Um, here’s a letter I received via e-mail concerning a “Roco Tshirt and Fund Drive” for Philippine Senator Raul Roco’s presidential candidacy. Santayana’s heart, I guess, is in the right place, though, as he puts it, I wouldn’t understand the theory since I haven’t been in the area:
Challenge
In case you didn’t know, there’s an election this coming May in the Philippines, and that we launched our Roco Tshirt and Fund Drive to support the candidacy of Senator Raul Roco for President of the Philippines.
If you also didn’t know, before oldtime actor Fernando Poe, Jr. entered the contest, Senator Raul Roco consistently topped the Ibon and social Weather Surveys as the possible winner of this coming election. To get more support into real votes for Raul Roco come election time, we need to keep the voters reminded that Raul Roco is still the best and most qualified candidate who can restore the local economic foundation of the Philippines. To do that, we need to remind the voters the reasons why they are poor. Hey, if they are not poor – who will sell their votes, join the New People’s Army, and then kill and be killed in a civil war so that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front can secede Sulu, Palawan and Mindanao with the help from the United Nations and help from some in the USA.
We also need to remind them that the Philippines was sold to the USA and can be sold again. If you didn’t know, some in the USA wants Mindanao and that Malaysia wants Sabah for $80 million. If you didn’t know, the Sultan of Brunei along with some Hong Kong Chinese were caught hoarding land in the Philippines! In retaliation, RP Congress made citizenship a requisite to owning land which got us into dual citizenship.
Surely, there are still others out there who are bent on making the Philippines cheaper if not poorer. To this end, they need to create a peace and order situation. In the movies, that’s a US-CIA specialty. If somebody can become the Timi Yuro of the Philippines, maybe Jose Ma. Sison wants to become the Stalin of the Philippines while he satisfies his senses in the red light corners of Amsterdam. The partnership of these two alone is formidable, what more Osama Bin Laden’s drug dealers, Al Qaeda/MILF and his corrupt cops or licensed-to-kill and mercenaries around the world?
The challenge here is, can you join us in making the Philippines rich? Making the Philippines rich is a no-brainer. If you did not know, (Raul Roco – Biodata) Senator Raul Roco finished college Magna Cum Laude at age 18, became a lawyer, took his masters in University of Pennsylvania, and was conferred seven honorary doctorate degrees.
Can this Peacemaker get this country above water? Because this country is naturally rich, with a lot of support, a good six months as President is all that is needed.
In case you didn’t know, the reason why people hoard land in the Philippines is because there’s lots of oil and gold in the Philippines. In fact, I am sure the USA bought the Philippines from Spain not because they wanted to offer the natives as entertainment to licensed hunters nor to train expert assassins with live targets. (Although I think they readily left because they have nothing more to learn from our natives about jungle survival.) Nope, I think they did because of oil and at that time there was no free trade nor open market policy. So the oil industry got the US to buy the Philippines.
The encouragement and entertainment: the military will have intelligence to bully the world; no – to dominate the world and preserve world peace; ain’t that neat.
Why? I think because the prevailing bias at that time – the KKK – they are superior because of their white skin. It can’t be any other way; it’s because of their white skin. It’s their shining armor! It’s not because they’re bigger than King Kong with a 45 and alcohol on the other. In fact, they’re the only ones who plays football where they readily die practicing and perfecting the “sport”. I don’t think that’s because they wanna maintain their claim to superiority; nope.
But the encouragement and entertainment was, to support that claim to superior white skin, they needed oil. No oil, no military presence and intelligence. No military power, no superior white skin. So they bought the Philippines.
You wouldn’t understand this theory if you haven’t been in the area. They could not say because of oil and gold because that is like telling everybody I found gold in California. They got to say something and get Congress to cut the deal.
How come they left without oil? Because they thought it was in the Muslim territory plus at that time, they did not have offshore drilling.
The Roco Tshirts will be given free-of-charge to all members of Aksyon Kabataan under the umbrella of Raul Roco’s Political Party – Aksyon Demokratiko, then to jeepney, taxi, bus, and tricycle drivers, sidewalk and cigarette vendors, wet market vendors, college students in Manila, then all over the Philippines. These tshirts will have “kay Roco ako” in front and in the back “ako rin”.
This Tshirt Project is huge and we can’t expect to do half of what is needed without you, your friends and your connections valued support. Can you imagine a million tshirts at a $1 a piece! Without you and your friends support the tasks increases. Should you grant us your financial support, thanks, any amount will be greatly appreciated, and please write your check or money order payable to:
NYSBCAA (New York San Beda College Alumni Association)
189 Settlers Hill Road, Southbury, CT 06488
Attn: Fundraising Committee
Sonny Santayana, (702) 804-1848, S472005@yahoogroups.com
Art Montesa, (516) 785-5151, artmontesa@yahoo.com
Antonio Abad, (203) 510-3400, aaabad@msn.com
Because we volunteers4roco work for free, all funds will be sent to Raul Roco’s Aksyon Demokratiko Headquarters in the Philippines to pay for the tshirts already in the pipeline, poll watching expenses and Court Fees (in case). Please help. A dollar or two can go a long way.
Sincerely,
Sonny Santayana, Las Vegas, NV 89144 – (702) 804-1848
S472005@aol.com
