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If Israel is armed with nuclear weapons why disallow the Palestinians to arm and defend themselves with short-range rockets and conventional weapons?

Mr Harry King please read your history first before making such comments like this. Its not Israel that starts any armed conflicts but it’s their neighbors that always does. They fought and defended their land if im not mistaken 8 wars since 1945, the rebirth Israel, in which all they succedded it.

the problem with israel is not that they are attacking those terrorist scum in gaza, the problem with israel is their dangerous love affair with immoral perverted ideologies like egalitarianism, liberalism and secularism, israel in fact no longer acts or thinks like the Jewish state, it acts andd thinks like a secular state, they no longer follow the Judeo-Christian worldview, they follow a very self destructive secular worldview.

This commentary:

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/mindfeeds/mindfeeds/view/20090119-184261/Our-indifference-to-Gaza

Was rather strange. The author talks about “Israeli adventurism”, “disregard of a cardinal rule recognized by all civilized states”

The key issue that the article mentioned but failed to answer was the rocket bombardment from Gaza. People seem to take for granted that Hamas controlled rockets are firing into Israel with complete disregard of whether or not they were hitting military or civilian targets.

It also skirts the fact that Hamas hides in civilian populations, nothing wrong with that per-se, but it’s rather naive of them to think that they will not be targeted because of collateral damage. Even UN rules for combat states that a military force must limit the amount of civilian casualties. Key word is “limit” not “eliminate”. Callous as that may be, that is war.

Hamas’ existence as a non-state entity does not give it immunity from retaliation. Any state has the right, no the duty, to protect its’ lawful citizens, be it from criminal elements within or from terrorist actions without. States have the right to use all the resources at it’s disposal to remove the threat against its’ citizens.

Hamas’ stance that Israel must be obliterated is not followed through, simply because of a lack of resources. And that is another sticking point. Hamas wants Israel gone. That is a uniquely different idea compared to “we want self-determination” or even “we want more resources”. In the last two statements compromise and negotiation is possible. but with Hamas’ official line, it is impossible.

The author’s appeals to a sense of chivalry in combat is quaint. The author would probably be satisfied if Israel were to use only the same arms as Hamas, but that is absurd. Israel is using overwhelming force so that its’ own citizen-soldiers would not suffer more casualties than necessary.

I think Israel’s recent action is designed to drive a wedge between the average citizen and Hamas. They are hoping that such a show of force would change Hamas’ image of the plucky underdog that challenges Israel to the bastards who brought Israeli retaliation to Gaza

Salvage Victims;

Pity the presecuted; they do not stand a chance. With all the present gadgets at the disposal of our PARA MILITARY, MILITARY, AND PNP, and with so much money to spend; absolutely no victim can possibly escape.

What is dreadful is the way they where murdered by these death squads. God have mercy on the victims!

The victims are subjected to great suffers before they are killed; more than anything, any animal, domestic or wild, has ever experience inflict by human being.

When human stalks a wild animal for food, he makes a clean-cut job to abate so much pain on the animal. That is the norm of an honorable hunter.

When Cowboys of the West has sick or aging horses, they are shot once in the head to end their suffering.

Not here in the Philippines. These government death squad as mentioned by the U.N. Alton report defies any establish civilize code. They violated the first provision of the 1987 Constitution bill of rights;

BILL OF RIGHTS
Section 1. No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws.

Section 4. No law shall be passed abridging the freedom of speech, of expression, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances.

Section 18. (1) No person shall be detained solely by reason of his political beliefs and aspirations.

These aforementioned Section (1), (4), and (8) of the bill of Rights is our safeguard and the Writ of Amparo against involuntary disappearance, the kidnappings, the indefinite detentrion, and the confindment on government safehouse.
The problem with our Military and PNP, and other enforcement agencies, is that they get their cue from then National Security Advicer, Norberto Gonzales. That person is schizoprenic; he is crazy, in the fullest meaning of the word. He considers all persons who differ in their opinion about government policies as communist, seditionist, radical, and leftist, and a threat to national security.
So, they make a short cut. They take the law into their hands, and becames the accuser, the judge, and the executioner. All in one. What a stupid way to dispose people on mere suspicion.
The truth is that, there are many stupid lap dogs, wearing the uniform. Not only lapdogs but they are corrupt. (I have seen several people, with almost perfect physical feature, typical of the PNP, extorting money, door to door, in Bambang, Santa Cruz area. among the Chinese owned businesses selling Medical Instrument, and these happened JUST YESTERDAY AFTERNOON!)
Before this extortion, about last week, another group of policemen (three) wearing civilian cloths accosted my neighbor in Sampaloc District, Manila, while repairing his house and demand 10 thousand pesos contribution, using Mayor Alberto’s Name, to be free of hazzel.
These are the people who selectively choose which law is applicable for their advantage. Their uniform connotes MURDER AND EXTORTION.

