Quo vadis, my Philippines?

“WOW! Again?”

The only thing I could muster to say after reading about the NBN fiasco. Seems like anything that Malacañang offers on the table, the opposition would grab it and throw it back together with a bomb attached to it… Don’t get me wrong, I am not pro-administration nor am I pro-opposition. I am just amused at reading about these things.

“I prefer a country run like hell by Filipinos to a country run like heaven by Americans. Because, however bad a Filipino government might be, we can always change it.” — Manuel L. Quezon

A famous quote by MLQ… and we took it literally. It had been more than 100 years and the direction we’re going is backwards. “Amusing,” I said? Well, I just got used to it. It was very annoying at first, then you get frustrated, then you just get used to seeing these things.

Look, we have a bigger number of turncoats in the government than the time the Japanese occupied us. Yet no lives are threatened just to turn to the other side. Just their positions, may it be elected or appointed. Our nation is not founded on principles anymore. Gone are the days of Quezon, Roxas and Magsaysay. Seems like the “kabataan” of their time did not fulfill being the good “kinabukasan ng bayan” that they planned for. Or is it that the “kinabukasan” will just get darker and darker as time will pass?

The government doesn’t live on principles anymore. Pardon for Erap? C’mon, after painstakingly ousting him and spending millions on his trial, they’re going to give absolute pardon, and with his own conditions, just like that? We would be the laughingstock of the TV-watching, news-reading world. All this just to save face and soften the blow of the opposition against her. Then you should have just asked the Sandiganbayan to acquit him then. At least our judicial system wouldn’t suffer the embarrassment.

Then we have the opposition. An opposition mostly consisting of the same people that called for Erap’s ouster. And it seems that their only purpose is go against anything that the government has planned.

Being an engineer working in the electronic communications field, I agree that the NBN and CyberEducation projects would be a milestone in the improvement on the education system of our country and the improvement of communications and data transfer between Malacañang, its departments until the littlest of barangays. Yup, the deal is tattered with graft, so continue your investigations but let the project continue as well. Then nail down the people who profited financially from this deal.

Hope this mockery of a government we have right now will change soon before a government will just cease to exist. As MLQ has said. “…however bad a Filipino government might be, we can always change it.”

Quo vadis, my Philippines?

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