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To: jhild who wrote (60725)	10/15/2001 9:40:53 PM
From: Michael Sphar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Sounds like its time to send in the Negritos. Most of the Filippinos that I have met are truly wonderful and gracious people. They are the most generous, warm and hospitable culture that I have encountered in my travels. My first wife was Filippina in culture but a blue eyed blond of Scotch/Norweigan genetic heritage. She was born in the hill country of Assam Province in Northern India to Baptist Missionary parents. In 1953 all the missionaries were kicked out of India because the regional government feared they were stimulating an insurrectionist environment with their Christian teaching and prosletysing. From India, after a sabbatical, my former wife's family emigrated to the central Visayan Islands of the Philippines when she was 4 years old. She grew up in the village of San Jose, Antigue Province a days drive over the mountain from Iloilo City, they had no electricity in the town. Her native languages as she grew up were Kinarian, Illongo, and Visayan. Eventually she learned English and Tagalog (which the Visayans hated) in the public schools, before coming home to Oregon where I met her in college. Talk about a cultural adjustment! While we were married, we traveled extensively through the Philippines, meeting childhood friends and visiting old neighborhoods. At the time, our daughter was about 2 years and another blue-eyed blond. All the Filippinas would gather around her and ooh and ahh, and touch her hair. Barbie-like. They were all very gentle and loving people. I have great memories of those travels. Lots of feasts, roast pigs, Lechon, and lots of generous people graciously putting us up in the most touchingly humble environments. A former brother-in-law is still currently in the Philippines with his wife where they have been living these last 10 or 20 years as missionaries. (Similarly another former sister-in-law lives in Dar As Saalam, Tanzania with her missionary husband and four kids. Dar As Saalam was where an embassy was blown up a few years back by Osama's boys. These relatives are ministering within the predominantly Muslim community of that East African city. Their eldest daughter, Merica, is coming to the states for college next fall.) These Filippino terrorists are cut from the same cloth as the criminals of Islamic Jihad. They deserve the same end. Martyrize all of them before they do much more damage to the thin veneer of civilization. The Negritos are a separate culture within the Philippines. They appear genetically distinct from the more common Asia Pacific Island Filippinos. They are renowned and feared for their fierce warrior skills. Its been said that if you truly want to protect your house and family, you hire a Negrito and he will come with his bolo and survey the house, then sit up all night in stealthy defense from the rooftop. They kill silently and efficiently. They are truly feared and respected for their prowess.