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U. S. INVASION OF THE PHILIPPINES: STAGE 3



ALIENATION OF OUR DEFENSE SYSTEM FROM OUR NATION

From identifying ourselves with our nation in the 1900s when we were a newly born nation, we had reverted back to identifying ourselves with only ourselves, our family, or our clan just like when we were not yet a nation before the 1600s.  An indication of how we identified ourselves with our nation was demonstrated in a letter by Ellis G. Davis, Company A, 20th Kansas about us in the 1900s: "They will never surrender until their whole race is exterminated. They are fighting for a good cause, and the Americans should be the last of all nations to transgress upon such rights. Their independence is dearer to them than life,…".[i]

Today, the north americans of the United States continue to violate our nationhood.  The difference is that today, we filipinos continue to defend their violation.


IMPOTENCY AGAINST FOREIGN INVASION

In the 1960s, the United States of the north americans provided landing facilities inside their base here in the Philippines to the Air Force of Great Britain during our manifested dispute against the latter over our territory of Sabah.[ii]

There is now a US military base inside the camp of the AFP Western Mindanao Command yet the AFP has no control over it.  Filipino soldiers among us do not have access inside without permit from the U.S. occupational forces.  As of this day, we have no control of foreigners like the north americans of the United States on what they do in our own country.  The senate rejection of the U.S. bases in the Philippines in 1991 is only true within our minds.  But they are not true beyond our minds.[iii]   
     
On July 2002, a filipino among us, Buyong-buyong Isnijal was shot by US Sgt. Reggie Lane in Tuburan, Basilan.[iv] 

In November 30, 2007, north american occupational forces led by Master Sgt. Ronburg ordered the staff of the Panamao District Hospital in Panamao, Sulu, to shut down operations after sundown, threatening to shoot us if they did not follow his orders.  Filipino military officers among us were impotent in leading our forces to defend us filipinos in that part of the country against such violation of our nationhood.  This deprived 40,000 among us filipinos of that area, of medical care every night for around one month.[v] 

The commission on human rights and the Sulu Desk reported on the involvement of US troops in the wanton carnage and absolute mayhem of 9 filipinos which included a Philippine Army soldier on vacation, a pregnant woman, a four year old child, and a nine year old child in Ipil, Maimbung, Sulu on Feb. 4, 2008.  The provincial governor denounced this atrocity.[vi] [vii] [viii] 

A certain filipino military official of Western Mindanao Command admitted that he disapproves the practice of higher-ranking filipino officials among us saluting lower ranking US troops or acting as bodyguards for them.[ix]  Another filipino official among us, Philipine Navy Lt Gadian also told the media that US troops behavior towards filipino soldiers even of higher rank is that of a human master towards a dog.[x] 


TRAINING OF THE EXPERINCED BY THE INEXPERIENCED

Under these circumstances is the official mission of the U.S. military in the Philippines today: to train us filipino soldiers hardened for decades of combat against  terrorists in a jungle, in a hot and humid tropical environment, home-ground of the latter who have also been veterans as well as slippery in fighting and most notably, have been products of CIA directed: recruitment; training; funding; and combat experience in engaging soviet paratroopers in the deserts and mountains of Afghanistan during the U.S. caused Afghan-Soviet War.[xi] [xii] What combat skills, techniques and tactics will the U.S. soldiers with less experience in these types of combat and terrain than we have as we have been directly involved with for decades, can they teach us?[xiii] [xiv]

