MY FATHER’S DAY MESSAGE

 

We always hear the common expression, “like father like son”, haven’t you? Matter of factly, Children are the ones who will inherit the father’s identity or reputation he had created towards the public during his lifetime. So, it's very important, if a father wants his children not to suffer the stigma of his misdeeds and disgraceful acts, he, as a father, should focus on not repeating mistakes, and focus on building his character. He must be careful in what he is doing, and that he assumes or imagines that there are really no secrets in his life.

The essential characteristics of honesty, integrity, fair dealing and the highest ethical standards of the father must be displayed and spread at all times. Conduct, both at work and outside may have a direct effect on how he and his family are perceived by the public. Conduct, which is in keeping with these standards, will positively redound to the benefit of the family’s good image and reputation, and can surely heralded as a trademark to his offspring. HAPPY FATHER’S DAY.

 

THIS INCIDENT IS THE HIERARCHY THAT MAKES A DOWNCAST LOOK BROADCASTING OUR CONCERN

 

I’m going to take you through the moment that we’ll be talking forever about that gruesome 990 kilos worth 6.7 billion of drug cover-up fiasco. This is odd, it being committed by the colonels and generals of the PNP. Their mental condition is scary and depressing as the crime they committed shocked the country that added an unspeakable layer of horror and disrespect. These high-ranking police officials raised heavy red flags and sparked alarm in the PNP hierarchy in any capacity. I just hope this incident would be considered to be a breaking point, the last straw that breaks the camel’s back for the president to realize he has to get his hand on against these corrupt people in government who are continuously sucking in money like insatiable black hole to save the country.  

It wasn’t about what they did but how they did it. The tangible, they just performed the biggest drug thievery of shabu that they confiscated during the raid worth 6.7 billion. Worst, they shielded police Sgt. Mayo who they arrested during the raid from any and all accountability. The intangible, they have destroyed the PNP Institution which is truly every citizen’s nightmare as these people are losing their minds. What is this supposed to mean? The answer is none other than such a feat is irrefragably a poignant example of how Corruption had eaten deep into the PNP; and certainly, encapsulate how irredeemably corrupt mostly our public officials have always been. Being the sinister overlords, an agent of chaos that they all are, they had enough audacity and courage to steal.  

These Police Colonels and Generals are in embarrassment and the entire PNP are in humiliation right now. They need to get their acts together and get their organization back because clearly the wealth of views in the information space about our country has suffered as a result. That’s the big deal about it. It would seem that frankly all of the branches of government are in lockstep in their spin navigating their everyday life committing corruption like it’s just second nature for them that they just not even have to think about it; and they would never let go doing it. They all deserve scorn. Would the President just let that slide?   

THE CRIME THAT MADE CONG. TEVES INFAMOUS AND UNWILLING CELEBRITY

 

A quiet community becomes the backdrop for a string of brutal murders. Negros Oriental has been a place of life, a place of welcome, and a place of paradise. The people have their culture that’s together and we’re aligned. Now, in a serendipitous turn of events, the rugged political veteran brothers Cong. Arnulfo Teves and Former Gov. Pryde Henry Teves allegedly cultivated a culture of violence on the Province of Negros Oriental and transformed it from a tool of love into a tool of hate. It has become a place of death, a place of hell; and a place of guilt where sorrow has brought sadness.

The Teves brothers possess the enigma of invulnerability because of their wealth, power, and influence that they weren’t afraid to bend or break some rules. But their sense of euphoria as the Kingpin in the Province were soon confronted with the painful consequences and what they thought have made them untouchable was in fact the one that catalyze their Fall from Grace.  Thereafter, Cong. Teves was caught in a maelstrom of his own making that went through the full spectrum to several murders.  

The pivotal moment that caused Cong. Teves the kind of violent end was that incident on March 4, 2023 that brought the community reels from the senseless and barbaric nature of crimes. Gov. Roel Degamo, a dignified, loyal leader of integrity, together with his staffs were doing social services inside his residence that day and it only took a moment when the 9 assassins riddled them with staccato of gunfire; killing the governor and nine others. Nothing in the country’s history compares the incredible horrifying massacre that you can think of. All fingers from all the 11 suspects that were involved in the assassinations were more directly pointing at Cong. Teves as the true offensive mastermind.

