The presidential candidacy of Vice President Jejomar Binay has come to be a bastion of democracy in the Philippines. That’s why it has early on become the target for destruction by an oligarchic clique intent on staying in power by all means available in its arsenal of democratic subterfuge and hypocrisy.
Killing the Binay presidential candidacy is the last straw that will break the back of the Philippine democratic camel. How do you counter that? By partaking of the very act of killing – the manipulation of jurisprudence and a play of technicalities in electoral processes by which thereby to defeat the true will of the people? No. The Aquino machination in the current presidential contest betrays a high point in his increasing inclination to tyranny. The only way to combat tyranny is people’s revolutionary action. READ MORE