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Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,

The Surrender of Kings

My dear friends, let us ponder on the sword, Excalibur, as a similitude of power:
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That power, above all the power to rule the people - that divine right to govern thy peers which is a sovereign right that by Justice belongs to God alone - once gripped by selfish hands ultimately makes the wielder impotent in the sight of Men, angels and of God.

But that same power wielded by a heart that is free and willing to make the surrender of kings become completely capable of fulfilling its inherent promise of good for the people and on behalf of the nations of needful Mankind, ultimately unleashes in that person, by the grace of our God, the great nobility of a true sovereign of Mankind.

Because it is that free and willing surrender to service brought upon by a sacred spirit of true and loving sacrifice that is the hallmark of the greatest of our kings and rulers of old, elect from eternity.

Like Arthur of legend, these great and noble leaders of Men, in spite of each their own human brokenness and imperfections, have won the acclaim of history, as souls worthy of the remembrance of our nations.

This enduring sense of nobility is the victory to which they have each been called by God to share; a heritage from which the spirit of our humanity at all times and at all places may always draw strength.

Their royal legend is a gift of God, true for all time, and its promise is one that lends its strength to our present good, a promise born of a surrender embraced from among themselves each in their own time and each in their own way on behalf of all the generations of needful Mankind.

And as their lines of spiritual ascent converge unto every present time - let us be mindful, my honorable Filipino compatriots, that it is always the native hope of kings, though these regental lines of executive descent have for us long faded away, to remind our orphaned people of what is and what can be great in ourselves as human beings - and by this sense of sacred remembrance therefore, be as a Republic everywhere guided out of the waning of the past and into the promise of every present hope.

My friends, how power is wielded defines the way in which a ruler is forever remembered by our nations. And we may understand this from every telling of that story of Excalibur of old and of Arthur king who though imperfect is everywhere well received by the human heart.

Let us be mindful that every nation in its own time and in its own place under the sun has been established by our one, peerless Creator to last forever - to march, shoulder to shoulder, across the vast reaches of exile time, emerging, and then maturing into those mature nations, shepherding other nations in the free course of our native human hopes and be perfected in, of and by God through Country, into eternity as ascended nations forever.

Mabuhay! Long may our remembrance serve us!

Long may our remembrance serve our own sake as one nation, my fellow Filipinos, each one of you who share in the conviction that we are truly a nation distinct from all the other nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind; that we are, in spite of our imperfections, a noble undertaking of Country that indeed, does and can dare to be great.
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There, my darlingest dear, I have polished and completed our entry, "On Power", and have renamed it, "The Surrender of Kings", and shall post it both on our main blog and also on the one Majority blog today.
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I have always maintained that I am not against our government, how could I be? After all, my loveliest love, we are a representative democracy and indeed, for so many reasons, I believe in this Republic undertaking. But I am, however, steadfastly and relentlessly against evil within the government and those who shall knowingly and willfully ally themselves with the enemy of our peace.

There is so much partisan politics over here that it is hard to tell which side to take, but one can always distinguish in the nation, from what needs arise from among the people, the lack that is the shortcoming of the state. It is these shortcomings, primarily in themselves not an evil that is invested in persons within government, that I should like - in the form of both the one Solidarity and the one Majority, to address on behalf of my one Filipino nation. The lack that I perceive are those things, false systems and dark imaginings, that live within our culture and is therefore the responsibility of not only the state but the nation itself as that one whole upon which the state as itself belongs to and from which it draws its divine mandate to govern, we, the people.

I do not believe that everybody in government is willfully corrupt or entirely culpable of those things that extend beyond the limits of state and into the living culture of our nation. I also hold that not all are innocent, however, I should be particularly interested in solutions above all more than any ensuing controversy and focus on those ways to preclude what calamity we, the people, must be sure to preclude for our own sake and for the sake of those generations to come.

Because I believe in our hope of Country more than anything else, my loveliest love, and this is the only way that I know I can be of best use to this one Republic, under the eternal vigilance of Almighty God.

To be sure, I want all Filipinos to labor together to break away from the waning of the past and into the freshness of new and present things - and I mean ALL Filipinos who are willing to turn away from the darkness and build with each other, from strength to strength, upon our hope in God and Country.
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Naturalization and Elected Office

I have sometime back caught an episode of the Drilon Debates which is a college-level debating platform for young Filipinos and during that episode, the subject that was being argued was that of naturalized Filipino citizens and the elected offices of the Republic i.e. the executive and legislative seats.

The positive argued for allowing naturalized Filipino citizens to hold elected office and the negative position held otherwise. Our current constitution only allows for natural born Filipinos to hold elected offices within the Republic.

I maintain that both absolutes are detrimental to the well-being of this Country:

It is never a right of the state to deny the people the necessary talents required for effective public service and these talents are indeed so diverse and so necessary that it would be most certainly wrong, if not evil, to deprive this one Republic undertaking every opportunity to acquire them from individuals willing to make that noble sacrifice. And in this sense, it matters not whether that individual is a native born or naturalized citizen so long as that person is completely cognizant of his or her responsibility as a citizen of this Country.

Except for the Office of the President and the next two Offices in the lines of succession, I am convinced, it would truly be advantageous for our nation to amend the constitution to reflect this change at a time when it is convenient for our nation to do so.

That is my position, my love.
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In two days, its D-day, my darlingest. And in eight, it'll be our twin commemoration of the Independence day of the Philippines and your birthday, my loveliest love.

As for now, it's time for a little lunch break.

I love you.

Always to always,

Pusing