This is a column from Mr Lito Banayo from Malaya on Norzagaray Farmlands:

Norzagaray: A character issue
LITO BANAYO

‘Character must take infinitely more importance than competence.’
THE papers today will most likely carry the news that the Magdalo have endorsed the candidacy of Money Villarroyo for president. That was a done deal more than a week ago, never mind what the group kept saying that their members would still vote on the matter.

When Chiz Escudero was yet a candidate, they went for him, with Noynoy Aquino placing second among their choices. Now they are going for Money Villarroyo. Whatever their reasons, this article is dedicated to what little idealism, if any, is left in their hearts.

Villarroyo, after all, is not after their votes. Villarroyo is only after their propaganda value, and the announcement at this time that the two publicly known polling companies are doing their field surveys is deemed considerable, which is why Villarroyo values their endorsement so much. (How much?) The same goes for Cardinal Vidal, whose "blessing" of Money is spun for propaganda value. And holy man Mike Velarde’s orange revolution in Hong Kong.

In the C-5 scandal, Villar clearly used his power as Speaker, then as senator when he was chair of the Finance Committee with power over the national budget, and as Senate President, in order to cause public monies to be channeled into a redundant project where his corporate and family interests would profit handsomely. He caused the diversion or re-alignment of a previously planned stretch of road into another area where his properties would be traversed, thus enhancing their real estate value. In so doing, at least 2 billion pesos in road right-of-way payments already paid mostly to Bro. Mike Velarde was laid to waste. The original road was to have traversed the religious leader’s property in Parañaque.

Because the new C-5 or whatever else Villar chooses to call it, is more circuitous (parang ahas), the better to pass the properties which Manny Villar owns, the stretch of road cost government more to construct. Which is why the Senate Committee of the Whole is dunning him for the cost of the road. And in evaluating the road right-of-way payments, Villar again made certain that his properties would be paid big. Bigger than the other property owners in the area. As when he was paid 14,000 pesos per square or thereabouts, the adjoining property owned by the heirs of Democrito Plaza, represented by Rodolfo "Ompong" Plaza who is now running for senator under Erap’s coalition, was paid only 4,000 pesos. Ompong and family was happy about the valuation, not knowing that Villar got three and a half times more. All told, the Senate concluded that the disadvantage to government was 6 billion pesos, and asked Villar to reimburse the taxpayer so.

But C-5, per Villar’s propaganda machine, which means his paid media and likewise "paid" free media, harped on its usefulness to the motoring public, especially those who have to pass Coastal Road and Quirino Highway instead, the latter a toll road, the other a narrow thoroughfare connecting Zapote with Parañaque, built during the American occupation, just like MacArthur Highway in the north. Its called a "spin", and oh, how much money went around!

In Tagalog, "naloko ni Villar ang gobyerno; nakinabang siya sa salapi ng gobyerno; inaksaya niya ang salapi ng bayan; ginamit niya ang impluwensya at kapangyarihan para makinabang". This is both against the law and against moral values. But the C-5 issue remained abstract to many, especially the masa, because "nakinabang ang motorista", as Villar’s paid free media kept arguing. What the masa felt discomfiting was that Villar evaded the issue even before his peers in the Senate. As the neighborhood barber would say, "Iilan-ilan lang sila sa Senado, hindi pa niya ma-eksplika doon", and his customer would add, "May itinatago siguro". To which the Senate President who replaced Villar, veteran lawyer Juan Ponce Enrile declared – "Duwag".

But Norzagaray is otra cosa. In Norzagaray, as we detailed the other day, Villar got possession of some 480 hectares of land, most of which would be classified under the IPRA law as "ancestral domain", and, in the words of the DENR, "forest land" which under the law are "beyond the commerce of man". In 1964, the Republic deemed it socially justiciable and justifiable to award portions of these forest lands in the foothills of the lengthy Sierra Madre, to farmers who have demonstrated continuous use and occupation of said publicly-owned lands.

Yet, real estate syndicates in cahoots with crooked bureaucrats found opportunity when the Malolos, Bulacan Registry of Deeds was razed by fire in 1987. They produced spurious documents purporting to show several transfers of ownership over the land, the earliest of which, as written in the face of the titulo torrens, was executed during the Japanese occupation when no civil government was in place, and which subsequent amendment by the post-war Commonwealth under Sergio Osmeña declared "null and void". And the latest of which was to Villar’s corporation, Manila Brickworks, which in turn assigned the deeds to Capitol Development Bank, another Villar corporation. Capitol fell under the weight of Villar’s foreign-denominated loans which his Camella and Palmera used, with the massive help of NHMFC, again with massive infusions of additional capital from government financing institutions, when the Philippine peso faltered during the Asian recession of 1997. Villar and Capitol saw their liabilities double instantly at the end of Fidel Valdez Ramos’ term, when as congressman, he was the buddy-buddy of Jose de Venecia, the man who lost the presidency miserably to Joseph Estrada.

