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?

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[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/

[xvi] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqn0bm4E9yw

[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/

[xxiv] Carlos P. Garcia. Wikipedia.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_P._Garcia

[xxv] http://thefilipinomind.blogspot.com/2006/03/making-of-americanized-filipino-minds.html

 Jose Miguel Garcia

FILIPINO UNITY IN SABAH: THE OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS TODAY

Relationship between Muslims and Christians among us filipinos has always been precarious since the 1500s up to the 1800s.  The only link between us was our having become a nation-colony by the actions of the Spanish Government in Manila.  However the link which the Spanish Government had, being the governing body linking all peoples within the boundaries accomplished by the former, was implementing government policies in the South.  Such policies implemented were only small in proportion to the daily lives of the people in the South.  The bigger interaction was more on the military operations.  Although some of the stages of Spanish-Muslim Mindanao political interaction were also from cordial, to recognition of Spanish Government authority with some resistance.

During the revolution, there were efforts on the part of the revolutionary filipinos in the north to reset relationship with the muslims in the south for the purpose of uniting as one nation.  There was no indication of a mutual effort on the part of the Muslim leadership in the South.

This process was a continuing one as we were heading towards our birth as a new nation that is independent of Spain.  When we were born as a new nation in 1898, we were somehow a premature baby, needing an organic intensive process of development to catch-up normal development.

However, it was the north americans of the United States who made efforts to abort that birth by their invasion.  Since we were already born, the foreign invaders made efforts this time to abort the organic intensive process of development.  And one of those extensive efforts the U.S. invaders did was the divide and rule strategy.  They divided us into classes and regions.  One of those stroke of genius divide and rule strategy was the Bates Agreement synthesized by the north americans of the United States. 

Whatever efforts we started, to unite with our Muslim brothers in the South as a more responsive and sensitive move than that of our former government- the Spanish Government, was aborted by the U.S..

After this, division between Christian filipinos in the north and central, and Muslim filipinos in the south have become our Determinant of National Attributes up to the present.

This is the reason why today, our relationship between brother filipino Muslims among us in the South and brother Christians among us in North and Central, have been generally, ambivalent

It did not improve when the U.S. Government in the 1900s blocked our efforts to defend or recover our economic bases from take-over by the chinese creeping invaders in the Philippines. 

This, we must be clear about, is the underlying cause.

That is why we must be clear in who are real filipinos and who are those alien invaders attaching within our filipino Determinant of National Attributes injuring our inherited DNA as Heredity Injuring Virus.  By the U.S. blocking of our efforts to take over from them control of our economic bases in the 1900s, they have today become powerful to acquire legitimacy of ownership of our lands, and control of direction of development of our nation.  By this process these alien invaders are able to pass as filipinos and even take over control of our Determinant of National Attributes.  By this process, we filipinos are unable to identify them as foreign entities.  This is the reason why today, the chinese have not only taken over control of our economic bases, they, like the Cojuangcos, Lucio Tan, Henry Sy, Lucio Co, have already taken over control of direction of development of our political, defense, and education.  That is why Noynoy Aquino Cojuangco is able to continue this process of Alienation Impotency Dependency Syndrome of our nation and we are unable to respond the normal way other well developed nations like the israelis, germans, french, japanese, and vietnamese do before a similar situation.

This process of our national pathological development must be exposed and reversed.

There is no better time to reverse this process of U.S. tampering with the DNA of our Muslim-Christian unity than today.  There is no better opportune time to let our efforts in unity our founding fathers started than today.  There is no better opportune time than a renewal of blood-compact among long separated brothers, not in a foreign land like Kuala Lumpur, but in our own land- Sabah.

Jose Miguel Garcia

LESSONS TO BE LEARNED ON: A History of Zionism and the Creation of Israel

 This is an information material for study on the development of a nation. This is not a foreign, political, nor religious policy propaganda material.  In fact, information on a certain nation is always and must always be studied, not only by the friends and allies of that nation, but also by the enemies of that nation which will be only beneficial to the recipients.

