I can only warn them they are playing with fire.

And laying waste the

future of our children and their children in turn. The parliamentary
system is not a solution at all. It is a grab for power under the guise of
change. More than 50 percent of our people live below the poverty
line, and they ache terribly for reforms, for a new group of visionary
leaders. They would perhaps appreciate and agree if the members of
Congress who would constitute a Constituent Assembly vote
themselves out of the unicameral assembly. Yes. Forswear
membership. That would convince the citizenry they are noble, serious
and sincere. But as things stand, they would be the first to barge into a
parliamentary government. And profit handsomely.
If they fail, and I am almost sure they will fail, they would have poured
the additional fuel social unrest needs to explode. Tinkering with the
constitution when the country is at the crossroads is like playing with a
ticking bomb in the schoolyard when the children are at play. That is
ghoulish.
I have said our piece. I say again what we need is not regime change,
or change to parliamentary, but a change in our culture, a change in
our hearts and minds, in our nature, in our character. The nation heals
best when it heals its poor and downtrodden. We need a pealing of
bells in the night that we might all wake up. If we dont, what
difference is there really? (Between those who colonized and
conquered us, and robbed us of our pride and dignity, and our present
masters, the Filipino rich and powerful? They too would tighten our
chains and laugh uproariously and scornfully when the rest of the
nation prays.)