EXCERPTS FROM RESPONSE OF MATA

MATA, a lead group in the Fernando Poe, Jr. for President Movement (FPJPM), calls on all military revolutionary and reform groups committed to the social and structure chance of Philippine society to take immediate political command of government, abolish Congress and establish a transition government that would repudiate globalization as the nation’s development ideology and address the widespread poverty and rising hunger in the country through a nationalist economic program oriented to the basic needs of the impoverished and deprived masses. Unless such a transition government were established immediately the poverty and hunger crisis will run out of control and the country will face irreversible chaos and its eventual disintegration as a republic.

Events following the last elections conclusively make clear that the political system and the political parties operating it aren’t geared to respond to the economic crisis and that if that crisis is to be contained and reversed, a political revolution is necessary. That revolution can be initiated only be idealist elements in the military imbued with a revolutionary nationalist and populist perspective such as that which animated the Free Officer Corps under Col. Nasser of Egypt and Gen. Park Chung-hee of South Korea.

The key to this desperately needed change is the repudiation of globalization as a developmental ideology. ……………

“The only alternative for the country is to get out of the WTO.” (see story titled “Gov’t urged: Withdraw from WTO”, Today, Sept. 7, 2003) That was the call made by the late FPJ and MATA’s late founder John Moldero.

MATA reiterates its support for the call of the Bagong Katipunan for a “last revolution” that would complete Bonifacio’s unfinished revolution for nation independence and sovereignty.

In the failure to call on the government to repudiate globalization, the existing political parties, both administration and opposition, have shown themselves the explicit executors of an ideology which no less than the Vatican had condemned as evil as far back as the 1930s. These parties and the political system under which they thrive must be eliminated as soon as possible if this nation is to survive and that can be achieved only though the immediate takeover of government by the progressive and nationalist elements in the military exemplified by the Bagong Katipunan.

If the Thai military could assume political command of government to save the nation of Thailand from the politicians there isn’t any reason why the nationalist and revolutionary elements in the AFP can’t do likewise.