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Visiting Philippine President Aquino III Begs for US tax dollars for Weapons of Torture
In his first visit to the US, Philippine president Aquino III will receive $434 million supposedly for development, but actually for military logistics and weapons for counterinsurgency. Less than three months in office, Aquino allowed 13 political assassinations, and tolerates 389 political prisoners. Thousands of victims of extra-judicial killings and abductions by the military and police have not been given justice, including 43 health-care workers (the Morong 43) illegally arrested, tortured, and imprisoned in barbaric conditions since February. The criminal ex-president Arroyo remains free, enjoying her ill-gotten wealth. Corruption flourishes, despite Aquino III's election promise; his family's Hacienda Luisita continues to exploit thousands of farmers. US citizens should protest the use of their tax-dollars--hundreds of millions since dictator Marcos in the Seventies up to Arroyo in this decade--for maintaining the unjust olligarchic rule in their neocolony (gained at the cost of 1.4 million Filipino dead at the turn of the 20th century). Now is the time to exercise your right to protest Washington's support of the military, police, and the Aquino III bureaucracy for suppressing the democratic struggles of the Filipino people against the bloody rule of the global corporate elite.
In his first visit to the US, Philippine president Aquino III will receive $434 million supposedly for development, but actually for military logistics and weapons for counterinsurgency. Less than three months in office, Aquino allowed 13 political assassinations, and tolerates 389 political prisoners. Thousands of victims of extra-judicial killings and abductions by the military and police have not been given justice, including 43 health-care workers (the Morong 43) illegally arrested, tortured, and imprisoned in barbaric conditions since February. The criminal ex-president Arroyo remains free, enjoying her ill-gotten wealth. Corruption flourishes, despite Aquino III's election promise; his family's Hacienda Luisita continues to exploit thousands of farmers. US citizens should protest the use of their tax-dollars--hundreds of millions since dictator Marcos in the Seventies up to Arroyo in this decade--for maintaining the unjust olligarchic rule in their neocolony (gained at the cost of 1.4 million Filipino dead at the turn of the 20th century). Now is the time to exercise your right to protest Washington's support of the military, police, and the Aquino III bureaucracy for suppressing the democratic struggles of the Filipino people against the bloody rule of the global corporate elite.
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