March 2002 EDITORIAL: We are "Abu Sayyaf Lovers"
So what if the Abu Sayyaf Group is rounding up foreigners!
Contrary to the statement of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, anti-balikatan organizations are not Abu Sayyaf lovers. If protecting our sovereignty as a nation
denotes that we are terrorists then so be it!
The deployment of US forces in redline combat zones is an unyielding declaration of the GRP's subservience to the more powerful United States. Because of this action
of theirs, government officials who are the very people that we have trusted and given our lives to look over our country are the very ones terrorizing us. These so
cllaed leaders of our bureaucracy have started to shift the law for their own advantages.
In the debates on the anomalous Terms of Reference (TOR), even the second highest official of the land was bypassed. Vice-Presdient and Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)
Secretary Teofisto Guingona, have been kept in silence, until after Rigoberto Tiglao boasted out the said decision of othe government on the troop exercises.
Let it be heard that the Abu Sayyaf problem is an internal problem. Thus, it should be solved through internal ways. The Americans are not part of the GRP nor can they ever be Filipinos.
Leting them in our country is not an can never be a solution to our nations armed problems. They could not worsen it.
And because of this subservience to imperial countries, foreign troops have lined up to enter our territory. Australia, Japan, and South Korea are some nations that have viewed the Philippines
as a training ground of their troops. Who could be next?
If Abu Sayyaf lovers we are called, though untrue, we should accept it. If the only means to protect our country from socio-political and socio-economic invasion is through the thickets of mass
mobilizations then, let it be. And in this case let us make President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo scrap the constitution for it is of ono use for us anymore.
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