CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER WHICH THE PEOPLE HAVE NOT NOTICED

By Bayawanon

The people may not be aware of it, but according to the circumstances at hand, the Philippines is facing a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER.

When the president told the Filipinos that he is going to pursue his DREADED DRUG WAR, it happened by getting rid almost all of the drug personalities in the country by way of DEATH PENALTY WITHOUT PASSING THE DEATH PENALTY LAW through his TOKHANG/E.J.K. ways. Such an act of the present national supreme leader is actually a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER to the HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION OF THE THE COUNTRY.

When the president told every Filipino that he would pursue an INDEPENDENT FOREIGN POLICY,  the Philippines is already at the edge of a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER, since the Philippines has actually made international treaties favorable to China and inimical to the Philippine interest.

When the National Supremo would actually abandon the decision of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Seas which rendered a decision in favor of the Philippines as regards its territorial dispute against China by not making any steps to enforce the same, there is already a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER in losing the possibility that the Philippines can retain/retake the disputed territories which the Philippines owned before in favor of China.

When the Chief Executive of the country, espouses anti-poor economic policies like imposing SKYROCKETING TAXES to the detriment of the daily consumption of every citizen because the same give way to inflation of commodities, a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER to the Philippine economy is actually looming.

When the most powerful person of the country tries to persecute his political; rivals by making sham accusations against them for him to silence the former, there is already a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER as to the existing political institutions where his rivals are members and to the honor of his political rivals.

When the number political figure of the country disrespects women, personally berate people who are principle-wise are against him, name calls people, a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER inimical to PHILIPPINE SOCIETAL MORALITY is actually in existence.

And when the people do not notice these happenings, and would even clap their hands in approval to these CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGERS the country are facing, there is already a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER as to the patriotism, sobriety, propriety of each and every Filipino.

THE PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE VOTED FOR THE OPPOSITION SENATORIABLES IN THE LAST CONCLUDED ELECTIONS

Federalism is not very popular in the countryside nowadays, but the same political system may push through because the Senate is now composed of the SUPER MAJORITY coming from PDP-LABAN, HUGPONG NG PAGBABAGO and the coalition of some political parties like LDP and NP.

Federalism is going to divide the country as planned by the current national leadership into (18) eighteen different states. Each State shall have its own government independent and distinct from each other which is also composed of the legislative, executive and judicial departments, and each state shall also have each tax system aside from the tax system from the central government. This very expensive government will make the Philippines poorer.

The current national political system which is presidential/unitary system can only be changed by way of a charter change or constitutional change. The constitutional change proposed by President Duterte in order to shift the system of government from presidential/unitary to federal system was difficult to achieve in the last Congress (2016-2019) considering the larger number of opposition senators in the Senate who opposed the president's plan to change the system of governance,

With the SUPER MAJORITY of the SENATE siding with the president, it seems that FEDERALISM is on its way of existence which will also pave the way for national division and destruction.

Secondly, the TRAIN LAW 2 can be easily passed in the Senate because of the SUPER MAJORITY in the said august national legislative body. Taxes will skyrocket beyond what many could imagine hence, national doomsday is not far from reality.

The senators and the congressmen will turn into presidential robots and all of the measures that the president wishes to pass in both houses of Congress will push through with relatively no opposition thereby will destroy the so-called CHECK AND BALANCE DOCTRINE.

If only the OTSO DIRETSO or the opposition senatoriables have won the last and just concluded senatorial elections, the story could become different for they can check the executive department headed by the president with regard to its legislative agenda and democracy in the Philippines. With the loss of the opposition in the last senatorial elections, I have no other recourse but to cross my fingers and whisper to the heavens that my premonition won't come into fruition.