This is indeed an overrated, if not inflated, obituary of Cory’s magic. CDQ is not after all a voice of the voiceless. It seems that for CDQ, Cory is a saintly president of the republic. Where is the sting of his pen on how Cory managed to re-distribute the wealth of the nation to the elite during her term of office as president?

Let us not put Cory in the pedestal. She may look immaculate, she may show pity for the masses, or she may show qualities that will extol her, but the thing is, she was the President when the “Mendiola massacre” happened. Another massacre later on happened right at the gate of the “Hacienda Luisita.” Is she not accountable?

To refresh you, the bloodshed that happens at the foot of Mendiola and at the gate of “Hacienda Luisita” is so dispicable. It was one sided, merciless, and brutal to say the least. Farmers who clamor for justice were shot even when they were already fleeing.

I am not a radical, and I have stayed to the best hotels in the whole world more than any President or a richman. Nevertheless, I can see the injustice our government has done to its people.

Few weeks after the massacre in Hacienda Luisita, out of pity and compassion, I brave and went right in the picketline of these poor farmers. I brought rice and canned goods, in my small way, just to alliviate their sufferings. They had in their picketline a common open kitchen werein everyone can eat. Vegetables abound, but the “toyo” or dried fish, their only source of protien was almost rotten.

I can never forget a certain Brangay Captain Ramos who volunteered to let me into their picketline. I will never forget him because he too lost his life for a cause. He was among a dozen prominent active members and symphaticers who rallied for a ginuine land reform to the “Hacienda Luisita” and lost their lives on the process.

Our government miserably failed to address these widespread problems of genuine land reform. Ethnic Chinese rule our government and many of our politicians are owners of vast track of land. What justice can we expect from them anyway?

Aren’t most Filipinos today turning “prostitutes” for they have lost every bit of hope here in the country? Filipinos go out of the country, leave their family and children to fate and brave the unknown dangers in exploitative world of migrant workers. If news of execution, massacres and broken families are not enough to bring the politicians to their senses, is there any hope for us? Why can no one of them love this country and in effect serve the people? Who can be our Obama? Who can be our Cory?

Hopelessness is the better term instead of wretchedness.

Normally there would be always a red light district nearby a camp. Subic base has the Olongapo honkytonks. Clark has Angeles, Malacanan, then under the US governor and his guards had Mabini that doubled up to serve the port area. So whats the dope about Cory and the prostitutes and Conrado?

He (de Quiros) probably meant it to be literary although it can be said there were those kind of women who were among the million of people at EDSA I. Yeah, a million people, chanting Cory’s name. That’s how enigmatic and relevant Cory’s persona was…those years ago.

“Most Pinoys Feel Worst off - Poll by Pulse Asia”

I think the above poll by Pulse Asia doesn’t make sense. Do they expect a better economy than previous one prior to successive oil price hikes by OPEC and the present economic meltdown experienced worldwide? We can say this poll is purely political in nature to give in order to give wrong information to the public that GMA’s Administration is totally to blame for the present economic downturn happened in our country. This is the kind of news that is not worth to read and a waste of time to even glance at it.

de quiros is as quick in crucifying erap and gloria for corruption and malgovernance as in crowning cory as a leader with magical tongue that even the prostitutes in mabini will be consumed by its vision of a better philippines. well, the economic and political elite during her tenure regained what has been taken away by marcos and our country has not changed positively and in fact getting worse.

prostituted filipinos? well, de quiros is not after all different from the rest of us, prostituted filipinos. the sting of his pen has become irrelevant when he starts using it for convenience.