In Vietnam, they lost.  In Afghanistan, they were never generally engaged in the daily face to face battles in every corner of the local terrain.[xv]  In Iraq, they engaged their enemies with heavy reliance on massive technology and firepower only after they have softened defenders in their homegrounds after they have intervened in the domestic social affairs processes.  Aside from local insurgents with which their original motive they corrupted, the U.S. also transmitted local insurgent looking foreigners to increase the strength of the local insurgents.  It is these insurgents who were generally engaged in the daily face to face battles in every corner of the physical and social terrain with the enemies of the United States of the north americans.  What they achieved in the middle east was they were able to destroy their supposedly military enemies only after they have destroyed the whole of the nation of their enemies.  It is this whole nation who happened to be the collateral damage- a term they very often used conveniently.  Therefor, it is not so much the combat techniques and tactics, that they can teach us.  Rather, it is their brand of military strategy- the whole of the subject nation being destroyed in order to destroy the subject enemy, that they can teach.  The Abu Sayyaf issue is just one of the results of the CIA creation of religious fighters from muslim regions including Mindanao to fight a proxy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan.  Based on U.S. media reports themselves, Abu Sayyaf has a relationship with Al Qaeda which the U.S. created to fight a proxy war in Afghanistan.[xvi] [xvii] [xviii] [xix] [xx]


NO BIG BROTHER TO PROTECT US FILIPINOS

A brother filipino, Gregan Cardeño was recruited as a security guard with Skylink Security and General Services, an agency based in Zamboanga City and a subcontractor of DynCorp International, a contractor of the US military.  On Jan. 30, 2010, he signed a contract with the agency to work as a security guard for the American military personnel assigned to the Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines (JSOTF-P) in Maguindanao.  However, on Feb. 1, 2010, Gregan was brought to the JSOTF-P military barracks of the north american of the United States occupying the Philippine Army’s 103rd Battalion Headquarters in Camp Ranao, Marawi City, to work not as a security guard but as an “interpreter” for the US troops.   On Feb. 3, 2010, inside the U.S. facility in Marawi City, Gregan was reported to have died.  The local police, headed by one SPO3 Ali Rangiris, told Carivel, the sister of Gregan, that when he arrived at the scene of the incident, he found the body of Gregan on the floor and the area already “contaminated.”  Filipino investigators have been blocked by the north americans of the United States occupational forces in Mindanao to conduct investigation inside their facility.  Capt Javier Ignacio of the Western Mindanao Command helped the family of Cardeño in the investigation.  On March 25, 2010, Capt Ignacio was gunned down by unknown motorcycle-riding gunmen in March just before he was about to execute an affidavit regarding his knowledge about the circumstances of the death.[xxi] 

A filipina hidden from the public by the name of Nicole, was gang-raped by members of the United States Marine Corps in Subic in 2005.  The case however was dismissed inspite of the overwhelming evidences.[xxii]  Another filipina whose name was hidden was raped by a north american in Makati in April 2009.  But due to fear of ending up like another case of Nicole, she did not charge her rapist in court.[xxiii]


PERPETUAL OCCUPATION
 
Are we already independent?  Except for Carlos Garcia, we never had any president who could not be controlled by the United States of North America and stay long as president.[xxiv]  All these presidents are products of U.S. tampered development of our educational system.  The guns are the tools of the north americans to destroy our defenses and control our archipelago.  The English language is the tool of the north americans to destroy our identity and control our minds.[xxv]
This U.S. control of our Determinant of National Attributes is the cause of why despite of our Asian neighbors having already overtaken us in defense status today, despite of our having had an excellent defense system in 1898 up to the early 1900s having been able to militarily maneuver for years against being caught, locked, and controlled by the world power U.S. aggressor forces until they resorted to massive kidnapping and extermination of the civilians among us, and despite of decades of U.S. pumping of military aid, training, guidance, and tutelage to us, we are still dependent on U.S. and impotent in defending our nation against foreign invaders today.
Are we not an occupied nation by the United States of the north americans?


