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Today’s the anniversary of the historical People Power 1. The whole world looked up to this event and admired the Filipino people for it.

As Chico and Delamar said on radio, there was just so much innocence in that event. People just had that earnest desire to bring back democracy and overthrow a dictator. Right now, I just can’t find any reason why people would want to join these protests, these so called exercise of the people’s right to freely express themselves. The innocence is no longer there. In every rally I see, I see only some person’s political agenda and not the desire to change a rotten system. I know in the future (though I hope not very far from now) people will laugh at our present situation. The Filipinos will see that their rights have been used as a political move. Unless each person develops not only the hope that things will change but also the strength to do something about it, the Philippines will never be able to get itself out of the bottomless pit we’ve been digging for ourselves for quite some time now.

And the people who know what they should do for the country are those who went to the different GK sites in the country and went to the QC Circle this afternoon. Hats off to the 1 million Filipinos who spent this historic day doing something for the country. Mabuhay sa 1 milyong bayani na tumulong sa Gawad Kalinga sa araw na ito. Kayo ang mga tunay na Pilipinong nagmamahal sa bayan.