Justice for Mindanao

Butch Bagabuyo

“There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.” – Addison, The Guardian

 “God’s mill grinds slow, but sure.” – George Herbert

THESE two quotes speak volumes for the plight of Mindanao and the teeming poor Mindanaoans. Add to these Victor Hugo’s immortal truth: “An army can be stopped but not an idea that has come of age,” and we can all say with certainty that justice for Mindanao and the millions of the poor can only be attained on May 9, 2016 with the reluctant but most deserving Davao Mayor Rodrigo “Super Digong” Duterte as the next President of our country or the first President of the Independent Federal Republic of Mindanao-Sulu-Palawan-Tawi-Tawi. In short justice for Mindanao and elsewhere is “ DU30 now or never.”

For the very first time since time immemorial, a Mindanaoan, uninterested and without ambition in the presidency, ripe in the age of 70 years,  whose family is adamantly against it, is overwhelmingly endorsed by the teeming millions of the continually abused, unwashed, unschooled and barely sheltered Filipinos all over the archipelago.

So who can stop it?

Certainly, not an army nor money can withstand the onslaught of justice-seeking-people. And, definitely neither the PCOS, the digital dagdag-bawas nor the Comelec’s black magicians and manipulators of the filthy rich and the trapos can stop the centuries old pleas of Mindanaoans, representing all the unwashed, unschooled and overly abused Pinoys, thus:

• We have had 15 elected presidents but not one Mindanaoan was even given the slightest opportunity to run for the presidency. It’s not because we lack the resources, both human and natural. In fact, Mindanao has an oversupply of intellectuals with hearts for the poor and the downtrodden. We are the breadbasket of the entire archipelago and our seas, rivers and land are divinely provided. Hence, we definitely have what it takes to be a superpower in the world simply because we have the heart, the soul and the psychic of truly godlike people. We are blessed with fertile land for food and mineral resources, seas endowed in great abundance for food and seabed with all the potentials for wealth and peaceful power for all humanity.
• All the announced “presidentiables” mouth overused motherhood statements that have actually made our country and people even poorer instead of richer.

Undoubtedly, Sen. Grace Poe has the makings, for now, of a great president but “sa tamang panahon.” However, because the presidency is the most difficult of all trades, according to one of the greatest minds in the world, Socrates, and proven by history and the present in the person of PNoy, what our country needs badly and urgently is not a student with a bright future but a leader of proven guts and oozing love of country and his people. “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 one of the five safest cities in the world. It’s a feat no one has ever achieved.

Neither can we afford to entrust our country to once a poor man who has ruled the financial capital of the country for decades but, sadly,  in the process, he appears to have earned billions when we all know that the salary of a mayor of a highly urbanized city is only as small as the tiniest highly urbanized city in our country. Worst, he has converted the country’s financial city as his own family business empire, as though the city is without principled leaders.

Lastly, it would be the height of naiveté if not, sheer stupidity to elect a president without any executive ability and a glaring lack of balls to right a wrong despite the awesome power lodged in the DILG with him at the helm. We all know only too well that the former leader of the DILG, of which the National Police force is a huge and powerful component of, was intentionally bypassed by President PNoy in that highly crucial and sensitive operation against a known international terrorist and a bomb expert named Marwan. But, sadly, when we all woke up on Jan. 25, 2015 and learned that 44 of our brave SAF commandos of the PNP were brutally murdered by assassins of the armed rebels pretending to love peace and equality but salivating naked power and greed for earthly possessions, wealthy Secretary Mar Roxas did nothing for this selfish reason: to preserve his overly interest of being anointed the presidential candidate by PNoy and his tentacles, otherwise known as the shameless, youth and women exploiters, the Liberal Party. Would you elect a coward to be our president at this time when the culture of impunity reigns? And, what about our youth and women?

We are the “Aldub nation”

Du30 pa more!

Tsada, di ba?