THE RIGHT TO STAGE A REVOLUTION

THE RIGHT TO STAGE A RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE-POWER REVOLUTION FOR MONETARY REFORM, FOR JUSTICE AND SECURITY FOR ALL PEOPLE
- By Eric V. Encina

Because of the present economic, financial and political deeply flawed systems and policies based on monopoly of credit and economy that fail to serve the common people especially the poorest of the poor in the Philippines, there might be a right to stage a revolution, however, peaceful, but of course, there will be no guarantee that there would be no violence of some kind in the process.

Staging a revolution for a better change is therefore a morally permissible whenever the system or the government is not working for the betterment of the common people.

The Philippine Government today is only existing for the powerful, tycoons, for the rich, for the educated and intelligent, for the multinational corporations, for the international finance and worse for the sake of the foreign, international and global power structures and policies, not for the common Filipino people in the savage cruelty of poverty and hunger. The Filipino people is neglected economically and financially. The Philippine Government is betraying the Filipino common people for the sake of foreign and global power, overburdening the people by increasing taxes for the sake of complying to the wishes of international finance, and thus violating the People's Mandates and the Constitution for economic justice and democracy. Under such conditions, the government, by destroying the economic rights of the common people and by denying economic security and democracy, loses its authority and in fact dissolves itself as a government and ceases to be the legitimate to governing power despite it is still in power.

I believe that possession of the power to rule does not automatically confer the right to rule, and these government leaders who have power and yet only for their own, for their vested interest, and not for the common people, are therefore abusing their power and have no right to rule.

Revolution is always permissible for the better change and is morally correct. Filipino people must not and cannot consent to government's present economic and monetary policies of control that result to mass poverty and endless economic insecurity. In natural law, no one has the power over our lives. The government is destroying the people by depriving the Filipino people's economic rights by allowing and conspiring the debt money system of the commercial, foreign and international finance. The government feeds and protects the ever-greedy bankers.

The miseries of the Filipino people seem to be no way out, and seem to be endless under the present savage cruelty of poverty, mountainous debts and everlasting interest payments, devaluation of currency from time to time, inflationary pressures and the dreadful budget deficits, the increasing taxes, the absence of real and sustainable government and public services, the absence of transparency in the government operations, CAN JUSTIFY A KIND OF REVOLUTION for change. The Filipino people are continuously assailed by an unjust system of finance and economic force, only for the interest of the powerful few. And it is about time for the Filipino people to agree and stage to cooperate in the revolution for the better change. The major purpose of the revolution is pressure the Government to cancel the debts, mostly spurious or odious debts, stop payments of interest and the debts (we have paid more than enough) to IMF and WB, and then CREATE OUR OWN MONEY DEBT AND INTEREST FREE and provide a sustainable economic security to everyone from the cradle to the grave.

The dissolution of the present system does not mean the dissolution of society. We just want a kind of reform which is workable and sustainable for the common people. We need a democratic system that there will be free from terrible financial pressures and will be free from poverty. What we need is a transition to a new government with clear objectives to provide economic security specifically through debt free money. There will be no need of tremendous brain drain; there will be no need of foreign aid with conditions and deceptions from the rich country's foreign policies and when there will be no need to contract interest-bearing loans to bilateral and multilateral banking institutions that control and give us heavy conditions and sufferings to common people.

We need to stage a righteous People-Power Revolution to have a real independence mainly from ubiquitous money power based on debt and monopoly that controls us. There can be no real independence without financial independence and financial security to everyone.

The present system of finance, economics and politics are surreptitiously tyrannical because PEOPLE are deprived of real economic democracy, rights and justice. This is the central issue. FILIPINO PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING SO MUCH because of debt finance and this must be changed. There have been many attempts and proposals to correct the system but in fiasco, and now the very last resort is the doctrine of resistance by staging a righteous people-power revolution with moral reasons and principles but as much as possible avoid to be embroiled by violence. Violence is not the objective, if it happens, it is the inevitable sort of thing. I still believe the importance of PEACEFUL REVOLUTION methods but when people are already hungry, deprived, intensely pressured by endless financial and economic crisis and confused by political tomfoolery, then violent revolution, theoretically and practically, is inevitable. Vox Populi - Vox Dei: The Voice of the people is the voice of God.

