THERE are obvious reasons why this former priest is thankfully now an ex-priest.
He will bite the hand that feeds him. He is no more than a stir-the-pot-type person. He knew coming in that politics is what it is — and why is it that now he is claiming to be the holy one. The Mister Clean?
– Louis Payawal, California (via e-mail)
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Would an independent Muslim State further divide instead of unite the Philippines?
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October 19th, 2007 at 1:24 am
Kunwari lang iyan. I smell something fishy. Bakit ngayon lang siya lumabas? Normally, pag nakatanggap ka nang bag eh curious kang tingnan kung anong laman nito. Sinong niloloko ninyo? We were not born yesterday. Another opposition gimmick? Another investigation ito. Just a waste of time. Kaya hindi na umasenso ang Pilipinas. Hindi move forward kundi backward. Hay naku. Puro kayo pasaway.
October 19th, 2007 at 12:33 am
Folks - the distribution of so-called “tokens of appreciation” at an official palace affair, without the “supposed” knowledge of the convenor of the conference - if one is stupid enough to believe that canard - should ring alarm bells to those who still do not grasp the implication of what really is going on at the topmost echelons of government. Reading the rationalizations of the usual underlings,
one wonders - what are these people thinking when they engage in these acts?
Does GMA even know what she is getting into or allowing to happen? Nothing can be more dangerous than incompetent people commiting acts that they do not seem to understand. It is so Filipino to engage in these palusots when they scarcely comprehend the errors they have just committed.
Without mincing words, this is the most brazen act of corruption that one has ever heard of. Sure, cash has been doled out in the past in the same location, but not with such callous impunity and disregard for senstitivity. This is proof if any is still needed that the present government under GMA has already lost any remaining trace of propriety, sense of morality and capacity to govern.
Such things only happen when the head is no longer able to distinguish right from wrong and rationalizes things only in terms of how they can ensure survival.
Unbenown to these crooks are the following repercussions:
a). Foreign investors will see how corrupt and how dangerous dealing with Filipinos is. No matter how populist Pinoys are, without foreign capital, the country is doomed, just look at all the unemployed around you and at your neighboring countries like China, Vietnam, India.
b). Government employees who are already inured to corruption will grow even more apathetic and callous. They will not care to follow orders and deliver decent service if their superiors are themselves engaged in corruption on even bigger scale.
c). And the restive military will get further emboldened to think that if civilian authorities can commit crooked acts, they too can - the road is clear - nobody has moral high ground to stop whatever they are thinking.
Folks, these are ominous portents and I implore those who are Humpty Dumpties out there - wake up and get off those fences - the signs that Philippine society is now reaching the point of no salvation.
The CBCP is 6 decades late and the entire society has become cynical.
Those who are still young and can take risks, I advise you to seriously consider leaving before the whole sink ships into the deep mire. I don’t think anybody can still save this rotten society, nor should one even ask if it is worth doing so
The elites, as usual will already have made provisions for such eventualities. It is the lowest masses who as usual willl get creamed. What a pitiful and ugly spectacle the country has become - all complements of the elites who have remained as rapacious and devious as they have ever been, no matter how much rearing and education they have been exposed too.
You Pinoys deserve it, too bad, but that is just how nature clubs folks who do not want to learn from bitter experience.
October 19th, 2007 at 12:13 am
This statement may have been in support of the term “dirty politics”. Based on the above premise politics will always be in bad shape in the Philippines whether we like it or not. People who will try to “clean up” the government of graft and corruption will either be ignored or outrightly be assasinated by agents of perpetrators of anomalies and legal activities in the government.
Unfortunately I would say that Gov. Panlilio is just protecting the interests of the people that put him in power. Money that belongs to the people should be used for the people and by the people. The hand that feeds Gov. Panlilio is definintely not that of GMA but of his people back home.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
It took a priest to openly disclose the long time on going lagayan by GMA. This is how corrupt the Tongressmen and the Gobernors, and the Mayors.
October 18th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
@Louis,
man before you make irresponsible comments like that i suggest you do your homework.
i know Among Ed personally and none of what you claim is true.