PhilosEros

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I feel like my soul is being broken to a thousand pieces and my spirit is being shredded in a shredder. And hirap at ang bigat mahalin ni Eros. Mahal na mahal ko sya... pero I wonder and keep on asking myself if he really loves me (love, in its profound meaning) at all. Kasi 75% of what he is showing, saying and doind to me are really painful. When in fact I give him ALL my patience, ALL my effort, ALL my HEALTH, ALL my understanding. LAHAT NA!

im getting tired and stressed. I hope he will change soon. I dont want for the time to come when I am already numb and cold of all of his hurtful personality.

We are the eternal cycle
of sun and moon in a whirlwind
of ice cream and wine
eaten by gods of the
cherry blossom tree.

You are the YIN of my Yang,
the silent vengeful spirit
in the dark dungeons of my Id;
whose power unleashes the
breaking of "we"

I am the YANG of your yin,
the gentle and wise breeze
that gives life to your shallow
heart; whose magic is the rope
that ties the formation of "us"

And on our Sabbath nights
we perpetually convene in the
swamp land of papers and ink,
along Dona Aurora's cat walk of
queens making scenes,
there we dance in the divine
unfolding of scrolls written
in moon and fire.

Yes we become ONE in our
embrace, in the effervescent
and throbbing mixture of
sugar and red pepper.

We are one, cotton and flame;
where wisdom of a thousand
prophets and golden sutras
are written in the flaming liver and lungs
and cotton skin of our soul.

Finally, in that moment of white
clouds and seraph's song
of buddha moans and
lotus birth, our eyes
pierce each other in the
silence of bodily embrace
and gentle change
of "yin" and "yang"
into "Tao"
the alteration of
"I" and "you"
into the oness of
“Philos”

I so love this song...

This has nothing to do with me Philos and my partner Eros. I just want to post my discourse. Though I must admit nag-aaway kami ni Eros while I was composing my ideas regarding this post.

HOUSE OF EVIL

* Last night June 2, was flipping through the channels when I saw the live telecast of the house session for the passing of Resolution 1109, a resolution to call on congress to convene as a constituent assembly to amend the Philippine constitution. It was an appalling event to watch. Anywhere here is my discourse regarding the event.

When you think that circumstances and politicians are already in their worst that they are, the summit of their evil, namely those in the house of representatives and also of the executive branch has already went beyond the heights beyond Mt Apo in pushing and rushing for a resolution to amend the 1987 Constitution. It is already a given that 98% of our local and national government officials and “public servants” are corrupt and downright foul specially during this time when the executive is led by someone who wish to go beyond the infamous accomplishments of Ferdinand Marcos, and mind you this current President is the second longest President next to the Marcos; It’s a sure thing that the entire bureaucracy of the Philippines is rigged in graft and corruption and that 75% of the Filipino people allows itself to be raped of the nation’s coffers on a regular basis. The legal processes in the ombudsman to prosecute the red handed devils and the impeachment cases in the House of Representatives have been manipulated and stage-managed and it was simply tolerated by the people with a deafening silence but not without condemnation. But to tinker with the very heart of Philippine Law, which is the Constitution, to play stupid the people by mere technicalities of the procedural law and play the rule of numbers to the outmost disgusting and immoral practice of democracy is downright and utterly… well I could not think of what proper word to use to describe such the harassment, the rape, the sacrilegious act towards the Filipino people and the spirit that embodies them, which is the Constitution.

RESOLUTION 1109:

Resolution 1109 was a house of representatives’ resolution to call on Congress to convene as a constituent assembly to amend the 1987 constitution. It was originally proposed or sponsored by Congressman Villafuerte for the mere intention of having justiciable issue of whether the senate and the House of Representatives should vote separately as a constituent assembly or as a single whole in amending the constitution for future guidance if and when in the future the constitution is to be amended. However the original architect of the resolution withdraw its support on the resolution as the house leadership started to mishandle the proposal and as well as to put the proposal or resolution in a bad course. The resolution that was finally passed and went through the committee of Constitutional amendments was a broad and questionable resolution. It only called for Congress to convene as a constituent assembly to amend the constitution, meaning that by context the constitution is to be amended upon convention of the assembly, however the resolution did not specify the specifics of what parts of the constitution is going to be amended or if the entire constitution is to be replaced at all. The good part, which is not a good part at all, is that there was a pledge and a covenant by the signatories of the resolution that if and when the process of Charter Change pushes through the terms of office of the President down to the legislative branch will not be extended and the 12 senators who has a term of office until 2013 would be allowed to finish their term. The reason that it is not a good thing is because if and when congress convenes as a constituent assembly, they are no longer bound by the terms of a mere house resolution since the powers and boundaries of the house by technical interpretation, cannot over run the powers, functions and boundaries of a constituent assembly. So the pledge is nothing more than letters written in water. Unfortunately, the night of June 2, the broad and much generalized resolution was passed in a railroading manner by the house leadership and its majority. The resolution was pushed and rushed as Congress is about to formally be on break and would return in July (if I am not mistaken). This is where one of the areas of doubt is founded upon, “what’s with the rush?” especially in a very delicate matter such as amending the constitution.

