John Arcilla's Speech Under The Microscope

Netizen's Comment:  How did you find John Arcilla's thought-provoking and compelling speech at Leni Robredo's birth celebration cum rally?

Response: I think that speech is second to none and not being hyperbolic ... it might be the most moving and impassioned speech this whole election season.

"Korap o tapat? Kurakot o lingkod? Umiiwas o humaharap? Sumusugod o umaatras? Masipag o tamad? Trapo o tropa? Bayan, pumili ka!" he said. 

After that infamous line, I know where it is leading. General Luna's voice ear-splitting before a sellout throng of 412,000 in Pasay City, Arcilla called on and challenge the crowd to choose between shady and nefarious governance to honest leadership, and between one who is willing to fight or one who is in the flight mood, and one who faces calamities and catastrophe head-on or one who cowers with his sins of omission and commission and is missing in action.

The meat of the speech reaches its apex when Arcilla reiterated that people expressing grief or outrage is not a hallmark sign of rebellion.  Whoever has this line of thinking is the most vindictive, spiteful, and retaliatory.  "Ang eleksyon ay tungkol sa ating bayan at hindi tungkol sa ating sarili," he said.

He praised Bongbong for protecting the legacy of  FEM, but that doesn't make you qualify to be president, not even physical appearance can be a yardstick or popularity can do the trick.

He ended his speech by saying that in the May 9 election ... the people have this awesome task and the power to choose or negate leaders whoever he or she is.

To summarize it all, the Arcilla speech was a game-changer. It was the speech to end all speech.  It is the speech everybody is waiting for - tagos sa puso ... nay, tagos to the bulalo.  I was having goosebumps. This is the speech na gigising talaga sa lahat ng Filipino, kahit bakal man ang puso mo...

And YES, ang pagpupuna sa gobyerno ay hindi pagrebelde sa bayan.