Bukluran para sa Katotohanan unity statement

Panigan at Tindigan ang Katotohanan

Ang katotohanan ang magpapalaya sa atin. Hindi dapat katakutan ang anuman sa paghahanap at pagpapalabas sa katotohanan. Ito ang mga paniwala at paninindigan ng lahat ng nananawagan na patalsikin na si Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Si Gloria ang humaharang sa katotohanan. Ito ang dahilan kung bakit ang gobyerno ay nawawalan ng direksyon at kakayahang mamuno sa gitna ng krisis na kinakaharap ng bansa. Ito ang dahilan kung bakit nawalan na ng tiwala ang mga mamamayan sa pamahalaan.

Ang katotohanan ay ninanakaw ni Gloria ang Panguluhan. Ang katotohanan ay patuloy niyang pinagtatakpan ang kasalanan niyang ito sampu ng lahat ng kaniyang mga kasabwat. Ang katotohanan ay alam na ng sambayanang Pilipino ang malaking kasalanan na ito ni Gloria. Ang katotohanan ay marami pang kasalanan si Gloria sa bayan. Ang katotohanan ay hindi na dapat manatili pa si Gloria sa puwesto.

Katotohanan din na ang kailangan ngayon ay malawak na pagkakaisa ng mga Pilipino upang maisulong ang mga repormang pampulitika at pang-ekonomiya na magbibigay ng tunay na kalayaan at pag-unlad sa bansa.

Mayroon na namang isang ginintuang pagkakataon upang maisulong ang mga adhikaing makabayan at tunay na maka-Pilipino.

Pagmamahal sa bayan ang magbibigay sa atin ng lakas ng loob upang pangibabawin ang katotohanan. Pagmamahal din sa bayan ang magbibigay sa atin ng determinasyon upang pangibabawan ang mga pagkakaibang personal at mga pagkakaiba sa kabuhayan at paniwala upang magkaisa bilang isang Lahing Pilipino.

Isang paraan na lamang ang natitira upang maipakita ni Gloria na may natitira pa siyang pagtatangi sa bayan at sa mga mamamayang Pilipino – ang bumaba sa puwesto at tumulong sa pagtutuwid ng kalakaran sa bansa anuman ang maging implikasyon nito sa kanyang pansariling kapakanan.

SOLIDARITY joins Bukluran para sa Katotohanan

SOLIDARITY – Philippine Airlines Association (PALEA); Alyansa ng Lapiang Security Guards sa Pilipinas (ALAS); National Labor Union (NLU); Miascor Workers Union (MWU); P.I. Mnufacturing Employees Associatio (PIMEA); Sto. Nino Employees association (SNEA); Coca Cola Bottlers Philippines Monthlies Employees Union (CCBPMEU); Alyansa ng mga Malayang Obrero (AMO); Philippine Congress of Employees (PCE); Construction Workers Solidarity (CWS); Union of Filipino Service Workers (UFSW); Philippine National Unions Council (PNUC); National Wages and Productivity Commission Employees Association (NWPCEA); Alert and Concerned Employees for Better SSS (ACCESS); Bureau of Broadcast Services Employees Association (BBSEA); Coalition for Reform and Empowerment (CARE); Electric Cooperatives Officers of the Philippines (ECOP), NEA BANDIDO; Pambansang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operators ng Pilipinas (PASATROPA); Unified Land Transport Registered Association of the Philippines (ULTRA); Mamamayan Kaagapay ng Bayan (MAKABAYAN); Isulong ang Maralitang Pilipino (ISMARPIL); Sulong Masang Pilipino (SUMAPI); People’s Alliance for Democracy and Reform (PADER); United Muslim Association of the Philippines (UMAP); Muslim Organization for Solidarity, Liberty and Equality for the Masses (MOSLEM); Katipunan ng mga Barangay Tanod ng Pilipinas (KABATA); Grand Order of the Unified Guardians (GOUNIG); Guardians International Brotherhood Federal (GIBF); Anti-Crime Civilian Task Force (ACCT FORCE); Triskelion Relief Operations and Public Assistance (TROPA); Panay Negros Brotherhood Organization (PNB Org); Martsa ng Bayan; Malayang Kabataang Pilipino (MKP); Hasik ng Lahi; Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan All Filipino Democratic Movement (KAAKBAY)

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Naku. Sounds like another “statements” arms race is in the works. 😀

Where will it lead? Here are some familiar terms: “kapit bisig”, “maki-baka”, “maki-isa”, and of course “people power”.

Yes GMA must go DEMOCRATICALLY, but are we willing to let democracy work for us? If so, how come the representatives we ELECTED into office are not working to serve OUR interests? Could it be because we DID NOT THINK during the last congressional elections?

Yes, we must “Unite for the truth. Demand the truth. Defend the truth.” But can we HANDLE the truth?

Why does it always come to this. Maybe it is because there is so much food for thought, BUT so little in the way of minds to feed. All we are is a nation of warm bodies to constitute this and that “movement” and form ragged armies of hollow heads to march on our tired old streets.

