Posted on 07/13/2008 8:15:15 AM PDT by John Semmens
The United Nations is reported to be considering ordering the return of the 60 recently freed hostages of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to their captors because “their release was obtained through deceptive and dishonest means.”
“The Colombian government agents misrepresented who they were and failed to carry out the agreed upon exchange,” said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
To carry out the rescue mission, Colombian security forces infiltrated FARC, posing as members who were ordered to transport the hostages as part of a trade for the release of imprisoned rebels.
“If we let this go we run the risk of abetting lies as the basis for international relations,” warned Ban. “Do we really want to go down this path?”
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That lad has a lawyer up his arse and he’s in there listening to him.
AZ is not nearly as funny as scrappleface
Ah hah! You didn’t get me this time!! That’s “1”.
Dang, got me this time.
You caught me until I did a final check, but I wanted to post my gut reation anyway.
Wait...is this like an Onion parody? I hope not because I get a perverse joy out of forwarding this sort of thing to my friends.
This looks like sarcasm but I also remember the NYT making the same argument about how unfair Reagan and Bush I were when they used deception to bring down the USSR. NYT expected an upwelling of condemnation for Reagan from the people when it exposed the Reagan chicanery. When the people(those who noticed) as one said “what the f.....!? we WON, didn’t we!?Whose side are you on?” NYT got very quiet and did not mention it again.
i particularly like the comment about it not being inconceivable that in the future prayers to Allah may be required, and that by instilling obedience in the boys now,they may save their lives in the future.
In fact, are you sure you didn’t read that somewhere, and subconsciously bring it back up? It seems far to close to the truth, and I bet that's what the school was actually thinking, whether they said it or not.
Keep it up!!
Ha! You almost got me. Funny.
(ignore humorless #3)
Better than the onion. Closer to reality, but still satire.
I find Semmens's articles to be very amusing. Especially the responses of the Freepers who get sucked in.
I love AZConservative, but you really need to put the word “satire” in the title of the article.
Satirizing liberals is hard. No matter how outrageous and extreme the satire, they end up doing something even more outrageous and extreme in real life. It makes it really difficult to tell if an article is satire or real life.
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