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I refer to the report of TJ Burgonio “PH defies China warning”, of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 29th with regard to the Philippines’ act of filing the pleading on the sea dispute.

To quote from the said report:

“Unfazed by threats of sanctions from China, the government yesterday said it was pursuing its case in the United Nations challenging Beijing’s claim to most of the South China Sea, including areas Manila says is part of Philippine territory.

“The Philippines is to file as scheduled its memorandum or formal pleading Sunday (Manila time), which would allow the UN Arbitral Tribunal to study Manila’s argument that the Chinese claim covers parts of Filipino territory.

“President Aquino’s deputy spokesperson Abigail Valte said the government was pursuing the case despite official Chinese warnings of a fall-out in bilateral relations.

“China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Hong Lei warned the Philippines on Wednesday against proceeding with the UN case.”

On their part, this is what the Chinese foreign ministry said in a news conference in Beijing:

“China will never accept nor participate in the international arbitration unilaterally initiated and pushed by the Philippines, and China’s position has a solid basis in international law…”

Commentaries:

Let us look firmly and dissect closely the blatant inner contradictions of Mr. Hong’s pronouncement.

First, that so-called foreign spokesperson stated that, they China will never accept nor participate in the international arbitration, because it was unilaterally initiated and pushed singly by the Philippines.

The question here is: how could the international arbitration be a unilateral act of the Philippines when in fact, said position of the said country with regard to this universally high profile case was being supported by the international community?

Besides Spain, Germany, the US, “a bloc of more than 60 democracies around the world has backed the Philippines’ effort to settle its maritime dispute with China in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) peacefully by submitting it to the United Nations for arbitration.”

In his article, “Centrist bloc backs Philippines in row with China”, Amando Doronila of the PDI, March 24 stated that:

“In a one-page resolution passed on March 19, the Brussels-based Centrist Democratic International (CDI) not only condemned in extraordinarily strong language “the forcible takeover and occupation of the Scarborough Islands (Panatag Shoal) in the (West Philippine Sea),” affirming that the territory is “possessed and occupied by the Philippines as part of its continental shelf and within its exclusive economic zone,” but also urged China to “pursue peaceful, lawful and internationally sanctioned rules on dispute resolution to remove rising tensions in the region.””

So, again, if I may ask that Mr. Hong: is this what you call as the Philippines’ unilateral action?

The so-called foreign minister asserted that his country’s position “has a solid basis in international law”; yet the question here is: what international law is he referring to?

If truly the position of his country has solid basis in international law, then why the hell they are not participating to that court which is recognized by the international community (they themselves ratified this law way back in 1982) which has given it its jurisdiction and power to hear and decide cases of this nature?

Another material and pertinent question I would like to pose to the spokesperson of the Chinese foreign minister is:

If the position of China has a strong basis in international law, then how come your country is requesting the Philippines to delay the filing of the said pleading (also known as a memorial)?

As reported by Ellen T. Tordesillas, “PH ignores China request to delay filing of Memorial vs 9-dash line”, Vera Files, March 28:

“Despite Chinese requests to delay it, the Philippines is filing on March 30 its memorandum challenging before the United Nations China’s territorial claims over the South China Sea.

“The memorandum, called a Memorial in international law, will be filed with the Arbitral Tribunal of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) at The Hague in the Netherlands, contesting China’s 9-dash line territorial rule.

“Under the 9-dash line rule, China claims almost the whole of the South China Sea as part of its territory, but the Philippines and three other Southeast Asian nations are staking various claims to parts of the area.

“Sources said the Chinese government had asked President Aquino through back channels to wait a little longer before filing the Memorial.”

Mr. Hong, is this the act of a country whose contention has a solid basis under international law: That is to ask the Philippines to delay the filing of the pleading or the memorial?

What happened to your contention? What is the basis now of your position? Why on earth your country is asking the Philippines to delay the said filing?

It was also reported on the article that a Chinese official said that:

“In our culture, bringing someone to court is like assaulting him.”

Commentaries:

I am wondering, is it also part of Chinese culture to grab territories not righteously theirs? Is it part of Chinese culture to bully small countries? Is it part of Chinese culture to engage in intimidation and slander?

How dare you to call us as immoral and troublemaker and all those preposterous accusations since April of 2012 when in fact and in truth, it is your country that is engaged in a consistently immoral, unfair, unjust and utterly provocative manner?

I would like to ask China categorically: what is your concept of justice, fairness, morality and ethics?

Further, Mr. Hong also stated in Beijing that:

“We hope that the Philippine side … returns to the right track of resolving the dispute through negotiation and consultation as soon as possible, (and) stops going any further down the wrong track so as to avoid further damage to bilateral relations.”

Question:

Is this what Mr. Hong’s definition or concept of international law? That is to talk and to consult with them bilaterally? And if the Philippines will not do so, our bilateral relations will be damage?

Wow! Such a bloody bully, it seems to me!

For the benefit of that Chinese official and the whole of the Chinese people, “the documents that the Philippines submitted to the tribunal in The Hague consist of nearly 4,000 pages explaining the merits of the country’s case against China.”

That to say the least is quite a voluminous bunch of documents. As reported by Bong Lozada, “What’s this thick memo vs China?”, Global Nation, PDI, March 30th:

“And what’s in this thick document?

“1) Volume 1 comprises the Philippines’ analysis, inside 270 pages, of the “applicable law and the relevant evidence.”

“2) Also, the first volume says that the Arbitral Tribunal jurisdiction over all the claims made by the Philippines and the country’s Statement of Claim.

“3) For the rest of the memorial, volumes 2 through 10, has the documentary evidence and maps that support the country’s claim in the disputed islands.

“4) Volumes 2 through 10 together is almost 3,700 pages that contains almost 40 maps that serve as supporting evidence for Volume 1.

“5) Solicitor General Francis Jardeleza said the memorial also disputes the nine-dash line that China imposed. “The memorial presents the Philippines’ case on the jurisdiction of the Arbitral Tribunal and the merits of its claims,” Del Rosario said.”

Now, the ultimate question is: “And what is the ultimate purpose of the thick memo?”

I overwhelmingly concur with the Philippine Foreign Secretary, Alberto Del Rosario that the contents of the memorial is in defense of the Philippines’ “national interest…[the memorial is about] defending what is legitimately ours; it is about securing our children’s future. It is about guaranteeing freedom of navigation for all nations.”

Further it is also “about guaranteeing freedom of navigation for all nations, it is about helping to preserve regional peace, security and stability.”

Hence to China and their officials may I remind you of the words of your dear leader, Deng Xiaoping as quoted by a noted Filipino jurist!

According to a local magistrate of the Philippine Supreme Court, Justice Antonio Carpio:

“The world should now remind China of Deng Xiaoping’s solemn commitment to the world when he declared in his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on April 10, 1974:

A superpower is an imperialist country which everywhere subjects other countries to its aggression, interference, control, subversion or plunder and strives for world hegemony. If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too would play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialist, expose it, oppose it and work with the Chinese people to overthrow it.”

Hence, you must thank us the Filipino people so as the Vietnamese for standing up against you and telling you to return to your leader’s words of wisdom.

You all have to thank us for reminding you that you have strayed your ways and forgotten your promise to the world!

The world no longer needs an empire or another imperialist bloc. Be happy on what you have and leave us alone!

For justice and reason’s sake: GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WEST PHILIPPINE SEA!!!

If not, then we shall shout and scream at you that we will use all the means at our disposal reasonably. We are declaring that we will proceed against you using legal and peaceful methods where it is still possible and if it needs be we will resist you by force of arms, by iron and by blood, when it is necessary.

For the million and one time, you have been warned!!!

Jose Mario Dolor De Vega

Philosophy lecturer
College of Liberal Arts
Department of Social Science
Technological University of the Philippines

I refer to Professor Zizek’s video, Think Big, “The Purpose of Philosophy is to Ask the Right Questions”, May 28, 2013.

Here’s what the unphilosophical megalomaniac has stated on the opening salvo of his discourse:

“I’m not saying -- I’m not a philosophical megalomaniac -- that philosophy can provide answers, but it can do something which maybe is even more important, you know? As important as providing answers and a condition for it, maybe even the condition, is to ask the right question.”

Though I agree to a certain extent to the contention of the said professor that philosophy can provide all the answers, yet promptly I would like to ask: if it cannot, then what can provide us?

Here the professor’s reply is illustrative:

You see, this would be one example, not to mention ecology. Now, ecology may be the ruin of us all -- it’s a terrible crisis, but the way we formulate it, either as a pure technological problem or in this New Age way – we, humanity, are too arrogant, we are raping the mother earth, whatever, it’s already the way we perceive the question that mystifies the problem. Here philosophy enters correcting the question, enabling us to ask the right question.

Further, the professor stated that:

There are not only wrong answers. There are also wrong questions. There are questions which deal with a certain real problem but the way they are formulated they effectively obfuscate, mystify, confuse the problem. For example, my eternal example, we have to fight of course today sexism, racism and so on. But did you notice how almost automatically we tend to translate issues of sexism, racism or ethnic violence, whatever, into the terms of tolerance? This, for me, doesn't go by itself. This presupposes already a certain horizon where you naturalize the order. We have different cultures. What can we do? We can only tolerate each other. And to give you a proof how this is not self-evident: download speeches by Martin Luther King and put on search words precisely like tolerance and so on. . . . Never, he never uses them. For him -- and he was right -- it would have been an obscenity to say white people should learn to tolerate us more, or whatever.

If philosophy cannot provide all the answers and its only purpose is for people engage in philosophy or in philosophizing is/are merely to ask the correct questions or to pose the right query, then what kind of purpose or use is that?

I can detect a certain degree of contradiction to the contention of the said professor. To restate: if philosophy cannot provide all the answers and its purpose is only to reduce those people engage in philosophy to ask the right questions, then how the hell those ‘philosophers’ arrive at the right questions if they did not subjected themselves to a vigorous philosophical reflections and rigid mental exercises?
What intellectual method or ideological vehicle did those philosopher’s use to arrive at the correct questions?

In saying that philosophy cannot provide all the answers, is that not a philosophical assertion in itself? In saying what he said, did he not engage in a philosophical exercise himself before he reached that position?

On the Question of the Question

Assuming arguendo that the only role or purpose of philosophy is to ask the right question, then, after asking and posing and raising those correct questions that affect mankind and humanity: what’s next?

After we demystify, settled the obfuscation and cleared the confusion with regard to the colossal problem and burden of humanity, then what’s next?

After we cleared all the mental rubbishes that darkens our minds and perception, after we destroyed the walls that separates us from each other and after we hurdles all our barriers of our conditions, then what’s next?

What is to be done?

It is my firm and considered view that simply to raise the correct questions is not enough for a true philosopher.

Asking the right questions in my view is merely to be on the level of theory. That theory no matter how correct or even perfect is nothing without subjecting it to the furnace of practice.

Example, to ask that (I believe it is a correct question) question: “What is the best form of universal human solidarity?”

In my view that question is lifeless without acting on that question by practicing it on actual life and circumstances.

Theory and practice are inseparable. The former without the latter is dead!

Theory without acting on it is a mere academic enterprise. It has no social or human value whatsoever, except perhaps on the four corners of the bloody classroom.

