Cover up upon cover up
(Herman Tiu Laurel / DieHard III / The Daily Tribune / 02-04-2015 WED)
The BS Aquino government has been on the brink of collapse since the nation learned of its treachery against its own Philippine National Police-Special Action Forces (PNP-SAF) heroes at Mamasapano, Maguindanao. PNP officials and men, active and retired, with the sympathy of millions upon millions of Filipinos, have been staging marches and vigils. Civilians have been forming coalitions for mobilization. The “Occupy Edsa” alliance that includes the bishops-led National Transformation Council (NTC), which started an anti-Comelec-PCOS vigil called yesterday for an “Occupy Mendiola mass and rally (on) February 7 requested by the wives of PNP Officers in honor of the Fallen 44.”
Emissaries from groups organizing mass actions have visited or called us to solicit support. I encouraged all of them and promised whatever support I can give but gave one caveat: “Be prepared to be frustrated if you do not attack the root problem and the real support behind BS Aquino’s government--the US operators and their Fifth Column in this country that wield inordinate power over the affairs of this nation. This Fifth Column is now covering up with massive propaganda the basic treachery involved in the sacrifice of the Fallen 44 as well as the facts of the case through the controlled “Board of Inquiry” (BoI) it is setting up.
Last Saturday at the Anabel’s Kapihan a representative of the PNP joined the media discussion panel, but the first thing the PNP representative advised the audience was to avoid “speculation” and wait for the BoI’s findings. My adverse reaction was immediate, and the former SAF member surprisingly nodded in agreement. I said, “I pity your situation, you are sworn to protect and defend the authority above you but you cannot speak freely and those authorities invariably have more, it is our job (in media) to connect-the-dots and find the truth behind the obstacles authorities put before the truth.”
The only really important question that the BS Aquino government must answer is why the Fallen 44 were never given succor in over 12 hours of entrapment enemy fire even after they ran out of ammunition. The question for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)--Big Brother to the BangsaMoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), which is a party to “peace talks” with the Government of the Philippines is why they treated the Fallen 44 as “all-out enemy” in a seeming “all-out war” at that point--finshing off the SAF 44 as they lay dying. Now they decry the “all-out war” call of the nation.
BS Aquino’s “rhetorical” shrug off of direct responsibility and the MILF seeking empathy for their own dead answer nothing.
BS Aquino’s “No need for my signal” is a “go signal” while a “no signal” from a president is a “no go signal” to the PNP-SAF and Armed Forces of the Philippines troops eager to rescue their comrades whose hands are tied by “ceasefire” loose ends. But these are key questions a BoI by BS Aquino would never face squarely. Mr. Murad’s “Don’t blame us, we suffered casualties too...” is no answer to the question as to why international terrorists and bomb makers are in the territory the MILF claims.
Moreover, there would be no casualty on any side if terrorist bomb makers were not traced by Federal Bureau of Investigation information to the MILF’s bosom.
A long, drawn out inquiry by the powers-that-be will be another opportunity to cover up and din out the fundamental contradictions of creating a state within a state. Former National Treasurer Liling Briones cited to us the National Government’s P40-billion “grant” to the BangsaMoro entity upon signing, to grow every year for 10 years while the entity will keep the records and not the Commission on Audit--a glaring and fundamental violation of the Constitution allowing the BangsaMoro to purchase anything including arms to build a rival military to the AFP and the PNP, the essential step to the last stage of complete secession.
Media last year reported the AFP Office of Strategic Studies (OSS) study by Cesar Pobre and UP Political science professor Raymond Jose Quilop under the headline, “MILF pact could allow US bases in BangsaMoro homeland,” where General Santos City in South Cotabato is a projected base site. It said, “from 1999 to 2008, six meetings between US government officials and MILF leaders have reportedly taken place. In February 2008, [Former] US Ambassador Kristie Kenney… met with MILF Chairman Al Haj Murad and Central Committee members,... the visit was done apparently with no prior coordination with the appropriate government authorities.”
This is the final cover-up: the US bases are being prepared for the full implementation of the “Asia Pivot” of the US aimed at transferring 60 percent of its military forces to Asia by 2020. From thence the greatest war the world will ever see becomes imminent.
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