February 26, 2006

Further clarification by JMS re: the transition council and strategic perspective


SOLVING SOME PROBLEMS IN THE BROAD UNITED FRONT AND MASS MOVEMENT TO OUST THE ARROYO REGIME

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines

It is interesting to consider some problems in the broad united front and mass movement to oust the Arroyo regime and try to solve them. These problems are already well known to the public. It has become commonplace for people to ask questions revolving around the main question of why the ouster of the Arroyo cannot be accomplished quickly in a legal and nonviolent way.

1. The problem of ensuring the legal and nonviolent ouster of Arroyo from power in view of her determination to use violence against the people and the military and police officers who are against her fraudulently acquired presidency.

Solution: There is no other way to ensure the legal and non-violent ouster of the Arroyo regime but for the broad united front of patriotic, progressive and anti-Arroyo forces (coalitions, political parties and mass organizations) to muster its own organized following and mobilize the broad masses of the people to assert their sovereign will, exercise their democratic rights and encourage the military and forces of the reactionary government to side with the people and withdraw support from the regime.

The Filipino people have gained rich experience in overcoming the violence posed by the previous regimes of Marcos and Estrada by employing the policy of broad united front, which is open to the participation of civilian and military officials and personnel of the reactionary government in the movement to oust an incumbent ruling clique.

The broad masses of the people have long hated the Arroyo regime for electoral fraud, corruption, subservience to foreign interests, extreme conditions of exploitation and rampant human rights violations. The Arroyo regime is now far more isolated and far weaker than the Marcos fascist regime in the years of 1983 to 1986 or the Estrada regime from 1999 to 2001.

It has made the fatal mistake of inflicting the tyrannical Proclamation 1017 on the people and threatening them with fascist dictatorship under conditions of economic, political and moral bankruptcy. However, it believes that it can get US support for its escalating use of violence and its prolongation in power in exchange for charter change that seeks to embody the anti-national and anti-democratic dictates of US imperialism.

The political situation is combustible. All that is needed is for the organized forces of the broad united front to do their best in mustering their strength and mobilizing the people to exercise their right to speak and assemble and work for the ouster of the regime. The objective conditions for ousting the regime are exceedingly favorable. It is all a matter of the subjective forces strengthening themselves and rallying the people in their millions on a nationwide scale.

2. The problem of varied platforms or programs of the varied coalitions, political parties and mass organizations in the broad united front.

Solution: The varied forces in the broad united front can unite on a concise one-page platform or program containing the most important basic points that they can agree on.. Such platform or program can include the following points:

a. Replacement of the illegitimate and immoral Arroyo regime due to the commission of electoral fraud, plunder, treason, human rights violations and other grave crimes against the people.
b. Upholding of civilian supremacy and civil liberties and nullification of Proclamation 1017 and all its oppressive consequences.
c. Defend national sovereignty and independence and protect the national patrimony.
d. Carry out genuine land reform and national industrialization and generate employment and livelihood for the people.
e. Promote a patriotic, democratic and scientific culture among the youth and entire people
f. Undertake an independent foreign policy for peace and development and develop closest relations with neighboring countries.
g. Pursue the peace negotiations with the NDFP and MILF and achieve just and lasting peace by addressing the roots of the armed conflict.
h. Drawing up a new democratic constitution and holding elections within a year after the ouster of the Arroyo regime.

3. The problem of having no single leader to replace Arroyo and the related problem of forming the appropriate bodies for accommodating the representatives of all major forces (coalitions, political parties and mass organizations) contributing significantly to the movement to oust Arroyo.

Solution: Apparently having no single leader to replace Arroyo is not really a problem. The important
thing is having a concise program on which to unite and having certain bodies which shall eventually be
used for choosing the principal leader among so many leaders. The following bodies can be formed:

a. The Transition Council (any similar name to suggest its revolutionary, patriotic or democratic character will do) is the highest policy-making body and it elects its Executive Committee. It includes the representatives of all major coalitions, political parties, mass organizations and groups of retired military and police officers. It may be as large as 100 to 200.

b. The Executive Committee carries out the policies and tasks decided by the Transition Council. It directs the work of various subcommittees focused on certain tasks, including development of the program, reorganization of government, and so on. It is the provisional cabinet. It may have 15 to 30 members.

c. Roundtable Council of Advisors to include former presidents and other senior personages.

d. Unified Command to include representatives of major groups of retired and active military and police
officers. It can surface fully after the ouster of the Arroyo regime.

