from dailyjokes.com? nbi? pnp? investigate? LOL
Got Milk? ( . )( . ) --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > In the last couple of weeks as of this writing, tens if not > hundreds of "groups" and "communities", have issued "statements" calling > for President Gloria Arroyo to resign (plus a minority encouraging her to > hang in there). > > This could have been Filipinos at their best -- if this was > 1986. Unfortunately this is Year 2005. Almost 20 years hence, and one other > Edsa "revolution" later, we are again in the midst of our favourite > approach to changing presidents. > > Filipinos are again caught up with the festivities of > political gossiping and collecting little factoids about the latest > presidential debacle. Filipinos are now also even busier asking each other > who is for or against President Arroyo. In this era of the Internet, so > much information is available to fuel and fan the flames of discontent in > Philippine society. In the middle of all this are blogs like the PCIJ < > http://pcij.org/blog/> that provide "investigative journalism" -- doing > nothing more! than contribute to the divisiveness in the chattering classes > who subsist on all this stuff. > > It's a dog-like mentality (in Tagalog asal aso). One dog > starts barking in the night, and others in the neighbourhood following suit > without really knowing what the fuss is all about. > > Yes, the President is answerable to the people. But she is > entitled to be answerable via the proper channels. Why do we rely on the > media to do our "investigations" for us? Why do we rely on citizens' groups > to do our "prosecution"? Investigating is the job of the police and the > National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). Why can't Filipinos demand that the > police and justices do their job? So much outrage has been dished out in > the last couple of weeks. Yet in the last five decades, our own law > enforcement agencies and judiciary have consistently done shoddy jobs. Why > aren't we just as outraged when the police, the NBI, and the judiciary > don't do their job? We should demand! that they step up to the challenge of > overseeing this whole thing. We should focus our vigilance on institutions > -- ensure that institutions do their job properly. > > No wonder institutional reform never gets implemented -- > because Filipinos are fond of bypassing them. Rather than fix systems we > unleash fixers on our systems. "Cause-oriented" groups continuously > pontificate about the need for "vigilance". Yet Filipinos still do not have > a clue as to what exactly this call means. To many it's about keeping an > eye on our politicians to ensure that they keep their noses clean. We > forget that our hard-earned taxes already are being spent on institutions > whose job is to do exactly that. Filipinos need to channel this "vigilance" > towards a more sustainable effort to get institutions to work for them. > Instead we focus on working despite these institutions. > > So here we are again, back in the business of Fiesta > Instability -- o! ften a precursor to Fiesta Revolution. The extent to > which everything is so politicised is as disturbing as the overall > bizarreness of the society. The culture of petty partisan politics is > tightly interwoven into even the most mundane. It is a volatile mix - > political showbiz added to a largely idle population with small idle minds. > Add to this the messiah complex of Filipinos -- that our destinies depend > largely on the goodness or badness of the powerful. From this lethal brew > we get exactly what we see today. Philippine society becomes transfixed or, > worse, paralysed, necks craned upwards to the powers that be whenever they > flex or succumb. > > Just like a bunch of two-year-olds. Zero attention span. > > A society that once elected a famous philanderer, drunkard, > and under-educated man to the presidency now lashes out against a president > "who has lost the moral ground to govern". Indeed. An irony wasted on a > people with utterly weak faculties to fathom irony. > > Meanwhile the real world keeps turning. The peso teeters on > the edge of rapid decline, environmental degradation continues, population > growth gallops away, talented Filipinos leave. Brain-retarding call centres > now attract the best and brightest graduates of elite Filipino schools. And > China, India, and Vietnam are beavering away at the task of building > industries that soon will be (if not already are) sucking away > opportunities from an economy that was once merely stunted and is now > severely shriveled. > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This e-mail message (including attachments, if any) is intended for the use > of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain > information that is privileged, proprietary , confidential and exempt from > disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that > any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is > strictly prohibited. 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