And so, while individual members of the AFP may not have any liking for the ruling elite (they may even hate these human leeches), at least they see to it that the gradually acquired vested interests in terms of high pay, benefits, rewards, etc. are preserved.

12 JAN

More on national security:

While the ruling class and top hierarchy of its national “private army” (AFP) live in affluence, the rest of the population live in grinding poverty. The “wretched of the earth” must labor, sweat, and strain their backs to provide the onerous taxes and profits with which to maintain the affluence and high living standard of the ruling class and their representatives in the bureaucracy. The same back-breaking effort, sweat (and even blood) must be given by the toiling masses to ensure the continuous flow of profits to the bulging pockets of alien capitalists and local compradors. “Ginigisa sa sariling mantika"best describes this exploitative and oppressive process.

The tragedy of the masses is that they are forced to pay onerous taxes (mostly indirect) for the maintenance of military and police institutions that are used by the ruling class to suppress, stifle, coerce, intimidate, arrest, confine, and even liquidate members of the working class and peasantry who try to assert their basic rights and recourse to elementary justice. This is specially the case under conditions of martial law where state power is concentrated in the hands of a narrow-based dictatorship.

13 JAN

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