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Philippines: An anonymous presidential palace official has declared that a hand gesture used by opposition candidate Raul Roco is really an evil, Satanic symbol. He says he got his information off the net. The offending gesture is used in American Sign Language to mean I love you
and is widely understood by young Filipinos. A representative for Roco commented:
This Palace official is totally desperate. It's a sign of desperation. It's not within the normal realm of imagination to research on the Internet and link satanism to a hand symbol that's been universally known and accepted as 'I love you,'he added.
Roco camp chides Malacañang for saying hand signal 'satanic' - The Manila Times, 16th December 2003.
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