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Kilosbayan, Padaca, Panlilio, Rebredo and the real brains working on the reform movement AT THIS TIME will NOT REVEAL their game plans for 2010. It will be fatal to do that. That will give the trapos, specially those working with the current politicians in office (who are scared of losing their powers because that means income and lots and lots of money), the time and methodology to shoot these plans down.

This is now a case where tighter security is applied by the people who are really working for the reforns. This the time when secrecy are tightly guarded and information is given only to those who must know, and when.

This is the time for political intelligence to work and it must be presumed that all political analysts (of whichever camp or party) are doing exactly that. It is alright for ideas to be tossed around but do not expect the complete game plan will be made public at all.

To any critical thinker/writer there will always be questions to ask. You may not get the answers but expect the brains to give you only what they want you to know. This is precisely the reason you and every thinking voters should be asking questions. You must have your own set of data and information to base your decision. This is exactly what the honest media must do so the citizens are enlightened.

For this same reason, we must not just accept the printed or aired or blogged information served to us. Do your own analysis and make your own decision, because that will be your vote. Consult with friends and trusted analysists only. Then cross your fingers hard in the hope that you are not doublecrossed or fed with the misinformation.

Politics in DEMOCRATIC Philippines — particularly since 1946– is not a ideological tool whereby HONESTY is upheld supreme. We have warped and twisted politics and honesty to be “pragmatic” and something to be molded and used for personal convenience.

This does not mean I am preaching hopelessness or resignation to a corruption-anchored future for the country. Indeed, Padaca and Kilosbayan were here just to open the eyes of your generation that there is hope–and we must all take the first step forward.

The country has taken the first step backward when we became ideologically empty in the Cory Aquino regime. Now let us take the ten forward steps to go on.

Ding, I agree. That’s why Panlilio should be really clever. If he fails, it will take ages before another of his kind emerges. Because if he fails, the people could lose hope in good governance.

And yes, DJB, I hold no illussions about Edsa II. It was a coup d’etat that raped the Constitutions.

Now why don’t we get to work and start thinking about ousting these trapos (and eventually the Oligarchs)? :D

Of course if you believe in or are deceived by the illusion that Erap fell because of “People Power” then of course you will be disappointed in the Middle Class’ “reformist credentials” since 2004 and the Garci Scandal.

Unfortunately, mob rule breeds MOB Rule.

Now, Chavit Singson, allegedly the lord of jueteng and smuggling in Ilokoslovakia, is Deputy National Security Advisor. GMA has no intentions of leaving in 2010. The old gang is intact, (except for the softy cry babies who really thought GMA represented a revolution then reform!). They cannot afford to let go of power. So they won’t. They have control of the Supreme Court and the MIlitary. There is severe turbulence in the economy. War in Mindanao. Food inflation, oil and energy crises, dogs sleeping with cats. What more could a budding dictator want, or need, to rule a nation that George Schultz once described as 75 million cowards and one sonofabitch?

So the question is: What’s GMA’s game plan?

Even those from the AIM and the Ateneo are at a loss sometimes about how to handle the priest-turned-politician. No, Among Ed is not being eaten up by the system but political craft-work is such a complicated task of balancing competing interests and cobbling together productive consensus that Pampanga is not moving forward as well as it should.