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Arroyo Is Ripe for Ouster — Joma

PUBLISHED ON February 15, 2008 AT 9:26 AM

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
15 February 2008

Gloria M. Arroyo, the fake president, is ripe for ouster by the broad
mass movement of the Filipino people as a result of her record of moral
bankruptcy, subservience to foreign interests, brazen corruption and
systematic human rights violations.

The flagrant use of bribery to remove Rep. Jose de Venecia from the
speakership and the use of kidnapping in an attempt to silence Rodolfo
Jun Lozada have served to underscore the issue of corruption and to
outrage the broad masses of the people.

The Arroyo regime has become so isolated and so desperate that it has
directed its military and police minions to concoct tales about
anti-Arroyo assassination plots and spread fears about possible violence
in mass actions in order to intimidate the people and the legal
democratic forces.

The regime is seeking to justify the state violence that the military
and police are poised to unleash in order to disrupt and stop the growth
of the mass actions. In this regard, the regime and its military and
police henchmen are being called upon to respect the right of the people
to speak and assemble.

As far as I know from the official pronouncements of the Communist Party
of the Philippines (CPP), the New People’s Army (NPA) is sympathizing
with and encouraging the legal and peaceful mass actions in the urban
areas and is directing its military tactical offensives against the
people’s enemies in the countryside in consonance with the strategic
line of protracted people’s war.

The sheer growth of the legal and peaceful mass actions in the national
capital region and on a national scale in the coming days, weeks and
months can encourage the military and police to withdraw support from
the Arroyo ruling clique and can suffice to cause the resignation,
impeachment or outright ouster of the illegitimate and morally bankrupt
president. ###

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8 Responses to “Arroyo Is Ripe for Ouster — Joma”

Akodin Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
You are absolutely right. Question is where are the people? It seems that the propaganda movement itself is in disarray.

Mass organizations should have seized the initiative to mobilize by the hundreds and not simply rely on alliance building or united front although it is important.

However, there are national issues that need to be addressed to immediately by direct action from people’s organizations. The popularity of the present mess is an example wherein quick mobilizations should have been made. But where are they?

Alliance building is a slow and arduous task. An umbrella movement will take more time to launch a big mobilization to be effective yet the danger that it would die immediately is there. Take the case of the rally in Makati City. After that, nothing!

The momentum must be sustained to trigger the spark needed to launch bigger protest actions. It is only the time that we can truly say that the fight is on.
silhoutte Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
She should have been booted out long time ago had we have more patriotic filipinos in her cabinet. Problema natin maraming makapili sa gobyerno. Noong panahon ng hapon may suot silang bayong, ngayon may dala na silang bayong palabas ng malacanang.
Carl Evan Catala- BSIT-III-A LSPU, Los Baños Campus Los Baños, Laguna Says:
February 20th, 2008 at 9:22 am
I think Gloria MAcapagal Arroyo was guilty for all of the accusations about her. She keeps on dennying all those accusations about her involving the ZTE scandal. problema natin sa goyerno, ay kung sino man ang umupo, ay nagiging kurap pagdating ng panahon. Yung mga taong sa tingin natin ay makakabuti sa gobyerno, ay siya palang lalong makakapagpasama sa ekonomiya ng Pilipinas… PATALSIKIN SI PGMA!!!!!!!!!!!!
aimee alimpulos, los baños, III-A Says:
February 20th, 2008 at 9:49 am
i think Mrs. President is liar and not deserving to become a president because she cannot handle the country.
krisitna espiritu,nueva ecija Says:
February 29th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
well its actuaally my point of view…what else they need to prove when the truth had already been slapped through their freaking faces!….gloria planned it all….she was the mastermind…because gen. esperon wouldnt exert a lot of effort if it wasnt the president he is serving…
i know its not always right to be agressive and alll but i think its time that we join hands and be heard…this anomaly and malicious scandal that linked to the president would mark the credibility of the whole nation…
we need to show those bastards that this country is sick and tired of their lies and absolute corruption…
im glad that a lot of youth today participates in search of truth…
gloria,out!
nahiya ka sa balat mo…ur not credible to be our pesident….

kristina
jeanette Says:
March 9th, 2008 at 4:57 am
hi pres!!
jeanette Says:
March 9th, 2008 at 5:00 am
sana magbgo kna president kze ayaw nmin mgkagulo ang mga pmilya ng bwat tao ng dhil lng s iu.. sana mging totoo n tu ok ba!@!!!!mamahalin k nmin kung magbabago k
Fed Up Phd, London School of Economics Says:
August 23rd, 2008 at 4:28 am
By far, this administration is the worst in terms of economic plunder, human rights violations, so-called state-sponsored terrorism on it’s own people and downright corruption. It has surpassed even the Marcos regime. I foresee tremendous bloodshed in the event Macapagal-Arroyo (I refuse to call her president) suspends writ of habeas corpus and use that as a precursor to declare martial law. If and when she does that, which I truly hope she does, a bloody revolution will be in the works from the north all the way to the south. And I will be on the first plane out of London to help out our brothers and sisters. The heck with my scholarship. We are all fed up!!

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