With the exponential hype of Maria Ressa’s arrest, both domestic and international, I thought of sharing my 2 cents on the issue. However, I wish to look at it in the light of the current lopsided political scenario which puts the Anti Duterte forces in an extinct position, and hence, the level of desperation to grab anything they could, to keep themselves relevant in the body politic by “holding the line”, come what may.
Duterte ended the year 2018 with a big bang – 81 percent approval rating as against 7 percent who disapproved of him and 13 percent undecided. Surprisingly, he got an increase of 6 percent coming off the most difficult time of his almost 3-year administration – the 7.2 percent inflation rate in September last year which was exploited by the anti Dutertes in their political grandstanding, trying to project Duterte as incompetent with the hope of convincing the Filipino people into withdrawing their support for him.
Digong however weathered the storm and in fact, he emerged unscathed and victorious with people all the more cementing their support to his administration. With the impact of the Build Build Build expected to kick in this year, the start of the rehabilitation of the Manila Bay which generated national and global adulation for him after Boracay clean up, and the continued decelerating pace of the country’s inflation further down to 4 percent as backdrop, one can only expect a political home- run for Duterte. Absent any fortuitous damning political catastrophe in the coming months, a 90 percent approval rating is in the offing. If he gets this number, it will be a total shameful political annihilation for his opponents, particularly the destabilizers of the country onward to the culmination of his term. So, uwian na!
Obviously, Anti Dutertes have practically depleted all their ammunition in shooting down Duterte’s numbers. The issue on Extra Judicial Killing (EJK) is now in comma, awaiting its last breath with the latest SWS survey confirming people’s support on the government’s drug war and the continued detention of Delima on drug charges whose domestic and global support have already diminished. The corruption issue as promoted by Trillanes will soon vanish as he fades away politically with the end of his term in May as Senator, heading most likely to jail with the current and forthcoming cases he will be facing after baring his dimpled political ass of parliamentary immunity. Next month, March 15, our country’s withdrawal from ICC will take effect with no indication of having the results of the preliminary examination in the horizon. The issue on tyranny and dictatorship has remained an imagined concern with distorted concoction as far as the people are concerned, hence, its failure to gain a momentum of support. The Martial Law in Mindanao, which has been ruled as constitutional by the SC 3 times, has instigated a paradigm shift of how the Filipino people look at the Martial Law under the 1987 Constitution with their acceptance of the declaration and with open arms and legs as opposed to the climate of terror and fear akin to Marcos Martial Law which Anti Duterte wanted to instill in the country’s consciousness with desperation.
If we are to describe the anti Duterte forces in the political battle with Duterte, they are nothing less than “political zombies” roaming around with no direction - unarmed, scary and isolated from the masses. The inability of the Liberal Party to have a complete slate of 12 for the May elections is a confirmation of a party’s depleted resources – both money and talent. Its failure to convince other parties to join them in fighting Duterte in the coming elections is an affirmation of the existence of the curse embedded on any level of association with the LP for the political exercise being considered as a “kiss of death”. In a nutshell, the Anti Duterte forces are now politically impotent, and with its depleted libido, we cannot expect it to put up such exciting performance that will titillate the public’s imagination in May elections and beyond.
The case of the arrest of Maria Ressa of Rappler is one indication of the Duterte antagonists’ desperate effort to pull out an election issue against the administration. Such however is considered misplaced and a belated one. It is a public knowledge that Maria’s narrative is a narrative of lies, deceit and a concoction of slanted information designed to win the public sympathy and drag the name of Duterte at the heart of the issue. This is purely a libel case between 2 private individuals filed in 2012 at the height of PNoy’s ouster move of the late CJ Corona which involves an accuser who has no links whatsoever with Duterte. But they used this as a golden opportunity to drag his name by hyping the libel case and arrest of Maria as that of an assault against freedom of the press. Of course, seeing Maria’s charming face, (at least from my perspective - joke), mainstream media and yellow idiotic political pundits joined the call to aim their guns at Duterte. Yes, it’s a 180 degree-spike of the story just to bring Digong at the center of the controversy which many reject as too much of a hard sell for the Filipino people to swallow. And so, they puke it out!
If Anti Dutertes are still politically sane, they should ask themselves before jumping into the show of Maria Ressa - is this a correct political strategy to bring down the numbers of Duterte? Will such story win the hearts of the Filipino people?
Domestically, the narrative proved to be fatal to the cause of the Anti Dutertes. They just had themselves shot on their feet. For one, Maria failed to get the support and sympathy of her peers. The National Press Club did not agree with her that her case is a political harassment. And this is shared by a substantial number of influential journalists who wrote their opposition to the propaganda being peddled around saying that the country’s freedom of the press is under attack. Of course, she found solace from the support of noted Anti Duterte media groups like the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMRF) and the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) which have been bad mouthing Duterte since he assumed the Presidency – in short, these bunch of morons camouflaging as journalists are consistent anti Duterte for whatever reasons. – Sanamagan.
