Simón Bolívar, Liberator of South American Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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AFPC: China Reform Monitor No. 372 (CHINA and PHILIPPINE NATIONAL SECURITY)

China Reform Monitor No. 372, April 3, 2001
American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, D.C.

Iran-Russia-China axis seeks to limit US power;
Chinese nuclear scientists visit Pakistan military

Editor: Al Santoli

March 21

Iran has expanded relations with China and Russia to limit the role of Washington in Middle Eastern affairs, reports the Cairo Al-Ahram newspaper. Iran has relied on China and North Korea to develop strategic missile capabilities to confront Israel and rebuild its power, both in conventional and nuclear arms. Iran President Khatami's recent visit to Moscow, where he signed new economic and defense agreements, represents a reaction to the United States' efforts to isolate to contain and isolate Iran. Russia is striving to restore its influence exercised before the fall of the Soviet Union, the paper adds, "particularly after Washington did not hesitate to accept Eastern Europe into NATO' If we add this to the emerging Chinese giant, we will find that global transformations in the next few years will not give unipolar powers [US] much chance to enjoy its hegemony over world resources."

March 26

China's logging trade is ravaging the forests of northern Burma, stripping bare hundreds of square miles of ancient tropical forests, the Washington Post reports. The ecological damage in Burma is indicative of the mounting appetite of the Chinese economic giant is spreading to threaten the resources of Asia and other parts of the world. The unregulated logging boom in Burma is the result of a deal between the Burmese military dictatorship, tribal warlords and China, which supplies most weapons and military materiel to the regime. Since the 1949 Communist victory, China's environment has been severely damaged. Fifty years ago, half of Yunan province [which borders Burma] was forested -- today it is less than 10 percent. In 1998 Beijing imposed a logging ban. Conservationists say environmentally beneficial policies in China have created incentives for Chinese loggers to destroy forests in other parts of Asia.

March 27

Twenty-three Chinese nuclear scientists have arrived in Pakistan for week-long talks with the newly restructured Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, armed forces Services Chiefs, and the head of Pakistan's military-run regime reports the Islamabad Pakistan Observer. Led by Liu Jibin, Minister for Science, Technology, Industry and national Defense, the Chinese delegation will take part in the formal inauguration of the Chasma Nuclear Plant, built with Chinese assistance. The delegation will also visit Wah, Kamara and other nuclear and defense installations. They will pay a special visit to the Pakistan naval dockyard in Karachi.

March 28

The National Security Advisor to Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said that China was the biggest source of illegal drugs into the Philippines and that Chinese military officers are involved in narcotics trafficking, Reuters reports. Some 95 percent of the $5.3 billion drug trade in the Philippines is comprised of meth-amphetamines, called "ice," coming from China. Speaking to the Foreign Correspondence Association of the Philippines, Roilo Golez said, "PLA (People's Liberation Army} officers are the ones running the drug manufacturing plants in four or five coastal provinces of China." Asked what the involvement of the PLA men was, Golez said, "Manufacturing and trafficking."

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Filipino Dies in US Army Camp in Marawi: Officials Rule Suicide; Kin Insist Murder - Bulatlat

Filipino Dies in US Army Camp in Marawi: Officials Rule Suicide; Kin Insist Murder - Bulatlat

RE: "GEN LIM FIGHTS BACK...VS PNP CUSTODIANS"

AND WHY DO WE LET PEOPLE IN OUR COUNTRY LIKE GEN DANILO LIM, CONTINUOUSLY BE WRONGED BY PEOPLE LIKE GMA, WHOM WE ALLOW TO CONTINUOUSLY BE DEFENDED?


WHO IS IT THAT WE ALLOW TO BE WRONGED WITH IMPUNITY?

Brig Gen Danilo Lim has already a proven record of integrity and combat effectiveness as a soldier and as a filipino, before he, together with other patriotic filipino soldiers among us, resisted the GMA government. Many of those who have known Gen Lim in one way or another, spoke of his being a gentleman and of his sterling qualities in his responses to situations and his treatment of his fellowmen. He has been consistent before and up to now that he and other patriotic filipino soldiers among us are already prisoners and one who was able to escape, after having lost in maneuvers against the GMA puppet government of our foreign invaders. What then, can be the basis of arrest and put to prison of the patriotic filipino soldiers among us? There is only one so far. That is, tactical. Gen Lim and the patriotic filipino soldiers among us were out maneuvered tactically by the enemies. This for us, is a temporary loss in the tactical battle. The will of our enemies, as of today, prevailed.