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Similarly, we have the officers and members of the CATHOLIC BISHOPS CONFERENCE of the Philippines, who are playing blind to this despicable murders and salvaging, committed by the Para Military and PNP. We seldom and rearly, hear any protest from these groups.
God forgives you, you hypocrits in the Church. You Charlatans!
Remember the saying about being a good shephard? It goes this way’”A good shephard is one who readily gives up his life to save his sheep (followers).”
Notably, majority of our Catholic priest are ethinic Chinese. (China Communist Government entertains Catholic Religion. They have no affiliation with the Roman Bishop or Pope. They appoint their own Bishop, contrary to the Roman Catholic wherein the Pope appoints Bishops.)

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I also notice Mayor Feliciano Belmonte’s silence on these killings wherein Quezon City tops any City all over the entire Philippines where most murders are committed. In Quezon City, victims are not only made to suffer the most severe punishment, like covering the whole head with masking tape, to prevent any noise, the victimes sustain head injuries. The masking tape contributes to suffocation. Not contented, their heads are bitten until it breakes, nails are pierce into their heads, and there are other bodily marks that signifys the great pain the victim has gone throu before the coup de grace (final kill) is delivered.
And after death, this savages (Para Military and PNP) would slice or dismember the cadavers of victims on a ghastly manner.
Meanwhile, no one, whether Mayor Feliciano Belmonte, the vice Mayor, or Councilmembers ever voice out their protest against these inhuman activities.
Mayor Duterte of Davao started these dastartly acts. Then Mayor Osmena of Cebu followed too. Almost at the sametime, Mayor Feliciano Belmonte did the same.
It is next to impossible that these local governments does not know what is happening in there area of responsibility.

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The Ombudsman, under Merceditas Gutierrez is equally guilty of not seriously following through all strong evidences against these perpetrator.

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It seems that these government agencies conspired to frustrate any attempt to stop these very severe and serious crime occuring almost with impunity and on daily basis.

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mighty_warrior Says:
January 7th, 2009 at 1:03 pm

Correct me if I am wrong, but there was no nation of Israel. It was after World War II that the territory was curve out of the Palestinian land.

Just like the Continental Africa, there was no finite territorial boundery until the “whites”, started to slice the territory among themselves.

It is the conguerors (the europeans) who started all these trouble of bounderies.

I admit that there were nations almost everywhere, yet Israel, as it is now was just a group of people, a religious people, but no known boundaries.

I believe that United Nation which is predominantely controlled by the “Whites” was the one who started all these trouble browing now in the middle east.

Just see what the English has done to us. In the past, (according to the Sulu Prince), Borneo was a their territory. But after Malaysia got their independence, United Nation included Borneo as Malaysian territory.

There are so many injussstice the White has done all over the globe. Like in America, they almost completely wipe out the so called indians.

History will show you that the Whites (Europeans) came as conquerors, plunderers, and enslave the local people. They are not as benavolent as they are now.

What do you think?

mighty_warrior (#3)

We do not have to go very far back into history nor rely on Palestinian or Arab opinions.

Ahad Ha’Am, a liberal Russian Jewish thinker and a leading Eastern European Jewish essayist who visited Palestine in 1891, wrote:

“[The Jewish settlers] treat the Arabs with hostility and cruelty, trespass unjustly, beat them shamelessly for no sufficient reason, and even take pride in doing so. The Jews were slaves in the land of their Exile, and suddenly they found themselves with unlimited freedom, wild freedom that ONLY exists in a land like Turkey. This sudden change has produced in their hearts an inclination towards repressive tyranny, as always happens when slave rules.” (”Truth from Eretz Yisrael” published in 1891)

This is exactly what the world is witnessing in Palestine today. The ambition of the Zionist movement has been always to conquer the entire Palestine and make it part of State of Israel; but strong Arab resistance is of course expected and as early as 1919 Ben Gurion openly said:

“Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question. No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can fill this gulf. …I do not know what Arab will agree that Palestine should belong to the Jews. …We, as a nation, want this country to be ours; the Arabs, as a nation, want this country to be theirs.”

