ANL
May-June 2013 Issue
E D I T O R I A L
“Halalang ‘hangal’ 2013”
“Halalang ‘hangal’ 2013”. “Halalan” is Filipino for “election”. “Hangal” is Filipino term
for “silly”, or “foolish”. We feel we’ve just had a “silly election” around
here. At least, that was the general perception, if not the factual goings-on.
Let’s dig deep into details for the
facts.
For one, the Commission on Elections,
a government agency mandated to administer all-too-frequent elections hereabout,
is quite insensitive if not altogether incompetent. Comelec rules on “Common
Poster Area” and “Airtime Limits on Radio & Television” were not followed.
The poll regulatory body “tried to be strict” at first but it was hypocritical
as it picked on the so-called “leftist partylist” posters and ignores the rest.
At one point in a municipality in the
south during the delivery of PCOS machines to the provinces days before the May
13 polls, the machines were delivered to a police station and received by
policemen; not to the office of the local Commission on Elections to be
received by local Comelec officials. In
some places, PCOS machines were delivered late to catch up with the official
start of voting at 7:00 a.m. sharp.
When voting comes, one PCOS machine
after another were reported malfunctioning from north to south including the
National Capital Region. The cramming start of voting was aggravated further by
inadequately and hastily trained members of the BEI [board of election
inspectors] who, at one point, used the tip of an umbrella to fix up a malfunctioning
PCOS machine instead of calling for a technician. Some incidents of marking pen
drying up of indelible ink were likewise reported even at the early hours of
voting. Pre-shaded ballots were reportedly used in a precinct or two in Pampanga
province. One report says an employee of Smartmatic—owner of the PCOS
machines—was caught tampering with the machine at the national canvassing
centre at the Philippine International Convention Center. All these misdeeds
were downplayed by Brillantes’ Comelec.
Let’s take a look at the PCOS vote
count and the transmission of the figures to the National Board of Canvassers
in Manila. A Philippine Daily Inquirer
article describes the whole process—transmission of PCOS vote count-NBOC’s canvassing
of votes-proclamation of winning solons—as “painfully slow”.
The proclamation of 12 winning senators
was not only suspiciously slow but was made in a ridiculous instalment
manner—six on May 16, three on the 17th, three on the 18th—that
is one for the books; prompting former chief justice of the Supreme Court
Artemio Panganiban to call such manner “premature, imprudent and illegal” in
his PDI column on the day the third
batch of senators were proclaimed winners. Vote count was officially ended May
25 and only then that the final list of winning senators was issued.
Acting arbitrarily, Brillantes and
his commissioners even suspended the canvassing of votes for party-lists on May
14 and only resumed May 20 further delaying the overall results of the May 2013
midterm elections. Proclamation of party-list winners was also done in three
instalments finally finishing it over half a month after the election proper on
May 13. Worse, the Supreme Court nullified said proclamations when the high
court overturned early Tuesday, May 25, the earlier decision of Brillantes’
Comelec disqualifying the Senior Citizens Party-list [and several others] due
to the latter’s alleged violation of the so-called “term sharing rules” by its
own party nominees.
It’s a double-whammy vindication for
the elderly citizens while the recalcitrant Brillantes and his Comelec got a
double-slap when the court virtually lifted the disqualification; and the
senior citizens were about to grab two seats in the lower house of Congress
with quite a big vote the party-list garnered even while unduly disqualified
close to election day.
And a litany of election circus to
sour up one’s stomach. Please see “The
Burden Called Philippine Election”
on ANL’s “Punchline”
.
Comelec is a virtual “white elephant”
in between elections. It shuns away attention on educating the “major actor” in
every election time, the voters. The May 2013 midterm election is the second
computerized polling in Philippine electoral history and yet the voters are
still kept in the dark as to what is a PCOS [precinct count optical scan]
machine is all about; in the same count as to what is a “source code” and its
significant relation to the optical scan machine.
Information technology experts and
advocates for free, honest and orderly elections assert that a “source code” is
the “soul and conscience” of a PCOS machine and yet the insolent Comelec Chief Sixto Brillantes
rationalizes that the May 2010 national-presidential elections didn’t use a
“source code” and it did proceed “quite efficiently”, according to him.
That’s according to Brillantes; not
according to a bothered electorate. “I didn’t see any reason for these
advocates-complainants to be sour-griping on the ‘source code’ which I see has
no significant importance to the outcome of an election,” rants the
not-so-brilliant Brillantes.
