Bagumbayan Movement to be launched on April 27

My Presidential candidate for the 2010 Philippine National and Local Elections, Senator Richard 'Dick' Gordon made a big announcement yesterday at the Senate Press Office.

This is a transcript of that announcement.

Question: Are you running for President in 2010?

Answer:

I’m really considering running and maybe it’s time to announce it in the sense that on the 27^th of April we will have a big meeting of the Bagumbayan Movement at the Manila Hotel.

The Bagumbayan Movement will be represented from all provinces of the country and we will meet there in the Manila Hotel because ang Manila Hotel nasa Bagumbayan.

We will meet there on the day Lapu-Lapu repelled the colonial invader and we will meet in a place where Legaspi kicked Rajah Sulayman out and he created Bagumbayan, isang minimithing bayan na bago ang pag-uugali na may kakayahan, hindi natatakot sa malalaking tao, taglay ang tapang ni Lapu lapu at taglay ang talino at tapang ni Jose Rizal.

Question: Will you be announcing your candidacy on April 27?

Answer:

I do not know. Because I don’t believe na, ang nangyayari sa atin ngayon ay marami ng kumakampanya even if the law does not permit it.

The spirit of the law says you cannot campaign long before the election period.

Ang lumalabas ang pinapairal dito ay ang patapangan ng apog. I stand against the coarsening of the culture of our country.

Masyado ng matapang ang apog ng lahat. Nakikita natin ang corruption lumaganap na sa atin, sa SEC tinatamaan ngayon, tinatamaan lahat ang ating departamento, lahat ng bidding ng gobyerno naku-question.

So it’s time we change the paradigm. It’s time na magkaroon tayo ng Bagumbayan. Matagal ko na rin minimithi yan.

Nuong panahon ng kastila, lahat ng mga nag-aambisyon na magkaroon ng pagbabago sa ating bansa sa pamamagitan ng isang rebolusyon, pinaslang sila sa Bagumbayan. Sila Gomez, Burgos Zamora, Jose Rizal, dyan sila pinaslang. Hindi nila nakita ang Bagumbayan.

When you run for the presidency you’re asking for the trust of the entire country not only on your skill, not only on your experience, not only your integrity, but in your ability to motivate your people to take them into the promise land if you will, to take them into an era na bago na ang sitwasyon.

Hindi porke mayaman ka ikaw lang ang talagang mamamayagpag, na kung ikaw ay mahirap wala kang pag-asa.

Dapat sa isang Presidente, baguhin ang paradigm o ang tinatahak na landas ng ating bansa upang maging patas ang lahat.

Ayokong ikinakahon ang pag-iisip ng tao na porke ikaw ay mayaman panalo ka, o porke ikaw in-anoint ka ng presidente talo ka. Dapat may sarili tayong pag-iisip, yung boto natin pagpasok natin sa botohan atin yun, tayo ang magdedesiyon, mahalin natin ang boto na yan kahit pa sabihing matatalo yung kandidato mo, kung naniniwala ka doon sa kandidato mo, iboto mo yun.