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standing on the tracks and V for Valasuvaz

April 2nd, 2006 by epoyz

there are very few things more annoying than some moron incessantly harping on and on about knowing something that’s about to go down, then when he appears prophetic still proceeds to gloat and sing out the most painful set of words an opposing know-it-all dreads to hear: i told you so.

 

you just know what’s coming next, don’t you?

 

i. told. you. so.

 

to bong austero, who appeared to be on to something but can’t really offer anything.. an emphatic i told you so.

 

to the moron who told me to consult solita monsod if i wanted answers on why i should just shut my piehole and practically suggested that somebody else do my thinking for me… my lilting a-ha-ha-haaaaaay to-ho-hooold you sow..

ah, yes, to solita monsod, who just a few weeks ago was with the "move on" movement, saying assertions on GMA’s illegitimacy has been so far unsubstantiated and called reactions to 1017 as "hysterical"; but then yesterday was crying a different tune, condemning the administration’s treachery… with all due respect, ma’am, but i told you so. well, not exactly. but you know what i mean.

to the "silent majority" who chose not to stay silent and proclaimed how doing nothing is doing the right thing… i freakin’ told y’all so. i even sent some of you an email, remember?

for the record, i feel you on your reservations about all that went down last february 25, with some people using the event for their own purposes, yada-yada, we all caught that. i also agree on all that working within ourselves sermon and proceed with nation-building through our own little contributions, leave all the politicking to the politicians with all their ambitions and hidden agendas and shit. if it would insure a better future for the kids i would be all for it.

but we just can’t ignore politics right now, can we? this has become too important.

believe me, the subject i least want to discuss is politics, i absolutely hate toiling on trying to follow and understand it, it’s right up there with dissertations on pinoy big brother and why it’s a massive hit. i just wanted to point out that a lot of us missed entirely the signs of things to come when randy david got arrested and rallying poor folk got their asses clubbed on EDSA’s 20th anniversary.

they’re going to force this thing down our throats, GMA and her lot. they’re not going away, and they intend to rule for a very long time.

i can’t help but smile (pero di ako natatawa) when i saw all this "people’s intiative" through the barangay signature campaign bullcrap. de venecia proclaiming that the parliamentary switch is imminent and gives three months for it to be consummated, rey atienez (no typo there) defending the constitutionality and legitimacy (right, like GMA’s presidency, then? if i can sneeze at an election’s result why would i think any better of a fucking signature campaign?) of the "people’s initiative" (pweh!), and GMAs statement that the Cha-Cha Train has left the station and nothing’s going to stop it.. now how about that? i’m sure we can stop it, of course. but amidst all this divisiveness and paranoia and indifference, will we lift a finger to stop it, or leave the already beleaguered activists to mount their futile stand?

this particular time i don’t enjoy being right. truthfully, i had a hard time following the political telenovela, who’s telling the truth and who’s lying, if a villain is having a change of heart and helping the hero or just setting him up… it’s like playing a game of "find the red card" while a scantily-clad redhead is gyrating her hips to a sean paul tune on the left side of the table and a monkey is juggling five balls on the right.

what my limited and severely compromised attention span compelled me to read and analyze and watch the news was my suspicion that something is indeed wrong. we are being played while we are watching something else. you can just feel it, or smell it, if you will.

or in the words of one of my best buddies: "hmmmmm… i smell fishy…".

from there one has to merely notice the familiar symptoms of rot.

 

and now i’m so tired of talking about it.

 

all i know is that the administration’s ambition is now clear, their motives have been unveiled in broad daylight. aside from successfully covering up the stench of what they did to acquire power in 2004, they are planning on not just finishing their reign of terror up to 2010, they’re setting us all up so that they’ll get a stronghold on power for all eternity. they have five million signatures from the "silent majority", and dares everybody to try and stop them.

‘ho-’ho-’hos all around.

if governors and mayors and congressmen are behind this movement because of the rewards being dangled in front of them (extra terms and no elections and absolute control of their turf), enabling them to micro-manage any possible form of uprising in any part of the country, how are we going to stop it once the pieces are in place? right now they have undermined everything, the supreme court virtually won’t matter in  the long run, the senate is being discredited like a truthful witness with a drug and alcohol problem… indeed in a matter of months we may just find out that everything is too late and an interim parliament will be in place.

what then?

are you saying that they can’t possibly win this thing, we have the constitution and the law to protect us? dude, they’re even daring us to watch them while they go about in doing it.

want a scenario? here’s a picture. and that is just from a political standpoint. imagine how a system like that would irreversibly cripple the country. it’s going to be a setup you can compare to the mafia, but on a national level. it’s a takeover that reminds me of the one mounted by John Hurt in V for Vendetta, minus all the science and sophistication ( i still say the novel that this movie is based on was inspired by our own people power 20 years ago..). here in the philippines the administration merely used all the people’s money to build the machinery required to make us gisa in our own mantika.

i hate to sound like an asshole, but it had to be done.

i told you so.

"Things have been getting real heavy these days

The Media

The System

The People chasing pay

Somebody’s got a rifle he won’t turn the other cheek

Now it’s his turn. "

            "Nite Becomes Day", Citizen Cope from The Clarence Greenwood Recordings

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