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"The Tourist Watcher"
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Many Dominicans have been denouncing the international plot by the great western powers to try to unify Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Today we have learned of a pernicious undercurrent by the superpowers to weaken the military in many Third World countries in an effort to globalize military power and place it under the rule of these great nations.
General Adriano Silverio Rodriguez of the Dominican Armed Forces, from a Regional Interamerican Military Conference described how a new International New Order is trying to undermine the power of the military in Latin America by making it evolve into a police apparatus with military discipline only destined for missions directed at the anti-drug war and the administration of local violence. This new solution has as its goal to promote the reduction of military budgets to starve our military into submission, leaving the superpowers to control military operations in the globe. One of the methods to develop this strategy is by conducting joint regional security tasks, anti-drug missions, ecological defense, control of submarine riches in territorial waters, etc.
Brazilian Colonel Macedo in the same conference stated that this "new order" tries to incapacitate our armed forces so they can begin a new arms race and place our forces under their command serving as surrogates under the banners of International Organizations, such as NATO. The worst part is the docile participation of our governments in such plans as our forces begin to take a turn towards a semi- civilian profile by becoming democratized,totally subordinated to civilians,fomenting civilian leadership in the armed forces, and pacification of border conflicts.
It has been quite evident by the behavior of our Dominican Army recently how this plan is beginning to take some effects, as we see our military become political tools of the government, used for menial civilians tasks such as cleaning streets and planting trees, giving away toys and mattresses, building houses for the poor and other tasks that are the responsibility of the civilian government. With the proposed de-militarization of our police force, the next step would be the transformation of our forces into a weak national guard with police duties, as successfully transformed in Panama.
Locally, as part of the plan,the next and final phase would be the proposed unification of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, as our military would have been already weakened and our polititians bought with lavish gifts to make it possible.
What is not mentioned by these two important regional military officers is that our young generation of patriotic officers born from our poorest families and with great traditions of military discipline will cause this plan to collapse on its own. And that a strong current amongst the civilian population is perceiving a betrayal of our land and preparing to defend our nationality until the last consequences.
General Adriano Silverio Rodriguez of the Dominican Armed Forces, from a Regional Interamerican Military Conference described how a new International New Order is trying to undermine the power of the military in Latin America by making it evolve into a police apparatus with military discipline only destined for missions directed at the anti-drug war and the administration of local violence. This new solution has as its goal to promote the reduction of military budgets to starve our military into submission, leaving the superpowers to control military operations in the globe. One of the methods to develop this strategy is by conducting joint regional security tasks, anti-drug missions, ecological defense, control of submarine riches in territorial waters, etc.
Brazilian Colonel Macedo in the same conference stated that this "new order" tries to incapacitate our armed forces so they can begin a new arms race and place our forces under their command serving as surrogates under the banners of International Organizations, such as NATO. The worst part is the docile participation of our governments in such plans as our forces begin to take a turn towards a semi- civilian profile by becoming democratized,totally subordinated to civilians,fomenting civilian leadership in the armed forces, and pacification of border conflicts.
It has been quite evident by the behavior of our Dominican Army recently how this plan is beginning to take some effects, as we see our military become political tools of the government, used for menial civilians tasks such as cleaning streets and planting trees, giving away toys and mattresses, building houses for the poor and other tasks that are the responsibility of the civilian government. With the proposed de-militarization of our police force, the next step would be the transformation of our forces into a weak national guard with police duties, as successfully transformed in Panama.
Locally, as part of the plan,the next and final phase would be the proposed unification of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, as our military would have been already weakened and our polititians bought with lavish gifts to make it possible.
What is not mentioned by these two important regional military officers is that our young generation of patriotic officers born from our poorest families and with great traditions of military discipline will cause this plan to collapse on its own. And that a strong current amongst the civilian population is perceiving a betrayal of our land and preparing to defend our nationality until the last consequences.