Repeating the same mistake again and again, expecting different results, is said to be on this side of insanity.

In boycotting Macoy’s sham electoral exercises, we’d say “Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me!” Of course in the 1985-86 snap polls, we boycotters joined the “participationists”; we did not boycott and we toiled hard for God, Country and Cory. February 22-26, 1986 saw the ultimate vindication of the Parliament of the Streets at Edsa. Foreign intervention, by Providence.

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