Sigh. Pinoy Charter Change

I used to think that the Charter Change movement was just for-show and would never get serious approval in the lower house, that the current president is now more concerned about how history books would describe her and her administration and that all the fuss is one fiasco setup by rival political groups so they would have enough reason to appear daily on national television even though they can easily kill any bill in the Senate since they seem to have the majority there.

Some even say there wont be an erection.. er.. election on 2011.

"Cum and be Cunted on Erection Day", I used to say.

Anyway, I wonder if the line "We, the sovereign F******* people" in our Constitution would get revamped.

No no no.

I'm not referring to the 4th word and those asterisks don't stand for letters of a famous word used in profanity. Those asterisks actually stand for ILIPINO, although replacing the 4th word entirely with F*CK*NG! would be a good alternative especially with today's current events.

Okay, let us recite the "amended" phrase 3 to 10 times:

We, the sovereign F*CK*NG! people
We, the sovereign F*CK*NG! people
We, the sovereign F*CK*NG! people

Wow! That brought me whole mountains and waves of realization. We really are a bunch of sovereign f*ck*ng people!


Anyway, I really want the term "sovereign" scratched, it's makes the whole line way too trying. And like almost everything in our political environment, that line was obviously copied from the Anglo-American "We the People".

Their line was stated from the self-assured, self-confident perspective of active common citizens. The authors didn't bother putting in words like "We the Brave People" or "We the free People" or "We the superior and arrogant People" or "We the dumb-shit People".

Our intro-line in our Constitution smells of inferiority complex. Well, anyway, I wonder what exact lines, paragraphs or sections will be revamped, added or deleted.

Maybe the guys pushing the bill just have the overwhelming desire to correct some grammar and typographical errors in our Constitution.

All for the sake of Nationalism, they say.

In today's age, people should be more pragmatic and be less nationalistic. Nationalism is overrated. Why, if other nations were so nationalistic, they would'nt have bothered voting for our films and showcasing our singers and athletes in their stages.

Nationalism is the parent of Regionalism, it's vain and one-sided...


Argh! Where am I?! I'm off-topic!! Okay, back to the topic at hand...


To the constitution-author wannabe's,

Please please hear my request... just revamp that first line!

I don't care if you put lines that would be instrumental for world-domination or for the dominion and creation of your own personal city or barangay or for the spreading of your own personal beliefs as a national doctrine.

Just revamp that first line and you can go ahead with your power-writing and power-playing or practice of civic-duties or whatever it is you use to describe the thing you do.

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Take note, if ever there is a confusion on which version I'm talking about because the Constitution have been modified frequently over the years, I'm referring to the most recent version, the 1987-version. And I do hope when they make the next revision, they would add or attach a changelog or a revision history to it.