This day in history
| NO HOLDS BARRED |
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| Armida Siguion-Reyna |
The Philippine Senate in 1991 voted “No!” on the extension of the US Military Bases in the Philippines. Rene Saguisag sent me this in an e-mail last week, about the 353-paged Bases of Decisions, a compilation of the senators’ speeches on the issue, “marked by courtesy, maturity, passion, depth, wit, elegance, felicity, and patriotism, in a day-long session, if I may say it so myself, as one senator voting NO!”
As I promised to reproduce the greater part of the former senator’s e-mail on this special day, here it is.
“Erap Estrada and Juan Ponce-Enrile joined us, the usual suspects as Commies, Reds and Pinkos, forming a broad united front in voting NO! The nation listened to our explanations, accepted our decision and moved on; all the polls had shown that overwhelmingly our people had wanted us to continue to be America’s last plantation, unsatisfied with more than 400 years of domination by the Spaniards, the British, the Americans and the Japanese..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110916com4.html
1 comment
pero dahil hindi nabasura ang mother of all treaties, ang Mutual Defense Treaty, eh nandidito pa at naghahasik ng madilim na pakikialam ang malabuwang mandaragit na kalbong agila.
?"“Erap Estrada and Juan Ponce-Enrile joined us, the usual suspects as Commies, Reds and Pinkos, forming a broad united front in voting NO! The nation listened to our explanations, accepted our decision and moved on; all the polls had shown that overwhelmingly our people had wanted us to continue to be America’s last plantation, unsatisfied with more than 400 years of domination by the Spaniards, the British, the Americans and the Japanese."
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