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“Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.” – Joel II. 28

AS powerful storms are lashing our country, I cannot help but pity the poor all the more because our trapos would definitely take advantage of the situation and ensure that the calamity funds, which are the sweat and tears mostly of our laborers than the greedy capitalists, would go straight to their political war machines instead of those who really need them. And this is so only because the culture of impunity brought about by unmitigated graft and corruption in all levels of governance is widespread. But as a believer in the goodness of our God and Creator, I’m confident that in the coming days nature would prove that it is far better to give than to receive for indeed it is in giving that we receive.

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In this season of storms, flooding and calamity, nature, the other name for my God and Savior, will show us the way. In fact, I’m beginning to believe that the reason why nature seems to be angry at us is because our leaders have been so blinded by the color of money that they have become so heartless and callous that they care not for the sufferings of the poor and the downtrodden, not knowing that no amount of money in their pockets and bank accounts can stop the wrath of nature. Ergo, what happens to former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is likely to be repeated very soon. However, because God is good, He shall always give everyone a second chance to follow the path to righteousness.

And as we are nearing the filing of the certificates of candidacy for the May 9, 2016 elections, let us, Mindanaoans all, show the world once again that we, the poor, have what it takes to make the next president of our country come from voteich Mindanao-Sulu-Palawan-Tawi-Tawi. Or we shall inaugurate the birth of the Independent Federal Republic of Mindanao group of islands with Mayor Rodrigo “Super Digong” Duterte as our first President. Sobra ka na, Imperial Manila. Sa Mindanao na sab ta. Tsada, di ba?
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“We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.” – Thomas Fuller

The US is our friend and ally. But, China is our neighbor. Sen. Francis Escudero was quoted in the papers as saying that we should stand united with the cause of our country in righting the wrong that China has been doing. I can only wonder if the good senator, being among the closest ally of the President, was one of those who has been feeding the war-like attitude of our President.

Had our President treated Superpower China like what former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo did, China would not have done what it did in the contested West Philippine sea. And where it not for the debilitating greed of the tentacles of the GMA administration, we could have been the favorite, if not the darling, neighbor of the now emerging economic giant of the world. But everything is not yet too late. We could still mend our broken relationship with China. And she is just waiting!

Believe you me, we could reach far and wide in foreign affairs if we should be friendly especially with our neighbors. Asians, as we are, pakikisama is an empowering trait imbedded in all of Asian peoples. We should embrace it as a way of life and as a way of selling our country to our neighbors and the world. Never ever forget that only fools should be afraid to have bilateral talks with our neighbors. It is high time, we should be a true Independent sovereign State, not a puppet of the greedy and arrogant Uncle Sam.

And it is never too late to be friendly. In truth, it is the only way to lasting peace and posterity. As I’ve written the other day and repeating it once more, with little faith in ourselves as Mindanaoans, we have the power to make the necessary systemic change in our lives and in our country. Easier said than done, many would say. But the truth is, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”

Years prior to the 1986 snap elections, no one but us, Mindanaoans, dared to challenge the seeming unbeatable might and power of the conjugal dictatorship. But when our very own young and talented “PACmen”– Pimentel, Adaza and Canoy – showed us the way with no money and machinery but uncommon valor and love of country, the poor stood up, the world was awed with the tenacity of Mindanao leaders and the rest is history. They are still around, full of wisdom and tenacity. Need I say, history is to repeat come May 9, 2015 elections?

But don’t ever forget that the surest way to have a crime-free and drug-free country is to have the uncommon bravery and untainted leadership of “Super Digong” Duterte as our next president of our country on May 9, 2016, or the Independent Federal Republic of Mindanao-Sulu-Palawan-Tawi-Tawi will be a reality with Duterte as our first ever President.

So, there is the strong challenge! So, what shall it be, Imperial Manila? Constitutional Convention? Or the installation of the Independent Federal Republic of Mindanao, an armed neutral country of religious pluralism and equity between capital and labor, where profits and losses are equally shared by labor and capital. After all, both capital and labor equally need each other. Useless is the capital without labor, vice versa! This is what we, Mindanaoans, have all been dreaming of for a lifetime. Is it not? Tsada, di ba!
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“In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can to do me.” –Psalms LVI. 11
Thank you Lord for everything. And Lord, God, kindly implant in our leaders honesty, humility and transparency in their solemn task as our servants-leaders because those who have less in life are the sovereign and very source of their borrowed power and wealth. Finally, Lord, enlighten our leaders 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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