I am not familiar with procedures on legislative functions but as to what I understood in watching the dramatic session, a congressional resolution should be a bicameral resolution, meaning that house resolution 1109 should have an equivalent resolution in the senate especially when the issue is as important as changing portions or all of the 1987 constitution. Then each of the resolution should undergo a committee hearing or deliberation before it goes to the plenary hall for formal debate and voting. I’m not sure of the procedure mentioned above; it’s merely a derivation of what I witnessed and my personal knowledge on how laws are made in congress. But from another angle that I came to understand that it is possible that the resolution of the house for constitutional amendment can be done singly by the house of representatives, but again it has to be proposed, endorsed, deliberated in the appropriate committee and then debated in the plenary hall, voted upon then the approved resolution is transmitted to the senate. However the sad thing about it both procedures was totally railroaded by the ruling majority, which by common public sense is under the control of President GMA.

IN THE PLENARY HALL

Resolution 1109 was obviously rushed in legislative speeds that are historical in nature given the fact that it is a very critical and sensitive resolution as it will pave a way for congress to change portion or all of the constitution. The constitution is the heart and foundation of all the laws, bureaucratic functions, and policies of the state, and even foreign relations of any given civilized post-modern nation. So a resolution to call upon congress to convene as a body to change the constitution cannot be deliberated in the plenary in just mere 4 hours. It could not even be deliberated for 1 day unless the resolution itself has undergone a thorough scrutiny in the committee level. The problem is, as the opposition congressmen and women pointed out in their objections during the railroading event by cutting short the interpellation was that the resolution did not undergo committee deliberation thoroughly so as to bring it up to the plenary well polished. The minority, which is the opposition, during the final committee deliberation, was promised and pledged by the house leadership especially by Speaker Nograles that instead of wasting time in the committee level, all questions and debates in the committee level can all be addressed in a one gunshot thing during the interpellation in the plenary proceedings.And so the minority agreed to such an offer. I think there were 11 or 8 opposition congressmen and women were in line to question the proponent of the resolution. It was also at that portion that I came to watch and get glued to the live telecast by ABS-CBN ANC Channel. However, in the middle of the debate, the previously infamous opposition Rep, Dilangalen of Maguindanao came to the stand and motioned to close the interpellation, to the surprise of the opposition or house minority. It was at that time that the resolution was obviously being derailed and shortcut by the house leadership and house majority. One noticeable event was that the plenary hall obviously had few congressmen and women during the interpellation but when the interpellation was suddenly cut short and the voting to pass the resolution was nearing suddenly the entire plenary hall was jammed packed. The opposition was given their time to explain each of their objection to the closing of the interpellation and also their objection towards the passing of the resolution. Representatives or congressmen and women with the likes of Satur Ocampo, Darlene Antonino Custodio, Liza Masa and the likes pointed out in their objections that the house leadership promised them time to question the resolution in the plenary since it was not done in the committee level. They further and strongly pointed that the resolution was not properly “cooked”, it is being pushed and rushed irrationally, house procedural rules was not followed properly and was even violated, and that the resolution in itself was vague and has to be further deliberated.

I personally liked the objection speech of the former speaker Joe De Venecia as he pointed out and made clear that resolution 1109 was nothing more than a vehicle for hidden agendas and political maneuvering by the administration and its allies in the House of Representatives. Joe De Venecia was a strong advocate and promoter of Charter Change but as he pointed out unlike his ways the current resolution was improperly done. He pointed out that previously he had cha-cha resolutions properly undergo its process and he even went to campaign in so many parts of the country for cha-cha to be understood and accepted by the people. Also his cha-cha was very specific on which portions were to be changed with the proper terms and conditions of amending it. Unlike of course the current one that was passed, it did not reflect a specific amendment on the constitution. He even suggested to simply apply the Nograles proposal, which specifies that the economic portions of the constitution is the part that is to be changed. He further said that even if the Nograles proposal was merely a ploy for something else at least it was with specifics and it was presenting something unlike the resolution 1109 which did not mention a single thing as to what specifics was to be changed; notwithstanding the entire process on how the resolution came about the timeliness of the resolution and how it was passed is totally questionable.

