A nation waylaid by its traitor class
(Herman Tiu Laurel / DieHard III / The Daily Tribune / 07-15-2015 WED)
As if he had a stroke of genius, one columnist at the Malaya wrote: Win first then talk. He was, of course, referring to winning in The Hague on the South China Sea/West Philippine Sea issue. The writer apparently thinks the intellectual level of China's leadership is at the same level as his or the present ruling class' in the Philippines. He forgets the revolutionary tradition from which the present leadership of China springs and its victorious 60-year struggle to achieve its present proud status. A "victory" by the Philippine junket team at The Hague won't matter an iota.
The BS Aquino government obviously expects a victory at The Hague given its estimate of the self-interest of the Tribunal to insist its relevance, which is what some of the pro-litigation proponents have stated. They have warned the Tribunal in so many statements, which I paraphrase, "The ITLoS will become irrelevant if it does not support Secretary Albert del Rosario's case." What is also apparent is their notion that the employment of the four foreign, Caucasian lawyers will provide a clear advantage to the Philippines' case. That is certainly laughable.
Regarding this pricey legal team, Ado Paglinawan (formerly with our Washington embassy) emailed us from the US: "The Hague is clearly for optics… the show of force, massive propaganda with a lot emotional sound bites. All those monkeys spending our tax dollars can now proceed to our rouges' gallery… Ta..g ina, 30 million of our people are below poverty line and they waste our money that easily. There are two court trials to my best witness where we hired expensive attorneys and not just lost millions of dollars in the litigation but lost the case altogether.
"I watched this up close as Philippine press attache--first the Imelda trial in New York, and second the Westinghouse case in New Jersey. In keeping with the 'Aquino' and 'Liberal Party' hang-up for legalism, this is the third time we will lose millions of dollars and lose… Will the remaining idiots please line up at the left yellow row?"
If after the jurisdiction issue is settled in favor of The Tribunal itself then the other issues follow. With China explicitly not participating, Justice Carpio's three generations of argumentation will still not see China responding to any of this.
Ado Paglinawan is our Dialog-with-China advocacy group's first book author to be published through crowd-funding. It'll be out in a few months and others will follow. It's surprising how many others are seeing our point of view. Ado's first hundred-page book will be on "BS Aquino's Toxic Foreign Policy"; another book forming the compendium is entitled "A Problem for Every Solution," on how BS Aquino and the Yellows scuttle every solution to the nation's crisis--including the Mamasapano crime and others that only BS Aquino's ilk can inflict on this nation.
The spectacle at The Hague is the ruling class's project to regale the Filipino public with while their half-wit commentators persuade themselves and the nation of their supposed genuine patriotism.
Meanwhile, the MRT and LRT operations are deteriorating by the day: After several months laying off the mass transit trains, I took the LRT from Cubao to Doroteo Jose where I and thousands of commuters sweated a torrent of sweat. Hoping to get to Central station with my stored value card I was told to buy a single trip ticket as the turnstile card reader wasn't working.
I climbed down three stories of stairs (ALL escalators not working) to get a taxi; none passed. As I was already late for my two appointments, I gave up and climbed up those three flights of stairs and took the LRT back to Cubao. And, yes, all these after they raised fares by a hundred percent or so (I've lost rack), with the Supreme Court still sitting on the TRO (Temporary Restraining Order) for six months now, to stop the fare hikes for commuter protection advocates like Riles Network, which proves the LRT (and MRT) fare hikes are wholly unjustified.
Nothing works in this society under the treasonous ruling class and collaborationist intelligentsia, like that economist of the Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF) who urged his readers to "Connect the Dots" as he and his peers support the same "austerity measures" on the Philippines in the 1980s as the IMF, ECB, and EU now impose on Greece.
With the Philippines' de-industrialization, it suffered 50-percent unemployment (and underemployment), forced millions to migrate for jobs, and countless Filipinos were locked in impoverishment while foreign and local oligarchs became ever more enriched.
This is a nation waylaid by its traitor class from its promising and prosperous future that its natural wealth was meant for.
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