What is to be done?

Colleagues over at the Black and White Movement and other allied groups have given this administration a countdown--only until June 6, 2009. Since presidential son Mikey Arroyo is so engrossed with giving his mother a few years more as our pesky and illegitimate leader, groups want to prove something, that is disprove what Deputy Spokesperson Lorelie (read: "LORE" and "LIE", all rolled into one name) Fajardo said that what's happening right now in Thailand will definitely not happen here.

As I wrote previously, a revolutionary situation will not break out here provided that the present state of affairs remain. If groups just continue doing what they are doing now, they'll be unable to create the proper and necessary conditions for a revolutionary situation. Yes, I agree that rallies should continue. Yet, the more urgent task at hand is increase propaganda campaign.

Based on current poll research and study, most Filipinos are so self-absorbed that it would take a great deal rousing their nationalistic spirit again. It would take a very serious social incident to make Filipinos join these rallies. A study which I am now doing says much about how patient Filipinos are.

To make Filipinos see the despicable side of things (which is presently our reality), we need a dramatis causa, something that would seriously affect and impair the people's ability to get their goal. Simply put, a food shortage is one. Most Filipinos are seriously on the lookout for means to get food everyday. A rise in the prices of food stuff, a simple emergency case justifying hoarding and probably a dearth of essential items in groceries would seriously impact on the lives of each and every individual Filipino, leading him to take a very serious re-examination of his present state of affairs, and act accordingly.

May is a great time for initiating a revolutionary situation. When people get their electricity bills at the end of April and notice that Meralco again jacked up their rates, that would fuel dissent. When oil companies again rise their pump prices, that would further up the ante. When OFW families fail to get their remittances on time and fail to feed their families, that would seriously impair the patience of Filipinos, leading to a mass revolt.

An aggressive mass campaign is in order. Use the Internet to provoke debate and lead Filipinos to the realization that change cannot wait. Use TMM (traditional mass media) channels to make people see, hear and feel the prevailing injustice and poverty not just of the body, mind but also of the soul. Propaganda can only do so much. It would just be used to highlight the state of affairs. What I'm pointing here is that a revolutionary situation still depends much on external socio-economic factors rather than artificial means.

Connect the dots, link the ongoing economic depravity and crisis with that of graft and corruption by making people realize that their current state of affairs is brought about by government corruption and you have your EDSA. This is not a fail-safe strategy, but a prophesy that needs some push to make a reality.

Skin the Old Bureaucrats!

A recent meeting between Genuine Opposition (GO) Senator Jinggoy Estrada and Gloria's Golden Haired Boy Mike Defensor created speculations about a possible "power-sharing" scheme between the forces of Gloria and Erap. Jinggoy confirmed these "preliminary talks", saying that the possibility of a merger between the GO and Gloria's KAMPI in 2010 is strong. It seems that this "unified front" will field common candidates, possibly with the standard bearer coming from GO and the Vice President from KAMPI.

So, that explains why the "Genuine" opposition is so silent about the plight of the Filipino People nowadays. It confirms the acceptance of GO of the "political truce" offered by this administration. That's why we don't hear Adel Tamano or any other GO personality lambasting the administration for an overpriced oil, soaring food prices, Northrail project, ZTE-NBN, graft and corruption and continuing human rights violations.

This just shows how totally alike these two forces are. They are NOT Genuine Oppositionists nor are they legitimate nationalists. They are part of the old cancer which inflicts so much harm against the People. They are the scums who play fiddle with our abusers, making them our abusers too.

Expect no hope come 2010 because we will just be seeing a turnover of power from one sorry bureaucrat to another equally greedy one.

I remember what Senator Cheez Escudero once said, that the role of the Genuine Opposition in the Senate are those of fiscalizers. Good term. But is this what we expect of them in these critical times?

No.

We want people like him rising up to the challenge. We want people like him to stand up and take the cudgels of leadership for and on behalf of the Filipino People. We want young nationalists to lead us in protest against this administration.

Where are the Patriots, I ask in previous posts?

The Patriots are those who belong to the red fronts and the green fronts. They are those who take part in those Black Friday protest rallies. They are the Black and White, the Grey Fronts, the Young Rebels, the May 1 rebels, the Teofisto Guingonas of the New Generation, the Young Officers Union of the New Generation, the Magdalos, the Patriotic Marines, the Coalition for National Salvation, the Bagong Tao Movement (BTM), the Mar Roxas legions, and the true Marxist-Leninists of our age.

They are the young mothers and the old mamas. They are the daddys and their sons. They are the enlightened ones who long for change.

We don't need to debate about this, BenigNo. No. Debates are those for the cowardly and people of huge egos.

Action is what we need right now. Talks are cheap. Let us ACT NOW AND UNITE FOR THE FUTURE OF THIS BELOVED COUNTRY.

RISE UP, O PATRIOTS OF THE NEW PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION! RISE UP AND WRITE HISTORY!