Apparently, many of the police and soldiers among us confuse the enemy of our nation with that of self, and self with that of the enemy of the nation. There is a need for us to go back to elementary.


WHO IS IT THAT WE ALLOW TO CONTINUOUSLY BE DEFENDED?

The GMA government has, by the use of sophisticated as well as brute legal, economic, and military instruments, suppressed the presentation of legal evidences which could have proved legally the initial report that the Armed Forces of the Philippines was used in the tampering of the 2004 election results by GMA. Members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines were prevented by GMA from testifying before the senate inquiry on the initial report. The Mayuga Report on the circumstances surrounding the incident in the military several years back in the Philippines, which would determine the guilt or innocence of those filipino soldiers among us as prisoners, has never been released.

The suppression of legal evidences to legally prove the initial report, is a validation of that initial report that the Armed Forces of the Philippines was indeed used in the tampering of the 2004 election results by GMA. These facts establish the status of the GMA Government as an illegitimate government of the Filipino Nation. This government, is a corrupted government.

Why do we allow those who have been continuing to suppress the evidences, to be defended by our security system? Why do we allow those who resist this suppression to be wronged with impunity?


WHAT HAS THE DEFNDING OF THE GMA GOVERNMENT COST OUR FILIPINO PEOPLE?

Because the GMA Government is already a corrupted organism in our nation. It's actions must also be corrupted, which incur damage to our people such as:

• 27,600,000 is the number of us filipinos in 2006 which increased by 2.9% from 2003, who could not afford to sustain ourselves with minimum basic needs for food, health, education and shelter.(1)

• Our towns in Aurora and Quezon provinces were buried in mud, tens of thousands among us were left homeless, or some 1500 of us either died or were left missing by the flood that hit sometime around 2004. These were caused by among others, the allowing of the GMA Government of Belen Chua, Toplight Lumber Corporation owner, to continue logging on 8000 hectars of land in Aurora province.(2)(3)

• Small retailers in Clark Pampanga were displaced by the giant SM company owner Henry Sy who was allowed by the GMA Government to operate in the area, despite of protests by the small retailers existing in the area and in spite of the anomalous processes.(4)

• A filipina among us was raped and the convicted U. S. Marine Corps personnel was released thru a legal, economic, and public relations maneuver by the GMA Government, continuing the historical pattern of convict-free or jailess criminal offenses by the americans in our country.(5)

• Handing over of our Sabah, our islands, agricultural lands, and economic bases to foreigners.

• Attempted anomalous $330 Million deal with the chinese providing our government broadband network services which would give the foreigners access to our information and communication.(6)

• The continued collaboration of the GMA Government with foreign invaders controlling our defense system in terms of policies, armaments, and the whole of our defense developmental code thru military education programs, as well as economic, military, political, and cultural package deals with our top officials and critical mass which have been generating and perpetuating the dependency processes in our nation.(7) A result of this defense developmental code of dependency, is a defense which could not anymore develop beyond counter-insurgency capbility. This results to our orientation towards attacking only of self in defending the foreign invader who is resisted by the self. This is an autoimmune disease at the social level.

Is it not yet clear to us that GMA has been collaborating with foreigners who have been continuing their invasion of our nation since 1899? Is it not clear to us yet that GMA has committed acts of treason? Is it not common sense to us that our foreign invaders have maneuvered their invasion into a more subtle but deeper level of penetration?


WHAT HAS OUR ALLOWING THOSE WHO RESISTED THE GMA GOVERNMENT TO CONTINUOUSLY BE WRONGED, COST US?

For having resisted this infection in our society, we filipinos paid even further for the cost, the GMA Government has inflicted upon us:

• 800 of us filipino journalists, students or ordinary folks who were guilty of having defended in our own way our people against human rights abuses and one fertilizer scam witness against the GMA Government, have been killed since 2001 as of today.(8)

• Jun Lozada was jailed and harrased for having refused to deny that he was kidnapped by the GMA Government agents to prevent him from testifying before an investigation on the GMA involvement in the $330 Million anomalous ZTE broadband deal with the chinese.(6) The very ethical values of his children among us, is now in danger of being eroded.

SO WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO ALLOW THIS INJURY BEING INFLICTED UPON US?

