Aquino’s Gotterdamerung

Four days have passed since Pres. Benigno Aquino III made his State of the Nation Address and it seems that his critics have already lambasted the President for literally lying through his teeth. For instance when the President said, “By this coming August, affected families can move into the permanent housing units into the Martha Drive Subdivision.” But one resident in Zamboanga City who lost his home bewailed the President’s statement saying that certainly the President was kidding when he said they could move this August. He said it probably would be on August 2016.

 As I said before the President made his SONA, he should avoid making rash statements like this one, which he himself did not validate. This is the problem with the sip-sip mentality with his Yellow minions giving him unverified information, which he used in his SONA. In the end he sounded more like a liar than being Presidential. It doesn’t help his image any when he appealed to the emotion of the Filipino people ala Kris Aquino.

 Pres. Aquino probably doesn’t realize that the people at the barricades that the police hosed down were a new breed of young militant Filipinos. Those who were at the barricades of the EDSA Revolt are now approaching their senior years and have become jaded to the empty promises of our President and the political elite that has ruled this nation since 1986.

 Pres. Aquino boasted in his SONA that the high-profile crimes like the killing of Richard King in Davao City had been solved, yet he obviously did not mention that the biggest crime syndicate in this country is the Legislature that siphoned off billions of pesos of the Filipino people’s money that went into the pockets of the political elite.

 How come there are only three senators that have been detained? The list of Janet Napoles had 20 senators whom she had dealings with and that includes Sen. Loren Legarda, Gringo Honasan, Lito Lapid, Cynthia Villar, Koko Pimentel, Chiz Escudero, Allan Peter Cayetano, Vicente Sotto, Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., and many former senators. There’s another longer list coming from the House of Representatives.

 This is why many of those members of the political elite wore yellow ribbons to the SONA to show their support to Pres. PNoy. They are akin to the Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler, who had to support him because they were in power. If the political elite had Aquino removed via impeachment, their life of crime would crumble and soon enough, things would change and political dynasties would become a thing of the past. But do you believe that this would happen? Certainly not under a Binay presidency.

 What we saw at the SONA wasn’t really a SONA, but it sounded more like Pres. PNoy’s valedictory address. It was akin to Richard Wagner’s Opera entitled “Götterdämmerung” or Twilight of the Gods, which the English often refer to as a disastrous conclusion as it signaled the end of the gods. This is why Pres. PNoy was nearly in tears because he knew that the end was coming for him. He also knew that his popularity has waned because he wasted those years when he was popular.

 In the end, the Aquino presidency has become not much different from the waning Marcos years in 1986 when the conjugal Marcos dictatorship was clutching on straws. It surprises me that even today, those rabid yellow minions of this president still insist that he is honest. Yet they cannot see that in the past 4 years of his presidency, PNoy had a P150.6 billion personal pork barrel, which the Commission on Audit admits that it has not even seen any accounting of it.

 P150.6 billion is a lot of money to be under the full and direct control of one man even if he is the president of the Philippines. If PNoy is honest as what his yellow minions believe him to be, why hasn’t he shown any transparency in accounting for this people’s money? In fact, I strongly believe that this is the very reason why the President despite his campaign promise 4 years ago did not pursue or prioritize the so-called Freedom of Information Bill in his SONA.

 After his SONA, this is one of the very huge issues that Aquino’s critics hit back at him — that he didn’t push for the FOI bill because that would have meant that the media would have access to all the documents that he signed in Malacañang. Of course, House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte by his lonesome made the FOI Bill a priority.

 But then Belmonte too believes that the 1987 Constitution should be amended, but Malacañang wouldn’t even talk to him about this. How much more for the FOI bill? In the end, the great majority of our people have finally awaken to the reality that I’ve already know 4 years ago that we had a do-nothing President who could not improve the lives of our people in his 4 years in power. What a waste of 4 years.