Do Brillantes’ rationalizing a clever
way of signalling “mission accomplished!” to his “boss”? No, the “boss”
referred to here are not the people but the one hypocrite asshole who “muses”
them as his so-called “boss”. Posturing
angry and “in-the-know” more than anybody else, the apparently piqued and
impatient old “cheat” threatens to sue his critics!
With the myriad of legal and
technical glitches this May 2013 circus of an election incurring over threefold the misdeeds and miscues during
the first-ever automated election the country had in May 2010, even unsuspecting voters can sense a “halalang hangal” had just pulled the rag off under our feet. –editorial board
N E W S L I N E
ASINGAN, Pangasinan. - “Para que estamos en poder?” Translated: “What are we in power
for?” These were the very eloquent—if not audacious—words muttered by then senate president Jose D.
Avelino in a Liberal party caucus hosted by his incumbent boss and Philippine
president and party bigwig Elpidio R. Quirino
one night in January 1949 apparently to dodge away public anxiety on corruption
by the president and his ilk.
Avelino’s rallying words twisted
since then the otherwise decent norm in Philippine politics giving birth to the
invincibility of the incumbents as the guys to beat in an electoral tussle.
Unless of course if the underdog, or
challenging party, is extremely popular; or in the reverse, if the incumbent is
notoriously undesirable. At times though, it is the incumbent’s machinery [organized
manpower] and resources [funds and donations in cash or in kind] that shape up
the tempo and dictate the election results.
At worst, incumbents are in the position, or
had the temerity and the resources to rig election results as in the case of a
pint-size cheater whose dirty poll tactician is called “Garci”.
Be that as it may, Asingan’s
incumbent town mayor Heidee Ganigan-Chua bagged the mayoralty post for a second
term in a close contest with her erstwhile ally and Vice-Mayor Eleanor
Villanueva-Viray. Another contender, Dr. Benny Robeniol, is far behind at
third.
Not a surprise victor for the vice-mayor’s post is
the popular Carlos “Luis” Lopez Jr. who won by landslide garnering a vote over
twice that of his opponent’s total; and almost twice that of the winning mayor’s
vote. Must be a “meaty” investment for
Caloy Jr.
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan. - At the provincial level, a new
political dynasty is in the making. Bagging the governorship of the big and
vote-rich province of Pangasinan in Region 1 is no less than incumbent Amado T.
Espino Jr., trouncing by a landslide Alaminos City mayor and former GMA cabinet
secretary Hernani A. Braganza.
Governor Espino showed his clout in
the province where he was alleged by his political rivals as the “jueteng lord”
by winning comfortably against Braganza garnering over twice that of the
latter’s total vote. Espino’s son Junel Anthony Espino won as mayor of Bugallon
town replacing his father’s nemesis, outgoing town mayor Rodrigo Orduna—the guy
who filed a graft case against the elder Espino at the office of the ombudsman.
Another Espino clinching a new post
is the governor’s younger brother Amadeo Espino who was elected mayor of his
hometown Bautista replacing yet another clan member Amado Espino III, Amado
Jr.’s nephew. No wonder Braganza is no match to incumbent governor Espino’s
burgeoning political clan; the former is said to be rejected on his candidacy
even by the prominent Ramos-Shahani family who is a close kin of the Braganzas.
Nani Braganza ran for P-Noy’s Liberal
Party while Espino bannered the Nationalist People’s Coalition/Biskeg camp
backed up by NPC founding president Danding Cojuangco Jr. of the San Miguel
group of companies.
MANILA . - Elections in the Philippines is a daily pre-occupation. While on
the campaign trail, politicians are already “banging the gong” sounding off
their intentions for the next election in derogatory abuse of the dictum, “early
bird catches the worm”, or aptly, “early politicking notches the vote!”. So
it’s no more news the elder Binay is running for the top post in 2016.
Election in a banana republic both mesmerizes
and terrorizes in the lasting tradition of the 3G’s—gold, guns, goons. Election
around here is a pompous entertainment with hypnotic magic as to blur the
collective consciousness of the voting public on what an election must
objectively address.
Close into the May 2013 midterm
elections, during and in the immediate weeks after said exercise, prices of
petroleum products skyrocketed seven [7] times. Tuition fees in most public and
private schools from elementary to college shot up. Prices of basic commodities
consistently jacked up during same period, and continuing. And the jubilant winning traditional politicians
[”trapos”] blindly lifted not a finger on said vital issues.