4. What are the consequences of delay in the ousting of the Arroyo regime, particularly because such delay is due to the regime’s use of preemptive violence against the people, the opposition parties, mass organizations and even against military and police officers suspected of being against the regime?

a. The anti-Arroyo military and police officers and personnel might ultimately undertake forcible preemptive actions to oust the regime (in concert with the growing mass protests and clamor for the ouster of the regime) because in the first place the Arroyo regime uses violence to prolong itself in power.

b. The crisis of the ruling system will become deeper and graver. The prospect of revolutionary change grows brighter as the broad masses of the people are outraged by the prolonged reign of terror and greed
and they demand revolutionary change. The armed revolutionary movement will continue to flourish and
win political and military victories in the countryside.

c. The regime is preoccupied with trying to survive in the national capital region. It is drawing the military and police forces to guard the regime and its facilities in the cities and trunklines. It is thereby thinning out these forces in the countryside, Under these circumstances, the people’s army can take more initiative in launching tactical offensives and thus grow in strength and advance.

5. After the ouster of the Arroyo regime, will not the pro-US Right prevail in a new regime and, together with their pseudo-progressive hangers on, try to exclude from the government the patriotic and progressive legal forces and even deny the role of the national democratic movement in the ouster of Arroyo, as in the previous ousters of Marcos and Estrada?

It is highly probable that the pro-US Right would still prevail and would hire pseudo-progressives to keep on denigrating the national democratic movement. That is because the bureaucratic and military machinery of the reactionary government remains intact despite the ouster of the ultra-Right and fascist Arroyo ruling clique and also despite the emergence of a progressive movement among the civilian and military personnel of the reactionary government. Nevertheless, we must recognize the unprecedentedly new phenomena in the ever developing situation.

The chronic crisis of the ruling system has reached such a point that the intrasystemic anti-Arroyoforces, civilian and military, need to cooperate more conspicuously than ever before with the national democratic movement in ousting the Arroyo regime and to engage the legal patriotic and progressive forces in a new government if their objective is to have some relative stability at least for a while.

The process of ousting the ultra-Right and fascist Arroyo regime is strengthening both the legal and
revolutionary forces of the national democratic movement. At the same time, the revolutionary forces have openly manifested interest in negotiations with the post-Arroyo government for a just and lasting peace by addressing the roots of the armed conflict.

However, if the reactionary government under a new ruling clique chooses to further pursue the armed counterrevolution, the revolutionary forces of the people are obviously prepared to further advance the armed revolution against ruling system that is acutely crisis-stricken and is clearly in a state of decomposition. ###


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February 25, 2006

Proclamation 1017, arrest without warrant; Marcosian tactic

Arrests without warrants. Party-list representative Crispin Beltran was arrested. Others like Representative Satur Ocampo evaded arrest including a couple of others that were targeted. This phenomenon is serious and warrants strong condemnation from the public. It so ironic this was timed when the people were celebrating the ouster of President Marcos in 1986. What GMA had one now had only sowed futher discontentment and anger among the people. Her proclamation is just the right political stroke consolidate all the forces against her and encouranged the middle class to join. In matters of days it would be no surprise when we see more open mass mobilizations and protest in the streets defying GMA's state of emergency. As the days unfolds, we'll see more of GMA's fascist face, more of her iron fist. On the higher hand , she had just shifted the scenario for people to shift gear to a higher form of struggle.


PRES. ARROYO’S EMERGENCY PROCLAMATION: A MARCOSIAN LEGAL TOOL TO STAY IN POWER

CODAL condemns Pres. Gloria Arroyo’s latest violation of the Constitution by issuing Proclamation 1017 declaring a state of emergency. This proclamation is no different from the proclamations issued by Pres. Ferdinand Marcos during martial law in his attempt to stay in power despite the peoples revulsion to his reign.

Firstly, Sec. 17, Art. XII which was used as basis by Proclamation 1017 is a martial law provision initially crafted by Pres. Ferdinand Marcos during his reign to empower him to take over private businesses. Sec. 17 provides that:

‘In times of national emergency, when the public interest so requires, the State may, during the emergency and under reasonable terms prescribed by it, temporarily take over or direct the operation of any privately owned public utility or business affected with public interest.

