Dainty Underthings vs. Junta
I’d recommend the skankiest thing you can find. Monk-killers hate ‘em:
Activists exasperated at the failure of diplomacy to apply pressure on Burma’s military regime are resorting to a new means of protest against the regime’s recent crackdown: sending female underwear to Burmese embassies.
Embassies in the UK, Thailand, Australia and Singapore have all been targeted by the “Panties for Peace” campaign, co-ordinated by an activist group based in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
The manoeuvre is a calculated insult to the junta and its leader, General Than Shwe. Superstitious junta members believe that any contact with female undergarments - clean or dirty - will sap them of their power, said Jackie Pollack, a member of the Lanna Action for Burma Committee.
Pantie emails probably would work, too. I’d recommend “dirty.” I know just the guy for the job.
Remember to refer to them properly, “Thugocracy of Hijacked Burma,” in all communications.
* If these guys are like any other corrupt gang of murderous dictators, I highly doubt they actually fear lingerie. However, I guarantee you they will hate receiving mountains of ladies’ underwear in the mail.
Incoming Punditie raid! Come on in. Keep it clean. Whatever you do, just don’t think about this candidate in her underwear. But here’s a guy who deserves to have his boxers pulled down for a spanking. Syrians got a wedgie, now someone’s twisting their shorts. Someone’s gonna need clean Hudnawear.
Topics: asia
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:52 pm on Friday, October 19, 2007
8 Responses to “Dainty Underthings vs. Junta”
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October 20th, 2007 at 12:22 am
Think of the potential amounts of hazardous materials involved. That alone should deter any murderous thugs, anywhere, anytime.
Of course, if this “Action For Burma” committee really wants to gross out the ruling junta, they could always call their friends over in “Boobs Not Bombs”.
October 20th, 2007 at 4:59 am
Go Commando girls it’s for Freedom.
October 20th, 2007 at 7:44 am
In the very least, set up a forwarding address direct to me in case they really don’t want them. I honestly don’t see why they wouldn’t, though. I think used tampons would be MUCH worse.
October 20th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Heh,
Maybe we could put Britney Spears & Paris Hilton in charge? Ask them to deliver the stuff personally?
If nothing else, mail them thousands of copies of Britney’s CD’s. THAT oughtta be good for WMD use… (women of musical debauchary)
October 20th, 2007 at 10:59 am
[...] more difficult to enforce. They may weaken the generals more than, say, stones or packages of ladies’ undergarments, but sanctions won’t drive the generals from power. Only the people of Burma can do that, [...]
October 20th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Dissipation of the male chi through contact with women’s undergarments ?
What superstitious crowd of mind numbed dwarfs believes that ?
Sounds like all those injunctions in Islam about a woman (especially pregnant or “unclean”) touching your dead body.
What a bunch of primitive dwarf thinkers still exist on this planet.
October 20th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Just when you think the world can’t get any sillier…
October 20th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
If you saw last weekend’s Wall Street Journal, the feature lead was about Burmese women surviving by crossing to Thailand daily to make American ladies’ undergarments.
” The women, victims of the economic ruin visited on this country by the world’s most enduring military dictatorship, are on their way to work in a factory on the opposite riverbank in Thailand. In the late afternoon, they cross back to Myanmar.
The commute serves a global textile industry driven by powerful forces. One is the misery of the nation formerly known as Burma, home to legions desperate for work. Another is America’s appetite for low-cost lingerie.”
Ironic that the junta may be receiving the very items their miserable governance has motivated their people to make.