And when discontent on what is seen
to be a fraudulent automated May 2013 election was snowballing into a wide
protest, government was quick on the draw to announce a supposedly highest
economic growth of 7.8% in all Asia with which critics say is another “pain
killer-hoax”.
Well, your winning 12 senators
according to highest votes garnered were: [1] Grace Poe [2] Loren Legarda [3]
Allan Peter Cayetano [4] Chiz Ezcudero [5] Nancy Binay [6] Sonny Angara [7] Bam
Aquino [8] Koko Pimentel [9] Antonio Trillanes [10] Cynthia Villar [11] JV
Ejercito [12] Gringo Honasan.
Only Poe is a neophyte politician
among the bunch of what could be said as “professionals” [relatively decent
ones] and “trapos” [old clan-based dynasties of ‘traditional politicians’].
SOMEWHERELSE here and around
the world. – DHAKA, Bangladesh. For and in
behalf of the Rizal Academy Class ’68
Alumni Association, ANC deeply regrets its failure on tackling in its
previous [Mar–Apr] issue re April 24 collapse of the illegally constructed
8-storey Rhana Plaza building near capital Dhaka that houses five factories wherein
an estimated 1,400 Bangladeshi workers
timed-in at the time of the accident perished under a mountain of rubbles. The
hapless workers were doubly victimized by low pay and a fraudulently built and
unsafe structure that snuffed out their precious
lives. We join the working class the world over in their unified grief and
protest over deplorable pay and starkly unsafe occupational conditions at work!
Back home in the Philippines, Labour
Day on May this year is both sad and unfortunate for the working class
wherefore wage relief has for the nth-time been negated by government amidst unrelenting
price hikes on petroleum products, of basic commodities and social services
like education, water and power supply, transport fares, and other basic
necessities. Non-wage benefits offer were instead dangled by the P-Noy
government such as scholarships and low-cost housing. Worker-families insist
otherwise saying their immediate need is for wage adjustment intended for food,
clothing and tuition fees for their children. Most workers say they hardly
qualify for the scholarship and low-cost housing offers citing red tape and
other irregularities involved.
Meanwhile, the month of
May sees an intensified escalation of China’s bullying tactics in the west
Philippine seas by sending early May a flotilla of 30-so-called fishing vessels
around the Spratly group of islands occupied by the Philippines and about five
military ships sent May 9 to Ayungin shoal which are well within the
internationally recognized exclusive economic zone of the country. All these
aggressive actions of China are utterly provocative and violative of
international laws. China in all these cases for years show a mockery of the
Philippines' diplomatic mien and its apparent weakness in both defensive and
offensive capabilities. In all these times of China’s arrogance, so-called good-old
friends such as the United States of America just stood by.
Down south of Luzon in Albay province,
the world-famous Mayon volcano rocked the Bicol region May 7 with the active volcano
making a phreatic eruption [ash
explosion] killing five [5] people—four foreign tourists and a local
guide—who were incidentally up climbing the slopes of the cone-shaped mountain
at the time of explosion. May 2013 proves to be a tragic month so far.
Oklahoma, USA .
Two successive tornadoes swept
Oklahoma state month of May. The first one on May 20 decimated the city of
Moore, claimed two dozen lives, injured several hundreds and wasted billions of
dollars in properties. The other struck May 31 along El Reno, Oklahoma, one just
as strong as the first thus doubling the agony with more deaths and destruction
as both twisters registered a record high five [EF5] on the “Enhanced Fujita” scale. Eight fatalities were recorded
in this second incident including four storm chasers [three veterans and an
amateur].
Uttarakhand, INDIA. Over here at the second most populous
country on earth, June was a punishing wet period with unseasonally heavy rains triggering a series of floodwater
surges down Himalayan valleys leading to over 1,000 deaths and thousands more
stranded in the mountainous northern state of Uttarakhand, India. Knowledgeable
observers and some authorities themselves put the blame on the proliferation of
dozens of small-to-huge dam projects in northern India—both operational and
under construction—as major factor in exacerbating the devastating floods. Cutting
of trees, road building, and other related construction works in these dam
projects were attributed as causes affecting soil stability, landslides,
erosion and flooding.
