The repackaged RH Bill has been approved

 Congress finally voted for the approval of the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill yesterday. This finally happened because Pres. Benigno “PNoy” Aquino, III called all his congressmen to a meeting in Malacañang that he hasn’t forgotten to push for this bill. Well, those of us in the Pro-Life movement can’t do anything in Congress anymore… but whether you like it or not, the approved revised RH bill is still the very much same RH bill.

If this bill was approved in its revised form, it is only because Rep. Edcel Lagman continued to lie through his teeth. He was quoted in the newspapers as to saying, “The Catholic vote is for the enactment of the RH Bill. This is consistently validated and documented in all nationwide surveys for many years now.” How many times have we written here that those surveys by the Social Weather Station (SWS) or Pulse Asia doesn’t tell you what questions they represent to the people whom they interview. So these people can very well ask questions that would end up with predictable results.

Let me tell you this… people who are serious in their Catholic faith would never allow for abortion laws. So why does Rep. Lagman continue lying to us? That’s because Rep. Lagman no longer believes that God exist and people like him would rather kill our babies to reduce our population because of the lobby money that has been given to many in Congress.

But Rep. Lagman would never tell you that the RH bill is a foreign bill based on United Nations (UN)… a plagiarized bill. As I pointed out, we’ve written volumes on the truth about the RH bill. But if you folks refuse to listen… then this bill will be on your conscience…. That’s if you have one!

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I got a letter invitation from Mr. Yoshiaki Hata, Counsellor and Consul of the Consular Office of Japan in Cebu inviting me to a Lecture Forum by His Excellency Honorable Toshinao Urabe, Ambassador of Japan to the Philippines on the topic, “The Role of Japan in Promoting Peace in the Asia-Pacific Region.” This lecture forum is timed for the coming celebration of the birthday of His Majesty, Emperor Akihito the Emperor of Japan tomorrow on Thursday where a formal reception would be held at the Shanghai and Beijing Rooms of the Marco Polo Plaza in Cebu.

How times have changed since the end of World War II. Today the Japanese Emperor is a mere (although he is known as Tenno, which means “heavenly sovereign”) figurehead, though he is the highest authority of the Shinto Religion being direct descendants of Amaterasu-omikami. He is the only monarch in the world holding the title of Emperor. The Chrysanthemum Throne is known as the oldest continuing hereditary monarchy in the world.

While I’m not sure I could attend Ambassador Urabe’s lecture on the Role of Japan in Promoting Peace in the Asian-Pacific Region, however as a keen observer of Japanese history, there is no doubt that Japan at the start of the 20th century, was an aggressor nation, perhaps because the Japanese had to show the European nations that had controlled many parts of China that Asians too can do the same or worse.

Perhaps the Japanese Imperial Throne was emboldened by the great naval victory of Admiral Heihachiro Togo in the famous Battle of Tsushima during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 during the reign of Emperor Meiji, when Admiral Togo destroyed the Baltic Fleet of the Tsar of Russia. As we already know, Japan fought the mighty United States by bombing Pearl Harbor on Dec.7, 1941. It was a war where the Japanese people learned a bitter lesson that war only results in death and destruction. Japan is the only nation on earth to have been nuked twice, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

It’s been 67 years since Japan surrendered to the United States in the deck of the Iowa Class Battlewagon, the USS Missouri. Since the Japanese people embraced their new constitution given to them by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Japan is no longer a belligerent nation that they were in the past. Alas, nations like China still fear Japanese because of what they did in Manchuria, but perhaps the Chinese are not as forgiving as we Filipinos.

We Filipinos suffered too from Japanese atrocities. My grandfather, Capt. Valeriano Jamala Segura, was killed in Bataan. But today, Japanese tourists are the most welcomed foreigners into our shores. If Japan is having a territorial dispute with China, we too have the same problem with the Chinese. But whether you like it or not, the Japanese Self Defense Forces are one of the most powerful in Asia, thanks to its support by the US. If you ask me, the role of Japan today is to act as a balance of power between China and the United States, especially with a belligerent North Korea. So whether we like it or not, we need Japan or the US because we just cannot protect ourselves.

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