The Eastern Samar Community Blog

Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile might have the best intent with regards to the rallyists when he said they don not have to conduct the rally – “magpapakapagod lang sila” – because the Senate will, after all, not allow any ChaCha before 2010.But I guess the sentiments of the Pinoys would still become more concretely manifested through the protest rally at Makati today. With the Senate and the concerned people joining hands in opposing the House of Representatives’ moves to change the Constitution before 2010 surely there will be a lot of thinking on the congressmen’s part.

Without the protest rally, the Congressmen might only insist on the ConAss whenever the Senate opposes the ChaCha train. But with the people going to the streets and showing their indignation against the HoR’s moves to hasten the ChaCha, then the Congressmen would have to think not only twice but a hundred times about proceeding with their plans. Or they might find themselves facing the prospect of being thrown out of their positions sometime in the future.

A show of numbers really do wonders. Well, the Congressmen ought to know about this as they were able to quash the impeachment rap because of their sheer majority over the opposition in the HoR. Now, they will see how a concerned number of people could sow fear into their hearts. Well, they may not truly fear the people who will be converging at Makati later on. But somehow they will know that they cannot just decide on their own in bringing a change to a document that is the basic law of the land – the very foundation of all legality and governance in the country!

Maybe it is not really that necessary to conduct a protest rally – yet.

But remembering the adage “An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure” I’d say that the activity at Makati today would at least make an impression that what the Congressmen are doing are not acceptable to the people so that they need to stop it now or else face consequences that they may not wish to happen at all!

(More at http://sugobnilongino.blogspot.com and http://lancein2010.blogspot.com)