The horrendous flooding triggered by monsoon rains which began June 16 put the Indian military and the private sector into extreme test and sacrifice as they jointly launched the largest rescue and recovery operation India had ever seen, putting into action 60 military and civilian helicopters searching for both survivors and fatalities along the treacherous Himalayan valleys and across blinding fogs and heavy downpour. Insurmountable hazard and the difficulty of the job forced a military chopper crashing into a mountain while returning base from a rescue mission of Hindu worshippers at the pilgrim centre in Kendarnath Valley. All 19 crew member aboard perished in the crash even as another rescue chopper crashed in the same area a week earlier but none was killed. ---- correspondents: engr. joe l. sevilla & ross c. diaz
P U N C H L I N E
The “Burden” Called “Philippine
Election”
By: Ruben M. Balino
“How can the nation recover
its lost soul?” rues the famous and respected
columnist Belinda Olivarez-Cunanan in her May 15 column, “Political Tidbits”, with the prestigious broadsheet, Philippine Daily Inquirer. In virtual desperation
to what she considers as “pandemic” vote-buying in the just concluded May 2013
midterm elections, she too expresses alarm on the growing trend of vote-selling
on the part of the voting public and the ever-growing claws of family-based
political dynasties cashing in on every election.
“Massive vote-buying was the politicos’ tool to grip power, but the
vote-selling may be viewed as the revenge of the masses; unfortunately, little
do the poor sectors realize that peddling their votes would be a
self-inflicted wound,” she warns. Realizing the root-cause of it all, she
surmised: “For as long as people are mired in poverty, they’ll be prey to
rapacious politicians.”
True enough. But as to who made the prey poor and
prone to be victim befits another discourse. For now, let’s go back to the
basics of history and try to shed some light on the title-phrase above: The “Burden Called Philippine Election”.
“Burden” as in “pabigat-sa-balikat”.
Yes, these dirty “trapos” [traditional politicians] are a burden to our
shoulders as voters, as taxpayers, and as a nation. This centuries-old epidemic
[dirty-old traditional politics] is growing worse to a “pandemic” proportion,
to use the word of Belinda Cunanan.
Glancing back at history, it’s not true—contrary to
pro-Spanish/pro-American historians—that one Ferdinand Magellan “discovered”
the Philippines. In the first place, this Portuguese mercenary of Spain was
slain right there and then off the waters of Mactan by a “native chieftain”
named Lapu-lapu; the-so-called “discoverer” of our native land not even able to
set foot alive on Philippine soil!
When Magellan landed on Philippine waters, we as a
“people” have already our very own socio-economic and politico-cultural
structures. May mga tao na who are
brave, strong and intelligent enough like Lapu-lapu. We only have paid hacks
and idiots posing as “historians” like Zaide and Agoncillo who distorted
history by their own greed for cash and popularity.
What’s the point!
The point is that we’re already civilized as a people
at that point in time “na sinasabi nilang dumating ang isang” Magellan. We already have the basic local government
unit called “balangay” [literally meaning, “sailboat”]—transforming later into
what is called “barrio” and then eventually as the “barangay” of today.
The “balangay” politics of old was corrupted by the
Spaniards; then by the Americans; then by the Japanese; then by the Philippine
elite themselves! So, heto na! Meaning, dirty-old and traditional politics in
the Philippines has since been the “trade and occupation” of the rich and the
powerful who introduced “vote-buying” into the dirty game and burden called
Philippine election.
Rich and traditional politicians shielded
themselves at the corridors of power
using the 3Gs [gold-guns-goons] while creating their respective
family-based political dynasties.
Marcos used martial rule to usurp power; while Cory
Aquino crafted the notorious “Kamag-anak Incorporated” and the shadowy “Yellow
Army” to gain foothold and consolidate power. The hard-earned “democratic
space” as a consequence of the so-called “EDSA Revolt” was ultimately corrupted
by no less than the elite class who themselves are the actual beneficiary of
the “people’s uprising”.
So goes the vicious cycle with the poor masses of
voters, taxpayers and the whole country bearing the burden as they seem to see
no light at the end of the tunnel. –anl .
may-june2012
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Automated Election System Watch
May 18, 2013 press statement
2013 MID-TERM AUTOMATED
ELECTIONS
From bad to worse: Comelec is now anointer of
presumed winners
By
committing more errors than those recorded in 2010; by making arbitrary and
highly-irregular decisions during canvassing, and proclaiming presumed winning
candidates prematurely the Commission on Elections has turned the second
automated elections from bad to worse – a technology and political disaster. Aside
from Comelec’s non-compliance – yet again – of the election law and the
technical glitches, there was an unprecedented large-scale vote buying.
Political clans are now even more entrenched with a bigger number of their
members being fielded in extensive areas and perpetuating themselves in power
thereafter.
