Update: Malacañang tells Querubin: Dream on.
May the peace of Christ be with you!
Life has presented to me in many ways, from my exploits in the field that eventually earned me the Medal of Valor, a new lease on life after being left for dead in 1989 and to my current incarceration.
During all these episodes of my life, I have both witnessed and felt human suffering and desolation. After a long process of discernment while in confinement, I resolved to do something about human suffering- not through any other modality but through faithful, competent and committed public service.
I do not assume to be the solution to all these problems. I definitely am not. It takes the collective effort of every member of this society to make things improve. All I can do on my end, is to make the best effort possible to make society better, stand by my principles and fight for what is right in the appropriate forum; if not for myself and one generation, for our children and their children as well.
I thought that if I do not try to at least offer myself to give our people an alternative, then all the sufferings I have witnessed and felt would be rendered meaningless.
I plan to run for the Senate in the coming 2010 elections with this dream that we all share,