FEARING THE BEAST?

Two quotations of Victor Hugo, French novelist strike me as very apropos to what the Peoples' Primaries should achieve at this time.

"People do not lack strength; they lack will." --Victor Hugo

The people are already in the know as to what the problems are in the country and who are responsible for them. They know from a to z what ails us -- economic, political, social and even spiritual.

Yet we hardly feel them moving towards that goal of really changing all these much less asking other people, goading them to join in the change. Perhaps PP organizers have to inject some other ways of convincing, persuading people in order for all of us to have the "will" to move this society and really create a dent in our political life.

I don't want to sound lugubrious but once we fail in electing truly ethical officials in 2010, no NGO nor any other opposition organization will sound credible anymore. The real test of all our acts of opposition to this administration shall be measured by how we make the people reject any of its "blessed candidates" in the polls.


For right now, we are like "A thousand men enslaved (and fearing)one beast free,"
as Hugo says.


-- Emma Orozco