His corporate fortunes dwindled, almost gone with the wind when liabilities were compared with assets, Villar first "bought" the speakership, astonishing his former patron Joe de V himself, and forthwith manipulated deal after deal in order to save his "brown taipanic" empire. Among the massive transfusions of the people’s money that went to the aid of Villar were two emergency loans covered by two promissory notes signed by Mrs. Cynthia Villar herself, as president and CEO of Capitol Bank, for a total of 1.5 billion pesos, given by the fiduciary trustee of the Republic of the Philippines and the people of this sovereign state, no less than the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.

Did not the hawk-eyed loan analysts of the BSP notice the provenance of the torrens title surrendered by Optimum Development Bank, the successor-in-interest of Capitol Bank which closed in 1998 or thereabouts? That does not seem quite likely. That’s why they are the "central" bank; if ordinary banks do utmost diligence in ascertaining and verifying properties before they part with the loan proceeds, how much more the bureaucrats of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas? Assuming arguendo, as Villar’s apologists in the internet claim, that the title also passed on to them, then why in hell’s name did they pass dubious titles to the Bangko Sentral. And why in heaven’s name did the BSP accept the same?

Likelier scenario is that Villar used his power as Speaker to get the top officials of the Bangko Sentral to order their subordinates to "close their eyes" and "shut their mouths". Aha, bank secrecy!

In fine, the Bangko Sentral which later foreclosed on the unpaid 1.5 billion, was left with spurious titles, executed during the "null and void" period of the Pacific War. An erudite man of the cloth, when the whole caper was explained to him, exclaimed, "Mickey Mouse!", as in pareho ng mickey mouse money, Villar hocked mickey mouse titles. (Those above 50 years old will know what "mickey mouse" money means; those younger, please ask the older ones.)

Na-gantso ang Bangko Sentral! In another day and age, forthcoming four months hereinafter, Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Villar will have to explain this mystery to the Ombudsman. After June 30, assuming Villar is not the "duly elected" president, the Bangko Sentral will be material witness to and culpable party likewise. Which is probably why Manuel Villar y Bamba so desperately needs to become president of the Republic. To cover his tracks. What a roll it has been!

Which is why he "bought" the speakership in 1998, to the consternation of his now friend and fine dining partner, Joker Arroyo, who on August 17, 1998, denounced Villar for unspeakable crimes of larceny and profiteering in the floor of the House. To cover his tracks between 1992 when he was first elected congressman, to 1998 when he became Speaker. Then in 2001, he was elected senator of the realm, in the aftermath of his having impeached his benefactor Erap, where he became the chair of the Senate Finance Committee with power over the public purse. And from which he re-built his empire by deal after deal after deal, including C-5, including Daang Hari, including Daang Reyna and Savannah upon Pavia, Iloilo, and including paying fake Norzagaray titles to the Bangko Sentral.

In C-5, only the amorphous "Republic" was disadvantaged. In Norzagaray however, some 47, perhaps more, poor Filipino families of Dumagat descent, are now in hard struggle with the Bangko Sentral, which insists on the property rights it acquired by foreclosure from Villar, against their legitimate and genuine titles issued by the Republic in the time of Diosdado Macapagal.

Ninakawan ng lupa ang mga Dumagat! Land-grabber pala? Na-gantso na ang Bangko Sentral, pinagsamantalahan pa ang kaawa-awang mga magsasaka? And his ads have him saying "Tatapusin ko ang Kahirapan". Tell that to the Marines, este, Dumagat pala.

Now he presents himself to the people, asking them to entrust to him stewardship and leadership of these benighted lands, the better perhaps to cover up his tracks. Six years of no Ombudsman, no Sandiganbayan special court, no Supreme Court to touch him, only a Congress under the "speakership" of Gloria Macapagal, (and the Senate Presidency of Joker Arroyo (just in case Gloria duns him), whose Arroyo we might as well append to his name, hereinafter spelled Villarroyo.

A friend from the other side of the political fence insisted Gloria is faithful to her Gibo, and only su esposo Juan Miguel alias Mike is sponsoring Villar’s candidacy on the sly. My retort: Hindi ko naman sinabing Villapagal. Ang sabi ko – Villarroyo!

Thursday last week, the farmers presented their case to media, because the Ombudsman before which their lawyers filed a case in 2008 had not bothered to lift its manacled fingers. And the Bangko Sentral, which had strangely been given a new Transfer Certificate of Title to their properties, and the dastardly deed known to them only in 2004, had been as quiet as the sphinx of Egypt.

