Now this stupid adviser of GMA, Mr. Norberto Gonzales attacks again UP and its students. I am not a graduate of UP but I sympathize the students. Though I graduated in Silliman University but I feel bad what he is doing. He describes himself as "well behaved." He attributes this being a graduate of UST. He wants to associate UST students as well behaved a euphemistic expression of a protector of the status quo. Mr. Gonzales statement probably angers students at UST. Mr. Gonzales has time and again expressed himself as a rabid protector of the status quo. Having a fascist mind, he see just black and white. He see students who are asserting their economic as well as democratic rights as communists or simply to his description as destabilizer How can students be so meek as to his concept of “well behave” when people like him have encouraged killings by labeling everybody against GMA as communists. Two days past, he had even hinted to the media that the media has been or is used by communists. Quick enough to label and sow intrigue, this statement of his is no other than a go signal by him for their reactionary armed forces to attack media practitioners. Now we know, statistics is also high in terms of media members murdered or assassinated by death squads. Mr. Gonzales has no conscience at all. Being a rabid protector of an oppressive system, he fashions himself as a barker for the gangster entrenched in Malacanang. In the eyes of the masses, describing himself as well behaved is actually telling us that he is a butt-licker of big compradors, big landlords and to US imperialism, all entities that are rabidly resisting to the tide of change. Mr. Gonzales has a pea brain. This are the type of people that GMA hires as her adviser. Advising what?

Oh my God. This is akin to the scene when conquering soldiers of the Roman empire danced their way within the community, drank beer and took advantage of women, women made to dance half naked in front of soldiers after the soldiers killed people and burnt their houses. GMA’s rampaging AFP mercenaries has no idea what they are doing. Is this the kind of socialization they have to win the people? Bring in women and let them dance in the face of many male soldiers? This is outrageous! This beer house mentality further degrade communities. Imagine women dancing with drunk soldiers all night with poor children waiting for their sisters and mothers to come home. I would not be surprised that there are cases that women are raped. The church must speak and denounce this degrading type of socialization that the butcher General, General Jovito Palparan is doing. I can see now how he thinks. To the very core, acutally he wants beerhouses, women dancing naked. He is doing it now in Central Luzon with the overt reason of "winning the people to his side". Now the equation that we see is this: dancing, drinking equals socialization therefore winning people's hearts and minds.

It’s good to be reminded of the death of Ninoy, just that. His death convinced most upper middle classes when I was in college to join in street demonstrations with us against Marcos. The other day was his 23’th death anniversary. Though having such celebration means nothing to me now. The cause for celebrating his death are all thrown away, all erased. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo the present representative big compradors and biglandlords in the country is using this event to deceive the people. Though this political gimmick is already tattered and exposed, she still dishes this to the public to prolong her rule. Such celebration is empty talk. Everybody knows it. Nothing substantial has been done. Oppressive structures remain intact in the homeland. Militarization abound. State fascism rules.

The standards of living are way below the radar screen now. Prices of basic commodities are rapidly increasing, workers wages remain stagnant. Big compradors and big landlords dominate the hall of congress and the senate while people’s representatives are sent to jail. There is no genuine land reform, no national industrialization to speak of. We remain shackled under the dictates of US imperialism. The economy is wallowing in debt. GMA’s repressive government is squeezing more the labor of ordinary Filipinos by taxing them more in the homeland and abroad to pay US multilateral financial institutions. So the question now is this, what are they celebrating? Are they celebrating the killing spree of  death squads making parents weep for the loose of their daughters and sons or children crying because their parents were brutally murdered? Are they rejoicing because they are exporting more human labor in different part of the globe expecting Filipinos to remit their hard earned dollars for the country to survive? Are they celebrating because they, the ruling classes have succeeded in deceiving  23 years the Filipino people?.

For ordinary Filipinos, they know much better. Asking ordinary peasants or  factory workers about the significance of this event will usher you one answer. They will tell you such celebration is simply a gathering of tyrants rejoicing among themselves. An event invented to lure people to believe in their fantasy stories.

