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GMA's Health, Failure of Opposition - and Coup of the Generals? ================= ================= ================= Has Revolution Now Become Necessary? ================= ================= ================= Filipinismo, the True Filipino Ideology ================= ================= ================= ================= ================= ================= Magna Carta of Social Justice and Economic Freedom =================
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Unite and Fight for What is Right 'Hello Garci' is not Dead Sen. Ping Lacson and Bro. Eddie Vllanueva
For far too long have we as a people suffered. At the end of the Pacific War, ours was one of the most devastated of nations. Slowly, our people struggled to rebuild their lives and their institutions of democracy. And for many of our Southeast Asian neighbors, our programs and structures served as model which they replicated.
Yet today, the Philippines has become a country where more than 40% of the population live in abject poverty, and nearly another 30% are further marginalized. We are unable to provide adequately for the health and welfare of our people. Our educational standards, once the envy of our neighbors, has deteriorated to the point where the future of our youth has been greatly imperiled. Justice has become a commodity available only to the rich and the powerful. Criminality stalks our cities and insurgency festers in our countryside. We are ranked the second most corrupt nation in Asia. Our economy survives on a lifeline provided by our overseas workers who are forced to live in difficult alien environments for the sake of their family’s survival, suffering the grave social costs of family separation and division. Our economy teeters on bankruptcy as our government borrows more and more to finance unsustainable deficit spending.
But more damaging than just material impoverishment is the crisis of morality that has pervaded our entire society. Visions, programs and leaders have come and gone, but we keep sinking under the weight of corruption. We have closed our eyes to the fundamental principle that good governance can only be founded on moral righteousness.
For far too long have we tolerated political leadership that is amoral, unable to see what is right, and unwilling to do what is right. Instead, we have closed our eyes to the wrongs they commit before the very public they are sworn to serve.
In sufferance, we even seem to accept a pretender to the presidency who steals, cheats and lies, and continues to do so with impunity in order to remain in illegitimate office.
We suffer the continued stay of the pretender because we keep asking about the alternative, and so the status quo prevails. Edmund Burke has said, “the only way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”. The Bible declares the same principle in different fashion: “Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do, and doesn’t do it, sins.” (James 4:17)
In the national elections of 2004, five major candidates offered to serve the Philippines as president. One cheated and is deemed disqualified, and has been rejected by the people as one should rightfully be in any fair and legitimate proceeding. Two have gone on to the bosom of the Lord.
All of us who have been cheated in that electoral exercise believe that it is the sovereign Filipino people who have been truly cheated.
In order to right the perfidious wrong committed against the people, we have encouraged submission to the impeachment processes defined under our Constitution. But the pretender and her accomplices have aborted the same, and continue to lie and dissemble before the nation and the world. Now they call on all of us to “move on”, to forget the wrongs, to falsely hope that material progress can come under a regime founded on a lie and bereft of right. In short, they want this nation under God to live a lie.
If hope in our collective future as a nation and as a people are to be resurrected, we must require the sacrifice, willing or forced, of those who have committed the most atrocious of public sins, which is the stealing of the people’s sovereign will.
It is because of a shared commitment to fight for what is right, that we, who then offered ourselves to serve the nation, now jointly call on our people to unite for the restoration of morality and righteousness in governance and leadership, and the rejection of corruption in all forms, so that our beloved Philippines may yet fulfill the great destiny that God has ordained. It is He who appoints leaders and kings, and He who removes them.
We declare our willingness to serve this nation and our people in any capacity that the Lord gives, and call on our people, from all sectors and walks of life, to unite and fight for what is right.
For God said, “righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to My people” (Prov 14:34).
Sen. PANFILO M. LACSON Be Not Afraid Movement (BNA) Soldiers for Peace and Progress (SPP)
Bro. EDDIE C. VILLANUEVA Bangon Pilipinas Movement (BPM) Philippines for Jesus Movement (PJM) Jesus is Lord Crusade
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