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Only U.S. Can Make Gloria Win – Ka Roger

By Alexander Martin Remollino
Bulatlat.com

In previous statements Rosal had said that because of the Macapagal-Arroyo government’s human rights record, corruption, and subservience to U.S. interests, it had come to be detested by the people.

“Nothing can make GMA win except U.S. support,” Rosal said in the press conference.

Rosal also said that most Philippine presidents were able to ascend to Malacañang through U.S. maneuvers. “No one became president without being maneuvered into power by the U.S.,” Rosal said.

Rosal laughed off attacks by the Macapagal-Arroyo administration against showbiz personalities planning to run for public office. “You will notice that they are attacking celebrity politicians,” he said, “but the jingle the GMA camp wants to use is an adaptation of the ‘Otso-otso’ and ‘Bongga Ka ‘Day. They are also acting like celebrities.

“In fact the main plan of Lakas is to include in its senatorial slate Bong Revilla, Lito Lapid, and Joey Marquez.”   

Rosal said that the only remaining option of the Macapagal-Arroyo camp is to cheat in the coming elections.

“Why does the Comelec insist on computerizing the counting system in spite of warnings by experts that doing so would be risky, in spite of the joint resolution by the Senate and the Lower House making the automation of the counting system selective?

“We see massive cheating in the coming elections. The elections will be high-tech, the cheating will also be high-tech,” Rosal said.

GMA’s ouster

The CPP spokesperson also reiterated the Party’s call for the ouster of the incumbent president, similar to calls it made against Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 and Joseph Ejercito Estrada in 2001. Both were ousted by people-power revolts.

He said that the NPA will step up armed offensives this year as its contribution for the ouster of Macapagal-Arroyo.

Rosal said that Macapagal-Arroyo’s record of human rights violations against civilians is even worse than that of Marcos. In 1972 Marcos declared martial law, which he supposedly lifted in 1981 but was practically in effect until his ouster in 1986.

“Many were killed in during martial law—but they were members of the Party, they were cadres,” he said. “In Gloria’s time many have been killed likewise —but they were civilians. And it is a policy of the government—not just of individual commanders.

“In Marcos’ time there were not too many massacres in, for instance, Southern Tagalog. Many were arrested and there were those who were killed—we have many comrades who are missing to this day without any trace. But in terms of the number of civilians killed—deliberately attacked in military operations or forcibly taken from their kaingins to be killed and declared as members of the New People’s Army—Gloria is worse, even worse than Marcos. Definitely she is worse than Erap, although it was Erap who started that.”

On the issue of corruption, Rosal said of the Macapagal-Arroyo government: “There is the President Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard which is the most expensive boulevard in the whole world. And it is only now that we have come to be named as the second most corrupt country.” Bulatlat.com

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