Later, in 1937 during the revolt of the Arabs, Ben Gurion stated:

“This is a national war declared upon us by the Arabs. … This is an active resistance by the Palestinians to what they regard as a usurpation of their homeland by the Jews. …But the fighting is only one aspect of the conflict, which is in its essence a political one. And politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves.”

The following year, Ben-Gurion stated:

“After we become a strong force, as a result of the creation of a state, we shall abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine.”

Also in 1937, commenting on the territorial partition Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, said referring to Palestine:

“In the course of time we shall expand to the whole country …this is only an arrangement for the next 15-30 years.”

These open remarks all point to the naked ambition of Israel to annex Palestine and make the Arabs and Palestinians a minority in their own country. All above comments are made by Jewish leaders and all of them consistently reveal the real agenda of the State of Israel to conquer and drive the Arabs out of Palestine.

UK and the USA are deeply involved in causing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but we shall not touch on that topic. We just want to reveal that what is in the minds of the Israel leadership today is no different from that of six decades ago.

Now, we go global.
First and foremost, we should be thankful that there is a country for Filipinos called Philippines.
Are we not glad that no country is trying to reclaim our land by bombs, tanks?
Yet, there are those who want to create war within the country though it is only a war of words.

Poor Israel, this country is surrounded by arab nations that don’t like them. Animosity started since the creation.
From genesis to Moses, this case of land reform has not yet solved up to today.
Everyone is on the land grab.
Each want a piece of land in a desert and limited space.

History and bible dictates that there is no provision that says Land for the Landless or land for the tillers of the soil Arab lands that made Israels wandered in different parts of the world.
And yet our bishops are doing a Moses in the forefront of CARP for farmers.
As Moses lead Israelite to promise land, our Catholics want a piece of what is already owned.
See the difference.

As they say, Moses made a mistake when God told him about the promise land.
Instead of Canada, Moses heard the word Canaan in an inaudible voice coming from the burning bush.
And the rest is a never ending peace and war.

No need of promise land, No need of redeemer, God created the world, He lavished it beauty and put in an exotic islands called Philippines… Pearl of the Orient.
Kaya sa nagrereklamo, pagyamanin na lang ninyo ang Pilipinas…. and promise land and ocean.

This is from a Blog of an OFW sent to me last year. I hope that the Philippine Government would lift the Ban for Iraq so we can go home and see our families.

The department I am in is moving to Iraq and thanks to our great government; I am losing my job for the second time. Not that I am actually losing my job but I have to move to another department again.

I was in Iraq since 2003, from an entry level position to management position, when our government decided to ban Filipinos in going to Iraq, I was still able to go back to Iraq because my passport didn’t have any stamp. When I renewed my passport on 2007, I already know I will have problems.

First let me tell you what kind of job I had, I first started as an admin in Iraq in 2003, I was making good money, I am able to send money to my parents, go on vacation every three, four or six months PAID!!!! to any place I want. And I was learning a lot. I have insurance and I was doing well. At the age of 27 I was able to buy properties, help my parents and relatives and I am able to go to places I never thought I would be able to go.

