The stepped up attacks from abroad against President Duterte which is being fed by the usual suspects in the ouster bid bring back the question of who is orchestrating the very efficiently coordinated actions done by the yellow playbook.
The play now apparently is to create an atmosphere of international isolation for Rody after his decision to pull out from the International Criminal Court (ICC), a body that many countries including the United States, Russia, China and Israel had avoided joining.
The current predicament of Rody recalls his belief that rich Filipino liberal democrats abroad such as New York-based trader Loida Nicolas is lavishly funding an international anti-Rody effort.
Last February, Rody bared the existence of an intercepted conversation that he said proved Lewis is among those bankrolling the progress in the case hurled against him at the ICC.
Duterte said the recording was between Lewis and another individual whom he did not reveal.
“I was already listening to the tapes of their conversation. It was provided to me by another country but the conversation was somewhere in Philippines and New York,” Duterte said.
He said that among the recordings include one involving Lewis in which she told another person “see you in the headquarters when the case is filed.”
Rody said he was aware of developments of the ICC case which was based on a politically-motivated canard filed by Jude Sabio who is a paid hack of Magdalo Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and Rep. Gary Alejano, who are both failed putchists and are now members of the yellow private army.
It was apparent that both discharged soldiers were running errands for Lewis.
Back in 2016, Rody pointed to Lewis as the financier of an alleged destabilization plot against his administration.
Loida is the wife of the late Afro-American billionaire Reginald Lewis. She was described in a 2015 New York Times article as “one of the richest philanthropists” in New York.
Lewis also invested heavily in the losing campaign of Liberal Party (LP) bet Mar Roxas and is now leaning heavily on Robredo to recover her investments.
Lewis laughed off and denied Duterte’s allegation against her.
“Any supposed transcript of a recent phone conversation is bogus. ‘See you at the headquarters when the case is filed’ is laughable, because US Pinoys for Good Governance does not even have a headquarters! We use the Internet for communications and teleconference,” Lewis said.
US-based Filipino journalists, however, said an intense campaign is being waged against Rody particularly by the US Filipinos for Good Governance (USFGG) which is closely associated with Lewis and the Tindig Pilipinas which is headed by Trillanes, Robredo and Sen. Riza Hontiveros.
A message circulated among Filipino publications from USFGG said a “carrot and stick” campaign is being employed on Rody and that the ICC decision to start a preliminary examination on the war on drugs was part of it.
Also part of the campaign was US Senate bill 1055 introduced by US Senators Benjamin Cardin (D-Md) and Marco Rubio (R-Fl) titled the Philippines Human Rights Accountability and Counternarcotics Act, a legislation that would “restrict the exportation of certain defense articles by the United States to the Philippine National Police, support human rights and civil society organizations in the Republic of the Philippines, and report on sources of narcotics entering that country.”
The message stated the USFGG believes that “S.1055 offers the best balance of ‘carrots and sticks’ to persuade the Duterte Administration to respect human rights, to follow the rule of law, to end widespread extrajudicial killings and to solve drug addiction with public health strategy of prevention and rehabilitation.”
The aim, however, is clearly not for a policy change since Rody had made clear that he will not change course in the war on drugs.
Thus, the underlying agenda is to remove Rody to restore the yellow way of life. / Written by Tribune Wire / Tuesday, 20 March 2018
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