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The way I see it, the whole point of Ederic’s article is that rallies should not be dispersed when everything is in order. In the first place there is no reason for any dispersal unless the rally erupts into a riot, because the Constitution provides for the right of peaceful assembly as the people’s way of seeking government redress of grievances. But most dispersed rallies under this administration were utterly peaceful.
Try attending one of those rallies near the US embassy and you’ll see that the demonstrators are usually truncheoned even when they’re still a hundred meters away from the embassy itself. TV footages aren’t always able to capture everything.
Anyway, who the hell are the US embassy personnel (and the PNP, for thast matter) to impose restrictions on where Filipinos should rally? The land on which the US embassy stands is still Philippine land; the US is merely privileged with the use of that space, and it is the right of Filipinos to rally as close to the US embassy as possible when there are American atrocities of any kind against Filipinos.
rallying is fine.
its going beyond boundaries that is not. why would anyone want to breach the walls of the US Embassy (example yung mga nagra-rally dun na nababatuta)? what the hell are they going to do once they are inside? shout some more expletives? it looks sensational on TV pero kasalanan din ng mga ralyista minsan eh. once they breach demarcation lines, they should assume the consequences of their actions. period.
niwie – sorry for that tear gas experience.
As the Phillippine Collegian said during the Marcos and Erap regimes:
“Kung hindi tayo kikilos, sino pa ang kikilos? Kung hindi ngayon, kailan pa?
Wala naman masama sa isang rally dahil karapatan mo naman na maipahayag ang iyong saloobin kung di ka sang-ayon sa anuman na ginagawa ng mga taong nasa gobyerno o posisyon kaya hindi solusyon ang magsawalang kibo na lamang lalo na kapag karapatan mo na ang nilalabag.
The proper lesson is to be more prepared and/or creative, not to not go rallying. Police didn’t find a reason to disperse Patriots’ noise barrage last June 25 because they’d look ridiculous dispersing one.
There are more reasons for taking to the streets today than in either 1986 and 2001, and a campaign is waged at the long term so its success is not to be measured by what happens at one rally. Edsa 2 was the culmination of a series that began in 1999. Edsa 1 began decades before 1986.
A group lets itself be cowed by cowardly police acts, that is what doesn’t cut. Even Marcos and Estrada found it fit to back down from some of their hard-line positions when they saw that the people refused to be terrorized by dispersals.
Not going rallying when there’s every reason to do so is just like not fighting back when a foreign army invades your country. It’s as if usurpers have the right to usurp.
Lesson learned: Don’t go rallying. It just doesn’t cut it anymore.
MJ
http://www.screwedprophet.com
naranasan ko na rin ang ma tear gas sa US Embassy din noong tinututulan namin yung ratification ng GATT-WTO. Nakakagalit talaga!
Kapag nasa rally, di ka pwedeng nakatunganga lang kailangan marunong kang makiramdam dahil kung hindi talagang aabutin ka ng tear gas. Ang gobyerno minsan kahit na mapayapa ang isinasagawang protesta ay ang pulis pa ang siyang nagbubuyo para magkainitan. Minsan naman magugulat ka na lang dahil idedesperse kayong bigla sa pamamagitan ng water canon. Ang saya di ba?eto ang demokrasya wala kang karapatan magpahayag….magprotesta ka, water canon ang kaharap mo!yan ang rehimen ni gloria, di marunong makinig sa hinain ng iba!