10 December 2015
“Three things you cannot hide for long: the sun, the moon and the TRUTH.” – Buddha
INTRODUCTION: As WAIS Editor John Eipper noted in Francisco Ramirez’s 11 March 2015 post:
“JE comments: Yes, Philippines was still officially part of the US during WWII. We do know that our friend Bienvenido Macario has never recognized the legitimacy of the 1946 act (Treaty of Manila) which granted the Philippines its independence.“
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Neither the Filipino people nor the American people were ever consulted through a referendum, if our parents and grandparents wanted to be “on the road to independence” when the Philippine Independence Act of 1934 aka Commonwealth Act of 1934 was passed by the U.S. Congress.
And again in 1946 there was no referendum held asking our parents, grandparents, the Filipino people if they wanted to GIVE UP THEIR AMERICAN NATIONALITY and SECEDE from the U.S. at a time when we needed U.S. administration and guidance the most when WWII just ended.
We are forced, to this day, to embrace treason!
We were forced to renege on our Pledge of Allegiance to the US flag. Remember that part of the oath: “one nation under God INDIVISIBLE with liberty and JUSTICE for ALL.”? Puerto Rico a U.S. territory acquired from Spain along with the Philippines and Guam held a referendum on 6 Nov. 2012.
Excerpt: “The September 18th referendum in Scotland should remind all Filipinos that our parents were not consulted when known Japanese collaborator Manuel A. Roxas sought independence that the US Senate illegally, irresponsibly and prematurely granted with the ratification of the 1946 Treaty of Manila on 22 October 1946. On Nov. 6, 2012, a referendum was held in Puerto Rico, and only a tiny 5.6 percent of Puerto Ricans voted for independence.”
From: “A Tale of Three Jesuses (Bienvenido Macario, USA) Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:43 PM”
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Scotland Referendum Aftermath; What About the Philippines? (Bienvenido Macario, USA) Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:08 AM
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Below is a declassified CIA report (13 pages) on the implications of Philippine Pres. Manuel Roxas’ granting of amnesty to accused collaborators in the Philippines. Entitled:
“POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENTS RESULTING FROM THE GRANTING OF AMNESTY TO ACCUSED COLLABORATORS IN THE PHILIPPINES“
This was published on 28 April 1948, three (3) months after Manuel Roxas, Sr. signed the general amnesty.
On page 1 the Summary page, the report says: “SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF FILIPINO GUERRILLAS OPPOSED TO THE OCCUPATION UNDER THEIR OWN OR US LEADERSHIP, ARE NOW IN CUSTODY AND SUBJECT TO PROSECUTION IN THE PHILIPPINE COURTS FOR ALLEGED ACTS OF VIOLENCE COMMITTED DURING THE WAR AS PART OF THEIR ANTI-JAPANESE AND ANTI-COLLABORATIONIST ACTIVITIES.
The ultimate effect of the amnesty, therefore, may well be detrimental to US interests in the Philippines in that
- Elements suffering from its effects will believe themselves betrayed by the US and thus may reverse their previous loyalty to it; and
- Former collaborationists who play on extreme Philippine nationalism and are themselves secretly or avowedly anti-US, are likely to achieve political and economic control.”
It now appears the Philippines was not liberated in WWII. This explains why the Philippines never celebrated VJ Day, MacArthur’s Leyte Landing or the Liberation of Manila. This is no longer acceptable.
Dedicated to MEGM.
Above: An undeniable proof that Benigno Aquino, Sr. the grandfather of former Philippine Pres. Benigno Aquino III and father of Paul Aquino supposedly the geothermal magnate of the Philippines, was a Japanese collaborator during WWII.
A notice from Japanese Military Attache – Japanese Embassy (c. 1943)
OFFICE OF THE MILITARY ATTACHE
TO THE JAPANESE EMBASSY
Manila, Philippines
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
This house belongs to His Excellency Benigno S. Aquino^, Speaker of the National Assembly. The same
should be respected and the occupants thereof given the necessary protections.
