#title:CPDF joins the Filipino people's urgent call to oust Gloria Arroyo<br>
@@@@@<h1>CPDF joins the Filipino people's urgent call to oust Gloria Arroyo</h1><!--Simon "Ka Filiw" Naogsan, November 8, 2007 </em><br><br>
The Cordillera Peoples' Democratic Front joins the throng of Filipino masses' urgent call to oust Gloria Arroyo now!<br>The Arroyo regime is utterly devoid of shame and does not have any legal nor moral authority to remain in power. It has earned the wrath Filipino people with the spate of scandals one after the other, including among others the recent series of bribery and plunderous kickbacks from the nefarious ZTE contract and the outrageous bribery of government officials with bags of up to a half million pesos each. Extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of militant activists continue unabated. The various sectors of Philippine society and the political opposition are converging with a common resounding call for Gloria Arroyo to step down!<br>
In the face of these unfolding events, Arroyo's political sycophants in both congress and senate as well as her trusted Goebbels in the cabinet and militarist henchmen are using all the tricks and gimmicks at their disposal to ease out and dissipate the pressure heaped upon their queen in Malacaņang. They invent scenarios and bend the public mind to accept whatever insidious plans they are hatching.<br><br>
Sen. Antonio Trillanes III has disclosed that the Glorietta 2 bombing resembles that of Oplan Greenbase and other past clandestine terrorist operations of the regime where Arroyo's inner circle of generals and other mad dog cabinet members employed mercenary operatives to carry out bombing operations of public places regardless of damage to property and loss of lives and limbs. The Glorietta 2 bombing is calculated to create a "destabilization" scenario that will serve as an alibi to declare martial law and thus perpetuate Arroyo's reign. Coming straight from the horse's mouth, National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales' announcement that Arroyo is considering the option of declaring martial law is a grim forewarning.<br><br>
In the Cordillera region, Arroyo's local minions led by Cong. Mauricio Domogan acknowledged that they too have been beneficiaries of the Malacaņang payoffs. Instead of being ashamed they flaunted their take as "regular allowances". Such callous attitude is in stark contrast with how revered Cordillera tribal leaders like Macliing Dulag and others rejected and denounced the bribery attempts of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos to buy out their support.<br><br>
The CPDF hereby enjoins all the democratic forces in the region to link up with the rest of the Filipino people, combat fear and complacency, intensify their protests, and hasten the ouster of Arroyo and her corrupt, anti-people, anti-national, and despicable fascist gang. Vigilance and militancy should be exercised at all times to oppose the moves of this depraved regime to impose martial law.<br><br>
The ouster of Arroyo and her gang will somehow alleviate the current oppression suffered by the Cordillera national minorities due to her sniveling subservience to the dictates of her imperialist masters to plunder the natural resources of our ancestral lands. More than 66% of the region's area are now covered by mining applications and consequently, the people's communites are militarized.<br><br>
The CPDF also calls on all freedom-loving and patriotic elements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police to withdraw their support for Arroyo and defy the fascist orders of her corrupt generals.<br><br>
The CPDF calls on the masses of the Cordillera to join and intensify the armed struggle and frustrate the Arroyo regime's Oplan Bantay Laya 2. With utmost fervency, we must hasten the establishment of more and more organs of democratic political power which are the seeds of the people's revolutionary government that will replace the current putrid government. We must advance genuine development of the people's livelihood and welfare through mass struggles.<br><br>
The current peak of the political and economic crisis demands that the mass movement in the cities and town centers must intensify their struggles with redoubled vigor, boldly broaden the anti-Arroyo united front, exercise creativity in tactics so as to unleash the people's burning disgust against the regime, and send more support and personnel to the New People's Army.$$$$$