Our Case: How Do We Respond

WHY WE LET OURSELVES, CONTINUOUSLY BE WRONGED BY PEOPLE LIKE GMA, WHOM WE ALLOW TO CONTINUOUSLY GO SCOT-FREE

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

Many of the soldiers among us who have been charged by the GMA government of what they term as "mutiny" have proven records of integrity and combat effectiveness as soldiers and as filipinos, before having, according to that charge, mounted resistance against that government. Many of those who have known them among us in one way or another, spoke of their being gentlemen and of their sterling qualities in responses to situations and their treatment of their fellowmen. They among us, have been consistent up to now even 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. 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 the self with that of the enemy of the nation. There is a need for us to go back to elementary social studies.

WHO IS IT THAT WE ALLOW TO CONTINUOUSLY GO SCOT-FREE?

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 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 AMONG US 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 GMA government charges of what they term as "mutiny", against the patriotic soldiers among us, have 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 all our brother filipinos so that we can have a moral ethical basis on who we should defend. 

SO WHAT IS OUR ETHICAL BASIS FOR HAVING ALLOWED OUR NATION TO CONTINUOUSLY BE WRONGED BY PEOPLE WHOM WE ALLOW TO CONTINUOUSLY GO SCOT-FREE?

We have long lived to serve only the needs of the flesh of our self and maybe that of our family.  But in a finite material world, this is at the expense of another. Now we know we can live beyond this. The accused patriotic soldiers among us, long for all of us filipinos to come home.  The big brothers among us, see to it that no one among us brother filipinos, is left behind, but all will come home. 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 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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José Miguel García

DEVELOPMENTAL BASIS

TO RECOVER OUR NATION

On July 23, 2001, Amando Doronilla wrote:

“The Filipino nation today is less of a nation than it was at the time of it’s embryonic formation in the last years of Spanish colonization.”(1)

WHAT ARE WE AS A NATION TODAY?

POVERTY

We are an impoverished people. Those among us who have the skill for the production of food, shelter or to serve the health and transportation needs of the nation either stop practicing it or join the mass exodus outside of the country to serve the needs of other nations. Many medical doctors among us, go to the United States to practice not what was studied for many years, but nursing. Nursing is one of the most honorable and heroic profession but together with Medicine, the supply of it is slowly becoming a shortage here in our country. Teachers among us are going abroad to practice not teaching but serve foreigners as domestic helpers. Domestic helpers are doing a dignified and heroic service to many families but is slowly being lost in our nation for that of others.

INFERIORITY

Many among us cannot communicate effectively in the Filipino language with fellow Filipinos. Many among us become handicapped in comprehension when reading documents written in Filipino. Many among us are even ashamed not to be able to speak in English even if quite effective in Filipino.

Although majority of us Filipinos have an inherently dark complexion, many among us have a burning desire to whiten our skin. The only explanation for this is that many of us believe that white skin is superior to dark skin. We have associated things Filipino with the inferior and things American and white and lately Chinese, with the superior.

Being of the poor is regarded as a source of shame. Being of the rich is regarded as a source of pride. We consider poverty equals to Filipino equals to inferior. Likewise, we consider prosperity equals to being American and lately, being Chinese equals to being superior.

A RESULT OF A CORRUPTED NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: NO PLACE TO REST DUE TO POVERTY AND INFERIORITY

Today, we are in a biological situation of inferiority. Today, the Americans and Chinese, particularly those who are in control of our defense, economy and our psycho-social development, and their behavior and treatment of us, have been our only points of references (for our language, culture, education, history, military doctrines, definition of friend and enemy, logistics, food supply, construction supplies, economic goals, aspirations and values). Such points of references being probably organic to them have made them the top of the areas of their aspirations and endeavor. The original general American and Chinese characteristics of taking advantage of us Filipinos whom they look down as inferior and perpetuate it thru our weaknesses have already been replicated in many among us who have been made to adopt them as our only points of reference. Such points of references being apparently outside of our own specific biological development frame but which have been transmitted to become our own, have only resulted to an inferior replication in us, of our foreign idols. This explains why many of us today look down on things inherent to us, as inferior. This explains why we have remained impoverished and our defense system perpetually weak and has only Filipinos, registered as its main enemy (our soldiers being basically oriented in counter-insurgency). This explains why we have been perpetually dependent on them. This is already pathological. We have to identify this as an enemy characteristic. We can register this in our psyche as the Heredity Infection Virus.

Our original characteristics have been corrupted. Such characteristics present opportunity for love of our nation to be injured. An injured love for our nation in turn presents opportunity for corruption in a vicious cycle. This is the virus that has been injuring that inheritance fought for with the blood of our fathers. A breakdown of love of nation and defense of its sovereignty is the advanced stage of Heredity Infection Virus. This is already the setting in of the stage of an Alienation Infection and Defilipinization Syndrome.

