Jose Ceralde
23 Feb 2008

 

Mr. Brando Garcia,

The late Pope Paul said do not be afraid. But I know having courage is more complex when you made us remember Ninoy.

But here are some questions I ponder from today’s events and I am thinking out loud.

Why is it that the president in the Philippines has all of the marbles?

Does the country really have all of those elected politicians in the house, senate, and judiciary to follow her whims and or her first family?

Why do they need a Lozada or JDV III to find out the dysfunctional procurements in government?

Reading US history while I was a “Johnnies (SJCS)” has shown spectacular downfalls of presidents or vice presidents without people power but by lone maverick senator or prosecutors or even IRS.

Is the Philippine government really that different in structure or just the people?

I also wonder what the take of the people is on the NBN probe. Listening to Undersec Formoso during the “Harapan” TFC program, does he really believe he could convince majority of Filipinos that the Philippine government is so powerless to be dictated on by China when seeking a loan from them or any lender.

Most Pinoys here in US or Canada I hope know that when they get a loan to buy a car that the banks do not dictate where to buy it from. So why would the Philippines get a contract from ZTE just because China said so on Dec 2 2007 that the president had to sign it?

We need to mature politically and economically to shed our colonial mentality. One person could make a difference. Do not wait for your “barkadas kabaleyan” as each individual is responsible for the staying power of the government.

We could not afford to tell our kids anymore that we tolerated the most corrupt government in our lifetime. We tolerated our rights of privacy by trampling us with wiretapping and big brother watching with cameras and full force of government investigation because of difference of opinion.

We tolerated the detention of even one individual because of our inaction due to FEAR.

Remember the safeguarding of single individual rights is for our own. Let each one of us now weigh our safety, for us and our kids.

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