‘Be that as it may, with the Fourth of July in the mix, we cheer the Americans on their National Day. What would Make America Good Again?’
IN this case, the illegal aliens were the Japanese imperialists who perpetrated war crimes (Bataan Death March, Rape of Mapanique, Lipa Massacre, Rape of Manila), thus, last 30 June 2025 a WW2 forum (Rembering Squadrom 48, The Wha Chi Anti-Japanese Guerillas) was held in Manila’s Lucky Chinatown Mall where Prof. Augusto V. de Viana said: “Many people, especially young men, answered the call to defend the Motherland. Many were reservists and immediately incorporated into the United States Armed Forces in the Far East…There were, among these brave young men, two second-year students of the Philippine Military Academy (Miguel Ver, Eleuterio Adevoso) who were barely 18 years old. Their officials, upon seeing their youth, told them to get off the truck headed for Bataan and go home. Instead of going home, they formed a guerrilla group, the Hunters ROTC, which became one of the potent groups that fought the Japanese until the end of the war. We also have the same kind of individuals in the Chinese community of Manila. But unlike Ver and Adevoso, they were not PMA students and many had no military experience. In fact, many of them were even younger. These young men were in their teens and early twenties. They were just clerks, employees, merchants and small businessmen. The horrors of Nanjing, Shanghai, and Singapore, where massacres happened at Sook Ching and Changi, permeated their minds. The Japanese also arrested and later tortured and killed the Chinese consul in Manila.”
About two weeks prior, the Philippines’ defense ally held their own commemoration: “On this day 80 years ago, victory was wrested from the depths of hell when American forces triumphed over the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Okinawa—a brutal and blood-soaked triumph that was the single costliest victory in the Pacific Theater of World War II…Throughout nearly 3 months of grueling warfare, more than 180,000 American service members withstood horrors beyond imagination to secure Okinawa Island. By the time the Allies prevailed on June 22, 1945, more than 12,000 Americans had perished, with tens of thousands more wounded. Months later, on September 2, Japan surrendered unconditionally—finally ending the bloodiest war in the history of the world.” [https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/06/presidential-message-on-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-battle-of-okinawa/]
For the upcoming 80th anniversary of the defeat of wartime Militarist Japan: “More than 38,000 children were killed in the US nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago. This Children’s Peace Memorial (established in 2025 by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) is dedicated to all the children killed, including those whose names may forever remain unknown. It features 427 of their profiles to remind the world of the horrific impacts of nuclear weapons.” [https://childrenspeacememorial.org]
It would be better for the world if these observances remained as remembrances of things past. Sadly, with the Russians-Ukrainians, Israelis-Palestinians+Iranians, Indians-Pakistanis (both possessing nuclear weapons), and now Thais-Cambodians quarreling, the anniversaries of WW2-related events have become even more relevant. We must also note that the Philippine Bureau of Immigration had welcomed the decision of the Manila regional trial court ousting Alice Leal Guo as mayor of Bamban, Tarlac, for being “undoubtedly a Chinese national.”
[https://malaya.com.ph/news/national-news/guo-case-highlights-danger-of-foreign-infiltration-bi/]
And that CHINA had imposed sanctions and barred former senator Francis Tolentino from entering the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, and Macau after labeling him as one of anti-China politicians. [https://malaya.com.ph/news/national-news/china-sanctions-ex-senator-dfa-urged-to-act-summon-envoy/]
Be that as it may, with the Fourth of July in the mix, we cheer the Americans on their National Day. What would Make America Good Again? For Kash Pramod Patel (Ninth Director of the FBI): “Congress must much more aggressively subpoena documents and witnesses to uncover wrongdoing in every branch of government. This includes the formation of a new Church Commission, modeled after the congressional body that uncovered CIA crimes like Mkultra…Reestablish Civilian Control of the Military…” [Appendix A: Top Reforms to Defeat the Deep State. Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy. NY: Post Hill Press, 2023]
1. Dr. Isaac Asimov (author of Our Federal Union: The United States from 1816 to 1865, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975) “In 1952, the first fusion device was exploded by the United States in the Marshall Islands. Within months, the Soviet Union had exploded one of its own and in time thermonuclear bombs thousands of times as powerful as the first fission bomb over Hiroshima were built and exploded.” [Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy. Volume 3: Nuclear Fission, Nuclear Fusion, Beyond Fusion. United States Atomic Energy Commission Office of Information Services, 1972]
2. Robert A. Heinlein: “The American people are wise enough to run their own affairs. They do not need Fuehrers, Strong Men, Technocrats, Commissars, Silver Shirts, Theocrats, or any other sort of dictator. Americans have a compatible community of ambitions. Most of them don’t want to be rich but do want enough economic security to permit them to raise families in decent comfort without fear of the future. They want the least government necessary to this purpose and don’t greatly mind what the other fellow does as long as it does not interfere with them living their own lives. As a people we are neither money mad nor prying; we are easy-going and anarchistic. We may want to keep up with the Joneses — but not with the Vanderbilts.” [Take back your Government, 1992]
3. Peter Drucker: “That the United States —alone of all countries in the world —achieved political development before it achieved economic development may thus be only another case of ‘American exceptionalism’. But what is absolutely essential — or otherwise the free market will not function even as an economic institution — is what 19th-century political theorists called by a German word: the Rechtsstaat (the Justice State), and what we now call human rights.” [Managing in a Time of Great Change, 1995, p. 287]
Next week, we salute the Katipunan.
