More than "Never": Oppose! Resist!
Just like his idol Marcos 47 years ago, blessed by its foreign masters, and supported by a camarilla of militarists, despotic landlords, and interest seeking compradores, President Rodrigo Duterte continues to be hell-bent on imposing his own dictatorship.
That by using peace and order as its basis, he continues to condone and encourage the widespread and systematic use of extrajudicial killings against suspected drug users and pushers, and the widespread maligning, threats, illegal arrests, and in filing of trumped-up charges with the planting of evidences all towards activists, critics, and the ever aware and concerned masses alike clamouring for social justice.
And in an attempt to codify such repressive policies, Duterte and his camarilla are pushing its legal basis such for a more draconian Human Security Act through the return of the Anti-Subversion Law, an attempt for a mandatory Reserve Officers Training Course (ROTC) in senior high school, the reimposition of the death penalty, lowering of the age of criminal responsibility, and other forms of repressive and anti-democratic measures.
With these bloodied measures and actions, this orderism outweighs its ever-bragged achievements and reforms as it continues to aggravate social injustices with supported local officials, despotic landlords and comoradores, ever exploit this kind of venture. By using the war on terror as its pretext, the regime continues to hold Mindanao under martial law while imposing its de-facto military rule in Negros Island, eastern Visayas, and in the Bicol Region through his Memorandum Order No. 32. The recent Executive Order No. 70, coupled with the appointment of more than 60 former military officials to high civilian posts, further intensifies fascistic orderism wiyh the regime effectively subsumes most civilian agencies under the military’s counterinsurgency program.
His supporters may still condone this regime's bloodied venture. That through its coterie of propagandists and supporters it tries to justify ever its actions as well as peddling false reports both in news outlets and in social media. And similar to his predecessors, the regime still clings to its continuing vassalage, having abandoned its initial promise of an independent foreign policy, and is clearly beholden to both China and the United States through its unequal treaties and agreements, ever continuing its mendicant rule despite both of whom competing to be the dominant force in the West Philippine Sea.
But despite these this doesn't stop the people from becoming aware, from opposing, and in resisting a regime synonymous with repression and injustice. They hath all enough with the regime's delusion and its pretentious version of change. That by any means, the people will continue to committ regardless of the risks and repercussions, willing to sacrifice against this ever continuing past.
Thus, with this present and coming challenges surrounding under Duterte, this calls on the Filipino people to join in opposing dictatorship and to assert freedom for the people. That in an ever continuing seeking truth from facts, this comes the need to continue the struggle, all for genuine people's democracy, national sovereignty, and a lasting peace that's based on justice.