June 4, 2022 – From last year’s update on COVID-19: From a USA Today article published on Sunday June 6, 2021, Biden gave the CIA and the rest of the intelligence community 90 days to determine the origins of the (COVID 19 virus: “Although the problem has stayed largely in the shadows, Biden thrust it to center stage last week by giving the CIA and the rest of the intelligence community 90 days to nail down the origin of the virus.”)
In the USA TODAY article dated June 6, 2021 a former head of the CIA’s weapons of mass destruction office lamented the fact that the origins of the COVID-19 virus should have been known back in Dec. 2019. But as of June 2021 U.S. intelligence doesn’t seem to have any data on the source of the virus.
Excerpt: “We should have Wuhan wired six ways from Sunday,” said Charles Faddis, former chief of the CIA’s weapons of mass destruction directorate. “And yet 18 months into this, we’re still trying to figure out what happened.”
A recently retired top CIA China spy expressed similar concerns to USA TODAY. “We don’t have good humint in China,” the ex-spy said on condition of anonymity. “And that is going to be a problem” in getting President Joe Biden the information he’s asking for.
The real issue with the COVID-19 lab leak theory? The US isn’t spying on China like it used to by JOSH MEYER | USA TODAY | 12:18 pm EDT June 6, 2021
Below is my FB discussion with Patrick Aesteii on March 5, 2020 and March 19, 2020. It appears that he was tasked sometime in Feb. 2020 to look back as to the origins of COVID-19 and like the former Chief of CIA’s WMD directorate, Patrick Aesteii put ground zero for COVID-19 as “300 yards from a Chinese chemical weapons facility”. But the agency wanted this information on or BEFORE Dec. 2019. This is what we have in Sept. and Nov. 2019.
My mother often told us: “Wala kayong sariling bait.” (You don’t take care enough of yourselves.) Those words for the most part is why I started my research on the Philippines as an abandoned U.S. territory.
Note: This is not just about the injustice done and continues to be done to the natives of the Philippines. After FDR signed the Tydings–McDuffie Act on March 24, 1934, Winston Churchill warned Washington DC “The national duty, dignity and honour of the United States is at stake.” After 88 years it is obvious that the American people cannot rely on Washington DC politicians, think-tanks and NGOs and must take it upon themselves to redeem their honour and dignity that were lost when FDR, the 73rd and 79th Congresses took away the American nationality of Filipinos in 1934 and again in 1946. Tydings-McDuffie Act in fact, inspired Hitler and the Nazis to pass the Nuremberg Laws on Sept. 15, 1935 that took away the citizenship rights of Jews in Germany. Please see: Waiting For The American Redemption (The 88th Anniversary of the Tydings-McDuffie Act)
I’m sorry to point out that despite all the accomplishments of man to date, this “civilization” still gives priority to violence. Where’s the world’s attention now? The war in Ukraine. Let’s not forget the 94th Oscar Awards night last Sunday March 27, 2022 when Emcee Chris Rock was slapped by Will Smith.
By May 8, 2022 the YouTube post had 98,486,507 views!
Let’s look at some comments by famous celebrities whose attention I’d like to call and focus on the plight of the Philippines, an abandoned U.S. territory. Star Wars legend Mark Hamill described the slap as the “ugliest Oscar moment ever”, and the filmmaker Rob Reiner called for Smith to apologise. Actor Cary Elwes tweeted: “The ‘vessels of love’ I have known or admired never acted violently against another human being.”
For this year’s Mother’s Day, let us remember and honor our mothers who brought us into this world. Let us ASSERT OUR RIGHTS. Let us seek the restoration of the American nationality taken away from our parents and grandparents without due process. Filipinos were U.S. nationals until March 24, 1934 when FDR signed into law the bill passed by the 73rd Congress, the Tydings–McDuffie Act, officially the Philippine Independence Act(Pub.L. 73–127, 48 Stat. 456.Remember action speaks louder than words. Remember this is not just about the Philippines. Most of all, this is about the redemption of American honour, dignity and sense of duty! History will judge us all for what we did and didn’t do.
– The Philippines became a part of the U.S. territory by treaty and convention and “the right of our (US) national government thus to extend its bounds has never been, nor can it ever be, called in question by any other nation.” (Pages 193 & 194)
– The only other limitation on the US Government’s action is the will of the American people from whence the government derives its powers as stated in the U.S. Constitution. (Page 194) (Hence the need for a referendum if Filipinos wanted the Philippine Commonwealth Act of 1934; the Rescission Act of 1946 when Filipinos were stripped of their US. Nationality and the Treaty of Manila that granted independence to the Philippines as ratified by the U.S. Senate on 22 Oct. 1946 . – BM)
– The Constitution and the laws of the United States shall be the supreme law of newly acquired territory. (Pages 194 & 195)– Pres. Jefferson sought the amendment of the Constitution to make the Louisiana Purchase possible. Napoleon Bonaparte bought Louisiana from Spain and then sold the same to the U.S. based on this constitutional amendment, Louisiana and other purchases and annexations followed including the acquisition of Florida, what became part of Arizona (Gadsen Treaty) Alaska and the annexation of Hawaii in 1898. (Pages 195, 196 & 197)
– With the right to acquire territories comes the authority to govern. Acquired territories are not entitled to self-governance.
