Butch Bagabuyo “The longer the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”--Ralph W. Sockman (1889-1970), American clergyman KNOWLEDGE is power but love conquers all. And, because God, in His infinite wisdom, freely gave us all freedom including to err, we must, at all times, be ready and willing to forgive the contrite offender. Otherwise, we shall never attain lasting peace and happiness, not wealth, the root of all evil, so they say and so it has always been. The flimsy argument raised by the Comelec in refusing to implement a mandatory provision of law on the automated elections – the issuance of a receipt-like voter’s evidence – should be brought to the Supreme Court by the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) and the Philconsa, or at the very least, by the UNA (United Nationalist Alliance) led by VP Binay who is perceived to be as well funded as the Liberal Party. Otherwise, rampant cheating leading to the 2016 People Power in Mindanao becomes inevitable. Now, more than ever, the saying “beware the wrath of a patient man” is becoming unstoppable. Mindanaoans, this early, are showing to the country our resolve to have a Mindanaoan president on May 9, 2016. Here’s my take:
  • The majority are convinced that the Duterte-Cayetano team is the last and only hope for a real and meaningful change from the present graft and corruptidden government under PNoy to the federal-parliamentary form of governance.
  • In all previous elections, Mindanaoans have been treated by Imperial Manila, the trapos and the filthy rich as no better than second class citizens and we have done nothing about it. But not this time. Based on yesterday’s Comelec-sponsored presidential debate, Mindanaoans from all nooks and cranny of our paradise-like islands of Mindanao, have proven to the country that the poor are more than capable to producing warm bodies using their very own limited resources, and without much ado, Mindanaoans found themselves in our City of Golden Friendship through their own innovative self-help.
  • Not a few market vendors, kargadores from our various ports, and airports as well as transport barkers, barbers and beauticians, tinderas and tinderos walked to our Plaza Divisoria to showcase the unprecedented unity in diversity of Mindanaoans for the very first Mindanaoan presidential candidate even as the sea-like throng of the unwashed and unschooled people crowded our freedom Plaza Divisoria to have their own t-shirts and what-have-they printed for free by the various volunteers of the Duterte-Cayetano team.
  • The Barog Pederal Mindanao are trailblazing their newly implemented autonomous seven- to 10-member cell of networkers in every zone/purok.
Hopefully, the ant-type Tinabangay using our own limited scarce resources will be able to produce the much needed warm bodies for a landslide victory of the Duterte-Cayetano tandem against all odds. Sobra ka na, Imperial Manila. Sa Mindanao na ta!
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“To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.” – Disraeli, Sybil. Precisely because dismissed transition Mayor Oscar S. Moreno refuses to listen to anybody but himself even as he trembles at the sight of his own shadow, he has no other place to go after May 9, 2016 but behind bars. OSM is such a j@#k that a good many Kagay-anons picture him as worse than that cock who monotonously and shamelessly claim that “the sun had risen to listen him crow.” The glaring fact is that both dismissed and hambuguero Mayor Moreno is worse than the clown-cilors of former city mayor Dongkoy Emano who have no backbones and have been disillusioned into believing that Kagay-anons can be bought with their own hard-earned money from government coffers. Mind you, because Kagay-anons are truly kind-hearted people, the clown-cilors have been spared in the last 2013 elections because of these undeniable facts:
  • Moreno campaigned solely for himself, leaving his team (from vice mayoral candidate down to the last candidate for councilor) to themselves because he grew up in politics believing in vain that he was--still is--self-sufficient. During the voting, all the watchers belonging to OSM were interested only in protecting his votes, and not those of the other members of his team. Even before the counting started, the clown-cilors were already feasting on their victory even as they were also making alibis for Emano’s humiliating slaughter.
  • On the 10thday prior to the 2013 elections, after outstanding Congressman Rufus and siblings threw their full support to now dismissed Mayor Moreno, all the clown-cilors conveniently forgot that Emano was running for re-election. Ergo, they spent the money given to them by then healthy “Alas” for themselves alone and at the expense of their own mayoral candidate who is now sickly.
  • Finally, because the Sendong survivors now know by heart that Moreno callously and arrogantly played with their lives in an unholy alliance with the clown-cilors, the mayor and the clown-cilors would be kicked hard and strong out of our city hall on May 9, 2016.
Tsada, di ba?