Injustice against the poor

Butch Bagabuyo

“He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.” -Plato

There is but one blasphemy, and that is injustice.” – Ingersoll, Speech 1880

BECAUSE only Davao Mayor Rodrigo “Super Digong” Duterte has the will and the track record to stop the glaring injustices and unmitigated criminality in our country, while all the three declared “presidentiables” can only make promises, if elections were held today, tomorrow and on May 9, 2016, “Du30” would win overwhelmingly because the daylight killings spawned by the culture of impunity and debilitating greed are rampant and widespread. Moreover, history is replete with “summoned leaders” saving their countries from man-made perditions. These are the leaders who are neither born nor made, according to Dr. Leonard Sweet, in his 2004 book, Summoned to Lead.

In times just like now when injustices and criminalities are a daily occurrence and our leaders are so arrogant that they refuse to listen to their masters and instead insist on “daang matuwid” when everything is dalan nga natuwad,  we, the sovereign are left with no other alternative but to summon and carry on our shoulders the man who has no ambition to be President but who loves his country and people so dearly. Today, Duterte fits best the shoes of the late Nelson Mandela, the reluctant president of Africa.

Truly, “Super Digong” is what our country is in need of.  He is the only one who has repeatedly said he has no ambition to be President, he is old and his family is against it. “Super Digong” is the only unannounced “presidentiable” with balls, integrity and popularly known world-wide as the “punisher” who remains untainted by corruption. Mayor Duterte is the only summoned leader to save our country from going to the dogs courtesy of PNoy, the Liberal Party and the Hyatt 10.

Believe you me, Sen. Grace Poe, Vice President Binay and former DILG Secretary Mar Roxas do not have a track record of practically wiping out criminality.

Undoubtedly, Sen. Poe has the makings of great president “sa tamang panahon.” But because the presidency is the most difficult of all trades, according to Socrates and proven by history and the present in the person of PNoy, what our country needs day is not a student with a bright future but a leader of proven guts for love of country and his people.

Undoubtedly, “Super Digong” has proven to the world that he has completely changed the biggest city in the world infamous for being “a killing fields” into among the five safest cities in the world.

Neither can we afford to entrust our country to a poor man who has ruled the financial capital of the country for decades but in process earned billions when we all know that the salary of a mayor of a highly urbanized city is only as small as the smallest highly urbanized city in our country, and he has made the city as his own family business as though the city is without principled leaders.

Lastly, it would be the height of naiveté if not, stupidity to elect a president of proven lack of balls to right a wrong. We all know that the former leader of the DILG, of which the National Police force is a huge and powerful component of, was intentionally bypassed in the highly sensitive operation against a known international terrorist and a bomb expert. Sadly, when we all woke up on Jan. 25, 2015 and learned that 44 of our brave SAF commandos were brutally murdered by assassins of armed rebels pretending to love peace and equality but salivating naked power and greed for earthly possessions, Secretary Mar Roxas did nothing in order to preserve his personal interest of being anointed the presidential candidate by PNoy and his tentacles otherwise known as the shameless Liberal Party. Would you elect a coward to be our President at this time when the culture of impunity reigns?

Undoubtedly, what our country is in dire need of today is a man without interest nor the ambition to become president but who dearly loves his country and people so much so that he has categorically warned the criminals, the drug kings, queens, mules and plunderers that if elected President, he would unhesitatingly turn red the Manila bay until all the drug kings, queens, mules and plunderers until they are gone and forever erased from the face of our country.

Because our country is definitely going to the dogs, we, the teeming poor, have no other choice but to retake governance. As I’ve written last Friday and repeating with gusto today, Duterte is the only non-declared “presidentiable” who has the largest political base of 12.5 million of hungry, long abused and neglected voters of our paradise-like islands of Mindanao-Sulu-Palawan-Tawi-Tawi. And if you add to that just 60 percent of the 10 million votes of the Visayans and a whopping 80 percent of the no less than 20 million votes of the Cebuano-speaking common tao of Metro Manila, “Super Digong” would win by an avalanche.

In the lingo of the Visayan gamblers, it is siete diez in favor of “Super Digong” versus Mar Roxas of Imperial Manila who now pretends to be a Visayan only because his father came from there; but, who was the principal mess (others use Mrs. for mess) of typhoon Yolanda.

By the way, all the foreign countries, including China, are now looking for their generous donations to the victims in Leyte, Bohol and elsewhere in the country.

Why is the Ombudsman not conducting the necessary probe against Mar Roxas, Dinky Soliman and all those who are responsible for the rotting donated goods and the unspent (?) millions of dollars for the tens of thousand victims of super typhoon Yolanda?

Are these people immune from suits?

Everybody knows of this injustice, and yet the Ombudsman chose dismiss the son of VP Binay over allegations, not evidence, of corruption. This is certainly the height of injustice but not just against the political opposition but more so to the teeming poor victims of the typhoon Yolanda and the rest.

Trust me by any analysis, “Super Digong” is a sure-winner. He does not need the country even as the overly abused and neglected poor Pinoys need him desperately.  And chances are, Grace Poe would not lose anything, as it were, because she would still be a senator after the May 9, 2016 elections.

Although my concern is that the unforgiving Imperial Manila, the trapos and the filthy rich might have ruined her future when she chose to ignore the reality that she needs to learn the ropes of the presidency. She might have been the leading vice presidential contender had she been humble enough to accept the reality that the office of the Vice President was precisely created, among others, to hone a leader to become the next President. But as the saying goes, presidency is providential as proven in the past and about to be repeated once more.