Philippine's Inferno

DAN BROWN, IN HIS LATEST BOOK DANTE'S INFERNO, IS WITHOUT DOUBT THE SUPREME MASTER IN NAME DROPPING.  Of all the places outside of Boston, Rome, Florence and the world he had to mention Manila (Philippines - for those who doesn't know or ignorant of geography) as one of the "Gates of Hell."  The handsome cleft-chinned author of the bestseller book and movie the Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and The Lost Symbol, must have visited the damned place at one time but maybe not, I'm not sure.  He had incensed most Filipinos who are very proud people but a little bit suffering from inferiority complex for being bullied globally for years for showing and writing about Manila in a hellish light.  Here's a selected synopsis of the new Doubleday book, Dante's Inferno:

The novel relates a criminal plot of a malevolent group by unleashing a biochemical virus that would reduce the population of the world by making one out of three people unfertile.  Whatever happened to Bill Gates new brand of condom, I wonder?  Brown, an expert Filipinologist, knows how overpopulated the Philippines is, a teeny-weeny country of 7,107 islands with population of 97 million.  Okedoke, I'm going to another topic.  Going back, in the book, a Dr. Sienna Brooks lands in Manila for a humanitarian mission of feeding the poor.  She was culture shocked for the city was thought to be a land of amazement.  Dr. Brooks described Manila in the most hideous light as "six-hour-traffic jams, suffocating pollutions, horrifying sex trade and blaring poverty and criminality." (True, true, true, true, and true!!!!!).  Dr. Brooks, frustrated and gaping in horror, claimed that she has been to the "gates of hell."  Book readers said Brown must have been inspired by the United Nations' watch on overpopulation.  Readers: Get over it!  It's nothing but both fact and fiction.

Focusing on "widespread" child prostitution and poverty in Manila this is a very serious socio-economic problem.  But why target the Philippines alone?  As a world traveler, I've read last week that Thailand has become the number one tourist destination in the world surpassing England and France.  The Thai people just ignored (I think) the overwhelming comments and replies of internet readers -- it's number one because it's the ultimate destination of pedophiles.  In the Freedom Project documentary film titled The Fighters (CNN, May 17 & 18, 2013), it told the story of three young girls, age 12, as cyber prostitutes and their horrendous experience.  One of the girls said, "At the internet cafe, they tell me to take my clothes off and then they make me dance in front of the camera."  There were incidents where men just appeared from nowhere and performed sex acts in front of the camera.  Sometimes, they used animals as sexual act for the enjoyment of cyber perverts.  Another girl said, "Sometimes we had to urinate." Followed by another girl, "The urine is mixed with juice as a drink."  "That's what the American client wants.  He demands anyone who feels like urinating should do so, but he wants us to do it in front of the camera."  When CNN reporter Leif Coorlim asked the girls what they think of these Americans, all the girls said, "You're maniacs...You need to stop victimizing girls like us." Cybersex monsters have been in existence since time immemorial, more exposed now because of modern media communication.  Internet customers from all over the world pay for their sex trip and fantasy for a cheap price of $27.  The money goes to the human trafficker.   In a cable serial films Da Vinci's Demons, in which he was accused as sexual criminal, he was getting revenged against his accuser who's having sex with a pig.  The sex fantasy of men is beyond suspension of belief. 

Recycled  6/8/13  lib's labyrinth

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The web site http://www.jesusdecoded.com was launched March 9 to provide accurate information about the life of Jesus, the origins of Christianity and Catholic teaching to counter claims made in the best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code" by author Dan Brown.  A film version of the book is slated for nationwide release May 19. 

The site contains information that refutes claims made in the book about the nature of Jesus; his relationship with Mary Magdalene; the first four ecumenical councils of the early church and related issues.