Consider Lenin’s mindset in narrating a conversation he had with a comrade during the Second Congress (1903) of the Russian Social- Democratic Labor Party:

I cannot help recalling in this connection a conversation I happened to have at the Congress with one of the “Centre” delegates. “How oppressive the atmosphere is at our Congress!” he complained.
“This bitter fighting, this agitation one against the other, this biting controversy, this uncomradely attitude! . . .”
“What a splendid thing our Congress is!”
I replied. “A free and open struggle. Opinions have been stated. The shades have been revealed. The groups have taken shape. Hands have been raised. A decision has been taken. A stage has been passed. Forward! That’s the stuff for me! That’s life! That’s not like the endless, tedious word-chopping of your intellectuals, which stops not because the question has been settled, but because they are too tired to talk anymore....” (One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (THE CRISIS IN OUR PARTY), 1904)

Marx on the Question of Practice/Activity/Action/Struggle

To Marx, the word struggle occupied almost a central aspect --- both in his philosophy and in his personal life. In general, the principle refers to the activist element in the Marxian practice motivating Marx and his disciples.

The specific facet of the principles refers to Marx’s philosophy --- the principle of activity being that concept, which underlies the entire system. Marx, that is, not only theorizes about activity but also illustrates his theory in (his) life. Marx’s own life was also a great struggle!
Hence, we find the principle of activity, action and struggle both in his writing and in his doings.

Marx most often used the words Action, Tatigkeit or Praxis to refer to the principle of activity, of action and relentless struggle. No major philosopher has fully dealt with the concept of action and practice as Marx did.

Norman Livergood (1967) stated that:

With Marx philosophy descended from the cloudy towers of mere speculation to the arena of practice. Certainly Hegel’s transformation of traditional logic marked the first step in the direction of unifying theory and practice since it protested against the divorce of truth reality. But Marx’s system represents the full development of philosophy as practical.

Marx develops this idea of philosophy as practical as early as his Doctoral; Dissertation, The Difference Between Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature. This led G. Voegelin (1950) to state that:

The dissertation shows Marx dissatisfied with the semi-action of the contemporary intellectuals. He demands a transition from speculative philosophy o a “radical” critique, which can be no less than an embodiment of the idea in reality through revolutionary action.

Marx saw his mission as the transposition into practice of the whole order of things, which Aristotle and Hegel had reserved to the theoretical intellect. The theoretical, as opposed to the practical mind, when free (as after Aristotle and Hegel), is transformed into practical energy, practical force --- and turns to act upon material reality. Just as the post-Aristotelian period that emphasized practical, ethical self-determination (which Marx would continue), so Marx desired to rescue man from the post-Hegelian impasse by reclaiming the world in practice (not in pure thought as he thought and he pitilessly criticized Hegel on this score).

For Marx, philosophy is an instrument of change!

Ludwig Feuerbach who conceived philosophy as a social activity influenced Marx on this matter. Without a doubt, Marx recognized the importance of theory, but he did not stop there, because his interest and goal was for philosophy to be more than mere theory.

Theory must be united to practice --- so that it can become a tool, a force of cure and radical transformation. It is on this undeniable sense that philosophy in Marx’s system is not destroyed but completely transformed, because Marx was desirous of destroying the limited conception of philosophy as a mere theoretical activity. To Marx, theory without practice is dead!

That is precisely the reason behind his violent denunciation and radical stinging criticism of (limited) philosophy and of the contention of his contemporary philosophers, moralists and intellectuals.

He relentlessly criticized and vehemently attacked ravenously German thinkers because they had done nothing more than to theorize. They talked and talked, but they did not act, they seem to know everything but they did nothing on what they appear to know or claim to know.

Below is the testimony of F. Copleston’s (1994) reading on Marx’s position that philosophy or theory without practice is worthless:

We cannot change society by philosophizing about it. Thought must issue in action, that is, in social revolution. For philosophical criticism raises problems which can be solved only in this way. In Marx’s language, philosophy must be overcome, this overcoming being also the realization of philosophy. It must leave the plane of theory and penetrate to the masses. And when it does so, it is no longer philosophy but takes the form of a social revolution, which must be the work of the most oppressed class, namely the proletariat. By abolishing private property consciously and explicitly the proletariat will emancipate itself, and, together with itself, the whole of society. For egoism and social injustices are bound up with the institution of private property. (My italics)

Below is an example of Marx’s typical, forceful and scathing criticism of those bloody idiots who called themselves as “philosophers”

In direct contrast to German philosophy which descends from heaven to earth, here we ascend from earth to heaven. That is to say, we do not set out from what men say, imagine, conceive, nor from men as narrated, thought of, imagined, conceived, in order to arrive at men in the flesh. We set out from real, active men, and on the basis of their real life-process we demonstrate the development of the ideological reflexes and echoes of this life-process. The phantoms formed in the human brain are also, necessarily, sublimates of their material life-process, which is empirically verifiable and bound to material premises. Morality, religion, metaphysics, all the rest of ideology and their corresponding forms of consciousness, thus no longer retain the semblance of independence. They have no history, no development; but men, developing their material production and their material intercourse, alter, along with this their real existence, their thinking and the products of their thinking. Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life. (The German Ideology, 1845, written with Engels)

Does it mean that Marx hates and/or distrusted ‘philosophy’?

Let us quote Leon Trotsky (1927) to explain the answer:

Marx once said that philosophers had sufficiently interpreted the world, and that the task now was to turn it upside down. In these words there was by no means a lack of respect for philosophy. Marx was himself one of the most powerful philosophers of all time. His words simply meant that the further development of philosophy, and of culture as a whole, both material and spiritual, demands a revolution in social relations. And therefore Marx appealed from philosophy to the proletarian revolution, – not against philosophy, but for it.

Wherever Marx spoke of philosophy so as to disparage it tremendously and to mercilessly criticize it, he was attacking that kind of philosophy, which merely theorized, which simply described existing problems and conditions without finding concrete solutions that will lead eventually to a realization and ultimate transformation.

Philosophy for Marx is both a social and universal philosophy of action. It is necessarily the study of man’s social relationships since these are his very nature, his essence (Theses on Feuerbach, no. VI, 1845). Man is a social animal; his being is constituted by his relations to other beings. Also, philosophy for Marx does not immediately become active in the transformation of society and the world. It has to be tested, developed and practiced.

Philosophy leads to action; but philosophy is not action per se… in a way, we can say that to Marx, words are nothing and empty, without the corresponding action to test them; in order to prove them.

This is precisely because when Marxist revolutionaries speak of the “unity of thought and action”, it does not intend to imply that thoughts and actions are one and the same thing. It does mean however, that thoughts and actions are inseparably united.

For Marx, socialism (on to communism) is not just the goal or end of the movement or party committed to realizing it. Socialism is also the very struggle itself, and to be a socialist, or for that matter, a Marxist revolutionary, is not merely to be committed to a belief in the virtues of equality, solidarity and the like, but to take the side of the oppressed and the exploited in their struggles.

This is a morally and personally demanding version of what socialism involves; but it is also, without the slightest iota of doubt, in an utterly important ways, a more realistic and hopeful one, because instead of relegating socialism to a distant and perhaps unattainable future, it firmly stresses that victories for the oppressed and the exploited, and hence, for socialism can be achieved here and now, in the real and imperfect world of the present!

This is the ultimate difference of Marx to those so-called ‘philosophers’ who merely posed and raises the questions without doing anything about it.

For Marx does not simply raises the questions of Mankind and calling the world’s attention in his brutal, extensive and exhaustive depiction the burden of Humanity, he does not stop there, rather he went all the way to transcend the questions by acting and working on it at the forefront of the Struggle!

Marx is not merely a philosopher who raised the correct questions, but precisely a revolutionary philosopher that stood, fought and struggled to change the world – all throughout his life --- until the very end!

Jose Mario Dolor De Vega

Philosophy/Social Science lecturer
College of Liberal Arts
Department of Social Science
Technological University of the Philippines

I refer to the Strait Times Editorial, “Thailand stumbles again”, May 10th with regard to the on-going political conflict in Thailand.

I wholly concur with the said piece, especially on that part that clearly stipulated that:

Ms Yingluck's removal is but a scene in a play whose denouement is unknown. Thailand's political impasse dramatises the limitations of democracy as a political stage when the actors cannot agree on their roles. Thaksin demonstrated convincingly the hold of his charismatic populism on the agrarian poor and the urban working class. Arrayed against the numerical superiority of these groups is the institutional power of the entrenched Bangkok elite, old money, the royalist establishment, and the urban middle class. These groups would have sought a compromise in a working democracy. But that has proved impossible in the embittered political climate of Thailand, leading to the paralysis evident today. The more than six months of unrest that preceded the court ruling are a part of the eight-year struggle for the political soul of the country, a contestation which does not appear to have a definitive conclusion, let alone an imminent one.

Comment:

The author of the said article has clearly shown what is the problem of Thai society and that is: the limitation of their democracy by virtue of the fact that some of the political actors, personalities and social classes of the whole divide cannot agree and cannot accept their social, political and economic roles.

On one side are the monarchists, the national bourgeoisie, the middle class rich, the businessmen, the Bangkok elite, etc.

While on the other side are the poor farmer from the North and Northeast, the poor people of Bangkok and the working class or Thailand’s own proletariat.

The former controls the economy of the country; the stupid military, the bastard courts, the idiotic election commission and they have the blessings of the good for nothing king of nothing and his so-called “royal” parasitic family.

While the latter enjoys the number and the power that they derived through their unity and solidarity!

The problem of Thailand is that their bourgeoisie cannot accept a leader and a party that supports the aspiration and champion the needs of the poor and its working classes.

Since 2001, all the Yellowist have done has been to disrupt the duly constituted authorities that won a legitimate election, that is because of their extreme hatred and shall I say, jealousy of Thaksin and his political associates.

This vicious cycle must stop!

The paralysis that is now being experience by Thailand can no longer be settled or answered by any democratic means by virtue of the fact that their bourgeoisie will never ever respect the will of the majority of the Thai people by reason of their class interest.

It is on this great sense that I disagree with one Red Shirt leader, Kwanchai Pripana when he told AFP (“Thai 'Red Shirts' rally to defend wounded government”, May 10th) that:

"We are ready to fight… We will not use violence but we will use the power of the masses to fight for democracy."

I applaud them for their resolve, I salute them for their enthusiasm to the continuing struggle, to fight for what is right and to remain firm in their conviction, but I am sorry to tell them that the very democracy that they are fighting for is the same ‘democracy’ that is being bastardize to the core and being prostituted to the maximum by the powers that be, Bangkok elite and their nefarious various evil cohorts.

Therefore, it does not matter even if they, the Red Shirts, shall win (which is a certain and a given) the next election to be held this coming July, because those bastard Yellowists will only destabilize once again (this is also certain and a given) the duly elected government and tries to seize power from the said government through force and violence.

That is because they know and they are certain that they, the bastard Yellowists will never win in a democratic and legitimate election. They do have the money, but they do not have the numbers. They want power, but they are powerless!

Why?

Because the power lies in the hands of the people, in the hands of the Red Shirts themselves!

Who are they?

The Red Shirts in my view are not what those stupid Yellowists always tagged as merely Thaksin’s supporters. They are not only the agrarian poor from the North and the Northeastern part of the country or the urban working class, because they represent the very people of Thailand, they are its proletariat.

Let us quote from the report of Rachel Harvey (“The staying power of Thailand’s red shirts”, BBC Report, April 24, 2010) that accurately depicts the true nature and composition of the Red Shirts:

“On several evenings, on my way home, I've shared a train carriage with some of those same protesters.