In early 2007, after coming back from my vacation, I was informed I cannot go back to Iraq. Luckily, my company is willing to offer me something else in Kuwait. Which of course I took. Yes it was a lower position, lower pay but I have no choice, if I will go home, Philippines has nothing to offer me. I have friends who still don’t have any jobs… So I took the job. At least its still the same benefits. They were even willing to hold my position when my supposedly 2 weeks Kuwait Residence turned into a three months deal. Yes, 3 months!!!! Why???? Because the Kuwait Embassy inside an exclusive village in Makati and only people with appointments are allowed to pass the gate. And with what I understand, Kuwait Embassy does not give appointment list. And of course our great government or DFA cannot even do anything about it. Again the company I am in is considerate to save my position. But now, that the department I was in is moving to Iraq, and of course because out great government still haven’t lifted the ban, I am out of job, there are jobs in Afghanistan, but guess what, I again cannot go there either because of the ban that was recently placed. Whew! Our government really know how to screw up someone else’s’ job… they cannot be satisfied corrupting the Filipino people’s money, they also have to mess with your job.
There are thousands of Filipinos in Iraq, most of them undocumented. And most of them are friends of mine who hasn’t seen their families since 2003. They are scared to go home because they might not be allowed to reenter country(IRAQ) and lose their jobs. Yes this is the sacrifice this people have to make just to be able to provide a home, food and for them to be able to send money to their families back home. But does the government care? Of course not! The people who make these decisions have the means to provide those things to their family without leaving country. The article we have read on the paper said the Philippine Government had said this people are welcome to come home… and then what???? To be unemployed. Or even if they will be able to find a job… it will not be enough… compared to what they are making in Iraq.

Okay lets do the Pros’ & Cons’ of the government’s decision to BAN Filipinos in going to Iraq and Afghanistan.

PRO’s:

Any positive results anyone????? Because seriously I can’t see any.

CONS’s: okay lets not touch the political effect because its already obvious. The Philippines is no longer a Part of the Coalition forces. Lets just concentrate on the effect to the people who are willing to go to Iraq or Afghanistan and work.

Corruption. How?
It costs 20,000 pesos to get a passport that don’t have the restriction stamp.
It costs 15, 000 pesos to get the stamp erased.
It costs 15,000 pesos per person for airport escort.

Yes these things don’t even make sense. But hey, would you rather be in the Philippines making 10, 000 pesos barely making half of what your family actually need? Or pay this amount and in then go to Iraq and make 100,000 pesos or even more a month?

Before you even arrive in Iraq, you are already buried in more debts. Most of the company’s hiring in Iraq handles all expenses until you get to your destination. But because of the BAN you have to pay the people to get your passport, or to erase the stamp. Then you will of course need an escort at the airport. Then of course you will need to pay someone in Kuwait, Dubai, Jordan or Qatar to let you go through their border to get to Iraq.

Loss of Opportunity:
You know you can easily get a job Iraq or Afghanistan, but the big companies are the ones who usually abide with the rules so even if you are the most qualified if you are a Filipino you wont be hired.
There is job in Iraq, it’s a promotion, but opps you can’t go according to your government you are restricted to go to Iraq.

Filipinos taken advantaged: How?
Like I’ve mentioned on earlier, only the big companies abide the government restriction. So who hire the Filipino’s? The Subcontractors. If the Filipino’s would have been hired by the big companies, then they would make more than $1000.00, the subcontracts? As low as $250.00 to $800.00. but why do the Filipinos take it? because they have no other choice, only this companies will sneak them to Iraq and its better than being in the Philippines without a job or making $5000.00 a month.
If they Filipinos are hired by the big companies it would be one person per trailer, with the subcontractors, it will be six in one trailer. But they have no choice, its better than being out of job.
This company knows the Filipinos’ are desperate for a job so they take advantage. If we only have a choice….

They are forced to stay in Iraq for as long as they can. Even if it means five years. If only they have a choice

The Filipinos who went home because of some important matters but wanted to go back to Iraq, have to spend a lot of money just to be able to go back. They don’t have a choice either be stacked back home without a job or pay what they have to pay to get back to Iraq. If only they have a choice… Like a good job with a good pay in the country who is restraining them to go to Iraq.

A lot of Filipinos lost the opportunity to make good money. When the ban for Afghanistan was placed, there were 22 Filipinos waiting in Houston to fly to Dubai to fly to Afghanistan. Few of them use to be subcontractors in Iraq, they already signed contracts but because of the BAN instead of them flying to Dubai, they were sent back home. They did not only lost there jobs, they also lost a good paying job. A lot of Filipinos are legible and very much qualified to be direct hires for these good paying companies but because of our “good” governments’ sense of responsibility and decision making that opportunity is no longer a possibility.

There are more than 10,000 Filipinos in working in Iraq, they are in every camp there is. But they cannot ask the government for help or assistance, especially the ones that are paid or treated unfairly, why because they are scared that if they try, they will only end up in PI with a low paying job or nothing at all. They would rather suck it and have something for their families back home than nothing at all.

