Excerpt: “From 1946 to 1950 the US gave over $2 billion in aid to the Philippines under Roxas and Quirino to rebuild the country. But President Trumans fact-finding mission (Bell Commission) reported that the money is gone. And obviously it went to landowners and unscrupulous businessmen oligarchs who are now richer than ever while the majority of the peoples standard of living has not risen to anywhere near the pre-war levels. Who would imagine with all the death and destruction brought by the war (WWII) and a decimated agricultural sector, the oligarch-traitors would take advantage of the situation and enrich themselves instead? Regarding the WAIS topic Collective Guilt and Making Amends, here are my recommendations: - Manuel Roxas Sr. and all those who were granted amnesty by Roxas should be posthumously tried for treason. - Now Cory Aquino & Doy Laurel should be tried for treason, posthumously or otherwise, and other members of her cabinet possibly including Fidel V. Ramos, Juan Ponce Enrile, should be investigated for possible involvement as accessories or witnesses. - Their children and grandchildren (Aquino III, Roxas II, Raffy Recto, Ayala, Zobel, Soriano, Lopez, Osmena III, Benigno Ramos etc) must be removed from positions of power and authority. - Their property confiscated. - All Filipinos who are residents of an industrialized G-7 type country will be given Temporary Protected Status. - For them to earn back their citizenship, they must take and pass a Philippine History re-education course. In the meantime all international organizations like the World Bank, IMF, ADB and the UN must be required to submit an accounting of all the funds loaned or given to the Philippines. An investigation of past and present employees of the World Bank, IMF, UN and members of the US Congress Committee on Foreign Relations must be started. I believe we could all agree that after WWII everyone in the Philippines was poor. So how did the so-called “old money” of today who are in Forbes 50 Richest Filipinos became rich? By 2012 they are richer than the British monarchy. Did they steal U.S. taxpayers money intended for the reconstruction of the Philippines after WWII? Collective Guilt and Atonement: Manila (Bienvenido Macario, USA) Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:52 AM waisworld.org/go.jsp?id=02a&objectType=post&o=73652&objectTypeId=65667&topicId=17
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