1919 - Some five or six years after the Filipinos are completely "pacified" by the imperialist Americans, colonial Gov.-Gen. Francis Burton Harrison restores the flying of the Philippine flag through Act No. 2871; the enemy United States authorities had earlier banned the use or unfurling of Filipino flags, including the First Philippine Republic and Katipunan flags, banners, emblems, and symbols through Act No. 1696, also known as the Flag Law of 1907, promulgated past midway into the protracted Filipino-American War (1899-1914); it appears that the most undemocratic and controversial 1907 law banning the use of Philippine flags and symbols was the pale-skinned imperialists' apparent reaction to the defiant and Katipunan-continuation and Katipunan flag-bearing Republic of Katagalugan of Macario Sakay whom the Americans conned into coming down from the hills only to later execute him.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
30 OCTOBER
1919 - Some five or six years after the Filipinos are completely "pacified" by the imperialist Americans, colonial Gov.-Gen. Francis Burton Harrison restores the flying of the Philippine flag through Act No. 2871; the enemy United States authorities had earlier banned the use or unfurling of Filipino flags, including the First Philippine Republic and Katipunan flags, banners, emblems, and symbols through Act No. 1696, also known as the Flag Law of 1907, promulgated past midway into the protracted Filipino-American War (1899-1914); it appears that the most undemocratic and controversial 1907 law banning the use of Philippine flags and symbols was the pale-skinned imperialists' apparent reaction to the defiant and Katipunan-continuation and Katipunan flag-bearing Republic of Katagalugan of Macario Sakay whom the Americans conned into coming down from the hills only to later execute him.
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