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The Arroyo regime's biggest albatross is not corruption, it is usurpation. Or its biggest theft is not the theft of money, it is the theft of the vote. A President who doesn't mind ruling illegitimately today won't mind ruling illegitimately tomorrow. If you can't make her go now, you can't make her go then.
The point is not for her to resign, it is for us to compel her to. You do not send criminals to jail with their permission, you send them to jail with their feet chained, whether they like it or not. The ruled are not powerless in the face of an unwanted ruler. The citizens are not powerless in the face of an unelected leader. Even without a military solution, there's no dearth of ways to loosen a usurper's grip. Though while at this, I don't know why the officers and gentlemen of the Armed Forces shouldn't consider that solution at all, with the help of the people. The duty of a soldier is to follow the chain of command, it is not to be a link in the chain of evil. The duty of a soldier is to obey an order that serves and protects the citizens, it is not to obey an order that serves and protects their oppressors.
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This is so true. Sabi ko nga kanina after niya mag-speech at sabihing bababa siya sa 2010... hindi siya bababa, hihilahin nyo sha para bumaba siya. Hehe
ReplyDeletehehe. oo nga, kahit maliit sya, mahirap bitibitin out of office. :p hehehe. seriously, if she wanted to resign, she would have done so nung Hello Garci pa, which I think is worse than the NBN deal. tsk :)
ReplyDeleteresign is not in her vocabulary, though I think in the past few weeks and in the months to come, she will have to finally open up a dictionary and come to grips with that word. She will know it, but in the end, she will not heed it. Sad. But true. I think pressures must also be put on all her officials, and the congressmen who support her. As is already happening in some cases.
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