The Imperialistic Blasphemy of William McKinley

Nakakapangilabot kung minsan ang 'blasphemous' na kasinungalingan ng Kalbong Agila.

Tungkol sa pananakop ng Estados Unidos sa Pilpinas/Taga-Ilog mahigit 112 taon na ang nakakalipas, ang sinasabi ng White House ngayon ay kemo nagkonsulta daw ang kanilang ika-25 na Pangulo, William McKinley, at nakakalap daw ng 'imperyalistikong sentimiento.' SUBALI'T kabaligtaran ang sinabi noon ni McKinley--siya day ay nakatanggap ng mensahe sa Diyos upang kunin ang arkipelago na ayon sa kanya ay "regalo ng mga Diyos"!

From the White House website, retrieved February 2011:

"When McKinley was undecided what to do about Spanish possessions other than Cuba, he toured the country and detected an imperialist sentiment. Thus the United States annexed the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/williammckinley


Turn-of-the-20th-century, McKinley interview:

Before a group of Methodist ministers, McKinley claims that he didn't know what to do with the Philippines after Dewey's victory at the Battle of Manila Bay. Supposedly, he sought advise from Democrats and Republicans but "GOT LITTLE HELP."

"The truth...is that I didn't want the Philippines and when they came to us AS A GIFT FROM THE GODS, I did not know what to do with them.... When I next realized that the Philippines had dropped into our laps I confess I did not know what to do with them. I sought counsel from all sides--Democrats as well as Republicans--but GOT LITTLE HELP...I walked the floor of the White House night after night until midnight... and I am not ashamed to tell you gentlemen, that I went down on my knees and PRAYED ALMIGHT GOD FOR LIGHT AND GUIDANCE.... and one night late IT CAME TO ME THIS WAY--I don't know how it was, but it came:

1) that we could not give them back to Spain--that would be cowardly and dishonorable; 2) that we could not turn them over to France or Germany... that would be bad business and discreditable; 3) that we could not leave them to themselves--they were unfit for self-government-- and 4) that there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God’s grace do the very best we could by them, as our fellow men for whom Christ died. And then I went to bed, and went to sleep, and slept soundly...." (bold supplied)

http://books.google.com/books?id=TXE73VWcsEEC&pg=PA22&dq=mckinley+god+philippines&hl=en&ei=BklLTfvuCMTQcbe02fYL&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=mckinley%20god%20philippines&f=false


KRITIKO ng Kastilang manunulat na si Jose Carlos Diaz sa "regalo ng mga diyos" na pahayag ni McKinley:

""In the first place, it's itneresting your description of the Phlippines as "a gift of gods" to the United States. I am totally in agreement. They were a gift of the gods. Which gods? Do you know the name of those gods? Maybe they were Senator Cabot Lodge, Teddy, Roosevelt, Wilim Randolph Hearts, Alfred Mahan, Albert J. Beveridge or some other members of the expansionist mafia. Yes, I believe so."

http://books.google.com/books?id=W3ZxisS7vBIC&pg=PA60&dq=mckinley+god+philippines&hl=en&ei=BklLTfvuCMTQcbe02fYL&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=mckinley%20take%20philippines&f=false

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Photo art: Jesusa Bernardo

Raw photo credits:


http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/12/24/18556367.php

http://www.revolutionintheair.com/histstrategy/forbidbk.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/williammckinley