Confucius and the inevitability of rape
and heroin in her possession. Kwong even mentioned the name of the arresting officer as Telesforo Tenorio, then a detective but later . . . a chief of police of Manila. The suspicion was that Josefa was selling drugs to the students of the school where she was a teacher and librarian. According to Kwong, Josefa was able to either bribe or cry her way of out the incident.” (
page 257.) Speaking of American GuvGens, we also should recall at this time of year Frank Murphy, as we mark Manila’s liberation in February 1945. After him was named what is now known as Camp Aguinaldo. Murphy was the last US Guv- Gen here, the last one; as a justice, I would have thought would take the side of Yamashita when his case reached the US Supreme Court. I emotionally and heatedly blasted Yamashita in our class at Harvard Law in 1967- 1968, to my classmate ‘ resounding approval— they applauded; it took me decades to realize the wisdom of not succumbing to the high feelings of the moment for in the sober afterglow we may realize the sorry implications of emotionalized Fire! Aim! Ready! crusades. This I seem to see in the current Dengxavia controversy. Clint Eastwood’s sage advice is for one to know his limitations. Medical expertise is not universal, on autop- sies, a distinct specialty.
Bloody Liberation of Manila
Last Tuesday, I saw here a pix of Mayor Erap Estrada and Veep Leni Robredo marking the Liberation of Manila, a bloody month- long ( February 3 to March 3, 1945) episode in which 100,000 were killed south of the Pasig. Admiral Sanji Iwabuchi ( later, when defeat was imminent, he committed suicide, said in Japan to be the sincerest form of apology; unknown here,
was in command of 12,000 Marines. But, it was Tomoyuki Yamashita, who had lost communication and control over his 4,000 soldiers, who was executed; he was up north in the bloody month- long battle. It gave rise to the controversial Yamashita standard of command responsibility. That may also be the Nuremberg standard, thanks to Hitler.
But getting more and more widespread is the use of the thrust forward. This was standard and expected of Hitler’s storm troopers, the reason Aussie spymaster Nick Warner got pummelled and pilloried from pillar with Digong. Our own people are either too scared or too ignorant not to be lemmings. Fellow Be- dans are ignorant?
Anyway, a son told me last Tuesday San Beda is now a university(?) When I entered San Beda in 1955, a from Pasig , it was but a small college, but like Daniel Webster, speaking of Dartmouth, I say, there were those of us who loved it, and always will.
There I learned much about fierce Muslim warriors who never submitted to Imperial Manila; this may be an argument why there is martial law in Mindanao, and always will, or should, according to the Supreme Court, if I read correctly its latest excrescence, from where I sit, as a fervent student of human rights.