Our government is all about FAMILY TOGETHERNESS, but most of the people I know in Iraq are scared to go home for fear that they would not be able to go back. Even if they very much miss their families, they sacrifice not seeing them and not being with them on especial occasions or gatherings they have back home, as long as they have something to provide to their families. I know most them have been there for almost five years now. Thanks to our beloved government’s restriction. I know one, whose mother died but he didn’t go home because of the BAN.

Accordingly, the BAN was placed to protect the Filipino People. But on the Subcontractors side, try be in war torn country, unfairly paid, living in a small container with 4 or 5 other people, and your passport is being kept by your employer, a better company with a better wants to hire but you can’t move because your documents are being held by your employer and you cannot run to the office that’s suppose to be protecting you (Philippine Embassy) because they have visited your living area for how many times and knows about the situation yet does nothing.

Of course for some, they would say this people have a choice they can go home. But put yourself in there situation where yes you go home, but after two or three months, your children or siblings asks for money for tuition fee, or someone gets sick and you are financially helpless. Or when you haven’t found job and you no longer have any savings left. See if you will still say these people have a choice.

The restriction is for what again?
PROTECTION/SAFETY
For the people who are already in Iraq or Afghanistan.
- For what? They are already there and refuse to go back home unless the government has jobs for them with the same pay or atleast even more.
- What are they protecting these people from?
- Safety in what? How many OFW’s are being killed, robbed, abused by their employees in other countries?
For the people who want to go to Iraq or wants to go back to Iraq.
- Stop them from going to a dangerous country? How safe is the Philippines? Or other country where it is open to go?
- Safety? Again they have to show me proof that is more dangerous in Iraq than any other Country.

Safety are you kidding me? Can we compare abuses, maltreatment, and deaths (murder) of Filipino OFW by country to the deaths in IRAQ.

The Ban was imposed because of a kidnapping of a Filipino Driver who was after released. So I guess to prevent more KIDNAPPING?
Okay, most of the people in Iraq work inside Military bases. As long as they wont go out of the camp UN-ESCORTED then there will be no kidnapping.
As far as I can remember, most of the people were working inside the camps, but as soon as the BAN was imposed. This is what happened.
- If a contract between the big companies and the Subcontractors, the Filipinos will be sent home. Due to “hirap ng buhay” they don’t wan’t to go home because they know it will be hard to go back. So what to they do? They moved the first company that hires them even if it involves working in the red zone. I personally know a few whoa re now working in the red zone, but they still have security.
What else???? For the government to avoid the responsibility in taking care of its people the right way?
What if they lift the BAN and do the following?
- Make sure the companies who hires them are contractors who works inside the military camps.
- Make sure the Filipinos are fairly compensated.
- Make sure there Living conditions are improved.
- Make sure they are given vacations.
- Make sure they are given PPE’s
- Make sure they have their own passports.
- Make sure they are paid their hazard pays.
- etc

These I believe are our Governments responsibility but are not being done because they are using the BAN so they don’t have to do it. And I can’t believe they USE SAFETY to cover their INCOMPETENCE. “lets just impose the ban so we don’t have to deal with all this problems” is this the case???? Because honestly I don’t see the point of the Government DENYING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE FOR OUR FAMILIES.

Although a lot of people would agree to the governments decision. The Filipinos in Iraq knows what they are getting into. And this people haven’t been there to say that the government is right. The government should do their research and identify what companies are to hire their people and where they should work which is inside the military camps. They should remember that there’s the RED ZONE ( the dangerous areas, normally attacked by suicide bombers) and the GREEN ZONE (where most of the Filipinos work)

Since the BAN was imposed, the number of Filipinos in Iraq instead of going down went up. I don’t think these people would risk their lives just to provide for their families. I for one would go home if it’s not safe.

To those who just think that Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon are dangerous countries, do your research, and stop believing so much on the exaggerated media.

I am still lucky I work for company who gives opportunity for Filipinos like me to get a different position in a country where the Philippine government hasn’t imposed a ban.

