My concern is your illusionary commensuration of unrestrained agency and social pathologies. Well, both are problems which needs to be addressed, but you just mixed your subjective opinions into a totalizing problem and placed much weight on the agency over structural political problems such as class and such.

Your conservative ideas are protectionist of the current social condition.

“She is joined out there on the streets by jeepney, bus, taxi and tricycle drivers block multiple lanes to compete for passengers and justify their actions by saying, “Naghahanap buhay lang po” and by who vendors refuse to acknowledge that the sidewalk is for pedestrians.”

This is how a fascist would think – preserve the right of pedestrians over vendors’ survival . . . what an epistemic waste. You have to identify what is an offshoot of the other, and what pushes for the emergence of the other. Don’t mislead your viewers, there’s are so much misleading narratives on this society – stop producing more.

“While they never seem to run out of criticisms, they fail to realize that any criticism is only as good as the counter proposal it seeks to promote. Without that counter proposal – without that bright idea as to how things ought to be done – then, political commentary is nothing but huffing and puffing, a form of high brow entertainment, pseudo-intellectual masturbation or all of that.”

I admire your cynical poetry; however, the context is awful. Critique to the government is more than corruption and repressive policies – it is a critique on the government as the core ideological apparatus of the ruling elite.

It somehow aims for a gradual change over social condition without compromising peoples’ survival needs. It is obvious that squatting is a social dilemma, yet activist work for their rights. Squatters are victims of a social predicament called poverty: how in any way can you accuse and blame them of authoring their own condition.

I should say that you have to recognize different avenues of resistance. You should learn to decipher political morphology as key for a concrete analysis of social fragments.

Indeed, blogging is destructive, especially with analysis like yours.

BAKLITA KA RIN?! hahahaha! Leche ka! Drag Queen ka lan pala! hahaha

GOOD! or else tatawagin ko ang bago kong BFF na si Renata Facifica Falayfay! hahaha

actually im a cringing in fear about your credentials… nginig, nginig, at nignig pa rin.

am glad eye can meek you happy hahaha no worries, wez ako buy piryodiks, ditez na lang me read nang news, isang entry dalwang speculation libre pa hahahaha

I was not disbarred. If you go to the rolls of attorneys at Supreme Court website you will still see my name there. But that is beside the point. I said I am not interested in showing my credential, but not afraid either to show it if one will look for it. It was in my blog and I do not intend to hide it..

Heck, if you’re not showing me your credential. Then don’t! You’re not breaking any Presidential Decree. I’ve already done my background checks and as far as I am concerned i don’t see it on the About Page of FV. I don’t know what part of that argument you don’t understand.

So who asked for your credential? If there is one, give that to her/him. Please do not fault FV because one or two commenters here had asked for your credential.

I don’t know who asked for your credential. Did I? Or you’re just pushing it to me? You need not worry. I already know about you which you probably noticed already. There’s a whole discussion of this JCC that you can read over the weekend. Make a book report instead. Feel free to visit my site and Sparks entry.

I am not intimidated by your credential, nor do I intend to intimidate you with mine

Cool. We’re in balanced.

At FV, most of us are nobody…”.

Most of you are nobody? That’s not what I’ve read NOR reading? Opinion makers? Intellectuals? And the rest of the readers are jologs low class that are not up to par with you? Heck! This was how it all started! The challenge! Now you’r nobody? Haller! It did not start from me, remembah?!

So if you think you are sombebody, please go that blog sites which are credential-laden and be comfortable in the company of your fellow-credentialed-bloggers”.

Well, I’m a barrio GURL, who was able to escape poverty shit with no connections and yes, I am somebody. I am REYNA ELENA. Hahaha! Baklita who took on the challenge that’s now in your hands by choice. To tell me to move to wherever is not very lawyer-ly response isn’t it? That’s pretty immature to me. My credentials are plastered in my blog entry. I don’t think it was plastered in here by myself. Have you seen it JCC??? If you can’t stomach my credentials from the links given you by Cat and as you have just said you’re not intimidated, then why are you so bothered by it?

I was not disbarred. If you go to the rolls of attorneys at Supreme Court website you will still see my name there. But that is beside the point. I said I am not interested in showing my credential, but not afraid either to show it if one will look for it. It was in my blog and I do not intend to hide it.

So who asked for your credential? If there is one, give that to her/him. Please do not fault FV because one or two commenters here had asked for your credential.

I am not intimidated by your credential, nor do I intend to intimidate you with mine. At FV, most of us are nobody… So if you think you are sombebody, please go that blog sites which are credential-laden and be comfortable in the company of your fellow-credentialed-bloggers”.