Manchurian candidates targeting four highest posts
China’s communist rulers must be pleased. Manchurian candidates are gunning for the Philippines’ four highest positions. The collaborators squabble, usual in clan politics. If elected, they will do Beijing’s bidding – surrender Filipino resources. A united Opposition can thwart China agents.
Successor wannabe Bongbong Marcos hails President Duterte’s China appeasement as “the right way.” He will disarm the Navy and Air Force. Supposedly futile is to buy sea and aircraft because China can crush those in a week’s war. Defeatist, he will deprive sailors and airmen the means to patrol Philippine waters and airspace – the easier for China to steal fish, reefs, oil and gas.
Treason is in the Marcos blood. Guerrillas executed his grandfather for colluding with Japanese invaders. After fighting in Bataan, his father sold scrap metal to the enemy, and after Liberation tried to collect war reparations from America. Marcos Sr.’s war medals are bogus, wangled from President Diosdado Macapagal as political quid pro quo. (“Endless Journey: A Memoir,” Jose T. Almonte as told to Marites D. Vitug, Cleverheads) No records exist of Marcos’ “heroism” in the annals of the United States Armed Forces in the Far East.
Bongbong has special ties to the Chinese embassy. He was the only presidential candidate invited to its recent photo exhibit. He hosted in a home luncheon a huge delegation of the Chinese Communist Party. Fujian-based troll farms propagandize his election campaign online.
Bong Go is Duterte’s clone. He will only continue his boss’ “verbal pact” with Xi Jinping for Chinese to poach in the West Philippine Sea, unlimited extent, duration and tonnage.
The fruit does not fall far from the tree. Sara Duterte was mesmerized by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to slide down to VP. Blood will rebond Daughterte with the father who needs protecting from the ICC hangman’s noose for “mass murder.”
Duterte’s trillion-peso resources as President can win a Senate seat. As Senate president, he not only can retain crony deals but also facilitate treaty ratifications for China.
GMA is the original China stooge as president in 2001-2010. She broke the Constitution five ways for the 2004 Joint Marine Seismic Undertaking with Beijing. Then she took dirty Chinese loans for the North Rail and NBN-ZTE (exposed in Gotcha in 2007). One-sixth of the seabed survey was in the Palawan territorial sea; the rest in the exclusive economic zone. She conceded those as “disputed waters.” With the JMSU findings, Beijing in 2009 filed a claim with the United Nations over the entire South China Sea. Manila never got a copy of the report despite its $5-million contribution.
Lusting to retake the House speakership, GMA can revive sleaze. The ZTE scam contained a P10-billion kickback, higher than the P7-billion national broadband network. In exchange, GMA unconstitutionally granted shell ZTE Intl Corp. gold mining rights in Mount Diwalwal and North Davao. (Her environment secretary then is now the Manchurian candidate for Quezon City mayor, with a wealthy Manchurian candidate for congresswoman, the wife of a Chinese online gambling operator.)
Wrangling is normal among collaborators. During the Japanese Occupation, they fought each other for General Yamashita’s favors.
In the first post-War Philippine election, repackaged puppets did not intend to lift the country from the ashes. Two moneyed presidential-senatorial tickets of traitors slugged it out for the blessings of the returned General MacArthur. Marginalized were guerrillas who sought national and local offices. (“Kulaboretor! The Issue of Political Collaboration During World War II,” Prof. Augusto V. de Viana, UST Publishing)
No different was the indio factionalism for gobernadorcillo (town mayor) in the last two decades of Spanish rule. (“A Past Recovered,” Glenn Anthony May, New Day) As well, the shifting loyalties of mestizo lackeys from Spain to the Katipunan then to America, 1896-1902.
Today, Beijing’s commissars brag to have influenced the 2016 Philippine election, former foreign secretary Albert del Rosario quotes a New York Times source. He says: “Another six years of our country run by candidates under the thumb of China would be catastrophic. These Manchurian Candidates will deploy full power and money for the 2022 elections. If elected, they will rot the soul of our nation and undermine its pilars.”
As patriotic duty, Opposition candidates must discard personal ambition and unite to avert that.
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