Rendezvous In Dreams…

Events are unfolding in the US, the same as I foresaw in the Philippines.

I did not join EDSA 2. I had that uneasy foreboding years before when she was just campaigning for senator, and then the vice presidency. I trust my gut feelings. And back then, I disliked the way she was marketed. (maybe you still had a part in that marketing, Manolo )

And then EDSA 2 happened. No, not the rally, but the events before the rally. I saw clearly how everything was a coup. But i was unsure. So i stayed in the sidelines and kept silent. My prof asked me to go with them. I said no. He told me: sayang ka. akala ko idealist ka pa naman. I had no comeback. I wanted to shout to him, yes I dislike Erap, but I fear what would happen if GMA ascend into power, unelected, with the option of still running for president, with all the powers a president’s office behind her has. So i stayed, and watched from the comfort of my home as the coup happened.

When EDSA 3 happened, I doubted my own doubts about GMA. So far, the maximum tolerance that was enforced the whole time of that riot was the only good decision GMA has ever made in her stay in office.

But then, and then, and some more then. Those made all the difference. GMA has fulfilled all the bad vibes I felt about her, and surpassed it some more. And we are at a point where my gut feeling is again telling me something. This time, I will not keep silent. It is better that I be proven wrong because people listened to what I said and therefore take actions against my predictions from happening, than for me to be right, and gloat from behind bars - or death.

I always follow US politics. For the simple reason that anything the US does, affects the whole world. In the 2000 US election, I felt Gore was a sure winner. I was for Gore. But then Bush stole the vote. And the American people, much vaunted for their pride in democracy and liberty, stumbled. The generation of warped Americans finally showed its presence, and it was felt. Barely a year into Bush’s presidency, 9/11 happened.

My hairs prickled and I had goosebumps when a few months after 9/11, when the 9/11 commission was encountering stonewalling from White House itself that the realization dawned on me that 9/11 was Bush’s Pandora’s box. And he had opened it, letting loose a whole chain of events that he or his neo-cons cannot possibly control. I knew then that the US was on the road to authoritarianism. And that it would be a police state soon if Americans don’t wake up and remove Bush.

But they re-elected him. And this year Bush issued his own EO pronouncing the constitution not in effect in times of war, or upon presidential prerogative. Alas, the world’s bastion of liberty has fallen. And its citizens hardly squeaking a peep, too hypnotized by senseless entertainment.

Both countries - the US and the Philippines, are on the edge of great change. The US, looking into a future of becoming a police state, and the Philippines, looking into a future of anarchy.

I don’t mind anarchy reigning here in the Philippines. The Philippines can be rebuilt with stronger hands and wiser minds. But if the US continues on its path today, the whole world would be changed. And entire lines would be drawn, and it would be war on a scale more massive than WW2. Extremism would break out of its confines, and most democratic countries today will fall in line with the US and become police states.

Welcome to the new paranoia. Where fear of your own shadow leads you to sacrifice your liberties so that your leaders can screw it some more.

1984, 20 years later. Not just one state. But the entire world.

The UN would be subsumed by the EMPIRE. Begun, the paranoia wars has.

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