Esperon should run after ‘Filipino traitors’

By Alejandro Lichauco
ANALYSIS

03/26/2007

Who are the real subversives and traitors of the land
— as defined by the patriotic and nationalist elements
in the Armed Forces in their Web site
www.sundalo.bravhost.com?

In an article posted in that site titled What We
Filipinos Should Know, “Filipino traitors” were
defined as “any government politician, native Filipino
businessman and/or technocrat in our homeland who
support and help implement policies that only welcome
and further strengthen foreign control of our economy
and exploitation of our national resources/patrimony .”
The article concludes, in bold letters, that: “In
short, such a Filipino is a traitor.”

On what ground did the patriotic-nationali st sundalos
issue such definition? One reason was this, and I
quote: “With TNCs (transnational corporations) , our
people have only experienced massive layoffs,
witnessed the ruthless closing of native manufacturing
facilities or buying off of such facilities, and the
creation of a small, native middle- class whose
self-interests understandably are tied up to the
foreign entities rather than indigenous growth.” The
reasoning continues: “With mainland China becoming the
‘factory of the world’ we saw the demise of whatever
industrialization and essential agricultural
production we have. What we have left are TNCs with
their native partners amassing the best lands and
planting for exports, for conversion to golf courses
and other entertainment/ sports for the wealthy and
foreigners, while pushing more people toward
impoverishment.”

And who are the elements responsible for the policies
that enabled global investors to kill off local
industries and create the “massive layoffs?”

Who, but the free traders and globalists who pushed
this nation into the WTO, created a one-sided playing
field for foreign producers by radically reducing
tariffs and eliminating the system of quantitative
import restrictions which once protected the nation’s
farmers and local industries from the unrestrained
invasion of imports and who would now eliminate all
nationalist provisions in the Constitution designed to
ensure that the Philippines remain in the hands and
ownership of Filipinos. This refers to the infamous
Cha-cha.

These are the elements which General Esperon, in his
capacity as head of the Armed Forces of the
Philippines (AFP) should be going after, for these are
the elements who would turn over this country lock,
stock and barrel to international investors including
the investment arms of foreign governments.

Instead, the elements being hounded by Esperon are
those who, whether communists or anti-communists, are
standing up for the sovereignty and independence of
this country and are on record in their vigorous
opposition to the globalist regime of this
administration and preceding administrations as well.

What, Esperon should be asking himself, do he and the
AFP he heads really stand for? Are he and the
institution he heads in favor of the policies espoused
and being vigorously pushed by the globalists and the
free traders who now control the levers of political
and economic power in the land? Doesn’t he care one
tiny bit for the sovereignty and independence of the
republic whose national security he is sworn to
protect? Doesn’t he care at all whether this country —
its land and resources, its schools, its media, its
hospitals and in fact its entire economy — falls under
the ownership and control of the Americans, the
Japanese, the Chinese, the South Koreans, the
Malaysians, and of everyone else except the Filipinos?

For whom are Esperon and this AFP really working? For
whom are they prepared to lay down their lives and
their honor? For the Americans, the Chinese, the
Japanese, etc. etc. etc.?

Has Esperon heard of Bonifacio? Of Recto? Of Quezon?
Doesn’t he see any distinction between nationalists
and anti-nationalists? He doesn’t? Hasn’t he read the
constitutional provisions mandating that the Senate
should inculcate patriotism and nationalism in the
Armed Forces?

Is Esperon a mercenary — for global interests and
international forces?

Does Esperon fall within the definition of “Filipino
traitor” as defined by the patriotic-nationali sts
sundalos?

Well, he better go out of his way to prove that he
doesn’t fall within that definition and he can prove
that by arresting the free traders and globalists who,
by their policies and ideology, have pushed the
overwhelming number of Filipinos into a state of
hunger and starvation.

Or doesn’t he care for so long as he continues to get
his paycheck?

Wake up, General. Wake up to the treason and to the
traitor class you serve. Or don’t you know that you
are in the service of a traitor class?