NUPL on reports about negotiations seeking for bigger US military role in PH: Mendicant errand boys beg US soldiers to use Philippines as war playground
Press Release
January 27, 2012
On the reported negotiations between authorities of the United States (US) and the Philippines seeking to strike a deal for increased US military presence in the country, the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) said:
“The NUPL, as a nationwide association of lawyers united to stand for human rights and the assertion of the right to self-determination and national sovereignty, raises its continuing objection over the proposed even bigger US military role in the country.
While we were intently watching and many of our people were distracted by the impeachment show, our top officials were selling us down the river. We have not grown up as a nation and we shamelessly grovel for junk and gloat a master-lapdog relationship that is unhealthy, archaic and onerous. This plan only validates the virtual and unjustified US military bully presence in blatant violation of our Constitution and International Laws.”
Reference: Atty. Edre U. Olalia, NUPL Secretary General, 09175113373