I honestly believe that Filipinos are wise and intelligent enough to know what to do and where to go. Let us decide where we want to work. but dont DENY us a great opportunity for BREAD and BUTTER. We have a choice to go and work in Iraq or AFGHANISTAN. and if we feel we are not safe then we go home. I hope our government would do a research before imposing something like a BAN like this. They shouldn’t base their decisions for one or two isolated case.

The news about the Garcia plunder case just breaks my heart. Somebody amassing millions of dollars from the military while there are soldiers risking lives and are megerly paid for it. I really have no problem if the whole family is put to death. I call on all Filipinos abroad especially those in North America and Europe to investigate/report any person who they know worked for the Philippine Government and has unexplained wealth.

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Harry King Says:
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:35 pm

You do not have to go far places like Jews and the Palistinian to show the injustice of one race against the other.

Right in your turf, the PHILIPPINES, injustice is being committed by Chinese against the ethnic Fikipino race.

These Chinese has taken over our government, they dispatch the Military and PNP to counter a legitimate grievances, which is in the first place is guaranteed by our 1987 Constitution regarding the freedom of speech, the right to aire Greivances against an abusive and repressive government.

Right in our Country, we have corrupt government officals,

Right in our country, ordinary citizens are not afforded justice. INstead, they are summarily murdered by State sponsored involuntary disappearance.

Sir, you do not have to cite Palistinians and Israel. Right in our Country, so much injustice is already happening.

Hirap sa iyo, pa international international ka pa.

It is amazing how Luis H. Francia can listen to the pope saying that condoms promote a tradition of many sexual partners, which is true and comes away with, Oh the Pope wants people to have unprotected sex with all of these people.

Is the Pope encouraging unprotected casual sex? No. HIV is a sexually transmitted disease and for the reporter to ignore this fact is rather distasteful. Part of the reason Uganda has been successful is the message that if you sleep around, it will bite you in the end.

The traditions of having many sexual partners must be broken and for people to selll HIV drugs to the poor while at the same time encouraging them to have more sex must be criminal, surely!

I believe Wonderwoman is an American comic character and not ethnic Filipino at all.
Why not re-incarnate into Darna or Narda first before acting more Filipino than Filipinos.

In the news article:

“Join ‘Earth Hour’, Palace urges Filipinos

By Joel Guinto
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 16:01:00 03/27/2009

Filed Under: Environmental Issues, Global Warming”

It says, “Malacañang is urging the Filipinos to join the worldwide Earth Hour and switch off lights from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday in an effort to increase awareness on global warming.”

I really do hope that this information came from Malacañang and not a mistake from the author of this article.

The thing is, according to http://www.earthhour.org, “THIS SATURDAY 28 MARCH AT 8.30PM YOU CAN VOTE EARTH BY SWITCHING OFF YOUR LIGHTS FOR ONE HOUR - EARTH HOUR.”

I understand and appreciate the diligence and commitment of the Philippine Daily Inquirer to factual journalism.

Since Malacañang urged the Filipinos to switch of lights at 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., does this mean that Malacañang made a mistake is making such statement?

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“Harry King Says:
March 27th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
I believe Wonderwoman is an American comic character and not ethnic Filipino at all.

Why not re-incarnate into Darna or Narda first before acting more Filipino than Filipinos.”

Sir,

Ang babaw naman ng topic mo! Does it matters if I call myself wonderwoman, superman, electricman, or etc. It is just a pen-name.

I suggest that you dealt more on important issues rather than wasting your time on what name I choose.

He! he! he!

It is really frustrating and vexing that after so many attempts to contact our Los Angeles Consulate in California, I receive no responds from the ends.

According to the grape-vines who are mostly balikbayan, our consulate in L.A. is notorious when answering even the telephones. Most likely, with so many hundreds of calls a day, the people in the our Consulate in Los Angeles just turn off the telephone ring.

I remember one time when I was in Vancouver, Canada, Philippine Consulate. People in that office seems unmindful of their duties. The telephone rings but nobody answers.

When I sat down in our Consulate office, even the newspapers are outdated. I wanted to talk to our Commercial officer to get the list of Canadian Busineses who may be interested on our Philippine products.

Mind you, on of the employees gave me the list but to my consternation, when I labored to locate their where-about, most of these Canadian Business were already closed-shop long ago.

In short, our Commerial Attache just list down business around Vancouver, irregardless, just to submit an accomplishment report back to our country.

