Comments on: Makati Rally, Friday 29th of February

By: mikel

mikel — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:52:35 +0000

tama MM. so, what to do? how do we, ehem..discard or liquidate a generation or two of trapo’s and their military & business backers? would that ensure a more benign and moral breed of politicians? maybe if one of the ayala’s can be convinced to run for president? the ideal leader is uncorrupted and incorruptible. is there such an animal?
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By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:54:09 +0000

mikel, you are right, there is corruption in many places. I think I like the middle eastern soultion to petty theft, chop their arms off… imagine if it were on the scale of $100 million or more… As for parliamentary, it would likewise be easy to buy the votes of the members of parliament, so the form itself will not be sufficient to ensure a properly functioning government.

By: mikel

mikel — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:21:47 +0000

FYI..corruption is not a Philippine phenomena. Here in France, there is a multi-billion euro investigation resulting in charges brought up against big business and politicians. In the US, there are a multitude of corruption charges vs. politicians in congress, the Pentagon and big business. In China, they execute the guilty by musketry.

The political system needs change. A parliamentary form of gov’t. would leave the function of gov’t. intact if a lose of confidence against the gov’t. leads to the resignation of the PM. Let’s think about that as a change tool.

By: CecileJ

CecileJ — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:02:58 +0000

Huwag tayo mapagod sa paghahangad ng katapatan sa paglilingkod at sa kaginhawaan para sa ating mga pamilya ant sa ating mga kababayan. Let us not fall for the gov’t line that there is no better alternative to the current (corrupt) leadership or that joining rallies will scare off investors and derail our economic gains. (What gains?)

As Gen. Danilo Lim said: “DISSENT WITHOUT ACTION IS CONSENT.” Let us keep ourselves free from sins of commission but let us not fall prey to sins of ommission also.

By: paris4444

paris4444 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:11:13 +0000

Who is our Obama? there has got to be a person who has the integrity to serve the people, who has the conscience to distinguish between self serving acts of corruption and genuine leadership. start from scratch and get rid of everyone in gov right now.

By: Maria Clara

Maria Clara — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:52:20 +0000

For all the people who are with this civic cause and call I am with you. No reservation should be in our mind and heart who will be at the rally either trapos, partisans, nonpartisan, leftists, trashy, shitty, blue and white collar workers, non-dominional religious leaders and followers, etc. One body counts a lot and sum up together stands for unity of our mutual goal to freed our beloved Country from corruption, bribery, goons, guns, abduction, distribution of cash and other unethical governmental practices. Think about our fellow countrymen who are OFWs in the Middle East especially women working as domestic help they are abused sexually, verbally and physically! They have to put up with unbearable working conditions. Why they have to bear this? They have to support their family! Think about our fellow countrymen who are severely sick and unable to seek medical intervention. No social service program to fund their medical expenditures from our government. We have regained the freedom to express our dissatisfaction, disapproval and zero tolerance with our administration out on the street — unlike 22 years ago the streets are wide open but no freedom to do so. We have long been BRANDED in the international community as a corrupt nation!

By: Katrina

Katrina — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:14:53 +0000

Yeah, what Siopao said!!! ;-) I understand why people say the frequent rallies have gotten tiring (and tiresome), but democracy is a never-ending struggle. The moment we take it for granted, we lose it: another Marcos, or worse, will take over and before we know it, we won’t even have the right to speak our minds, much less rally anymore.

I’ve heard so many people deride those who never seem to stop being outraged — the B&W Movement, Akbayan, et al. — but without people like them, we’d probably still be under Martial Law now. The tendency of Filipinos is to make tiis, to just ignore hardship and take care of their families, to make jokes, and to pray the problems would just disappear. We need the “noisy whiners” (as they have been called) to jolt us out of our complacency and light a fire under our asses. People complain about the traffic or lost business that rallies cause, but in the long term, won’t they also be the beneficiaries of a better future for our country — one without the blatant corruption we now have? Won’t an economy that isn’t sabotaged by immoderate greed mean prosperity for them, too? (Notice I didn’t say *zero* corruption and greed; I’m not a dreamer.)

Of Lozada’s many quotable quotes, the one I like best is (this may not be verbatim), “Ang Pilipinas ay hindi lang isang pamilya, kung ‘di isang sambayanan.” Being a good citizen means more than just looking out for our own family; we have to work for the good of all.

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:12:58 +0000

“If you have read this blog for any length of time, you would know I would bloody well say something and do something, if only for my own conscience.”

Thank you, you said it best! My being at the rally yesterday was a matter of conscience. We have to physically show the corrupt that it is NOT ok with us.

By: kongwi

kongwi — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:31:20 +0000

ako rin pagod na sa mga rally, but there is no better way to tell that woman that enough is enough…there wouldn’t have been any rallies had the impeachment against her prosper…the cheating done, and please don’t tell me there was no massive cheating done during the last presidential elections alone is enough to impeach her and that’s constitutinallly sanctioned. we have rallies because se settled and are settling to the lesser evil. kung sasabihin nating wala naman kasing papalit dahil lahat sila mga corrupt, we’re actually invoking a self-fulfilling prophecy. hindi bale sana kung ang buhay lang natin ang pinaguusapan dito, pero hindi. ang nakataya ay ang buhay ng mga anak ng mga anak ng mga anak natin dahil sila ang magbabayad sa mga inutang ng kasalukuyang rehimen. hindi bale sana kung ang mga inutang ay para sa kapakanan ng lahat.

By: raine ramirez

raine ramirez — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:24:31 +0000

deja vu! it will never change, i am waiting for a more qualified person, hopefully not a jaded politician to rule our country. it seems they got their eye on the public office and go for total profit and ways of hiding from media scrutiny and hiding the ill-gotten wealth and run to the nearest foreign country that they can spend they life with total immunity. stop electing oligarch(they have never been poor like we have been poor) stop electing actors and actresses, some of them should not be acting let alone running our country, wake up we all pay for these. shame.