GUILT OF EXISTENCE AS A FILIPINO NATION

We are not refering to our pride in having been associated with a filipino boxer as the champion of the world, or wearing a shirt with words "I LOVE MY PHILIPPINES" in bold, blue, red and yellow colored letters. These are good. But what we are refering to, are matters that affect the lives of the people of our nation. We are refering to us, individuals who should be taking upon ourselves, not to throw our wastes on our creeks or rivers. We are refering to those among us who should be taking upon ourselves ensuring that our trees are not cut unless a matter of life or death. We are refering to us, buying shoes and guitars that are locally made instead of from China because we know that those products used to be our domain in the world but has been lost because of the maneuvers of foreigners economically dominating us and displacing us out of our access to our own resources. We are refering to the soldiers among us not allowing ourselves to be controlled by foreigners in charting our own destiny by protecting our own brother filipinos before a conflict of interest between the foreign invader and us filipinos resisting the invasion. We are refering to those personnel in the immigration bureau among us, who are not allowing entry of illegal aliens even when bribed with a huge amount of money. We are refering to each and everyone of us filipinos not allowing corruption of our nation and leaving others in injury inspite of huge amount of material rewards for us and our family in exchange.

We can only allow this continuation of injury being inflicted upon us if we have either lost our reason for national existence, or have developed a national existense guilt. This is the same as an adolescent who developed schizoprenia as a result of having lost differentiation of self from the world because of the lack of maternal love resulting to an experience of deprivation in childhood. The adolescent individual lost interest and confidence in the self.(9) This is the same as a girl, who having been raped and drugged, without spiritual and psychological counsel, lost all interest in her dignity and her future except in a fix of dope and survival. For having a disintegrated nation, we, by the nature of preservation instinct, have been experiencing a regression towards individualism. From a nationcentric, we regressed to familial or egocentric. But man is by nature, a social being. To fill the vacuum, we have been looking for the biggest a social home we can find, where we can belong to. That is why, many of us find ourselves placing our loyalty above anything else, to a family, a clan, a benevolent politician, a professional organization we can be proud to belong to, a social class, or a benevolent foreign invader. Anything, as long as we can get the needs for our flesh, our security, self-worth, and fullfilment. But above all, we are really looking for a social home where we can experience love for others.


BUT WE HAVE A NATION-- AN INHERITED HOME FROM OUR FATHERS(10)(11)

We need not look for something else beyond us. We need not place our future in the hands of foreigners. We need not develop a nation thru synthetic process. We already have an organically developed nation. Why should we let such treasured home go into waste and spend resources trying to look for new materials from which to fabricate something new? Such treasured home is our inheritance. Why let our own inherited treasured home be eaten by worms only to spend extra energies experimenting in trying to synthesize another home we conceive of to be of treasures?

We already have a spiralling upward direction towards developmental maturation of mutually complementing individuals for the national interest. They are existing, and they are ours.

We already have an existing national developmental code for sustainability when we were born as a nation. This is a natural inheritance of every living entity at whatever level. This is also accompanied with weaknesses and imbalances with an inherent balancing mechanism towards stability thru the process of maturation. This occurrence remains in motion until an intervention takes place which is not part of the organic process. This organic process occurred in France, Germany, Finland, Israel, Japan and Vietnam. Today they have some of the highest scores in global performance in their particular categories. We were heading in that direction when we were born as a nation in 1898 when we became independent from Spain. We were in the process of sustaining our excellence and addressing our sociological imbalances. This, we were struggling to settle among ourselves under a condition of a sovereign, independent and republican nation. We, conflicting among ourselves as we were, were charting our national destiny as a filipino nation, just like any newly born living entity struggling towards balance and proper coordination of the different parts of it's body.


WHERE IS OUR INHERTED NATION? WHY CAN WE NOT FIND IT?(11)(12)(13)

Weak as we were, being a newly born nation, foreign matters who happened to be americans, invaded us. Weak as we were, we resisted fiercely. Thus in 1899, our sociological temperature rose which was the manifestation of the start of the Filipino-American War.

Gen Artemio Ricarte, Gen Antonio Luna, Gen Malvar, Gen Macario Sakay, Maj Torres Bugallón and all our elder warriors, our national heroes resisted fiercely our foreign invaders and their filipino collaborators who have been grabbing our newly born nation of 1898 away from us starting from 1899 up to now. Our foreign invaders damaged the development of our code of nationalism by:

• having suppressed, terrorized, and killed those nationalistic filipinos among us who resisted their invasion by which 500,000 to 900,000 of us filipinos died initially at the physical stage of invasion;
  

• having protected, promoted and sustained filipino collaborators among us, of foreign invasion;

• having replaced our inherited institutions such as academia militar, defense, education, political, culture, hero designations, legal, national identity and values with apparently filipino but having transmitted into them a corrupted and replicating developmental code of worshipping dependence on our foreign invaders.

