I have no doubt Manny will win and indeed he won. Boxing is a game of advertising and drama. The last time I saw him fight was in a gathering of Filipino programmers in Pleasanton with my brother. His co-worker at Peoplesoft then now Oracle had his son’s birthday party. He invited his programmer friends and my brother a big fan of Manny brought along his TV in his friends house and set up it for them so everybody can see the fight. Unfortunately Manny lost to Morales. Everybody were disgusted and we immediately turned off the TV and continued with the get together as they celebrate the party. I said to myself, Filipinos are just really desperate to see new heroes, heroes that that uplift them up amid the poverty wallowing the country, the massive graft and corruption and how GMA has the guts to stand in front of the Filipino people speaking as president when in fact she had rigged the election through massive cheating. Because Filipinos are desperate to see real heroes they would spend money and time just to visit Manny and watch him do the routine preparatory exercises for the fight. It seems not new, that the ruling classes would use Manny’s popularity to catapult themselves to power, some use it to sustain their waning popularity. So when Manny went home and won the fight against Morales, GMA had only to accommodate him, prepare gimmicks only to grab the attention and ride on Manny popularity. Some politicians who had pockected a lot of peoples money even fly out to Las Vegas and see it for themselves. For me, Manny is a typical representative of Filipino identity. He is the person that every poor Filipino can identify with. He has fought his way out of poverty just like a lot of Filipino Overseas Contract Workers (OFWs) who left the country just to earn money inorder to send their children to school and bring home the beacon, to the working classes whose everday life is to fight poverty, the jeepney drivers in Manila, the peasants in the rural areas who had to work in big plantations when its season time to plant sugarcanes and other export crops by corporations and the rest of the poor working classes, teachers, government employees. Manny’s victory is seen as the victory of Filipinos indeed in a situation when Filipinos had been knocked downed many times with opportunist political grabbers, the likes of GMA.

No reshuffling and change of point person in key administrative areas in government such as the DILG and the chief of staff can stop the growing anger and determination of the masses of people. If GMA believes that with her bratpacks, by deploying his best culprits within his gangster of usurpers in Malacanang she is wrong to assume that. She can probably hold some areas important in neutralizing mass movement by deploying counter mobilizations through the resources of the DILG, but she cant hold the flow of protest to oust her. As most mobilizations spearheaded by government through the used of government funds and network from local government, most people participating in mobilizations to counter genuine protest mobilizations are in fact are also desperate of money because of poverty. Who is not desperate when they hire people to join mobilizations paid 200 (3.5 dollars) pesos to 300 (5.35 dollars) to buy a kilo of rice and some food for the families. In mobilizations using people coming from different barangay using the resources of the local government it would be in actual people gets lower pay than then with all the cuts made by the middleman recruiters such as the barangay captains. Putting Ronnie Puno in this position will also spell a lot of mobilization on the local level to counter people power. I can speculate, together with Mike Defensor and Ronnie Puno, the plot will be implemented just as they rigged during the last elections during planning in the war room to edge themselves and grab power at best at the local precinct areas. Ronnie for sure through the years of consulting and advisor ship of how to maintain and advance political had already grasp the key areas which to hold on to, and definitely one of the strategic institutional power is the DILG position. So when Ronnie sits in the position, we will be seeing counter mobilizations via the DILG, more troubleshooting in the local level to hold back the tilting of the balance of power and alignment in the local level. However to do this, we should watch where the money will be going. For sure political operations such as this requires huge amount of funds. With all the regressive taxations she is doing (regressive taxations means taxing the poor and not the rich) she will be having more money use in that project. However, still what determines the outcome will not be pure disposition of resources like money, but most of all, the number of people that will participate in mobilizations. As she is becoming unpopular among the masses. The growing restiveness within the military, and the eventual support coming from the middle class she will have a hard time in controlling her political power. For us in the oust movement, we then have to speed up our campaigns. It means more effort in doing organizing among the people, more time spent in unmasking and exposing her anti-people policies by linking issues in the the ordinary lives of people, EVAT, low wages, high fuel prices, unaffordable tuition fees in schools for our children, the pocketing of money and rechanneling them to his local political defenders and apologist and etc.. The people have to move fast to neutralize GMA’s diabolical gameplan. Now you may ask now, who planned the fireworks bombing near the house of Ronnie Zamora and the office of Mike Arroyo at the TA Building in Manila's financial district of Makati last december 2005? Well I will not answer it, it is too obvious you see.

General Fidel Ramos is mad with what the junior officers did, escape from GMA's prison walls. The possibility of patriotic soldiers coming together to oust his client upsets his whole gameplan. His cha-cha manuever to let GMA's rule, with himself as the Prime Minister is in the brink of being trashed out. On the other hand with all these ,we now see junior officers more political astute having a clear political positiion against GMA's regime. Ramos assures the ruling classes who's business is to exploit poor people, not to panic, keep calm, while GMA and him will pound the seats of their generals, pressure them to capture soldiers who escaped as immediately as possible. To assure the business associates they would call on everbody to keep calm, recite the mantra "business as usual".