Pres. Arroyo is not the State and there is no way that the Constitution could have granted the President granted the plenary powers of a “state” especially after the peoples’ martial law experience with Pres. Marcos. The intent of the 1987 Constitution, which is steeped in provisions ensuring congressional checks to the powers of the President, is to grant such power to the President only upon a law passed by Congress. The ‘state’ in Sec. 17 therefore means Congress issuing a law and the President implementing such. It is impossible for the 1987 Constitution to have granted Pres. Arroyo the unbridled power to take over private businesses without Congressional approval. It must be noted that congressional approval is required even if she exercises her much bigger martial law powers. Furthermore, this is clearly reflected in Sec. 23 (2) of Art. VI which expressly provides for emergency powers:

Sec. 23 (2) “In times of war or other national emergency, the Congress may, by law, authorize the President, for a limited period and subject to such restrictions as it may prescribe, to exercise powers necessary and proper to carry out a declared national policy.

Since the Constitution requires congressional approval of the President’s bigger powers of martial law and other national emergency powers, Proclamation 1017 cannot survive legally and constitutionally
without legislative participation. Clearly, there was no law or congressional concurrence with Proclamation 1017 which was unilaterally declared by Pres. Arroyo. After attacking the legislative power of Congress through EO 464, Pres. Arroyo has, like Pres. Marcos, again arrogated unto herself one more legislative function.

Secondly, using Sec. 18, Art. VII of the Constitution does not grant constitutionality to Proclamation 1017 not only because a ‘state of emergency” is not found in that section but also because of the absence of factual basis for such. Sec. 18 states that :

Sec. 18 “The President shall be the Commander-in-Chief of all armed forces of the Philippines and whenever it becomes necessary, he may call out such armed forces to prevent or suppress lawless violence, invasion or rebellion. In case of invasion or rebellion, when the public safety requires it, he may for a period not exceeding sixty days, suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus or place the Philippines or any part thereof under martial law. Within forty-eight hours from the proclamation of martial laws or the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, the President shall submit a report in person or in writing to the Congress.

Nowhere in this provision is a “state of emergency” that grants her additional powers mentioned. Since the Constitution expressly provided for ‘emergency’ powers in other provisions, she cannot proclaim such emergency under Sec. 18. Should Pres. Arroyo insist that Proclamation 1017 is based under her martial law powers in Sec. 18, then, such proclamation cannot be deemed to have granted her additional powers. She is just giving notice that she is calling on the armed forces to suppress rebellion or lawless violence within the framework of her current and existing powers prior to the proclamation. She cannot interpret this as a grant of additional powers to suppress rallies, arrest without warrants, or take over
media facilities.

Furthermore, there must be lawless violence, rebellion or invasion before the President may call out the armed forces. Rallies are not “lawless” violence but are legitimate exercise of the peoples’ rights under the Constitution. By deeming rallies as ‘lawlessness’ Pres. Arroyo has, like Pres. Marcos, illegally considered the exercise of constitutional rights an attack on her and national security.

Lastly, since the proclamation grants her no additional power, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are not suspended during a state of emergency as the Supreme Court has said so in Sanlakas vs. Angelo Reyes, to wit:

Should there be any "confusion" generated by the issuance of Proclamation No. 427 and General Order No. 4, we clarify that, …, the mere declaration of a state of rebellion cannot diminish or violate constitutionally protected rights. Indeed, if a state of martial law does not suspend the operation of the Constitution or automatically suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, then it is with more reason that a simple declaration of a state of rebellion could not bring about these conditions. At any rate, the presidential issuances themselves call for the suppression of the rebellion "with due regard to constitutional rights."

Malacanang’s and NTC’s regulation of media: Illegal

The violent dispersal and the arrest of rallyists such as Prof. Randy David and Atty. Argee Guevarra are clearly without legal basis. The right against arbitrary arrest under Art. III of the Constitution has not
been suspended. Pres. Arroyo’s declaration that ‘all rally permits are revoked” is also illegal considering that Mayors and local governments are the ones granted the power to grant or revoke these permits under the law. Freedom of assembly is still operative.

The sanctions threatened against media with government closure or takeover for ‘covering’ opposition activities is an attack against press freedom, since freedom of the press still subsist. The warnings by
executive officials are therefore illegal and subjects these officials to criminal and administrative liabilities.

Pres. Gloria Arroyo has totally become a “Pres. Marcos”, on the very day that Pres. Marcos was ousted from power twenty years ago today. CODAL demands that Pres. Arroyo to respect the Bill of Rights and the Constitution despite her Proclamation. Since Proclamation 1017 does not grant her additional powers but merely causes further instability, we demand that she withdraws Proclamation 1017. CODAL calls on all lawyers to come out openly and publicly criticize the violation of the Constitution and peoples’ rights. CODAL calls on lawyers to offer their legal services to the people who will become victims of the implementation of Proclamation 1017. CODAL also condemns the arrest in particular of Atty. Argee Guevarra who was not only exercising his constitutional rights but also practicing his profession as a lawyer. CODAL urges members of the legal profession, including law students to come out and be part of the peoples assertion of their basic constitutional rights against the impending threat of martial rule.

