IT’S becoming even harder to trust and respect the present administration.

This was the sentiment expressed by Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz, chairman of the Krusada ng Bayan Laban sa Jueteng (Crusade Against Jueteng), in his blogsite, noting that jueteng did not die at all but metamorphosed into the Small Town Lottery (STL).

He said it is the best example of the same dog having a different collar and maintained that while STL uses jueteng to justify its existence, the latter uses the former as a front.

He lamented that while Philippine National Police Chief Director General Oscar Calderon, had announced his self- imposed September deadline to stop jueteng in the country, the PNP chief already conceded that he failed to meet his target.

He noted how the PNP went into a media-blitz warning chiefs of police of the strict implementation of its “one strike policy”, and made a spectacle of a number of police officials being sacked to impress upon the public that the campaign of the new PNP leadership against jueteng was serious.

“It is now clear that it was just one big “palabas”, Cruz said.

The anti-jueteng advocate said not only the same gambling lords but also the same payola beneficiaries are now salivating to continue fattening their bank accounts at the expense of the same already destitute bettors.

Cruz said a national leadership that officially and openly spouses and promotes gambling in a country is a big national socio-political liability.

“Instead of advancing public morals, it precisely destroys this by formal dissemination of the culture of indolence and chance, dishonesty and greed,” he said. – EVA

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