Lesson One: Marcos was right. When he became president in 1965, he already set out to do the basic physical and socio-economic infrastructure of a new nation. Reparation payments from
Lesson two: Cory Aquino was dead wrong. She was wrong in scuttling the Marcos
food, fuel and energy programs. She was wrong in consenting to the
de-industrialization of the country’s economy, selling off the Mariveles
vehicle body stamping plant to
Even Cory’s so-called “restoration of democracy” was wrong because she converted Marcos’ nationalist authoritarianism to a patrician plutocracy of the old elite-feudal aristocracy of Philippine society -- the landed Ayalas, the sugar baron Lopezes, the cacique Aboitizes, et al. She started everything that is now eating our society up like a plague.
Lesson three: the jury is still out on whether the Filipino people are capable of learning its lessons from history. Of course, many individual Filipinos, as well as, many particular sectors of Philippine society have learned the lessons well; because of those lessons, many Filipinos began rejecting leadership choices offered by traditional moral “authorities” such as the elite Makati Business Club, the foreign diplomatic community, the academe, and the Church whose “high and mighty” Cardinal Sin proclaimed “anybody but Erap.” The people voted Erap to the presidency and were not disappointed by his populist measures to ease the nation’s economic burdens. Not very long after, Edsa II came along to depose the leader who tried to start pro-people reforms.
The “Filipino people” is a collective term encompassing all classes and ideological shades of Filipinos, but within that collective body is a small powerful group whose inordinate influence comes from its colonial ties with the historical American-British overlords. This small powerful group is often tagged as the Makati Business Club and its allies in “civil society,” a.k.a. “the elite,” the same group that led and funded Edsa I and then Edsa II, and invariably ends up the winner in every political turmoil and regime
change. The vast majority of the Filipino people have not been able to overcome the inordinate sway of this small foreign-backed elite, including the conscientious elements of armed forces sworn to defend the nation and the Constitution and entrusted with the nation’s powers of coercion.
To this day, this small power elite continues to ravage the country with its rapacious, parasitic greed as surrogates of foreign powers -- by sponsoring the electricity privatization law Epira, designed to steal our national patrimony such as hydroelectric and geothermal resources; by acting as agents in the swindle of the national transmission grid (Transco) in behalf of the Carlyle group and the State Grid of China; by enforcing oil privatization and deregulation that swiped the state oil companies and subsidiaries of Petron; and by sucking out VAT collections for the IMF-WB and the global banking mafia which get 75% for debt service. As long as this small power elite rules, there
shall be no salvation for this nation from the predatory feeding of the Anglo-US vampires on its lifeblood.
While this power elite rules, disguised behind the façade of “democratic and electoral politics,” and controls through corruption and threats of “people power,” this country will remain an enslaved nation, helpless against the diktats of Western economic exploitation.
The current manipulated oil price crisis is a repeat of the 1971-1973 detonation of oil prices, which was designed by the
The current round of wild oil price upsurge is the manipulation and hoarding of oil futures contracts by speculative hedge funds. They use financial leverage provided by major banks and financial companies with directorates interlocked with global oil companies, such as British Petroleum and Goldman Sachs cited in Chris Cook’s article, “Oil Market Manipulation.” This is being done to help the
None of this manipulation is possible without the passive or active support of the
Marcos started the first stages of energy self-sufficiency and industrial take-off. Only the sabotage delayed them until they were scuttled after a farcical “revolution” that fooled a great majority of the people. Will we be fooled again this time around?
There are a number of false leaders already poised to offer themselves as the “hope” of this nation with all the “democratic” rhetoric. What we really need is leadership dedicated to the nation and its aspiration for energy, food and economic freedom; and that means not another Cory Aquino, FVR or Gloria who’ll only cater to Big Business and the foreign powers. From the political arena, I can only see the likeness of true Filipino leadership in President Joseph E. Estrada, whose slogan, “Walang tutulong sa Pilipino kundi kapwa Pilipino,” defines his qualification.
From the ranks of alternative leaders, I can only pick from the Bagong Katipuneros (a.k.a. Magdalos), to include Gen. Danilo Lim and Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, whose very image and names embody the nationalist fervor and determination. By election or others means -- by all means -- we need leadership such as these. This is our last lesson from history.
3 comments:
cory aquino will flounder into oblivion, just like the edsa people power one which catapulted her and her minions to power, and which was not really a revolution but a power grab initiated by the elite and the church and anti-marcos personalities who were not really supported by the masses but paid lackeys of american imperialism, the real perpetual evil to which many of our social maladies may be ascribed, and which continues to cause misery and poverty not only in the country but in many parts of the world whose riches are supposed to be divided equitably and should not only be controlled by a few unscurpulous groups who wish to brng about world domination if only to satisfy their gluttonous, mammonist interests, and they should be overthrown by any means necessary, or the rest of us will continue to wallow in untold misery and poverty
You loyalists are so fantastically continuing to live in another planet. FYI, the reparations money from Japan went directly to the Marcos bank accounts. Marcos ruined the moral fiber of the Philippines and this is why even his ignorant clones like Erap will never be able to undo the irreparable damage done.
it is you who must have come from mars or pluto, or you just came from a troubled dream. it is you anti-marcos people, laboring under the burden of stupidity, who should open your eyes to the facts and not be blinded by your illusions and delusions and fantasies and airy-fairy views on edsa and the restoration of that phony set-up you call democracy, yes, the cacique demo-crazy of cory aquino and fidel ramos and now perpetuated by gloria dorobo, the triumvirate from hell whose policies have brought about continued economic deprivation and, in the long run, systematic genocide.
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