Ong: Again resign all
By Ted Aldwin Ong, SunStar Iloilo
Furthermore, Ka Rene explained, "I do not want her replaced by Noli de Castro, as the opposition has promised once GMA is impeached. I want the government replaced by a transitional revolutionary set-up as the first step in launching reforms."
Ka Rene signed the impeachment complaint and voted no to the report of the justice committee not because he believed in the impeachment but as a protest against the majority's railroading of the process. The aborted impeachment proceeding is the best proof that Congress cannot be a vehicle for change and is in itself an object of reform.
System change not just regime change is the demand of the people. In fact, this has been a consistent rallying call of the Filipino masses - "Resign All" and not just "Gloria Resign". I believe together with millions of Filipinos that change will remain elusive as long as the trapos and the elite remain in power.
Now that the constitutional resolution of the political crisis has been closed, the extra-constitutional road beckons for all who want GMA removed from power. Now that the parliament of the traditional politicians has killed the search for truth, the parliament of the streets will carry on the torch in the fight. And the parliament of streets will not just continue but raise the struggle.
More than ever, the cry for People Power for Resign All and the establishment of a transitional revolutionary government rings loud and clear. I join with the rest of the my fellow Filipinos in the call to sustain to sustain and advance the fight not just for truth but also for change through a new type of people power, one that will not be hijacked by another faction of the elite but instead usher in real reforms in society.
The thoughts of the Filipino workers under Partido ng Manggagawa on the maneuverings of the Arroyo administration just to save the regime of the elite are echoed by many all over the country. What happened in Congress is disgusting. Ka Rene best captures the perception of the people on our Congress when he said in Tagalog, "Sa persepsyon ng masa, ang Kongresong ito ay "kural ng mga baboy", pugad ng mga pating, balyena at ng mga buwaya."
The regime's killing of impeachment and resurrection of expanded value-added tax will be a potent mix to break the political impasse, end the people's inertia and inspire them to action.
Former UP President Dodong Nemenzo who chairs Laban ng Masa believes that the failure of the impeachment process is a testament to the trapo politics that has ruled our institutions of governance in the country. What more can best describe what is happening to our institutions today?
Laban ng Masa declared that: "It is in the streets where the real battle against Arroyo and elitist rule could be won by asserting the people's will. The people's supremacy rests in the parliament of the streets when the state has failed and is proven bankrupt and rotten. Let us transform our indignation against the mockery of truth and justice by launching people's direct action."
Ms Gloria Arroyo may have succeeded in closing the constitutional avenue of impeachment to ensure her hold on the presidency. But as she desperately attempts to bar all constitutional means by which the people could resolve the current political crisis, she is at the time fuelling other legitimate extra-constitutional alternatives of the people to force her out of power.
She must remember that she is not yet out of her survival crisis and will never be able to overcome it unless truth and justice prevail - either she steps down or get ousted by people's direct actions.
Again, resign all is my consistent call and so are the rest of the Filipino people who believes that this elite democracy must go now.
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(September 10, 2005 issue)
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