Tuta ng mga Kano

Tuta ng mga Kano! That’s what you’d always hear from the leftist and militants every time they’re on the streets condemning the present regime (actually, the previous regime too.. and the future regimes to come). In a way, there’s a reality to that accusation. Sino ba namang president ng Pilipinas ang hindi naging tuta ng mga kano? Lahat naman sila naging tuta ng kano. The thing is, if you’re the setting president of the Philippines, you don’t have a choice but to be America’s tuta. Whether you like it or not, you’ll bow down to US pressure. Or else, US will impose economic sanctions and you don’t want that if you’re a leader because your people will suffer. And if your people suffer from the economic embargo, you’ll be very unpopular and it could lead to a political crisis. The worst thing that could happen is that if CIA and the US State Department will come up with a coup plans to oust you from power. America had been funding coup plots not only in the Philippines but to several countries. The State Department has a budget for that, bringing down regimes that they don’t like, e.g. Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, several states in the Balkan to name the few. Even Erap Estrada’s ouster was a brainchild of the US. In fact, I really believe that whatever is happening to our country is one way or another influence by the US.


Yeah right, I love Hillary and can’t promise you guys that I’ll hate her, because I won’t. Political pundits are buzzing about the real reason of Clinton’s visit to our country. We Filipinos are even accused as being stupid when we praised and adulate her instated of letting her explain the reason behind her visit. Political pundits are saying that we should demand an explanation of the real US agenda in Mindanao.

As you guys all know too well, our country maybe poor, poverty stricken and calamity devastated but we’re strategically located. We’re in the heart of Asia, in fact, we’re the true Asia in the real sense of the word (not Malaysia). We’re very accessible to China and US could very well use us as fueling station if and when a war of US and China takes place. The sad thing is, we’ll also be the Ground Zero of the possible war. We Filipinos should know better, if we’re not allied to the US during the World War 2, we wouldn’t have suffered casualties from the war. Japanese killed us like animals but Uncle Sam couldn’t even pay the pensions of the millions of our veterans. We should never be the Tuta of Kano. But do we really have a choice? We’re not as oil rich as Venezuela. My personal hero Hugo Chavez can throw all the rhetoric he wants against the US because Venezuela has oil. Oil made US respect Venezuela. US would only bow down to us if we’re rich.

That is precisely the reason why the IMF and the World Bank was created to make the poor nations became poorer. Their so called economic experts would force the poor countries like us to yield to their whims (of course, with the blessings of America and the west). If we’re poor, they can easily control us. We’re still bounded by the US whether we like it or not. The presidentiables could say what they’re for or against but in the end, when they’re elected to the office, they’ll still be Tuta ng Kano.