IMPERIAL JAPANESE FORCES
^ – The grandfather of Benigno Aquino III was a die-hard Japanese collaborator. The Philippines has never held any Liberation Day or VJ Day parade or any celebration whatsoever.
Manuel A. Roxas (above with Col. Jimbo) was a Brig. Gen. in the US Army when he collaborated with the Japanese during the occupation of the Philippines. To escape his war crime of treason under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and trial by court martial, Manuel Roxas sought and amazingly enough was granted independence for the Philippines without consulting the Filipino people.
Philippines Mid-Term Elections: Duterte Allies Victorious (Bienvenido Macario, USA, 05/16/19 5:17 am)
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The Philippine mid-term elections were held on May 13th. The Liberal party to which former President Benigno Aquino III belongs, together with other independent parties, fielded the Ocho Derecho (spelled Otso Diretso) candidates for the Philippine Senate.
Three Ocho Derecho (Straight Eight) candidates stand out:
1. Mar Roxas II (Mar Roxas), Aquino III’s anointed successor, who lost to Pres. Duterte in the 2016 presidential election. His grandfather was US Army Brig. Gen. Manuel A. Roxas, Sr. (Photo above) who avoided the court martial for treason under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) by seeking independence under the 1946 Treaty of Manila.
2. Lorenzo Tañada III (Erin Tañada), the grandson of Lorenzo Tañada, Sr., Chief Prosecutor appointed by Manuel A. Roxas, Sr. Tañada prepared the list of suspected collaborators to be pardoned immediately after July 4, 1946.
See: “Man-To-Man: Roxas Is Asked To Explain Stand”
by Harold L. Ickes
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Monday, July 22, 1946:
3. Benigno Aquino IV (Bam Aquino), another grandson of Benigno Aquino, Sr., the most dedicated and loyal Japanese collaborator of all. His father Paul Aquino was appointed to the PNOC-EDC privatization commission and sold the entire geothermal industry to the Lopezes at dirt-cheap prices. He then became the president of the privatized Energy Development Corporation (EDC). It was my late wife Ma. Elena G. Macario who discovered, assisted in the development and management of those geothermal resources in the Philippines while working for PNOC-EDC and before earning her MS in Petroleum Engineering at Stanford in 1991. On Dec. 10, 2010 she died penniless.
See: WAIS NEWS–Elena G. Macario (Bienvenido Macario) Dec. 13, 2010
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I am sure the oligarchs and the two million richest in the Philippines who never invented, developed or discovered anything even remotely associated to their obviously ill-gotten wealth, are desperately trying to find ways to explain where and how they managed to amass such an obscene amount of wealth. One way is money laundering. And my late wife’s accomplishments are the perfect target.
I digress.
None of the Ocho Derecho candidates were elected to the Senate.
JE comments: Happy to hear from one of our dearest colleagues, veteran WAISer Bienvenido Macario. Duterte’s allies won resounding victories in the mid-term elections. Bienvenido, is Duterte really that popular? I know he’s good at summary executions and um, “outspokenness,” but has he brought any real progress to the Philippines?
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Just two (2) months after the Philippines was granted independence, on Sept. 4, 1946, The New Times published an article saying that former puppet President Jose P. Laurel called Roxas a collaborator.
The Philippines was only liberated in the military sense. In every other sense, the Japanese collaborators retained effective control of the Philippine Islands, an abandoned US territory.
The US Senate of the 79th US Congress did not ratify the Treaty of Manila and the granting of independence until Oct. 22, 1946. How could the US Senate still proceed with the granting of a US territory, independence under the control of unknown anti-American quislings and traitors?
This is Washington DC’s Jekyll and Hyde foreign policy towards the only US territory ever granted dependent-independence.
Below: “President Roxas was my collaborator during the Japanese occupation, is my collaborator now and will be hereafter.” -Jose P. Laurel, puppet ruler the Japanese. Article: “Puppet Laurel Calls Roxas A Collaborator” Chicago Daily Tribune p.7 Thursday Sept. 5, 1946