“I remember one woman, who was wearing the uniform of the office worker - smart skirt, high heels and make-up - but in her open shoulder bag, a neatly folded red T-shirt revealed her true allegiance.

“That has been a striking feature of the red-shirt movement - the variety of people it has attracted.

“For months, the government and much of the media portrayed the red-shirts as simple country folk, deluded in their loyalty to Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister, who had been accused of corruption.

“One newspaper cartoon depicted the demonstrators as water buffalo - a highly derogatory comparison implying rural ignorance.

“But the thing about water buffalo, as any South East Asian farmer will tell you, is that they have huge amounts of stamina.

“So it's proved with the red-shirts.”

The Red Shirts are the people themselves and the Yellowists are the enemies of the people by virtue of the inescapable fact and the undeniable truth that they cannot accept nor respect the will of the people.

Now, Thailand is again repeating the cycle of political imbroglio and fiasco.

To restate, this conflict will not be settle by any democratic means, except by arms and force.

My humble suggestion to the Thai people, the Red Shirts is to go all the way in their struggle. They should not stop at nothing. If it means civil war, then so be it!

Now is the time for the Thai poor to settle the score against the Thai rich and their entire class entourage.

The time for election is over, it is already dead and gone; now is the time for an insurrection that must lead ultimately to a full-blown revolution!

Let it be! Let it come! So be it!

How about the bastard ‘king’?

I do not know about the Thai people’s mindset. They are the one who will eventually decide everything, but nonetheless to quote from the immortal words of Maximilien de Robespierre during the heights of the French Revolution:

“The king must die so that the country can live.”

Down with the Yellowists! Kill ‘em all!!!

LONG LIVE THE RED SHIRTS!

Jose Mario Dolor De Vega

Philosophy/Social Science lecturer

College of Liberal Arts
Social Science Department
Technological University of the Philippines

I refer to Maureen Callahan’s “The sex-obsessed world of Brunei”, The New York Post, May 10th with regard to the so-called sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah’s sudden, out of nowhere, truly out of this world and undeniably ridiculous decision of implementing sharia law to his nation.

I condemn on behalf of Humanity the barbarism and primitivism of the so-called sultan of Brunei’s institution of sharia law into his nation.

Though the so-called sultan is the leader of his nation, I doubt if he and his cohorts can simply enact laws just like that and some more, arbitrarily.

Stoning to death? Wow! Are you kidding me? Mr. so-called sultan, it is already the new millennium, welcome to 2014! You want your mediaeval and barbaric laws of the lost primitive world, then, do apply it to yourself and your so-called “royal” family, especially your maniac and lecherous brothers and leave the people of Brunei alone!

Question of Due Notice and Procedure of Public
Consultation

Does it mean that because he is the so-called sultan, he does not need to consult his people and get their consent with regard to these draconian barbaric laws?

Does Brunei have a Constitution or not? If no, does it mean that the so-called sultan is only the source of political power on the said land?

If yes, does the act of the so-called sultan in accordance with the fundamental law?

Does the Quran allows a leader unlimited powers to the prejudice of his people?

I do not know whether the so-called sultan is drunk or under the influence of drugs, but did he forget that his nation is member of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) in this region in particular and the international community in general?

Does the so-called sultan forgotten that his nation as a member of the ASEAN has adopted on November of 2012 the Human Rights Accord?

Didn’t he know that his outrageous and preposterous sharia law is a grave violation of the said ASEAN Human Rights Accord?

Didn’t he also know that his stupid and idiotic sharia law is a fatal, brutal and extreme violation of the International Declaration of Human Rights approved and sanctioned as an International Law by the United Nations?

How about the various Convention and Agreements, such as the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women? Convention Against Torture, etc?

How would that moronic so-called sultan reconcile those international laws, agreements, convention to that of their local laws to that of his super barbaric sharia law?

I am wondering did he not put into consideration what would be the reaction of the world with regard to his utterly sweeping modification of his nation’s laws and statutes?

Didn’t the so-called sultan realized that majority of the civilized world today did not approve of his primitive, barbaric and undeniably inhumane laws?

If that so-called abnormal sultan will proceed with his implementation of sharia law, then the international community and the world in general will condemn him, as a pervert and as a bigot idiot and his poor country as a failed, bastard and a pariah state!

As lucidly narrated by the report:

“Under Sharia law, the following is considered criminal behavior, punishable by fines, jail, amputation of limbs, public flogging or death by stoning: absence from Friday prayer services; becoming pregnant out of wedlock; wearing indecent clothing, and for women, refusal to wear a hijab; employing a non-Muslim babysitter; the use of the word “Allah” by Christians and the discussion of faith by any non-Muslims; publicly eating or drinking during Ramadan; theft; homosexuality; and adultery.”

Question:

What is the moral authority or ethical ascendancy of the so-called sultan to implement sharia law when in fact and in truth the whole world perfectly knows that he and his brothers are bastard sexual predators, drunkards, adulterers and maniacs of the lowest order?

Do I need to list here all of their transgressions and animalistic behavior --- through the years?

The so-called sultan and his lecherous evil cohorts in view are the greatest hypocrites and bastards of all time.

Consider the words of justification of that maniac so-called sultan with regard to his version of sharia:

“Theory states that Allah’s law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair.”

Comment:

That is bloody stupid and extremely preposterous! The so-called sultan is trapped into an extreme impertinent contradiction!

If the theory states that the law is cruel, then logic will tell you, if you are a normal and reasonable person, that the practice or execution or implementation of the said law will also be cruel and unfair.

Now, if both theory and practice are both cruel and unjust; then why on earth and why the hell is has to be instituted or implemented?

It will definitely lead us to the thought or conclusion that the one who called for the institution and ordered the implementation of the said law is an incontestably an immoral and idiotic leader by virtue of his cruelty and unfairness to his people!

On the second aspect of the so-called sultan’s justification, that idiot also stated maliciously that: allegedly Allah has said that his law is indeed fair.

I am wondering where the hell does Allah said those words purportedly claimed by the so-called Sultan that Allah himself have stated?

I do not know, but it seems to me that that so-called sultan is engaging in blasphemy. If so, then he should be the first one to be put to death by stoning!

But on the more important matter, which is the secular element of this case, my other central question is: how could a law that is perceived to be cruel and unfair be fair?

I am wondering, what kind of justice that that so-called sultan is subscribing and practicing?

Is it justice on the harem?

A Call to the People of Brunei

The Brunayan people must wake up and do something about this fiasco; if not, then their bastard immoral so-called leader will carry them to even greater imbroglio and lead the entire country into the abyss of moral death, shame and humiliation!

People of Brunei you all must act now before your bastard so-called sultan make your beautiful nation into another Taliban haven!

Jose Mario Dolor De Vega

Philosophy/Social Science lecturer

College of Liberal Arts
Social Science Department
Technological University of the Philippines

I refer to BBC News Africa report, “Sudan woman faces death for apostasy”, May 15th regard to the case of a woman who has been sentenced by a Sudanese court by hanging to death for apostasy.

She was adjudged to have abandoned her religious faith, “after she married a Christian man.”

I overwhelmingly concur to the condemnation of the sentence by Amnesty International which was “handed down by a judge in Khartoum”, as "appalling and abhorrent".

Nonetheless, I would like to state that the said “judgment” by that Sudanese court is not only appalling and abhorrent, but also preposterous and undeniably barbaric!

It is also my firm view that that Khartoum judge is not only ridiculous, but super stupid!

The “ruling” is appalling and abhorrent by virtue of the fact that the so-called court has invaded the private domain of the personal feelings of the woman. What is the right of that stupid judge to decide who that woman should love and marry?

Who the devil is he? And what on earth is the legal basis of their "law"?

To love and to cherish another fellow human being is an utterly private matter and the bloody state (whatever or whoever it is) has no right to control the heart and the mind and the soul of an individual!

To marry someone and to decide who you want to spend the rest of your life is beyond religion!

I don’t give a damn, even if “Sudan has a majority Muslim population, which is governed by Islamic law.”

First point: the majority must respect the right of the minority. The government must respect all citizens regardless of who they are and irrespective of their stations and background sin life!

Second point: their so-called Islamic law must not be used to violate the right of those people who does not belong to them or even those people who already wishes not to practice the dominant religion or faith. Further, that ‘law’ must also respect those people who decided not to have any religion at all!

Third point: the individual is the sole master of his or herself and the government (whatever the hell is its type or form) have no right to control or to dictate or to intervene how the hell that individual wishes to live his or her personal and emotional life.

Fourth point: Sudan must be aware that whatever the hell it does will reflect to the world community.

Hence, base on the following reasons, it is also my considered view and so held that the said “judgment” of that stupid so-called court is preposterous and incontestably barbaric.

Consider the very words of that bastard judge which was quoted by the AFP reports:

"We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam. I sentence you to be hanged to death…"

Question:

Is it because the woman does not want to return to Islam, she deserves to die by hanging?

How about her right to choose what to believe or not to believe? Does it mean that under Sudan’s Islamic law --- there is no such thing as the right to choose? How about the right to live?

What Sudan did is a grave violation of International Law. According to Wikipedia:

“The United Nations Commission on Human Rights, considers the recanting of a person's religion a human right legally protected by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights:

“The Committee observes that the freedom to 'have or to adopt' a religion or belief necessarily entails the freedom to choose a religion or belief, including the right to replace one's current religion or belief with another or to adopt atheistic views ... Article 18.2 bars coercion that would impair the right to have or adopt a religion or belief, including the use of threat of physical force or penal sanctions to compel believers or non-believers to adhere to their religious beliefs and congregations, to recant their religion or belief or to convert.”

Not content with the death sentence, the stupid judge also “sentenced the woman to 100 lashes after convicting her of adultery - because her marriage to a Christian man was not valid under Islamic law.”

Comment:

First, it was apostasy, now it is adultery.

This is confusing and truly mind-boggling! How the hell could the woman be guilty of adultery when she only loved her husband?

Adultery in its basic definition means having an extra-marital affair. Nowhere it is stated in the facts of the case that such is the case, hence, how could the woman be convicted of the said crime?

There you have it! This outrageous case has clearly shown the inhumanity of Sudan’s law and the extreme stupidity of the judge.

Her conviction of “adultery” stems on the ground that her marriage to a Christian man from South Sudan was void under Sudan's version of Islamic law, which specifically says that Muslim women cannot marry non-Muslims.

So to Sudan, "adultery" is violating their religious prohibition.

What an invention of idiotic proportion! Such a super idiotic definition and moronic concept! What a shame!

According further to the report:

“Earlier in the hearing, an Islamic cleric spoke with her in a caged dock for about 30 minutes…

“Then she calmly told the judge: "I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy."”

According to Amnesty International the said the woman, Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag, “was raised as an Orthodox Christian, her mother's religion, because her father, a Muslim, was reportedly absent during her childhood.”

The sole issue of this case can be sum up as: the right of an individual to choose any religion or not to choose at all!

The debate on apostasy

The report lucidly narrated the “long-running debate in Islam over whether apostasy is a crime.”

There is no shadow of doubt that they, the so-called “faithful” are divided among themselves and have a perennial problem with regard to the interpretation of their book that governs their law.

Why?

For it is beyond dispute that some liberal scholars hold the view that apostasy is not a crime and they “back up their argument by citing the Koranic verse which states: "There shall be no compulsion in religion."”

However, “others say apostasy is tantamount to treason - and refer to what Prophet Muhammad said: "It is not permissible to spill the blood of a Muslim except in three [instances]: A life for a life; a married person who commits adultery; and one who forsakes his religion and separates from the community."”