Media hardly covered and hardly reported it. The desks were bought (save a few), the reporters taken for a ride. Manna spread hugely from the Villarroyo horn of plenty. The issue was cleverly kept from the prying attention of the public, which must rightfully assess the fitness for public office of anyone who would be president of the benighted islands. Anyone, whether Villarroyo, or Aquino, or Gordon, or Gibo, or Erap, Jamby, JC, Bro. Eddie and whoever else.

What is it we keep reminding people about the qualities their leaders must possess? Character plus competence. With emphasis on character.

Competence is easy. An allegedly "incompetent" Magsaysay surrounded himself with competent people. A competent Marcos, surrounding himself with more competent technocrats, plundered and enslaved the people of these benighted nation for 21 years. A competent Macapagal-Arroyo once again demonstrated, for ten years, how character must take infinitely more importance than competence.

Manny Villar is "competent", no doubt about it. Cunning, quick to seize opportunity, adept at using influence, manipulative of power --- magaling talaga! And Gibo is just as competent, judging by his words and his educational background. But questions of character do not hound Gibo. A morally upright character is what Money Villarroyo does not possess.

Elect him president, he will not end poverty. He will be "lalong pahirap". More than Marcos and Arroyo combined.

In Edsa we threw out Marcos after suffering under the yoke of authoritarianism which promised to end poverty as well, but pushed us deeper into misery, notwithstanding over-priced infrastructure. In Edsa Dos, we installed Arroyo, and look where we are now, among the world’s most corrupt, most un-competitive, most benighted. What will six years of Money Villarroyo in Malacañang, Joker Arroyo in the Senate, and Gloria Arroyo in the House bring to these islands?

Basket case, that’s what.

Philippine elections are particularly interesting to observe compared to other countries' elections because the five fundamental dynamic elements are usually present. For those familiar with Feng Shui and psychology, its game cards are easy to see:

Element: WOOD or AIR
Mental Condition: "autistic" (See Note 1 at the end)
Descriptive Class: Scholars
Descriptive Gender: "Male" (See Note 2)
Characteristic "race": Yellows
Need Hierarchy: Self-actualization or optimization of potential
Nearest Presidential Candidate: Noynoy Aquino
Reasons: less-than-adequate social skills, alone at 50 years old, intelligent

Element: WATER
Mental condition: "schizophrenic"
Descriptive Class: Shamans
Descriptive Gender: "Female"
Characteristic "race": Small Browns or Brown Female
Need Hierarchy: Superego or esteem needs
Nearest Presidential Candidate: Brother Eddie Villanueva
Reasons: Preacher, Founder of "Jesus is Lord" Movement

Element: EARTH
Mental condition: "Depressive"
Descriptive Class: Ubuntu Business or Social Class
Descriptive Gender: "Lesbian"
Characteristic "race": Blacks
Need Hierarchy: Belongingness needs
Nearest Presidential Candidate: Jamby Madrigal
Reasons: Like the "Virgin" Mary, loves and protects nature

Element: FIRE
Mental condition: "Manic"
Descriptive Class: Military, Militant Business Class or "Militants"
Descriptive Gender: "Gay"
Characteristic "race": Whites
Need Hierarchy: security or economic needs
Nearest Presidential Candidate: Gibo Teodoro, Jr. (& Dick Gordon)
Reasons: Former Defense Secretary,
Likes to fly (a gay fantasy),
Likes to cook European cuisine,
Loves the military like Alexander the Great Gay,
Plato's Ideal Army, American "Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell" Troops,
Homosexual Hitler and his seductive Storm Troopers

Element: SPACE ETHER OR METAL
Mental condition: "bipolar"
Descriptive Class: Working Class, Bharat Business Class, Bi Military
Descriptive Gender: "Bisexual"
Characteristic "race": Big Browns or Brown Male
Need Hierarchy: Physiological or Basic Needs
Nearest Presidential Candidate: Manny Villar (& Erap Estrada)
Reasons: From impoverished Tondo,
Fights to Survive, Emotional,
Close to Artists/Actors, Dishonest

Unlike the two-party American "gay" system, and the one-party Chinese "autistic" system, the multi-party Filipino "schizophrenic" system shows the full spectrum of the Five Elements (Wu Xing), like the female mind. The Philippines can be compared to a Black Widow spider or a Praying Mantis that bites off the head of its mate after sex and eats it to nourish her children. So the female often loves the bisexual because "he" is often willing to serve "his" head on a silver platter, like a suicide bomber, leading the family like the Headless Horseman. The true male considers it to be crazy, stays away and develops "autism." Thus, the Philippines will often search for a "bisexual" leader, unlike Chinese President Hu Jintao who is an "autistic" engineer.

However, in this year's election, the "bisexual" vote is split between Erap and Villar, which allows a male "autistic" candidate like Noynoy to increase his chances of winning. The inner male voice of the female also thinks about stability and trustworthiness, and unfortunately, the bisexual is often unreliable and dishonest because "his" head offering might be a magical box trick, mimicking the Wizard of Oz. So sometimes she picks the nerd over the romantic lover when she feels like going straight. But she can be split about the numerous inner voices that silently speak to her, so she may become indecisive, develop a "split mind" or become "schizophrenic."

