PERHAPS the most despicable life forms to inhabit these islands are the devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon. I’m really trying to be kind here but there is no other way to describe them.
And despicable, for the uninitiated, simply means “very unpleasant or bad, causing strong feelings of dislike.” It’s like your yellow-colored puke the morning after an all-night drinking binge leaving a very unpleasant taste in the mouth.
It’s not serendipity but destiny that most unpleasant things in everyday life is almost always colored yellow i.e. pus, puke, piss, to name a few.
But what is the “cult of the yellow ribbon” and its devotees?
It is a group of people, a majority of which are citizens of the Philippines, residing in these islands and some possessing dual-citizenship (mostly Filipino/American living in the United States) that owe allegiance to a yellow ribbon and its derivatives.
This group of people are, of course, the “devotees”.
The “cult of the yellow ribbon” is a political group with only one purpose and that is to bring down the current government of President Rodrigo Duterte at all cost and take over, ultimately changing the Republic of the Philippines into the “Yellow Ribbon Republic”.
Most natives of these islands are not even aware of the existence of this “cult of the yellow ribbon” as they are chameleon-like and shape shifters appearing in different forms i.e. Liberal Party and Tindig Pilipinas.
The “cult of the yellow ribbon” has affiliates that are equally rabid in their quest to bring down the government of President Duterte and these are: the terrorist group New People’s Army or NPA, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines or CBCP, leftist/rightist party-list groups in Congress i.e. Akbayan and Magdalo.
I will not include the oligarchs and unscrupulous businessmen who made billions during the watch of that nincompoop Noynoy Aquino (the demi-god of the “cult of the yellow ribbon”) as they simply were there for the money, nothing ideological or any sort of devotion; they were just your regular opportunists and could not care less who the President is as long as they’re making profits.
So what are the characteristics or nuances of the “cult of the yellow ribbon” and its “devotees”?
Let’s start with the obvious: they are all hopelessly devoted and attached to a “yellow ribbon”; nothing profound or spiritual, just your plain simple yellow ribbon the one use mostly in gift wrapping.
Just a wild guess, maybe they all believe that they’re God’s gift to the Philippines hence they came as a gift tied in yellow ribbon…Hahaha
You can easily spot them in a crowd as they have this penchant for wearing – yup, you guessed it right – yellow-colored shirts or apparel and if they’re not wearing the obvious yellow apparel they have a yellow ribbon pinned or embroidered on the left side of their shirt close to the heart. How touching! Hahaha!
During the presidency of that nincompoop Noynoy Aquino it was de rigour for all those wanting to be on his good side – you know, the typical “ass licker” – to be always in yellow-colored apparel from t-shirts to polo and dress shirts and ties, including their barongs.
If you see them not wearing yellow then rest assured their knickers or drawers are yellow.
Imagine six long years of nothing but yellow; it must have been a lot of yellow clothes! I wonder what happened to them now that yellow is frowned upon, or the correct word is despised.
They have a national anthem, yes seriously, the “cult of the yellow ribbon” has and it’s that stupid irritating American pop song quite popular during the ‘70s, Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree.
They have this penchant for parading around Metro Manila corpses starting with their “god” Ninoy Aquino a.k.a. that Malaysian passport bearing Marcial Bonifacio and later on his wife Cory. Incidentally, a certain jaundiced Jesuit priest is lobbying the Vatican to canonize her as a saint. To this day I don’t know why she should be canonized as a saint; the nearest I can think of is she had an immaculate conception twice giving birth to Noynoy and then Kris but I could be wrong here. Perhaps she had walked on water or changed water to wine.
Lately, the “cult of the yellow ribbon” has morphed into “Tindig Pilipinas”, shed the yellow shirt into a white shirt. Although at first glance it appears as an advocacy for standing up (pun intended) against erectile dysfunction, a closer look will reveal the usual suspects still wearing their yellow knickers or drawers.
They seem to have run out of corpses to parade around Metro Manila. Their last attempt was to use the corpse of slain drug runner Kian delos Santos but it miserably failed as Kian’s parents refused to have their son’s corpse used for their political circus.
The color yellow has become a symbol for incompetence, corruption and hypocrisy. It is now an embarrassment and subject to ridicule to be seen wearing yellow-colored apparel.
The only yellow-colored shirt left that still has some dignity is the jersey of the National Football team of Brazil but with Neymar Jr.’s antics during World Cup 2018 Russia, even that is now subject to ridicule. (brotherlouie16@gmail.com/PN)
