President Duterte has upset the Opposition gameplan once again. It was planning a protest by some Catholic bishops, leftist organizations, human rights activists and Catholic school children whom they had brainwashed to disrupt the president's SONA and gain foreign media attention. It was to coincide with human rights hearings by the US Congress to condemn Duterte of EJKs and with random attacks by NPAs on security forces to hit back at martial law. Joma Sison, who no longer wields control over the NPAs due to his prolonged stay out of the country, is using martial law as a pretext to threaten President Duterte. Well, the president called his bluff and said if it is war they want it is war they will get. We are now seeing a concerted effort by the LP, druglords, leftists, human rights activists, ISIS-supported terrorists, reactionary bishops, oligarchs and big business interests threatened by change, to come together in a final push to dislodge Duterte. I had predicted this would happen.
I say let's meet their challenge headlong and finish this battle once and for all.
The president has a 82 percent trust rating according to the latest opinion poll. The vast majority of Filipinos are behind him. So are the AFP and PNP.
Fully aware of the president's popularity, Congress approved his request to extend martial law till the end of 2017. The vote in the House was 245 ayes and 14 nays, in the Senate 16 ayes and 4 nays.
In Mindanao, the vast majority favor martial law. So do the majority of netizens who expressed their opinion on social media. In fact, they even want it extended to the whole country. Many others want to go further by giving the president revolutionary powers.
As I had written before, giving extraordinary powers to the president is a matter of trust. Judging by his high trust rating at present, I am not surprised more and more people want the president to wield those powers.
I had also said the Opposition would do well not to tax the president's patience. Let them continue with their foolishness and the sledgehammer fall. The Opposition, due to its stupidity, has laid a trap for itself. Sorry na lang. When it plays those kind of games it must also be prepared for their consequences. That is how the cookie crumbles. As the president had warned many times, don't fuck with him.
All credit to Mr. Jose Alejandrino, his article was copied in Benson Bautista's Facebook wall, dated July 23rd, 2017.
@immarojas I stopped by to say Hi!
I going to have to re-read this again, as some text confused me. So is the political danger increasing and is Joma Sison and/or other political opposition leader's lives threatened? - we know Pres. Duterte life is at risk, but I want to get a grasp of how the reality of the political fight is at this moment.
Not a single opposition leader is being threatened..the President yes, but never the opposition. let me post later his SONA.
@immarojas okay, I'll listen to some of Pres Duterte's State of the Nation Address too, thanks for sharing.
Anytime..you know that we need to get this out to the international community. Cheers!
The enemy of my enemy is a friend. The opposition stands to lose A LOT so they will pull out all the stops to ensure the President does not succeed. So they're combining forces in the hopes of disrupting whatever change is about to come.
They are doing that...everyone that stands to loose everything with President Duterte's war on drugs. Every nation that is benefiting from drugs. Hence the Marawi siege is drug-related. The ISIS is a manipulated creation to fight those who are against their greed and power.
I was talking to a friend from Caloocan last week. She told me there were rumors about a Caloocan death squad and the residents were actually glad because a lot of the known addicts in the areas are lying low/dead.
Hmmm..you've heard of this @bennydelacruz @pjmisa
I hope this won't start small vigilante groups that can go out of hand.
thanks for sharing this man!
You are welcome anytime, thank you. Please resteem if deemed informative and educational. Cheers!
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