No Justice, No Peace!

Contrary to the crocodile pleas of the State, it is not the government who has the right to choose whether peace should prevail in this land. It is up to the Filipino people - the peasants, workers, and students united. 

The State cannot continue to hoist up "the law" above its head and claim that "this is the will of the people." Neither can they claim that these laws are "the product of man's careful and calm reflection based on sound logic and public policy." In doing so, they foist a great falsehood on the people - one that deliberately strips them of their right, which since the first men entered into relations with each other and called that a society have had - the right to wage a people's war. 

What these laws, formed by the probing investigations and deliberations by the landgrabbers in the Senate and the House, and so delicately inked onto the glossy pages in between the thick covers of the Official Gazette, are, in truth and in fact, nothing more than what they manifest as in the real world - mere letters on paper. 

The people who work by the sweat of their brow have no attachment to such careful constructions of the English language, a language they have no reason to speak for they have their own, more apt in the expression of their daily lives, and more fitting for the perpetuation of culture of the great proletariat. They have no reason to trust a language coming beyond a vast ocean, which has only been spoken to them in the harsh tone of the American oppressor. Neither do they have any drive to learn about the myriad rules of grammar to understand the nuances of loophole-ridden the laws which serve only as a basis to divest them of the fruits of their hard-earned labor under the guise of sweet-sounding words like "due process." 

Instead, what they see is whether justice is done or not. This is something any man with the power to perceive can judge for himself. 

And in this country, justice has not and does not continue to be done. 

Instead, what is done is that the bureaucrats in government and business grow fat off the backs of the land and the workers - and seek to maximize their profit - while minimizing the profit of those who really work. In other words, bureaucrat capitalism. 

The clamor for better pay in the face of severe economic inflation goes unheard. The cries for those who till the land to own that same land goes unnoticed. 

Then, the people, seeing that in the midst of all their hardship and struggle, there is still so much peace in the lives of the ruling class, resolve to equalize the situation. That all who profess to "live" in this country truly live in it, and not in a world where a fellow brown man dresses, talks, and even eats as if he is no more kin to the masses than he is to Adam. 

Thus the people take arms. If there is no peace for those who make up the greatest percentage, then why should there be peace for those who make up the smallest? 

And as long as there is no justice for those who wake, labor, eat, and fuck under the burnt fields or concrete dust polluted factories, under the blinding rays of the hot tropical sun, and sleep under the humid moon and mosquito-infested rooms, neither should there be peace for those who wake, labor, eat, and fuck surrounded by the the brilliantly blooming fields or verdant mountains under the blinding rays of the hot tropical sun, and sleep with the doors and windows shut in their spacious rooms without seeing the moon under the cool blast of the air-conditioning unit. 

Because power does not, should not, never has, and never will be exercised by those who do not build our country with their own two hands. 

Power is in the hands of those do. 

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