I write to you today because I’m sick of people claiming to love this country, but choose to be neutral. We’ve fought tooth and nail since 2004 for this moment in our nation’s history. We choose to have an election instead of another EDSA, so we can advance our nation’s agenda the right way. We need to bind our nation’s wounds and rebuild our fallen institutions.

Yes, there is a War going on in Cyberspace.

Blogs are platforms of information.

Blogs are platforms of misinformation.

Social Media is our gospel’s vehicle.

Our keyboard and bandwidth are our swords and shields.

Lines are drawn. We can not choose to be neutral. We can not choose to be indifferent.

My disappointment has always been that whenever you blog about facts, the other side always counters with personal attacks. Don’t fear what others might think of you or your entry. Blog as honestly as you can. Blog as passionately as you can.

The obvious truth is that the next President of the Philippines must be who Gloria is not. He must bring a sense of propriety back into our nation. He must bring civility and rule of law back that real justice can be enjoyed. There must be real change and we must participate in that change.

In 2010 there should be no gray. It is on or off. It is either zero or one. It is either you validate the past nine years, or you choose to take a different path, to take a different road.

More than a month ago, I wrote Plans Within Plans on the Road to 2010 and I had this to say:

“The zeitgeist is that this is a society where good is bad, and bad is good. It is a time when most of our people are conditioned with coping mechanisms. It is a time where they believe that Elections is the only moment that they should participate in democracy.

May 2010 is shaping to be an epic battle of titans. Arroyo has plans within plans to guarantee she will fight until her day of reckoning.

This is War.

This is a War of Assassins and to the victor of the fight is he who fights the most for it. The truth is, on Election Day is not the last day of War. It is the first day of a greater conflict because that’s when the true work begins. What we will find is the typhoon struggle. What we will discover on Election Day is the beginning of Kralizec, and when that happens, will we default to our coping mechanisms or break the status quo and build our nation together?”

We must each choose how we participate in the coming election. If you’ve chosen a candidate, help his campaign. Be part of it. Make your voice heard in that campaign as much as you can.

If you’ve not chosen, choose quickly.

This is the certainty that I know of. Remember this. Forget who candidates are. 2010 is about validating nine years of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo or to choose to right that wrong. Make no mistake. There is no other choice. That is the only barometer that you need to know. Fail to understand it is to plunge this nation into another six years or more of darkness and the cynics win. I don’t think it can stand that. I don’t think decent Filipinos will want to live in a country like that.

The test of 2010 isn’t actually who we support, who our candidate is. No. The real test is what happens post election. Most apt are the words spoken by John F. Kennedy, which we need to remember: “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”

Ask not what your candidate can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.

Our nation stands at a crossroads. We are at a precipice. Your commitment to democracy does not exist only on election day. Your commitment to the winner of 2010 does not end when the last ballot has been counted. It exist from here on, and we renew that vow, six years from now. To be neutral is to be indifferent.

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