It must be clearly pointed out here that IT IS NOT THE FILIPINO PEOPLE WHO WISH TO HAVE ANY KIND OF REVOLUTION, Filipino people are peaceful inhabitants, but rather it is the system of the bankers, of the foreign and international bankers in collusion with the nasty-muddy politics of the government that ACTUALLY creates the reasons for revolution and resistance. IF THE SYSTEM IS JUST THEN THERE CAN BE NO REVOLUTION. Hence, to prevent any civil disobedience and any form of rebellion or revolution, it is indispensable for the government to create a system where are ECONOMICALLY SECURED AND NOT BE CONTINUALLY DEPRIVED OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS AND JUSTICE. The scarcity of devalued money is tyrannical worse than the revolution of the common people.

THE DANGER OF REVOLUTION IS NOT OF WEAPONS but of the EMPTY STOMACH OF THE COMMON PEOPLE, the empty pockets and wallets of the common people, the hunger and starvation of children and the innocents, the constant and acute monetary pressures that squeeze them to the bone daily.

Civil disobedience is a sort of action by the people to correct the system, not for the sake of violence and revolution per se, and not also actually to undermine the authority of the government. Pope Leo XIII declared explicitly: "AND THERE IS NO REASON WHY THOSE WHO OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN SHOULD BE ACCUSED OF REFUSING OBEDIENCE; FOR IF THE WILL OF THE RULER IS OPPOSED TO THE WILL AND LAWS OF GOD (justice for everyone) THESE RULERS EXCEED THE BOUNDS OF THEIR OWN POWER AND PERVERT JUSTICE, NOR CAN THEIR AUTHORITY THEN BE VALID, WHICH, WHEN THERE IS NO JUSTICE, IS NULL."

We even betray our dignity as creatures when we blindly obey the rulers who oppose the law of God. It is logically certain that God does not will that our Philippines is being sold to International Finance because of financial crisis and enormity of the man-made infinitely-silly debt money system and government faults. IS IT JUSTICE THAT OUR COUNTRY MUST COMPLY WITH THE HARSH CONDITIONS AND PRESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOREIGN AND INTERNATIONAL CREDITORS but never mind the peoples?---being choked into perpetual indebtedness, increasing taxes and endlessly depriving economic justice and security?

We can no longer stomach poverty in the Philippine countryside where we find ourselves hopeless in front of the power-money- debt-addict politicians and fiendish ogres of the international finance.

Millions of Filipino people in the countryside are in the constant struggles of economic desperation and real despair where suicide is rampant. Under the present system, Filipinos, mostly poor and dispossessed, are despaired to rise again under heavy pressures, from the bondage of debt and interest, and being choked up to death at the neck.

The basis of a righteous people-power revolution for the better: Monetary Reform:

1. The money, per se, Philippine Peso, of the Filipino people must be at any moment equal with the prices of existing goods and basic needs. (Right now, the rate of income is less than the rate of expenses: money is scarce, devalued, in front of the rising prices of basic needs and services).

2. The money required to finance production and development must be coming from the creation of new money debt and interest free. (Right now the money for development or production is coming from debt finance locally, domestically and internationally in cycles and from taxes).

3. There must be money in the form of DIVIDEND, SUPPLEMENTARY BASIC INCOME OR CITIZEN INCOME to be distributed equally without means-test to everyone from the cradle to the grave in addition to employment benefits and other sources of income.

Therefore, I conclude that this is the basis in general to pressure the government by a righteous people-power revolution to reform the present defective financial-economic system to finally address the devastating problems of poverty and money.

(THE PROPOSAL OF LOCAL CURRENCY METHOD IS ONLY TEMPORARY AND SHORT-LIVED. What we need is the reformation of the money system of our national currency towards debt-free money creation.)

Any comments, suggestions, correction, opinions are welcome.

Eric V. Encina
Filipino Social Crediter/Monetary Reformer
Roxas City, Capiz, Philippines
ericencina(AT)yahoo. com