12/05/2011
The only moment my interest
in the ongoing drama between Gloria Arroyo and the Yellow government
perked up was when the former’s mouthpiece, Elena Bautista-Horn,
broached the idea of a “Put the Little Girl to Sleep” plot brewing —
hence, the PeNoy government’s obsession to put the “little girl” in a
government hospital where it could be carried out.
At first, I
reacted to it as I would to any joke; but on second thought I realized
that there are many, many parties who would like to permanently bury
their fears of whatever beans GMA may someday spill about them. For
starters, there’s a host of oligarchs that used her government to obtain
their behest loans and sweetheart deals that were all injurious to the
people. There are still more military and police generals, who raked in
billions under her watch, dreading the prospect of being exposed. Then,
there are the geopolitical twists, which the US fears Gloria can fiddle
with to save her hide.
That last notion gained provenance when I
saw on the History Channel the feature on the “Ampatuan Massacre” and
the manner in which the American producers portrayed Arroyo and stressed
her closeness to the Ampatuans. To most Filipinos, this is an obvious
fact; but to an analyst of US full spectrum propaganda and cultural
warfare like me, this is a significant half-truth.
True, Arroyo
depended on the Ampatuans for election engineering, but so did PeNoy’s
mother, Corazon Aquino, who was the one who raised the Ampatuans from
small-time provincial warlords to full-fledged major ARMM (Autonomous
Region in Muslim Mindanao) players as a counterfoil to the Muslim
politicians of the Marcos era.
We also know from Yellow sources
that PeNoy was, in fact, scheduled to visit the Ampatuans for his 2007
senatorial bid just before the massacre took place, and only then — like
every other politician who used to beeline to the clan for their vote
additions — did he avoid the Ampatuans like the plague.
The bias
of US political strategists for the Aquinos and (currently) against
Arroyo was evident in the WikiLeaks-obtained e-mails of the US Embassy
in Manila to its home office. There, it was shown that the 2005
Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) decision on the distribution of
Hacienda Luisita land to its farmers was followed with concern. The
embassy also interpreted that order as Gloria’s way of getting back at
Cory, supposedly after the latter joined the so-called Hyatt 10’s Arroyo
ouster call on July 11 of that year — a move that had all the markings
of a US-sanctioned operation. Back then, Arroyo was already getting much
too playful with Chinese interests at a time when the “Hello Garci”
exposé became too much of a liability for the US-aligned ruling class
here.
Before that, things were pretty honky dory between the two:
Cory, after spearheading Edsa II, gave Gloria her all-out support
through several military mutinies, even raising her hand after the
Oakwood incident. In the 2004 polls, they were together in preventing an
FPJ win. Later, Gloria gave the Aquino-Cojuangcos military support
which led to the Hacienda Luisita massacre.
Despite former US
Ambassador Kristie Kenney’s fondness for Arroyo, the US State Department
clearly didn’t fancy her anymore midway through the previous decade.
Still, none of that constitutes any real possibility that they have any
interest to do her in. It’s the domestic elements that have connived and
conspired with Gloria where any danger could come.
Just as unseen
forces snuffed the life out of PeNoy’s father, Ninoy Aquino, those out
to sow chaos by creating a trigger for a major destabilization move or
to cover up for a brewing major scandal, may well decide that putting
the little girl to sleep would fit their desired scenario perfectly.
On
the other hand, it could simply be a case of the little girl wanting to
put herself to sleep, seeing that her “castle in the air” has crumbled
despite the meticulously planned Aquinorroyo zarzuela and other defense
or exit strategies.
But would Gloria Arroyo do an Angie Reyes
(assuming Angie Reyes really did himself in)? As far as lawyer and legal
icon Alan Paguia is concerned, that case still cannot be closed until
all the legal requirements are met (which haven’t). Besides, the
grieving Reyes family may be now enjoying a few hundred millions of
public money, which they apparently no longer have to account for. But,
as the former Edsa II general purportedly took his life due to “honor,”
the danger of an Angie Reyes redux for Gloria is diminished since she
has none of it.
The only real danger to Arroyo probably will come
from what President Joseph Estrada and his senator-son Jinggoy have
warned about: The wily rodents at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center.
On
a more serious note, these have come out in various international media
since our last column “A creeping World War III:” From Global Research,
“So concerned has the Kremlin become about the growing American fascist
police state it caused General Nikolai Makarov, Russia’s top military
commander, to issue a warning to the West last week that the Motherland
was fully prepared for a nuclear World War III and which prompted the
Obama regime to state that it would immediately cease observing their
arms treaty with Russia;” from Prison Planet, “Citing a report by
China’s Central Television… an unnamed government official warned (the
US and North Atlantic Treaty Organization), ‘Any threat to Pakistan is a
threat to China;’” and from various news sites, “Chinese General
Threatens ‘Third World War’ to Protect Iran…
Major General Zhang
Zhaozhong commented that, ‘China will not hesitate to protect Iran even
with a third world war.’”
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(Reprinted with permission from Mr. Herman Tiu-Laurel)
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL:
http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111205com5.html
