|
SOME Gloria watchers are seeing a new vision. They see it because of
her inexplicable actuations relative to the People’s Republic of
China. These actuations apparently resulted from (a) an umbrella
loan agreement worth billions with an instrumentality of the Chinese
state, (b) the Senate investigation into the ZTE NBN deal scandal
and (c) the discovery of the obviously unconstitutional—and
possibly—treasonous Joint Marine Seismic Undertaking between a
Philippine state corporation and a Chinese state corporation and
later a Vietnamese state agency.
The vision seen is that of President Arroyo
rising from the perceived moral squalor of the presidency into a
strong and morally-driven leader.
Hua Mulan or Urduja
What these Gloria watchers told me they see is
an image of her as a Hua Mulan (or, as Disney calls her, Fa Mulan).
Or one of the Vietnamese Trung Sisters. Or our Princesa Urduja. (But
Urduja may not be ours after all because the Pangasinense legend
could actually be about an IndoChinese, specifically a Champan,
amazon ruler. But who knows if the Chams really came from Pangasinan?)
Or a Lady of the Lake who in this case does not
wait for a King Arthur to receive Excalibur from her hand but rises
to full height as an Amazon or a Valkyrie in armor to rule over the
Filipinos and turn them into a great nation and their unhappy land
into a first-world state.
What they see is GMA who is a statesman. No
longer someone preoccupied with survival till 2010 and beyond. No
longer forced to tell—and having her people tell—discordant,
incoherent and incredible explanations of outrageous things and
events that, in Europe or the United States, normally lead to the
resignation of prime ministers and presidents.
Moses-cum-Aaron
This new GMA the statesman will at last be the
kind of Moses-cum-Aaron that some of us prayed for when she became
president after Erap’s unlawful ouster.
An aside: Let it not be forgotten, however, that
many who prayed for GMA to be the God-led deliverer of the Filipinos
to the Promised Land had no other option once she became the new
reality at Malacañang. They were against Erap’s removal by the
GMA camp, the Makati-based civil-society and business groups,
Archbishop Cardinal Sin, his auxiliary bishops and their allies, and
the armed forces and national police commands.
More aside: And the Davide Supreme Court not
only swore GMA in as the Republic’s new president at EDSA. Later,
the Supremes also sealed Erap’s fate and confirmed GMA’s
accession to the presidency by ruling that Erap’s departure from
the Palace was his act of resignation. The Davide Court said it
based its momentous ruling on a diary allegedly kept by Erap’s
executive secretary Edgardo Angara.
End of aside: Many cannot help believing that
the Angara diary is spurious. But the Inquirer gave it its stamp of
hollowness. So the majority of the Filipino people came to accept
the diary and the Supremes’ ruling as the Word of the Lord. That
is how courts arrived at decisions against “enemies of the state
and the Communist Party” in the defunct Soviet Union and China
especially during the Maoist Cultural Revolution. Some claim that in
the provinces courts in China still do.
Left foot of China
The new statesman GMA would transform our
country into one with a disciplined citizenry led by her government
that has the political will of a strong party—strong as the
Communist Party of China.
Is that why Kampi, GMA’s very own party, is
talking about “partnering” with the Chinese communists. And why
it doesn’t matter if she entered into the necessary JMSU but
violated the constitutional rule of informing and consulting
Congress? And also why such deals as the ZTE NBN and others need not
be discussed transparently with anybody?
The new Philippines will become a strong state,
its mass poverty obliterated, its police and military modernized and
equipped with Chinese-made equipment, its people marching to the
beat of the GMA government’s drum thanks to massive loans and
direct aid of the People’s Republic of China.
The Philippines could be the “left foot of
China” (as it was once supposed to be the “right hand in Asia”
of the USA). It will do for China what East Germany did for the
Soviet Union—and more!
Is that okay with the venerable Washington Sycip,
Sen. Panfilo Lacson, Mayor Alfredo Lim and the taipans who have
massive investments in China and are partners of China-based
corporations in projects in various parts of the world?
rq_bas@yahoo.com
|