One of the symptoms of the setting in of the stage of an Alienation Infection, and Defilipinization Syndrome manifested in our generation today, is the collaboration of GMA with the foreign invaders of our nation. This led to the following: the surrendering of our claim to Sabah; the opening of our shores, jungles and military camps in Mindanao to the Americans; the helping of American officials in bolting of a US Marine convicted of raping one our women, out of our Manila City jail; the supporting of American invasion against the Iraqi people with the American alibi of destroying weapons of mass destruction which after many years have not yet been found; the protection of Chinese smugglers, loggers, and rice cartels; the protection of a Chinese owner of a shopping mall destroying economic survival of Filipino retailers in Clark; opening of our Spratly Islands to the Chinese for exploration; and many more acts that lead to our loss of our home our fathers wrestled from foreign invaders with their lives.

There are Americans like Capt David Fagen, Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie and many others who defected on our side or have fought for the rights of nations which their own nation have abused.(2)(3) There are Chinese or Chinese meztizos in the Philippines such as Herman Tiu Laurel, Alejandro Lichauco and Gen Danilo Lim in the Philippines who: came here with legitimate purpose; fought for the cause of our liberation as a Filipino nation-- they are more Filipinos than the collaborator GMA, the congressmen for sale or Filipino mercenaries in the Armed Forces. They are not the enemies referred to in this report.

OUR INHERITANCE, OUR ORIGINAL UNCORRUPTED NATION

DEVELOPMENTAL INTERCOURSE

In the early 16th century, those who were fragmented, who were of many different clans of from 30 to 50 families each under a chief, succumbed to the tide of Spanish colonization. Their villages were separated by mountains and seas and located on hundreds of islands. The Spaniards were few. But among them “were hardened veterans of the European wars”. They were persistent in engaging a long and protracted process of conquering one village after another, for more than a century. From then on, consolidation of the archipelago and the different groups of people in it, all over the islands and the seas composed approximately of what has been known today as the Philippine Archipelagic Baseline began to develop.(4)

EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF THE FILIPINO NATION(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)

The clans of fifty families each, were bonded together and from them, developed a new level of political organ- the pueblos, each of which were under a gobernadorcillo. These were organized into provinces. From these provinces, formed the Filipinas as christened by Spain. It’s umbilical chord was attached to Spain. This was the development of Filipinas, still a colony until the last years of the 19th century.

We became one people under Spain. The conception of our nation with a national feeling, was a product of that developmental intercourse which resulted in the start of formation by a cultural, geographical, biological and socio-psycological bond in the later 16th century. Among the bonds that formed us during that period were: the faith in the one living God and the parish churches; the University of Santo Tomás- a pontifical university under the authority of the Vatican where many of our heroes studied, and also one of the oldest and largest Catholic universities in the world; the wheel and plow; the paper, painting and architecture; the map and the charting of the Philippine baseline; the camote, adobo, pan de sal and the guisado; the Spanish blood in some of our heroes like Andrés Bonifacio who organized an independence movement for us and Fr. José Burgos who upheld our status and rights; the fiesta; and the Philippine national government among others.

In a geographical unit called Las Islas Filipinas during the Spanish rule, only the Spaniards born in the Philippines were called Filipinos. Then on October 1889, a group of ilustrados among us in Paris, signed ourselves as “The Filipinos” in addressing this message “To Our Mother Country, Spain”:

When a people is gagged; when its dignity, honor, and all its liberties are trampled; when it no longer has any legal recourse against the tyranny of it’s oppressors, when its complaints, petitions and groans are not attended to; when it is not permitted even to weep; when even the last hope is wrested from its heart; then. . .! then. . .! then. . .! it has left no other remedy but to take down with delirious hand from the altars the bloody and suicidal dagger of revolution!

In the1890s, we of the different islands in the orient under Spain became of one identity as Filipinos. Our Filipino Nation was conceived.

On one hand, there was the oppression of Spain from which, we wanted to be free. On the other hand, there was the beautiful people and islands we already wanted for our inheritance. Both of these pulling us towards a strong desire for independence.

Andrés Bonifacio organized a movement called Katipunan, which worked towards that independence from Spain. The Katipunan stressed the shared characteristics of Filipino which was birth of one and the same country, people and mother. This was to make us conscious of an identity for the purpose of a cohesive community. It was to be distinct from that of the Spaniards, the Americans nor any of our Asian neighbors. The revolutionary organization was guided by the principles of equality, honor, integrity as well as respect and obedience to legitimate authority. In April 1895 Bonifacio and a band of Katipuneros went to the Montalban hills, initiating some men of the area. Here in the Pamitinan cave they assembled; an indication of their presence is an inscription scratched in charcoal on the walls: "Viva la Independencia de Filipinas!" This was the 'first cry for liberty and independence’ by us Filipinos.

