Filipinos Are Cowards, Thus He Speaks. Thus I Squeak Up!

Is President Rodrigo Roa Duterte a coward? Romano Cortes Jorge says "Filipinos (are) cowards," while Novaliches Bishop Emeritus Teodoro Bacani has raised the question of the bravery of the President and Mr Duterte has so far failed to come up to the challenge: 

That he walk the streets without protection whatsoever, just him.

"Filipino Cowards" is Mr Jorge Facebook post (Wednesday, 9 January 2019, Facebook, facebook.com). The Bishop's provocation is in ANN's report via ABS-CBN News, "Bacani Dares Duterte: Walk The Streets Without Bodyguards" (Tuesday, 15 January 2019, news.abs-cbn.com).

Does Mr Duterte love his country, love his people? British poet Oscar Wilde has the answer:

Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard.
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word.
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword!

So which one to use: the Judas kiss or the Joan of Arc sword? None if you truly are a coward. And yes, I'd rather be a coward than a dead hero!

Mr Jorge has harsh words to say about us Filipinos:

We now live at a time when rape, murder, plunder, incompetence, and treason are being normalized by the Duterte regime and its supporters. Any of these heinous offences should rightly incur criminal charges, public condemnation, rage, and ostracism.¶This has come to pass because we have normalized cowardice. Courage is no longer demanded of everyone. Only a nation of cowards would allow the Duterte regime to continue.

Mr Jorge is saying that we Filipinos must be brave enough to kill the thing we love, if necessary! Which is? Democracy. He says:

Cowardice is as despicable and contemptible as rape, murder, incompetence, and treason. ¶Everyone should be raising their voices in indignation, marching on the streets in protest, and campaigning and voting for righteous candidates, because that's what it's going to take to get things done.

Shouting invectives at Mr Duterte and/or in madness burning his effigy, count me out. Rather, aside from campaigning for admirable aspirants:

I would squeak up!

I just invented that behavior now. "Life is only for the brave," Mr Jorge says. I prefer to squeak up. To squeak up!is to speak, whether in text or image or voice,

So that the evil is spoken of but in kindness.
You do not condemn the sinner;
rather, you condemn the sin.

"The truth demands our courage to speak out," Mr Jorge says. Ah, the truth! I have written about this; see my latest, "Maria Ressa, Defense Of Democracy Is Not The Issue! Development Is" (03 January 2019, QuickBytes, blogspot.com). In the manner of Zig Ziglar, Mr Jorge, think!

T.H.I.N.K.
Is it True? If True, is it Helpful? If Helpful, is it Inspiring? If Inspiring, is it Necessary? If Necessary, is it Kind?

If you don't behave in the manner of T.H.I.N.K., Mr Jorge, Truth can be used against you! As indeed it is being used against people who only think of the Truth.

THINK about that!517