In
2010, a significant number of clustered precincts in both provinces and cities
had delayed 2transmissions of up to two days; as of May 17 or four days after
this year’s election, 18,187 clustered precincts or 23% of the total number
failed to transmit election returns affecting if not potentially
disenfranchising 8.6M voters. Aside from demolishing the much-hyped “speed” of
automation, the transmission delays opened the whole system to data manipulation
and election rigging. More than 50% of 1,173 incidents based on verified
PARTIAL monitoring results of AES Watch were PCOS-related (911 clustered
precincts) – from initialization errors, machine breakdown to hardware problems
and ballot rejection. A total of 1,432 monitored clustered precincts (1.84% of
total CPs) from all over the country had either PCOS or transmission problems.
This is equivalent to 1.432M compromised votes.
Compared
to 2010, there are more data discrepancies as well as open and brazen possible
manipulation of election data at the stage of canvassing and consolidation. For
example: the ultra-fast and inflated PPCRV count caused by program error, the
highly-suspicious intervention of Smartmatic technicians in fixing the program
and deletion of an ER file, the 44-hour lull at 69% of ERs, and the absence of
RMA results five days after election.
While in 2010 Comelec’s
non-compliance of major election law provisions and ToR happened largely before
the polls, today not only were these violations (e.g., absence of independent
source code review) repeated but we are witness as well to arbitrary and
highly-questionable post-election decisions such as proclaiming “winning”
senatorial candidates based only on 20% of canvassed election results. This is
compounded by the latest decision to transport un-transmitted CF cards direct
to the NBOC thus bypassing the legal ladderized canvassing – a procedure that
is also prone to human tampering. All these raise the issue whether Comelec is
not only short-cutting the process but is also dictating the results of the
election in violation of the people’s right of suffrage. Comelec has leaped
beyond what it is supposed to do – to administer the elections and protect the
people’s sovereign voice; now it has become the anointer for who deserves to
win.
These problems became manifest in the
mid-term elections especially because of Comelec’s repeated non-compliance to
what the law requires and its disabling of all major security and integrity
features as well as safeguards: a valid license to operate a foreign-provided
software; a source code and its independent review by the people through
political parties and NGOs 6 months to 1 year before election; voter-friendly,
transparency and verifiability feature; a valid digital signature; non-WORM
(write once, read many) CF memory devices, independent testing of PCOS machines
for trustworthiness and accuracy, reliable mock elections and FTS, and effective
random manual audit (RMA).
Given these deficiencies, AES Watch
had weeks before election called for a full, 100% parallel manual counting of
votes cast as the remaining compensating mechanism for establishing the
accuracy and credibility of the elections. Like all other proposals by the CAC
and other election stakeholders, this one was also completely ignored by the
Comelec.
It is for these reasons that we also
declared that Comelec is the one creating the conditions toward casting doubts
on the legitimacy of the elections and triggering a public clamour to demand a
failure of election.
The May 2013 elections was a mockery
of the poll automation law, a serious technological and political disaster, a
grave violation of voters’ rights to have their votes counted according to law
and with accuracy. Just like in 2010, the implementation of the second
automated election cannot pass the standards of the IT industry.
How can the elections be credible
when it is conducted by a most un-transparent Comelec led by an incredibly
insensitive chairman who is prone to arbitrary decisions and abuse of
authority? A defenseless electorate has been subjected to the whims and
caprices of a powerful triumvirate of the Comelec-Smartmatic-PPCRV leadership
which tries time and again to cover up and justify for the serious glitches and
non-compliance of basic and major security requirements to make poll automation
work well for the people and the integrity of the election process. What
happened in 2013 polls poses a serious breach of security, transparency and
integrity.
Modern technology has been enacted as
the instrument for exercising the people’s right to vote, of deciding who are
the winners upon whom the authority to govern is vested. Let us remember that
the modern election system has been a 20-year project replete with legal,
political, and financial controversies. At the rate Comelec is implementing it
reveals that automated polls are a far cry from what was envisioned by its
authors – that it would modernize the election process.
[AES Watch is a broad citizens’
election watchdog comprising of 40 organizations, institutions, NGOs, IT
professionals, researchers, and academics. Launched in January 2010, it
monitored and documented the 2010 and 2013 automated elections.] --editor
F E A
T U R E
5 facts: Why forests matter
for food security
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Mon, 13
May 2013 11:15 AM
Author:
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Dakilang INA
Ikaw ang nagpasan, Ikaw ang nagluwa
Katumbas ng buhay mo ang buhay ko
Oh Ina, sa sinapupunan mo linilok ang hubog ko.
