'Filipino Monkey' - it's just monkey business

‘Filipino Monkey’ may be behind radio threats, ship drivers say


19-SEP-2006 Philippine Monkey 1

"The threatening radio transmission heard at the end of a video showing harassing maneuvers by Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz may have come from a locally famous heckler known among ship drivers as the “Filipino Monkey.”

Since the Jan. 6 incident was announced to the public a day later, the U.S. Navy has said it’s unclear where the voice came from. In the videotape released by the Pentagon on Jan. 8, the screen goes black at the very end and the voice can be heard, distancing it from the scenes on the water.
We don’t know for sure where they came from,” said Cmdr. Lydia Robertson, spokeswoman for 5th Fleet in Bahrain. “It could have been a shore station.”
While the threat — “I am coming to you. You will explode in a few minutes” — was picked up during the incident, further jacking up the tension, there’s no proof yet of its origin. And several Navy officials have said it’s difficult to figure out who’s talking."

Rick Hoffman, a retired captain who commanded the cruiser Hue City and spent many of his 17 years at sea in the Gulf was subject to the renegade radio talker repeatedly, often without pause during the so-called “Tanker Wars” of the late 1980s.
“For 25 years there’s been this mythical guy out there who, hour after hour, shouts obscenities and threats,” he said. “He could be tied up pierside somewhere or he could be on the bridge of a merchant ship.”
And the Monkey has stamina.

“He used to go all night long. The guy is crazy,” he said. “But who knows how many Filipino Monkeys there are? Could it have been a spurious transmission? Absolutely.”"
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/01/navy_hormuz_iran_radio_080111/

Yeah, right. Yesterday, the last days speculation about this strange episode topped with the post here and also at other sites:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2668205

People were starting to put two and two together about what they saw and heard, and the conclusion was inevitable: this was propaganda.

So, today comes 'Filipino Monkey' around, to assure us all that this was the work of a lone and crazy man. Where have I heard that before? ;-)

On edit: A google search on the term 'filipino monkey' returns no hits older than 2008...

...when the US began its imperialist ambitions by 'saving' the Philippines from horrible Spain (now on its way out in the imperialist stage by then). No outrage anywhere over the term, 'Filipino monkey'? If so, the silence is deafening.