This information is about how a people was able to keep intact a national identity inspite of their having been driven out of their land and scattered around the world for 2000 years, and came back to recover the original land of the birth of their nation.

It was the Determinant of National Attributes or DNA of the israelis that has been driving them towards becoming a nation with the kind of defense, economy, and agriculture system that they have today.  This Israeli DNA is the belief that they are a people set apart thru historical development, organic to them.  This historical development of their having been set apart as a people became the definition of their nation which they have kept it as their own.  Having conquered and been driven out from Palestine thru historical development several times for thousands of years, Zionism movement developed as a response.

The value of Zionism as a movement to us filipinos, is in our struggle to be free of the degenerative disease of Alienation Impotency Dependency Syndrome.  At present, we filipinos are divided into classes, sectors, profession and individuals with conflicting interests.  Each of our classes, sectors, profession and individuals are dependent on the americans for protection, and economic sustenance, as well as intellectual, cultural and social prestige.  The  left, are clamoring for the dismantling of american militarization of our country.  It is only the militarization and not the United States north americanization of the different areas of our country that they are objecting. The more subtle but deeper invasion which is the control of our economy, education, culture, and the whole of our developmental code which is the control of our destiny is being overlooked.

We filipinos, who have been driven out of our inherited identity, our own origins of our nation, our inherited constitution, our inherited defense institution, our inherited national culture, and the whole of our national developmental code of excellence, and our loyalty to our nation was scattered for decades, and need to recover them, can learn a lesson.

Zionism Movement is explained thru clicking on the following paragraphs:

Introduction - What is Zionism?

Zionism is the Jewish national movement. "Zionism" derives its name from "Zion," (pronounced "Tzyion" in Hebrew) a hill in Jerusalem. The word means "marker" or commemoration. "Shivath Tzion" is one of the traditional terms for the return of Jewish exiles.  "Zionism" is not a monolithic ideological movement. It includes, for example, socialist Zionists such as Ber Borochov, religious Zionists such as rabbi Kook, extreme nationalists such as Jabotinski and cultural Zionists exemplified by Asher Ginsberg (Ahad Ha'am). Zionist ideas evolved over time and were influenced by circumstances as well as by social and cultural movements popular in Europe at different times, including socialism, nationalism and colonialism, and assumed different "flavors" depending on the country of origin of the thinkers and prevalent contemporary intellectual currents.  Accordingly, no single person, publication, quote or pronouncement should be taken as embodying "official"  Zionist ideology.

Background - When did Zionism Begin? Love of Zion in Jewish History

Zionism did notspring full blown from a void with the creation of the Zionist movement in1897. Jews had maintained a connection with Palestine, both actual andspiritual. This continued even after the Bar Kochba revolt in 135, when largenumbers of Jews were exiled from  Roman Palestine, the remains of theirancient national home. The Jewish community in Palestine revived. Under Muslimrule, is estimated to have numbered as many as 300,000 prior to the Crusades,about 1000 AD. The Crusaders killed most of the Jewish population of Palestineor forced them into exile, so that only about 1,000 families remained after thereconquest of Palestine by Saladin. The Jewish community in Palestine waxed andwaned with the vicissitudes of conquest and economic hardship. A trickle ofJews came because of love of Israel, and were sometimes...

STATUS OF OUR DEFENSE

WHO CONTROLS THE PRESENT?

How can we expect to defend our nation when we filipinos do not even possess and control our resources and direction of our development? 

As of 2012 October 20, the Philippine Government as in the past, failed to formulate an effective Anti-Money Laundering Law.  It was due to in 2001, when the chinese compelled the Philippine Government to remove tax evasion as one of the crimes covered by the Anti-Money Laundering Law.  This has blocked our efforts in regulating the manner of paying taxes for effective and equitable financial sustainability.  The Philippine Government adjusted the law according to what the chinese wanted.

WHO CONTROLS THE PAST?

