TINDIG PILIPINAS

Tindig Pilipinas is the opposition's battle cry to invite people to join their core, literally translated to Rise, Philippines. They are the same faces from the previous administration where the drug industry flourished, giant shabu laboratories were erected, & a Secretary of Justice who abused & prostituted her office to benefit from the industry is now in prison. They are the same people who plundered clean our coffers, disallowed flood projects & pocketed the world's generous aid when typhoon Haiyan hit us.

These are same faces who were complicit in the previous President's distributing P50 M for each Senator to oust a prestigious Chief Justice because he was unhappy that their family farm was decided due for distribution to farmers. These faces were grim silent when government forces shot dead some farmers on this farm after they cried injustice, being paid P38 a week. These same faces were stone silent, too, when Mindanao farmers were shot dead after they cried in hunger, begging for help when drought destroyed their crops.

There was one man who sent sacks of rice & bottled water to those surviving farmers in Kidapawan, Mindanao. He was also the first politician to visit Tacloban after typhoon Haiyan to distribute rice & water. He was criticized on both occasions for politicking in the guise of aiding. This is the same man who declared a non-working day of protest this 21 Sept., so protesters can have a whole free day, the man they are rallying against for being a tyrant, a dictator. I can take it when he dictates that we should all work together to help him eliminate drugs, crime & corruption in our country. I gladly support his administration especially after all he has initiated to make life decent & comfortable for the common Filipino~free education, free medical aid, less crime & instilling patriotism which we so have forgotten.

There's so much more ground work he's done. I will suffer his foul mouth & vitriol when foreign countries call him out because he is right~we are a sovereign country. I will call on his flaws as I see fit, for he is human. I voted for this man & I will defend the mandate I gave him. Call him what you want . As for me, he works his job way better than anyone before him. Call him dictator; but put benevolent before it.

~ Aimee B. de Guia