Would you believe that I find a KisLap magazine, which may have dated 10 years ago in the reception room. The fact is that too much politics on appointing our foreign personels is more of the rule than the exception. That is why we have a stupid consulate office. This happens in Vancouver, Canada, might as well the same is the situation in our Los Angeles Consulate in California.

Many of our personel are political appointees and not career officials. That is why they have poor rating when it comes to services. “Mga inutil!”

Such a waste of Juan de la Cruz money. The wife of Juan Ponce Enrile is our Ambassador to the Vatican. What does she knows about it? Is she a Foreign Service Graduate? Does she speaks Latin?

A wife is a wife is a wife. Out of nowhere, she turns AMBASSADOR.

Just like another one, our Ambassador in Australia, a military man, and now he is studing Foreign Service in Australia at the expense of Juan de la Cruz. Funny, he was first appointed as Ambassador, then he starts learning the trade. Filipinos in Australia no has the problem running after our Ambassador because most of the time, he is nower in sight because he is studing at the University.
Is that not queer? An Ambassador who is not functioning as such, instead, he is a student studing.

From the gyrating Filipina maid on a British sitcom to the racial slurs in a HK magazine, we are being made fun of as a race of low life servants. Is the only way to do something about this is to ask for apologies. Lets face it, a big part of the labor force that we export are domestic workers. There is even a gathering of Filipina maids in HK during Sundays that has become a tourist attraction. We all know why we always get insulted and ridiculed. As a nation we cheer for a lonely boxer as he consistently lifts our pride in the ring but no matter how many battles he wins, these can not erase the fact that , as I write these words, there are hundreds of Filipinos falling in line applying for jobs to wash the dishes and clothes, clean the toilets of Arabs, Chinese, Europeans, etc. We are truly a damaged country if we know this and feel that there is nothing wrong. It is time that we get respect rather than always demanding for it.
We should end our country’s policy to export our labor. (This means a whole other discussion about developing our local economy which requires a country of businessmen, managers, designers, artists, engineers…basically achiever’s not atsays.) We can start by banning deploymnet of domestic helpers. They are the most prone to abuse and violence anyway. The media should always make news of all the boxed bodies that arrive at our airports. It’s like we are sending people to war, they come back tortured and dead. Banning overseas maids will not only saves lives but will save our pride which I believe should be treated with equivalent importance.

wonderwoman said to harry king (March 31st, 2009 at 9:42 am):
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I suggest that you dealt more on important issues rather than wasting your time on what name I choose.”

So the peace in the Middle East is not an important world issue and the invasion of Gaza is just another Israeli military war game or exercise. Then, there’s that slaughter of thousands of innocent Palestinians where, fortunately, no Filipino died; is it O.K. if the world allowed the Israelis to turn Gaza into a graveyard?
Comic characters belong to the world of fantasies that includes making mountains out of molehills.

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Harry King Says:
April 10th, 2009 at 9:25 am
wonderwoman said to harry king (March 31st, 2009 at 9:42 am):

Thank you for your rebuttal about Israel-Palestinian conflict.

The saying goes “Charity begins at home.” And in parallel, I may say; Mend your personal things first before you attempt to fix other peoples problem.

There is similarity between your line of thinking and PGMA, though I am merely guessing. You and PGMA speaks of high profile subject matter, such as Asian Currency Security, Asians nuclear free zones, Asian’s on this and Asians on that.

Harry, we already have problems here in our country on what to do with the Muslim’s desire to have their own sovereignty, their own flag, and their own military. Is that not something that we should concentrate on rather than discussing on far flung countries like the Israel-Palestinian? Of course, I do not want to infringe on your freedom to speak your mind, yet, we have our very serious domestic problems. Why go poking your nose somewhere else like the Middle East?

“Then, there’s that slaughter of thousands of innocent Palestinians”, you said. Of course, I commisserate with those killings; who does not? Yet, do you not pity our “Kababayan” who were summarily killed by “you know WHO?” Do you not pity the millions of hopeless Filipinos who could hardly eat one decent meal a day because of a corrupt government.

Do you not pity those Filipino patients who dies because they have nothing to pay for their medicine?

Are you not worried that we have 700 billion pesos interest payment due this year, 2009?

Anyway, suit yourself what ever you want.

Good day!