July 26, 2006

Bello's statement is an acceptance that indeed the NDF now exercises political authority in the rural areas

Mr. Bello reechoes GMA’s praise to their butcher, General Palparan. Bello says that its good that Palparan had done all the murders and salvaging even they do not admit it, and that this will put them back to the negotiating table with the NDF. Bello’s statement shows how bankcrupt the government is in terms of finding reason to justify their hold to power. Mr. Bello’s statement further isolates them to the negotiating table. In the first place he is telling a lie when he said Palparan strengthens their negotiating capacity. Is the situation the other way around? Is Mr. Bello talking on behalf of a state, a state that has all the resources, strength and power on its whim or… his latest statement shows an acceptance that indeed the NDF are now exercising political authority in the rural areas that the reactionary government and their representative including him are just so lame and inutile and the only way they can do is praise their torturer and butcher. (note: this is an old picture way back when General Palparan was assigned in Mindoro. As early as that, GMA had praised him.)
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July 25, 2006

Of course the show committee of GMA clears General Palparan -- their butcher

Of course the state sanction show committee will declare in their findings that the butcher General Palparan is not the culprit in the killings, salvaging and murder of innocent people in Mindoro, Eastern Visayas and Central Luzon. As a matter of fact GMA had put in the pedestal her butcher in her state of the nation address. Her proclamation that she is against extrajudicial killings is a short cover-up. She had done so,  in the first place she is the master planner and the general the executioner. To prop her campaign up she had now lined up programs to danzzle the local biglandlord politicians to support her. Her finance people are now thinking ofextracting more blood from the people. They have  lined up plans to  float bonds, get new loans, tax more the people, not to mention sell  government properties and tell the public they are non-performing assets. On top of these they have taken a full blast to sell our natural resources to foreign interests. Gloria is looking at flattening our mountains by encouraging foreign mining corporations to operate as much as they want to. 

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Consolidating her running dogs

The main theme of her speech simply dangled infrastructure projects to biglandlords in the regions. In short her speech is simply a reiteration of her political attempt to strengthen her influence among them. (She's good in distributing money that is not hers). Where will she get the money? Two possibilities. One, squeezing more the poor man's labor by further taxing them through state taxes, taxes that are so stretched in coverage like E-Vats etc...and second, borrow money from foreign multilateral financial institutions. What is really disgusting here is that aside of getting money from the poor people's labor through taxes she will also use their name as guarantor of fresh loans. I have the impression that she is fastracking all her money making ventures by having those huge infrastructure projects in regions. She must have felt she will not last long thus has little time to pocket those money given the escalation of the opposition against her. She will not worry paying them when people will not catch her because the US has sent their special forces bringing them to the US. When that happens, the rest will be more on negotiating with the US. Of course the US will say to the people in the Philippines, we will give her to you rest assured your new government will continue to pay the debt she had incurred and all the puppet presidents have incurred. Well, that's how US ruling classes think.
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July 15, 2006

GMA’s political moves point to a maneuver of installing a huge curtain of deception

Its good to see that one of the hired operators of GMA that rechanneled Deaprtment of Agriculture's funds for local big landlord politicians supporting GMA's electoral campaign, known as the fertilizer scam is now detained here in California, just 5 hours drive from my place. Joc-joc Bolante was instrumental in transferring those funds for GMA’s bribing activities. GMA has been good enough in using people’s money to maintain herself in power. I would not be surprised how her troubleshooter have attempted to bribe the bishops within the CBCP only to neutralize a growing consensus to impeach her. True enough the lapdogs of GMA are making millions of money and has justified all the political operations they are doing. The likes of Michael Defensor and Raul Gonzalez are fast enough to justify openly their maneuvers. Take for example when Mr. Bolante case was highlighted he had only to say “proper channels” such as a case with the Ombudsman has to be filed against him ans the senate warrant does not hold through. The DOJ secretary is an expert in twisting facts and saying half truths. On the other hand Mr. Defensor in the news leak that has come out of them being exposed in bribing bishops had only to say that the intention were different. Mr. Defensor should tell that to the public with a straight face. His credibility is so wrecked even to those who does even know him.

For the past months GMA has been staging a drama to make people believe she is doing something for the economy. Today she’ll visit Libya and Brunei only to take some pictures with Libya and Brunei’s leaders. After that would come home and tell the public that she had asked them not to increase oil prices for the benefit of the Filipino people. The big business conglomerates in oil must be laughing behind her back after she leaves. But GMA will not be bothered by that at all. What she’ll after is her successful political show and gimmick to deceive the public. On the other hand she’s also making sure that the leaders in the middle east overseeing the peaceful attempt to coop and pacify the MILF are on the right track just as Nur Misuari capitulated after he was entrapped in having an agreement in Tripoli in 1973.

GMA’s political moves point to a maneuver of installing a huge curtain of deception. Now with the news going around, the latest, the abduction of UP student in Central Luzon and till now had not been seen, her regime will not last long. Her pretensions are just so obvious and so superficial that they cannot hold through the public to thick quite the opposite.
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July 09, 2006

Who’s driving the wedge Mr. Bunye?

