The end of history
“The revolution is over.” That’s how GMA News should have headlined their story Philippine left backs Villar, Loren
After months of courtship, presidential candidate Manuel Villar of the Nacionalista Party (NP) succeeded in getting the support of the leftist group Makabayan.
Senatorial aspirants Bayan Muna Satur Ocampo and Gabriela Rep. Liza Maza on Monday officially joined the NP senatorial ticket as “guest candidates.”
Ocampo and Maza bring with them the support of the eight party-list groups under Makabayan–Bayan Muna, Gabriela, Anakpawis, Kabataan, Katribu, Migrante, Courage, and the Alliance of Concerned Teachers.
It is the first time that the leftist alliance is officially supporting presidential and vice-presidential candidates.
Ang daming namatay, napatay, na torture, na kidnap, na disappear para sa rebolusyong makabayan, tapos ang patutunguan din pala ng rebolusyon ay pagsanib puwersa kay Manny Villar at Loren Legarda.
Gusto ko sanang isipin na hindi alam ng kaliwa kung anong klaseng mga tao yan si Villar at si Legarda pero kung iisipin ko yun eh para ko na rin sinabi na tanga sila. Eh, alam ko naman hindi sila tanga.
“Ganun kalaki ang pagtingin namin sa mga kandidatong ito,” said Ocampo’s colleague in Bayan Muna, Rep. Teodoro Casiño.
Ano ka ba Teddy, lasing o bangag?
Nakakatawa sana ang pangyayari - Ipinagpalit ng kaliwa ang Rebolusyonaryong Daan para sa Daan Hari -pero sobra na ang dami ng dugong dumanak para matawa tayo.
Sabi ni Liza Maza: “Maganda kung makuha ni Bongbong(Marcos) ang pagkakataon na ma-settle ito. It’s a good opportunity to heal that past.”
Liza, wala naman kailangan i-heal kay Bongbong dahil hindi naman siya yun tatay niya. Hilo ka ba?
Kung sabagay okay lang kung ang kaliwa ay bumitaw sa rebolusyon. Magiging mapayapa ang bayan natin. Okay din kung gusto nila maging Nacionalista.
Ocampo called the partnership a “mutual adoption” of platforms: Makabayan adopts the NP’s platform while the NP adopts Makabayan’s platform.
Ang tanong ko lang sa kaliwa ay kung okay sa kanila si Villar bakit hindi okay sa kanila si Gloria?
Hindi yata nila nahahalata na ang pinagkaiba lang ni Villar kay Gloria ay nunal sa mukha!
Hindi ko kilala si Liza Maza pero kaibigan ko si Satur. My heart bleeds for my friend.
on December 15th, 2009 at 8:27 am
“Gamitan 2010″
on December 15th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Times have changed indeed. Joma’s friends in the Philippines have become bourgeois.
Actually, they and Villar belong to the same flock: opportunistas!
When Gloria led the coup d’état in 2001, the left sent warm bodies to prop her up too. The left hated Erap so much because they thought they would be able to sweet talk Erap into honouring CARRHIL, but guess what, Erap didn’t pay attentio to that so that got Joma upset and so when the heat against Erap came to a boiling point, they rushed to Gloria and made a deal with her — “We will support you, provide the warm bodies you need, be there with you, etc., but you must be nice to our friend in Utrecht.”
Hah! na double crossed ulit sila.
They are probably trying the same tack again with Villar…
Mga oportunista ang loko!
on December 15th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Ano ang ipinakain ni Money at Sinta kina Satur Ocampo at hilong-hilo?!
These leftists are so disappointing. Supporting Villar only proved they don’t have steady roots to begin with, kahit sino na lang.
on December 15th, 2009 at 11:23 am
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on December 16th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
if, to you, the revolution is only about satur and company, then i am not surprised by your (and chi, and adbrux and the equalizer’s) opinion on the NP-Makabayan alliance.
if you, however, concede that the “revolution” is what’s happening in the hills — a revolution that remains unvanquished by a succession of regimes, precisely because the conditions demand for it — and that satur and company are merely exploiting the democratic space, then you are totally misreading the whole thing. sino ngayon ang hilo, lasing at bangag?
you pa-intellectual people should stop looking at satur and ocampo as if they are politicians in the same mold as gibo, villar, noynoy, etc. they are revolutionaries, for crying out loud. the moment you lose sight of this fact, you become, well, hilo, lasing or bangag.
on December 16th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
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on December 17th, 2009 at 12:54 am
Danton,
I guess you missed the announcement. NDF has changed its name from National Democratic Front to Nacionalista Democratic Front.
Like I said, the only difference between Villar and Gloria is the mole in the face so the left could have waged their revolution just as well by endorsing Gibo and running as guest candidates of Lakas Kampi.
You don’t get it, do you?
on December 17th, 2009 at 12:57 am
danton, exactly.
the argument against all this is only hinged on two points: that manny villar and loren legarda are trapo, and that satur and liza have sold their souls by allying themselves with the trapos. katakut-takot ang mali sa argumentong ito. una, wala namang debate na traditional politicians sina villar at loren. they come from the ruling, propertied class, and have been in politics for quite sometime. now, when progressives ally themselves with cory (who is clearly from the ruling class) against marcos, or gloria arroyo against erap, we generally acknowlege this as a broad unity against a common enemy. it goes without saying kung ano ang kahinaan ni cory sa kasaysayan, siyempre ganun din kay gloria.
pero when this very same tactic is used to broaden their ranks during elections, the left is ridiculed by the likes of this blogger (who, it must be known, is a noynoy supporter).
