Fact Finding Team finds nothing amiss

A group of senator and congressmen were in this city last Thursday. These officials were part of the Legislative Oversight Committee on the Visiting Forces Agreement (LOVFA) to check complaints that some American soldiers assigned or deployed in Mindanao were engaged in actual combat operations against lawless elements in the area.

There were also complaints that the Americans were putting up military bases in the area.

The officials who came here last Thursday wasted their time, because they took action on complaints that could have been argued in Congress, during press conferences or simply ignored at all.

They could have thought of something better if they only took the trouble to realize that the complaints -filed by militants groups, anti-democratic minded solons , those who are using the country’s democratic climate to destroy our democratic institutions, fronts of rebels and secessionist groups – were all self-serving.

Take the case about the socalled involvement of American soldiers in Combat operations in Mindanao.

Any answer to this charge could be justified by anybody else depending on whose interest they side with or who butters their side of the bread they eat these days.
It is stupid to expect that the Americans with all their economic and military powers at their beck and call - would build nipa and bamboo houses to house their soldiers here.

Anyway, the Filipinos will be quick to take over American facilities left here. Remember Subic and Clark?

It is natural to expect that those who seek the destruction , the domination, or the partition of this republic –will harass anybody else or any group who/that will stand to oppose their goals.

Why are they criticizing the legitimate action of a government and forget the foreign help, foreign money, foreign sanctuaries, foreign trainors offered or provided insurgents and secessionists by agents and fronts of other countries, in our homeland?

Nobody has stood up to criticize the involvement of other countries in propagating the establishment of a different ideology or form of government in this country or in Mindanao.

The problem that we have in the country and in Mindanao is an internal affair because these were all started by citizens of this country. We cannot therefore understand why some sectors, including those in government, are seeking the intervention of foreigners to resolve an internal affair.