Cannibals Today in South Pacific - A Perfect Wag the Dog Story For Our Times

What is going on behind this horror story? Fear and loathing fed to the masses? Look over here. No look over there. Be very afraid. Or be eaten. Read on...

In the midst of so much disaster and so much dissent filled news on MSN channels, we have a little story of pure horror. No not about radioactive fallout spreading across Japan and the Northern Hemisphere. No not about the Guernica-like attack by the collective forces of NATO on thousands of innocent civilians and their defenders in Libya.

No we have this story. Whilst taking a vacation through beautiful French Polynesia a beautiful couple Stefan Ramin 40 and Helke Dorsche met a fate fit for the nasty section of the DVD rental shelves.


Best read it as it is published HERE

Human remains - which local police believe to be Mr Ramin's - have been found in a campfire.

His girlfriend Heike Dorsch, 37, said he went on a goat-hunting trip with a local guide called Henri Haiti.

She told Britain's Daily Mail that only the guide returned from the hunting expedition and told her: "There's been an accident. He needs help.''

But before she could rush to her boyfriend's aid, Ms Dorsch said, Haiti chained her to a tree and sexually assaulted her.

After hours of abuse, she managed to escape and alert authorities.

A week later, a squad of 22 police officers found ashes in a valley on the island and among the embers were bones including a jawbone, teeth and melted metal - believed to be fillings.

The authorities believe a human body was hacked to pieces and burned.

The remains will be flown to Paris for DNA analysis to confirm they are Mr Ramin's.

Mr Ramin wrote about his plans on Facebook only hours before his disappearance.

We are in the midst of two different but arguably related meltdowns with global implications for all of us, the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe polluting the entire Northern Hemisphere and soon also the Southern Hemisphere, and the developing 2nd Global Financial Disaster (actually 'GFC 1 Reloaded'). Riots have spread from the ME to London to Italy. Governments rush to covert whatever resources they can grab. We have NATO and the US charging off into a colonial adventure into oil rich Libya, killing tens of thousands on the pretext of ridding the world of another dictator. The hugely lucrative business that is the global nuclear industry has been in damage control overdrive since the earthquake and tsunami in Japan led to 3 meltdowns, March 11, 2011.

In response to apparent uncaring governments and corporations increasingly large protests are being witnissed around the world. From Cairo in Egypt to Wisconsin in the USA it began earlier this year. The UK riots, the Italian riots, the Greek riots. Now the 'Occupy Wall Street' sit-ins in the public squares of major cities right in front of the banks.

What a perfect way to distract the masses from uniting against the capitalist system than to raise all in one story, the mythology of savage sex mad cannibals preying on good honest middle class white folk taking a holiday in the South Pacific. We must be taught once more humans are base animals, and some human groups more base than others. BTW the implications of this story is fear and loathing of racial difference.


On top of that we have two professionals, thoroughly middle class victims of the envious and savage lower classes. And oh, yes, never trust a guide wearing tribal tattoos.

His girlfriend Heike Dorsch, 37, said he went on a goat-hunting trip with a local guide called Henri Haiti...

Mr Ramin and Ms Dorsch set off from Haselau in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, in a catamaran for a round-the-world trip. According to reports the couple, both economists, wanted to end their journey in New Zealand next year.

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All the ingredients are here for the perfect diversion, the perfect wag the dog story. Lets see what MSN makes of this story. I can only suppose they will be playing this for all it is worth. Fear and loathing from the South Pacific.

reply to post by Tallone


The story is appearing mostly it seems in newspapers and news sites in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.

London's Telegraph repeated claims of cannibalism, outraging the island's deputy mayor, who told Nouvelles de Tahiti newspaper that locals were both angered and embarrassed by the international claims.
Du Prel, publisher of Tahiti-Pacifique magazine, said the foreign media was recalling a tradition that died out in the Marquesas 150 years ago.
"It's totally invented," he told NZ Newswire today.
There had been a return to some traditions "but it certainly doesn't go that far," he said.
"Believe me, French civilisation has taught these islanders to eat cheeseburgers and canned food, not people, and their wild pigs are far tastier."

THE AUSTRALIAN

Earlier story

Police in French Polynesia’s Marquesas Islands are trying to find a German man who vanished during a hunting trip with his partner and a local guide on Nuku Hiva at the weekend.
Reports say the woman raised the alarm after she was allegedly raped by the guide who has been identified as Henri Haiti.

RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL

No one in Tahiti was saying the body s
howed signs of being eaten, but a German newspaper, followed by Fleet Street, said it was evidence of cannibalism.

Even the stately Daily Telegraph said there had been a history of cannibalism; it was believed to have not been practiced there for years.

STUFF.CO.NZ

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And the tail continues to wag the dog. With the results of forensic tests to be announced the story will continue to run. The ridicule and denials have started. Still alive and well and really without good apparent reason to be still up there and running. A bit like a zombie bank really. While the tragic for the families concerned nature of the story fills the pages, and quite possibly it is hoped diverts the average person from the more significant story about radiation pouring over Japan and the Nth Hemisphere. and the developing public resistance to corporate/government austerity measures around the globe.

From an interview by the official government radio broadcaster, Australian radio, with Lex Du Prel, the Tahiti-Pacifique editor
Here is the latest.

Marquesas cannibal claims rubbished

Updated October 19, 2011 17:35:39
Residents of French Polynesia are unhappy that a suspected murder case has prompted accusations of cannibalism.

...Lex Du Prel
"Well people were shocked, especially the people on the island because like I told you they're very respectful of other people, they still have the old Polynesian spirit, the community life and then to be accused of that. And then of course locally the media's made a big splash out of it and everything, so they are kind of pissed off."

Australian Radio

Interestingly there is plenty to divert the population in French Polynesia from apart from the larger global meltdowns, the financial meltdown the underlying source for their own problems as it happens.

French Polynesia capital hit by strikes

Posted at 03:22 on 14 October, 2011 UTC
A number of strikes have been started in the French Polynesian capital Papeete, mainly affecting the port.

Radio NZ

Unpaid workers block key street in French Polynesia
Posted at 21:31 on 18 October, 2011 UTC

Radio NZ

Call for independent nuclear test impact assessment in French Polynesia

Posted at 02:24 on 19 October, 2011 UTC
A French Polynesian member of the French Senate has called on Paris to organise and fund an independent and international study of the impact of the French nuclear weapons tests on French Polynesia.
Richard Tuheiava has made the call in a formal question in the Senate directed at the French prime minister, Francois Fillon.
Mr Tuheiava says it is inconceivable to leave the territory without any assessment more than 13 years after the end of the testing….

Radio NZ

French Polynesia's President Temaru calls for independence at UN‎

Radio Australia - 4 Oct 2011
French Polynesia's President Oscar Temaru has continued his campaign for independence in an address at the UN . Mr Temaru has just returned from New York

Radio Australia