I would like to ask Mr. Bunye who’s driving the wedge as he had appealed for the public not to polarize the issues hounding GMA. No doubt he is worried seeing the church shif their gear favoring people's call for impeachment. The obvious is seen here, the wedge drivers is no other than Mr. Bunye and GMA herself. Their fascist brutality speaks for itself whereby yesterday the youth march to Mendiola was dispersed violently by police with students demanding legitimate issues of prioritizing education rather GMA putting 1 billion to finance her militarization. Indeed GMA's apetite for fascist measures is so sickening and she's the culprit in creating havoc in our country. The brutality of GMA’s regime has no room in the church. Such condemnable situation pushes bishops to hear the cries of the poor. With GMA and Mr. Bunye, seeing the potential of an impending church call to impeach her, her minions are quick enough to feed the media the idea of rightist plot. Thus, for two days now, the public saw reruns on General Lims recorded video calling to support people’s struggle against GMA on TV. For sure this move is aimed in politically neutralizing CBCP's incoming consensus against her as their operators are busy enough spreading red baiting hysteria among the bishops. The information feed by Malacanang are coursed through the likes of Dodi Limcaoco, Fr. Romeo Intengan and others only to stop the growing consensus building within the entirety of the CBCP as an institution. Nontheless these bishops, mostly coming from local regions have had heard stories from their lay workers and parishioners on the ongoing repression. Some may have vomitted, that no cotton balls can plug the noses not to smell the rottenness of the system, the rampant corruption and militarization, of evilness and greed . Some may have eaten a pill to make them numb or have even drunk the wine of capitulation ans silence. But in all these what is significantly seen is that the appeal Mr. Bunye’s took indicates some signs of political desperation on the oppressors side. With the rate of political developments happening now in the country GMA's option is now much more constricted. We have seen how she had just pegged her bet taking a militarist approach only to maintain her control over the state. Escalation of protest is now taking place. As of the moment I am happy to see students calling for boycotts and mass walk-out in schools. I can still shout LFS,-- tunay, palaban, makabayan!!!
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July 01, 2006

A token handshake and picture taking in Rome with the Pope will not reverse her growing political isolation

Now the lapdogs of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo are threatened by Bishop Iñiguez’s filing of an impeachment complaint. All they are now invoking is the separation of the state and church. However it was GMA who had used the church to boost her political campaigns. The latest was her visit to the Pope in Rome. She told him that she had just passed a law stopping death penalty while keeping secret she had ordered the massive killings of thousands of peasants in the rural areas through her, Oplan Bantay Laya,an intensive militarization campaign killing hundreds of innocent civilians and activist not to mention the rampant torture of people and dumping them dead and missing.

If I remember it right, hours after her visit to Rome, her spin doctor incharge of manipulating the media Mr. Ignacio Bunye, harked immediately that the church is behind her regime after GMA had suceeded her picture taken together with the Pope, projecting a seeming moral ascendancy against those calling her ouster. Her ascribed ascendancy via her token visit and handshake with the Pope was short lived though. Her posturing suddenly melted down with people exposing her fakery. This situation was further complicated when Bishop Iñiguez’s in Quezon City joined the people's movement in filing the second impeachment against her. Neutralized and exposed GMA's lapdogs started to bark in public and were angry enough. They were angry because there effort to decieve the public was frustrated. Their political posturing to paint the picture that the church was and is with her via using the Pope in her gimmick rendered inutile. She also A looked stupid knowing that the Pope has been playing all along given his Curia had oriented him of the political situation before he shook her hand.

Feeling the intensity of her lapdog's anger and frustration, here are some examples of their statements uttered in public only to sustain and maintain the political equilibrium they desperate wanted to have want. Though the more they mumble the more they tremble ut of fear of people against them.

- “It’s a green light for the Church’s meddling in politics,” said House Deputy Speaker for Mindanao Gerry Salapuddin.
-Rep. Douglas Cagas of Davao del Sur said the CBCP’s tolerance of Iñiguez’s filing of an impeachment complaint against the President was a “clear violation” of the constitutional provision on the separation of Church and State.

-The CBCP is “becoming a political group instead of being a moral anchor of Filipinos,” said Cagas, noting that the separation of Church and State provision was being openly disregarded by Church leaders.

-By spending more of their time on worldly matters like politics, Defensor said Church leaders are left with very little time to address the spiritual needs of the faithful.

-“When they involve themselves in partisan politics like impeachment, that is not good especially if the bishop’s own congregation have pressing problems that have to be addressed. That should be their priority,” he said.

But the bishop had stated his position succinctly in a forum dubbed as “ Kapihan sa Newsdesk” in Quezon City when he said

“It might come to the point when the step that we need is no longer written in the Constitution,”.

“But let us keep in mind of the wider interpretation of the Constitution. People power is still constitutional,” he said. But whether or not the people would want to take to the streets was another question, he said. Iñiguez said he was willing to be subjected to scrutiny to determine whether he’s deviated from Catholic doctrine. “I have no problem about any scrutiny if that would make them happy, I’m not bothered at all,” he said.

Now I would add to what the bishop is saying. For them to have a clearer conception of morality, of politics and of justicet I would recommend them to study the history of the church and their theologians. Most of them where in fact political persons and has been engaged in politics. In fact the church is a political entityin itself -- a part of the whole superstructure I would say. So the Bishop is on the right track after all. It is an exercise of the church prophetic mission just as Jesus turn the tables upside down and lashed the people out making a mockery of God's place. So the power's that be were furious enough.

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