The pertinent and relevant question here is, who if ever among these two opposing and contradictory views is correct? What view must govern?

It is my firm view that the conflict must be resolve by liberally construing the provision of the ‘law’ in favor of the woman.

The court should have rule in favor of toleration, of love, respect and humanity!

I concur with the contention of Manar Idriss of Amnesty's Sudan researcher in condemning the punishments when she stated that “apostasy and adultery should not be considered crimes.”

Indeed, as she categorically maintained:

"The fact that a woman has been sentenced to death for her religious choice, and to flogging for being married to a man of an allegedly different religion is appalling and abhorrent…"

I applaud the collective act of the “embassies of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands” in issuing a joint statement that clearly expressed "deep concern" about the case of the said woman and urged Sudan “to respect the right to freedom of religion.”

The report also highlighted Amnesty’s claim that “the woman was arrested and charged with adultery in August 2013, and the court added the charge of apostasy in February 2014 when she said she was a Christian and not a Muslim.”

Comment:

The woman was originally charged by “adultery”, yet I am wondering: what is the power of the court to add another charge against her?

Does it mean that, if she will eat pork in her jail or if she will pray using the rosary; will she be indicted again the third time for another charge?

This is utterly laughable and ridiculous to the maximum!

I joined the international humanistic community in calling for her immediate release.

Again to restate my vehement view, to love is beyond religion and the bloody state have no right whatsoever to interfere and/or control her heart, mind and soul!

Your religion is yours, and my heart is mine and it is mine alone….

Jose Mario Dolor De Vega

Philosophy and Social Science lecturer

College of Liberal Arts
Social Science Department
Technological University of the Philippines

I refer to Mubasher Bukhari’s “Pakistan woman stoned to death by family for marrying man she loved”, Reuters, May 27th.

I am writing to bring to the attention of the international community a grave injustice that happened, (which, sad but true is still happening discriminately and in an alarming rate) in Lahore, Pakistan.

It is a tragic story about a woman who was stoned to death by her own family by reason of her defiance: she follows her heart and she died for it!

What is that? Allow me to repeat the horrible facts of this harrowing saga of a tragic love story!

The woman was put to death dastardly, treacherously and in an extremely violent manner, in broad day light, ironically outside the bloody ‘court,’ sad but true, by her own family, because she married a man that she loves and her bastard relatives does not approved of her choice.

She was killed for falling in love, for following her heart and for defying the backwardness of her family and their stupid and utterly barbaric cultural beliefs! For this, she was killed! So bloody disgusting!

And what is that belief? Believe or not, but according to the abnormal and sick mindset of some people in Pakistan, “a woman marrying her own choice brings dishonor on the family.”

What the fuck is that?

It is already 2014, but I was shocked to learn that up until today, there are still some bastard bloody creatures who, are still living at the Stone Age! What a shame!

This is outrageous, barbaric and undeniably ridiculous to the core!

To quote directly from the said Reuters report:

“A 25-year-old woman was stoned to death by her family outside one of Pakistan's top courts on Tuesday in a so-called "honor" killing for marrying the man she loved, police said.

“Farzana Iqbal was waiting for the High Court in the eastern city of Lahore to open when a group of around dozen men began attacking her with bricks, said Umer Cheema, a senior police officer.

“Her father, two brothers, and former fiance were among the attackers, he said. Iqbal suffered severe head injuries and was pronounced dead in hospital, police said.

“All the suspects except her father escaped. He admitted killing his daughter, Cheema said, and explained it was a matter of honor.”

I am heavily wondering, what “honor” does that despicable creature Cheema is talking about?

It is my firm view that that bastard is a sick wacko and a mentally deranged criminal. In fact, I will argue that his whole bloody family is a bunch of abnormal freaks! They are not humans, but animals of the lowest order albeit in an artificial ‘human’ form.

I condemn on behalf of Humanity the barbarism, heartlessness and backwardness of Pakistan’s subscription to the so-called “honor killing” and carrying it out through death by stoning.

My humanity is revolting and I am truly in rage reading this super inhumane horrible news!

In the immortal words of Emile Zola:

“I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.”

As I’ve stated then in my article, “Stoning to Death and Honor Killing is a Crime against Humanity, Human Rights Online Philippines”, October 10, 2013:

Stoning to death, in my view is a bloody stain in the history of civilization.

This barbaric practice is a shame to the whole of mankind!

I concur with Naureen Shameem, the representative for women’s rights group Women Living Under Muslim Laws, when says “that stoning is used against women in particular as a way to control them.”

Shameem stated that:

“Stoning is a cruel and hideous punishment. It is a form of torturing someone to death. It is one of the most brutal forms of violence perpetrated against women in order to control and punish their sexuality and basic freedoms.”

Indeed, as the Asian Human Rights Commission explained the act of stoning against women in a recent press release:

“Stoning to death is a barbaric act from a primitive society. Society is sent the message that violence is the way to deal with women and other vulnerable groups. Women’s rights are negated through the use of these forms of punishment…”

Indeed, Pakistani society has degenerated to the point that, for a woman, who defied her family in following her heart, has become a serious crime. This is barbarism at its lowest form!

When does it happen or where does it occurred, that falling in-love and marrying the person that you love became a crime in a civilized universe?

To love is free and it can never ever be controlled or contained, for love is the strongest ‘virus’ ever known to man.

To quote from another article of mine(“it’s about a young Saudi woman who followed her lover, defied her family, left her land and crossed the boundary illegally to Yemen to give in and fulfill the wishes and dictates of her heart.”), “Love knows no boundary: The Power of Love, Human Rights Online Philippines, December 6, 2013:

That said woman, Huda Abdullah Al Niran, who were dubbed by the press as “Saudi Juliet” has shown once again to the universe the unstoppable and undeniable power of love. That love, true love will defy all odds, will crossed all borders and will not cease from following the commands of one’s heart — to the point of standing up against the whole world and even death would not be enough to stop its march.

The so-called “honor killings”

Another idiotic issue that I wish to highlight and condemn is the so-called barbaric practice of “honor killing”.

The Human Rights Watch defines “honor killings” as follows:

“Honor killings are acts of vengeance, usually death, committed by male family members against female family members, who are held to have brought dishonor upon the family. A woman can be targeted by (individuals within) her family for a variety of reasons, including: refusing to enter into an arranged marriage, being the victim of a sexual assault, seeking a divorce—even from an abusive husband—or (allegedly) committing adultery. The mere perception that a woman has behaved in a way that “dishonors” her family is sufficient to trigger an attack on her life.”

There is no iota of doubt that these two idiotic issues are evil in origin and irrefutably barbaric to the maximum.
These preposterous practices and nefarious acts grossly and grimly violated the United Nation Universal Declaration of Human Rights that clearly stipulates that:
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”

Clearly, stoning to death and honor killing are undeniably a blatant negation, a sheer derogation and a complete denial of the people, especially of women and other vulnerable minority groups of their human rights and the guarantee and protection of a civil, reasonable and secular law as mandated by international law and sanctioned by universal convention and statutes!

To deny the individual, a group or type of people their inherent and natural right to their human rights is to challenge their very humanity and reduce their dignity. This is a shame!

To impose on them a backward, preposterous and Jurassic law is to deny their humanity. This is a shame!

Incontestably, stoning to death and honor killing’s only aim is depriving people of their humanity and dehumanizing them. This is the heights of stupidity, shame and absurdity!

Henceforth, I forged solidarity and joined all relevant rights groups and humanistic international organizations who are “currently petitioning the United Nations to enact a worldwide ban on stoning” to death and criminalize the barbaric practice of so-called honor killing”.

This twin evil practices and acts of madmen and barbarians must come to an end.

The whole world must condemn Pakistan and all barbaric countries that practiced so-called “honor killing” and stoning to death!

They have no right to exist in any civilized and reasonable world order!

For Humanity, Equality and Justice!

I refer to Mubasher Bukhari’s “Pakistan woman stoned to death by family for marrying man she loved”, Reuters, May 27th.

I am writing to bring to the attention of the international community a grave injustice that happened, (which, sad but true is still happening discriminately and in an alarming rate) in Lahore, Pakistan.

It is a tragic story about a woman who was stoned to death by her own family by reason of her defiance: she follows her heart and she died for it!

What is that? Allow me to repeat the horrible facts of this harrowing saga of a tragic love story!

The woman was put to death dastardly, treacherously and in an extremely violent manner, in broad day light, ironically outside the bloody ‘court,’ sad but true, by her own family, because she married a man that she loves and her bastard relatives does not approved of her choice.

She was killed for falling in love, for following her heart and for defying the backwardness of her family and their stupid and utterly barbaric cultural beliefs! For this, she was killed! So bloody disgusting!

And what is that belief? Believe or not, but according to the abnormal and sick mindset of some people in Pakistan, “a woman marrying her own choice brings dishonor on the family.”

What the fuck is that?

It is already 2014, but I was shocked to learn that up until today, there are still some bastard bloody creatures who, are still living at the Stone Age! What a shame!

This is outrageous, barbaric and undeniably ridiculous to the core!

To quote directly from the said Reuters report:

“A 25-year-old woman was stoned to death by her family outside one of Pakistan's top courts on Tuesday in a so-called "honor" killing for marrying the man she loved, police said.

“Farzana Iqbal was waiting for the High Court in the eastern city of Lahore to open when a group of around dozen men began attacking her with bricks, said Umer Cheema, a senior police officer.

“Her father, two brothers, and former fiance were among the attackers, he said. Iqbal suffered severe head injuries and was pronounced dead in hospital, police said.

“All the suspects except her father escaped. He admitted killing his daughter, Cheema said, and explained it was a matter of honor.”

I am heavily wondering, what “honor” does that despicable creature Cheema is talking about?

It is my firm view that that bastard is a sick wacko and a mentally deranged criminal. In fact, I will argue that his whole bloody family is a bunch of abnormal freaks! They are not humans, but animals of the lowest order albeit in an artificial ‘human’ form.

I condemn on behalf of Humanity the barbarism, heartlessness and backwardness of Pakistan’s subscription to the so-called “honor killing” and carrying it out through death by stoning.

My humanity is revolting and I am truly in rage reading this super inhumane horrible news!

In the immortal words of Emile Zola:

“I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.”

As I’ve stated then in my article, “Stoning to Death and Honor Killing is a Crime against Humanity, Human Rights Online Philippines”, October 10, 2013:

Stoning to death, in my view is a bloody stain in the history of civilization.

This barbaric practice is a shame to the whole of mankind!

I concur with Naureen Shameem, the representative for women’s rights group Women Living Under Muslim Laws, when says “that stoning is used against women in particular as a way to control them.”

Shameem stated that:

“Stoning is a cruel and hideous punishment. It is a form of torturing someone to death. It is one of the most brutal forms of violence perpetrated against women in order to control and punish their sexuality and basic freedoms.”

Indeed, as the Asian Human Rights Commission explained the act of stoning against women in a recent press release:

“Stoning to death is a barbaric act from a primitive society. Society is sent the message that violence is the way to deal with women and other vulnerable groups. Women’s rights are negated through the use of these forms of punishment…”

Indeed, Pakistani society has degenerated to the point that, for a woman, who defied her family in following her heart, has become a serious crime. This is barbarism at its lowest form!

When does it happen or where does it occurred, that falling in-love and marrying the person that you love became a crime in a civilized universe?

