https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2008/07/03/how-can-i-tell-you/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 03:23:10 -0400<![CDATA[The day someone else&#8217;s safe house was raided back in the anti-Marcos days, I got three guys to stake out all the approaches to it. The idea was to head off, from a distance, anyone who didn&#8217;t get the word. The safehouse was located in a poultry in the first foothills of the mighty Sierra Madres that rose east from the suburbs of Manila to the distant coast where their peaks ran northward like a wall. I learned of the safehouse after some friends helped the chicken farmers pluck the birds, and they were paid in a sackful of chicken heads and chicken feet; they gave us some and we ate stewed chicken heads and feet for weeks. So when it got raided, we watched the roads.]]>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:03:37 -0400<![CDATA[Richard Fernandez]]>https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2008/07/03/how-can-i-tell-you-n185698