Vindication

As usual, the malicious one thinks I have an ulterior motive in writing all those informative articles about BENECO.

Some people are so over conscious about “credit” and hedging against anyone claiming credit for this thing and that.

I find all of it amusing because only victory is supposed to have many fathers. On the other hand, it is an uplifting cause for hope because people can smell victory so close at hand that they’re wary about MORE OPPORTUNISTS later on cashing in on the sacrifice of others.

I even read one comment asking for my “blessing” to push onward. I think you must be thinking of another person, not me. I am not a divine person (I don’t call myself “dyoso”), nobody needs my “blessing” to do anything.

So, perhaps I should make a total disclosure at this point to put some minds at rest.

I AM NOT AN MCO.

I am not a registered voter for any past and any future BENECO district elections. That means I have no ambition to become a BENECO director. I won’t even be at the AGMA, now or ever.

I AM NOT A CONVENOR FOR ANY NEW MCO GROUP.

If you are forming, or interested to form another MCO Group—especially now that you understand that EC-MCO is NOT an exclusive patented or copyrighted MCO franchise, then go right ahead, God bless you.

Please do not invite me to join a group, or be an adviser, a trustee or any other officer by any other title. Read my lips: I am NOT interested.

Precisely, I want the BENECO Members to learn the lessons of history—to act on THEIR own, to follow THEIR democratic instinct, to choose THEIR worthy leaders without bloated narcissistic egos, to gravitate around men and women of principle, not just charismatic pretty faces, and to avoid all patronage POLITICS unrelated to the concerns of a genuine consumer movement.

Forget wordy purpose clauses and mission statements, there is only one fight that remains relevant today: stop BENECO from being “privatized.”

The President has said it, NEA is acting to carry out what he said, but still some are wondering if it’s ever going to happen. It’s no longer a question of “IF” but of “WHEN” and of “HOW.”

So stop wasting time on ME. I am a non-entity in the whole equation. I don’t give a single solitary droplet of s**t who gets the credit for anything. Someone, in particular, is so worked up about how she led the retaking of South Drive in 2021, breaking through that phalanx of PNP troops wondering what they were doing there in the first place. Fine, you want to be recognized as Gabriela Silang of the MCO Movement, go ahead sell the ludicrous scenario all you want to whoever will buy it, I don’t care.

But in my page—and in my page ALONE—I will continue to dispense FREE ADVISE and FREE GUIDANCE to anyone reading me, including NEA. If the latter harvests more insight from it than the MCO’s, then that’s their problem, not mine.

If anyone thinks my views and opinions are pure garbage, then with more reason they have nothing to worry about.

This is YOUR affair, MCO’s. Manage it yourselves.*