Monday, May 14 is Judgment Day. Let the people speak.

When the people speak, let no power stop him for when he speaks, it is God Who does and He is above all of us.

When a wayward people elect men for selfish considerations and against their better judgment, it is the people who will pay for their own recklessness.

But when he speaks, rightly or wrongly, his will is sovereign and should reign supreme.
Those who want to frustrate his will, remember that your victory will be hollow and short-lived and in the end there will be justice for all.

Despite the surveys, there is really no anointed one yet for the Anointed One is the one who is chosen by a free and just people.

For by then, the voice of the people will truly be the Voice of God.

The May elections is one of those rare occasions where people literally hold the future in their hands at the tip of their pencils at the polling booths.

Let us elect tomorrow dedicated and competent men with integrity and determination whose reputation is unblemished with any taint of graft and corruption. Those who have been smeared with corruption in their private and public lives and those who have acquired the habit of lavishness and profligacy in spending the people's money for their private interests should be consigned to the political doghouse.

Let us not elect to public offices candidates who are inept and unresponsive to public welfare especially those who have no regard for the protection of the national patrimony and those who have notoriously been involved in the desecration of the sanctity of the ballot during the past elections. Those who possess weak leadership qualities, who lack the political will to instill discipline and morality in the public service, have no place in the bureaucracy.

Suffrage is both a sacred right as well a moral duty.

If you are a parent, your vote represents the kind of future your children will live in. If there is a legacy you can be proud of, it must be the legacy of a just, honest and human society.

If you are a child, the stakes are higher because you will live a life commensurate to the kind of public official you vote into office. You can vote your own paradise or hell - a product of the choices you will make.

As citizens, more important than who wins this election is that the process should express the almighty will of the people. Anything less than this is worse than failure.

To acquire the right of suffrage, our forbears fought and died to win and preserve this legacy. This struggle spans centuries past - from the defiance of Lapu-lapu along the shores of Mactan to the epic struggle of the hills of Bataan and Corregidor.

The people retook democracy in 1986 from the jaws of clinical death in the ICU called Martial Law. The election is the crowning jewel of that struggle that must be kept in the hands of the people at all costs.

Those who think they can usurp the democratic rights by ascending to public office without the honest, legitimate people's endorsement automatically lose their right to govern. The power they have arrogated fraudulently for their private interests will be forced out of their illegitimate hands back into the power of the people.

Let's not invite another EDSA People Power back again, Manila or provincial-style.

Every election is a struggle, a test of hard choices but in the end it is proof that our democracy is alive and we as a people deserve it above all.

Monday is Judgment Day. Be quiet and still. Let the people speak and listen with your heart.

It is only with the heart that one sees rightly - what is essential is invisible to the eyes.

So says the Little Prince. GO OUT AND VOTE!