RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement

Ten years of the VFA has revealed to us many horrors. It has shown us how freedom and democracy, and indeed, sovereignty - are incompatible with the prolonged presence of foreign troops. It has shown us how our legal processes can be undermined by rotten diplomatic considerations, if not made corrupt by political manipulations.

Well, for my part, I say it again: the damage done by the presence of foreign troops in our country is puny compared to the damage done by the foreign religion established in this country since 400 years ago. The threats of eternal damnation on the one hand, and the second coming of a Jewish Lord on the other hand - both have made a mockery of our system of education that has neither improved our way of life as a people, nor has it developed the Philippines as a nation.

No doubt, our schools, colleges, and universities have made us good; unfortunately, good for nothing. Look how we were made to believe that there is a better world to come after death. And that if in case we learn to love this world, the love of God is not with us!


Unless we dump Christianity out of our country, we shall only continue to feel the need of foreign troops to protect our poverty as a way of life and to defend our moral bankruptcy as a nation.

In the meantime, the Philippines is greater and bigger than we all are as individual Filipinos. Therefore love of country should be our one and only religion. Especially for the sake of the here and now. And love of fellow-citizens should be at the very foundation of our moral, political, and social values. Nothing else matters. Nothing else counts. Not even a divinity out there that perpetually inspires the Filipino insanity down here. Look at our country - she continues moving; unfortunately, moving not forward, but only backward. Back to those glorious centuries called “the Dark Ages.” Poch Suzara