To love is free and it can never ever be controlled or contained, for love is the strongest ‘virus’ ever known to man.

To quote from another article of mine(“it’s about a young Saudi woman who followed her lover, defied her family, left her land and crossed the boundary illegally to Yemen to give in and fulfill the wishes and dictates of her heart.”), “Love knows no boundary: The Power of Love, Human Rights Online Philippines, December 6, 2013:

That said woman, Huda Abdullah Al Niran, who were dubbed by the press as “Saudi Juliet” has shown once again to the universe the unstoppable and undeniable power of love. That love, true love will defy all odds, will crossed all borders and will not cease from following the commands of one’s heart — to the point of standing up against the whole world and even death would not be enough to stop its march.

The so-called “honor killings”

Another idiotic issue that I wish to highlight and condemn is the so-called barbaric practice of “honor killing”.

The Human Rights Watch defines “honor killings” as follows:

“Honor killings are acts of vengeance, usually death, committed by male family members against female family members, who are held to have brought dishonor upon the family. A woman can be targeted by (individuals within) her family for a variety of reasons, including: refusing to enter into an arranged marriage, being the victim of a sexual assault, seeking a divorce—even from an abusive husband—or (allegedly) committing adultery. The mere perception that a woman has behaved in a way that “dishonors” her family is sufficient to trigger an attack on her life.”

There is no iota of doubt that these two idiotic issues are evil in origin and irrefutably barbaric to the maximum.

These preposterous practices and nefarious acts grossly and grimly violated the United Nation Universal Declaration of Human Rights that clearly stipulates that:

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”

Clearly, stoning to death and honor killing are undeniably a blatant negation, a sheer derogation and a complete denial of the people, especially of women and other vulnerable minority groups of their human rights and the guarantee and protection of a civil, reasonable and secular law as mandated by international law and sanctioned by universal convention and statutes!

To deny the individual, a group or type of people their inherent and natural right to their human rights is to challenge their very humanity and reduce their dignity.
This is a shame!

To impose on them a backward, preposterous and Jurassic law is to deny their humanity. This is a shame!

Incontestably, stoning to death and honor killing’s only aim is depriving people of their humanity and dehumanizing them. This is the heights of stupidity, shame and absurdity!

Henceforth, I forged solidarity and joined all relevant rights groups and humanistic international organizations who are “currently petitioning the United Nations to enact a worldwide ban on stoning” to death and criminalize the barbaric practice of so-called honor killing”.

This twin evil practices and acts of madmen and barbarians must come to an end.

The whole world must condemn Pakistan and all barbaric countries that practiced so-called “honor killing” and stoning to death!

They have no right to exist in any civilized and reasonable world order!

For Humanity, Equality and Justice!

Jose Mario Dolor De Vega

History keep on teaching us and it has relentlessly shown that insurrection and revolution does not happened all of a sudden!

It is not a scheme or a program that just pop out of the open or a seemingly magical event that burst out of the surface like mushrooms!

There is the need and there must be the reason! This is precisely the reason why revolution is not a mere event, but a continuing process! It is the very product of the irreconcilable socio-political and socio-economic relations of the various class forces which are the different social classes themselves engaged in a bitter life and death confrontation.

Alan Wood stated that the Russian revolutionary, Leon Trotsky “defines a revolution as the moment when the masses, that is to say, the millions of ordinary men and women, begin to participate in politics, to take their lives and destinies into their own hands. Revolution stirs up society to the bottom, and mobilises layers that were previously inert and "non-political””.

The very act of the Red Shirts, that is in participating in elections and winning the same regularly ever since 2001, in a sense is ‘a revolutionary act’, base on their specific and peculiar circumstances, except that every time that they will win, the forces of counterrevolution and reaction will do everything to take power away from them through all illegal means.

When will the vicious bullshit cycle ends?

This is how the forces of the counterrevolution and reactionaries in Thailand have been playing the game of politics in a habitual prostituted manner:

The stupid military intervenes (first by coup and then by Martial Law), then those bastard freaks shall rule for a while! Thereupon, following their bourgeoisie script: They will give and hand power to the equally stupid bastard Yellowists! Then (as if they are conscious of the condemnation of the international community), they will call for an election!

As usual, the Red Shirts shall win that election! Then, those bastard Yellowists will immediately destabilize the legitimate and duly constituted authorities overwhelmingly voted into office by the people of Thailand! Then, the fucking court (with the connivance of the fucking so-called election commission, with the bastard monarchial freaks, the royalists, the Bangkok elite, the rich and the businessmen, etc.) will rule against the Red Shirts, then "violence" will erupt, then the fucking military will enter the bloody scene again to "restore so-called order" as they been doing since time immemorial!

As of the moment, Thailand is still under Martial Law!

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?

I reiterate my suggestion to the people of Thailand as represented by the Red Shirts: to end this preposterous bullshit vicious cycle, they must proceed with their Struggle into a full-blown insurrection!

The revolution of the ballots must now proceed to the revolution of the bullets!

The only way to stop the bastard military from habitually bastardizing and prostituting the political system is for the Thai proletariat and poor farmers of the North and Northeast is to proceed with their class war and to stop at nothing…

In the words of Leon Trotsky:

“People do not make revolution eagerly any more than they do war. There is this difference, however, that in war compulsion plays the decisive role, in revolution there is no compulsion except that of circumstances. A revolution takes place only when there is no other way out. And the insurrection, which rises above a revolution like a peak in the mountain chain of its events, can no more be evoked at will than the revolution as a whole. The masses advance and retreat several times before they make up their minds to the final assault.”

For the greatest protagonist of the Revolution are the masses themselves. History kept on showing us that “it is the revolutionary people itself, those countless unknown and unsung heroes and heroines who were the mainspring of the entire process” that truly makes the necessary transformation of the whole society!

Nonetheless, the people’s leaders from the Red Shirts must teach the masses why it is necessary to struggle seriously and in a determined manner! The duty of the revolutionary leader is to bring clarity to the mind of the masses. They must explain in an educative manner why the conflict is inevitable. They should demonstrate that that freedom, rights, dignity, humanity, etc. is only ever preserved, and desired change could be engineered, by force.

History has shown repeatedly that the masses, has no choice, but to use the same means used by the ruling elite in revolutionary reconstructing society!

For there is no other road, there is no other way and there is no other course!

The monarchy must be overthrown pitilessly to give way to a people’s republic and the so-called king, together with his so-called royal cohorts must all die, in order for the country to live!

Insurrection is the primary solution! Hence, revolution should be the order of the day! For that is the only way! The poor must settle the score with the bloody rich!
Their insurrection must lead into a brutal class war!!!

DOWN WITH THE MONARCHY! DOWN WITH THE FUCKING king! DOWN WITH ALL THE ROYALTY! DOWN WITH THE BLOODY RICH! DOWN WITH THE FUCKING BANGKOK ELITE! DOWN WITH THE FUCKING COURTS! DOWN WITH THE SUPER STUPID SO-CALLED ELECTION COMMISSION! DOWN WITH THE THAI MILITARY WHICH IN MY VIEW IS ONE OF THE MOST STUPIDEST ARMY IN THE ENTIRE WORLD!!!

LONG LIVE THE RED SHIRTS!!!

LONG LIVE THE THAI MASSES!!!

Jose Mario Dolor De Vega

The RadicaL

I refer to Reuter’s “Ally of India’s Modi says rape “sometimes right, sometimes wrong””, June 5th concerning the gruesome and horrible case of two young cousins who were gang rape, strangled to death and then consequently hanged to a mango tree by those bastard animals.

I joined the international community in condemning to the highest possible extent this act of madness, barbarism and pure evil which can only be committed not merely by “young boys” but undeniably of demons of the most satanic order!

Those sexual predators are not humans, they are worst than the animals! It is not an exaggeration to state that they are the perfect physical manifestation of evil on this planet!

They don’t deserve to live in any civilize society, because they belong to the barbaric past by virtue of their animality and depravity.

If truly India is a civilized society then the government must do everything within its powers to bring those criminals to the bar of justice to answer for their despicable and heinous crimes.

The people of India must unite to show themselves and to the whole world that they are not tolerating discrimination and that they are detesting and condemning to the utmost, this utterly loathsome and abhorrent inhumanity.

According to report of the Human Rights Observers, “India: Teen sisters allegedly gang-raped, hanged to death in Uttar Pradesh; Cops suspected”, May 29th:

“Hundreds of angry villagers spent the rest of Wednesday in silent protest over alleged police inaction in the case. Indian TV channels showed video of the villagers sitting under the girls’ bodies as they swung in the wind, preventing authorities from taking them down from the tree until the suspects were arrested.”

These angry villagers are demanding justice and action from the authorities, but the bastard police instead of doing its job “took the side of the culprits”. That is not only a travesty of justice and mockery, but the heights of indescribable shame!

Again to quote from another report of the Human Rights Observers, “Indian teen girls gang-rape: families allege police shielding attackers”, May 31st:

“The victims’ families allege that local police were shielding the attackers as they refused to take action when the girls were first reported missing. It was only after angry villagers found the hanging corpses and took the bodies to a nearby highway and blocked it in protest, say the families, that police registered a case of rape and murder.”

It is clear from the facts of the case, that there is a conspiracy! Those policemen that shielded and protected those rapists and murderers must not only be suspended but should also be prosecuted for the crimes of rape and murder.

Why?

It is a universally accepted principle of law that in a case involving conspiracy: the act of one is the act of all! Further, those bastard policemen must be prosecuted from negligence and acts prejudicial to the interest of the public. They have no right to be members of the police force for showing their bias, discrimination and incompetence. They are good for nothing! They are the one that should be hanged to death!

Adding insult to injury “a lawmaker from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party has described rape as a social crime, saying “sometimes it’s right, sometimes it’s wrong”, in the latest controversial remarks by an Indian politician about rape.”

That dirty pronouncement of that bastard son-of-a-bitch is not only detestable, disgusting, but utterly both idiotic and discriminatory.

I condemn the act of the state government involved in this case in trying to bribe the fathers of the victim and I commend one of the fathers for refusing the said “blood money”.

If India will not do something about this latest abominable and undeniably repulsive rape case, then they are on their way to become the Rape Capital of the World!

A regional politician from Modi’s own party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said on Thursday that the crime of rape can only be considered to have been committed if it is reported to police.

Comment:

I do not know whether that bastard idiot is drunk or under the influence of drugs, yet the facts of this case is clear: the parents of the victims had tried to report that their daughters are missing yet the bastard police turned them away.

So, following the super idiotic “definition” of that hyper moronic politician, every time a rape complaint is file but so long as the police will not record it, then there is no case and there is no crime?

Bloody hell! This creature is one of the most idiotic freaks that I have encountered in my entire conscious life!

Point two: It does not mean that because a case of rape was not reported, it means that a crime does not occur. Rape is rape and a crime is a crime!

Below are the heinous and odious words of the home minister of Madhya Pradesh, Mr. Babula Gaur:

“This is a social crime which depends on men and women. Sometimes it’s right, sometimes it’s wrong…

“Until there’s a complaint, nothing can happen…”

This is a shame!

That bastard freak as home minister is responsible for law and order in the said state. How will that idiot enforced the law if he himself is violating the law? How will that bastard execute peace and order, if he himself does not have an orderly and sound mind?

Commentaries:

Mr. so-called home minister, could you please tell us, when is rape right and when it is wrong!

What if I rape and fuck your daughter inside your house; is it right?

