Lozada, a hero?
Noel Erfe Verzosa
26 Feb 2008
People are too quick to make a hero out of this guy Lozada who is spilling the beans before a Senate Committee.
Rodolfo Lozada is not a whistleblower in the true sense of the word. A whistleblower is an informant who exposes wrongdoing in an organization in the hope of stopping it. He is usually motivated by a compelling sense of moral and ethical outrage.
The only reason Lozada is singing like a canary is his take in the aborted broadband deal would have been a paltry P50,000.
If he is truly outraged by the graft and corruption around him, he should have exposed all the other deals he was privy to long time ago.
Lozada is just as dirty as the rest of them – servants of the people lining their pockets with bribe money. He lives in a very expensive house, his children go to private schools, he vacations abroad – all these on the salary of a government functionary.
Give me a break! I do not have any compassion for him and his ilk. They are all on the take.
Now the sycophants around Lozada have elevated him to hero status, perhaps convincing him he has a future in politics. I have no doubt in my mind that should he decide to run for public office, the people will vote for him overwhelmingly.
And it wouldn’t be the first time the people made a stupid mistake. They get the kind of government they deserve.
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