STATEMENT CALLING ON ALL PATRIOTIC MEN IN UNIFORM AND FMR. COMMANDERS IN CHIEF AQUINO AND RAMOS TO SUPPORT THE PEOPLE AND THE STATE NOW

The critical mass has been reached. Last Friday the civilian protesters in Makati could no longer be dispersed. There were thousands and thousands of rallyists that media was not allowed to take aerial photos of the event to hide Malacanang’s isolation from the people. And the surveys after showed that 71% of Filipinos both in Metro Manila and the rest of the country distrust Gloria Arroyo and want her out of Malacanang.

After weeks of courageous and candid testimony by Jun Lozada directly linking the First Couple to the NBN-ZTE deal, the Filipino people are calling for Gloria Arroyo’s resignation or ouster. But Gloria would rather be thick skinned and deaf to the outrage and venom pouring out from the Filipino citizenry than out of power. A crony had advised her “If you give up power, you are dead”. Indeed she knows that without power her crimes of corruption, treason, immorality, killings, fraud, etc. since 2001 will ripen to a conviction worse than her worst nightmares.

Thus today the whole machinery of the state, all the resources of government including its manpower, are being used not to serve the Filipino people, or respond to the growing hunger and poverty especially of the poor but to defend and sustain Gloria Arroyo’s deathly grip on power. She is not able to lead effectively, governance is at a standstill, the people do not care to heed her and Malacanang’s single role is to preempt the people’s protest actions against her. The national dam of anger and outrage is about to break.

It is therefore time for all our men in uniform to heed their mandate from our Constitution. “The AFP is the protector of the people and the State”. Without the military as in Edsa 3, no amount of people power will prosper. And if the military does not act the present situation may soon escalate into a national bloody disaster which other groups with hidden agenda may prefer to serve their interests. We therefore call on all our patriotic and nationalist men in uniform to intervene NOW.

We likewise call on former Commanders in Chief Corazon C. Aquino and Fidel Valdez Ramos to help restore a chain of command that has become unwieldy and shaky. The chain of command must be brought back to its previous pristine purpose – to be at the service of the Filipino people and not that of an impostor Commander in Chief and her personal agenda nor that of a First Family already vomitted by the people. Let not the gains of your previous leadership and worthy efforts for the country be wasted and brought to naught. Join us in our call for the retired and active military to intervene with and for our people today and lead them usher in a transition government and transition council that will pave the way for genuine peace and prosperity for all of us today.

We must act all together NOW, both civilian and military. Let us lead this present Lenten Season to a beautiful and glorious Resurrection. Join us on March 14, 2008 Friday from 3-6p.m. at the Plaza Miranda. Mabuhay and Pilipinas! Mabuhay ang Pilipino!!!