The birth of the resistance
INa real war, organized resistance after a defeat takes a little while. During World War 2, when Hitler overrun Poland, France and the low countries in Europe, only Britain was left standing. The British isles, protected by the English Channel, became the lone European country to withstand continuous pummeling by Hitler. With the sea route from America, the Atlantic, eventually controlled by the Allied forces, Britain became the springboard from whence Europe was eventually liberated.
But what was really heroic was the homegrown resistance by the people in Germanoccupied Europe, particularly in France.
was in the early years of the occupation a motley group of Frenchmen who fought not only the German forces but also their own collaborationist Vichy regime in the “unoccupied” part of Southern France. The
the eventual liberation not only of France but the whole European continent and eventually the defeat of the Nazi forces.
The analogy of a heroic World War 2 resistance in this article ends here. In the Philippines, we have today the formation of a so-called
to the Duterte regime. This is ostensibly one that grew out of the traditional power alliance of the old political and economic elite, the oligarchy and the church. This group, mutant of the Yellow Army, is a permutation of the “same old, same old” led by remnants of
This group has formed itself “…into an al- about eliminating it. Duterte never did mince words on his intent:
The Deegong reduced the problem and solution to their simplest form. The Yellows, now out of power, want a different route; one that inputs into the equation, the safeguarding of human rights implemented through the government’s justice system.
governments were corrupt and inept; and they spilt over to his regime. He must use every tool
- ing politician, he faces a great tautology. The tool at hand to reform a corrupt state is a corrupt state.” ( Christopher Caldwell, May 22, 2018)
Foremost of these weak institutions is the corrupt police. Many are perceived to be partners of the drug lords and protectors of the dealers. But the Filipino masses, with their native wisdom perhaps understand this better than the elite, perforce handing PRRD 80 percent support. And the purging continues.
On another issue, ResCoal is crying out against “weaponizing” the Solicitor General, using the quo warranto case to smite CJ Sereno