Surgery is what we need (2)

Butch Bagabuyo

“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.” – Lincoln Speech, 1854

SIMULTAENOUSLY through the PDP-Laban, we could set up effective monitoring task forces in the no-nonsense campaign against drug lords. By June this year, we could already celebrate the distinct privilege of being the one and only country in all of Asia without drug lords, and have the best possible drug rehabilitation facilities.

By end of June, this year, we could break our own world record of having the most number of people singing their National Anthem simultaneously all over the country.

During this whole months of May and June this year, the PDP-Laban should be able to convince all public officials, especially Congress, to assure our President that the salaries of police officers, soldiers and public school teachers will be doubled in a year’s time on a staggered basis, a task that could easily be done minus the culture of graft and corruption.

The President, in collaboration with the PDP-Laban and the best minds on federalism, ought to create a task force to study within May and June the best possible way of adopting the federal form of government in our country.

Create an independent truth commission on the PDAF and DAP as well as an independent commission for the reorganization of a truly independent, transparent and dignified members of the judiciary.

Hopefully, the president creates a commission to reorganize the BIR and the customs bureau, the lifeblood of a decent country.

All these and more could be done within the months of May and June, and on a voluntary basis, without any expectation in return, just as what we, the various volunteer groups, have done during the campaign for the presidency.

Everybody knows by now that our newly elected president, Rodrigo Roa Duterte, made it to the presidency without enough money from his own pocket or from the pockets of Imperial Manila, the ruling elites and dynasties and the trapos of the filthy rich.

To date, the PDP-Laban Cagayan de Oro council is one such organization which has not asked or accepted any cash donation from anybody. Setting humility aside, the PDP-Laban members here took from their own little savings to cover the expenses for the maintenance and operation of the local council from the very beginning up to the counting. Of course, there were a few mercenaries from various so-called volunteer groups. But the country can be assured that they would be exposed soon, and be made to explain to their own volunteer groups.

We are proud to have done a miracle of sort–creating groups from all walks of life and ages to help make the first-ever president from the paradise-islands of Mindanao-Basilan-Sulu-Palawan-Tawi-tawi.

Because of what all the various volunteers groups supporting the presidential run of “Super Digong” Duterte have done, we now have high hopes of having true political parties in our country, unlike today, where political parties are created solely for debilitating greed of a few pretenders.

The compelling proof that what we urgently need in our country today is surgery and not just healing is the abnormal influx of Pinoys in Davao City and nearby ever since the landslide victory of “Super Digong.” We have gathered from reliable sources that all the hotels and inns in Davao City and nearby areas are fully booked. The reason is simple: most of those who are now in Davao are the shameless “fathers” of Mayor Duterte’s landslide victory. They are there hoping to have an audience with the president-elect, make our man listen to their “fantastic heroics” in the grueling campaign hoping the incoming president would appoint them to the juicy positions.

Be that as it may, we, the teeming millions of poor Filipinos who went our respective ways of giving whatever little we had for the noble cause, could only kneel and pray that our good Lord and God continue to provide Duterte the much needed Divine guidance in all his ways leading to the inauguration of the first-ever President who made it without the stranglehold of the ruling elite and the trapos of the filthy rich.

Before I forget, I can only hope and pray as well that President-elect Duterte ensure that his different transition teams are composed of not only the best and the brightest among the ruling elite but they ought to be mostly representing the 90 percent of the poor Filipinos. Further, the transition team in charge of the inauguration should make sure that the event be as simple yet solemn as it never happened before.

Otherwise, the miracle of having a leader elected to the highest post without a political machinery and refusing to receive and/or accept donations from the traditional giant businesses would only come to naught. However, if and when, God forbid, a repeat of all inaugurations happens, I am afraid a good many millions of Mindanaoans all over the archipelago would be more than ready and willing to walk the streets and stage the perfected People Power unlike that of 1986 when the change of power was no better than a change of personality with the same debilitating greed.

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“The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.” – Voltaire

As fair warning to the greedy who are now aspiring to make a repeat of the mighty fiasco of 1986, please bear in mind that the teeming millions of the unwashed and unsheltered are convinced that the stunning victory of Duterte are the outcome of their sacrifices from Day One of the campaign.

We all know that the 1987 Constitution needs an immediate radical change. And the poor knows that the answer is federalism, not more of the same. But if we have a Constitutional Convention under the same 1987 Constitution then it would mean more of the same abuses by the ruling elite and the trapos of the filthy rich.

Ergo, the only way to give the poor and equal opportunity with the moneyed and the mighty, unlike today, is for President-elect Duterte to have a revolutionary government in his first six months of the presidency.

I cannot end this column without asking our next President to overhaul the Comelec and the Supreme Court, from top to bottom, and finding the best way of having a truly independent, transparent, corrupt-free Supreme Court and the Comelec by the time he starts his presidency. Of course, the ruling elite and the trapos of the filthy rich will, without fail, put up the necessary roadblocks, but we, the 90 million poor Filipinos, are most confident that our “Super Digong” knows the best of the thousand and one ways of skinning a cat.

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