TRANSITION REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT, ANYONE?

(Opinionated)

TRANSITION REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT, ANYONE?

I was strolling the streets of Cotabato City after office hours, eager to get to the café across the street when I stumbled on an old, rusty spent shell casing. I never knew what caliber it was, or what gun it was fired from. I didn’t intend, after all, to learn whoever fired it, nor with whom it was intended for. After all, all I wanted was a cup of freshly brewed coffee and a muffin to go with it.

Thank heavens for the coffee! And the peace of mind, albeit temporary, from the rush of kidnappings and bombings which have rocked the fragile tranquility of late.

Looking at the paper in front of me, however, I realized that my jubilations were farfetched. A transition government, it said, is in the offing for Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s now-besieged administration. Transition what? Government? It must be a joke, right?

Bishop Deogracias Iñiguez, erstwhile leader of Kilusang Makabansang Ekonomiya, who has been tagged as the origin of these jokes, must have been the funniest jester the church has ever produced! What is funnier now is that Iñiguez claims he had been influenced and harassed by National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales to sponsor the said proposal for the creation of a supposed Transition Revolutionary Government (TRG).

Let me explain why I think the public would not dare to take a bite at this “transition government”, in the first place the transition government like that of the Cory Aquino regime had served so much at the expense of political offenders who were later on freed- JOMA Sison, the greatest of all the Reds was one of those who was freed during her time and now remains at large. Secondly, during Cory’s time, it allowed several party lists to participate in her renowned “democracy” which later on created fatal political turmoil in the country as some of these political groups would contest in contrast to government’s rulings and policies. Thirdly, she failed to deliver many of the reforms necessary for the country’s advancement beyond poverty and corruption, not to mention the ongoing outcry over economic injustice and the continuing communist insurgency during her reign. And fourthly, the country has struggling economic resources which are obviously unable to sustain all its operational requirements when this is bound to commence.

Gonzales’ alleged influence over KME’s supposed TRG is by far the funniest moro-moro ever shown in the Philippine politics as this would mean practically selling the government to the sharks. The public knows very well that KME and the administration would never meet halfway for political “arrangements” especially that the former has completely differing political aims than that of the latter. They had recently called for public support for armed campaign thru junta in order to obliterate the present government system and subsequently establish the TRG. However, the public did not heed on their “call to arms” because the public saw nothing beneficial with chaotic takeover of the current government system.

We all live with the fact that no two people are the same neither leaders can do the same governmental processes over a period of time. This is not a judgment of a leader versus his/her capabilities and capacities of running a certain government, whatever forms we may call it. This is a matter of truthful leadership that is true to its essence and purpose without compromising the welfare of its citizenry. Our nation had passed all these odds and none from those “processes” had lifted our country from economic, political and social collapse through the years.

These are the prerequisites of the transition revolutionary government KME has been dying to achieve. Having experienced all these in the past, I realized that we may need lots of cups of coffee to stay awake and continue daydreaming for a better Philippine Republic. Would anyone dare to live in the “TRG era”?