“You cannot squeeze blood out of a turnip”

By Ado Paglinawan

The following is Mr. Paglinawan’s response to “Why P-Noy wants a second term” (August 26, 2014).

Hi Perry,

This article sounds very different from its erstwhile tone when you were attacking me for my views of presidential candidate Benigno Simeon Aquino III in 2010. By now you seem to be enlightened somewhat that my warnings to the Filipino electorate against electing a village idiot would bring our country to this present “surreal” situation, to borrow your word.

Actually I do not need to be vindicated because my two arguments were staring people to their eyes: first, for twelve years as a legislator, BS did not author a single bill. That was twelve years as congressman and three as senator. This is of public record.and second, Jaime Bulatao’s psychiatric findings of the boy when he was still in school show that he has serious challenge that disqualifies him for the position. While this document has been denied by the Aquinos, his performance as toy president forms much of the recorded consequences of the disease when ignored.

Thus my proverbial conclusion – you cannot squeeze blood out of a turnip.

The insanity first broke loose when BS had to handle the Luneta situation just a few months after he swore into office. A suicidal policeman hostaged Chinese visitors inside a tourist bus. No formal report of the incident has ever been published and my hunch is that most of the fatalities were hit by bullets coming from the SWAT team outside the bus and not from the hostage taker.

Much of what has happened to this day reeks of an insane and expectedly lawless individual ruling over 100 million people who are now being idiotized into accepting a second term to further metastasize the social “ebola” that he carries. Lets mention a few – the impeachment of a chief justice, the passing of a reproductive health law, the reckless license in expanding the PDAF and legislating the DAP by executive fiat, the Comprehensive Bangsamoro Agreement that almost sparked a war between the Philippines and Malaysia, the “Enhanced” Bases Agreement that exceeded even the defunct Mutual Bases Agreement that ended its term during the Estrada administration, ad infinitum.

A congressional committee ruled yesterday that three impeachment charges against BS Aquino are sufficient in form. The process continues.

But for the meantime, civil society has already launched the National Transformation Council that can influence a coup d’etat or fuel a revolution in case the BS impeachment is defeated. There already exists a critical mass in the country, of wide and rainbow origin, that is readying to remove the pinhead from his office by whatever means possible and effect not the succession of more fools like Binay, Drilon, Belmonte or Sereno, but a system change to restore our government into a pro-active order for the benefit of the people and the common good.

We can all eventually bury our hatchets because we have already buried the fool that attempted to lead us all into his “Daang Matuwid” straight to hell after taking control of our country since July 2010.

We are counting on your support.