Butch Bagabuyo “No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades – that of government.” - Socrates THE reason why Socrates believes that the hardest of all trades is that of government is because the word democracy is defined as a government by the people, a form of government in which the supreme power vests with the people and is used directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. Republic, on the other hand, is defined as a state which is governed by representatives who are chosen by citizens in elections. Precisely because of these definitions of the words democracy and republic, our outdated 1987 Constitution, composed of the chosen few by our well-loved late President Cory, states in Section 1, Article II: “The Philippines is a democratic and republican state. Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them.” At the time of the drafting of the Constitution, we, the Pinoys were made to believe that the drafters were among the best minds in the country. Yet in the said section alone, our Constitution already committed what the Plazans call as “wrong mistake.” It’s because when a state is democratic it is also republican by definition, vice versa. Our “best minds” then had hangs-up––they thought in vain that they had to commit a “wrong mistake” just to differentiate our government from communist countries which call their states as republican like China and Russia. We know only too well that there are no elections in those countries by the citizens but only by the chosen few. However, the truth is that until today our country does not have free elections among the sovereign but only among the privilege few. Unless one has billions of pesos, the presidency is an impossible dream and an unreachable star. It is only for this reason that “Super Digong” Duterte does not aspire to become president of our country. But because we know that our man has done wonders in the biggest city of the world, Davao City, and remains untainted by corruption, he cannot turn his back on his people whom he loves dearly. Our country is in dire need of Super Digong because our country is definitely going to the dogs, literally. So far, only the following have presented themselves to the sovereign:
  • a Vice President who has made billions of pesos in governance when the salary of our President is only worth a few millions, and he has a family of elected public officials who have earned millions of pesos when the facts do not add up;
  • a son of wealthy parents who has glaringly proven to be without balls in the brutal murder of our brave 44 SAF Commandos, an absolute failure in leading the DILG, and he is ruled by a wife with extra balls, according to many, and who is too eager to become a first lady; and,
  • a neophyte creation of Imperial Manila, the trapos and the filthy rich who voluntarily and willingly renounced her citizenship at a time when our country was in dire need of heroes, and she has very little knowledge of governance now when daily killings are rampant because of the culture of impunity spawned by debilitating greed.
Worst, despite her full knowledge that PNoy was directly responsible for the heinous massacre of our 44 brave SAF commandos, she proudly proclaims that if elected president, she would continue “MatuwidnaDaan,” Pinoy’s mantra, now made “Natuwadngadalan” by the Liberal Party stalwarts and the Hyatt 10, who are beyond the reach of our laws. Let the “Aldub nation” of the poor in our country––the unwashed, unschooled, perpetually abused and deprived but highly educated sovereign––converge on our own in Davao City on the 15th of this month, the eve before the first final deadline in the filing of the certificates of candidacy. There and then, let us all beg in unison and with gusto Davao Mayor Rodrigo “Super Digong” Duterte to save us all and our country from the culture of impunity by  Imperial Manila, the drug lords, queens and mules and the shameless trapos by running for the presidency with a complete line-up down to the last municipal councilor, the only way to stop digital dagdag-bawas. Kalyeserye pa more! Tsada, di ba?
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“The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.” – Jefferson, 1801 Because Imperial Manila, the trapos and the filthy rich know that no amount of money and the so-called political machinery can make Mar Roxas, who is undoubtedly without balls, to win the presidency, they maliciously conspired to snatch Rep. LeniRobredo from her loving family to run for the vice presidency at her own expense. She can win even without campaigning for a senatorial slate, just like our own Manny Pacquiao. What a pity! But Imperial Manila is determined to have a repeat of the infamous “Hello Garci” in 2004. The traitors of our country know then that the only way to justify cheating against FPJ, courtesy of “Hello Garci,” was to have a popular media personality – Noli de Castro – to run as vice presidential candidate of now detained Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Now, the Liberal Party and the Hyatt 10 believe that they can manipulate the PCOS (President Cory’s Only Son) machines to repeat the 2013 senatorial elections. Remember? From the bottom to No. 1! But fear not. Mindanao’s landslide victory is a certainly with Duterte as our presidential bet. Warm bodies are on our side and our women and children are ready with their dos por dos. We are the “Aldub nation.” And “God gave us you.” Tsada, di ba?