What's this talk about a revolutionary gov't?

Today is the 48th anniversary of the assassination of Pres. John F. Kennedy. It was that single moment in history that millions all over the world are still able to remember exactly where they were when this dastardly deed was announced to the world. I was a 12-year old acolyte serving mass at the high altar of the Redemptorist Church in Cebu City when the priest announced over the pulpit asking the faithful to pray for the soul of the US President who was just assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

Today, you can get tons of information on the Internet from the various assassination theories that have developed all through the many years since the Warren Commission came up with its report on who killed JFK. Of course too many people think that the Warren Commission wasn’t really truthful to the American people, which is why there’s been so many conspiracy theories as to who killed JFK.

Go to Google or to YouTube and you can watch the famous Zapruder 8-mm film that showed the actual time when Pres. Kennedy’s head was struck by the assassin’s bullets, including the gory photos during his autopsy. Most of these photographs are still hidden in the US Archives and the truth kept away from the American people for reasons we can’t really tell.

I grew up at a time when Pres. Kennedy was the leader of a free world where Communism had spread throughout the world. I was in high school when the words that Pres. Kennedy spoke during his inaugural address “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” kept ringing in my ear. Those were the times when Americans came over as members of the Peace Corps to help the friends of America.

How the world has changed since the era of the Kennedys. Communism has died from where it originally took roots. But it still remains as the controlling force in the People’s Republic of China, even if they have truly become a capitalistic society, except for its political system. Perhaps the only true Communist state today is North Korea where the word Human Rights is nonexistent. This is why today, there is still no world peace, perhaps I can only attribute this to the fact that the request of our Blessed Virgin Mother in Fatima has not yet been fully followed. But when the Vatican wakes up to fulfill this request, then the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph.

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Speaking of Communism, surely by now you must have known that the Aquino administration has now so many “leftists” or worse, even members of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Central Committee who are now working as government bureaucrats holding very strategic positions. As I’ve already said before under the present dispensation, it seems that the Communists are gaining ground once again and it can only happen because President Benigno “P-Noy” Aquino III is a weak president.

What further intrigued me was a report I read in the STAR that during the weekly Balitaan sa Rembrandt Hotel, Department of National Defense (DND) spokesman Atty. Jess Paredes spoke freely about the possibility of the creation of a revolutionary government as an option to restore order in the country, when national security is threatened or at stake. Say that again? What are these guys telling us… that we are allowing the situation to rapidly deteriorate so that Pres. Aquino can call a revolutionary government?

If at all the situation has deteriorated in this country, it is only because of Pres. Aquino’s doing or undoing. By giving money to the enemies of the State, like that P5 million to MILF who in turn ambushed and killed 19 of our soldiers, it helped promote the deterioration of peace and order in that troubled area in Mindanao. P-Noy’s giving monies to the Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB) has instead helped the ABB regain strength by using that money in recruiting more cadres to support their armed struggle against our established form of government.

Come now, what is the DND spokesman telling us that calling a revolutionary form of government is palatable for the Filipino people because they do not call it Martial Law? What’s the difference? Are we going to expect a new round of arrests against the opposition and media personalities just like what happened to Sir Max Soliven and Ninoy Aquino when Martial Law was declared? I most certainly hope not.

While this country is still running smoothly (except in the NPA and MILF influenced areas) despite the potential constitutional crisis brought about by the DoJ Secretary’s not recognizing the Supreme Court TRO, Pres. PNoy ought to rein in his loose tongued DND spokesman as talk of a revolutionary government sends the wrong signal that indeed, things do not augur well for the Aquino administration. This is why I concur with the column of Star columnist Federico Pascual that PNoy needs GMA as a distraction.

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