CORRUPTION IS A WORST FORM OF TERRORISM LAST CARDS FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION To summarize, this is what we have in the Philippines: 1. A hopelessly corrupted Office of the President, presidential commissions, bureaus and other offices; 2. A hopelessly corrupted two-chamber Congress of the Philippines, congressional employees, and offices; 3. A hopelessly corrupted Supreme Court of the Philippines, Regional Trial Courts, Municipal Courts and judicial employees; 4. A hopeless corrupted Bureau of Customs, Bureau of Internal Revenues and other revenue-raising bureaus; 5. A hopelessly corrupted Commission On Elections, COMELEC offices and employees; and 6. A hopelessly corrupt and corrupted religious leaders, churches and employees. Nevertheless, against the backdrop of this moral and spiritual darkness and hopelessness, I believe there are still last card left for national liberation, to wit: 1. The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) as the Protector of the People. ARMED FORCES A-t all times, I am ready to fight and fulfill my Constitutional duty to protect my People, National Territory; R-espect and strictly obey the orders of my superiors whatever they maybe in order preserve the Republic and Democracy; M-ore than that, I shall learn, train and prepare myself to become the bravest, the brightest and the best fighting soldier of my race; E-verything I do, and everywhere I go, I shall remember the sacramental words, God, Duty, Honor and Country ; D-efender of the people, regardless of status or poverty, I am always ready to defend, preserve and live for human freedoms and liberties. F-or while to die for the Homeland is fine, fighting and living for her dreams and visions are a much better policy; I shall always be ready to make supreme sacrifice for the glory and honor of dying that other, especially my love ones, might live. O-nward, I go, ready to shed blood, even love and life and more, if only to see her forever free from shackles of slavery, and lifes gnawing and dehumanizing miseries; R-emembering, always, that Motherland is the only home God has given you and me, and that we must protect it for ourselves, our children, and childrens children until the world turns to nothing but a memory; C-onsequently, as a model soldier of my People, I must valiantly strive to live long, happy, healthy, perfect and forever toward the path of love, justice and liberty for the sake of the ideals that I live for and those I cherish and love;. E-arnestly, I fervently pray that my people and I shall cross the river on eternity, while humanity is good, immortality is a much better reality; and S-incerely, I look forward to that day, which comes so rarely in history, when love, peace, prosperity and harmony shall always be a part of our Countrys history under a regime of love, justice and liberty. ======================================================== By: ATTY.ELLY VELEZ LA0 PAMATONG- a Christian with a Moro trademarks----a human rights lawyer based in San Francisco, California and in the City of New York. He has written nine books, five (5) of which have already been published in the United States. He is also the owner and publisher of the Asian American Voice, an ethnic newspaper published in New York and California. As a lawyer, he practiced his profession both in the Philippines and in the United States for more than 20 years. While in California, he filed a lawsuit against the United States in order to obtain American citizenship for all Filipinos born during the territorial period under the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment. He presented his oral arguments before a 3-man judicial panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on August 8, 1992 but missed victory by one vote on September 20, 1994. In this case, Judge Harry Pregerson ruled that Filipinos are still citizens of the United States. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Silliman University in 1965, and graduated from the College of Law of the University of the Philippines in 1970. Among his extracurricular achievements are the following: Official Debater, University of the Philippines, 1967; Orator of the Year awardee, Silliman University, 1965; Champion Impromptu Speaker, Silliman University, 1965; and Champion Spanish Declaimer, Silliman University, 1965. He scored 92%,American Multi State Bar Examinations, United States of America. He is a member of the Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court of the Philippines, Supreme Court of the State of New York, American Trial Lawyers’ Association, American Bar Association, and a lifetime member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines. When President Marcos declared martial law in 1972, he fled from the Philippines through the southern back-door. In 1994, he was accorded a U.N. Refugee Mandate Status by the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) through the assistance of the Catholic Migration Commission and the United States Mission in Geneva, Switzerland. Subsequently, the UNHCR obtained a Canadian immigrant status for Elly Velez Pamatong. However, when he reached New York in 1974, he abandoned that status and sought political asylum in the United States.
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