Per the Official Gazette
of the Republic of the Philippines – supplemented here with our comments – the
BS was:
1)
in a meeting with
local leaders and the community in Kawit, Cavite trumpeting the purported
progress his daang matuwid effected for the Philippines and pushing for its
continuity only with a Roxas-Robredo victory;
2)
turning over a
new school building at the Carmona (Cavite) Elementary School and launching the
shared-service facility for the garment industry of Carmona, again straining
his voice hoarser with his self-proclaimed achievements;
3)
in Mandaluyong
City, speaking at the Center for Community Transformation, once more coughing
out his litany of accomplishments not only contributing to but verily causing
the development of the nation.
Crowed presidential
loudspeaker Manuel Quezon III: “At all these events, the President emphasized
our country’s complete turnaround since 2010, and reiterated the danger of
straying from the Straight Path. After all, there is no assurance that a leader
not committed to Daang Matuwid would
continue the reforms initiated by President Aquino. Under an inexperienced,
corrupt, or reckless leader, there remains a strong risk that crucial programs
like the 4Ps and PhilHealth, for example, would fall by the wayside. Keeping
this in mind, let us discern well the principles and platforms of our
candidates, and vote for a more progressive future for all Filipinos.”
Discernment, yeah.
Discerned, so we did, the
full meaning of the day – All Fools’ Day – impacted on the BS himself as the
police – a company of which in full battle gear – engaged in some virtual
turkey shoot of hunger-fueled angry farmers protesting government inaction and
indifference to their sorry plight arising from the devastating effects of the
El Nino phenomenon.
Three farmers are reported
to have been killed, scores injured. The cops have also their casualties.
‘Asan ang Presidente?
Reverberating anew the collective
cry of the nation in the aftermath of the Mamasapano Massacre of the SAF 44.
Even as the presidential
pretenders were quick to seize the Kidapawan tragedy and squeeze some prized
media mileage out of it, there was, and still is, no BS voicing whatever take
he has of the carnage.
Maybe, the BS found his
minions sufficient and capable enough to do the doing for him, if only in the
exercise of their vocal chords.
Thus, presidential
loudmouth Edwin Lacierda: “Have you realized who can summon thousands of
farmers from outside North Cotabato and linger there for several days? Who
feeds them on a daily basis? What was promised to them that they would travel
outside their province to descend upon North Cotabato?”
Convinced in his conclusion:
“The leftists have been at this game for the longest time.”
The red herring thrown
there. Causa finite est. The
government closed its case.
Notwithstanding Quezon
III: “First of all, I believe it is fair for all of us to expect and require
thorough, impartial investigation. There is no reason why people must die in
order to be asking for assistance from their own government.”
What with the
“killer-cops” peremptorily proclaimed as heroes befitting medals from Interior
and Local Government Secretary Mel Sarmiento himself.
Maybe, the BS is just
being true to the core of his character. No, not the wide-mouthed Noynoying fiddler – in the context of a
person engaged in fiddling, meaning “expending energy on something useless or
misguided,” rather than the violin player – but the haciendero he was born to be and
the heredero he was bred into.
As East is East and West
is West, so too shan’t the twain of the landgrabber and the landgrabbed ever
meet.
Class struggle, it is
called. In fact, it is the “history of all hitherto existing society,” as that
bearded prophet famously said it.
Bloody class struggle, of
lord and serf, as proven repeatedly in the massacres of impoverished campesinos in Mendiola in 1987, at the
Hacienda Luisita in 2004, and in Kidapawan only this April 1. All perpetrated
in the name of, if not by, Cojuangco-Aquino.
Rings anew the song of the
peasants of yore: Bangon sa
pagkakagupiling, Bangon, kauring alipin…Buhay, dugo’y puhunanin, Tanikala ay
lagutin…
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