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Butch Bagabuyo

“Necessity is often the spur to genius.” – Balzac

AS in all past elections since 1935, or 81 years ago, the winners have always been the few crooks at the Comelec in unholy alliance with the filthy rich and the trapos. And what is sad and pathetic is that the many who are good in the Comelec and in our country just keep their mouths shut for their own survival, to the detriment of their own children and country.

What a shame!

However, we, the 80 million Catholic voters, cannot escape responsibility. We have allowed ourselves to be silenced by the handful of cheaters in the Comelec in unlawful and disgusting conspiracy with the filthy rich and the trapos, thus, perpetrating abject poverty spawned by debilitating greed in our country. It is for this reason and more that the good ones stay out of politics and raise their hands in complete surrender, ignoring the glaring truth that evil triumphs only whenever the many who are good sleep on their rights and by so doing unwittingly contribute to the bleak future of our own children.

It is for this reason and more that the few members of the Barog Pederal Mindanao, with our very limited financial resources, are implementing what we call the hand-to-mouth-generosity, otherwise known as the ant-type strategy of maximizing the strength of warm bodies over dirty money and its evil consequences.

Buoyed by the truism popularized by Victor Hugo–“An army can be stopped but not an idea that has come of age”–we in Barog Pederal Mindanao are using our own negligible scarce resources in implementing the innovative ways and means to fully and legally implement the hand-to-mouth-generosity, just like the ant do for survival. However, ours is not just for survival but for the no-nonsense preparation of Mindanaoans and their families, relatives, friends and supporters elsewhere in our country against any and all forms of cheating by the powers-that-be especially the officers, men, women and the LGBTs of the Liberal Party as well as the UNA in unholy alliance with the few scalawags at the Comelec and the financiers of their alternate candidates for the May 9, 2016 elections.

There is an alternate candidate by Malacanang because it is highly unthinkable for the  Office of the Solicitor General to act as counsel for a disqualified candidate knowing full well that its main task is to act as the lawyer for the government–the Comelec.

But before anything else, we humbly ask the hierarchy of our Roman Catholic Church as well as all the other churches in our country to join the call of the many poor Filipino voters to demand, as a matter of right, from our Supreme Court to come clean and rule on the disqualification case of Sen. Grace Poe not later than March 15 this year. Otherwise, we will hold the Supreme Court responsible for the rampant cheating, vote-buying and what-have-you that would certainly ensue on May 9 this year.

As a fair warning to the honorable members of the Supreme Court, the greatest majority of the poor Filipinos are intently watching you. While the poor have remain silent despite your ruling on the Edca, courtesy of imperial USA, the largest profiteers of war materiel, we will rise in full but non-violent force should the Supreme Court dilly-dally in coming out with a fair and just ruling of the disqualification case which is not merely on the citizenship issue of a foundling, which term is not found in all our constitutions since 1935 but also the material misrepresentation or simply put: dishonesty based on prevailing and latest decisions of the Supreme Court. By the way, it is undeniable that a dishonest person is definitely a thief.

Enough of thieves in our country.

Right now, Barog Pederal Mindanao is inching in unifying and strengthening Mindanao so much so that we are confident we can easily duplicate if not, multiply many times over what we have successfully done since the opening salvo last Feb. 9 and during the first-ever presidential symposium mistakenly called a debate last Feb. 21.

Now, it can be told that practically all of the “hakots”– those paid at least P200 per person plus t-shirts, packed food, and juice by the moneyed handlers of the VP Binay, Grace Poe, and Mar Roxas– for the un-event were the warm bodies of the Barog Pederal Mindanao (BPM) and the many other volunteers of the Duterte-Cayetano team.

Undoubtedly, all those warm bodies who were wearing our most-sought after ballers of red and blue, Duterte-Cayetano, were paid for and fed by the camps of VP Binay, Grace Poe and Mar Roxas, hurriedly went on foot to join our rally at the Plaza Divisoria were they heard in full the credible and down-to-earth testimonies of Sen. Koko Pimentel, president of the PDP-Laban, and vice presidential candidate Alan Peter Cayetano, and, of course, the next president of our country, Rodrigo “Super Digong” Duterte from 7:30 pm all the way to midnight.

Mind you, all the other presidential candidates spent huge that night. But they were unable to hold a rally for their own. On the other hand, without “hakot” and funding by our presidential and vice presidential candidate, Duterte and Cayetano were able to explain fully to the satisfaction of the people of the City of Cagayan de Oro, the provinces of Misamis Oriental and the Bukidnon as well as the rest of the country their platform of government. The reason why we were confident we could mount a well-attended rally in spite of our very limited resources was because our candidate for the presidency is the one and only candidate who did not want to run but the people of Mindanao practically forced him to run for the presidency. In short of all the five “presidentiables,” only Duterte is the clamor of the people.

Sobra ka na, Imperial Manila and the trapos. Sa Mindanao na ta.

Tsada di ba?