On elections and (mis)activism

Here it is: I hate the brand of activism happening in Philippine streets, though I love freedom of speech and freedom of organization. It's mainly because of the issues they raise there: protracted information, myopic agenda, and unverifiable cases which in most times results to misinforming the public and making a fool out of them. I believe that before one can really become an activist, he/she must really has done the homeworks, i.e. studied the issues first and start from there.

The Philippine midterm elections of 2007 was chaotic as usual. Now the GO (Genuine Opposition) party is leading the senatorial race with 8 of them currently gaining momentum of the 12 posts. I am not against them of course, most have dignity and leadership that we can trust. The thing is, I hate when people hurl bad things against each other. As we know, the 11th and 12th positions are the most contested. And I expect the candidates involved will really bash each other. Mostly, Filipinos are quite mature politically, for not voting for the most popular personalities (i.e. actors) who have no track record or it can be that simply the people vote for candidates who are vocal against the president or the administration.

As of this afternoon of Friday May 25, the votes from Mindanao (Maguindanao, Davao, and Lanao) have yet to be counted, and knowing that these are Team Unity's bailiwicks, changes for the 10th to 12th places will maybe favor the TU's . So what goes? Well, as I say, lets hear/watch the news.