Change – real, effective and significant change – is what the country needs today. For change to happen, the people and the nation must pierce the status quo.
Change is constant. Change make many people uncomfortable.
Confrontation is the result of the irrational resistance of people to accept change.
Both change and confrontation create polemic situations. They bring uneasiness, anxiety and disturb your peace of mind.
Realize that our value systems are not the same with other cultures. They are specific only to us because they are inherent to us.
Therefore, the imperialistic and unwarranted approaches by our Western counterparts evidenced by their unabashed interventions in our political life we consider as crude intrusions. Uncivil, to say the least.
These foreign actions are interfering with our lives and they are making us – me – uncomfortable.
For we are a free nation, a free democratic country.
But some Filipinos who have split identities (they are Filipino citizens but think and act like white Americans) are bringing our exclusive Philippine concerns to the doorsteps of the US, EU and the UN. They are internationalizing their obsessive opposition to the incumbent Duterte administration by inviting foreign powers to come and meddle.
We know who they are.
They are of the yellow variety. They desire to climb back to power.
Citizens are beginning to recognize that the threats of destabilization are for real.
Jailed Sen. Leila De Lima initially provided the fireworks, setting off a veiled but well-orchestrated “oust Duterte” plot by exploiting the EJK issue in a vain attempt to de-sensitize the incumbent government’s highly-effective intensified anti-illegal drugs campaign.
By presenting the testimonies of discredited resource persons in Matobato and the “repentant” SPO3 Lascanas in the senate hearings, authors of the “oust Duterte” scheme, thought they had effectively revived memories of the alleged DDS (Davao Death Squad).
Next came VP Leni Robredo’s video message to the UN, creating a grim scenario of hapless Filipinos at the mercy of the incumbent government.
And then, the impeachment complaint against Duterte.
That real change is coming is confronted with bull-headed opposition by leaders of the Liberal Party who are also trying to prevent an imminent return to power by the Marcoses.
Former Sen. Bongbong Marcos’ electoral protest is slowly rolling on at the Presidential Electoral Tribunal. Let the truth come out.
Filipinos, in welcoming change, must put a premium on independence, freedom, peace, economic equality (fair and just distribution of wealth) and social harmony.
Let no foreigner, foreign country or foreign alliances impose their will and their biased definition of human rights.
Shouldn’t the UN first tackle and settle the bloody, the violent, the indiscriminate massacres of thousands of innocent children, elderly, helpless men and women in Syria, Africa, the persecution of Christians in Egypt and many other human rights violations in Eastern Europe and other parts of Asia?
Shouldn’t the US attend to its own domestic problems – the racial discrimination, the unmitigated shootings in various parts of the country, the increasing issues of sex, religion, public health care, unemployment, etc.?
Shouldn’t the EU look at its own backyard as serious political and economic concerns are lingering over many of its members?
George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, in writing about the immoderate appetite of the rich man, said: “Man alone consumes and engulf more flesh than all other animals put together. He is, then, the greatest destroyer, and he is so more by abuse than by necessity.”
Change brings people and nations to a bloody or bloodless crossroad.
Make a choice. (Email your feedback to fredlumba@yahoo.com.) GOD BLESS THE PHILIPPINES!