What if I rape and fuck again your daughter the following day, but this time in an open space, in an open air, in full view of the public; is it wrong?

Mr. so-called home minister, you also stated that: “Until there’s a complaint, nothing can happen."

Again, it is clear from the facts of the case and from the various and numerous reports that “the father and uncle of one of the victims said they tried to report the crime to local police but had been turned away.”

Question:

How could the case of rape be recorded if some of your fucking bastard policemen are siding with those demonic rapists?

How could the case of rape be recorded if some of your policemen are not doing their job?

As of the moment, three bastard criminals have been arrested over the killings.

What the hell are we going to do with these animals?

Then, “two policemen were held on suspicion of trying to cover up the crime.”

Again, what the fuck are we going to do with these good for nothing so-called law enforcers?

It is incontestably sickening and disgusting to note that “a rape is reported in India every 21 minutes on average, law enforcement failures mean that such crimes – a symptom of pervasive sexual and caste oppression – are often not reported or properly investigated, human rights groups say. More sex crimes have come to light in recent days.”

Not to be outdone, another bastard so-called home minister from another state has issued another equally super preposterous and utterly ridiculous statement: “rapes happen accidentally”!

As reported by the AFP, “Indian minister says rapes happen 'accidentally'”, June 8th:

“A minister from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party has said rapes happen "accidentally" in the latest controversial remarks by a politician amid renewed anger over attacks against women.

“Ramsevak Paikra, the home minister of central Chhattisgarh state who is responsible for law and order, said late on Saturday that rapes did not happen on purpose.”

This is exactly what that bastard told the reporters as recorded by the media:

"Such incidents (rapes) do not happen deliberately. These kind of incidents happen accidentally…"

Comment:

How the hell could a crime of rape which is a crime that is always associated with violence, force and viciousness be accidental?

How could the crime of rape which is so hideous, repulsive, revolting, disgusting and utterly distasteful happened not in an arbitrary manner and deliberate method?

It is a shame that Paikra, also of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which also rules at the national level could come out with such preposterous ideas, worst, that creature have the guts and galls to issue such a super stupid and incontestably idiotic pronouncement!

Shame to both Babula Gaur and Ramsevak Paikra!

A Call to Mr. Modi

Sir, if you and your government truly represent the will of the people, then the right thing to do is for you to castigate your men and ask them to apologize! Failure to do so on the part of these animals, you have no choice but to sack them from your party!

Show to the people that your party truly represents all the Indian people! Let the hammer fall and let it fall heavily!

On The Question of Pervasive Sexual Violence, Caste Oppression and Discrimination Against Minority

Besides the rampant sexual assaults, constant rapes and everyday molestations barbarically and habitually committed against women now happening in India, said society must also admit the brutal truth and that is: it is not true that their Constitution abolished the caste system.

Bapu called the dalits, the “untouchables” as harijans or children of god, but sad but true, the free and liberated India that he aspired and fought for against the colonizers has only ironically replaced the British in oppressing, abusing, dehumanizing and violating these people, which ironically are their fellow Indians.

I am wondering if Gandhi is alive today, what will he say to these lecherous creatures, these bastard policemen, good for nothing and discriminatory so-called home ministers?!

Shame! Super Shame!

Now, look at this, while this case is still raging and making an outrage all over India, another woman was victimized!

According to the reports:

“A woman in a nearby district of Uttar Pradesh was gang-raped, forced to drink acid and strangled to death. Another was shot dead in northeast India while resisting attackers.”

Finally, I overwhelmingly concur with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon when has said that he was “especially appalled” by “the rape and murder of the two girls.”

As he said in a statement:

“We say no to the dismissive, destructive attitude of, ‘Boys will be boys’…”

The world must come together to make sure that India is protecting its woman and carrying out the laws and legislation that protect women’s rights and welfare!

Jose Mario Dolor De Vega

Philosophy and Social Science lecturer
General Education Department
Unibersidad de Manila

I refer to the AP report, “French Face Veil Ban Upheld By European Court”, July 1 with regard to the decision of the so-called European Court of Human Rights which has recently “upheld France’s law banning face-covering Muslim veils from the streets”.

Said case which is the first of its kind was “brought by a woman who claimed” that “her freedom of religion was violated”.

As narrated lucidly by the said report:

“The ruling by the Strasbourg-based court was the first of its kind since France passed a law in 2010 that forbids anyone to hide his or her face in an array of places, including the street. The law went into effect in 2011.

“The court's Grand Chamber rejected the arguments of the French woman in her mid-20s, a practicing Muslim not identified by name. She said she doesn't hide her face at all times, but when she does it is to be at peace with her faith, her culture and convictions. She stressed in her complaint that no one, including her husband, forced her to conceal her face — something of particular concern to French authorities.

“The court ruled that the law's bid to promote harmony in a diverse population is legitimate and doesn't breach the European Convention on Human Rights.”

Commentaries:

I perfectly understand the real reason of the French government in promulgating this law three years ago: that is for security (the threat of militants and terrorists) and for diversity (French culture and assimilation, etc.) yet, having said that, I question the propriety and wisdom of the court in arriving at their judgment.

The state has the right to defend itself from harm and injury. There is no debate on that. The government has the power to lay down rules, regulations and stipulations that the citizens must obey. The same is true most especially to the foreigners and immigrants who must comply and abide to the said laws in order for them to legally stay to the said society that are living in.
Nonetheless, I regretted that France (especially that so-called “court”), who’s culture, sense of civilization, judicial system and way of life which is being admired by the international community had made a big mistake with regard to this specific case.

They failed miserably to forge a sense of equilibrium and moderation in balancing the public interest (the right of the state to protect itself) from that of the right of the citizen (the right to choose and to decide willfully).

As reported, “under the law, women who cover their faces can be fined up to 150 Euros ($205) or be obliged to attend a citizenship class, or both.”

Further, “when enacted, the law was seen as a security measure, with veiled women considered fundamentalists and potential candidates for extremist views. Another concern was respect for the French model of integration in which people of different origins are expected to assimilate.”

Commentaries:

The two primary reasons behind the law is contradictory and in direct opposition to one another. The first one is aimed “at potential candidates for extremist views”, while the other is for integration and assimilation.

Question:

How the hell could France integrate people of different origin for purposes of assimilation if the said law behind the said aims is zeroing and/or targeting some people who are profiled or stereotyped or tagged or considered or suspected of fundamentalism and extremism?

I have no problem with the French authorities asking some women or people to take away their veil or head scarf or headdress on the ground of investigation, identification, verification and for purposes of documentation, but to give authority and power to those powers that be to arrest and accost and harass people and women who are wearing their veil, scarf and/or headdress on the street on their way to their places of religious worship in my view is a grave violation of their constitutional and international right to religious freedom.

In a truly democratic society, people are penalized, punished and condemned for the wrong acts that they committed, not for what they think and believe, because the right to think, the right to believe and the right to act on those beliefs are beyond state regulation and no government has the right to invade those rights!

Consider the idiotic conclusion reached by that so-called court. They justified their ruling by saying that the ban is a “choice of society”.

Commentaries:

Can there be a society without its inhabitants?

Does the bloody court have forgotten that no society can exist without its people and citizens?

Did they forget also that society is a mere collection of individuals that agreed to bond themselves?

When they speak of the choice of society, do they speak on behalf of the said society or are they speaking for that society?

To do or not to do

My view on this whole controversy is: those women (whether they are Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Jew, etc.) want to wear that veil (or whatever headdress), then let them do so, so long as no one is forcing them to do so!
In the same vein, those women do not want to wear that (whatever headdress is that), then so be it. Again, so long, as long it is their will and no one is forcing or compelling them not to do so!

It is my firm belief that the government has no right to legislate and regulate how the hell should or must women dress up!

The government does not own them, but rather they owned the government and so as their bodies!

France and that so-called “court” in my view had indeed violated the right to religion of that woman petitioner and so as all the women being prejudiced by their “law”.

It is on this sense that I concur with the critics of the said ban, which includes human rights defenders and overwhelmingly agree with their contention that the law “targets Muslims and stigmatizes Islam”.

Said ban in my view is not only stupid but undeniably preposterous and sadly France has deviated from its glorious reputation and history from this ridiculous ruling of this impertinent court.

Louise Roug writing for Mashable, “Why France's Ban on Face Veils Is Bad News for Women”, July 3rd has brilliantly argued that:

“The ban is also likely to further stigmatize Muslim women — some of whom do choose to wear the veil.

““The argument that the law protects women has no foundation,” said Geneviève Garrigos, president of Amnesty International France, according to France24.
“Many [Muslim] women wear veils of their own free will," she said, adding: “The state does not exist to tell people how they should dress. Rather, it should allow them to make their own choices.” (Amnesty International supported the appeal by the woman who brought the case before the European Court of Human Rights.)

“In addition to the argument that the veil is degrading to women, French officials have asserted that the veil is an affront to French secular traditions. But that is clearly a slippery slope. For one thing, it negates the idea that different cultures and religions can live side by side. Plus, it raises questions about who gets to determine what are the right and proper cultural norms. Finally, there is a specious argument about terrorism and security: that the veil hides people's identities. But so do certain hats, scarves and beards.”

What’s to be done?

Unfortunately, “the judgment cannot be appealed since it was handed down by the Grand Chamber of the European Court.” Nonetheless, it is my take that the matter is not yet over. The said woman, “a 24-year-old French woman of Pakistani origin had brought the case before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, arguing that the original 2011 French ban on face-covering veils, intended to protect her against oppression, instead violated her rights to freedom of religion, expression and assembly, and was discriminatory” can bring this issue of humanistic and universal importance to the United Nations.

Article 18 of the United Nations INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON
CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS expressly provides that:

1. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right shall include freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice, and freedom, either individually or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching.

2. No one shall be subject to coercion which would impair his freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice.

3. Freedom to manifest one's religion or beliefs may be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary to protect public safety, order, health, or morals or the fundamental rights and freedoms of others.

4. The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to have respect for the liberty of parents and, when applicable, legal guardians to ensure the religious and moral education of their children in conformity with their own convictions.

Therefore, anyone who is aggrieved by the stupid and preposterous French law banning the wearing the veil can invoke this international law and sue France before the United Nations.

To France, shame on you and quote the words of Louise Roug: “So much for Liberté, Égalité and Fraternité.”

Jose Mario Dolor De Vega

Philosophy and Social Science lecturer
Polytechnic University of the Philippines and Unibersidad de Manila

The Zionist argument to justify Israel’s present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history… not even on their religion. --- Malcolm X

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. --- Mahatma Bapu Gandhi

It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews. --- Albert Einstein

I am writing to express to the highest possible degree my gravest condemnation and categorical renunciation of the continuing military operation being conducted by the Zionist army against the occupied people of the Gaza Strip!

It is my firm contention without the slightest iota of doubt that the so-called state of Israel (which is a fake one and a misnomer) is the number one terrorist ‘state’ in the entire world next to the US and the UK.

Their evil concerted act of stealing the lands of the Palestinians is the greatest robbery in the contemporary history of mankind.

Their satanic act of oppressing, exploiting and killing massively to the point of eradication the people of Gaza and the West Bank is the gravest crime against humanity!

To quote the words of Lilian Rosengarten of the Al-Awda New York: The Palestinian Right to Return Coalition Jews for Palestinian Right of Return:

“I was born in Frankfurt, I too am a refugee from Nazi Germany, and I am a Jew who must say no to apartheid, occupation, check points, stolen lands, racism and a desire for Jewish state only obtained through the suffering and bloods of Palestinians.”