The enemies have replicated their forces at the cultural level which broke our link with each other.

Today, we have a group of islands which happen to have a boundary inhabited by different individuals with interests conflicting with one another. These result to dysfuntion of the different systems of our nation that the only way these individuals have been able to survive was the handing over of the interest of the nation to the foreign invaders and receive material rewards. We have leaders dysfuntioning because of interest of self is in conflict with national interest. We have a security system which has likewise been infected and now dysfuntioning because the interests of individual members are also in conflict with national interest. We have individuals populating our archipelago whose interests are in conflict with the people of the nation as a whole. Our individual interests in exchange for the destroying of each other with what is left of the nation still in existense is in a spiralling downward direction.


ETHICAL OR TACTICAL?

From the aforementioned situation, it is clear that the continued imprisonment of Gen Danilo Lim and the patriotic soldiers, has no moral ethical basis. It is based on the GMA Government prevention of the status quo from being dismantled by the defending forces of our nation.

This battle is, tactical for those who want to preserve the status quo. This battle is also tactical for those among us who have a clear ethical basis for our actions regarding this issue. This is ethical for those among us who still have love for our nation and sincerely want to have a moral ethical basis for our actions.

Let us disseminate this knowledge to our brother filipinos so that we can have a moral ethical basis on who should we defend.


SO WHAT IS OUR ETHICL BASIS FOR HAVING ALLOWED OUR NATION TO CONTINUOUSLY BE WRONGED BY PEOPLE WHOM WE ALLOW TO CONTINUOUSLY BE DEFENDED?

We have long lived to serve the needs of the flesh of our self and maybe that of our family. But now we know we can live beyond this. Gen Danilo Lim and the patriotic soldiers among us who are in prison or who have escaped, long to come home. But that home is beyond the personal homes. It is the home for all of us homesick filipinos. Like good soldiers among us, who see to it that no one is left behind, we now regard self as the big brother or big sister for the filipino people to find our home for us. We can have a nation where we can live in dignity. And we actually have a nation. We inherited it. We only have to recover what has been deprived us.

Let us work for this. Let us recover our own nation for every one of us filipinos. It will be a very long day! But we have a nation we can come home to. We will be home, brothers!

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References:

1. Annual Per Capita Poverty Thresholds, Poverty Incidence and Magnitude of Poor Population: 2000, 2003 and 2006, Philippine, (posted 05 March 2008), Poverty Statistics, National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB); http://www.nscb.gov.ph/poverty/2006_05mar08/table_2.asp

2. RIMBAN, Luz, 'Going Soft, Playing Safe, Major Players Elude Campaign VS Illegal Logging in Aurora', Philippine Center For Investigative Journalism, First posted 02:34 (Mla time) Jan 31, 2005, Inquirer News Service, Editor's Note: Published on page A1 of the Jan. 31, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer

3. MALLARI, Delfin Jr., Last updated 20:00 (Mla time) 08/12/2006, 'Palace Restores Permit to Log in Sierra Madre, Say NGOs'; http://newsinfo.inq7.net/breakingnews/metroregions/index.php

4. http://www.manilamail.com/archive/apr2005/05apr14.htm

5. MindaNews, 10:47, 10 Sep 2008, 'Suspend US Military Dployments to Mindanao Pending Probe'; http://www.mindanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5137&Itemid=228

6. Research by Jesus F. Llanto, Newsbreak and Leilani Chavez, abs-cbnNEWS.com, Sources: Newsbreak Online; Philippine Daily Inquirer; various news publications, TIMELINE: Exposing the ZTE Overprice; http://newsbreak.com.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4155&Itemid=88889432&ed=34

7. SAN JUAN, E. Jr, November 10, 2009, Overseas Filipino Workers: The Emergence of an Asian-Pacific Diaspora, Philippine Studies emanila.com/philippines; http://emanila.com/philippines/2009/11/10/overseas-filipino-workers-the-emergence-of-an-asian-pacific-diaspora/

8. ALSTON, Philip, Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial summary or executions, 16 April 2008, PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT; http://www.extrajudicialexecutions.org/reports/A_HRC_8_3_Add_2.pdf

9. Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl, with an analytic interpretation by Marguerite Sechehaye, 1951

10. CORPUS, Onofre D., 1989. 'The Roots of the Filipino People, Vol 1', Quezon City: Aklahi Foundation, Inc.

11. CORPUS, Onofre D., 1989. 'The Roots of the Filipino Nation, Vol 2', Quezon City: Aklahi Foundation, Inc..

12. SAN JUAN, E. Jr., 1998, 'The Filipino-American War of 1899-1902 and it's Contemporary Resonance'; http://www.univie.ac.at/Voelkerkunde/apsis/aufi/history/sonny3.htm

13. CONSTANTINO, Renato, 1975, 'Vol 1 The Philippines: A Past Revisited", 38 Panay Ave., Quezon City


José Miguel García

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Casimir

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Casimir

IS IT TRUE THAT OUR HISTORY IS NOT TRUE?