Another organizational body is masterminded again by GMA serving as a buffer to fend off political criticism against her has been hatched. Today, GMA called on to form an “independent commission”. Her attempt again sounds stupid! For how can a body commissioned by her be independent? Is she joking us? She'll be the one that will hold the string and all the members in her commissioned body will dance to her tune. No doubt, this organization as commissioned will function as her political shield. This will be her neutralizing chip. She had done all her fake posturings to decieve people. She issued statements of against the killing spree only to praise her butchers more. She commissioned a body, she called Task for Usig which means ( Shout ), only to shout more lies and cover-up stories! In the homeland everybody is not ignorant at all. People know GMA is behind the series of killings. She had hatched a war against those opposing her rule She allocating 1 billion pesos for her suppression campaigns. She had ordered the deployment of her coersive armed troops in Central Luzon that now have created havoc  in the area. She had ordered the imprisonment of May First Movement (KMU) leader Congressman Crispin Beltran  and still in jail ,  have  put house arrest  Party List representatives in Congress months ago. She have terminated peace negotiations, have implemented  no permit no rally policy, implemented fascist policies and measures quelling peoples demands and many more.

This policy of assassination only comes from her, emanating from her, no doubt. While it may be true that she is influenced by rabid demagogues, the likes of Ermita, Norberto Gonzales and the rest who wants to push themselves close to the centers of state powers by having direct hand in framing state policy direction. But still, no one can deny she is the culprit. All of them share the same interest. They want to glue their butts inside Malacanang. Now that she is politically isolated in the homefront and in the international level, changing masks, quickly putting on her political make-ups, new political dresses to lure people, will not serve her good. As a matter of fact what she is doing now is making herself look stupid. Quickly putting on her political make-up all over her face makes her face look like Boozo the clown. Now she's tricking us.

Nothing can compare GMA’s fascist attempts to quell people’s legitimate dissent. She is far worst than Marcos, Cory Fidel and Erap. She wants now to register all mobile cell phones. She uses superficial reasons to cover her real intent when in truth she wants all monitored. Consumer organizations such as TEXTpower was right when they immediately intervened to denounce such stupid proposal. Such obsession to control people is practiced by her pet butcher General Jovito Palparan in requiring all residents in central Luzon to have their cedulas with them. This is nothing new because in the 80’s in Mindanao I remember when we would visit my grandma’s house in one of the municipality in Western Mindanao, soldiers requires us, people riding in buses to get down every checkpoint and show their cedulas. Those having none would be left behind. My mom would always bring one with her. This situation resembled those scenes in Second World War movies showing how Hitler used all the means to control people. What are lacking now are death chambers wherein people are gassed. But make no mistake, the government of GMA has secret torture chambers, safe houses wherein those activist secretly kidnapped are sent their chambers and then tortured. Many though are summarily executed by her death squads. Now that she’s under strong criticism from abroad and in the homeland, her efforts to neutralize the attack by installing many show committees, feeding the media with fake posturing through statements given by her and Mr. Bunye, Ermita, Defensor and Gonzales have actually dissipated. On start, with the intent of quelling people’s rights and prolonging her rule, the more she is digging her grave. So we better tell her and her cohorts continue raining your selves with money from people’s labor, you are not so far now being thrown in the dustbins of history.

