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]
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?
[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
[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
[xxii]
Rodis, R. 2009. The Subic Rape Case. Inquirer.net. http://www.inquirer.net/specialreports/subicrapecase/view.php?db=1&article=20090509-203985
[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/