Therefore, they must be under the dominion and jurisdiction of the Union “or it would be without any government at all.” (Page 197)
Here is the last paragraph of the Law Review p.210: “The Legal Effect of the Acquisition of the Philippine Islands – April 1900”
“Let Congress grant citizenship indiscriminately to the white, black, yellow and brown races of the Philippine Islands, and questionably they will then have no power to exclude them from coming to the (U.S.) continent or from the enjoyment of any other constitutional right or privilege, but until such legislation by Congress, the Constitution of the United States extends no greater privileges to the peoples of the Philippine Islands than to the savage tribes of Alaska.
Frank J.R. Mitchell
Below photos of a 1930 American passport (no. 26859) issued to a Filipino with allegiance to the United States.
Contemporary American Passport issued to U.S. nationals but not U.S. citizens.
Below: A closeup of the endorsement: “THE BEARER IS A UNITED STATES NATIONAL AND NOT A UNITED STATES CITIZEN.”
A closeup of the endorsement: “THE BEARER IS A UNITED STATES NATIONAL AND NOT A UNITED STATES CITIZEN.”
Filipinos should assert their rights and seek parity with Puerto Ricans and those from Guam . And American taxpayers should take back the Philippines, a U.S. territory the principal item, purchased for $20 million under the 1898 Treaty of Paris. Puerto Rico and Guam were additions. Later Spain would sell the rest of its possessions in the Pacific to Kaiser Wilhelm II under the German-Spanish Treaty (1899). But what right did Spain have to sell the Philippines?
At the start of the Great Depression, the 72nd U.S. Congress first attempted to abandon the Philippines with the passing of the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act overriding Pres. Hoover veto. However the territorial legislature rejected Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act and it fell to the 73rd Congress and FDR to proceed with the abandonment of the Philippine territory.
After Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, the Japanese occupied French-Indo China on July 24, 1941. In response, on July 26, FDR seized all Japanese assets in the United States. On the same day FDR ordered the federalization of Philippine Commonwealth armed forces,@ thus giving back the American nationality of Filipinos when war with Japan was inevitable.
Above: Federal Register, Friday Aug. 1, 1941 page 3825 on the middle column “Military Order”@Franklin D. Roosevelt’s order placing the Armed Forces of the Philippines under United States Command.
On February 18, 1946, the 79th Congress overrode Pres. Harry S. Truman’s veto and passed the Rescission Act of 1946 declaring that the service of Filipino WW2 veterans, the same soldiers who fought the Japanese and survived the Bataan Death March, as “not active service” and denying the Filipino veterans the benefits they were promised when they volunteered to fight for the only country they knew.
Two (2) days later Pres. Harry S. Truman issued “38 – Statement by the President Concerning Provisions in Bill Affecting Philippine Army Veterans“, saying among others that:
Philippine Army veterans are nationals of the United States and will continue in that status until July 4, 1946.
They fought, as American nationals, under the American flag, and under the direction of our military leaders. They fought with gallantry and courage under most difficult conditions during the recent conflict.
Their officers were commissioned by us. Their official organization, the Army of the Philippine Commonwealth, was taken into the Armed forces of the United States by executive order of the President of the United States on July 26, 1941. That order@ has never been revoked or amended.
I consider it a moral obligation of the United States to look after the welfare of Philippine Army veterans.
April 9, 2022 – From the General Douglas MacArthur Memorial: 80 years ago today, with his forces crippled by starvation, disease, and lack of supplies, Major General Edward King Jr. surrendered approximately 75,000 American and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. This was the largest surrender of American forces in history. The new POWs would be marched 60+ miles from Mariveles to San Fernando. Thousands died or were executed during this forced march that became known as the “Bataan Death March.”
Oct. 25, 2017 – Filipino WWII Vets Awarded Congressional Medal , the highest CIVILIAN award in the U.S.A. (3:18). Filipino WW2 veterans were denied the military recognition for their service to the ONLY country they knew; for their sacrifices many made the ultimate sacrifice in Bataan, Corregidor and resisting Japanese occupation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAcZbl640jc
Because at the start of WW2 in the Pacific the U.S. military was segregated, Filipinos were mentioned separately. “Major General Edward King Jr. surrendered approximately 75,000 American AND Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.”
Surpassing even the brutality of the Japanese captors during the Bataan Death March and incarceration of Allied P.O.Ws, the bigger tragedy of the Fall of Bataan and later Corregidor, was the fact that on Feb. 18, 1946, the 79th U.S. Congress OVERRODE President Truman’s VETO and passed the Rescission Act of 1946 declaring that the military service of ALL Filipinos who served in WW2 including the guerrillas as “NOT ACTIVE MILITARY SERVICE”.
Excerpts from Celestino’s Oct. 25, 2017 speech (at 2:14) “Many have passed away waiting for 75 years for this time to come. I am Celestino Almeda, a 100-year-old Filipino WWII veteran, I have waited along with my fellow Filipino and American soldiers for this moment to come. After the war, thousands of us fell underappreciated and unrecognized for fighting for our country. Thank you all and God Bless America.”
Filipino WWII Vets Awarded Congressional Medal , the highest CIVILIAN award in the U.S.A. (3:18). Filipino WW2 veterans were denied the military recognition for their service to the ONLY country they knew; for their sacrifices many made the ultimate sacrifice in Bataan, Corregidor and resisting Japanese occupation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAcZbl640jc
Like the racist Tydings McDuffie Act passed by the 73rd U.S. Congress that FDR signed on March 24, 1934, the Rescission Act of 1946 is another racist, pure and simple wholesale discrimination of our parents, grandparents the Native Filipinos. How do we solve this extreme indifference first by the 73rd U.S. Congress and later the 79th U.S. Congress?
