Zionist “free trade” protected by Philippine death squads
This Monday, May 14, will be Election Day in the Philippines.
The situation is tense. Filipinos are holding mass protests. Army death squads are on the march.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, like her predecessors, has sacrificed the people’s welfare by implementing privatization and deregulation imposed by the World Bank, IMF, and WTO.
The result has been mass hunger and poverty. Each day, three thousand Filipinos leave to join 10 million Filipinos working in hundreds of countries around the world.
Anyone who criticizes the Arroyo regime is declared an “enemy of the state,” and is liquidated by Army death squads.
Arroyo is a close ally of Bush, and sent troops to Iraq. She says she is fighting the “war on terror.” She is part of Bush’s “Operation Freedom Watch II,” which is designed to crush popular movements in Asia.
Last April, Human Rights Now, a Japanese organization, appealed to Arroyo to stop the death squads, and lobbied the Japanese government to suspend all loan agreements. More and more European governments and inter-governmental bodies have condemned the death squads.
On March 25, the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) handed down a verdict of “Guilty” against Arroyo and Bush for “crimes against humanity.”
Although the May election is not a presidential election, it is crucial for the survival of Arroyo. She has survived two impeachment charges by bribing Congressmen, and by using loyal stooges who were part of her regime.
If the opposition gets one-third of the seats of the Lower House and a majority in the Senate, Congress could bring corruption and other charges against Arroyo, which could lead to her impeachment.
It is expected that there will be vote-shaving and vote-padding during the counting of votes. That is, adding votes for administration candidates, and taking away votes from the opposition. This was how Arroyo “won” the presidency in 2004.
Meanwhile leaders of opposition political parties and organizations keep “disappearing.”
The Philippines are like the USA. If Bush were removed, Cheney would take his place. If Arroyo is removed, her ultra-corrupt Vice President, Noli de Castro, will take her place.
However, the people removed Ferdinand Marcos, and later, Joseph Estrada. Also a mass movement was instrumental for the Senate voting the U.S. bases out of the Philippines in 1991.
All revolutionary movements in the Philippines say the root causes of the problems are U.S. imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. They want a society free from US domination, where the feudal mode of production and values are replaced with genuine land reform, and peasants will be given land of their own. They want national resources to be owned and managed by Filipinos. They want real democracy.
The Arroyo regime calls all of them “terrorists.”
Source:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20070512...