I wrote the following several years back:

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“The two EDSA revolutions are examples of our penchant for anger and indignation at a national level. Whenever the occasion calls for it, Filipinos are quick to the draw (a trait shared by Erap himself in his manner of conduct during ambush interviews). We sit back and allow our problems to fester then, at the eleventh hour, go all out to seek a quick fix. And, make no mistake, our quick fixes are effective – in the short-term. Both EDSA revolutions demonstrated this. However, it is disturbing to note some parallelisms between this and how we manage our roads. Our roads are rotten and structurally unsound on the inside, crumbling at the slightest bout of rainfall and subject to high-profile cosmetic repair work and asphalt overlays every election time. But the core remains rotten. In the same way that we will always have an abundance of cheap labour to dig up and re-pave our roads every year, so too do we have a rich reserve of warm bodies to march into EDSA whenever our rotten institutions crumble.” 😀

The Caving Roof

I’m almost as tempted comparing much of the noises whether PGMA should just leave or be heard, be allowed a day in court, in one Hollywood movie apparently depicting a macho senior military officer hurling invectives saying to a military counsel in a military judicial proceedings ‘You can’t handle the Truth’!!

But as always, truth does prevail, but at what expense?

Mrs Aquino was herself installed as president because truth had to prevail, her predecessor being all but a representation of something that represent everything that seemingly was wrong, everything evil!

And so, the People Power of the mass of bewildered people though hungry beat the odds amid tanks and guns.

Has there been any to say yes, we were right in removing the wrong person, but what have we done to correct what’s been wrong?

The odds of people of the left and of the right, the Muslims up in arms and criminality on the loose, organized crime on the upswing and are all here in the country empowered to a pedigree that has now transgressed into a multi-billion peso business empire, can we all be together in saying we can’t be wrong?

I would probably liken our present-day tumult to car manufacturers allowed in the country to market freely, but have we ever thought we do not have the roads to accommodate each and every one of them, so that we have to grimace the bamboozled mind of MMDA Bayani Fernando mocking up roads like a U turn here there and everywhere, this could be the dead end for the country as a nation struggling to be one.

Can there be U turns all the time?

Let us allow justice take its discourse and not excite people into another turmoil no one can tell, at least if we can make our congress work remove PGMA, well and good, but what if she evade, defends herself make her not lose? PGMA prevailing from her predicament cannot be our fault as a nation so squalid we can’t think straight enough, but whose fault is this? Who are the framers of this laws that made PGMA evade impeachment?

We must make resolutions to correct errors in crafting our system of running things, let us overhaul the system and make it work!

Or convene as a Parliament, invite Jose Maria Sison and all the other insurgents, the Muslims everyone, make them help rectify our nations problem by indulging in a parliamentary debate, then let us have our parliamentary elections free from cheats in 2007.

The TRUTH is the TRUTH it is as simple as that!! When you ask a 5 year old boy, he will know what the truth is !! there is no need for legal terms, no need of explanation,there is no need for technicality!! If GMA is not guilty why is she evading questions about garci and the election, why is she hiding behind legal technicalities,why is she talking to the congressmen, why does she not face the truth head on. The truth may hurt but the truth shall set her free. Free from GREED, Free from the thirst for POWER, free from SIN. A leader should lead by example, and what example she has been!! She is an example of what a leader SHOULD NOT BE!! She is an example of what our society has become!! REMOVING HER SHOULD BE OUR FIRST STEP. The next will be REMOVING OTHER TRAPOS. and last we should also reflect on how we contributed to the ill of society.How we become selfish, apathetic, self righteous. LETS START ALL OVER AGAIN!!! LETS BUILD A STRONGER COUNTRY THAT BUILT ON GOD,TRUST,SELFLESSNESS, AND TRUTH!!! The road ahead is not easy but if we unite nothing is impossible!! GOD BLESS our COUNTRY!!

Let us joined our hands and pray without ceasing until we get a positive result.Many times they want to hide the truth by using so many tapes,the bunye tape,the Mike Defensor tape and the chavit Tape,Now is the time to move forward to to search for TRUTH if Congress cannot stand for Truth let us stand and tell them we are not sleeping here we will move to know what is your hiding with your technicalities.See you guys sa MAKABAGONG KASAYSAYAN NG PILIPINAS NA IUUKIT NG MAMAYANG PILIPINONG NANININDIGAN PARA SA KATOTOHANAN.

[…] Of the two though, the former seems now a less appealing option. Even among the impeachment complaint endorsers in the House, there is as yet no consensus as to the filing of a petition with the Supreme Court. Yesterday, in fact, the lawmakers already turned over the impeachment documents to the Bukluran para sa Katotohanan, a recently formed coalition of anti-Arroyo forces led by former Pres. Corazon Aquino and Susan Roces, in a symbolic gesture that can only suggest the futility of efforts through legal means. […]

[…] “In fact, just this week, a group has come out saying that they demand me, they want to defend me. That’s just plain nuts. They want me to become their common cause because they’ve failed in their other common cause — getting Gloria out of Malacañang.” […]