“Mamundok” — to go up to the mountains — is the term used by those who chose to join the New People’s Army, and take up arms against the government in its camps — up in the mountains.

I’m not keen of joining *the* NPA though, because of late the NPA has become nothing but a group of bandits harassing and terrorizing private individuals and companies for revolutionary tax, but I am interested in movements which take civil disobedience to a much higher level than street protests.

I’d be glad to take lessons from you, my friend :) Pardon me for my ignorance for I, too, have my own lapses which I am not fearful to admit.

Funny, you don’t even understand what “mountains” meant.

You have much to learn, my friend. ;)

So, who would you suggest are the top three best candidates to take over?

And who’s saying that a revolutionary government run by communists under sheep’s skin should take the place of a regime like what we have now once it gets brazened down?

Pag naibagsak, anong ipapalit? My position on that is to hold snap elections. That’s what a democracy is for, right? That being said, Noli de Castro should also sink with the anchor. Let’s start electing the top two positions right after Gloria is ejected from her illegitimate rule. Come to think of it, Gloria isn’t even the president!

God or Allah or Buddha or Garci forbid, if Gloria doesn’t yield after 2010, you won’t be seeing me in the mountains. You’ll be seeing me in the streets.

Easy for pundits like you to say, because the responsibility of rebuilding does not rest on YOUR hands. Precisely why I hate leftists who always sport the “IBAGSAK!” banter. Pag naibagsak, anong ipapalit? They then start blabbering about ideals and delusions like a revolutionary government run by civil society or something as preposterous. They never manage to answer that question properly.

I am not saying that regime change is not needed, as what you want to believe I am saying. What I am saying is we need to find some other thing to do to accompany that regime change in order to make it effective and not as hollow and empty as the 1986 and 2001 regime changes we as a people effected.

It also appears to be a waste of time — if Gloria leaves on 2010. If she doesn’t, baka maunahan pa kita umakyat ng bundok.

But quite frankly, I don’t know how to make it happen. We need a motivating factor.

And I also think that aside from cultural upbringing, the system- as opposed to a regime- must be changed.

I think cultural change can be futile if the same breed of elite oligarchs rule the country. These people aren’t even loyal to the Philippines. They don’t care about any social responsibility. They only care about their own interest at the expense of the interest of the nation.