Now, the devilish Zionist ‘state’ of Israel is once again bombing to the ground, round the clock the Palestinian people, specifically Gaza. It is beyond dispute that what they are doing is to wipe out the Palestinians from the face of the earth.

Hence, in a word, what they are carrying out right now is: genocide!

To quote the incisive and sharp analysis of the eminent radical professor, Noam Chomsky:

“Israel uses sophisticated jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war.

“It is not war, it is murder.”

Just want to update the great professor that bastard Israel has now also bombed hospitals (See, “Israeli tank strikes Gaza hospital kill 4, scores injured – medics”, RT Question More, July 21st).

It’s been weeks now since the evil Zionist ‘state’ of Israel has unleashed their genocidal act.

According to the latest media report, the Palestinian death toll has already exceeded that of the 2012 ground invasion.

What breaks my heart is to see that majority of the fatalities and victims of this sophisticated carnage are women and mostly children, in a word: civilians!

I am heavily wondering how could this fucking world that calls itself civilized and humane could stand the sight of those dead young children of Gaza?

How could this fucking world which has created and legislated, a lot of so-called humanistic and international human rights laws tolerates the barbarism, evilness, madness, paranoia and unexplainable inhumanity of bullshit Israel against the people of Palestine?

Why?

What kind of fucking world is this?

Where the hell is the international condemnation of the people of the West?

Where the fuck is the supposed world-wide renunciation from the people of Europe and America?

It is on this sense that I am condemning to the utmost the uselessness and worthlessness of the so-called UN, which in my view must be called not as the so-called “united nations”, but the UNITED NOTHING!

Why? Because they are good for nothing! Palestinian children are being killed and butchered and massacred everyday and what they are doing? Meetings! Meetings! Meetings!

Bloody bastards, enough of your fucking meetings, do something!

The so-called sec-gen of this stupid organization is an idiot of the highest order! A couple of days ago, he offered his condolences to the Israeli government for their casualties (40), but this bastard idiot, did not offer the same to the Palestinian fatalities (it has reached 1,000)! (See “UN chief expresses condolences to Israeli regime”, PressTV, July 22nd and “Gaza Health Ministry: Palestinian Death Toll Tops 1,000”, by Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell of Reuters, July 26th).

What a fucking concept and/or gesture of “justice” and “fairness” is that?

Shame on him and shame on his fucking organization!

The sad fact that they cannot do anything to stop the on-going massive violence being committed by Israel has clearly shown their being an inutile, their bias and good for nothingness!

The so-called UN (United of Nothing) is a shame! If they still have some decency left with them, then the right thing to do is for them to move for the dissolution and/or abolition of the said organization, because they cannot carry out or discharge their primordial function which is to ensure world peace which is primarily the very reason for the establishment and/or constitution in the first place.

It is my contention and I am deliberately saying this that on the issue of Israel’s animosity and terrorism against the Palestinian people, the so-called UN (United of Nothing) is a curse and a shame!!!

Sad but true!

Needless to state, I am also condemning the US as the no. 1 protector of the no. 1 terrorist ‘state’ in the entire world which is no other than bullshit Zionist Israel! (See, John Heilprin’s “UN Rights Chief Warns of Possible Gaza War Crimes”, Associate Press, July 23. Said report states that: “Only the United States voted against the resolution championed by Arab nations. Another 17 of the Human Rights Council's 47 member-states abstained.”)

Bullshit Israel is acting the way it is acting because bastard America with the acquiescence of UK is tolerating and allowing their on-going violence and continuing genocide.

Shame to all of them!!!

Nonetheless, I would like to highlight that everything is not lost for humanity! I commend and applaud those few countries, governments and organization would come out into the open to rebuke and condemn Israel.

Bravo to those South American countries such as Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador for their solidarity to Palestine! (See, “‘Stop the genocide!’ S. American leaders condemn Israeli operation in Gaza”, RT Question More, July 20th)

Bravo also to the African National Congress (ANC) for comparing the Zionist to the Nazism! To quote a portion of their official statement:

“The rest of the world, including South Africa, will have no further trust in the methods they are using in the name of Jewish liberation.”

I am also equally condemning the so-called Muslim countries and Arab nations for their deafening silence and for their unforgivable betrayal and abandonment of the cause and struggle of the Palestinian people.

Shame to all of them!!!

I am specifically condemning Egypt for acting like a puppet, worst like a fucking dog of bastard US and criminal Israel in further isolating Palestine from the outside world!

Egypt has no right, whatsoever to say that they are Muslim or that they are Arabic! For the truth is that they are nothing but pimps and prostitutes of American imperialism and Israeli Neo-Nazism!

Shame to Egypt! They have no sense whatsoever of Humanity and Morality!

To quote from my article, “In defence of Palestinian Statehood”, The Malay Mail and the Sun Daily Malaysia, September 28, 2011:

“A few days ago, I completely lost all trust, respect and confidence with President Obama. I welcome his winning the presidency in 2008. I thought that by his victory, he would renounce his country’s aggression and imperialism! I was wrong!

“He was already eaten by the American system. That is why when he addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations to speak about the Palestinian question… though he did not uttered the word veto, it is clear from his statement that the Palestinian people would not get his support for their cause.

“I am wondering, why it took him six months to finally issue the condemnation. Further, while he condemned Syria for its brutality, he is not condemning the Israeli government for its brutalities being committed to the Palestinian people. Is this a case of selective justice? Or, perhaps double standards of the highest order?

“Other guilty parties in this issue are those so-called “brothers and sister countries” of Palestine.

“Who are they? They are those so-called Arab nations and Muslim countries. Yes, they are helping Palestine in its struggle. No question about it, so many economic aids has been given and countless humanitarian missions had been sent.

“However if I may I ask: how many of these countries and nations have recognised Palestine as an independent state? All they do is condemn Israel’s barbarism and militarism, US interference and UK’s inutility. The most substantive and utterly important thing to do is to recognise Palestine as a State and not merely as it is, a mere governing body.”

Nonetheless, it is but just that I must also commend and applaud the few Muslim countries that openly throw its lot to the Palestinian cause.

Bravo to Turkey, Malaysia and Chechnya!

I am also equally condemning to the fullest the various international main stream media, such as CNN, BBC and FOX News and others for their prostitution, their lies, their bias and favoritism.

The way they present and report the ‘news’ is not only a perversion of the truth but a mockery of the real thing that is happening.

Shame to all of them!

In the same vein, I would like to commend and applaud the few trustworthy media that are reporting the on-going genocide in an objective manner!

Bravo to Democracy Now, PressTV, RT and other small, but independent media outlet!

Lastly, I would like to commend and applaud all the people of the world who are protesting in the capital of their countries, from Paris to London to Karachi to Manila up to Nigeria to register their point to their bullshit governments and to show their solidarity to the Palestinian people!

For it is written, “you don’t need to be a Muslim to stand up for Gaza. You just need to be human”, because in the end, “it is not about religion”, for the undeniable truth is that: “it’s all about Humanity.”

In the immortal words of a great man, comrade Nelson Madiba Mandela:

“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”

Henceforth, the world must unite and stand as One for Gaza and the Palestinian people!

For Humanity!!!

Jose Mario Dolor De Vega

Philosophy and Social Science lecturer
Polytechnic University of the Philippines and Unibersidad de Manila

I am writing with regard to the catastrophic event that happened to MH17 concerning the horrible fate of the said ill-fated flight and the gruesome and horrendous deaths suffered by its 298 passengers.

It was sudden, totally unexpected and horrific way to die, to say the least!

I condemned, on behalf of humanity to the highest possible extent the evil and heartless perpetrators of these unmistakably demonic and dastardly acts of inhumanity and utter barbarism.

What they did, whoever the hell they are without the slightest shadow of doubt is an act of terror and incontestably a crime against humanity.

I am holding all of those bastard murderers responsible for this despicable and utterly disgusting international felony of universal scale.

The reports are pointing the blame to the so-called pro-Russian rebels who are fighting Ukraine in order for them to secede from the latter and eventually rejoin Russia.

Other reports are claiming that Russia is responsible by virtue of the fact that they are supporting those rebels and they are the one who had supplied them of sophisticated weapons.

While Russia is saying that it is not them or those rebels but Ukraine who carried out the attack. They even stated that it was carried out by Ukraine in order for the said act to be blame on them.

The US and its Western allies are specifically pointing to Moscow as the ultimate brains behind this horrible event. They even offered some satellite map to back up their allegation. However, a Russian general from the Defense department categorically stated that the said map was a hoax.

Now, in the absence of clear, credible and convincing evidences, it is my view that we cannot jump the gun so to speak and immediately draw our conclusions.

It is on this great sense that I am supporting the call of both the Dutch government and the Malaysian authorities for an international, impartial and independent investigation to ferret out the whole truth with regard to this matter.

Said inquiry will collate all the pertinent data, relevant information and necessary and indispensable evidences that shall reconstruct the whole truth and reveal eventually who the real perpetrators are.

If after the said investigation, it will be validated that it was indeed those rebels, then the whole worlds must condemn them and hold them responsible.

The same is true, if the culprit is no other than Russia. They must answer for their murderous act.

Yet, if I may ask, what would be the reaction of the world if it turns out that it was Ukraine who fired that fatal shot, bomb or missile?

Will the world condemn Ukraine and hold them responsible?

What if the evidence further revealed that it was not only Ukraine, but they did their evil act with the help and/or connivance of USA, will the world condemn America and hold it responsible?

Barely 24 hours after the said tragedy, the Americans with their allies, are already telling the world that they have proof that it was the rebels who committed the said despicable act with the active participation of Russia.

Question:

How certain are they that their allegation is correct, accurate and indisputable?

May I remind the world of George Bush’s Mother of All Lies with regard to the so-called Weapons of Mass Destruction allegedly being hidden by Saddam!

Does the bloody world still remember?

Bastard America with its allies, the so-called “Coalition of the Willing” (murderers and killers) begun the so-called War on Terror base on a lie!

That lie plunged the Middle East and in a great part, the world into chaos, division, mistrust, distrust and hate!
We are still reeling from the said fiasco!

A warning to the international community and the whole world

Never again believe directly, on the spot and point blank range what the Americans are saying, because history will clearly shows that they have a consistent history of lies and calumny to justify their act of going to war. Incontestably, they love to kill people, because they are war freaks!

To quote from the article of David Redick, “13 Lies: An Abbreviated History of U.S. Presidents Leading Us to War”, The Activist Post, December 15, 2010:

“Below are the facts on how we got into a few major wars. Each one could be (and has been) a book, and many other smaller wars also could be shown, so please forgive the brevity. The format is: war name; the lying President and the year it started; the stated reasons/lies for the war; and the real reasons.

“1. War of 1812 (Madison, 1812) -- Lies: In 1812, Congress declared war on England based primarily on their kidnapping (‘impressment’) of our sailors at sea. Truth: To drive England out of N. America, so the war started with our failed invasion of Canada at Detroit. DC "expansionists" took advantage and started incursions to acquire Spanish Florida, and Mexican Texana territories.

“2. Mexican-American (Polk, 1845) -- Lies: Fight to defend our Texas border with Mexico. Truth: The disputes started when residents stole The Republic of Texas from Mexico. We invaded and took the northern half of Mexico, now our entire SW region of five states.

