Red scare for "coup me"

INFOWARS
Herman Tiu Laurel
2/25/2008



On February 22, 2008, several mainstream newspapers carried a full-page ad by a patently Malacañang-funded group calling itself the “Kongreso ng Mamamayan,” which someone more aptly called “Contsaba ni Ma’am Yan” (or ‘Con’ ni Ma’am Yan). In a quote lifted from my February 12 Tribune column the shadowy group highlighted only the following italicized portion, leaving out the rest of the paragraph to omit the article’s anti-GMA theme:

“Seven years of GMA corruption and oppression, years of worsening life for all Filipinos have generated new revolutionary fervor – will it lead to genuine change or just more of the same worsening conditions? We cannot let the Makati Business Club and the oligarchs steal this new revolution again! After twenty-one years and two errors, we should be wiser. Let’s go for real change, a new revolutionary government – with the help of our nationalist military leaders – and set up a Transition Revolutionary Government, clean up Comelec, the judiciary, re-direct the economy and call for new elections. This is an imperative today as the worldwide economic depression and foreign powers threaten the very survival of this nation as a country.”

The concocters of the full page ad l then proceeded to juxtapose the quote to these “red scare” blitzes: “May balita din na pinabalik sa Maynila ng CPP-NDF-NPA ang kanilang mga kadre mula sa probinsya upang tumulong sa pagpapapa-apoy sa kalagayang nilikha ni Lozada. Ang dulong Kaliwa ngayon ang nangunguna sa mga pagkilos sa lansangan. Ang kanilang adyenda, maitayo ang ‘diktadura ng proletaryado’…Sa isang pahayag sa midya, nanawagan si Congressman Crispin Beltran ng makakliwang Bayan Muna ng pagtatatag ng isang civilan junta dahil hindi rin nila matanggap si Vice President Noli de Castro bilang pamalit ni Pangulong Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.”

It’s obviously meant to lay the predicates for the “coup me,” “palace coup” or “God save the queen” scenario. The fact is, I have always maintained in unmistakable terms that I reject the CPP-NPA-NDF struggle that pits brother Filipinos against one another in an endless, cyclical bloodbath that falls prey to the “divide and rule” of the foreign powers. I have clearly established my political alliances with the Edsa Tres and Estrada forces, the “RJ” movement which has a wholistic view of the struggle, and with the Bagong Katipuneros led by Senator Trillanes. It is true that I am an advocate of genuine change or “revolution” for only that promises change, but I have also exerted all effort to push first “Revolution by Election”.

We have witnessed the feasibility of Revolution by Election in the election win of former navy lieutenant, and now Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, whose victory the Arroyo-Esperon regime continues to obstruct with spurious cases despite his resounding mandate as senator of the land. The nation also saw two prior instances of such a revolution in the successive victories of President Joseph E. Estrada and Fernando Poe, Jr. In Erap’s case, the 1998 elections gave him an unprecedented sixty-percent margin (or over six-million votes) over his rival, former Speaker Joe de Venecia. It was a victory of the masses for the first truly people’s president since Edsa Uno.

These peaceful revolutions were repeatedly thwarted, by the combined elements of the local oligarchs and elite, the Church, and U.S. corporatists using their corrupt Comelec and AFP, in the conspiracies – including the ouster of Estrada in a coup disguised as “people power”. When in 2004 came the time for Fernando Poe Jr. to also win the presidential elections to become a second victory of peaceful revolution by election —a revolution not only because he was another candidate of the masa but also because his campaign commenced on an anti-globalization note announced in a very meaningful visit to the peasant organization KMP’s event. FPJ’s victory was also snatched away and from the nation by the same small elite and Establishment groups that ousted Estrada.

Recall the FVR-Ateneo lackey Ric Manapat forged FPJ’s birth certificate to cast doubt on his citizenship, the Church-led groups campaigned against him, Big Business operators like Joe Concepcion and pollster Mahar Mangahas tried to “trend” FPJ to lose out in the Namfrel count and SWS surveys in Metro Manila, the Church kept quiet when charges of fraud brought out by Gen. Gudani was already (being) circulating, Joe de V’s Congress then proclaimed in the stealth of night the fraudulent victory of Arroyo, ad nausea. This elite cabal now scrambles to survive the collapse of Gloria by junking and disassociating from their common crimes with their Edsa Dos champion Gloria Arroyo, and to resume their rule through Noli de Castro by foisting the “constitutional succession” lie when it was they that destroyed the Constitution in 2001. The fact is, the Constitution has been in suspended animation since 2001 and any invocation of its name is but a farce.

I have also condemned the Edsa Uno as a failure because, in the final analysis, the economic breakdown since Edsa Uno from the murderous taxes by the IMF/WB for unjust debt payments, the unmitigated corruption of the entire system even before Arroyo in 2001, the Makati Business Club’s wanton drive for inordinate profit with privatization’s BOT’s (Solita Monsod lies when in a recent TV interview she omitted mention of “sovereign guarantees” in the BOTs that make them really much more expensive that loan-funded government projects), the “highest rates” in public utilities such as power, water, telcos and port services, and their pricing out of the export and OFW sectors with the “floating peso,” are the real causes of chaos. They have institutionalized this greed in laws and in the electoral-judicial institution such as the Comelec and the Supreme Court. This is why the call for revolution has become inevitable.

For seven years now, I, together with my genuinely patriotic Kabansa from Edsa Tres with President Estrada, the Magdalo, and other nationalist soldiers’ movements, and the Laban ng Masa have defiantly exposed the corruption and oppression of GMA’s regime. Those who are now attempting to hog the anti-GMA limelight after acquiescing to Arroyo’s rapacity for so long, try to sideline these real forces for change. It took us seven years to completely expose Arroyo, it may take another two years more to completely debunk these “civil society” groups feigning as anti-corruption champions. They will try to install Noli de Castro, but in time the entire truth shall come out and victory will be the People’s – yours, mine, our children’s and their children. Red scares and palace coups will not stop us from the call for genuine revolution.

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