RESIST! Before 2010!

“I’m not worried. I’m in control.” – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

This is my first time to write in my very first laptop, courtesy of my gf and her dad whom I bought this in installments. The idea behind it is that I really want to have a laptop for a long time and yet I can’t find myself buying it,merely because I’m really a thrifty person and would rather wait for the right moment to grab something than grab right away (believe me there have been lots of times when I just grabbed lots of highly priced books and ended up cursing myself after having seen it in a flea market selling at a 90% discount).

Another thing I realize is that when you’re doing SEO it’s inevitable that one way or another you might have to own a laptop if not for the ideas that spawns in your head in unsuspecting places, like for example the latrine.

Yes the latrine where you perpetually spend the rest of your most enlightening moments reading away comic books and hardy boys paperbacks I get my most creative ideas in those times of silence.

It’s been a long time since I last wrote something and this time I’m going to write about the article of one of the most famous historians in the country who happens to be related to one of the early presidents of the country that is Manuel Quezon III.

He quoted my post “Oplan Evil 200″ in his column in The Inquirer entitled “Resistance Isn’t futile”. He highlighted my idea of placing the word evil and drawing horns and a tail on the picture of GMA being sworn in EDSA II. To tell you honestly I am more than happy that I was mentioned in the column of the great historian (thanks Manolo) but moreover because I have given something in light of “Civil Disobedience”that is happening in our country.

But I have to agree that most Filipinos would rather resist anonymously than outright because of our concept of “Hiya” (shame). It is not so much the shame of being seen or associated to something that is out of the ordinary but it is the concept of having your familys’ name desecrated whenever you do it.

It is not the term “What a shame Pedro is doing” but “What a shame to the family of Pedro that one of their kin is doing it”.

Ergo Filipinos would rather resist anonymously than bear the shame on their families. The concept is mutual and applies even to corruption. Show me what the family of GMA is and I’ll tell you who she is, but that’s already an understatement.

Which brings us to the idea that in 2010 Filipinos are hoping and yearning that there will be nice and clean elections waiting at their doorsteps.

This idea even spawned at a recent blogging summit (which unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend due to some prior commitments) having blogging as a way of informing people on whom to vote for.

I guess they are missing the point here, and I’m meaning it big time.

Because of the concept of accountability.

We have a government who has supported anomalous deals concerning the welfare of the country, killed and tortured hundreds of activists and freedom fighters, has time and again kept at their bosom numerous law breakers and has curtailed our freedom to information.

We have a government that has philandered the granaries and treasuries and has been vocal and open in supporting foreign investors instead of our own industries.

We have a government who has terrorized its citizenry that we can’t even march to EDSA anymore nor have it seen in television how many are joining protest rallies.

And lastly we have a government that has corrupted even the ranks of the holy that not even a miracle could awaken our people as they continue to sow that never ending doubt in their pulpits which is “Who would replace her?” notwithstanding the fact that she has made numerous crimes against our people and our churches.

But yes this 2010 elections is again GMA’s concept of democracy, of giving out alms for the poor in the form of rice. In giving them more money as before from the baranggay captain to the mayor to the governor. Everything can be bought as the government believes.

But I say no.

By supporting the 2010 elections we turn a blind eye to the injustices commited today and the years GMA stayed in office. By placing our hopes in a government that has proven to be ineffective in ameliorating our country, giving them a free hand in our elections and not making them answerable to their crimes against our people we only embolden them making them more rabid than before.

I do not support the 2010 elections if this government is still the government handling it. I believe that nothing good will come out of this government and everything it places its hands on, and I really think that this is a ploy for the government to continue its mad course towards its goal of “Controlled Democracy”.

But of course they will say that there is no perfect government that every government has a flaw. Then I say even if we know that there’s a flaw at least other countries would rather “CORRECT” those flaws and have those people answerable in the rule of law.

You want good elections then clean this government now, not in 2010 but NOW.

And if you don’t know how then read this “RESIST”

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