I'VE always known it all along, the Lopezes will get what they want, when they want it. We will never win against this bloodsucker. Ayaw ko na lang itong pakaisipin - that once more, the Lopezes will never want of a motley crowd who will championed its cause - kasi may edad na ako and my heart will not be able to absorbed anymore this frustration, this despair, of finally seeing the day when this wily, ultra-rich schemers kneel down in defeat. The other day someone named Joel Pablo Salud whose career is summed up as a journalist and as a political and literary writer, wrote a "letter" to F. Sionil Jose urging the 95-year old pundit to "reconsider" his profound view on the Lopezes ("I'll not mourn the passing of ABS-CBN, the Filipinos do not really need ABS-CBN. It does not produce food or goods. It has certainly entertained millions but it did not diminish poverty. Its demise is even good for Philippine democracy if it also means the dismantling of the Lopez empire. The Lopez family is a leading member of the oligarchy—far more powerful than any of the oligarchs, then and now.") Again, the Lopez's lucky charm is working as it should, it found a sudden, unwitting defender from the literati.
I have one thing to say to this Salud, Sionil Jose due to his age, his long life and the periods he went through that were the most tumultuous and life-shattering in our sad history as a people -- can be said to have seen it all. Whatever he has spoken about the Lopezes is not a composition of a journalist or a feature writer rushing an article for its 8 pm deadline for a spreadsheet that needs to published for tomorrow's issue. What he has spoken about this very powerful and rapacious family is a distillation of decades, even almost a century, of witnessing, learning and being whispered to about their atrocious scheming, their very crimes. Salud wants to talk the venerable old man into finding some modicum of virtues, a gram of a redeeming merit, in the Lopezes. Fool! You're trying to defend the indefensible, there is no redemption for the Lopezes, it sees all non-Lopezes as peasants or as useful idiots. Remember this, Jose has practically seen it all, you have not seen what he has seen about this family, for you were born a little too late...but not too late to missed what Jose has known all along - that the Lopezes has always been and will always be: An accursed thorn in the side of this sad, oppressed nation.....
