Dear Katrina,
Hi! Thank you for sending us the letter to the editor of a certain Tessa Lopez, the alleged Public Information Officer of Bayan – Bikol.
After going over the letter of Tessa (allow us to call her that para kunwari close ), we found out that it is nothing but a rehash of old baseless issues replete with lies and innuendoes circulated eons ago by the same group. Such letter is a very desperate but futile attempt to discredit the party list of Bicolanos, AKB, from going up the ratings, which is steadily rising . That is so sad because we Bicolanos, through AKB, right from the very start of the campaign period, intended to conduct our campaign at the highest level based on issues not on personalities, on merit and performance not on calumnies, as well as based on programs and platforms and not on empty promises. It is doubly sad that this group has went down to the gutters, so to speak, just so their votes will not be affected. But you can be assured Katrina that we will never go down to their level and make stories just to convince our fellow Bicolanos to vote for our party list. Allow us, therefore, to expose the blatant lies of this group, to wit:
First, Tessa’s desperation to connect our party list to GMA just so to discredit us is so obvious. She admitted it herself that we are now in the top three and according to her, “our tactic to distance ourselves from GMA seemed to work.” Accordingly, Tessa again tried to connect us to GMA but just like in the past, she is destined to fail and this time, she will fail soooooo miserably. (lol! Lol! again!). Why is this so Katrina? Because the truth will always come out Katrina and reason will always prevail. No matterhow you cover the truth with lies and black propaganda, in the end, the truth will always set us free.
Now Katrina, let us go to the ultimate question. Are we dummies of GMA so that she can be elected as Speaker of the House and eventually become prime minister? For the uninitiated and those who have intellectual pretensions, they would take this GMA gambit hook, line and sinker. I call this Katrina the “budol-budol-kigkig” effect which Tessa’s group has already mastered to perfection, and in the process, claiming innocent victims. You see, Tessa and her ilk loves labeling people, shouting slogans and engaging in agit-props. They will shout, call you names, swear on you and yes, they are very good in upholding mob rule. This is their expertise and nothing more.
And so, Katrina, let us analyze if indeed we are dummies of GMA in order for her to become Speaker. I am not sure if Tessa knows that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, while technically elected by his/her peers in Congress, is actually selected by the President. The President will naturally select a congressman who has his trust and confidence that will support his legislative agenda. Among all the presidential wannabes, no one in his right mind, would select GMA as his speaker knowing full well that he cannot sleep tightly in Malacanang, with an overly ambitious speaker threatening the President with impeachment every time he does something not to her liking. With the high negative ratings of PGMA, all presidentiables are now avoiding PGMA like a plague. Hence, we can be sure that the next president does not owe any political debt to PGMA nor will the next president allow himself to be an automaton of GMA after what he had been through just to get elected. The next president, whoever he may be, will never select GMA as his Speaker unless he is so stupid as to get a boulder to hammer on his head. But then Katrina, assuming that GMA is really bent on becoming Speaker and she will strike a deal with the next President. Analyzing this scenario is easy as ABC. We’ll just look at the leading presidentiables who have high probability of winning the polls—these are of course, Noynoy, Manny and Erap. Now tell me Katrina, who among these presidentiables, will most likely deal with GMA so she can be Speaker. Your guess is as good as mine Katrina! Yes Katrina, it so happens that this presidentiable is the same presidentiable who is being assiduously supported and endorsed by Tessa’s group! Now tell me now, who is the real dummy of GMA? The morale of the story Katrina: Never, never point a finger at anybody because you’ll never know, there will be ten fingers including ten toes pointing back at you! Let us have a good laugh on that Katrina.
The truth Katrina is this. AKB was formed by Bicolanos, for the Bicolanos and with the Bicolanos. It will support the next President and not PGMA who is no longer the President after noontime of June 30, 2010. Accordingly, assuming that PGMA got elected as congresswoman of the 2nd District of Pampanga, AKB has no connection with her whatsoever since she has nothing to do with Bicol anymore but will only be attending to the parochial concerns of her district. What is certain, however, is that AKB will be supporting the next President since he is the one given mandate by our people. We want the next president to succeed since his failure, is the failure of the Filipino nation.