You could see the terror in their eyes a straight up monster, a top-tier criminal, a kill freak. They kill without hesitation as if the genes to kill were directly ingrained in their bones. Now, the Teves brothers knew without a doubt that this was the end of the road for them. They fell into a grave dug by their own inner demons. Though it was only Cong. Arnulfo Teves that was indicted as the mastermind of the massacre, but the brotherhood was all together torn asunder. And the likelihood for Cong. Teves to escape conviction is close to zero. 

We now see the man, Cong. Teves, on top of the world to the lower end of the totem pole; was going belly up on the verge of losing everything. Everyone wanted to send him off on an island to himself. People were not defending him, nobody. It was like Cong. Teves against the world. It is because he is one that is capable of evil far beyond anything your imagination could ever conjure up. I think it’s atrocious to take someone’s career, throw it in the garbage.  

THE TALE OF CONG. ARNIE TEVES IS A CAUTIONARY ONE. IT'S A TALE OF WHAT HAPPENS THE MOMENT ONE DECIDES TO FLY TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN, AND GOT BURN FOR IT.

 

In the world of politics, opportunities can come and go in an instant. Cong. Teves   who possesses a great deal of power, influence, or wealth with some serious drip. His mediocrity only grew louder and louder that it became hard to stomach. In fact, Cong. Teves had grown big and he must have thought himself too big that he started full of charge and exude the human dimension, stand tall and displayed the worst manners Known for having short fuses. The people viewed him as an opportunist who would snap the bugle on impulse. There was a very imperious to him that quickly gained him notoriety. He thinks he was firmly in the saddle and his people are slaves who have to work under his feet.  Now, his name was bruised because he wanted more and that in life, not everything is all the way through in mighty handy.  

The story of Cong. Teves can well be described as, the rise and rise and then the fall. He is now facing multiple murder charges as allegedly the mastermind in the cold-blooded killing of Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo and 9 others, not to mention the other murder case in 2019. He’s trapped in coffin corner nowhere to go, and his dreary days will tell a lot about where he stands going forward. Although nothing was quite as cut and dry as it might appear, it wasn’t exactly the best look for Cong. Teves. Right now, he is disarmed and dismembered of everything because he had poked the bear and the bear was lashing out. Cong. Teves represents the modern-day Icarus, that because of his power, money, and fame, he believed he now knew what it felt like to be a God and in his newfound divinity he flew too close to the sun and got burn for it.

The moral of the story is about the dangers of being consumed by power and greed in the pursuit of wealth. It shows the things we should hold most dear in life is family love which happiness is worth so much more than any material possessions.

 

WHAT IS THIS THING THAT KEEPS HITTING THE HEADLINES ABOUT THE FIRST LADY?

Why does Pres. Marcos, Jr not see the way what God has given his family, the Marcoses, through him, a chance to reshape the despicable reputation of his father ex-Pres. Marcos, Sr where during the latter’s regime deception and corruption had become a way of life. To be the reverse from his father should have become his calling card. He must now begin the process of earning his good reputation back by doing a great job for the country and the Filipino people. Unfortunately, PBBM regresses and gravely underperforming as President. Everyone recognizes all the issues; thus, the criticisms reached a whole new level.

What is this thing that keeps hitting the headlines that in fact, according to the political analysts, the first lady Liza is now beating the drums in Malacañang. It is because PBBM, the normally dominant husband, is now simply a deer in headlights in the face of Lisa Araneta, the First Lady. She is now allegedly building Business Empire for the Araneta clan by controlling all big corporations that are subject to the regulatory dominion of the government. This notoriety that PBBM fiddled nervously crossing paths with his First Lady (FL) Liza Araneta has spilled over further; that FL Lisa has pushed PBBM into the very edge of what anyone should adore; and that he being almost sheep like and meekly subservient to the First Lady often with his tail between his legs. This causes PBBM to live with this cognitive dissonance in running the Philippines. The First Lady Liza has slowly sapped and blew up Pres. BongBong’s focus that over time he is constrained in the moves he could make for the country. 

On this account, PBBM’S presidency, everything fell off the cliff that the haters came out of the Woodworks to viciously mocked and blast him. I guess it makes sense that everything in the Philippines is now straight up horrible because we have a President with a nose ring attached to him like a cow by the First Lady. Thus, the feeling of withering looks and the storm of human indignation were already unstoppable towards PBBM. He PBBM cannot escape the fact that the political analysts and the Filipino people will be constantly comparing his performances to that of his father and that's not a small bite to swallow.

