{"id":2927,"date":"2008-02-18T05:22:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T11:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2008-02-18T05:24:06","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T11:24:06","slug":"gloria-m-arroyo-is-ripe-for-ouster-by-the-broad-mass-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2927","title":{"rendered":"Gloria M. Arroyo is ripe for ouster by the broad mass movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Fight Back News Service is reprinting the  following statement by Jose Maria Sison, a key leader in the fight to free the  Philippines from U.S. domination. Over the past week large demonstrations have  taken place in the Philippines demanding that the president, Gloria M. Arroyo,  step down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Gloria M.  Arroyo is ripe for ouster by the broad mass movement<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">By Prof. Jose Maria Sison<\/span><br \/>\nChief Political  Consultant<br \/>\nNational Democratic Front of the Philippines<br \/>\n15 February  2008<\/p>\n<p>Gloria M. Arroyo, the fake president, is ripe for ouster by the  broad mass movement of the Filipino people as a result of her record of moral  bankruptcy, subservience to foreign interests, brazen corruption and systematic  human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>The flagrant use of bribery to remove Rep. Jose  de Venecia from the speakership and the use of kidnapping in an attempt to  silence Rodolfo Jun Lozada have served to underscore the issue of corruption and  to outrage the broad masses of the people.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Arroyo regime has become  so isolated and so desperate that it has directed its military and police  minions to concoct tales about anti-Arroyo assassination plots and spread fears  about possible violence in mass actions in order to intimidate the people and  the legal democratic forces.<\/p>\n<p>The regime is seeking to justify the state  violence that the military and police are poised to unleash in order to disrupt  and stop the growth of the mass actions. In this regard, the regime and its  military and police henchmen are being called upon to respect the right of the  people to speak and assemble.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I know from the official  pronouncements of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the New People&#8217;s  Army (NPA) is sympathizing with and encouraging the legal and peaceful mass  actions in the urban areas and is directing its military tactical offensives  against the people&#8217;s enemies in the countryside in consonance with the strategic  line of protracted people&#8217;s war.<\/p>\n<p>The sheer growth of the legal and  peaceful mass actions in the national capital region and on a national scale in  the coming days, weeks and months can encourage the military and police to  withdraw support from the Arroyo ruling clique and can suffice to cause the  resignation, impeachment or outright ouster of the illegitimate and morally  bankrupt president.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________<br \/>\nFight Back News  Service | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightbacknews.org\/\">www.fightbacknews.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fight Back News Service is reprinting the following statement by Jose Maria Sison, a key leader in the fight to free the Philippines from U.S. domination. 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