00:00Walang malay-malay na magiging issue ang isang routine na tahimik na maikling biyahe but siguro siyado kasing toxic yung
00:12ating ecosystem at environment ngayon.
00:15Lahat nagbabangayan, lahat gustong maintrigahan.
00:20And I thank those, especially the public officials who were more responsible, whether it was the Bureau of Immigration or
00:28the Office of the Ombudsman, the Ombudsman himself,
00:32who just said as a matter of fact that there's no reason why we could not travel and private yun
00:42or gusto magpainga.
00:43So, hindi ko po isa-isa yun yung aming ginawa but what I wanted to say is that when we
00:50started this, what is happening now,
00:55I think it was May 11, nung ako po'y inelect ng mga kasamaan natin bilang Senate President, before that,
01:02we counted the cost.
01:04Marami po kami, we counted the cost.
01:07Nagsimula pa yan ho, ng January-February.
01:13And maraming nangyari na, kwento ko na sa inyo, but what I meant by counting the cost,
01:18siguro hindi namin naisip na ganito kagrabe, ganyang karaming pagsubok, ganyang karaming accusations.
01:27Yung ginagawang ni Senator Lacson, I don't know what to call it anymore,
01:32pero yung pag-uusig o yung persecution, di lang sa akin, sa aking pamilya, pero sa aming mahal na siyudad
01:39ng Taguig,
01:41pinapaubaya ko na sa Panginoon.
01:43But my point is, whether it is the cases that were threatened or the investigations,
01:53yung intriga, yung araw-araw po na pabago-bagong accusation, kung ano man po siya,
02:00kasama po yan sa cost na ipaglaban ang mahal nating bansa.
02:05Kasama po sa cost yan na ipaglaban ang ating batas, ang ating constitution,
02:10ang karapatan ng bawat isa.
02:12And the irony is, when we try to fight for everyone, not just the opposition, but also the administration,
02:21wala tayong kinakampihan except yung batas.
02:26But yun nga, may cost, especially kapag ka medyo mabigat at very partisan,
02:32at I call it patayan, not physically patayan, pero parang kill or be killed or yung winner-take-all kind
02:41of politics
02:41that seems to be cyclical or keeps happening in our country.
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