Yesterday,I was "entertained" on the evening news by Davao Congressman Nograles and Davao's City Mayor, Mr. Duterte. They were exhanging verbal skirmishes on television. Their verbal duel was an offshoot of the suicide of Manette Amper due to poverty. She happened to be a constituent of the mayor. In closing, the "Honorable" Mayor called on his citymates not to render assistance to the "Honorable" Congressman in case he suffers a heart attack in his territory.
No wonder no one came to the aid of the poverty stricken family of Mannette. Their mayor has that depth of ill-will and the braggadocio to flaunt it.
How can there be room for compassion in his heart for the poor in his neighborhood?
The day before, another "Honorable" official, Senator Juan Pnce Enrile was lambasting another "Honorable" , the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Joe de Venecia. The Senator accussed JdV of gargantuan corruptions and cite several examples of the latter's corrupt involvement--NorthRail, ZTE projects among others--Enrile called JDV hypocrite who has no right to call for moral revolution and threatened to rat on him some more saying, "Tell the Speaker not to badmouth me... I know more things about him xxxxxxxxx and if I am forced to reveal them I don't know where he will pick himself up from. I know his true character."
I believe that many Filipinos also know the true character of the Senator and the true characters of many of our leaders-- foremost among them, our President. They have become so brazen in their corrupt practices, in their lying and cheating, in their greed and exercise of unbriddled power. They are openly insulting our intelligence and projecting the stance: "get us if you can". Last year, one congressman ally of the President haughtilly dismissed a protestor to their arrogance by retorting, "I am the congressman, you are just an spectator." The gall by which they are spilling their innards in public is indeed revolting.
Before I finally sink in despair over the apparent helplessness of our people, the Philippine Daily Inquirer was delivered with a full page manifesto calling for the immediate resignation of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Noli de Castro and for holding of Special ("SNAP") elections within 60 days.
The manifesto asserts: "Fellow Citizens, this corrupt government must go."
The 1st Whereas clause states:
Whereas, because of the numerous unresolved scandals involving the present administration, including but not limited to the "Hello Garci" Election controversy,the ZTE, Northrail Project, Diosdado Macapagal Highway scandals, the Joc-Joc Bolante Fertilizer scam, Jose Pidal Caper, hundreds of unresolved extra-judicial killings and the latest Malacanang bribery incident, Gloria Macapagal has completely lost her moral authority to govern this country.
Right. Our president has hit rock-bottom and most of her allies have been swirling around her in the pit of moral and political bankruptcy. Asking them to resign is one of the remaining options for the salvation of our country. We can not be saved with them. Their corruptions and bad examples have brought us all this low and pulling all of us down to damnation.
For a little doze of hope, I signed the online petition at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Snap/08 For unbounded hope that springs eternal, I pray to the Ruler of the universe.
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Signing up at that petition's a fine a dandy thing to do, but that won't get thick faced despots off the throne. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Why not bribe the presidential cook to spike her coffee with InstaDiarreah Tabs? Then when she's hospitalized some bloke can mount a coup.
Jake, the grave mistakes we have committed in the past by allowing leaders such as the kind we now have can not be rectified by other aberrant acts.
For an act of desperation, we can all beat our breast and flog each other's back to punish ourselves for producing the leaders we have and allowing them to continue to cling to their tarnished thrones to spite us and wield their deadly scepters against us. We might then see the light and start reform from within and in our immediate surroundings.
The desperate acts that can save our country are prayers, atonement and positive actions. If you don't know where & how to start you can sign the petition on line before making your sign of the Cross or bow down in adoration.
Our country needs human and Divine power to survive.
The multitude of prayers failed to avert World War I and World War II. Neither did it stop the petty patchwork of sanguinary battles blemishing world history. The prayerful dead now wonder if they should have prayed more or spent the time burrowing a deeper hole while the bombs fell.
Attonement diverts attention from actively expunging despots to impractical self-flagellation. While we whip our backs, the miscreants make merry. It serves little revolutionary purpose.
Positive action. Now that might actually do something. This world exists on the principle of cause and effect. So right now, we gotta find the precise cause of our miseries... and surgically excise it.
And sometimes surgical action calls for drastic removals.... like leadership transplant. It's often a bloody operation.
Remember the world-renowned EDSA 1? It is also known as Peaceful People Power Revolution. While throngs of Filipinos & sympathetic foreigners-- like an American Jesuit who stood in front of a roaring war tank and with outstretched arms shouted, "Stop, we are all Filipinos-- massed by the millions at Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA), buffeted by armed personnel carriers (APC's)from all directions and huddling under low-flying fighter planes, not a drop of blood was shed. That bloodless revolution extrricated a well-entrenched homegrown dictator, Ferdinand Marcos. And made the Filipino people an icon for peaceful democratic revolt throughout the world.
But then, you're right Jake. About 2 decades of Marcos rule had spilt the blood of countless Filipinos who died in the dark nights of martial rule. Among them, the modern Filipino heroes like Ninoy Aquino, Evelio Javier, Bobby de la Paz and many other Filipino patriots, some of them nipped at the threshold of their idealistic youth.
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