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Yellow Badge Of Courage

February 26th, 2006 by epoyz

What a difference 20 years worth of freedom makes.

i noticed  during the hastily conducted press conference of mike defensor that his lips are almost of the same color as the skin on his face. is this the effect of spewing crap out of his mouth over and over? i mean, how much can you mention the economy, fear of bloodshed, putting politics aside, "we know nothing about this" bullshit and all that without looking like a total asshole with actual shit coming out of it? his whiny face spitting out lies all the time make me sick. so with this now all out of my system let me just get this one last thing out of my chest, with all my heart let me just say:

shit da pakyu, men. and your bitch, too.

oh dear. i just wasted a good six hours of my life following the stupid standoff at fort bonifacio. i was compelled to follow as the events unfolded, because me, my moms and my brothers have been itching to join in on the rallies since friday. in fact, after watching riot policemen beating the living shit out of protesters (ok, ok, they threw rocks, but still, no need to stick a guy in the kidneys while he’s down, dammit..) at or near the edsa shrine, we were ready to go to makati to join cory and express our support for the people power movement. i took a bath and was ready to roll a few minutes before 8pm last friday, only to learn that the rally has been pushed back, slapped around and dispersed. oh joy.

saturday, nothing. ano yun, pahinga na din sa weekend ang militant groups at opposition? well, about the opposition, i know most of them are power- and money- hungry trapos and i can’t trust their motives and what, but you know– at the moment the enemy of my enemy is my friend. dig?

now when col. querubin assembled his battalion at the marine headquarters, i thought, wala nang atrasan ‘to. i’m pretty sure he and his lot will all be branded as traitors and rebels by "the state" and that they will hold their position til’ the bitter end because they already forfeited their careers in this administration. with these boys having this resolve we may now have a rallying point to start this party up. these boys surely won’t give up that easy, and the boat is about to be rocked hard.

wrong.

i’m now compelled to say that the marines are a bunch of miscommunicatin’ pussies. surely that turnover of command between miranda and allaga warrants a whole lot of suspicion, especially since miranda was incommunicado during the whole time the circus was in town. if you’re going to stand up, you hold that position, or else don’t stand up at all. i’m sorry but i don’t understand why they started this in the first place if they were just going to stand down that easily. it was just miscommunication between miranda and the marine ranks who stood up for him? please.

understand, i am not advocating violence and bloodshed, i’m just mad for getting all worked up for nothing. i’m not looking to be clubbed out there on the streets either, but this you must understand: the administration has stripped all of us the right to stand up and say what’s bugging us about them. think about that. as demonstrated by the fucking riot police last friday at EDSA and ayala, if we so much as join a prayer rally  then they have the right to beat our asses and arrest us. if we step up to a microphone and declare our disdain over the way they’re running shit around here, we can easily be picked up for inciting sedition and rebellion. i believe under this SONE if mike defensor or lucifer bunye should come across this blog entry they’d be beating down my door and haul my ass to camp karingal in a jiffy. if the mere idea of the wings of democracy being clipped by this 1017 bullshit or the ongoing mockery of our right to shape this country’s future doesn’t push you to voice your displeasure, then i fear nothing else will.

note: should i end up in jail for posting this, please tell my story. hehe.. thanks.

the proclamation coming down on the very same day that we should have
been celebrating the reclamation of our freedom is the very definiton of
irony.

they should no longer have power over us because now they stripped us of everything. with no clear parameters and guidelines outlining this SONE proclamation, we’re all practically hogtied and under martial rule again. they have shown us last friday and last night that they will use "necessary force" to extinguish the tiniest embers of rebellion. i believe they are well-equipped to handle these types of sticky situations because by now they are well-prepared for this. notice how fast checkpoints were set up to prevent people from going to fort bonifacio? they have set up pre-emptive measures as far as the south luzon expressway to discourage people massing together. and the statements released by the palace, oh boy, all the shit they cooked up in a matter of hours, well, surely worked. their claim that politicians were using this crisis to bring people out on the streets confused everybody. may merit some truth in it, but still, a card well played considering the situation. people saw that they will administer the beatdown again if necessary, with the quick response of MPs and riot policemen with their shields and sticks and shit, so things just died down again. man, they’re good.

 

i was following all these events closely when i caught something about someone calling for a noise barrage at 8:30 pm. man, i was A-M-P-E-D. but for some reason the suggestion got lost in everything that was going on. come on guys, a simple noise barrage and we can’t even coordinate this type of shit anymore? we have a serious problem with solidarity here. i’m afraid less people are inclined to go through this shit again, and that is the greatest weapon that the pResident Evil is wielding right now.

it’s true we don’t have a clear cut plan if we do this again. but we do have a clear problem here. a clear and present danger, if you will.

if we don’t do something about this now, and the events of the past few days fail to wake you into civil disobedience, then we will all bear the shame of not living up to what filipinos of 20 years ago risked their lives for. that we are different from them, that we are cowed into submission to an illegitimate rule and that we open up our butt cheeks each and every day so they can screw us some more.

i heard that five hundred people are still holding vigil at gate 3 in fort bonifacio. will the numbers swell? i hope so. right now professor randy david  is in UP rallying the students into making a stand again. several militant groups are massing, preparing to storm the streets, hoping to break through the barricades of checkpoints and anti-riot police stationed at strategic points. at least some of us are still trying. i hope tomorrow brings us renewed hope, and with it the resolve to participate and do something, anything in fact.

but let me warn you,with the pResident Evil’s resolve to bludgeon any attempt to overthrow her by any means necessary, we must be prepared for the possibility of tiananmen square happening here. maybe she could go to lengths we can only imagine before, like maybe a bomb going off in the middle of a rally, scaring people into dispersing. or soldiers firing at civilians, the very same order given by the tyrant of 20 years ago but may now be carried out because the country ain’t the same as it was, and this woman is more determined to cling to power. those tanks may not be stopped by nuns this time around. mortar fire may claim innocent lives in this revolution. ask yourselves if you are willing to accept that soldiers may not stand down like they did in 1986. we must understand the risks, we must feel the fear, we must realize that there are possibilities.

now that we feel the fear, we should ask ourselves first if it will be worth it. well, we can make it worth it  this time, if we can follow through after the initial victory. the lesson of EDSA 1 and 2 is to never revel in the celebration of overthrowing the last government, and continue to be vigilant. but really, do we have to go through this again? this is some tired-ass shit, right? and this time, with lessons learned from the past two revolutions, some of our fears may be realized. terror can be used this time. what if they do try to strike fear into our hearts? what if they try to hurt us, try to kill some of us to show that they mean  business?  that this time there will be no stepping down? it is not that far-fetched, that a few hundred innocent lives sacrificed, should it come to that, is a chance those in power are willing to take. realizing this fear may become reality, what do we do?

 

should this enemy from within our own country turn out to be as dangerous as what i imagine them to be, then the more reason for us to be scared. because the more scared we are, the better.

 

the greater the fear, the greater the potential is for courage.

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