Contreras’ lies a broken record (Part III)

THIS is the third and last part of my response to the column of Prof. Antonio Contreras, “War and Fearmongering” that appeared previously at the Manila Times. His column accused Philippine diplomacy of bowing to Chinese threats in crafting its foreign policy, a direct contradiction of the reality that the Philippines, under PBBM is actually shaping our foreign policy in accordance with the “War and Fearmongering” of the U.S.

The lies of Antonio Contreras came directly from the script that US “perception war” experts who craft and dish these out through their various foreign and local think tanks in the Philippines.

One of these is the Albert del Rosario Institute, named after the late henchman of the Western financial Mafiosi of the Manny Pangilinan and the Salim group.

Del Rosario has left this earth but the “jukebox scholars” he shepherded continue to sing paeans to him, the latest of which was his being referred to as “a public servant extraordinaire” exulted in a Manila Standard article after his demise last April 18, 2023.

Another Del Rosario eulogy comes from Jarius Bondoc’s column of April 21, 2023, just four days after the death, which was entitled “Albert del Rosario: patriot, family man.” A good family man indeed!

One indication was that he likely was earning P600-million a year doing the bidding of Manny Pangilinan (the cheat of PLDT for the Salim Group). This earning should be more than enough for the needs of his family, their caprices included.

But to call him a patriot is a stretch of description: Del Rosario does not even speak Pilipino, lived all his life in the U.S., was educated there, and arrived in the Philippines only to serve the “Pivot to Asia” strategy of the United States in 2012.

The whole caboodle of anti-China Amboys is the “U.S. Deep State, Philippine Bureau” operating with BBM barefacedly spewing lies and betraying BBM’s own anti-EDCA statements of the past ten years (double-crossing his own father’s legacy and the nation’s independence).

That caboodle now reveals itself– the PMA generals who followed the US diktat at a drop of the hat, the DFA top bureaucrats, then followed by the financial and old political oligarchy moving together with BBM under the US diktat.

Weeks ago, I wrote an exposé of the modern “Macabebes” in connection with the “Fil-AM War II” that I see emerging today.

I reviewed the history of Filipino collaborators with the Americans, found this Batangas Historical Culture Folklore site, and the article “The Macabebe Scouts: American ‘Attack Dogs’ in Batangas during the Fil-AM War.”

These attack dogs are alive again, personified by Gen. Carlito Galvez, Eduardo Año et al, and Gen. Arevalo (ret.), a new peeve in the Manila Times with his puny logic.

Like Antonio Contreras, this Arevalo decorates his column with his photo in bow tie and what seems like the tuxedo suit I see in some PMA formal occasions and writes apologetics for the anti-China, pro-US, Hague arbitration “award” that are all based on total lies.

He continues to cling on to the credibility of that arbitration “award” even with the statement of UN Spokesman Stefan Dujarric in 2016 that emphasized “The UN doesn’t have a position on the legal and procedural merits of the case or on the disputed claims.”

The arbitration “award” is fool’s gold crafted by American “lawfare” (warfare using legalities) to enthrall unthinking Filipinos into believing they have something defensible in hand when they would most likely have their hands cut off in reaching for the moon when pushed by  the U.S. to do so.

But the last laugh will be by the Americans and their stooges if, and when, the U.S. succeeds in scamming its victims.

Antonio Contreras debunked all his lies through the web of contradictions he got himself into. He continued with more lies such as “Taiwan’s right to modernize its army….”

It is so basic that, as a country we have nothing to do with Taiwan’s internal affairs as well as China’s; why then is he dragging the Philippines into the internal affairs of these two, in much the same way BBM is now trying to do with his hopelessly contradictory attempt to justify the EDCA bases.

Contreras squeezes the argument that upholds the so-called legality and constitutionality of the EDCA agreement; but even with the Serena Supreme Court’s acquiescence to the EDCA anomaly and outright violation of the 1987 Constitution’s Art. 18, Sec. 25, it is not beyond question as the Supreme Court has reversed itself before (example is the court’s reversal on “pork barrel” issue).

And what did the Constitution said that all the gobbledygook of Contreras and his ilk cannot downplay or dismiss?

“After the expiration in 1991 of the Agreement between the Republic of the Philippines and the United States of America concerning Military Bases, foreign military bases, troops or facilities shall not be allowed in the Philippines except under a treaty duly concurred in by the Senate and, when the Congress so requires, ratified by a majority of the votes cast by the people in a national referendum held for that purpose, and recognized as a treaty by the other contracting State.”

Period.