THERE was collective outrage among bloggers with the Malu Fernandez controversy. There was collective outrage among Fil-Ams at the racist statement from “Desperate Housewives.” Today, we are confronted by a much, much more despicable incident but where is the outrage?
The opposition is and will bleed the issue for their selfish motives. The commentators and opinion writers are having a heyday making various spins and interpretations with Fr. Panlilio’s expose. But where is the outrage?
Definitely, it is not only the few who have spoken that received a paper bag with bundles of money. An ABS-CBN video footage showed other politicians carrying similar bags. The rest may deny getting any money but it won’t change the fact that public perception is that they indeed got money. Delicadeza is alien to them. Garapalan is the name of the game. But still, where is the outrage?
Why are we not out in the streets demanding explanations and even making calls for resignation? Why do we go on with our lives as if this suhulan is just a normal incident? Why is there no collective outrage? No, I am not calling for people power. I am merely asking why have we become so meek and numb as a people in spite of the endless political scandals that confront us everyday.
The suhulan did not really come as a surprise. The suprise is when somebody, thanks to Fr. Panlilio, finally came out to expose the incident. (I am quite disappointed with Gov. Grace Padaca when she claimed on the news that she got a Christmas card from the GMA with P50, 000 but never came out to expose this gift giving incident at the time.) Corruption has become a way of life in our country. We know it happens. It is the P500, 000 that Fr. Panlilio showed to media that gave corruption a “face.”
In his column, Jose Ma. Montelibano said, “Nation building is character building.” Precisely. And that is my personal advocacy. Call it character building, value formation, good citizenship. If there is no collective change in our attitude and ways as a people, we will remain unaffected by the corrupt practices we see and hear everywhere. It is not really surprising why there is no collective outrage with regards to this blatant suhulan in Malacañang.
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October 20th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
bakit walang outrage………
kasi given na yan…….
talagang may abutan ng pera/regalo noon pa man panahon ni mahoma…….
maski nga barangay kapitan nag bibigay ng pera/regalo sa mga kagawad…….
ang nakakasuka eh ayaw nilang aminin, eh alam naman na ng buong sambayanan……
glorietta bombing:
let us all pray for all the victims……..
October 20th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
The Gloriatta bombing shows another diversion of attention for the boiling situation in Malacanang.
I Hope those tenant inside Malacanang will be sent out by the people outcry.
We Pray for this to happen…..
October 20th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
The feelings of apathy by the filipino people towards the “suhulan” is a concrete example that we have accepted corruption as a part of our way of life. This has been going on for decades but it is only now that it has been exposed so blatantly by a person of the cloth. The Filipino people are an amoral people. The moral ambiguities that we are bombarded have greyed the lines between black and white. It is in fact a dull gray. Morality nowadays depends on whether they could sleep at night soundly without any bother to their conscience is no more. It is whether the sleepless nights brought by their troubled conscience is compensated by the fact that when they awake their bank accounts and their wallets are thicker than the day before.
October 20th, 2007 at 11:57 am
You sound like your ‘holier than thou” bishops asking the president to step down.I can’t believe the hatred this men in sheep clothes have been spewing into atmosphere.
You believe, hook,line and sinker, all these critical media bring out.When you watch TV,hear radio and read about events,please digest,some stories like food can cause you bum stomach.
Don’t be a fool, pinoy.People do not get outrage from hearsays and self-styled whistleblowers who discovered themselves instant celebrities when media cameras starts rolling.
Tell your priest from Pampanga to return the money to the Bulacan governor giver and let him worry to find the original source.
This is the simplest thing to do except that ,maybe your priest wanted more photo ops!
October 20th, 2007 at 10:33 am
That greatness and strength of a nation lies in the integrity of its citizens.
Too much corruption in stewarding funds and too much media publicity characterized a typical scenario in this country to an unprecedented degree. So under that, we cannot expect “glory and grandeur” in the Philippines for some considerable generations until such a working formula to root out these carnal sins be discovered.
The filipinos might be the sought after workers in all the world, though individually. But under a nation building collective teamwork, that’s when self-promotion and self-advancement derailed the overall concept.