Culture buffeted by malfeasance
Eduardo Pontaoe
18 Jan 2010
Re: About corruption
Mr. Ynzon:
Agreed! Corruption is rampant in the Philippines. I know more than you do – I go back to that place every year not like you.
I am not – I repeat – protecting this Assistant Registrar you deemed corrupt, but to give a semblance of fairness, to give him the benefit of the doubt until proven guilty.
You should know that by now living in America – to indict somebody you must have airtight evidence to convict or else you’re just shooting your mouth.
You couldn’t incriminate this person just like that.
Your mind so narrow, a person with blinders, because it would be idiotic on your part putting all employees in that department corrupt – on the simple logic, a drop of oil contaminates the whole barrel.
And I know for a fact, not all employees of the registrar’s office or any government agency are . . . corrupt.
There’s no need for you to overemphasize the need for vigilance in dealing with Pinoy government bureaucrats. Everybody knows the hurdle to pass thru to get things done, but that’s the ongoing practice in a culture buffeted by malfeasance.
The blitzkrieg . . .
Let me hold your hands and guide you in the dark, to light your way in your ignorance on what’s happening in that neck of the woods.
You question how I do my critique on these people you mentioned. To put it simply, to have ’em on their toes because without proper check and balance . . . there will the no Sunday Punch in its search for the truth in a Socratic way, and the pitbull approach to journalism.
Your words, “They’re not responding to what I wrote about”.
Well, they are listening and because they’re on the defensive they’ll just accept the unrelenting knockout blows of a . . . Pacquiao.
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