Playing with Fire
PDAF controversy has exposed our officials
By Gonzalo Duque
OUR countrymen are either amused or disappointed over the on-going quarrel, fighting and grandstanding due to the headline-making news accounts on who is or who are guilty on the Napoles-linked P10 billion PDAF scam.
It has become a contest on who has the credible list of legislators and other government officials involved in the scam.
Kawawang Pinas!
What is clear to the masa thoughis that many if not most of our government officials especially those enjoying the public trust have been exposed as being involved graft, their integrity besmirched beyond repair.
Our young people, too; they are disillusioned and shaking their heads because our public servants have acquired an image of thieves and robbers of our people’s money.
You might be thinking that such officials involved in the PDAF scam and other robbery are getting nervous every day. Kaya?
Sana, kung may konsensiya sila.
But do they?
Some people are accusing them of just doing a moro-moro like the brothers Jinggoy and JV Ejercito, both senator-sons of Mayor Erap, who are now a laughing stock.
Question is, how did they become senators in the first place?
Meanwhile, presidential adviser Ping Lacson on Tacloban’s rehabilitation must be grinning from ear to ear because the presidentiables (the likes of Estrada and Bong Revilla, di na bale si Senator Johnny Enrile dahil matanda na) are plummeting down.
But the Estrada brothers, we don’t know if they are only acting because they are both movie stars.
But seriously speaking, the political imbroglio is exposing our politicians especially the guilty ones, those who are actually involved in graft and corruption.
In other words, the nation is a lucky beneficiary of now knowing the real character of our high officials who are supposed to be enjoying the public trust, but don’t.
They have exposed themselves.
The unveiling of their real character is only possible in a democracy.
The spectacle of government officials washing their dirty linen in public has its good side. Our people now know whom to vote and whom not to vote in the future.
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We congratulate the provincial board for coming up with a resolution changing the name of Kalantiao building to Palaris building.
Careful research has shown that Kalatiao was fiction or myth; he did not actually exist, while Palaris was a real hero from San Carlos City who bravely fought the Spanish colonizers.
Congratulations to resolution author Board Member Nikkiboy Reyes.
The correction was also upon the initiative of the Pangasinan Historical and Cultural Commission.
While this developed, we believe it’s necessary that the provincial government come up with rules on what historical sites or monuments should be so declared so that they would be so even without the say-so of the National Commission on Arts and Culture.
The PHHC is now busy preparing the integration of Pangasinan history into the instructional material of our educational curriculum.
This is so, so that our young pupils and students will be conversant with local history, which is a basic ingredient to our success and greatness as a people.
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