28 MARCH

1907 - In accord with America's propaganda and imperialistic policy of falsely claiming that the Philippine-American War ("insurrection" daw) ended in 1902, Governor James F. Smith falsely certifies that since the publication of the Philippine Census in 1905, supposedly there have been an absence of serious disturbances of public order except those committed by 'outlaws and religious fanatics' and that the great mass of the Filipinos have been “law-abiding, peaceful and loyal to the United States”; decades later, even American historians will write that the war of resistance valiantly fought by Filipino patriots against the imperialist Bald Eagle invaders well continued on until 1915 [and in] years to come, Americans [will remain] divided over the nation’s actions and imperial ambitions; the Philippine-American War (1899-1914) exploded on February 4, 1899 after the enemy U.S. forces deliberately instigated hostilities as part of the vile scheme of Bald Eagle President William McKinley to "annex" [translation:invade] the Philippines by pushing the US Congress into approving the controversial Treaty of Paris wherein Spain supposedly 'cedes' its former colony to the emerging world power the US even when Filipino revolutionaries already declared independence, expelled the colonial Spaniards, and established the Philippine Republic under Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy; earlier in 1896, the Filipino freedom-fighters under Supremo Andres Bonifacio y de Castro launched the Philippine Revolution against Spain and transformed the underground society Kataastaasang Kagalanggalangang Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan (KKK into a revolutionary government until Aguinaldo seized power and ordered the assassination-cum-execution the Supremo in 1897 before eventually forging the Biak-na-Bato truce with the Spaniards; during the so-called second phase of the Revolution that intersected with the Spanish-American War, Aguinaldo will cooperate with the US forces, accepting the verbal promises of Bald Eagle officials, particularly George Dewey, to honor Philippine independence, leading him to stupidly allow the free entry of American G.I.'s that, in turn, permitted the emerging enemy to position themselves for the eventual invasion of the fledgling Southeast Asian nation, the first constitutional democracy in Asia. 


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