Use Of Dirty Tactics Normal - Or The PCOS Machines Will Eat Your Soul

There are indigenous people around the world who believe technology can take one's spirit and keep it trapped on this earth for all eternity.

Typically it was cameras that were the devils machines. Not surprising since when you see your picture it does seem as it has taken your very essence.

And that fear has been used by some unscrupulous bastards against some of the indigenous folks in Zamboanga Del Sur.

Administration candidates are said to be telling the Subanen lumad to vote only for the “right candidates” or their spirits will be trapped in the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines.

How wonderful for people to use another's lack of knowledge to instill such fear. But then again why is that surprising - this is Philippine elections we're talking about.

And par for the course denials are quick to come.

And of course in the guise of voter education, they are brainwashing many to vote for a certain party only.

How?

By telling them to keep practicing darkening the Lakas slate as part of a mock election.

It should be enough that the voters do it properly but to force them to only practice with one party is of course pretty obvious for what it is.

Administration officials say that those claiming that the administration was engaged in mind-conditioning tactics belonged to the opposition.

Well duh. Of course they would be from the opposition. It's the administration that's doing this so of course the opposition would complain.

If it were the opposition doing this then the administration would complain. That's the way it goes.

And that there has been no official complaint is not surprising. Death cannot make standing up for your rights a less bitter pill to swallow. Between the option of death and saying silent I would think a lot of us would choose silence.

And for those who say that not right and that they should stand up and show what's right then I say kudos to you but the thing is you're not the one in their shoes.

They have families to think of and their death would mean the death of their families. Of course if you can live with that in your conscience then maybe you can go ahead.

But remember that in the provinces there is really no law. Unless that's changed it will all stay the same.

But then again our politicians remain the same anyway regardless of how many elections have come and gone.