Duterte is one of us

Butch Bagabuyo

“The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.” – H.L. Menchken (1880-1956), American journalist

FOR 28 years since the drafting and approval of the 1987 Constitution which I have vehemently objected to simply because it was drafted by a selected few oligarchs, I can now re-state without fear of contradiction that the Executive, the Legislative and the Judiciary are in dire need of overhaul.

The other day, I used the Commission of Elections to prove why there is an urgent need for Charter change through the constitutional convention.

Today, I will go to the jugular vein.

Unless all the poor of our country unite to give Davao Mayor Rodrigo “Super Digong” Duterte and his team a landslide victory on May 9, 2016, our state will be battered by “more of the same” if not, worst.

Ever since our country gained kuno in name only independence through the 1935 Constitution that was imposed on all of us, we, the poor became poorer, and the rich richer.Only because we never had a Constitution of, for and by the poor. All our 3 constitutions––the 1935, 1973 and the present charters––were drafted not by the poor and certainly not for the poor but for Imperial Manila composed of the filthy rich and the trapos.

Most of our forefathers since 1935 or a period of almost a century now, have gone wallowing in the quagmire of poverty. The trapos who are definitely responsible for our sorry state have the gall to defame us all the more by saying that crime is caused by poverty. The truth is that they are the authors of crimes in our archipelago, hence, they are responsible for the unabated poverty in our country.

But enough is enough!

While the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos became the first victim of People Power, initiated bravely by Mindanao’s “PACmen” (Pimentel-Adaza-Canoy––yet unwritten in history books), most of the poor people in our country rallied behind his declaration of Martial Law and the corresponding abolition of the Congress: the principal author of oligarchy and elitist hypocrisy in governance. And so, the poor eventually abandoned Martial Law but only because of the abuses by the military and the siphoning of the wealth of our country by the conjugal dictatorship and the trapos were glaringly replaced by their own cronies and trapos all over the archipelago. The zarzuela goes on and on ad infinitum.

Thanks to our very own PACmen, the true fathers of the People Power, now, everybody knows that a country’s rise or fall depends on the people supporting the government.

The day has come when the teeming millions of the poor people of Mindanao-Sulu-Palawan-Tawi-Tawi and elsewhere are slowly but surely employing the ant strategy if not, philosophy in making certain that on May 9, 2016, our country will be ruled by tough-talking yet well loved and respected Davao Mayor Duterte. Or the poor Mindanaoans will inaugurate the Independent Federal Republic of Mindanao-Sulu-Palawan-Tawi-Tawi with Duterte and his complete slate as our first public officials.

So what shall it be?

Concon simultaneously with the 2016 elections or the People Power in Mindanao only?

Tsada, di ba?

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“A good poor man is better than a good rich man because he has to resist more temptations.” – Plato (428-437 BC, Greek Philosopher)

Every incoming President in our country owes gratitude to much more than he could accommodate. That is the reason why a President needs executive nuances and ability: a balancing of interests whose personal goals are clearly subsumed by, and in favor of, the welfare of the teeming millions who have less in life. Clearly, only a poor with an immaculate record of governance can do it.

Providentially, the one of the presidentiables is Mar Araneta Roxas who is very wealthy and arrogant even as he is a dismal executive in governance and is known only to distribute the poor man’s hard-earned taxes, and yet he is known as a man who has never shared his own wealth with the poor. Another is Vice President Jejomar Binay who used to be poor but he is now very rich and has a dynasty, a compelling sign of greed. Of course, there is also junior Sen. Grace Llamanzares who hides her true family name––Poe instead of Llamanzares, and she is also facing the citizenship issue only because of the fact that a liar is no better than a thief, so goes the adage.

Because, the time has come to have a President from the paradise-like islands of Mindanao-Sulu-Palawan-Tawi-Tawi, Duterte and his entire team is assured of a landslide victory on May 9, 2016, and only because “DU30” is one of us. Only the poor can help the poor, the rest are doomed by their own debilitating greed.

DU30 is one of us. Atoni!

Tsada, di ba?

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“If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, nothing shall be impossible unto to you.” – Matthew 17:20

“In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do to me.” –Psalms LVI. 11

Thank you Lord for everything. And Lord God, kindly implant especially in our leaders, honesty, humility, transparency and hard work in their solemn task as our servants-leaders because those who have less in life are the sovereign and the very source of their borrowed power and wealth. Finally, Lord, enlighten us all to see the light that greed is a flawed way of life. For truly, there is more profit in giving than in taking. For it is in giving that we receive. Truly, love begets love. Amen!

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