#PagMayTime ~ DDS . . .
Defending Digong's Silence ~ D.D.S.
Why is Digong silent? Because that is how he works. In silence. He lets the law speak volumes in his behalf. Lawyers who talk loud and vociferously know very well the axiom ~ "When the evidence favors you, pound on the principle. If against you, pound on the table!" The other axiom is that supposedly coming from the Chinoys ~ "Konti salita, konti mali. Marami salita, marami mali. Wala salita ~ wala mali!"
On the other hand, the opposition always talk and talk ~ mostly nonsense ~ but hey, that's the only way they can get attention! And perhaps be able to fool the gullible and unlearned. Even the educated listen to them ~ simply because it is politically correct to give the honorable disente their due, even affording them respect and obeisance, if only because they are on the side of freedom and democracy. Never mind their stupidity, which in their case is over-rated, anyhow. (Not the stupid part, stupid!)
There was another president once, more recently, who was also usually silent. Not because he could talk volumes if he wanted to, but only chose to hold back. He couldn't talk at all ~ without it (whatever the message was) being spoon-fed into him, and then coached on how to deliver it (to sound presidential, of course). He wasn't even a lawyer ~ so he delegated matters of State that had anything to do with laws to others who had legal titles. But he was always proud of being able to deliver hours-long State of the Nation Addresses ~ because these were televised live, and he could put on his 'cute' countenance (sabi ng mama n'ya cute daw s'ya!) to appeal to the Filipino people to listen good to his non-accomplishments ~ and just believe, to have faith on his journey through the Matuwid na Daan of his tsokarans!
He wasn't an economist, either (though that was supposedly what he studied in college ~ under the professor who also became the president he had succeeded). So he left whatever economic matters he had to decide on to his 'economic team' of technocrats ~ to haggle over with his political and gun buddies for their shares in plunder, even before such economic matters had 'ripened' to fruition. (Or maybe that should be the other way around ~ to bear fruit and get ripened for the pickings!)
But we digress ~ we're not talking about that bozo ~ who gained the presidency just because his mother died. And their party's actual standard-bearer did not have the balls or the conviction that he could win. (Neither did he even win the secondary post he ran for!) We're talking about DDS ~ about defending Digong's silence. Make no mistake, however ~ it's not about "the silence of the lambs" ~ that only happens when we have lamb chops and what-not from sheep, which we don't have much of in the first place . . .
Digong's silence means he's working on realizing the things he said he would bring to the Filipino people. Just like the ordinary Filipino soldiers ~ who struggle to do their jobs and duty, in silence, and even die in silence, if need be, just to serve their country ~ Digong chooses to work just like the soldiers do, silently, but effectively. It's funny ~ but the opposition see and interpret it as Digong being asleep at his job! He pays them no mind ~ he thinks of them as just dreaming that he's asleep ~ therefore, they're actually the ones sleeping on their jobs of trying to be called "worthy opposition!" (They're not.)
But here's the thing ~ ordinary Filipinos have endured in silence hundreds of years of injustice, oppression, the lack of rights and freedom. One Filipino was very patriotically eloquent against all that ~ and look what that got him: a firing squad's lethal volley of bullets in the back, in Bagumbayan, and with the blessing of the Catholic priests who couldn't get him to retract his writings against the Church.
Again we digressed ~ Digong's silence: Is it justifiable? Or has the cat got his tongue? Of course not. (Or maybe the other way around ~ but that's a totally different matter!) That's the thing with Digong ~ his work always has something to do with justice. Specifically, social justice ~ because Filipinos for too long have never gotten it. It's always been about justice for the rich and well-to-do ~ they could afford it, but for the ordinary Filipino ~ nga mga anak sa pobreng otin ~ pastilan, pasyensya lang, 'ondo!
That's what Digong has been working on ever since he stepped into Malacañang and began his Presidency ~ getting social justice for his long-suffering people ~ most especially the social justice of having a government that truly served them and gave them their due, for their taxes, for their support and loyalty as citizens. Digong figures that if he only talks a lot and under-delivers, he might as well just go home to Davao. Instead, he lets what he has accomplished do the talking for him. Even as the stupid opposition talk their heads off about anything and everything ~ but the truth.
And what is the truth? Digong is also silent about that . . .
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~ 'pag may time
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