before i go to the second point, let me just say this: satur and liza have done more for this country than me, this blogger, and noynoy and mar roxas combined. they have sacrificed more, suffered more for their principles, and fought back more. satur alone was among the most tortured political prisoners during the dictatorship. he was definitely imprisoned the longest (running up to cory’s regime). in 2007, he was again imprisoned, and prosecuted, with liza and the rest of the so-called batasan 6.
the point is not that because of their sacrifices, they should be rewarded by senate seats. the point is that their characters have been tested throughout their political careers. they had numerous opportunities to sell their souls (for those under torture, in exchange for some relief from torture).
the alliance with NP is but an electoral alliance. at hindi man ako privy sa negotiations, may tiwala ako sa pagkatao ng dalawa, that they had the interest of the people at heart. di hamak na magtitiwala ako sa pagdedesisyon at pagsusuri nila kesa sa blogger na ito.
on December 17th, 2009 at 1:00 am
at isa pa. electoral struggle nga e. nasa kalingkingan lang yan ng pangkalahatang struggle ng kaliwa. the revolution is over? bangag ka ba, blogger?
on December 17th, 2009 at 4:36 am
when the left joins forces with Villar, who is known for the C5 road mess, and joins the slate with Marcos in it, there must be something wrong. advise kaya ni joma ito?
on December 17th, 2009 at 10:15 am
yang mga pa-cute na attempt at humor, uniffors, does not work to your advantage, kasi pa-cute nga e. in any case, this is all strategic and calculated by the left. it’s not as if wala lang magawa sina satur and liza.
and your point about villar being no different than gloria is shaky at best, but you insist on this because without it, your argument crumbles. based on your flawed judgment of villar, you judge satur and liza. granting that villar is not perfect, you think the left does not know that?
as i said, if you insist on viewing the left through your burgis prism, you are totally misreading this.
in the end, what satur and liza did will be judged by the people — the masses — that they have fought for all this years, not by your burgis perspective and bias against the left.
on December 17th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Ganito, kunwari:
Kumampi si Satur at Liza sa LP? Evil pa rin ba sila?
on December 17th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
danton,
If they win, good for them.But if they lose what does that tell you?
on December 17th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
kenneth,
the point is sumiping sila with villar and loren. Everything else is just ka-ekekan na justification
on December 18th, 2009 at 12:40 am
Guys,
There is an old saying in politics - “when you’re explaining, you’re losing.”
on December 18th, 2009 at 12:43 am
Cheezballs,
Eh di nga ba sinabi ng kaliwa na gusto sana nila kay Noynoy pero hindi sila nagkasundo kaya dun na lang sila kay Villar?
Kung sumama sila kay Noynoy at Mar okay sila kasi si Noynoy at Mar hindi baboy tulad ni Villar.
on December 18th, 2009 at 1:23 am
“If they win, good for them.But if they lose what does that tell you?”
That their “revolution” is not going to be won in the electoral arena and the countryside remains the best option. If they lose, they won’t lose much but they will walk away convinced even more that the “system” needed to be brought down to its knees by other means. if they lose, that’s one less delusion to deal with.
on December 18th, 2009 at 8:59 am
hindi naman sinabi ng kaliwa na si noy-mar ang gusto nila. inilako nila ang programa sa lahat ng presidentiables bago pa man sinamantala ng noynoy fans ang pagkamatay ni tita cory at itulak sa pagkapresidente si noynoy.
at kung sumama sila kay noynoy kahit di sila nagkasundo sa plataporma, mas baboy sila kina noynoy at mar.
on December 18th, 2009 at 9:34 am
“Kung sumama sila kay Noynoy at Mar okay sila kasi si Noynoy at Mar hindi baboy tulad ni Villar.”
Hindi baboy sina Noynoy at Mar. O rly? Bangag ka? Ano ba tong eleksiyon, kantiyawan na lang? “Uuuyyyyy tatakbo na yang presidente!” Asows, hindi porke yung bilat na umire kay Noynoy (na isa pang nakantiyawan lang din kaya naging presidente noong 1986) ay sikat nung na-deds, hindi na siya baboy. O may pinagkaiba ang Noynoy-Mar tandem kina Gloria, Makoy at Erap. Ginawa niyo lang PBB yung US elections last year kaya ginawa si Noynoy na My Own Private Obama. My gawd.
on December 18th, 2009 at 10:20 am
wow, hindi talaga nakikipag-debate nang maayos ‘tong si unnifors. he just dismisses everything contrary to what he says with fallacies and insults.
on December 18th, 2009 at 11:35 am
jezooskopoh! Kung hindi mo nakikita na baboy ang sinamahan ng kaliwa eh dapat lang sana naaamoy mo kasi kahit yun bulag ay may pang amoy pa din. Wawa ka naman bulag na wala pang pang amoy. Nakasiping na sa tae wala pa din kamalaymalay. Ipagpasajeezus na lang poh natin sila.
on December 18th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Hmm. Magkaibigan pala kayo ni Satur, bakit hindi mo sya tanungin kung ano ang pinagkaiba ng rebolusyon at eleksyon, ng pakikipag-alyansa at pagbabaliktad ng mesa sa naghaharing uri? Kung sakaling kausapin mo nang masinsinan si Satur, baka may matutunan ka pa at hindi mag-be-bleed ang heart mo, dahil hindi naman ito necessary.
on January 4th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
K,
Hindi ako sumasakay sa taktika o strategia na doble kara, sa rebolusyon man o sa ano pang gawain.
on January 25th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
You do understand the concept of platform right ?
No, you don’t.
on January 25th, 2010 at 3:44 pm
tony aka look at your face,
Mister totaldestroyer please use only one name. You are not fooling anybody because changing identity does not change your yahoo or IP address. Idiot.
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