In this piece, Larry Henares narrates what went on in 1946 as Uncle Sam was getting ready to grant the Philippines independence, in name only. Its overlords in the country came up with laws which needed to be passed in order for America to retain her power over the colony. These three laws would keep the status quo in place for the former colonial masters but leave Filipinos at the mercy of their own countrymen; the Ilustrados from the Spanish times who betrayed their countrymen with the Pact of Biak-na-Bato and again with the Americans, by opting to cooperate with them for the sake of their financial interest.
The 39 Congressmen opposed to the pro-America legislation were members of the Democratic Alliance. Both the Constitutional amendment for the parity rights and the legislation for the other concessions for Uncle Sam were railroaded in Congress. This was to be the root of the Huk rebellion as Luis Taruc and Jesus Lava would go back to the mountains after their ouster from Congress.
The prioritiy of the new government was not rebuilding the country from the destruction wrought by the war but recouping the fortunes they lost because of the war.
Some of those who experienced the brutality of the Japanese during the battle for the liberation of Manila would opt to leave the country permamently for Spain or the US. Most of the expatriate population of Manila, the traders who had been here since the Spanish time, opted to go back to their home countries or resettle elsewhere. The Paris of the East was no more and there were too many painful memories caused by the war.
Abominations of MacArthur, McNutt, Edelstein go on THERE is something deja vu about the attempts of Ambassador Frankenstein Wisner, Spokesman Satan Schrager and Admiral Tomcat Mercer to orchestrate the ratification of the Bases Treaty in the Senate. It happened before. After World War II, General Dugout Dog MacArthur, US High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt and his sidekick US Navy Commander Julius CC Edelstein supported Manuel Roxas against Sergio Osmeña (nationalistic grandfather of Sonny) precisely because they were promised the Parity Amendment, Military Bases, Mutual Defense and the Bell Trade Agreements. MacArthur, McNutt and Edelstein (later a Malacañang fixture and speech writer of President Roxas) plotted to divide and conquer the opposition. Known nationalists like Claro M. Recto and Jose P. Laurel were jailed in Iwahig as enemy collaborators while Roxas who served with them was liberated and made president. Asshole McNutt, later chairman of Philippine American Life Insurance (PhilAmLife), and underling Edelstein received a delegation of Filipino oppositionists, composed of Justice Jesus Barrera, Juan Feleo, Vicente Lava and Luis Taruc (then allies against the Japs) — and with arrogance and contempt offered them no chairs, leaving them standing like beggars, while loudly berating them for opposing Roxas. After the elections, the Agreements (Mutual Defense, Military Bases, Bell Trade) were duly signed, and needed ratification by our Senate (but ignored by the US Senate), while the Parity Amendment of the Constitution had to be approved by Congress for submission to a plebiscite. There was a anti-parity bloc of 39 congressmen, led by my uncle Rep. Cipriano Primicias of Pangasinan and Rep. Felixberto Serrano of Batangas. In the Senate where the vote was crucial, there was an anti-parity bloc of three: Senators Alejo Mabanag of Pangasinan, Jose Vera of Bicol, and Ramon Diokno (father of nationalist Pepe Diokno) of Batangas. Shamefully today’s solons from Pangasinan favor the Bases Treaty. Assholes McNutt and Edelstein worked on the 39 congressmen, and was able to cajole and intimidate 30 of them into submission. The nine who remained adamant against Parity, Military Bases, Mutual Defense and the Bell Trade Agreements were: Congressmen Cipriano Primicias of Pangasinan; Felixberto Serrano of Batangas; Alejo Santos of Bulacan; Luis Taruc of Pampanga; Amado Yuson of Pampanga, husband of the sister of Benigno Aquino Sr., himself a prisoner of Dugout Dog; Constancio Padilla of Nueva Ecija, father of the present Congressman Carlos Padilla of Nueva Viscaya; Jose Cando of Nueva Ecija; Jesus Lava of Pampanga, and Alejandro Simpauco of Tarlac.
Assholes McNutt and Edelstein, orchestrated the ejection of the nine representatives and three senators from the Philippine Congress, while the ratification process was underway. Through their Filipino surrogates, the Americans caused to file cases before the Electoral Tribunals accusing these oppositionists of having been elected to office through fraud and terrorism. It is no coincidence that all accused were opposed to Parity rights and the Bases. The Senate and House Electoral Tribunals were each composed of three Nacionalistas, three Liberals and three Justices of the Supreme Court. In the final judgment, there were five for ejection (three Liberals and two turncoat Nacionalistas) and four against ejection (one Nacionalista and the three Justices), the oppositionists losing by ONE vote in each tribunal, and subsequently ejected from Congress. The oppositionists appealed to the Supreme Court which reinstated them on the grounds that the ejection proceedings were a ploy by American surrogates to ensure the ratification of the treaties with the USA. Too late, by the time the solons were reinstated by the Supreme Court, the treaties were already ratified, squeaking through the Senate by ONE GODDAMN VOTE — Roxas was dead, Quirino was president, Col. Edward Lansdale of the CIA was on the rise, and the American abominations became fait accompli. Under Quirino, the CIA was in complete control. US Ambassador Myron Cowen would arrogantly call President Quirino to the Embassy to be loudly lectured on an offending piece written by a Malacañang writer Fred Mangahas (ironically the father of pro-American Mahar of the Social Weather Station). Fred was fired. Ed Lansdale was already running the Defense Department and along with assholes Gabe Kaplan and Dave Sternberg plotted to make Magsaysay president. The hunchbacked wheel-chair-ridden Sternberg under cover of being bureau chief of the Christian Science Monitor, would beat Magsaysay with a cane when enraged, and was known to have shot a Filipino point-blank in the face without the police even noticing. Those are the sort of abominations to expect from Frankenstein, Satan, Tomcat and the CIA today, with the connivance of our own government. Bastards.
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