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alling at the infamous people power I, it was the assassination of Benigno Aquino that lit the fire that eventually consume Marcos regime. Of course, they experience election fraud, manipulation of public opinion, martial law, limited civil rights and federal threat whom go against the government. Arrest and assassinations kept the public living in fear. Murders was widespread. Students, activist, rebels, politicians - no one was spared and many was killed in rallies.
alling at the infamous people power I, it was the assassination of Benigno Aquino that lit the fire that eventually consume Marcos regime. Of course, they experience election fraud, manipulation of public opinion, martial law, limited civil rights and federal threat whom go against the government. Arrest and assassinations kept the public living in fear. Murders was widespread. Students, activist, rebels, politicians - no one was spared and many was killed in rallies. And now, this. After 23 years (since i never really considered Edsa II as a people power but euphoric when Estrada was ousted), the opposition plans to hold a big rally, where it aims to get a million people in the streets to push President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo out of Malacañang, reminiscent of the EDSA People Power I and II uprisings.
The politics of hatred is nowhere more apparent than in the Senate. For instance, Sen. Jamby Madrigal threatened at the Senate hearings to divulge all the unsavory things she knew about Commission on Higher Education Chair Romy Neri if he refused to testify. That is blackmail. While Madrigal bears a name fabled for its wealth, her manners are worse than those of the least educated jeepney driver.
The politics of hatred is nowhere more apparent than in the Senate. For instance, Sen. Jamby Madrigal threatened at the Senate hearings to divulge all the unsavory things she knew about Commission on Higher Education Chair Romy Neri if he refused to testify. That is blackmail. While Madrigal bears a name fabled for its wealth, her manners are worse than those of the least educated jeepney driver.
Equally sad is that Cory Aquino now likens star witness Jun Lozada to Ninoy Aquino and Bishop Teodoro Bacani compares him to Jesus Christ. As Pascual noted, thanks to adoring media, every utterance of this witness, whose stewardship at government-controlled Philippine Forest Corp. was marked by graft and nepotism, is swallowed by the public as gospel truth, even though he has not presented a shred of evidence. To paraphrase Shakespeare, many have lost their reason. We must all pause and pray until it comes back to our society.
For every idiocy of Filipinos, (to quote Newton, for every action, there's equal but opposite reaction) I vote NO to oust Gloria. BETTER HER THAN A MILI
TARY JUNTA, since they are also calling for the ouster of De Castro. And Jun Lozada is no hero, every citizen, every public official has the duty to serve the people with all honesty. He did the right thing, but did not deserve the celebrity treatment for he, as well, stole from us. He is no God. And for once, the CBCP did the right decision to abandon the mob, call for truth and spared Gloria. She is corrupt, but what can we do? We have no choice, politicians alike are all the same. Worse, Estrada is trying to bend the constitution and publicizing the possibility of running for presidency - AGAIN! oh boy. And did we not put GMA in the her position anyway with our People Power II? Yes they are all puppets, they are all greedy. And we are a hopeless case unless someone with a big hammerhead change the system.
TARY JUNTA, since they are also calling for the ouster of De Castro. And Jun Lozada is no hero, every citizen, every public official has the duty to serve the people with all honesty. He did the right thing, but did not deserve the celebrity treatment for he, as well, stole from us. He is no God. And for once, the CBCP did the right decision to abandon the mob, call for truth and spared Gloria. She is corrupt, but what can we do? We have no choice, politicians alike are all the same. Worse, Estrada is trying to bend the constitution and publicizing the possibility of running for presidency - AGAIN! oh boy. And did we not put GMA in the her position anyway with our People Power II? Yes they are all puppets, they are all greedy. And we are a hopeless case unless someone with a big hammerhead change the system.
But okay, lets give this issue the benefit of the doubt, lets assume People power III will happen and some Trapo (traditional politician) will assume the presidency. After violent revolutions, and never ending rallies, there will always be scores to settle, grudges to satisfy, revenge to extract and the cycle of violence will continue.
While in the past the Philippine revolution deposed a powerful dictator and a corrupt leader, it left much of the old centralized power structure unchanged. The new President was from a wealthy family. The poor were still poor, and the rich was still in charge. Capitalism emerged stronger than ever. And so, the question lies, WHEN WILL FILIPINOS EVER LEARN? Change, systematically and diplomatically, will not come in this country, THERE IS NO HOPE.
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