“maiiba lang ang mukha ng mga magnanakaw. a bloody revolution is an alternative, to be led by someone with a vision and is willing to make sacrifices para sa kabutihan ng nakakarami”

Hi Willy,

The Philippines since 1986 has been exploring non-violent means to effect change — civil war being anathema to a people who understand the pains of war, having been under Japanese occupation during WWII and being liberated last by the Americans.

By voting for a candidate we are not giving him or her license to steal, and yet we as citizens are lazy about making public servants behave like public servants. We allow them to behave like kings. We let them get away with plunder. And we do this collectively through our apathy & cynicism. For the Philippines to heal, I believe we should organize into groups that will take “leaders” on, without violence.

2010 gives us a chance to require programs of action instead of voting for personalities. Track records have to be scrutinized because they may be track records of corruption. Let us start behaving like the intelligent voters we are and influence everyone who is willing to listen to reason

We can use the internet as a tool, among others, for propaganda; we not only vote for someone, we campaign for our personal bets and campaign against the bad people. We run for public office no matter how small, take control of our communities — no public position being too small if it will help us determine our future.

We stop being willing victims of the “shameless, State-sponsored systematic moronization of the Filipino” (Pinoy Penman: F&J50: We Are Not Stupid).

The problem is most Filipinos rely on elections for change. We must rely on ourselves and work together for the good of the country. The change starts now, with us. Then we “contaminate” everybody else, then we stop choosing evil people to lead us. Then we support the elected while in office against detractors, all the time FORCING the elected to behave the way we want them to — as statesmen.

Long struggle, but non-violent.