Open Letter of Filipino Patriots to Obama. P.S. Don't boost her

COMPLETE TITLE: Open Letter of Filipino Patriots to Obama. P.S. Don't boost her "wrong side of history"

• (Related: Obama's 'strategic interests' call to SE Asia's notoriously corrupt leader)

IN ANTICIPATION of the scheduled July 30, 2009 visit of Philippine "President" Gloria Arroyo to the White House, a group of Filipino patriots wrote an open letter to United States President Barack Obama urging him to look into the genuine state of the Philippine nation. The communication reminds the US leader of his inaugural address that warned world leaders “who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent…[as being] on the wrong side of history.” The signatories, which include two former Senate Presidents, former senators and cabinet secretaries, activist religious leaders, and the NBN-ZTE bribery scandal whistle-blower, urge the American leader to be well "mindfulof Ms Arroyo's legacy of corruption, extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearances, torture, bribery, election cheating, among others." The meat of the letter implores Obama "to inspire hope and be an instrument of change for the common good of the long suffering Filipino people"

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P.S.

US President Obama, this humble brown column asks you not to boost RP "President" Arroyo's "wrong side of history" position by letting your office be used to sanitize and legitimize her vile and mandate-less regime. Let me remind you of your Inaugural Address here at:

• Obama's inaugural speech

May I also kindly ask you to read an interesting account of the history of your relations with Arroyo here:

• Obama's 'strategic interests' call to SE Asia's notoriously corrupt leader

Great President Obama, you've successfully campaigned on a mantra of "Change." Eight thousand six hundred miles away, the present-day people of the Southeast Asian country that your early predecessor, the 25th US President William McKinley, decided to colonize--the poor Philippines--earnestly count on you to keep your word in their struggle against a most conspiratorial, most power grabbing, most fraudulent, and most repudiated "leader" in the islands' history. Can Filipinos count on you?

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Postscript

After playing hard-to-get for several months, Obama ultimately invited, and met with, his Filipino stalker of rather midget proportions. The scene reminds this column of two historical entities circa turn-of-the-past-century: two groups of traitors during the Philippine American War--a group of "Macabebes", traitors to the Filipino side; and deserter black American soldiers, traitors to the American side. The "Macabebes" were some local mercenaries from the Philippine province of Pampanga--where Arroyo partly hails--who were paid by the US forces tracking down the revolutionary leader Emilio Aguinaldo; on the other, the 29 black American deserters of the first US imperialistic war of conquest deplored their ironic role in "an unjust racial war," leading them to abandon their American posts.

Arroyo can be likened to one of the Macabebes who betrayed Aguinaldo, while Obama, being dark-skinned biracial, looks like Col. David Fagen of the 24th Infantry's Company I who even became a captain on the side of the Filipino revolutionaries. Of course, Obama is no traitor to the American side. During the two presidents' meeting, the 44th US President actually behaved more like a white-skinned, trimmed-down McKinley as he asked his counterpart to serve as the "chief coordinator in Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)" for the US! The 14th RP "President" gleefully accepted that role of servitude but surely not without a payment of sorts, just like the Macabebes of old.


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References:
Dizon, Lino. Macabebes 1571-1901: More than a footnote in history. http://www.geocities.com/kapampanganx/s4_1.html
Dumindin, Arnaldo. Philippine-American War, 1899-1902. http://www.freewebs.com/philippineamericanwar/thewarin19001901.htm
Ellen Tordesillas. http://www.ellentordesillas.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/letter-to-pres-obama-72909.pdf
Gloria propaganda gone wrong. 4 August 2009. http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20090804com1.html

Pelorina, Renato. "Ang Mga Macabebe sa Digmaang Pilipino-Amerikano (1899-1902)." Philippine Social Sciences Review, 58-59.1-2 (Jan 2006-Dec 2007). Abstract. http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pssr/article/view/1270.

San Juan, E. African American Soldiers in the Philippine Revolution. http://philcsc.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/african-american-soldiers-in-the-philippine-revolution/

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