In the 1900s, the Philippine Government passed a law requiring books in business written in chinese to be written in the language Philippine government auditors could understand.  The chinese refused.  The United States Government stopped the Philippine Government from enforcing the law.

Around November of 1924, we developed a setup to check foreigners entering our country as part of our defense system of checking further foreign infiltration.  However, the United States dismantled them.  An editorial appeared on June 5, 1926 in The Tribune.  It made a comment regarding: the chinese making a plaything of our exclusion laws; their out maneouvering us from the start of our border checking operations, making a fool out of us.

Meanwhile, we filipinos dismantled chinese bases of economic controls in many parts of Manila and Luzon.  The Philippine Constabulary, a U.S. established unit to be the auxillary corps of the U.S. Armed Forces in the Philippines, intervened.

We tried strategies based on our present condition to gain control of as much area of our nation as we could against the foreigners. The start of our series of manoeuvres thru legal operations with the Retail Trade Nationalization Law in 1954 however, was out-manoeuvred by the Chinese. After we implemented this law, some 8700 of the 10,000 chinese who rushed to get hold of certificate of filipino citizenship papers after 1946, did so after 1954.  Thus in paper, the number of chinese registered as engaged in the retail trade was reduced and the number of us filipinos engaged in the same business was increased. In reality however, there was no physical difference. The difference was only in paper.

Many of these chinese were able to aquire legal documents of being Filipino Citizens in order to make their control of our resources resulting to displacement of us original filipinos constitutional. They applied what the famous Chinese General Sun Tzu said something like, “Therefore, the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.” They conquered our cities without the use of traditional combat weapons.  Except for President Carlos Garcia, all of our presidents have been more than willing to be their puppet government. They have been protected by the laws of the land. They have been protected by the law enforcers of the land. They displaced us filipinos from our source of livelihood and we have no big brother to protect us.

EFFECT OF THE CAUSE ON THE PRESENT

Today and here, what has been the result when as of 2007, between 80,000 to 100,000 chinese have been moving covertly inside our main homeland?  These do not include those who have already gained access to having legalized their status.  They have been able to continue taking over of our banking system, building construction system, rice distribution system, real estate development, airline industry, retail industry, etc..  They have been rendering us impotent in solving the chronic rice shortage for decades.  Now they have been taking over development of our education thru Asia Pacific College, UE, Centro Escolar University, etc.?  What has been the result? 

They have developed a situation where in our military, police, and political officials have been locked in under their social and economic influence to provide them protection and access to having legal status of control of our resources and development.

EFFECT OF THE CAUSE- U.S. TAMPERING WITH OUR DNA

How many decades have we been under what the U.S. term as, tutelage, protection, training, technological support, and guidance of the mighty protective north americans since the 1900s?  In all those years, our defense system could not proceed at any direction of development other than that under U.S. control, tutelage, protection, training, technological support, policies, guidance and dependence on. How many decades have we been at war against brother filipinos in what the the U.S term as insurgency? How many years have been our defense system been functioning as defense against brother filipinos? The situation is equivalent to the autoimmune disease of the immune system of an individual human entity.  In all those years, have we ever been able to develop a defense system capable of defense against foreign invaders?

In all those years that other nations like France, Germany, Israel, Japan, and Vietnam, developed their nation, how has their status of economy and defense become?  Did they let their economy and defense be controlled by and dependent on the U.S. or other foreigners?

If we let the U.S. continue their tutelage, protection, training, technological support, guidance, and control of our nation as what they have always been doing, how many more years will it take before we will this time be able to end being at war with brother filipinos? How many more years will it take before we will finally be able to have the economic and defense status of nations mentioned who have never been controlled by nor dependent on the U.S.?

