It’s all in the news...papers, T.V and radio. The Philippines is again plague by controversies. Administration vs. the Opposition, the ZTE Scam issue and today this Lozada guy is the hero. Frankly, I’m getting sick and tired of it.
It’s a big moro-moro and the local media is just trying to kindle the fire to create more news. Wow! We’re getting too paranoid! And now those who are opposing PGMA are talking about what Romulo Neri said about Gloria. Strange that all the so-called people who heard this are those who are against Gloria (?) OK let say that Romulo Neri did utter that Gloria Arroyo is evil, then what? Will that make things cheaper? Will that make more jobs? I think some of our “respected” senators are just using this to make a grand standing, a political spring board, an advertisement for the next Presidential election in 2010.
Senatorial hearings are for legislative purpose. I nearly drop on my chair when I saw this young, novice senator wasting his time in Ninoy Aquino International Airport looking at that arrival list and trying to figure out if Lozada was kidnapped. He’s a senator, not a Private Eye, geewizz! We’re paying his salary to create laws, not to do what the NBI and the PNP are suppose to be doing!
According to ART. VI Sec. 21 of the Philippine Constitution: The Senate and the House of Representatives or any of its respective committees may conduct inquiries in aid of legislation in accordance with its duly published rules of procedure. The right of persons appearing in or affected by such inquiries shall be respected. That’s it. The ZTE deal was already off. The contract with ZTE is now null and void. So the inquest is for what? It’s OK that someone blew the whistle...that’s it. It’s time for the Senate to create a law regarding this matter. That’s their job and that’s why we elected them and why we’re paying taxes for their salaries. We have more problems other than the ZTE deal. Maybe it’s time they should look at the cheaper medicine bill.
It’s not really an atheistic issue, yet something caught my fancy. The Roman Catholic Church is in again. It’s not enough that the so-called De La Salle brothers help Lozada on his so-called “abduction” and his press conference, now the Roman Catholic Church is justifying church and state issue by using the so-called moral argument. According to them, the reason why the Roman Catholic Church is getting into state affairs is because of moral issue. (By the way, Bro. Villanueva’s Jesus is Lord Church is also joining the circus...Hmmmm is this really for the good of the nation @ Bro. Villanueva or you’re just a sour loser?)
It is said that the Roman Catholic Church here in the Philippines has been responsible for both “People Power” revolts that toppled 2 presidents (Marcos and Estrada). But what does this so-called “power of the people” that the Roman Catholic Church is so proud off really accomplished so far? We are now living in a place riddled with corruption and the worst crab mentality! My gulay!
I think the new generation is getting sick and tired of this People Power thing. Just think...when the Catholic Church used people power to topple Marcos, it brought Cory Aquino to power. So? What did she accomplish? “My husband Ninoy”. A Filipina in the front cover of Time magazine, cheaper galunggong, Agrarian Reforms in Hacienda Luisita, 12-hour brown outs?
On October 11, 2000, then Archbishop of Manila Jaime Cardinal Sin issued a pastoral statement in behalf of the Presbyteral Council of the Archdiocese of Manila, asking then president Erap to step down from the presidency as he had lost the moral authority to govern. People Power 2 overthrows Erap Estrada because the Roman Catholic Church says he’s corrupt and placed Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as the new President of the Philippine Republic. Now, the CBCP is trying to create another “People Power” to purge her out of Malacañang...Oh come on!
Moral authority is the excuse. Moral of what? Is the church really the voice of the people or does it cry its own voice? When they tried cleaning Malacañang from Erap Estrada in the same issue of moral authority with faith and prayers to God, what happened? Why are they now crying for another so-called moral authority issue with PGMA? Hey! They’re the one who placed her in the Palace in the first place...with the same “People Power” and moral recovery claim.
Suppose let’s allow their so-called People Power 3...and call for the resignation of PGMA. So may I asked - who will you put as a replacement? Noli de Castro, Ping Lacson, a disgruntled pastor, the village fool, my dog?
Some churches claim that since the church is a part of the state, it has the rights to criticize the current government. Is that so? You want to join state affairs - then pay your taxes.
The people of the Philippines are the one who elect their President, and the Constitution of the Philippines was created to solve problems.
ART. XI. Sec. 2
The President, the Vice President, the Members of the Supreme Court, the Members of the Constitutional Commissions, and the Ombudsman may be removed from office, on impeachment for, and conviction of, culpable violation of the Constitution, treason, bribery, graft and corruption, other high crimes, or betrayal of public trust. All other public officers and employees may be removed from office as provided by law, but not by impeachment.
That doesn’t say that the bishops should rally people to the streets, call for the resignation of the President without the benefit of hearing his/her side in a proper court of law and place a new rotten egg in Malacañang. If we can’t trust our own Constitution, what can we trust?
The late F. Sionil Jose once said in a conference held in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1997, “Eventually, too, I hope that our churches will be empty, as they are in Europe, not because we have become atheistic but because we have realized that our progress depends on our own efforts and not on divine will.”
Pinoy Atheist
// posted by John the Atheist @
10:39 AM 
