Nearly losing it at the Comelec
I have to get this out or my chest will implode.
It was all I could do to keep from crying when I went to the Commission on Elections office in the Palacio del Governadorcillo to witness the leaders of Anakpawis Party-list file its official list of nominees.
Ka Bel was allowed by the Makati Regional Trial Court to leave the confines of his detention hospital room in the Philippine Heart Center from 9:00-11:00am today so he coud lead the filing.
This morning ka Bel’s blood pressure shot up, and he did look a little pale.
He looked so dour and serious in this picture uploaded in the Abs-cbn website; so unlike the way he really is, an upbeat, kind and cheerful man who has a most brilliant smile.
Ka Bel was surrounded by AFP and PNP and CIDG guards (ang OA, sobra), and it was very hard to get close to him. A glass window separated us, and the media were practically hurting each other to get good shots.
I wanted Ka Bel to smile, so I jumped up and started waving like a maniac. Ka Bel saw me and smiled and smiled and smiled, and the photographers had a field day taking much better pictures. He waved at me, raised his left fist in salute, and what first looked like such a serious and even depressing situation was made a little more cheerful.
Syempre naiiyak na ytalaga ako ngayon. Aaagh.
I hate this government with all my heart. It breaks my heart every single day because of what it does and continues to do against the Filipino people, against comrades and friends I care about most. Aarestuhin sina Ka Satur, Ka Raffy. Isang taon mahigit nang nakakulong si Ka Bel. Laksa na ang pinaslang at araw-araw lumalaki ang bilang. Ilap pa rin ang katarungan, at presidente pa rin ang huwad na pangulo.
Leche.
Ka Ofel and Ka Osang brought Trixie with them, the latest addition to the Beltran clan. Trixie is the daughter of Ka Ofel’s second child. Trixie was conceived three months after his grandfather was arrested, and now she’s a month old and Ka Bel has never seen her. Babies are not allowed inside hospitals.
Before Ka Bel was whisked off by the police into the PHC ambulance, Ka Osang handed Trixie to him. She looked into his smiling, emotional face, lifted her small hand and touched his face that had seen 74 summers, and just stared. Ka Bel would’ve cried if it wasn’t such a public first meeting. His second great-grandchild.
