Worked on my speech tomorrow on the first 100 days.
The thrust will be a return to a more rigid enforcement of the martial law decrees, general orders, instructions etc.
For there has been a slide backward to the old society.
Reform and the political campaign for the ratification of the constitution do not seem to mix. Because the campaigners tend to seek special privilege and exemptions from general rules. And expenses as well as favors.
So I am ordering the cancellation of the campaign for ratification of the new constitution and a shift to an information drive on the reforms as well as The New Society.
And the Citizens Assembly the barangays.
No more free debate in the meantime.
And I impose the death penalty by musketry on the manufacturer of heroin and the kidnappers and robbers using guns and uniforms. Rumour mongering will be treated like subversive propaganda.
No Official Gazette entry for this day.