One thing that's certainly worth considering is the fact that overall, PBBM has already made positive strides comparison with his dad, ex-president Marcos, Sr. Predictably, this will give PBBM a lot of trouble throughout his Presidency. If PBBM will have to consider his future and the future of the country, pulling out from his wife’s grip would be a significant point in his favor and that would be the icing on the cake to get things under his control, which will be very tough.

THE DECISION WHETHER PBBM WOULD GET BURN AND TAKE THE FALL FOR HIS FL LISA WAS NOW IN HIS HANDS. INDEED, THE OPTICS OF BEING UNDER THE THUMB OF YOUR WIFE ISN’T A GOOD IDEA AS THE PRESIDENT OF A COUNTRY. IF YOU ARE SUCH, YOU ARE NOT WORTH THE CHAIR THAT YOU’RE SITTING ON.

 

PRES. MARCOS, JR, HAS A DIFFERENT MINDSET

My issue with Pres. Marcos, Jr is his reputation as the Lord of the skies as he always travels to foreign countries over the heads of unsuspecting people with reckless abandon. The question is, whether or not he is trying to decide this based on what's best for the nation in the here and now, but oftentimes overlooking some more important issue which shouldn’t be overlooked? As an aside, I noticed Pres. Marcos is fun of using this phrase in his interviews, which is: “I LOOK AT THE SITUATION IN A DIFFERENT WAY.”

Indeed, Mr. Marcos has a different mindset in looking at things. Meaning, he valued acceptance and popularity towards foreigners more than the frightening times our country is facing.  And I may venture to say that he would not really back down from playing fast and loose with the issue of corruption. Clearly, Mr. Marcos is drawing a dichotomy between his faith to the foreigners to save our country, and that of rationality. For me, our faith must be based on what is reasonable, kind of —believe in yourself first and that the idea that people, regardless of who they are, and where they come from, matter.

We keep worshipping at the altar of America and European countries. We're blindly wedded to a set of lofty principles that everybody else in the world already ignored and considered them as self-centered. We think it's always a beautiful ideal to worship these foreign countries and wait for their blessed occasion. We’re getting short of breath already from running uphill to gain their mercy and charity. We've stuck with this silly notion that it's a mortal sin to ignore America and Europe as our savior when in truth we're the ones who are out of step today. Mr. Marcos is a person who didn't understand at least to a large extent that our country is now in a situation where it is going to be Armageddon we are facing with a sense of the clock ticking.

Let me be blunt, until we fix the problem of corruption, it's going for us to make less and less sense for our country to recover. Right now, we're falling behind and fast because of corruption. We must take our eye off the ball away from America and the European countries and get ourselves together in solving corruption.

AGAINST ALL REASON TRAVELING IS NOT OF MUCH HELP

 

As soon as Pres. Marcos became President of the Philippines, he and the first lady, and their entourage were routinely bouncing from one country to another at the drop of a hat with joyous abandon. Meanwhile, in every corner of the nation, corruption finds a way to seep into all institutions and establishments of the government, and private sectors everywhere. Corruption was bitten on the back burner because Pres. Marcos, Jr sleep on it. I am annoyed at his snarky attitude of luxurious travel which is a dumb move.

Whatever Mr. Marcos did and does as the President. I'll say, his life as President is going to have a tremendous void. The Filipinos have been denied of the essentials that humans need that could take them through in life because of corruption. The Filipinos made Mr. Marcos President because they perceived him as the confidence, the parquet floor, the mystique, the championship banner, the light unto the nation. But instead, he deprives the start of the process of resuscitating the country from its hemorrhaging economy, and the Filipino people a chance for a new life.

Pres. Marcos, Jr must realize that the problem is in our country and not elsewhere where traveling is the solution. Corruption is something that must keep him up at night, keeps him up most of the time. Solving corruption, is a commitment to progress and guided very closely by our national interests. Corruption is an important and unavoidable issue that we have to ventilate and we cannot also put it and sweep it under the rug, and pretend it's not happening.

Indeed, Pres. Marcos is not a part of the solution, instead, he is a part of a nationwide rampage of Corruption. Because in a way, beyond his acute awareness of the precarious condition of the country resulting to corruption, by resigning to solve it, he provided a protective cocoon to the corruptors to pulverize our economy, and bankrupt the government treasury. Corruption must be solved because the country is constantly breaking up faster, farther, and deeper than ever before.

Mr. Marcos must realize that his being a President is not for a show as what he is doing now. He must be realistic and determined to take issue with corruption. HE MUST TRY TO GET BETTER EACH AND EVERY TIME AND NOT TRAVELING ALL THE TIME.