“3. Civil (Lincoln, 1865) -- Lies: Fight to end slavery and preserve the union. Truth: The South got tired of economic abuse by the North and had a perfect right to secede. It was not a civil war and it was unconstitutional, illegal, and immoral for the North to start a war to stop them. The Northern states who had the votes to control Congress, wanted to retain the South as a source of cotton and a customer for their manufactured goods (hence the high tariffs on imports in southern ports). Slavery was ended later by the Emancipation Proclamation, but only in Southern states, because the Union wanted the slaves as soldiers. Lincoln was a tyrant beholden to the railroad and canal interests; he jailed journalists and draft resisters who opposed him. Yet, to this day he is revered as a great President who saved the Union.

“4. Spanish-American (McKinley, 1898) -- Lies: Spain blew up the US battleship Maine in Cuba’s Havana harbor. Truth: Hearst publicized, and Teddy Roosevelt mobilized, to use the accidental explosion to take over Cuba by starting a war in April, 1898. We then invaded the Philippines in May and annexed Hawaii in July. A busy time for the beginning of Empire-USA!

“5. WWI (Wilson, 1917) -- Lies: Join Europe to "Make the World Safe for Democracy." Truth: Wilson was convinced to join by US and European industrialists who wanted to sell munitions and guns to the allies, and get paid when they won.

“6. WWII (FDR, 1941) -- Lies; Defend the US from unprovoked attacks by Japan. Truth: FDR poked Japan until he got his "incident." because he wanted to be in the war and prevent Germany from winning and emerge as a superpower (with 1. England and France under his control, and 2. Japan and Italy as buddies). FDR wanted the USA to be the only post-war superpower (with 1. Germany under our control, and 2. France and England as buddies)

“7. Korean (Truman, 1950) -- Lies: Defend America. Truth: Truman and the Generals wanted a reason to have troops in the Far East area of our Empire.

“8. Vietnam (Kennedy, Johnson, 1964) -- Lies: Johnson said Vietnam attacked our ships in the Gulf of Tonkin in August, 1964. Truth: The US didn’t want to lose the Southeast Asia region, and its oil and sea lanes, to China. This "attack" was convenient. Kennedy initiated the first major increase in US troops (over 500).

“9. Gulf War (G.H.W. Bush, 1991) -- Lies: To defend Kuwait from Iraq. Truth: Saddam was a threat to Israel, and we wanted his oil and land for bases.

“10. Balkans (Clinton, 1999) -- Lies: Prevent Serb killing of Bosnians. Truth: Get the Chinese out of Eastern Europe (remember the "accidental" bombing of their embassy in Belgrade?) so they could not get control of the oil in the Caspian region and Eastward. Control land for bases such as our huge Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo, and for the proposed Trans-Balkan Oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea area to the Albanian port of Valona on the Adriatic Sea.

“11. Afghan (G.W. Bush, 2001) -- Lies: The Taliban we’re hiding Osama. Truth: To build a gas/oil pipeline from Turkmenistan and other northern ‘xxstan’ countries to a warm water (all year) port in the Arabian Sea near Karachi (same reason the Russians were there), plus land for bases.

“12. Iraq (G.W. Bush, 2003) -- Lies: Stop use of WMDs -- whoops, bring Democracy, or whatever. Truth: Oil, defense of Israel, land for permanent bases (we were kicked out of Saudi Arabia) to manage the greater Middle East, restore oil sales in USD (Saddam had changed to Euros).

“13. Possible Iran War (Obama, 201?) -- Lies: They almost have an atom bomb; they are a threat to Israel; major killer of our troops in Iraq. Truth: Control their oil, defend Israel, and restore oil sales in USD only (they changed to add Euros and others). We created the regional conflict and shouldn’t be surprised that all neighbors (including our "friends" in Saudi Arabia) are helping Iraq. We exaggerate the threat to Israel, especially as Iran has allowed inspections and Israel has not.

“If you approve of the current Bush-Obama wars, but are resting safely at home, you should join the Army’s Chicken Hawk Brigade. There is no restriction on age or sex, and you will get an exciting front-line assignment promptly. Then, you won’t feel badly about sending others to fight your wars for oil, religion, and Empire-USA.”

If I may add, how about the US lies with regard to Cuba? Why is it that up to now, the bloody embargo is still there?

Question: Why is it that the Americans are so afraid of the Cubans?

Warning to the American public

The world now is much aware of the tricks, the lies and the methods of dramatics of your empire. You can no longer fool or dupe the international community.

If it is true that you have evidence against Russia and those rebels, then why don’t you handed them to the international investigation?

Stop irritating Russia and forcing them to the bloody wall, because we don’t know what the hell is going on in Putin’s head and we don’t know what the hell he is thinking.

To the Americans, may I remind you that Russia is not Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, etc. if you will not stop from charging Russia and they give in to your provocations and hostilities erupt, then that conflict may lead to a full scale war, sad but true, then that war will be World War III and that may be will be the end of all of us!

Suggestion:

It would be better if the bastard Americans will back off from this issue and not interfere with the on-going investigation by virtue of the undeniable fact that they do not have any credibility, civility and moral ascendancy!

Hence, to the US government: Back off!

Solidarity

My sincerest condolences and solidarity to all the love ones and families of all the victims of the ill-fated MH17!

May you all live forever!!!

Jose Mario Dolor De Vega

Philosophy and Social Science lecturer
Polytechnic University of the Philippines and Unibersidad de Manila

I refer to “Obama is a ‘war criminal’ for supporting Israel’s treatment of Palestinians – Cornel West”, RT Question More, August 06 with regard to the public speech delivered by a world-renowned dissident professor.

I overwhelmingly concur with controversial professor and political activist Cornel West when he publicly declared President Barack Obama a “war criminal”! I am also in complete agreement with his argument that this is base on the indisputable fact that it was precisely Obama’s “support of Israel and his drone policy make him complicit in the deaths of innocent people.”

According to the said report:

“The controversial activist made the comments at a pro-Palestinian rally in Washington, DC on Saturday, according to Talking Points Memo. West began his speech by pointing to the deteriorating situation in Gaza, where more than 1,800 Palestinians and more than 60 Israelis have been killed, criticizing Israel’s offensive in the region in front of a “Free Palestine” banner.”

Here’s a portion of Dr. West’s speech:

“There’s an intimate connection between mendacity and criminality, between lies and crimes against humanity…

“And what I want to say to my Black brother in the White House: Barack Obama is a war criminal – not because he’s Black, or half-African and white – but because his drones have killed 233 innocent children, and because he facilitates the killing of innocent Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and it would be true anywhere else.”

Commentaries:

I applaud the courage and the guts of the said professor in saying openly to the public what the general public and the world as a whole needs to hear, no matter how sad and brutal the truth is: and that is the undeniable fact that Barrack Obama is nothing but a war criminal like his predecessor, the utterly stupid Dubya!

Nonetheless, Professor West is absolutely correct in saying Obama is a war criminal not because of the color of his skin or by virtue of his cultural heritage and his ethnicity but precisely because he is allowing the utilization of deadly force and sophisticated killing machines and lethal technology in confederation and connivance with the Israelis in facilitating the systemic and mass killing and mass murder of the Palestinian people!

In a word: Obama is also guilty of genocide which is a crime against humanity in his support and defense of the Zionist Israeli fake state!

Incontestably, Professor West is also correct in saying that “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in the same category as his American counterpart”, because it is beyond dispute “that anyone who “chooses occupation and annihilation is a war criminal.””

Professor West categorically stated that:

“Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal — not because he’s Jewish, but because he has chosen to promote occupation and annihilation…”

“This is a human affair.”

I completely concur with Dr. West in his pronouncement with regard to the mass murderer Netanyahu that this freak is a war criminal, not because he is Jewish, but because he “has chosen to promote occupation and annihilation”.

In a word, Netanyahu is a war criminal, because of his acting worst than the Nazi and that he and his military are guilty of genocide, which are crimes against humanity.

The radical and prominent activist noted that the said rally’s main objective is to highlight the plight of the Palestinian people because their “humanity is rendered invisible in the corporate media.”

That is because the American media is controlled by the Zionist! Sad but true! Consider the argument of the stupid media in the US: If one will criticize the Israeli, they will immediately tag the said person of anti-semitism! That is not only an idiotic charge but a complete bullshit crap!

Do those bastards knew that the Palestinians and so as the Jews both came from the Semitic people?

According to Wikipedia:

“A Semite is a member of any of various ancient and modern Semitic-speaking peoples originating in the Near East, including; Akkadians (Assyrians/Syriacs and Babylonians), Ammonites, Amorites, Arameans, Chaldeans, Canaanites (including Hebrews/Israelites/Jews and Phoenicians/Carthaginians), Eblaites, Dilmunites, Edomites, Ethiopian Semites, Hyksos, Arabs, Nabateans, Maltese, Mandaeans, Mhallami, Moabites, Shebans and Ugarites.”

So, when those bloody bastard idiots talked about anti-semitism, what the fuck are they referring to?

Dr. West has shown his objectivity and further stressed that:

"I would be here if there were a Palestinian occupation of Jewish brothers and sisters, because it's wrong, it's unjust and we stand not with the level of skin pigmentation or ethnic identity; this is ethical, this is spiritual with political consequences…"

Hence, under the prevailing circumstances being face by Gaza “resistance under occupation” is justified!

This is not the first time that Dr. West has called Obama a war criminal. As the report clearly illustrated:

“Notably, West has called Obama a war criminal before. In May 2013, he told the Guardian that although he supported Obama during his initial bid for the presidency, he became disillusioned after seeing the policies put in place both domestically and overseas.”

Commentaries:

Same with the professor, I am also one of those millions of people around the globe who threw our support for Obama, yet after three years in office, I am also one of those who were disillusioned by his false promises and fake persona.

Instead of ending the so-called war on terror, he did not only continue the same, but worst further amplified it and made it more large scale and global. Though, he did not use ground troops, he maximize their technological warfare by using advanced planes and much sophisticated drones that killed a lot of civilians from Iraq to Pakistan to Yemen, and now to Palestine. Not included in the list is their covert war on Syria.

Same with his predecessor, Obama also did not give a damn to the Palestinian cause. In 2011, during his Address before the United Nations, he even hinted that he will veto the right of the Palestinian for an independent state.

While on the local front, he is powerless to control the corporations, the banks, the big business and all their cohorts to the prejudice of the American public, especially those who live at the edge of society.

Obama instead of realizing the American Dream has turn into the worst American Nightmare! Sad but true!
The only difference between him and Dudya is that the latter is white while he is black, but on the level of political character and ideological persuasion --- both are the same! Shame!!!

For in truth and in fact, Obama is nothing more than the protector of Wall Street and the genocidal illegitimate ‘state’ of Israel!

As Dr. West clearly pointed out:

“He's just too tied to Wall Street… And at this point he is a war criminal. You can't meet every Tuesday with a killer list and continually have drones drop bombs. You can do that once or twice and say: 'I shouldn't have done that, I've got to stop.' But when you do it month in, month out, year in, year out – that's a pattern of behavior.”

“I think there is a chance of a snowball in hell that he will ever be tried, but I think he should be tried and I said the same about George Bush. These are war crimes. We suffer in this age from an indifference toward criminality and a callousness to catastrophe when it comes to poor and working people."

LET GAZA LIVE!

FREE PALESTINE!

FOR HUMANITY!

Jose Mario Dolor De Vega

Philosophy and Social Lecturer
Polytechnic University of the Philippines and Unibersidad de Manila

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