Siftings
A total sweep of the heart! (2)
(Continued from yesterday)
Consider this:
Ninoy: Young, ambitious, idealistic dreamer, from journalist to young politician who won because of his charisma, brilliant record, speaking skills. Victim of a dictator’s greed to stay in power, he left his country but returned, only to meet an assassin’s bullet unleashed by the regime he sought to fight.
Cory. The housewife whose magic charisma has never left her grateful people’s hearts, even after her death. She is probably the only president who did not enrich herself in office.
Kris. The erstwhile daughter with a monumental ego who parlayed her talent at speaking (not acting, never acting, shes a lousy one-facial expression actress), becoming a “queen of all media.” A family saga of mega proportions that’s hard to beat. Only the finest of Hollywood directors and producers can bring this story to the screen and the rest of the world. To astound, to take hold of, to inspire. This is Noynoy’s legacy. May he rise to its challenge and not fail our Dream. As a Nation and as a people.
And Noy? A no-nonsense young man who saw his family – and his mother – suffer the indignities and pain of his father’s incarceration. And later witnessed his mom’s struggle to survive coups d’etat (one of which left a bullet lodged in his neck), and who probably, in all these, wanted only the way of peace and security that anonymity can give. But not for the Aquinos. For Filipinos, to be an Aquino is to be in the center of a political dream: a martyred father, a sainted mother, a wayward but repentful sister – such that he tried to eschew that dream in his own life. But only for a time.
For now he is about to he proclaimed: President of the Republic of Philippines! But Noynoy is hampered right at the start. Now is the time to rally behind him!
The incumbent, dwarfish by physical nature, who is also seemingly warped by too much power and a big swelled head – visually too big for her body – has done the final stroke for getting back at her critics and detractors. She has legitimized her appointee for the Chief Justice to the Supreme Court by swearing him into office, and had that appointment legitimized, by Associate Justices she herself has appointed, overturning a Supreme Court ban, putting the entire SC’s legitimacy in question. His next step (after her last official step) is to swear in the next President of the Philippines.
Noy has refused to be sworn into office by what he considers an unconstitutional act. And well he might. But is there another way he can hold office as President? He can’t hold office, officially (sign papers, make EO’s, etc. if he has not been officially sworn in). But if he respects Corona’s position and has himself sworn in, Noy is making the first compromise of his governing role – a bad sign for his future as President, because that will signal the beginning of more compromises in the future.
Really, this dwarf has a dwarfish fiendish mind. She should be boiled in oil because such a fiendish ploy belongs in the Middle Ages in Europe, a time when they boiled witches in oil, i.e., when they weren’t burning them at the stake!
But enough of this tainted government. We want a clean-washed governance. I should like to see a time when the government bureaucracy is run on a merit basis, where to govern means to deliver basic services to the country’s citizens without bribes, kickbacks,–at least hindi harap-harapan, kapal-mukhaan which has become the modus operandi in government offices today, ever since I can remember.
It is time to move into the new, cleaner space Noynoy Aquino’s victory at the polls has made for us – a challenging clearing. One that seems ready to receive whatever political and economic future is possible, when we as a nation allows our collective hearts to sweep us smack into the cleaner corridors of Power!
