I don’t understand how Migrante’s John Monterona could express alarm over the continued recruitment of Filipinos in Iraq and maintain a stoic stance on the Philippine government’s inability to create jobs for the very same people they are “concerned” with.
How could he express fear for our overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and let the government’s ineffectiveness to maintain support systems, especially for our OFWs working in places like Iraq, go unchecked ? How could he justify his concerns when the corrupt immigrations people at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport suck the blood out of the very same people trying to earn a decent living and not partake of the corruption that has plagued the government?
Has Migrante forgotten the cause of its very existence?
– Jun Bauzon Odono, Kabul, Afghanistan (via e-mail)
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April 14th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Whatever you think about Migrante, communist or not, still they are right.
How RP can allow Filipinos to work at a place where RP cannot protect and secure them?
Let anyone who still wants to go to such places sign a waiver, stating that they go on their own and will not request help from the government in case of problems like being kidnapped. The, RP could not be pressed by kidnappers for ransom or other political advantages. And knowing about could make Filipinos less interesting to kidnappers.
The government should also stop to bail out criminal OFWs and bring killers home like real heroes. An OFW in real need for help, caused by accidents, illness etc., will hardly get any comparable treatment than to such criminals who, for the same crime, would get maximal punishment at home, too.
The reason for such advantage of criminals: A killer case and the “rescue” of the criminal makes a big story and gives browny points for showing “how much the government cares” of the modern heroes.
Even suchstatus like heroes is very unjust. What is so heroic if Filipinos leave country and family for money? A big number of OFWs, like up to doctors, could earn a very decent lifestyle in the Philippines too, but still decide to abandon poor patients in their homeland just for earning more. It may be humanlike and understandable, but in no way heroic. Millions and millions of other pople from different countries work also abroad, but only Filipinos become heroes…
It would be more heroic to stay at home and fight for changes in their homeland which then could create jobs and bring prices down. A high price and high expenses country can hardly create jobs through increased local demand or export.
And lastly, Filipinos should start to think first about their abilities before making child after child, without any chance to give them a good life and education. Except maybe by abandoning them and becoming a “modern hero”.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Isa -isa :
TATANG : Ikaw ang mag-aral para matuto kang magbasa in between the lines. Please research on “figure of speech” OK?
JOHN : Precisely my point ! I also came from Iraq and I know what is happening there. Who wants another OFW to die? Wala. However, expressing concern over the continued exodus of Filipinos, I believe, is minor compared to the ineffectiveness of the Filipino government to emplace safety nets to protect and enhance the lives of our people. You, and Migrante, are in the best position to expose these ills. What I am trying to say here is : the more we harp on the minor issue (OFWs going to Iraq), the more reason para sa mga buwaya sa Immigration na katayin ang mga kababayan natin. It also gives the government a justification not to allow our people to work decently…thereby putting a smokescreen on the government’s basic deficiencies which is very obvious - it cannot generate jobs for our people!
Let the government express it’s concern over the minor issue so it will backfire on itself. Then pound on the major issue again and again -SUN TZU’s art of war.
Let’s focus!
April 14th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
it’s not just NAIA personnel that is sucking the life out of us OFWs.other agencies also doing that. why should there be lots of agencies for the ofws? can’t they just create one central agency that would address all the affairs for us OFWs?
April 14th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Angel Panganiban is right Migrante is just one of those leftist groups taking their orders from Joma communist Sison they should transfer to Pluto along with all like-minded creatures and set up their own version of a communist utopia except they’re too lazy for that and want to simply take over this country by force or by manipulation. Down with their brand of tyranny!
April 14th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
1. Migrante:Under Communist Influence
The very existence of the so called/self annointed defender of OFW’s Migrante has lost it true cause of depending the Filipinos.This organization actually is taking orders /direction from its masters in Netherlands.Migrante is run and contolled in short by communist. So what do you expect from them?
Same as true with the so called bogus human rights advocates,Karapatan.
Para ding si Gloria hindi ba? “Self-anointed din siya di ba? The difference is that Migrante’s cause is more focused on a certain group of Filipinos, the OFW. Gloria is all over, wala naming nagagawang tama. And, the fact that you, without a flinch, is alleging that the organization is actually taking orders from Netherland’s Filipino communists, is telling that you are no different from Gloria. You have no pang at telling lies. What you said is not true. Otherwise, present your proof to attest to what you are claiming. Since you love Gloria, it is but natural that you will allege that the Filipinos who are speaking on behalf of some Filipinos like the OFW are communists, the same excuse for the military in killing the members of the ANG BAYAN like chickens. Human rights advocates, organizations who speak up against the abuses, corruptions and cheatings of government officials are vital to democracy, otherwise, it is not democracy.