So, if we are to assess the impact of such political grandstanding by looking at the social media comments and how the public reacted, it certainly boomeranged. The indifference of politicians on the issue is also revealing. Save for VP Robredo and her yellow minions, and Makabayan block, politicians from the other parties refused to comment on the matter to avoid it from being politicized. Indeed, it has not reached the level of it becoming an election issue which Maria Ressa wanted to project to inflict damage on the administration candidates’ winning chance. On the contrary, DDS and neutral individuals have rallied behind Duterte who look at Maria Ressa’s action as one destabilizing effort knowing her as an American citizen who wants to wreak havoc in the country by maligning the administration in the name of press freedom. This is the kind of narrative which the people believe, thus debunking Maria Ressa’s malicious lies.
Internationally, as expected, Maria Ressa won the support of the global mainstream media and prominent personalities who cried such an attack against press freedom in the country. Her case is a confirmation of the continued existence of that global machinery to destroy the image of the country under Digong in the world stage. We had these since Duterte became President and we witnessed how he fought valiantly against such interventionist campaign in defense of our sovereignty.
Obviously, the global destabilizing campaign seeks to convince international entities and countries from the west to impose sanctions against our government to place our country into an economic peril. Once the people suffer, it will be easy for them to change their heart and go against the administration, thus forcing Digong out of the equation. It’s a classic demonic strategy for these people to exploit the sufferings of the citizens of one country for their selfish ends. But the reality these idiots will have to contend is the fact that the global community is divided into two different worlds – the US and Europe world on one hand, and the China and Russia world with their allies on the other hand. Fortunately for our country, Digong masterfully managed to put our existence in both worlds. Such that when US and Canada threatened to hold off their AIDS and arms purchase on human rights issue, Digong went to China, Russia and their allies for help to which he got more than what asked for with no conditions at all. When America finally changed its heart on the AIDS to woo the country, Digong rejected the offer for help due to sovereignty issues. So, to blackmail our country’s sovereignty and force it into submission to the vassals of the West is outright stupidity. The President is way too advance for you to trap him with such amateurish political maneuvering. In your face!
Ah, maybe these moronic destabilizers are hoping that just like the case of Venezuela, Trump will just declare his support to VP Robredo as the new President, thereby shoving away Digong to the jubilation of the Anti Duterte forces. If this how they think, then it is a confirmation that the destabilizers are meth addicts which deserved to be tokhanged for being now a social risk with such hallucinating minds. Of course, these 2 countries have different standing. Venezuela’s opposition has the substantial support of the people which is the primordial consideration why America is supporting it. Besides, at this early, the opposition leader has already sold the soul of its country to America. So, it is a sure ball for the US to put its bet on a subservient political leader. In our case, the opposition’s support is a mere drop in the bucket with Digong enjoying such massive backing from millions of Filipinos willing to put their lives and limb on the line for the President and sovereignty of the country. Besides, the group which will ultimately benefit with the ousting of Digong is not the group of VP Robredo with the hemorrhaging state of the LP. It will be the reds and its militant allies on the streets which have the capacity to snatch the state power in an oust Duterte scenario. So, even if VP Robredo offers her political ass to Trump, the latter will just snub it for the obvious reason of being no use to American interest. He will in fact do what he exactly does – woo Duterte considering our country’s importance to its imperialistic presence in this region. Simply put, all scenarios they expect to elicit with their global political grandstanding are nowhere in sight. They are simply products of meth-driven hallucinating minds.
In the ultimate analysis, the destabilizers have realized that they are not winning their battle in our land. Hence, they bring their fight outside of the country where they can launch an unhampered insidious attack at all fronts with the help of their global collaborators with the intention of bringing our country down to its knees. And paradoxically, these idiotic traitors call themselves as nationalists. Sanamagan!
In their desperation, they used almost all instrumentalities in the UN, international entities, human rights institutions and what have you to paint a global scenario that the world is against Duterte. And we witnessed how the President has valiantly fought for our national interests in fending off these manipulative and interventionist assault on our independence as we journey towards progress domestically. The question that every Filipino should ask then in the light of these global attacks against us – do we owe the world anything that we have to reach out to them and explain our case? Do we really care what the world says about how we do things in our country? If the world is run by unscrupulous demonic power brokers lurking in the halls of the UN or in the sidelines of the so called “global cockpit” where betting on how and when to rip off helpless countries around the world, then Filipinos should not give a damn on how the world sees us, much less says about us. UN can fuck itself for all we care. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and with all the UN Rapporteurs and experts along with their Filipino collaborators can congregate themselves into a global community of idiotic pervs where orgysm is the name of their game. We should not give a damn at all. Our country’s existence is not and should not be at the mercy of these global mercenaries. We run it. It is ours alone.
Finally, for the PCOO which is due to travel around Europe to explain the state of the country’s press freedom, we appeal to you to bring the message of the Filipino people and that of Digong to the West, UN and other international entities and please make sure that our message will reverberate around the globe – “FUCK THE WORLD!” – Jun Avelino
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