Second, tell me Katrina, is there a possibility that GMA will become Prime Minister? Sometimes, I wonder if Tessa and her group know our democratic processes. You see, before we change into a parliamentary form of government, we need to amend our constitution. Now what is the probability of this Katrina? Almost nil. Since the approval of the 1987 Constitution, several attempts were made to amend it from the time of Cory to GMA, but these never went beyond first base. You need a law to do that Katrina either providing for a constituent assembly or constitutional convention. Assuming that the House of Representatives will get the numbers to pass a bill to amend the Constitution, do you think this will pass through the Senate? Do you think our newly-elected senators, even the veterans, are so stupid so as to allow the abolition of their offices and adopt a unicameral system? Of course not! At this stage, the proposal to change into a unicameral legislature or parliamentary form is dead as in really dead. And assuming that this will pass through the Senate, would you think the President would sign it into law? And assuming that the President was not in his lucid state when he signed such measure, do you think our countrymen will approve of charter change? Now you see Katrina how the “budol-budol kigkig effect” perfected by Tessa’s group works. Again, let us have a good laugh on that Katrina.
Third, Tessa and her herd are wondering who is funding our campaign since according to her, we have lot of air time and vehicles and to her consternation, have even reached Manila! OMG! Tessa is wondering how we reached Manila. Perhaps, she never heard about our widely acclaimed Operation Tarabangan caravan whereby Bicolanos from all walks of life contributed whatever little they have to help victims of typhoon Ondoy in Metro Manila and Calabarzon areas. I wonder where Tessa was at that time.
At any rate, if she is wondering about our air time, it is with more reason we are wondering where their candidate for senator is getting the funds for his seemingly limitless air time on national, repeat, national, TV and radio. We are also wondering where they get their funds for their limitless posters which did not only reach Manila but are omnipresent from the northernmost point of Luzon to the southernmost point of Mindanao and from the easternmost point of Samar to the westernmost point of Palawan. If they are wondering of our three service vehicles which we use to cover the six provinces of Bicol, we are infinitely amazed by their countless jeepneys from north to south, east to west of the archipelago, blaring their jingles and carrying their seeming inexhaustible campaign materials. We are simply awed by the sheer efficiency of Tessa’s group in destroying the landscape of our archipelago with their paper posters, pasting them wherever they want to place them and effectively converting our environment into one big garbage bin. And finally, we can but shake our heads how Tessa’s group have perfected the art of preventing us from campaigning in our very own region! Wow, that is really for the books Katrina. We surmise that this is what we call “power- power-power” a direct aftershock for staying in power for too long. And indeed, power corrupts, and yes, it corrupts absolutely.
Lastly, Tessa is even dictating when we should submit our nominees. There was never any delay in the submission of nominees. Otherwise, our nominees would have been disqualified. And Mayor Rosal as nominee? He is not even a member of AKB. How can then he qualify as nominee? Another thing, how can a non-nominee replace a nominee? We wonder if Tessa is reading the law on party list. You see Katrina, this is the problem of people who are experts in the “budol-budol kigkig effect.” They make kigkig kigkig to you even these are blatant lies and if you succumb to it, you might consider these as true. For the information of Tessa, only a named nominee can replace another nominee. A nominee can never be replaced by an outsider not so named. That is why, Tessa’s group has submitted more than the five required nominees. We wonder why.
We really appreciate Tessa’s letter as this gave us an opportunity to refute whatever lies and black propaganda hurled at us. If Tessa is a Bicolana, we are willing to extend our hand and invite her to join our party list, AKB. But she has to have complete transformation and a make-over first. She has to learn to enunciate AKB’s platforms, programs and projects which are not only written on paper but are already being implemented for the benefit of our fellow Bicolanos. And yes, the most important thing of all, Tessa should learn to tell the truth.
So Katrina, you can sleep well. You have fulfilled your urgent assignment.
God Bless
AKB NO. 57
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