Reference : Atty. Neri Javier Colmenares—Spokesperson
Date : 25 February 2006
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February 24, 2006

State of emergency further isolates GMA; Her ouster speeded to the maximum

Like a chess game GMA is in a stalement position. She has to sacfrice her rookies and bishops.She had furthered isolated her self. She had no option but to use her repressive machinery, those she has still in control. It will be a matter of time GMA will be ousted. (See PDI online monitoring)The fractiousness of the military seems too obvious. She has declared Emergency Rule. The US had given already an open ended position that there will be no repression and quelling of democratic rights. However in matter of hours there seems to be an escalation of mass actions, dispersed in different point in the Manila, Quezon City and Makati. The big business sector are taking a wait and see position. Arrests of patriotic military soldiers have been ordered. Theblocking of the main entrance to the place is taken cared of by the Presidential Security Guards. Ramos is silent and never have been seen in the mass actions. There seems a brewing of political alignments quickly developing, that coming the Makati Business Club .

GMA can never reverse his state of emergency. As the international community is watching, the more she had isolated herself from the people in the country andoutside. The church through the CBCP have been is leg worked by Malacanang one by one. Cardinal Rosales signaled GMA's emergency rule further puts her to a bad position. Of course junior officers military officers against GMA will be planning the more toenter Manila. Mike Defensor, Mr. Ignacio Bunye, Raul Gonzales, Norberto Gonzales is now more panicked. Will the people permit these prime movers to jump ship when GMA is so very isolated. I think not. This time this will be different. This will be more of a bloody confrontation. GMA had just glued her butt in one of the chairs in Malacanang. People are now more politically concious. They are on to implementing a transitionalcouncil. Who's the pointman of DILG? In days to come GMA will dulge out sums of money for mayors to counter peoples movement mobilization. But this effort will notlast long. The more she unleashes her resources, the more people will shift gears to a higher form of struggle.

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February 21, 2006

The raging social crisis in the country just cannot be quelled.

The raging social crisis in the country just cannot be quelled. Even they have recaptured Filipino fugitive first Lieutenant Lawrence San Juan, more junior officers in the military are now taking a serious consideration of overhauling the system as most of them comes from poor families. More and more are linking to the people's movement in the countrysides to topple a corrupt and repressive regime such as GMA's. In the months to come we will see how the political drama unfolds. How GMA for sure will use different combinations of her political gimmicks just to stay in power, be it having her picture taken and publish them in newspapers as she pretends to pray in a church closing her eyes while silently laughing in her mind or use generals by bribing them all the way by stealing peoples money and institute a brutal and fascist state.
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Projections and illusions for the public

The reason that GMA step in immediately to shed her crocodile tears for the victims mudslide in Leyte was because she wants herself to be projected. Projected as concerned, trying to unravel a cloud of illusion for the public to see. Bu is she really concerned for the victims? The truth of the matter she's the culprit. The environmental devastation that killed farming communities in that area was caused by her state policies. GMA have agressively promoted mining , logging in the name of moeny. In the name of progress to lure more foreign investors. Such mudslide will be repeated over and over again in close frequencies because of her policies. It would be foolish for us to believe she had cared for the people. Previous months when the landslide occured in Leyte she instructed his chief of staff who was former secretary of Environment of Natural Resources to fast track the mining business. Her clique is so desperate to get the money aside of having heavily taxing the masses of her E-VAT schemes. GMA follows the dictates of the IMF-WB. She insured to rechannel people money to the hands of foreign bankers, leaving little money for social services such as health and education. Expectedly after the mudslide occured all she was doing was beg. She had given the reason for US troops to have their presence in the area "with their humanitarian efforts".
Would it be suffecient to tell that the US big corporations back up by the Bush government is one of rapacious rapest of our environment? Are they the ones that operate huge mining corporations in the Philippines? Time and again US troops help puts semblance of humanitarian help and makes the point to we owe them more than they owe us. And how would a puppet feel with the entry of US troops. She would be happy indeed given all eyes are watching her. She would have little money to dole out as she had already raided the huge government money in the case of the fertilizer scam, getting money out of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) budget to bribe congressmen and insure her votes. With her kneeling down pictures praying. I hope God will not kick her out of the church. God knows. People will kick her out of Malacanang.
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February 11, 2006

