For the many who have enthusiastically supported or joined EDSA II, myself among them, the final push was almost certainly the failure of the constitutional process (the remedy of impeachment) to hold then President Estrada accountable for charges of multiple impeachment offenses. (President–elect Noynoy Aquino himself has threatened to go directly to the people the [...]
Missing the Point On the Road to 2010: Election Automation and Mobilizing Young People to Vote
June 30, 2009 By 95 Comments
I had a timely discussion with Norman Sison on twitter regarding automation. Let me say right now: that I am not against automation, at all. I’m just saying, automation and organizing young people to register and vote for 2010 is missing the point of what’s wrong with our politics. The problem of Philippine democracy isn’t [...]
Cha-Cha, Presto Marcato con Moto
November 26, 2008 By 4 Comments
Our Tito-Vic-and-Joey regard for “politics”
November 21, 2008 By 76 Comments
In his latest brilliant article “The Elusive Mystery of Democracy“, Ben Kritz can’t make it any more simple: Representative democracy cannot exist without strong and well-organized political parties that have clear ideologies and objectives. The whole concept of our “right” to govern ourselves using a “democratic” form of government has been pitched to us in [...]
Better Political Parties, Not More Impeachment
October 11, 2008 By 40 Comments
Music to my Ears, A Joy to Read
May 10, 2008 By 10 Comments
Overseas Filipinos are forming a national political party in preparation for the 2010 elections and beyond, it was revealed at the Global Filipino Nation (GFN) conference Friday.
Francisco “Jun” Aguilar, interim chairman of the Partido ng Pandaigdigang Pilipino (PPP or Party of the Global Filipino), said the party is in the process of complying with the requirements of the Commission on Elections.
“The Philippines” – a meaningless concept
May 5, 2008 By 24 Comments
I read Marck’s Tyranny and the Image with interest, specifically when it came to the passage: “politics in this country is not a “personality cult,” but a “cult of imagery”. I thought, well, in fairness to Pinoy society (and I’m a bit out-of-character here), the power of images had been demonstrated in so many forms [...]
The Philippines’ inconvenient truth
May 2, 2008 By 19 Comments
I checked out mlq3′s latest blog entry A Federalist appeal and am again reminded of the remarkable amount of debate going on about forms of government in general — specifically what form is best for Pinoy society. I maintain — consistent to my usual simplistic take on Pinoy society — that the key to Pinoy [...]
Power Not by Desire, But By Right
April 22, 2008 By 6 Comments
Elliot S. Maggin penned in 1997: “Our proper response to the inexorable march of progress that has brought us to this place and time in the history of civilization is to find a way to confront it responsibly. Not modestly. Not unself-consicously. Not with faith in a power greater than ours to descend from the [...]
An Alternative Representation
April 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Thomas Paine once wrote, “The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected.” We vote for representatives because we seek to protect our inalienable rights. Paine continues on to say that to take away the right to vote is, in effect, to “reduce a man to slavery.” Thankfully, [...]
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