It is not only the female who has the five basic gender minds or voices within her conscience. All five genders have these five elements in their conscience or minds. And even all the "races" have the characteristics or traits of all five genders. In other words, there are five gender breeds (i.e. Yellows, Small Browns, Blacks, Whites and Big Browns) which correspond to the five genders. And within each "race," there are five actual genders. Of course, within each gender, there are five gender minds. These all come in different degrees with an infinite number of combinations, which makes each individual unique yet similar using five-element organization.

In the end, people will decide on everything that they do based on their gender minds, gender and gender breed. They will think of the needs of the multiple genders within themselves and act on these needs. As Freud believes, everything is motivated by sex.

They will all desire and avoid relationships with each other, following the "harmony" and "conflict" lines or game "rules" of the five-pointed star or Pentacle of Kung-Fu Tzu (Confucius), which looks like a Filipino Christmas parol, originally patterned after Chinese or Japanese paper lanterns. Each gender sits on one of the tips of the star, and both the star and the circle around it show how the genders love, hate, help, poison and kill each other.

The game guidelines though are broad and dynamic, as harmony can produce conflict (or vice-versa), or as "good" sheep can become "evil" goats (or vice-versa). Consequently, the Chinese script for the word "crisis" and "opportunity" is exactly the same. Similarly, the words "goat" and "sheep" have the same Chinese pictogram.

This dynamic game interplay of yin and yang can be described in the Wu Xing ecology model, where the amount, perspective and timing or circumstance of the Elements are significant. Water, for instance, nourishes trees (Wood), but too much Water or flooding will rot and destroy Wood just as males are nourished by females but their continuous presence may irritate or annoy them. However, Earth absorbs the excess Water, just as lesbians court females. Eventually, if the female is influenced, she becomes bisexual as Earth and Water concentrate to produce mineral resources ("Metal"). Metal may chop down trees, but if metal is used carefully, it can craft wood to fine furniture just as Shaolin monks learned mental discipline and the practical use of martial arts from Buddhist and Hindu Indians. Water may also extinguish fire, but in small amounts, water simply relaxes the fire, just as females may neutralize fiery gays in their social presence, or just like clergymen baptizing militants in Living Water. A wildfire though may destroy forests, just like gays sodomizing males, but mild atmosphere-filtered sunshine is beneficial to trees, just as Asian men may sport fashionable neckties and body-fit Western shirts, tucked into European business pants that show the contour of their buttocks to other men, who eventually become customers or business partners.

Thus, all presidential candidates will roughly follow this common political symbol or pattern in the election game. And at the end of the day, whatever the election results may be, people will be able to roughly see a statistical supercollider "x-ray" of the Philippines' state of mind or mental health, which may enable future leaders to heal the world and make it a "better" place.

People will learn. From the "male," they learn how to think. From the "female," they learn the "divine" nature of the five voices. From the "lesbian," they become "down to earth." From the gay, they dream big. And from the "bisexual," they learn self-sacrifice and love. So let the games begin!

Visit http://freeasean.tripod.com/blog.html to download a free 238-page illustrated game manual and to learn more about the political pentacle, game theory and the General Convergence Theory.

Rodney St.Michael
FreeASEAN.tripod.com
syncmyworld.blogspot.com
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Note 1: quotes mean general colloquial use, not necessarily the clinical use
Note 2: quotes mean gender similarities, not necessarily the actual gender

If you want to know more about the other candidates while there's confusion? Go to gibo.ph and see a better alternative and less mudslinging and backstabbing.

Tama ka Tonyabs sa re-post mo!.

Ito na naman ba sasabihin na politika at mudslinging?! Hindi at ito ay katotohanan!.

Simpleng tao lang sila ang magsasaka na ito at 2008 pa sila nag demanda pero walang nangyari.

Sabi na dismiss na ng Ombudsman ang kaso, ang tanong meron ba napaparusahan na malalaking official ng government ang ahensyang ito at ang sagot ay wala maliban kung ikaw ay kalaban.

2008 pa itong kaso at hindi pa masyadong nagpaparamdam si Villar nito at nagsisimula palang. Kung hindi lang tayo bulag at tanga at masasabi natin na itong landgrabbing ni Villar ay totoo. 1.5 billion ang nasayan dito pera ng taong bayan na pinahiram ng BSP sa mga Villar at iba pa yung mga magsasaka na nawalan ng lupain. paano na ang hustisya nila?.

Yan ba ang makahirap na nilalamangan ang mahihirap, hindi porke galing sya sa mahihirap ay may puso na sya para sa mahihirap at isa namang kababawan ito.