If the 2016 elections were like basketball, teams have started pounding the ball and are dribbling to the basket, even before the organizers could draw the crowds.
And the referees could do nothing but scratch their heads in despair. Or is it despair?
Yesterday, out of apparent disgust on the unfair advantage some are taking, the National Movement for Free Elections called on the public to join in the campaign.
The campaign is to raise a red flag on early campaigning. No, not just raise, but smear these teams name in the national and international scenes.
Some people are obviously oblivious to the rules of the game and the referees are not picking on the violations.
The referees, when called upon to call the foul, said they can only do that after tip-off.
The Election Law however says unless these people file their certificates of candidacies (COC), they are deemed non candidates and non candidates and “campaigning” to them is void ab initio.
But, Namfrel, as with everybody else (except maybe the Commission on Elections) have seen the intent of the law and the goal to level the playing field.
In basketball, as with elections, in order to play and win the game, one must abide by the rules.
In it are mediators of sorts who will suspend the games as soon as rules are breached.
But even before the referees could come into the hard court, some teams have already started piling up on the hoops and are bringing the rah-rah with them.
Namfrel knows these calloused opportunists (who know the law better than us) are obviously circumventing the law and are getting away.
On this, one needs to do is to use, not their Comelec heads or ears or eyes, but the eyes, ears and heads that see these violations.
The move is against over-eager politicians promoting themselves months before official campaign starts. You can easily spot them: tarpaulins announcing events, congratulating, epals and riding on government projects.
All one needs to do is take a snapshot at a printed political advertisement, record the campaign speech and post these on a dedicated Election 2016 Pampams facebook page.
Pampan is a street language for prostitutes.
On twitter, all these documents could be uploaded and tagged with a hashtag #pampam.
You see, in a government that has become inutile over its prostituting, people can take the roles ostracizing the errant and exacting the kind of justice they deserve.