Just a comment of Luis Teodoro's article on Pinoys abroad

Just a comment, response to Luis Teodoro's article:

I would not fault a Filipina speaking like that. As a matter of fact she is right that the Arroyo regime must be booted out quickly as possible. However she's wrong when she say we are better intelligently, those like me here out of the country. However Luis Teodoro's response only furthered put a wedge between us Filipinos, those who opts to survive out of the country and those who want to stick it there. He missed the point. The struggle for us goes beyond even Arroyo and her regime. The struggle is not even the issue of here and there. The struggle is everwhere. It is a matter of complimentation of identifying the primary and secondary. Though in our case the homefront is the decisive and primary. Good intentioned comments from Filipinos abroad may have seen the importance of giving in to complimentations and for sure have seen the importance of booting regimes, the likes of GMA who personify the landlord and compradors in power, the very social base of US imperialism.

We have come a long way to strategically position ourselves in different part of the world conciously or unconciously. We will never permit comments to wedge out unities among pinoys. Long ago we have been colonized in a manner of divide and rule. Such schemes still operate today as well.

I think for Filipinos who had the luxury of exposing themselves in first worlds, seeing how things are done, the likes of more developed parking systems and so on and so forth, their best help will only be realized under a government run by the people themselves. It will be fruitfull indeed n better if they busy themselves exposing the rotteness of a semi-colonial and semi-feudal system, regimes such as GMA's with the aim of helping people in the homefront seize political power so their suggestions and ideas will be to to play.

On the note we encourage comments from pinoys abroad, either they be Japayukis, nannies, carpenters, nurses, programmers etc... Let us encourange them to join national democratic mass organizations and course their good will help through these organizations and their programs. In times like this, we have unify the broadest range of pinoys not divide ourselves. We must never loose sight to the gigantic task of preparing solid grounds abroad, building international solidarity groups and movements in support our peoples struggles in the homefront. Better than ever.

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A Pinoy of better caliber by Luis Teodoro

Vol. 1 Issue No. 95 | Friday| February 10, 2006

QUITE by accident, I read a letter e-mailed to the editor of one of the Manila dailies (not the
BusinessMirror) last week. Judging from her name and e-mail address, the letter writer's a Filipina married to a Belgian. But I'm sure her husband looks nothing like those bandy-legged, balding and toothless specimens of Caucasian manhood we often see in these parts fighting off 18- to 30-year-old Filipinas who want to marry them so they can relocate to the prosperous West.

In any event, you could sense the anger in this Filipina-married-to-a-Belgian beyond the actual words she used, which by themselves were already quite pugnacious.

She said the officials of the Arroyo administration are themselves the instruments of destabilization
"against the Republic." "By (sic) their recent pronouncements and press releases," she said, these
officials "are themselves propagating dissent and challenging (sic) the discontented Filipinos and
soldiers to stage an armed revolt."

That's an interesting theory and probably true, and our letter writer goes on to urge the nation to "come to its senses," because its "own government has just threatened to utterly destroy an already wobbly Republic . . ." What's more, she wants "the media and the intelligent people left in the country [what with over eight million Pinoys of better caliber having left for greener pastures abroad] [to] train their guns on this corrupt government before it transforms the country into another Rwanda."

While I hope she doesn't mean that last phrase about guns literally, it's not what she said about the
Arroyo government or even what Filipinos should do that struck me [others have said it before, believe me], but the phrase "the intelligent people left in the country," which she elaborated on with the parenthetical statement that the 10 percent of the population who've left the country are "Pinoys of
better caliber."

I could also sense the exasperation in her declaration that "the nation should come to its senses."
Apparently she can't understand why "the nation" isn't doing what she seems to think is obvious to
"intelligent people" such as herself. I could almost hear her saying "What dolts you are, not to see the obvious!"

Our letter-writer's attitude is probably typical of those Filipinos who've "left for greener pastures
abroad," particularly for Europe and North America , although I have only anecdotal evidence to support that suspicion.

Filipino Americans, for example, sneer at the traffic, the pollution and the way their relatives pronounce English words, and never run out of suggestions about how to get the economy running again or how to elect better officials.Nannies from the United Kingdom carry on about how the trains run on time "back home" while you can't rely on Manila buses to follow any schedule. Some Japayukis have been known to opine that the Metro Rail Transit could save on salaries, if only it had
the technological savvy that enables Tokyo trains to run automatically without operators.

