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A day before US President Barack Obama arrives in Manila for a two-day state visit, youth groups led by Kabataan party list and the League of Filipino Students held a “solidarity pet walk” to oppose the planned increased rotational presence of US troops in the country.
Pet owners paraded their dogs and puppies in Quezon City Memorial Circle early Sunday in a symbolic action that aimed to emphasize how President Benigno Aquino is acting as a “US lapdog,” particularly in the way his administration is fast-tracking the inking of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, which seeks to allow greater rotational presence of the US military in the Philippines and the US military’s use of existing Philippine military bases.
“We are holding this symbolic protest to show that unlike our very own pets, President Aquino is behaving like a mad lapdog ready to obey his US master’s every order,” LFS spokesperson Charlotte Velasco told the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.
During the event, pet owners posed for photos with their dogs while holding bone-shaped placards with the calls “US troops out now,” “Junk VFA,” “Stop EDCA,” and “Obama, you are not welcome.”
“In this protest activity, we want to show that we love and trust loyal pets who definitely have a concept of ‘territory’ and how it should be defended from ‘foreign intervention’ – but we despise a president who is willing to sacrifice our sovereignty just to please his foreign masters,” said Kabataan party list Rep. Terry Ridon.
“In Obama’s upcoming visit, we vividly see how the Aquino administration is falling for an old trick. For what we know, the new US-PH pact could be tantamount to legalized invasion. The government is worrying about Chinese encroachment of Philippine territory, yet it allows another foreign country – the US – to deploy more troops in more areas in the country, a situation equivalent to de facto invasion,” Ridon said.
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Filipino pet owners parade with their dogs to dramatize protest against President Barack Obama's visit to Manila on April 28 until 29.
http://www.mindanaoexaminer.net/2014/04/filipino-pet-owners-hold-solidarity-pet.html
You have to love the whacko commies. Very colorful if anemic protest action. Where else but in the Philippines would a demonstration by what appears to be less than a dozen people warrant the equivalent of a photo essay?
ReplyDeleteThe League of Filipino Students (LFS) is a radical Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) student front organization with chapters active on the campuses of a number of Philippine colleges and universities, but especially the University of the Philippines. The LFS is a member of the main CPP multisectoral umbrella front organization the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN-New Patriotic Alliance).
The Kabataan (Youth) party list political party is a CPP political front and is a member of the CPP umbrella political coalition Makabayan.
This protest action is part of a larger orchestrated effort by the CPP to project an image of widespread, grassroots Philippine opposition to the state visit of President Obama and to the US military presence in the Philippines. The truth is that CPP front groups have relatively small numbers of supporters and cross membership in various groups is common and is designed project greater strength in numbers than the commies really enjoy among the Filipino populace at large.