THE OBVIOUS POINTS OF DERAILMENT, RUSH AND HIDDEN AGENDA

·The resolution was not properly polished. It is vague. Upon its passing it will allow congress to amend whatever and whichever it likes in the constitution.

·The resolution’s pledge on non-term extension on national officials is not binding in a constituent assembly.

·Interpellation of the resolution was not given proper time. The minority was not able to finish its discourse, ask its questions and express their views regarding the resolution properly. The rights of the minority in the house were stepped over. The minority knows that they will lose in the voting, but they are merely asking time and also to exercise their right to interpolate. The house leadership promised and pledged that such time shall be appropriated but it was not honored.

·The resolution was rushed and pushed to be passed days before congress goes on break.

·In comparison to the CARP extension resolution which was properly done and processed, resolution 1109 over ridden the passing of the CARP resolution even when in comparison and in importance, amending the constitution should take more time than the time it took for the CARP to be deliberated.

·If CARP Extension is passed and economic provisions in the constitution is to changed to allow foreigners to own land and property in the country is ratified, then there will be conflict in the provisions of the CARP and the law allowing foreigners to own land.

·The house cannot go and pass Chacha resolution without the senate, therefore the passing of resolution 1109 the night of June 2, was considered futile and fruitless since senate will not, in any way, go with the wagon in changing the constitution. But there lies the suspicion, because given the fact that the house leadership knows very well that senate will not support the chacha resolution and that the House of Representatives cannot amend the constitution without involving the senate then why is there such an eagerness and energy to push for the resolution at all? It seems as if they are cooking something deadly in their witch’s pot.

MY FEELINGS AND CONCLUSIONS

If one was able to watch the plenary session regarding resolution 1109, it was really unlike any other major events that one would have watched, except of course the impeachment of Joseph Estrada. Compared to the GMA impeachment derailments and legislative investigation hullabaloos of the hello Garci and fertilizer scam, the session was also epic in itself as I saw the complete disregard of the moral practice of democracy in the most sensitive and paramount issue of changing the constitution, the primary law of the land. I saw how insensitive and how heartless the ruling majority are. Before, you can hear me saying that congressmen are people with black hearts and bones, But upon seeing the proceedings of 1109, they are totally heartless beings. They are mere puppets of the one puppeteer who sits supreme in the Palace overlooking the Pasig River. It really made me question a lot of things regarding the resolution. Why is it being passed during this time? Why is it being rushed in a manner that the resolution was not properly processed and procedural rules were not followed? I saw that pledges among colleagues were not honored. I saw a former opposition strong man was now among the allies of the majority and was even the one who paved the way to cut the proceedings short. I question the timeliness of the resolution. I wonder why it is being pushed when they are aware that it shall not prosper or even if it pushes through, between now and 2010 there is not enough time to accomplish a complete and well done charter change.

I don’t know if I am to be ashamed being a Filipino for having such a government made of such men and women. I know what they are doing has nothing to do with being a Filipino, but what happened the night of June 2, 2009 and since such people are the leaders of the land and they represent the Filipino people, then somehow I cannot avoid feeling ashamed of my nationality. I was totally appalled and flabbergasted as each moment unfolded before me in the live telecast of the plenary session and how resolution 1109 was successfully passed by simply a shouting of “YES” and “NO” of the legislative body. I felt it was a sacrilege and a blasphemy against the Filipino people as to how they do things in the plenary hall. The plenary hall was and is the shrine of the people’s supreme power to make laws for themselves through the duly elected senators and district/party representatives. Now it makes me wonder if there’s any good candidate I can vote in 2010 from the lowest local position up to the presidential position. Well one thing’s for sure I won’t vote for any Lakas-Kampi politician and I call upon everyone to do the same. Really, Philippine politics and the Philippine government controlled by all sorts of scoundrels, has crossed over to the point of total debauchery, moral decadence (if it even has any morality at all) and profligacy. I hope 2010 will really be a new and hopeful start of the this ill-governed nation.