 
OUR SITUATION

 
Today, our rice farmers are marginalized. Instead of being the standard of rice production in Asia, today, we have a tremendous rice shortage if not for the importation.

Filipinos among us who entered the military profession, wanted to offer to our nation the best defense system we could offer. What we saw was, we had to kill brother filipinos in defense of brother filipinos. The origin of conflict is far from that which a soldier should be involved with. Instead of a defense system to counter foreign aggression, we have an autodefense syndrome-- attacking brother filipinos and protecting the american invaders and their allies. The cause was: brother filipinos claiming ancestral domain in the land where brother filipnos had been manipulated by those who control our nation to settle there. Unknown to us was the purpose of altering the prevailing organic social composition and be diluted to reduce resistance against any intervention to facilitate foreign interest. What we saw was an organization of a defense system whose experience and orientation for decades remained restricted to counter-insurgency. It is an organization which have remained worshipping dependents of the americans. It is an organization whose technology have been overtaken by our neighboring countries. It is an organization which for decades remained a heavy funded constabulary of the americans or a USA Auxilliary Corps. Of what use is a defense system when instead of having the capability to defend our nation against potential and actual alien threats, our only capbility is in watching over compatriots and attack them?

We, the children of this country, do not anymore have source of living left for us in our homeland. Nor do we have a big brother to protect us against foreigners who have actually been driving us out of our own sources of food, our own lands and our prerogatives to chart our own destiny. There is an ongoing evacuation of us filipinos from our country. Should we not just instead channel our tributes from our hard earned money to a constabulary or national police?

The poor among us are obssessed with getting whatever we can, wherever we can, and however we can to satisfy the needs of the flesh of our selves and that of our family. The rich among us are obssessed with getting whatever we can, wherever we can, and however we can to satisfy the needs of the flesh of our selves and that of our family.

The only thing we supposedly filipinos have in common is, ourself. We do not have a nation in common. What we have are the flag, the map on our shirt, the placing of our hand on our chest when the national anthem is sang, and the declaration of, "I am proud to be a filipino." After that, we continue with our scholarship to the USA, our imitation of Pres. Obama, how to become like a US Navy Seal, US Army Green Beret or a US Marine. We imagine how best to fight their enemies. We are not functioning as a filipino nation.

Are we born to be this kind of people? Is this normal? 


OUR HISTORY

 
WE HAVE A NATION

In 1898, we separated from Spain. We became independent. We had our own Constitución Política de Malolos, the first republican constitution in Asia. We had our own government. We had conflicting interests among the different circumstances where we belong to. Our political structures and social justice, were at a time ably guided by Apolinario Mabini, a lawyer. He was a man with no class category as observed by Nick Joaquin. He was the manifestation of intellectual unity between the poor and the rich, the schooled and the unschooled. The critical element was that, we were left to settle our conflicting interests, among ourselves as a new nation settle their social problems. There was at a time, no foreigner who, taking advantage of our vulnerability, manipulated the situation to benefit his own interest.


WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT DEFENSE SYSTEM

We had our own defense system and our own Academia Militar formed by our own, Gen Antonio Luna. Our premature defense system which had already undergone stress during the revolution at the pre-nation stage was, soon after its birth, baptized by fire by the United States of America invaders in 1899. Even though it was an enormously disproportionate warfare, with our enemy, emerging to become the top global military power, and we, still a newly born premature nation, resisted the invaders fiercely without any outside support. What could be more globally competitive than this? Inspite of the enormous disproportion, we were still able to gain a number of tactical victories. We were able to protract our resistance against the enemy.


WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT CULTURE

We had our own culture developed during our embryonic stage. We had our own languages, with Tagalog and Spanish as the official.But during that time, we the poor, the rich, the unschooled and the schooled among us filipinos, became united. We had but one vision- to preserve our inherited nation. We were willing to shed our blood because we had that much love for our nation.
So why are we different today from what we were before?


