Let us hope, that this Independence Day, the people of the Philippines will recall the words of their patriot, José Rizal to “know history, know self” whilst also remembering the “no history, no self” tactics of their Yankee colonisers.
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Wednesday, 12th June is a national holiday in the Philippines, where the long-suffering people of that archipelago salute the 1898 declaration of independence from Spain by General Emilio Aquinaldo, who became not only the first President of the Philippines but the first leader of a democratic Asian state. Their democratic state was short-lived as U.S. Marines almost immediately put that country to the sword during the 1899-1902 Philippine-American war, which was characterised by the usual long litany of American war crimes against indigenous fighters and civilians alike that is the hallmark of those Yankee savages whenever they go into action.
Having colonised the country at the point of a bayonet, the Yanks were among the worst colonisers ever, until the Japanese Imperial Army gave them a very black eye in the days following Pearl Harbor. Following the Baguio surrender of General Yamashita, the Tiger of Malaya, the Yanks gave the Philippines’ nominal independence but insisted, in true arrogant American form, that the Pinoys celebrate their independence on 4th July.
Though the Pinoys told the Yanks where to stick that one, not only was true independence never achieved but nor was anything even remotely resembling it. The Yanks kept their bases in Olongapo and Subic Bay and they are currently building more forward bases to go head to head with China in the South China Sea.
To see what that means for the people of the Philippines, consider the long history of raping child “girl friends” barely out of diapers that was par for the course in those bases. Or, you can check out the Preda operation of Fr Shay Cullen, an Irish Columban priest who has been fighting Olongapo’s child sex trade for the last half century. If that is too much, just check out the snuff videos of Peter Scully, an Australian entrepreneur who ran a lucrative business in Mindanao raping, torturing and murdering little Pinay girls for the titillation of his online followers.
Not that the Philippines is all dark. My first visit there was in the wake of the end of the Yanks’ Marcos dictatorship where I visited two orphanages, one Catholic and the other “American”. Even though the “Americans” insisted on giving me a baby, I had to explain I was only visiting for a friend, who had previously adopted the loveliest little boy you could imagine, and had afterwards ignored and betrayed the baby’s obviously devoted and now heart-broken mother. Though it was heartbreaking to see all those “abandoned doggies in the window”, the Catholic orphanage on the Smoky Mountain rubbish tip had truly heroic Pinay nuns keeping their newborn charges alive by wrapping them in old newspapers.
After that, it was off to the Chinesegraveyard, whose vulgar opulence, a tourist attraction in its own ghastly right, is a sight to behold amidst all that squalour. Smoky Mountain and much more showed there was little trickle down effect from them or from the Marcoses, whose palace I also visited, having first been shaken down at gunpoint by the military.
Malacaňang Palace was further evidence that, though Ali Baba had split to Hawaii, his 40 thieves were still in business. We had to pay a small fortune for some connected nincompoop of a tour guide to show us around, which she did by bringing us to Mrs Marcos’ collection of shoes. Having explained my frustration with having to pay to see a showroom of women’s shoes, I asked what she could tell me about José Rizal, their national hero, who was shot by a Spanish firing squad on December 30th, 1896 and whose face adorns a variety of peso coins, major thoroughfares and the like.
Though it was stupid of me to expect a connected shoe attendant to know anything about her country’s history, the fault is far more with the Americans than it is with that now middle-aged bimbo. The Philippines, more so than any other country, exemplifies the social cancer that is American colonialism that Rizal’s “no history, no self” remark epitomises so well.
Far from criticising the people of the Philippines who had to endure under the Pax Americana, it is a credit to their strong familial bonds that they have survived at all. There are, in essence, a group of families like the Marcos mob in the far north, the Dutertes in the far south, the Gordons in Subic and the Aquinos in Tarlac who, together with Chinese businessmen who are likewise devoid of all scruples, run the show.
And, though the hopes and aspirations of almost all Pinoys remain as modest as they have always been, that does not apply to the country’s top dogs, who are making the Philippines the meat in the sandwich between the United States and China, whose truly formidable navy is expanding at an almost exponential rate.
China’s fleets of Type 054 frigates, 054a frigates and Type 055 destroyers are, as these links here, here, here, here, here, here and here show along with the rest of China’s navy, the stuff of nightmares for the American and Japanese navies, as well as the rag tag European carpetbaggers who waddle along behind them. They should not be the concern of the Philippines, which must find some way to extricate itself from the Apocalypse which awaits it and all of South East Asia when these dogs of war slip the leash.
Although the Philippines is right to assert its maritime claims, it must urgently develop the necessary tool set to send both the Chinese and Americans packing from its waters. The only way to do that is to involve Russia, Japan and its fellow ASEAN countries to counteract the persistent American meddling and Chinese counter meddling that bring no benefits to the long-suffering people of the Philippines.
Though Aquino, Aquinaldo, Bonifacio, Luna, del Pilar, Rizal and the other heroes of the war against the Spanish and then the Americans have set a very high bar for today’s Pinoys to emulate, they must end this existential Sino American threat by seeing the 1986 Yellow Revolution through to its logical conclusion.
Let us hope, that this Independence Day, the people of the Philippines will recall the words of their patriot, José Rizal to “know history, know self” whilst also remembering the “no history, no self” tactics of their Yankee colonisers. And, in further recalling Rizal words that “a person who does not look back from where he came would not be able to reach his destination”, the people of the Philippines should retain some idea of what, 126 years later, that destination is and be determined, 80 years after Yamashita’s Baguio surrender and the battles for Cebu, Manila, Leyte Gulf and of the Philippine Sea, the Yanks, the Japanese, the Chinese and the rest of them will never repeat on Pinoy land, sea of air the horrors these long-suffering people have endured from foreign meddlers and their local collaborators from the heady days of Aquinaldo to our own.