Apparently they're all patriots like our letter writer and those Filipino Americans the broadsheet she wrote to has hailed as heroes for dying in Iraq in the service of the US armed forces. They're only
pretending to have abandoned the country of their birth in exchange for lives of (relative) comfort.
"Back home," whenever these "intelligent people" get together so they can brag about the car they just bought, junior's American accent, or the pretty dress they're wearing, they know exactly what's wrong with the Philippines (they don't mention the brawn, brain and body drain) and what to do about it.

I once knew a Filipino in the US who believed parking meters would solve Manila 's traffic problem. There were others who insisted during the martial-law period that the first thing the anti-Marcos resistance should do is read what Americans have to say about getting rid of tyrants (they didn't know the US was supporting Marcos).

All that readiness with advice is premised on the assumption that those Filipinos still hanging on in
the country of their sorrows just don't know any better-and are, in fact, less intelligent and of lesser caliber than those who've left the country.

If you asked a Filipino why he immigrated, the most common response is "so I can eat what I want." I suppose that's true of women, too. It makes sense to imagine that one's being able to gorge on pig knuckles in Germany-where one's husband may be as old as the hills, snores and drinks enough beer daily to float the Seventh Fleet, but can afford a BMW-means that one is more calculating at least. Meanwhile, those fighting corrupt governance, trigger-happy policemen, taxation without representation and general idiocy in the Philippines in the hope that a better country could somehow result from it would look like fools.

By that standard, Japayukis in Tokyo, truck drivers braving suicide bombers in Iraq for US dollars,
doctors scrubbing bedpans in nursing homes in the US, janitors sweeping up offices at 2 a.m. in Italy and mail-order brides sitting out winters and colossal depression in Canada would be "the intelligent people" and of "better caliber" than the 90 percent of Filipinos still in this country.

Thus do most of the 10 percent abroad think they know better-better than journalists and university
professors, better than revolutionaries and reformists, better than those Filipinos able to survive all sorts of adversity, including TV shows like Wowowee, and certainly much, much better than
senators or party-list congressmen?

When living in another country in the late 1970s, I used to think that I didn't have the right to tell
Filipinos in the Philippines what to do. They were at risk of torture, rape and death fighting the Marcos dictatorship daily, while I was only at risk of not making the car payments on time.

I didn't think I had the qualifications and the knowledge either. Not only because things aren't
always what they seem from afar-oversimplifying complex issues is also the occupational hazard of the exile.

Apparently I was wrong. Like our letter writer from Belgium, like mail-order brides, entertainers,
janitors, construction workers, doctors, nurses, real-estate agents, car and insurance salesmen and prostitutes, I was one of the intelligent people and a Pinoy of better caliber because I was abroad.
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True economic indicator of our time, the Wowowee tragedy and not GMA's propaganda

The Wowowee tragedy speaks of the real state of our economy.GMA is definite anwserable to this. If not with her anti-peoplepolicies, people would not flock to this kind of event. People are desperate how to survive and feed their families. No propaganda by GMA can cover this truth. The only thing she can do in public is to shed her crocodile tears pretending she cares for the poor but in fact would only want to see herself prolong her tighten her grip of power. This tragic event had proved the point of quickly booting her out out of the palace. This event also show the need for us to reach the unorganized masses who had their hopes pinned on lotteries and games of chance only to get out of poverty they are in now.
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February 02, 2006

Growing isolation of GMA, resorting to open fascist rule

The reactionary state led by GMA is growingly desperate. In an effort to neutralize the call of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines for her to voluntarily resign, she had asked them to a dialogue to coopt and project a sense of non-isolation. On the other hand echoing her voice of fascist rule, bulldog general, General Palparan tells the public that the national democratic mass movement will be crushed in two years a telling sign of political constriction. The strengthening of her coersive marchinery in due time will likely eat her up. It seems, she can no longer hold it except rely on her rabid fascist lapdogs.






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February 01, 2006

GMA mimics Francis

These are two pictures. One picture on the top is a caption of GMA taken the other day, January 31, 2006 at Fort Magsaysay in Laur, Nueva Ecija, during a counterterrorism capability demonstration headed by Maj. Gen. Benito Ramos under Army chief Lt. Gen. Hemogenes Esperon. The other picture is a picture of former U.S. Ambassador Francis Ricciardone taken November 17, 2003. My impression with these pictures is that GMA tries hard to mimic authorities she look up to. GMA has a flipside personality make-up which is interesting to see and study. For interested political psychologist, indeed this is a good case study.




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