Bernie Sanders Sends Shock Waves Through American Politics With $2 Million Campaign Ad

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This 1995 Clip of Bernie Sanders Defending Gay Soldiers Will Warm Your Heart

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In the spirit of #ThrowbackThursday, presidential candidate and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) posted a powerful video from 1995 on his Facebook page. In the clip, then-Rep. Sanders powerfully defends gay soldiers against former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.), who was later imprisoned for bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud, and tax evasion.

The 20-year-old video opens with Sanders taking the floor of the House to challenge Cunningham's use of the word "homos" to describe gay soldiers.

Here is one of the key exchanges:

Sanders: "My ears may have been playing a trick on me, but I thought I heard the gentleman a moment ago say something about 'homos' in the military. Was I right in hearing that expression?"

Cunningham: "Absolutely. Putting homosexuals in the military."

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Sanders: "Was the gentleman referring to the many thousands and thousands of gay people who have put their lives on the line in countless wars defending this country? You used the word 'homos' in the military. You have insulted thousands of men and women who have put their lives on the line."

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BERNIE SANDERS' HISTORIC SUPPORT OF GAY RIGHTS

This interaction took place a year after Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) was instituted by the Clinton administration. The policy, which President Barack Obama repealed in December 2010, banned openly gay individuals from serving in the military.

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A longtime supporter of gay rights, Sanders opposed DADT in 1993 and was also one of 67 House members to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages that were granted in other states. While serving as mayor of Burlington in 1983, he signed a Gay Pride Day proclamationand declared gay rights a civil rights issue. Sanders backed Vermont’s civil union law in 2000. The state legalized gay marriage in 2009.

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Tortured – a victim’s story

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Tortured – a victim’s story

By Raïssa Robles The torture happened over 30 years ago but to this day, the victim still insisted on talking to me on condition that I won't reveal his name. Na-torture ka pala (you were tortured), I told the person whom I have known for the last 17 years. And yet he never mentioned he had been t…

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By Raïssa Robles

The torture happened over 30 years ago but to this day, the victim still insisted on talking to me on condition that I won’t reveal his name.

Na-torture ka pala (you were tortured), I told the person whom I have known for the last 17 years. And yet he never mentioned he had been tortured even when the topic came up.

I had stumbled on his name while looking at old Martial Law documents.

You’d be surprised if I told you who he is but I really can’t reveal his name. You see, he told me, he doesn’t think the military has changed its ways. Despite all its pronouncements about treating dissidents differently, they still retain that old familiar feeling of hatred toward those they have branded “leftists”.

He said:

I’m somewhat paranoid. I don’t trust the military. If they crack down they will start with whom they know.

I will let my friend, whom I’ll call Fred, tell his story:

“On the first day, I was stripped down to my underwear. I was 120 pounds.”

His torturers were military officers Rodolfo Aguinaldo and Billy Bibit (now both dead).

“Aguinaldo’s arm was as big as my thigh. He rolled up a magazine. A body building magazine. He hit my balls with it repeatedly.”

“What’s your course,” Aguinaldo asked Fred.

“Zoology,” Fred replied.

“You know what will happen if I continue doing this,” Aguinaldo told Fred as he steadily slapped Fred’s balls with the rolled-up magazine.

Aquinaldo did not like it that Fred did not call him “Sir”.

Aguinaldo told him, “When you answer me, you say Sir.”

“Yes Sir,” Fred replied, mimicking an army private.

“I see, you’re sarcastic,” Aguinaldo said.

Fred said, “He grabbed my head with his right hand then punched my ear and temple repeatedly with his left.

“I will make you stupid,” Aguinaldo told him.

“It was good my skull didn’t crack because his arms were sooo big,” Fred said.

And fortunately, too, the torture didn’t last days.

Decades later, Fred happened to talk to Aguinaldo. “I wanted to tell him –  you mauled me.”

But he didn’t. Fred said he was afraid that many in the military continue to be “incorrigible.”

Just imagine, there were at least 10,000 human rights victims who suffered torture like Fred did. We don’t know how many fared much worse. How many really died.

The late human rights lawyer Jose Diokno gives us a glimpse of the horror in human terms.

On September 21, 1978 – six years after Ferdinand Marcos imposed Martial Law to allegedly form a New Society – Senator Diokno unmasked what was really going on inside that New Society in a speech before Amnesty International in Cambridge, England.

It was Diokno’s ending that brought home to me the evilness of that perfumed nightmare that to this day Senator Bongbong Marcos, Governor Imee Marcos and Congresswoman Imelda Marcos are trying to deodorize with a show of windmills, elegant clothes and friendly smiles.

Diokno narrated this anecdote at the end of his speech:

Senator Jose Diokno

I should close, but there is a memory locked in my heart that begs to be shared. It is the memory of a young couple, not yet in their thirties, whom I saw some months ago in a large hall that had been converted into a military courtroom, waiting for the case to be called, in which they stood accused with some 90 other young people.

I had met the young man before martial law. He was a university student – brilliant, articulate, involved. That day in the courtroom he sat in a rattan chair, almost motionless, staring blankly ahead, his mouth half open, totally oblivious to the people and the chatter around him. He had been detained under martial law, punished so repeatedly and so brutally and subjected to such a large dose of what the military call the truth serum, that his mind had cracked. He is confined, to this day, in the mental ward of a military hospital.

