Vision and virtue

Butch Bagabuyo

“Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.” – Beethoven

“Honor is the reward of virtue.” – Cicero

“Vision is seeing the invisible.” – Jonathan Swift

“TO have eyes and not to see” is the greatest calamity, according to Helen Keller, one of the greatest visionaries who was blind. Precisely, because a visionary sees the invisible, ever since Davao Mayor Rodrigo “Super Digong” Duterte was forced to accept the challenge made by the poor all over the country, the filthy rich and the trapos have been thrown off balance and panicky. Hence, they have resorted to “trending” by the so-called survey takers kuno as early as January this year but without much success–nay, an absolute failure.

For the benefit of the many, who have been lured into believing the “headlines” of our national dailies and national TVs are gospel truths, big businessmen and the trapos spend millions upon millions of pesos to mislead the people into believing a fantasy one after the other.

Yes, “trending” is actually a fantasy with a malicious if not, felonious design.

After five long years of mismanagement and selective justice coupled with the brutal massacre of the 44 brave SAF commandos of our Philippine National Police by the ruthless conjoined twins otherwise known as the MILF-BIFF, a misguided armed rebels pretending to be with a cause, our dear country is left in dire need of a savior. But, sadly, our country seem to have no one to turn to as she was made to witness the pre-meditated character assassination of Vice President Binay at, of all places, the Blue Ribbon Committee of our Senate. This sad spectacle compounded the woes of the Hyatt 10 and their big businessmen cronies. Consequently, the elitists were practically forced to search for a new face in our graft and corruptidden politics of personalities. And, hocus PCOS!

Grace Poe Llamanzares came out of the blue like a present-day Joan of Arc. But, unlike the latter, who showed leadership and character beyond question, Sen. Llamanzares was definitely a newbie in Philippine politics who is galloping high on the name and fame of her adoptive father, the late FPJ.

But, because God is good, to the most unpleasant surprise of the filthy rich and the trapos, the entry of Poe-Llamanzares into the presidential derby courtesy of the gravely endangered Hyatt 10 led by Butch Abad, the architect of the constitutionally infirmed and infamous PDAF and the DAP, awakened if not, ignited Duterte’s ultimate love of country and his fellowmen.

By filing his certificate of candidacy as the substitute presidential candidate of the PDP-Laban, Duterte shortcircuited the euphoria of the Hyatt 10–the shrewd manipulators of their puppet nicknamed PNoy, the filthy rich and the ever-growing trapos in the country. Consequently, the lucrative business of survey takers kuno started to hone their political muscles and multiplied their secret bank accounts both domestic and elsewhere. But once again, their happiness came to a jolt and an unexpected halt a day after Duterte easily outclassed and clearly outwitted the four other “presidentiables” during the so-called debate last Feb. 21 here in our city.

Now that Duterte has proven to one and all that he has the wit, the charisma and the necessary experience to run with finesse a city much bigger than that of Singapore, both the SWS (owned by Mahar Mangahas, uncle of the late FPJ, and another uncle of PNoy) and the Pulse Asia (owned by another uncle of PNoy and a dummy of Danding Cojuangco) are back to their nefarious trending activities.

Bear in mind that the main purpose of these expensive trending business now employed to the hilt by the funders of Grace Poe-Llamanzares, the natural-born Filipino by presumption but not by law and our Constitution, Mar Roxas of the Liberal Party, and VP Binay of the UNA sa graft and corruption, according to the findings of the Ombudsman and the Blue Ribbon Committee of the Senate, is none other than cheating through the use of the OMR (Oplan Mar Roxas), now abruptly changed to VCM after our non-stop expose of the meaning of the word: OMR.

Undoubtedly, the latest trending by the SWS of the allegedly close fight by and between the four presidential candidates is a malicious manipulation designed to soften if not, placate the growing suspicion by the teeming millions of Mindanaoans and the poor all over the country, that PNoy and cohorts are determined to cheat in the May 9, 2016 elections.

Now, there is good reason to believe that the three presidential bets–Poe-Llamanzares, the first alternate candidate of PNoy and the Hyatt 10 of Abad, Cesar Purisima of Finance, Teresita Deles of the infamous BBL, and Dinky Soliman, the distributor of billions of pesos from our taxes and donations, to name just four of the 10 manipulators of PNoy, and Mar Roxas, the former DILG secretary and clearly accountable in the heinous murder of the brave 44 SAF commandos by the conjoined twins of the MILF-BIFF–are in the modus vivendi mode to cheat Duterte.

Chances are, you shall ask: how come?

Because Poe-Llamanzares, VP Binay and Mar Roxas are vehemently opposed to changing our highly centralized governance to a federal system, they would rather have one of them win by all foul means rather than have Duterte declared the overwhelming winner in the coming elections. This is the only reason why these three presidential candidates are in the unholy alliance of making it appear that the presidential derby is going to be a close fight. But the truth is that Duterte is the overwhelming favorite of the Pinoys from all walks of life, including the rich except the few filthy ones, the poor, the young and the old, men, women and the LGBTs.

Thanks to the emerging and unstoppable power of social media, especially Facebook and Twitter, these extravagant spending spree by the above-named three presidential contenders are turning out to be a dud after dud. And despite the undeniable flooding of dirty money by the funders of the three above-named presidential wannabes and finding them in the huge bank accounts of the owners of the national dailies, many radio networks as well as the giant TV networks, the young voters all over our country–those between the ages 30 and younger–are fed daily with gusto by social media the hidden truths about the non-stop mammoth crowd attending the Team Duterte-Cayetano sorties in various parts of the country.

This being the truth on the ground, the teeming millions of avid Team Duterte-Cayetano supporters are more than just confident that our man will, without fail, win the hearts and minds of those who will watch again with awe the 2nd presidential debate on Sunday, 20th this month, in Cebu City, the other hometown of our very own Mayor Duterte

Duterte-Cayetano pa more.

Tsada, di ba?