Interesting post and I agree for the most part.
Though it seems a strange question, since it was technically stolen and put there by 'foreigners' in the first place.
That is one thing that makes treasure hunting so unique and fun, anyone can do it, from any corner of the earth, from any class of society, age of race; rich or poor, black or white, good and bad - fishermen to businessmen, rice farmers up to the president, all do it. though so few ever find any treasure.
Yes, you're right about a lot of the Gold coming from Europe, and America, most of this was re-smelted and re-stamped in the Burma refinery, which was British owned, Before, During and After the war. You see, this was a global planned event which included people from around the world at the highest levels of monarchy, military and corporate. Those would be the same British/European banking consortium who own the US federal reserve, which began shipping gold out of U.S. and into Europe in the early 30s.... you see the chess board was being set, well in advance to the war. This is how they plan any of their global events, and why they seem so damn well organised.
Disagreed on the Submarine Blockade, there is much more to that story than most people talk about. The plan to bury this in the Philippines came years before the war ever began. It was fairly neutral territory, The emperor never had intentions to bring the treasure all the way, as to keep it from falling into the hands of his opposing Japanese Parliament. They did assume above all else that the Philippines could remain under Japanese military control, but they were of course wrong. but that has not stopped their recovery efforts.
So yeah it's really a 'finders keepers' game generally. does not matter where you're from. but then again if you're not careful you can lose it to one of the many groups out there waiting to relieve you of it, Filipinos and foreigners.
A good friend of mine once told me there are 3 types of TH - The Hunter, The Finder and The Keeper.
Those who hunt don't always find and those who find don't always keep. Trick is to become all 3.
I've had good and bad experiences working with filipinos here, just like i've had good and bad experiences with foreigners here, an asshole is an asshole whatever color you paint it.
Japanese arrogantly believe it all belongs to them, which is why they're sooo reluctant to speak to anyone else, apart from locals whom they generally control and keep at arms length during a project.
But then again since technically the Philippines was U.S. soil after they kicked out the Spanish, and was still U.S. soil during the Japanese era up until just after the war. So techincally the treasure was all buried on American Soil. That is why the american powers see it as theirs.
Not to mention China, who I'm told a majority of the Treasure actually came from.
So it's all a bit of a conundrum really.
I'd just try and weave my way through the petty conflicts and political ambitions and try to find even just an ammo box of coins or a bar.
When we drop the flags and erase the borderlines, we are really all just one people after all. But so many obstacles have been designed to divide us and turn our attention away from the truth.
Proud to say I've had more good times than bad working with people out here, american and filipino, and many of those friendships are what I will always treasure.
Just reading this post.
YES, the 'Philippine Islands' are still technically and legally American Soil. WHAT does he say ? ? The USA illegitimately attacked the Spanish Realm and out of extortion forced Spain to sell, among other lands, the Philippine Archipelago to the USA. Now if you examine the actual verbage of what was done, the land was purchased with American citizen money and was then the purchased property of the USA. Now how does this play out. Since it was adopted in as American Soil, it became well American soil and sovereign to the USA people. By American law, sovereign soil can not be released from the people without that being ratified by the then 48 States of the Union. While the American Congress can and the President Emancipate a group of people and in this case Congress Emancipated the people living in the islands, Congress could vote on relinquishing the land for the relinquish must be ratified by the 48 states. That ratification was never done.
THAT was an issue one of your own heros had stressed hard but the independence movement would not listen to him. Hilaro Moncado, an American educated lawyer and the trustee to the Dr. Rizal estate and that was a lot of money, had tried to convince the Filipinos to move for commonwealth status in the USA like Puerto Rico did. That way the Filipinos could be culturally among themselves yet retain American citizenship. But NO, so in the end ------. Back after 1898 people living in the islands had the option to acquire Spanish citizenship, obtain American commonwealth status or go independent. Some retained Spanish citizenship but residence of the acquired assets of the USA.
This is not a detail correct description of the events because it would take me two pages to explain. I know a bit about this because Hilaro Moncado was a law clerk in my Great Uncles law firm in Los Angeles, California. My Uncles helped him get into and out of law school and in the beginning put him into their firm right after his graduation. Then WW2 came and so on.
NOW according to the USG Military command in the Pentagon, since the ratification never took place, our military holds that the soil of the Philippines and the surrounding seas are still under the command of the US Military. AND that is how they lay claim secretly to all the gold bunkers and deposits in the islands. It was put there while it was American soil and it is still American soil. The USN lays jurisdiction to all the waters and up to 50 feet above maximum high tide level. This is why the USG installs every Philippine President, Estrada was thrown out because he got into power before they could stop him. So he was tossed out. Look at Grace Poe, raised by the CIA.
So to keep China from invading the Philippines and grabbing the gold, Nukes were brought to the islands in 1948 and remain to this date.
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