It was in this womb where the embryonic formation of our nation took place. Here, emerged the characteristics and systems of our nation, and it’s identity—Filipino.

NATION

This is our point of reference. This is organic to our biological development as a nation. This is our inheritance which makes us equal before the nations of the world. This is our own. This was not granted to us. This is ours by birth right. This is our home!

On June 12, 1898, we proclaimed the independence of the Philippines from Spain. We officially hoisted for the first time the Philippine National Flag as the Marcha Nacional Filipina was being played in public. With budget allocation, we developed our own government, our own constitution, our own defense system, our agricultural system, and our educational system.(14)

HOW OUR INHERITANCE WAS NURTURED

We became independent from Spain and become a nation in 1898. Shortly, thereafter, the Americans invaded us. We resisted fiercely with our blood in 1899. From 700,000 to 1,000,000 of us Filipinos died in that war. With a weak physical resistance, the Americans transmitted to us, the Heredity Infection Virus in the form of glorification of that invasion and making us believe in their claim that it was to liberate us from the Spanish colonizers and a help to make us capable of governing our selves. It corrupted our national identity to weaken any reason to resist any foreign invasion. This virus was transmitted to us in the form of the English language, American literature, American History and a whole American culture. They replaced our Academia Militar with an americanized Constabulary Academy. They replaced our organic and responsive constitution of that time. They blocked all of us Filipinos whose moves were related to resistance. They protected and facilitated those who colaborated with the Americans in promoting a constitution, a political development and a development of a whole new generation of Filipinos idolizing the abortionists of our nation, corruptor of our race and rapists of our Filipinas. They developed this corruption of a whole and succeeding generations of Filipinos and a whole pool of political leaders which continued the weakening of our resistance. They developed these pool of political leaders who have been facilitating the deepening of clutches of these American invaders on our defense, political and economic systems.(15)(16)(17)(18)

RECOVERY OF OUR INHERITANCE by OUR DEFENSE SYSTEM—OUR PEOPLE and OUR SOLDIERS

This is our inheritance from our fathers—Andrés Bonifacio, Emilio Jacinto, Gen Artemio Ricarte, Gen Antonio Luna, Maj José Torres Bugallon, Gen Vicente Lukban, Macario Sacay and many more died for, to give us our home. Our fathers were not mere reformers for change. Except for Bonifacio who was a revolutionist fighting for independence when we were not yet a nation then, our fathers resisted foreign aggressors who were invading our nation-- already a sovereign nation.

We have not yet been liberated today. The corruption of our race have been replicated from one generation to the next. One symptom of that corruption can be seen in our defense system which have infected many of the soldiers among us. Except for those whom the Americans consider as enemies, many of the Filipino soldiers among us have registered as enemies, only countrymen who are resisting either American control, or their puppet government. Since the time Americans have replaced our organic national development code with their artificial system, never have our brother Filipino soldiers registered as enemies or conceived as potential enemies any foreigner inspite of their having already invaded or occupied us. Even a number of soldiers among us who consider ourselves revolutionaries, have registered as enemies only corrupt countrymen and what is being labelled as a wrong system to which they belong. Indeed, if this is the case, mere reform is needed. This is an internal and political affair best left to the civilians and politicians. It is not the area of professional soldiers mandated to protect the nation against alien invaders and threats to national sovereignty and integrity. But who transmitted to us the system in the first place? Our elder soldiers resisted foreign invaders and their collaborators. Today we are still being invaded by foreigners—the Chinese and the Americans. GMA is collaborating with them.

We now have a basis for the functioning of our defense sytem. Soldiers among us should think about the meaning of our existence and actions:

"Do we exist as autoimmune mercenaries to protect our foreign invaders and kill our brother filipinos who are fighting to recover the inheritance, our elder soldiers sacrificed their lives for? Are we the protectors of snatchers just to follow a constitution conceived under a condition of an Alienation, Infection and Defilipinization Syndrome? Admittedly, this may be convenient for us personally. But this has already destroyed lives of our brothers, our elders, our sisters, our relatives, our friends, the poor Filipinos among us, our children who are looking up to our Filipino Nation as our only home. Are we willing to be a perpetually sick nation? Or are we, soldiers among us, the big brother of our Filipino people who can be depended upon as protectors in this struggle to liberate our home from these foreign invaders and their infected collaborators? Are we, soldiers among us, willing to give our lives, so that this home, our elder warriors have given their lives for, can be finally a home for all of us Filipinos?"

José Miguel García

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