P Noy does not need now a second term. What the country needs is A NEW CONSTITUTION. Taken together these two sentences are like media headlines: Catchy, disjointed, deceiving, misinforming, palpably enticing readers to read it. It is actually all of the above. As journalistic mime as it can wannabe in the quest for truth.
P NOY DOES NOT NEED NOW A SECOND TERM. If Malacanang and or the entire executive branch are/is sold to the idea of a second term for their President which clear as daylight is patently not allowed by the constitution, then that’s being Trapo, with takers just wasting hard earned taxpayers money on activities and shelved previously established opportunity cost of infrastructures. Wasted time is wasted money (eg. expensive TV time, high price hacks). Mind massage and attitude bending using media can be expensive, very costly if taxpayers money are used. Money that can be better used to alleviate hunger and disease of millions of Filipinos in cities and rural areas.
To be metaphorical, the idea violates Physics. It is neither the straight line, nor the shortest distance between two points. Rather, it is a distracting hole in a long and winding road. To lengthen the mental stretch: it is not the TUWID NA DAAN that P Noy is dreaming, talking about. It (the second term) is a narrow and shallow sink hole in P Noy’s TUWID NA DAAN. Both P Noy’s detractors and venom spitting bashers on the one hand and his party mates, sycophants, supporters and admirers on the other hand, falling into the sinkhole, could do battle for time and space, which is definitely costly to the people’s pockets.
What then is the metaphor structure; what are two points which must be connected by the shortest distance by a straight line purportedly P Noy’s TUWID NA DAAN? Hypothetically, if the UN over the years is tracking 100 countries in their performance relative to a given politico-socio-economic indicators with countries numbers 1 to 10 as almost perfect for human habitation while those countries whose numbers are 90 to 100 have dire living conditions even for Zoo animals, then any country choosing two numbers between 1 and 100 are two points that must be bridged for better or for worst. For worst if a country’s President drives his COUNTRY DOWNWARDS from number 50 to number 78; or for good if a country’s President drives his COUNTRY UPWARDS from number 78 to number 50. The shortest distance between two points is not in physical measure like kilometers or miles, but in abstract TIME. A smart President can take 20 years to make a little mess of his country while another clever President could make a huge mess of it in just ten years. HOW LONG (the shortest time) will it take a good President (not necessarily P Noy) to pull out and save Juan de la Cruz still neck deep in the quick sand of corruption? Juan is still sinking. Another term of 6 years for P Noy? No one really knows. Although P Noy already for 4 years had extended the branch to pull Juan out of the quagmire, Juan might just let go and prefers to go under. The darkness (dilim) of the dilemma has a light and it is not hypothetical, it’s real and sharp: IT IS A NEW CONSTITUION FOR THE PHILIPPINES.
What the country needs is A NEW CONSTITUTION. Huh ? Wakanga? History so they say punishes those who don’t learn from it; far from just being a whatever record of the past, history is the dynamics between causes and effects of nature and human nature—throttling evolution and engineering revolutions. Un-analyzed and ignored bad history repeat itself. The history of Philippine Constitution might say ENOUGH, FINISHED, KAPUT. Obsolescence is its death knell. It is either Filipinos WRITE A NEW CONSTITUTION or choose the UNWRITTEN ONE—like England (UK later) who choose the British people and their common laws high enough above and better than a written constitution. Fear feeds the doubts for changes in written constitution Fear is the ally of greed against change.
The 1987 Constitution is now good mainly for debate, for analytic legalese discourse yielding no direct benefits to the people. May be it is NOT but to be living now in cosmic and cyber times it’s ALMOST DYSFUNCTIONAL, obsolete. What the Philippines needs to do now is to stand down, write off past constitutions. The country needs to mind craft (more than handcraft) a new one to take good care of the future of the new generation (Gens Y and Gens Z) and their descendants. An absolute need that must turn VIRAL is a new constitution that will apply invasive surgical methods to cure corruption, family dynasties, vote buying, abysmal inequality, etc. This is NUTS, this is impossible crafting a constitution for the future generation. NO WAY! ! not if it becomes viral. Huh!
In its broadest strategy the NEW CONSTITUTION will happen, from the sculpture of a convention provided by law composed of 240 delegates: 80 of which appointed by the current Congress from among its members; 80 of which from Student Chairmen of University Councils of the 80 most populous State Universities and another 80 from the chairman of the poorest barangays in the country. COMELEC shall be in charge of delegates’ appointments and the convening of the NEW CONSTITUTION convention.
This is NUTS, this is impossible crafting a dedicated constitution for the future generation. NO WAY! ! NUTS ? NOT REALLY, not if the idea becomes viral among netizens. Huh! If Noynoy and his thinking tank has a mind for the poor Filipinos then they should put an intellectual and concrete spin to this outside the box, my piece of mind. Those who will say it can’t happened because there’s NOT ENOUGH TIME, please see the timetable below:
September – November 2014 === 3 months ===== Congress to pass enabling law;
February — August 2015 ==== 6 months = ==== Constitutional Convention Proceedings
October to November 2015 === 2 months= ==== Referendum/ Ratification
June 1st, 2016 ========== NEW CONSTITUTION IMPLEMENTATION
If and When the three sectors of society: Students of State Universities, the Barangay Councils and the Current Congress will move their butts, the Philippines will have a new Constitution by June 1, 2016.