy is for the poor innocents she and her crooines murdered.


66 posted on 11/25/2007 2:35:56 PM PST by sport
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To: CZB
If Jane Fonda had hung around in Hanoi a few more weeks...

perhaps a B-52 raid would've dropped a 500 lb. bomb on her and we'd be rid of the traitorous b*tch!
67 posted on 11/25/2007 2:48:44 PM PST by snuffy smiff (the lesser of two evils... is still evil...)
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To: Moonman62
The poor girl deserves a second chance.

The people she runs with think it is great fun to send mortar rounds into churches on Sunday morning blowing families into red paste.

I hope she spends the rest of her life in jail.

68 posted on 11/25/2007 3:18:00 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes into it.)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

bttt

another “useful idiot”.


69 posted on 11/25/2007 3:25:10 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Thumper1960
If evolution were a fact, one would think that humans would evolve, not devolve or fail to become smarter.

If you pick a time in the past, say 500 or 1,000 years ago, and compare what we know about those folks to us today, we have come a long, long ways.

That doesn't prove evolution though, except by the standard you set up.

70 posted on 11/25/2007 3:41:39 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: navyguy
As much as I believe their are despicable murdering Communist thugs...

Finding a diary like this is just to convenient...

as the story states... "Colombia's government couldn't have hoped for better propaganda against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC."....

It may be manufactured propaganda by Colombia

71 posted on 11/25/2007 3:49:02 PM PST by tophat9000 (You need to have standards to fail and be a hypocrite, Dem's therefor are never hypocrites)
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To: Paleo Conservative
Cousins?

No, the one on the right hand side is much too flat.

Sorry ....... Couldn't help myself.

72 posted on 11/25/2007 3:51:28 PM PST by Polybius
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To: tophat9000
Finding a diary like this is just to convenient... as the story states... "Colombia's government couldn't have hoped for better propaganda against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.".... It may be manufactured propaganda by Colombia

Well, it is handwritten ..... in Dutch.

Her family and Dutch authorities performing handwriting analysis should be able to determine if it is forged or if it sounds like her and is in her handwriting.

73 posted on 11/25/2007 3:58:56 PM PST by Polybius
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To: Moonman62
The poor girl deserves a second chance.

You MUST be kidding!!!

And just forget all the PEOPLE her and her cohorts have attempted or have murdered????

Life in the deepest, darkest Colombian prison in existence is the LEAST I'd want to see her get!

74 posted on 11/25/2007 5:14:32 PM PST by HeartlandOfAmerica (The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.)
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To: Moonman62

I hope there is a missing sarcasm tag in your post. This “girl” was 25 years old when she knowingly joined this group of thugs (she had been in Columbia long enough to see the aftermath of their “struggle for freedom”).
If she didn’t know better by 25 then she wasn’t going to learn.


75 posted on 11/25/2007 6:07:48 PM PST by 3Lean
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

Yes, another useful idiot. This woman has been responsible even indirectly for terrorist acts by FARC and deserves the harshest judgment.


76 posted on 11/26/2007 1:46:29 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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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.

They'll put something else in her, first.

77 posted on 11/26/2007 1:48:39 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: navyguy
Life is hard, Tanja, it’s even harder when you’re stupid.
78 posted on 11/26/2007 2:13:43 PM PST by Navy Patriot (The hyphen American with the loudest whine gets the grease.)
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To: CZB
If Jane Fonda had hung around in Hanoi a few more weeks...

If I had been scheduling B-52 missions back then, I'd have arranged for Jane Fonda to spend the rest of eternity 'hanging around' every tree North of the 17th parallel!

79 posted on 11/26/2007 2:21:27 PM PST by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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To: Candor7

She FARC’d up BIG TIME.


80 posted on 11/26/2007 2:21:57 PM PST by a real Sheila (stop hillary NOW!)
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