Thursday, March 06, 2008 Ledesma: Unmasking some demonic agenda By Jun Ledesma Sunbursts
I WILL go by the current lingo that seems to be the fad these days when it is considered fashionable to call the President of the land "evil" and "bitch" and manage to go away with it.
Four days after the first salvo of opposition's attempt to oust President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from the presidency there is now emerging a clash of agenda among the organizers of the inter-faith demonized rally.
One group wants Arroyo out and allow ascendancy of Vice President Noli de Castro as mandated by the constitution. Politicians with presidential ambition do not want this to happen because it will give the vice president a decided advantage.
Two years will give Noli who leads in the surveys a big boost if he plays his cards well, and the use of the administration powerful machinery, if the party drafts him as their standard bearer. Which is not farfetched. Noli has stood by President Arroyo through thick and thin. If it is survival that the administration is looking for, their best option is of course Noli who was unwavering and steadfast with his support for the president.
Salivating presidentiables are not keen on Arroyo's ouster. They just want to make a punching bag out of her all the way to 2010 and hope that Noli gets soiled as the election nears. That's why Loren Legarda is mincing no words when she refers to Noli as "anak ng pandaraya." Legarda cannot accept the fact that she lost decisively to her fellow TV anchor. The Supreme Court (SC) has decided with finality its decision that Legarda has not come out with sufficient proof that Noli, her compadre, has cheated her. To her dismay, the high court even added more votes for Noli during the recount.
That decision also diminished the allegation that Arroyo cheated in the last elections. She called her Garci all right, but so does all the politicians in this politically demonized country. If you are going to look at the official ballot and the election returns, the name of the president and the vice president just come close and next to each other. There is no way the votes on the president and the vice president can be hidden. Had the opposition seen any dubious tally when the ballots and the returns were appreciated by the complainants, lawyers and justices they could have made a lot of noise already if they encountered a bit of questionable return. Not a pipsqueak was heard from them. In short, Noli won fair and square, and Arroyo too. Reviving "Hello Garci" no longer wash.
On the other hand, there is a cabal of civil society, which has interlocking memberships in the Black and White Movement, Hyatt 10 and the immortal Fernando Poe Jr. for president movement. Their agenda is to oust Gloria and Noli and allow a takeover government, probably headed by convicted President Joseph Estrada. Isn't this the height of idiocy?
If the interfaith rally was meant to exorcise the government from the evil and the bitch that hound it, the rally is also invoking the return of demons and the bacchanalian regime that brought this government to the brink of moral and economic bankruptcy.
But then watching a fanatical multitude cheering for Erap talks sometimes I cannot help to think that I might be wrong. Vox populi vox dei.