Ikaw ang nag-alog ng duyan, ikaw ang naghabi
Pagkatao ko Ina, kaakibat ng iyung pag-aruga
Oh Ina, kalakip ka ng aking hininga.
Ikaw ang gumabay, ikaw ang umagapay
Kabuuan ko Ina’y sumibol sa iyung ligaya’t pasakit
Oh Ina, luwalhati ko’y dampi ng pag-ibig mo.
Ikaw ang luha, pawis at dugo sa pag-usbong ko
Hinugot ako sa iyung pintig at hininga
Oh Ina, pag-usli ko’y mula sa iyu, kalakip ng buhay mo.
Ikaw ang bantayog ng buhay, Ikaw ang pinagmulan
Pasakit ko’y hikbi mo, kapahamakan ko’y kamatayan mo
Oh Ina, Ikaw ay dakila, karapat-dapat itingala.
Ikaw ay nangamatay, ikaw nangabuhay, Oh Ina
Upang ako’y mabuhay sa mundong ibabaw
Oh Ina, Ikaw ang buhay, ang mundo sa iyu’y nakasalalay!
--Delmar Topinio Taclibon
Ikaw ang nagpasan, Ikaw ang nagluwa
Katumbas ng buhay mo ang buhay ko
Oh Ina, sa sinapupunan mo linilok ang hubog ko.
Ikaw ang nag-alog ng duyan, ikaw ang naghabi
Pagkatao ko Ina, kaakibat ng iyung pag-aruga
Oh Ina, kalakip ka ng aking hininga.
Ikaw ang gumabay, ikaw ang umagapay
Kabuuan ko Ina’y sumibol sa iyung ligaya’t pasakit
Oh Ina, luwalhati ko’y dampi ng pag-ibig mo.
Ikaw ang luha, pawis at dugo sa pag-usbong ko
Hinugot ako sa iyung pintig at hininga
Oh Ina, pag-usli ko’y mula sa iyu, kalakip ng buhay mo.
Ikaw ang bantayog ng buhay, Ikaw ang pinagmulan
Pasakit ko’y hikbi mo, kapahamakan ko’y kamatayan mo
Oh Ina, Ikaw ay dakila, karapat-dapat itingala.
Ikaw ay nangamatay, ikaw nangabuhay, Oh Ina
Upang ako’y mabuhay sa mundong ibabaw
Oh Ina, Ikaw ang buhay, ang mundo sa iyu’y nakasalalay!
--Delmar Topinio Taclibon
May 12, 2013, “Araw ng mga INA”
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Halalang 'hangal' 2013
'Dun po sa amin, bansa naming ‘Pinas',
uso ang 'trapo', dinastiya at ‘cash’!
Lintik! Ang pangako'y namumulaklak;
pusturang dakila’t layuni'y busilak!
Buking na hangal, nagbabalat-sibuyas;
makasarili't dorobo, umaastang banal!
Ilantad-itakwil ang mga 'herodes',
pabaya sa bayan, mga taksil at switik!
Matuto sa nakalipas, sa pagkatalisod;
hamon ng ngayo’y huwag mangudngod!
Sa halalang ito't marami pang kasunod,
imulat ang sarili't kumilos-magbuklod!
-- “ka bencio” . 13mayo'13
'Dun po sa amin, bansa naming ‘Pinas',
uso ang 'trapo', dinastiya at ‘cash’!
Lintik! Ang pangako'y namumulaklak;
pusturang dakila’t layuni'y busilak!
Buking na hangal, nagbabalat-sibuyas;
makasarili't dorobo, umaastang banal!
Ilantad-itakwil ang mga 'herodes',
pabaya sa bayan, mga taksil at switik!
Matuto sa nakalipas, sa pagkatalisod;
hamon ng ngayo’y huwag mangudngod!
Sa halalang ito't marami pang kasunod,
imulat ang sarili't kumilos-magbuklod!
-- “ka bencio” . 13mayo'13
--o0o--
‘Kasa mo, ‘Tay! ‘Kundi
sa ‘yo, walang Mother’s Day… He! He! Joke
lang, ‘Nay… Sa totoo lang, kung walang
Nanay, walang katikas-tikas si Tatay! Batsi na ‘Tol! Happy Father’s Day! 16 June 2013, “Araw ng mga Ama”
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dG. Estrada; CPA Rod A. Layco; Wena Agaton-Balino [Photo & Lay-out Artist]; Ruben “Bencio” Balino [ Editor-In-Chief].
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