Selling the Philippine sovereignity for relief goods?

Belarmino Dabalos Saguing

Rome, Italy 19/12/20134

The Noy Aquino regime is soapsudding the eyes of the Filipinos into accepting the increased US military presence inside the Philippine territory, with all the evils that comes with it.  Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario explained that the U.S. military contribution to relief following Super Typhoon Haiyan demonstrates the need for their increased presence.

But there are more countries bringing their relief aids into the Philippines without strings attached like military presence. Is it because the US have used their troops to bring the aid to the disastered Filipinos the main reason for accepting the American military presence? If so, then the Philippine government is also accepting the fact that it is not fit to govern at all if it needs a foreign power to do its duty of assisting its own citizens at times of emergencies like a natural disaster.

The regime is, wilfully or not, cajouling the Filipinos to disregard the fact that the US has not been what the DFA has stated as reason to let the American foreign strategy of using the Philippines as a military jumping board.

Although relief assistance is greatly needed, historically U.S. military presence has equated to many unresolved and severe violations against the rights of the Filipino people. For example the U.S. was not held accountable for the damage its warship caused to the Tubbataha reef last January. 

Following the rape of Nicole and many other similar cases, U.S. soldiers who have committed sexual abuse have frequently been released without accountability.

Ultimately increasing the presence of foreign soldiers, weapons, and nuclear materials near schools, places of work, and peoples’ homes puts at risk the health, safety, and vitality of the Filipino people. The truth is that as China continues to develop as a leading world power, the U.S. plans to move 60% of its warships to the Pacific region by 2020 to challenge China’s political influence in the region. This move, referred to by Obama as the “Asia-Pacific Pivot”, is a shifting of military resources from the Middle East to the Asia Pacific. In the U.S. approach to world politics, military power equates to negotiating power. The U.S. will use the indirect or direct threat of military force to pressure China to align its policies with American interests.

So, Noy Aquino regime would have it that the Philippines becomes a mere foot stool of the USA in their plan of world domination.

The Filipinos must open their eyes to the truth. Our own government’s policy is still rooted to the colonial mentality of a conquered nation. It is not the well being of the Filipinos that is behind the DFA statement, but what profits it would bring to the very few rich oligarchy that it has in mind.

Stop fooling the Filipinos, Noy Aquino and cohorts with your lies! Yours is not the leadership that the Filipino masses needs because you are leading us into becoming slaves. You have failed the Filipinos at the time of their dire need by relegating your duties to a foreign power!