Clamor
By bluepanjeet on Feb 21, 2008 in Probitas et Veritas
clam·or [intransitive verb] (past and past participle clam·ored, present participle clam·or·ing, 3rd person present singular clam·ors) 1. demand noisily: to demand something noisily or desperately. 2. shout loudly: to shout at the same time as other people, and make a lot of noise.
“The voice of the people is the voice of God”. It was precisely in this axiom that the two People Power Revolution of 1986 and 2001 got their inspiration. The voice of the people started as a very faint grumble upon the institution of Martial Law in 1972 but gradually became louder through the years. In 1983, when Ninoy Aquino was assassinated, people sympathized with him and the call for Marcos to step down became even more louder. It actually took two years of constant grievance of the people that made the US government pressure Ferdinand Marcos to prove his popularity by holding a snap election. Indeed the strongman took the bait and held the dirtiest (second only to the 2004 elections, modesty aside) ever in the history of Man. When the computer encoders in the Batasang Pambansa (Comelec count) realized that the numbers were being rigged by Marcos entanglements, they staged a mass walkout that took the nation by surprise. The clamor for change became even louder after that, until the people’s patience exploded like a volcano, dormant for so long, that when it was roused, all hell broke lose. The clamor for change begins at the grassroots level, turning gradually into a social ripple, that when the ultimate peak of threshold is met, an explosion of unpredictable proportion is seen.
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