OF POWER AND SYMBOLS

Sometimes in politics we have to read between the lines. Not everything will be said word for word. And I think the new president knows symbolisms. He knows how to use the English language to convey through symbols what he means.

Cory’s life must have been very difficult after she descended as president. She had to get used to leading an ordinary life – as she herself must have deemed it improper for her to take advantage of her former title to demand the same privileges and rights she used to enjoy as president. But nonetheless, she must have succeeded well in reverting to ordinary life. She went back to her non-government concerns, helping the poor and the disadvantaged.

However, when she started becoming political again, the people shied away from her in the year when Erap’s arms were being twisted to get out of the presidency. Because of her involvement the people began to feel despondent. The icon of democracy then became distant because the person which she had supported did not turn out to be another icon of democracy. Instead it turned out to be a different image – that of accommodation of all forces that could maintain power for it.

In the end, Cory had to resume her critical role and for that I think she must have suffered a lot. So even when she was at the hospital, she was denied guards; whence every president is supposed to enjoy military guardianship until death. I would not wonder much if she suffered from colon cancer. The colon is near the seat, what we use for sitting and having a strong seat is having power. Cory must have felt then that she was losing her power to attract the people’s support, and so her feelings manifested in that illness. By the way, when she was at the hospital, I wrote the family through the doctor that there is a device that could help cure cancer, that laser device called Lyflyt, invented by Panfilo Rieta. It emits a certain light, which is non-invasive but can tickle the cancer cells to self-destruct, and for the body to be detoxified. A woman inventor selling the device here even left a sample of the device for Cory’s use but it never got to her, my message and the device, I learned later.

And so, read between the lines, Folks; it’s very easy to discern what the new phenomena of the new presidency is presenting to us, after we, the people have just legitimized its ascendancy into power.

Where does the question of military leadership continuation come in here? Is it valid to continue powers when the past shows another image of their use?