Regarding the WAIS topic “Collective Guilt and Making Amends,” here are my recommendations:
My recommendations:
– Manuel Roxas Sr. and all those who were granted amnesty by Roxas in 1948 should be posthumously tried for treason.
– Now Cory Aquino & Doy Laurel should be tried for treason, posthumously, and other members of her cabinet possibly including Fidel V. Ramos, Juan Ponce Enrile, should be investigated for possible involvement as accessories or witnesses.
– Their children and grandchildren (Aquino III, Roxas II, Raffy Recto, Ayala, Zobel, Soriano, Lopez, Osmena III, Benigno Ramos etc) must be removed from positions of power and authority.
– Their property confiscated.
– All Filipinos who are residents of an industrialized G-7 type country will be given Temporary Protected Status.
– For them to earn back their citizenship, they must take and pass a Philippine History re-education course.
In the meantime all international organizations like the World Bank, IMF, ADB and the UN must be required to submit an accounting of all the funds loaned or given to the Philippines.
An investigation of past and present employees of the World Bank, IMF, UN and members of the US Congress Committee on Foreign Relations must be started.
I believe we could all agree that after WWII everyone in the Philippines was poor. So how did the so-called “old money” of today who are in Forbes 50 Richest Filipinos became rich? They are richer than the British monarchy. Did they stole U.S. taxpayers money intended for the reconstruction of the Philippines after WWII?
Excerpt: “From 1946 to 1950 the US gave over $2 billion in aid to the Philippines under Roxas and Quirino to rebuild the country. But President Truman’s fact-finding mission reported that the money is gone. And obviously it went to landowners and unscrupulous businessmen oligarchs who are now richer than ever while the majority of the people’s standard of living has not risen to anywhere near the pre-war levels.
Who would imagine with all the death and destruction brought by the war (WWII) and a decimated agricultural sector, the oligarch-traitors would take advantage of the situation and enrich themselves instead?
After Quirino, Magsaysay became president, and the oligarchs’ kleptomania was temporarily restrained. However on March 17, 1957, Magsaysay died in a plane crash, just like Robredo last August. Carlos Garcia, his VP, became the new president. By the end of 1958 he and his cronies amassed a whooping $700 million from kickbacks, influence peddling, and black-market foreign exchange.
Fast forward to October 2011: Despite 67 years of mismanaged economy, the Word Bank provided $2 billion funding to the illegitimate oligarch-supported government of Aquino III, the grandson of an oligarch-traitor. What is wrong with Washington DC? (Actually the World Bank loaned Aquino III $3.7 BILLION in Oct. 2011)
JE comments: I always appreciate Bienvenido Macario’s reminders of the suffering experienced in the Philippines during WWII–too often we are guilty on WAIS of focusing only on the European experience. But would it be appropriate to punish the descendants of wartime Quislings? That type of justice has an Old Testament feel to it.
Collective Guilt and Atonement: Manila (Bienvenido Macario, USA) Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:52 AM
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