“NAKIKIISA AKO SA sambayanang Pilipino sa pagdarasal…tularan natin ang pagmamahal ni Jesus sa atin!” Message of VP Sara Duterte to the Filipino people during the Holy Week. But as was her habit to speak publicly on certain occasions, she has spoken with eyes blazing, “P.I… ninyo lahat!” Really sounds like his killer father who declared, “God is stupid!”
Whoa, so shameless as to represent, while holding the second highest public official position of the land, as Judas Iscariot among the disciples of Jesus Christ! She cannot help herself apparently, also to represent the dominant officialdom in Congress and in the LGUs, namely, her fellow dynasties.
Prominent among her allies, especially showing themselves on TV, are the likes of Senators Bong Go, Bato de la Rosa, Imee Marcos, Tol Tolentino, Bong Revilla, Pia Cayetano, Camille Villar, and others like DILG secretary Ben-Hur Abalos, Erwin Tulfo and others. These are the current crop of senators and public officials, wooing the Filipinos for their votes.
FOR COUNTRY OR MASTER?
BUT, as the public knows, these are the officials who kept mum, (or who actively implemented Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody drug war), about the rampant extrajudicial killings (EJKs) of more than 30,000 Filipinos, among them children.
Not one of them spoke against the aggressive attacks of China’s coast guard ships on the Filipino fishermen and the maritime research scientists in the West Philippine Sea.
They could have studied the issues and provided possible solutions on this pestering imperialist design of China, but it looks like they never bothered to do so, or they simply did not know what to do. One of them made a promise about being “malasakit,” despite his known past record to have given rewards to the killers of suspected drug addicts or pushers, during the former president’s brutal drug war.
Others promised to come up with programs on lowering prices of goods, electricity, and medicines. Others simply showed their dancing skills, like Congressman R. Marcoleta, to represent probably a “fun life for every Filipino” once they become senators, if elected.
Not one of (Duterte’s men) spoke against the aggressive attacks of China’s coast guard ships on the Filipino fishermen and the maritime research scientists in the West Philippine Sea.
CAMPAIGN GIMMICKS
Aren’t these campaign gimmicks showing their hypocrisy, like how VP Sara Duterte gave a public message of “nakikiisa…sa pagdarasal,” practically contradicting her deeds of malfeasance as a public official, having been impeached by the more than 200 congressmen?
Filipinos of goodwill are not surprised with the braggadocio of the above-mentioned candidates to splurge their campaign war chests.
The people have long been aware that these BBM/Du30 candidates, like Judas Iscariot in Jesus’ time, have only their personal and familial interests in mind to hold the country’s “power of the purse” as public officials – and to hell with their mandate “to build a just and humane society.”
HOLY WEEK TERMS
At least, this is how the people see them, based on their track records – failure to provide jobs or livelihood to their needy constituents, given the latest SWS survey that almost 30 percent of Filipinos have been experiencing hunger.
The people have been expecting the administration to be marketing the promised P20/kg of rice. In other words, couldn’t they have given focus in their programs, while already sitting as public officials, on keeping up a vibrant economy, for the benefit of the more than 60 million poor Filipinos?
This administration under President Bongbong Marcos and his VP Sara Duterte, and the current crop of their candidates to run especially for the Senate, can only blame themselves for the people calling them hypocrites, or Judases — during Holy Week, a time of self-reflection and prayers, remembering Christ’s supreme sacrifice for the people, for righteousness, with His Passion and Death on the Cross.
Thank you for additional enlightenment on the pro Duterte’s candidates. Truly, we will not vote for them.