UNIVERSAL PATTERN

An HIVirus infiltrates the human body thru an immune cell of that human body.  Attached inside the immune cell, the virus utilize the DNA of the host immune cell to establish its identity as that of the host immune cell, and takes over control of that cell.  Other uninfected immune cells are not able to detect the HIVirus because it has the identity and DNA of the infected host immune cell.  When it has completely taken over the host immune cell, that immune cell dies.  The HIVirus replicates the process to the next human immune cell.  After 15 years of replication of the process, what will be the status of all the immune cells?  Can the immune system still defend the body against other invading pathogens that result to TB, tumors, meningitis, and other apparently non HIVirus initiated?

In the national body, it is no different.  When a foreign body takes over control of our Determinants of National Attributes, can our defense system still defend our nation against other invading nations?

OUR ORGANIC DNA

When we became separated from Madre España in 1898, we were born as a nation.  We inherited the organic Determinants of National Attributes from the founding fathers of our nation. This unwritten code was the factor inherent in us, in: producing a national character and identity that binds us, as a nation; driving the direction of our development; and providing cohesion and continuity of development thru generations.

Carrying that unwritten code within us, as a nation, we developed a system of politics, defense, judiciary, economy, and education.  Being an infant nation, we struggled to be united, to adapt to the situation, and to control our resources and direction of our development. 

"The Friars in the Philippines" by Coleman, and "GDP per capita in 1900 by country. Definition, graph, and map" by NationMaster.com 2010 reported that during our birth as a nation in 1898:

We were among the most educated in all of Asia.  Our economy and standard of living were ahead of most of our Asian neighbors and even many European countries at that time.  In 1900, the estimated GDP per capita for the Philippines was $1033.oo.  We were the second richest nation in Asia, just a little behind Japan, having $1135.oo.  We were far ahead of China, having $652.oo or India having $625.oo.

Corpus in his “Roots of the Filipino Nation” and Jose in his “Rise and Fall of Antonio Luna”, reported how our nationalism and unity at their peak in the 1900s were unprecedented and never anymore been surpassed.

THE ORGANIC DNA OF OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE SYSTEM

At the birth of our nation, we had an infant but vibrant national defense system.  It was clear who our defense system belongs to, for it was clear who we were, not as individuals, not as tribes, nor petty kingdoms, but as a nation. 

Our newly developed but infant defense system underwent the ultimate test of its class and potency when a foreign entity, the north americans of the United States, violated our newly born nation in 1898 by their invasion.  Without any aid from any nation, our defense forces engaged the aggressor forces of the emerging most powerful nation in the world in 1899.   It was our first encounter with a foreign aggressor force as a filipino nation.  We lost in many battles but we also defeated them in battles like Balangiga, Mabitac, Pulang Lupa, and other documented battles.  So potent were our defenses that, the aggressor forces were not able to break our resistance for years.

Ellis G. Davis, Company A, 20th Kansas of the U.S. occupational forces in the Philippines, wrote 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,…". 

The aggressor forces of the emerging most powerful nation in the world had to resort to what terrorists engaging a stronger force today do- kidnapping of civilians among us.  But at that time, it was on a massive scale which included extermination of the civilians among us.  According to just the documented reports, among the places where these form of terrorism took place were in Marinduque, Rizal, Bulacan, Batangas, Laguna, Albay, and Samar.  Their demand: surrender of those of the defense forces among us.  It was because of such terroristic acts that the defense forces among us were compelled to give in to their demand.  It was because of such terroristic acts that 800,000 to 1,000,000 of us filipinos died.

To be able to function effectively in defending our nation against foreign aggressor forces, we must first, have a functional defense system.  For our nation to have a functional defense system, we must first of all have possession and control of our resources and direction of development which includes that of defense.  To take possession and control, we must first take possession and control of not cash, not oil, nor any materials which strong nations of today did not have when they started to be a nation.  We must recover our Determinants of National Attributes.  It must be our inherited DNA, and not tampered by the U.S. during their occupation in the 1900s.  It is our DNA of 1898, that we have lost today that we need to recover.  Only then can we even start to build a defense system that can equal the status that we had in the 1900s.


Jose Miguel Garcia