Behind him stood his wife, straight and proud, one hand lightly resting on the crown of his head, the other touching his shoulder, tenderly yet defiantly, ready to spring on anyone who might still wish to hurt her husband.

As I looked at the couple, I saw in them the face of every Filipino and I knew then that martial law could crush our bodies, it could break our minds but it could not conquer our spirit. It may silence our voice and seal our eyes but it cannot kill our hope nor obliterate our vision. We will struggle on, no matter how long it takes or what it costs, until we establish a just community of free men and women in our land, deciding together, working and striving together, singing and dancing together, laughing and loving together.

That is the ultimate lesson.

Because of Martial Law, we lost many of the best and the brightest of one entire  generation.

Let us not lose more.

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MOMENTS By: Fr. Jerry M. Orbos SVD

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By: Fr. Jerry M. Orbos SVD
Philippine Daily Inquirer
November 1, 2015

Noli S. Atienza via Facebook.com THROUGH

Who is blessed?
The story is told about a man who prepared to send greeting cards to two of his friends. Unfortunately, he got the cards mixed up, and ended up sending to the friend whose wife had just died, the greeting: “Enjoy your new life!” And to the one who had just gotten married, the greeting: “With deepest sympathy.”
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In today’s Gospel (Mt. 5, 1-12a), Jesus gives us the Beatitudes, the attitudes that will help us find peace and meaning in whatever situations we are in, and which will help us move on. Whatever we go through, good or bad, happy or sad, the Beatitudes give us the consolation and the assurance that all will be well if we hold on to God. Stay with the Beatitudes, and you will always have a good attitude.
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This world tells us that life is all about success, wealth, popularity, comfort and convenience. The Beatitudes, on the other hand, tell us that there is meaning and blessings in our sorrow, poverty, persecutions and deprivations. This is something difficult to understand, and perhaps even foolish for those who do not have faith. But it is a source of consolation, and even joy, for those who believe in eternal life. “Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven.”
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Today is the Feast of All Saints. Put simply, saints are those who believed in and lived the Beatitudes. Saints are those who took the road of prayer, goodness and humility, and sacrificed worldly pleasures and wealth, for the Kingdom of God. Let us ponder and be inspired by their words and examples. They were not extraordinary people. They were people like us, who allowed God to shine through in their ordinary lives. The problem with us is that we leave out God, and we just let ourselves shine in our lives.
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By the way, who is your patron saint? Your devotion to and imitation of your patron saint should lead you closer and dearer to God. My patron saint is St. Therese of the Child Jesus, who constantly inspires and challenges us to take the “little way.” Being the “Patroness of the Missions,” she reminds us that life is a mission and that we are journeying pilgrims, with a final destination—heaven.
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We have been blessed with modern-day saints that lived in our lifetime: Padre Pio, Mother Teresa, John Paul II, to name a few. They remind us that sainthood is not unreachable or a thing of the past. There are living saints in our midst, in our present day and time—like you, or the person beside you! Impossible? That’s how the saints thought so, too. Sainthood is not so much about human achievement as about the grace of God shining through in our lives.
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“Let your light shine.” I saw this big tarpaulin at the gate of St. Bridget School in Buhi, Camarines Sur, with the photo of a smiling Kristel Mae Padasas. Remember her? She was the 24-year-old volunteer who died in an accident in Tacloban during the visit of Pope Francis last Jan. 17. She was a 2004 graduate of St. Bridget. Sr. Mary Ann Terrenal, RGS, shared with me what “Mhaimhai” wrote in the 2004 yearbook: “What is important in this life is not how happy you are, but how happy others are because of you.” A modern-day saint! Amen.
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I was in Buhi recently to lead the recollection of the St. Bridget faculty upon the invitation of Sr. Ting Sevilla, RGS. One of the things I cannot forget about Buhi (aside from the sinarapan, the world’s smallest fish) is the sound of the church bells that begin to peal at 5:30 a.m. and go on continuously, three peals at a time, until 6 a.m. when the Mass starts. It reminds me of God, continuously and patiently calling us, persistently reminding us that we have a final date with eternity. Yes, the bells toll for all of us. Life is short. Death is certain. Eternity is waiting.
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Tomorrow, the Feast of All Souls, reminds us that no matter how hard we try, we cannot prolong our earthly life, nor can we prevent eternity to come upon us. Are we preparing for eternity? You have all sorts of plans—educational plan, retirement plan, memorial plan. What about your eternal life plan?
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“Life is our journey from B to D—that is, from Birth to Death. What is between B and D is C—that is, your Choice on how to live it.” Let us all choose the Beatitudes in our journey through life. We may not become saints in doing so, but the Beatitudes will bring us to the doorsteps of eternity, and there be embraced by God, there and then, where and when there will be no more pain, no more sorrow, no more persecution, no more problem, no more goodbye.
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“Eternal rest grant unto them, oh, Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.” And may we, the living, live in peace! Amen.
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Think about this: “Life comes in three broad categories—i.e., easy, difficult, and impossible. Those who choose the easy have a safe and boring life; those who choose the difficult are tough and have a sense of fulfillment; those who choose the impossible inspire others that everything is possible, and that nothing is impossible with God.”
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A moment with the Lord:
Lord, help us to believe in and live the Beatitudes so that we will be truly blessed in this life and in the next life. Amen.

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By: Fr. Jerry M. Orbos SVD
Philippine Daily Inquirer
November 1, 2015

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