[i]   Kipling, R.  Letters from the Front:  An Insight into the Filipino-American War
[ii]   Vizmanos, D. 2002. Rejoinder to Pro-Balikatan Arguments. Bulatlat, Vol.2, Number 7. http://www.bulatlat.com/news/2-7/2-7-reader-vizmanos2.html  
[iii]   Citizens Peace Watch. 2008. Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Zamboanga City and Sulu, pp. 3-6, 64. Quezon City. http://www.focusweb.org/philippines/docs/CPWReport.pdf
[iv]   Conde, C. 2002. Terrified Basilan Woman Swears U.S. Soldier Shot Her Husband. Bulatlat.com. http://bulatlat.com/news/2-25/2-25-basilan.html
[v]   Alipala, J. 2007. Talks of U.S. Interventions Prompts Sulu Meetings. Philippine Daily Inquirer. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20071231-109541/Talk_of_US_intervention_prompts_Sulu_meetings
[vi]   Citizens Peace Watch. 2008. Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Zamboanga City and Sulu, pp. 6-9, 64. Quezon City. http://www.focusweb.org/philippines/docs/CPWReport.pdf
[vii]   Alipala, J. 2008. Sulu ‘Massacre’ Survivor Claims Seeing U.S. Soldiers. Mindanao Bureau. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20080207-117398/Sulu-massacre-survivor-claims-seeing-US-soldiers
[viii]   Watson, P. 2008. U.S. role in Philippine raid questioned, Los Angeles Times.
[ix]   Citizens Peace Watch. 2008. Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Zamboanga City and Sulu, p. 10. Quezon City. http://www.focusweb.org/philippines/docs/CPWReport.pdf
[x]   Calonzo, A. 2009. U.S. Troops Joined Combat In Mindanao, Says Navy Wistleblower. GMANews.TV.  http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/170796/news/nation/us-troops-joined-combat-in-mindanao-says-navy-whistleblower
[xi] Chossudovsky, M. 2002. The Nobel War Prize. http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO210B.html
[xii] Bengwayan, M. 2002. US Forces in the Philippines Facing CIA-Trained Abu Sayyaf Terrorists. http://www.officialconfusion.com/oldsite/terrorfiles/phillipines/abusayyaf.html
[xiii] Citizens Peace Watch. 2008. Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Zamboanga City and Sulu, p. 10. Quezon City. http://www.focusweb.org/philippines/docs/CPWReport.pdf
[xiv] Vizmanos, D. 2002. Rejoinder to Pro-Balikatan Arguments.  Bulatlat, Vol.2, Number 7.  http://www.bulatlat.com/news/2-7/2-7-reader-vizmanos2.html
[xv] Blum, W. Afghanistan- 1979-1992: America’s Jihad. U.S. Military & CIA Interventions Since World War II. http://killinghope.org/
[xvii] James M, & Cooley J. 2001. The Abu Sayyaf-Al Qaeda Connection. ABC News. pp. 1-2.  http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=79205&page=1#.T8i4KajLb-s
[xviii] Chin, L. 2001. The Abu Sayyaf. The United States in the Philipines: Post 9/11 imperatives, Part 6, Yonip Library Section – Visiting Forces Agreement and Balikatan Exercises.
[xix]  Santuario, E III. 2007. Abu Sayyaf: The CIA’s Monster Gone Berserk. Constantine Report. http://www.constantinereport.com/allposts/abu-sayyaf-the-cia%E2%80%99s-monster-gone-berserk/
[xx]  Cooley, J. 1999. Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America, and International Terrorism. Pluto Press, 345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA and 22883 Quicksilver Drive, Sterling, VA 20166-2012, USA
[xxi] Zarate, C. I. 2012. Gregan. Philippine Daily Inquirer.  Chino Roces Avenue corner Yague and Mascardo Streets, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines. http://opinion.inquirer.net/27799/gregan
[xxiii] Olea, R. 2009. Another ‘Nicole’: Filipina Accuses US Marine of Rape; Case Heightens Junk-VFA Call. Bulatlat.com. http://bulatlat.com/main/2009/05/14/another-%E2%80%98nicole%E2%80%99-filipina-accuses-us-marine-of-rape/

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Thanks for an enlightening article which everyone should know. The truth will set us free. Mabuhay every freedom loving nationalist.

Unknown said...

We have to educate the youth and discard our US mentality. Love of country and never allow anyone to spit on our honor.