ANGELES CITY- Farmers across the country will launch week-long nationally-coordinated protests this October against Pres. Aquino’s “Charter change, term extension, and rising dictatorship.”
The protests will start from October 16, World Food Day, up to October 21, the 42nd year of the late President Marcos’ Presidential Decree No. 27 on land reform which the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) described yesterday as bogus because it “covered only rice and corn lands and exempted vast tracts of lands devoted to commercial crops like the Cojuangco-Aquinos’ Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac.”
The protests are to be held simultaneously in urban centers in the country. This, even as the KMP also assailed Malacanang’s spin doctors for “concocting a bogus clamor” for Aqiono’s term extension and Charter change.
The KMP issued the statement after the Palace distanced itself from a paid advertisement that appeared recently in major dailies purportedly seeking to generate popular support for Aquino’s second term. KMP Chair Rafael Mariano said Sec. Herminio Coloma was being “manipulative and deceptive” by distancing Malacanang from the published ads that reportedly cost over P200,000.
“Malacanang’s statements are clearly manipulative and deceptive. After disowning the paid ad, Coloma and Liberal Party stalwarts then moved to capitalize on the issue,” noted Marinao. He was referring to Malacanang’s reiteration of Aquino’s previous pronouncement that “the people themselves would shoulder the responsibility in ensuring that the reforms already started would continue.”
Mariano called Coloma’s statement as “hard to believe” since “the paid ad merely echoed Malacanang’s line that Aquino is the only remaining Filipino on earth that can reform this country.” “Aquino and his spin doctors are obviously concocting a bogus clamor.
They are paving the way for an Aquino dictatorship,” Mariano said. The KMP said “the Filipino people will never allow another term for Aquino.” “The Filipino people are already suffering from Aquino’s corrupt and fascist regime.
Another term for the landlord President is tantamount to the perpetuation of landlessness, poverty, and human rights abuses,” Mariano said.