DEVIATION: OUR CODE OF EXCELLENCE WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM US

WEAKENING OF OUR PHYSICAL RESISTANCE

In 1899, the United States of America engaged in the most dirty of all activities in imposing their will on a sovereign people. They engaged us in terroristic activites such as hostage taking, torture, rape and all unscrupulous acts. It resulted in death of 700,000 to 1,000,000 of us filipinos. It resulted to the surrender of our brave warriors who could not counter the hostage-taking by the americans of the members of our families and neighbors.


THEY INTERVENED IN OUR CIRCUMSTANCES

They illegalized, imprisoned, tortured or killed those among us who resisted their invasion. They protected, facilitated and rewarded those among us who collaborated with them. They replaced our different systems with filipino collaborators among us. They supervised those systems.


DEEPER INVASION: TRANSMISSION OF CORRUPTION

The americans developed our education by: replacing Spanish with English; transmitting a set of values which replaced satisfying the basic needs of the filipino people as a consequence of love of nation, with love for material things to satisfy the self and family; spreading the myth that the benevolent americans saved us from the evil spaniards; developing thru funding, legal enactments and information transmission of José Rizal as our national hero to shift our focus to the spaniards who are the executioners and everything that is evil because of his two novels about spanish atrocities, he advocated reforms but not physical resistence, and he was long gone by the time the americans arrived; burying our other heroes who are valuable to our resistance against invaders into obscurity to destroy our being identified with those who resisted foreign invaders and engaged them in combat; taking away all information about our development which was supposed to include our status as a nation before they invaded us and retaining only about the negative activities of the spaniards; taking away information about our resistance against them; and taking away information about their tortures and killings of our brother filipinos. They transmitted to us a history they fabricated to corrupt our national identity. This was designed to develop in us a corrupted national developmental code of worshipping dependents of our foreign invaders. This was to replicate for generations. This was so that, long after they were supposed to have granted us, what they call an independence, we would have even be more deeply invaded by the americans. But this transmitted history by the americans, taught to us by educators and historians formed in a defilipinized education is not our history. This resulted to the injury of our inherited developmental code. It is a developmental virus they transmitted in us. This is the Heredity Injuring Virus.

COORDINATED SUBTLE INVASION

In the 1900s, a more subtle form of invasion from another front but in coordination with the americans developed. Around that time, we set up a legal channel of check points for identifying and assessing foreigners entering our country as part of our defense system of checking further foreign infiltration. The new invading chinese countered with help from the americans. While our legal check points where still in the setting up stage, the Americans, with their military might behind them, quickly dismantled them.

The americans maintained our being defilipinized to perpetuate our being economically weak so that we will remain dependent on them so that they could control us.At that time, we tilled our land to produce rice for our people. With the sweat on our brow, we were supposed to be compensated so that we can also feed our family. However our source of agricultural materials necessary to our production have been controlled by a united group of chinese. Thus we, who have not been united, did not have choice of the best and the lowest priced materials except to buy only from them. We had to buy those of poor quality and of the highest price. Our market for our products were also controlled by the same united group of foreigners. Thus we did not have choice on who would buy our products at the highest price. We had to sell at the lowest price. Receiving very low income out of our farming which is not enough to provide us with our basic needs, we needed to borrow when someone in the family got sick. Taking advantage of our peculiar circumstances, the united foreigners came to our rescue by lending us money with our land as collateral. Since our income from farming is below that of what could provide us with our basic needs, we were unable to pay our debts to the lenders. Our land which was our collateral for our loan have been grabed legally by the lender. This time, we tilled in the same land we are no longer owners. When the new possessors of the land found that tilling of the land was no longer as financially profitable to them as importing agricultural products, they stopped the farming operation. With no more source of income and a place to sleep, we had to move out to the urban areas as squatters. We offered whatever services that we, our spouse or even our children could do which may be accepted in the new environment.

This is the underlying cause of our national pathological situation. This is why we have no love for our nation which resulted to our having been behaving selfishly. This is why we have a pathological defense system. These are the manifestations of an Alienation Impotency Dependency Syndrome.


IS IT TRUE?

We have a nation which we inherited from our forefathers. We can again function as a nation. These data is based on documented references. Let us follow up the elaboration of these data in the coming months. If our history is true, we now know how we can recover our inherited nation. We can come home to our own home. We can set things right for our own people because we again can have love for our nation.



José Miguel García

OUR IDENTITY CRISIS