Balance all and “play just like the piano”. Mao would say that. This is what I am thinking , a good way to address the immediate situation here and in the country. A comprehensive campaign should be undertaken and is now undertaken but concious of gearing up and shifting gears. This requires the people's movement to set its eye on broadening the struggles along anti fascist lines, heighten it along anti-imperialist call s and deepen it along anti-feudal calls. All these three are of great importance. As broadening fronts are building up, formations of coalitions and alliances with layers of class alliances tactical and strategic, the content must well articulate the central call of continuously advancing anti-feudal struggles. Addressing these gives depth to the struggles of the Filipino people as this is the main highlight and content of the struggle. Since feudalism is well protected by US imperialism as this is her social base, it is also very necessary to articulate and heighten calls directly linking US imperialist dictates and aggression in the country. Though as the main political direction of the critical mass is to immediately oust the repressive regime of GMA , the main key link now will be broadening our reach through anti- fascist calls. As solid material basis will unfurl in conjunction with the rapid advance of the peoples mass movement being the central element, we will give wide initiative on building the movement on the basis of consolidation. When GMA is ousted, we will futher take advantage of new interstices to complement the main and strategic.

One of the things that need to be expounded is the interconnection of Bush war in the Middle East and concern of our peoples in our country. This has something to do with the issues and concern of Oversea contract workers given the policy of the present reactionary state represented by GMA to export cheap labor in parts of the world as skilled workers, domestic helpers and etc. They have been the most affected by the ongoing war in Lebanon. Manyt families depend their subsistence on the income from their parents working in Lebanon. Such disruption had affected children's education. They had to stop going to schools because their parents have opted to come home only to find no jobs at all. While Gloria in her state of the nation address bragged about creating jobs, she.did told only one side. She did not tell the public how volatile our economy is. In a single change of things it can turn things upside down. For the truth is, our economy is so dependent from external factors that they do not have a control over it!. Yet she parrots Bush war on terror. She alludes herself in the face of APEC leaders calling them to support the war on terror. Though we know for the fact that her call serves her most in sustaining her illegitimate rule. GMA had a hard time funding repatriation of Filipino workers. First she had already used workers money for her last election bid. Second she has no money at all and has to push to collect more out of people’s labor through state taxes. She had even extended so much the coverage of value added taxes that everything we consume are all taxes, even double or triple taxed. It would be a pity to see the rapid increase in prices of basic commodities while there is to significant change in the salaries of ordinary people. I always hear my wife friend working in corporations in Makati how they barely survive to meet families basic needs. Most of their salaries goes to utilities, electricity, water, telephone bills and transportation. Little money is left for food. They cannot even imagine how to send their children to schools. Most of them desperate want to go outside the country. Some even have returned to school only to study nursing, being the ticket for them to apply work here in the US. I have classmates in high school who work as managers in banks in thePhilippines but had resigned of their jobs in order to study nursing. This situation is quite disturbing. And yet on the other hand GMA has no conscience at all and had even further encouraged export of cheap labor. The drain of skilled workers in the Philippines is alarming. But the revolutionary movement as long foresaw this. As a matter of fact Filipinos working outside the country has banded themselves together had had deepened their understanding og the situation they are in. In my two years stay here in the US I have meet lots of Filipinos who had gone underground. They have assumed different names, buy other social security numbers for them to work only to send dollars back home to feed and send their children to school. Most of the Filipinos I meet work in cleaning homes, caregivers in care homes and janitors working at night time. I even have known that many are well educated, teachers, lawyers and accountants who opted to stay here. Amid all these Gloria had made a campaign slogan for herself – GMA cares. Seeing though posters on the internet made me nearly vomit. I can feel the treachery and callousness of her heart. I can see and feel how she had succeeded installing a huge curtain of illusion among our people. But for Filipinos here in the US, their stay here had furthered educated them that in the final analysis what is really needed is a thorough going overhaul of social structures in our country. Seeing and reading news of political activist and health worker activist killed in broad day light by death squads, the more people see the need that armed recourse is importantly needed. The role of the New People’s Army is quite appreciated. It would be of important need to gather more support for them for they are there in the rural areas to defend the gains of revolutionizing production relations. Honestly, my mom now does not even bother to have her farm back in Mindanao. She is happy now to hear that its taken cared of by poor peasants, that they are ripping good harvest out of it. For me as her son, I would like to visit her farm someday only to meet our peasant army and help them husk coconuts when they need my help. I am happy to see them have their own land now.