A
fisherfolk group Monday asked Justice Secretary Leila M. De Lima to issue a
legal opinion that puts question on the constitutionality of the proposal to
allow the United States
government and other military allies of the Philippines
In
a three-page letter to De Lima dated July 8, 2013, members of the Pambansang
Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas, through its vice chair Salvador
France and Peter Gonzalez, chair-Southern Tagalog, said they believe the Justice
Department is "constitutionally, politically and morally obliged to issue
a legal opinion that questions the legality of such proposal."
"We
ask the honorable chief of the justice department to break her silence and tell
the people in Malacanang that the proposal to give greater access to US, Japan
and other junior partners of Washington DC for rated-A military intervention
and aggression all over the country is a flagrant violation of the 1987
Constitution and grand affront to the sovereign rights of more than 100 million
Filipinos," they said in their letter.
President
Benigno S. Aquino III defended the plan to give the US
and Japan access to the former US
bases in the Philippines
The
government dismissed reports the Philippines
planned to build a new air and naval bases that US forces could use to counter China 's creeping presence in the West Philippine Sea .
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=542113
More commie anti-US military propaganda. The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (PAMALAKAYA--National Federation of Small Fisherfolk Organizations in the Philippines) is a CPP front group and member of the main CPP umbrella front organization BAYAN (Bagong Alyansan Makabayan--New Patriotic Alliance). CPP front groups uniformly oppose the US military presence in the Philippines and the RP-US military-to-military relationship. They will say and do anything to deny the US military access to Philippine facilities and undermine the RP-US relationship.
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