Tapos itinabi pa sina Lenin at Mao kina Hitler at Pol Pot! How anti-communist can you get! Eh si Manuel L. Quezon, sino’ng kahanay? Sana mabasa niya ang libro ni Slavoj Zizek, iyung Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? At sana maunawaan niya ang pag-iiba ng mga ito.

Masyado siyang sensitibo at takot sa Kaliwa — tapos parang pinapalabas niyang sinasabi lang niya ang sentimyento ng middle class. Pero kapag Kaliwa ang nagsabing sentimyento ng masa ang sinasabi nito, todo-kuwestiyon siya.

Hindi kaya patunay ang ganyang pag-iisip ni MLQ3 — at ang napaka-publikong pagsasabi niya ng ganyan — ng tagumpay ng mga maka-Kanan sa rehimeng Arroyo?

Sa dami ng nasabi ni Lozada, mahuhulaan mo na kung ano ang lugar ni Lenin sa pag-iisip niya. At hindi iyon tampok. So OA naman ito si MLQ3 para palakihin pa.

Jun Lozada, like any Jane or Joe, has all the right and freedom to blog.

but i do think it’s valid to point out that if you’re articulating a platform, certain things will get in the way of its success if you’re not careful. the success of ermita and company is they can instinctively latch on to the establishment’s thinking, which is more widespread than some would like to accept. we deserve to know lozada’s views have been influenced by lenin and rizal, what makes him interesting is he can combine the two.

re that post raising the specter of a crackdown, and fears of collateral damage – my initial reaction was, sobra namang praning, kasisimula pa lang ni jun lozada mag-blog, we don’t even know that he’s really up to it, or that he has anything new to say on a daily/regular basis that would merit such fears. but the fact that the blog is getting quite a lot of traffic is the thing, i suppose, that really freaks out those who don’t like him in the first place and who may begrudge him the instant “success.”

The varied reactions to Bloggers Kapihan’s blog evangelism (starting with Lozada last week and Among Ed later this morning) are all interesting. But some wittingly or unwittingly seek to limit the choices in our so-called marketplace of ideas and put out a “scenario” or two.

Take the scenario that Lozada’s blog may incite a crackdown as an example.

Knowing what already happened to Lozada, such a crackdown may actually happen. Those with truly democratic and pro-free speech instincts would INSTANTLY AND WITHOUT DOUBT expose and fight ANY crackdown. They would consider such an attack as an assault not just on Lozada but on all citizens.

FOR IN RAISING THE SPECTER OF A CRACKDOWN THAT MAY ARISE FROM THE LAUNCH OF THE BLOGS OF JUN LOZADA AND AMONG ED, some bloggers expose themselves to have already been successfully conditioned to accepting as natural what the Arroyo government has been doing to dissent and dissenters. They are wittingly or unwittingly spreading a culture of fear and impunity — apart from insipid thinking as members of a self-styled aristocracy in the blogosphere.

Pasensya na kayo at natamaan talaga ang raw nerve ko.