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"Holy" Blindness

Widespread cheating, for me, is a cheating on the people's will whoever the people voted for in majority. And right now which government agency can independently, effectively and speedily protect that basic right to choose who Filipinos want to lead them? Comelec? SC? Pet? All these have so far lost it. I believe not taking it to the streets where the only solution could be made to happen is the irresposible call to make. If Cardinal Rosales spoke for the Catholic Church in the Philippines, it is one of those situations when the church is missing the spirit of the times that Cardinal Jaime Sin did not fail to see. The Bishop of Manila said that the time is different today than in 1986. That was an extraordinary time demanding an extraordinary action. Will widespread cheating an "ordinary" thing in a time so critical to the nation's history? Martial rule may have not been imposed on the Filipinos. But don't you think cheating on the presidential choice of the peo...