This is the
characteristic of our President: it just takes one or two to sniff the air and
decide the time is right for the corruptors to leave. Just on glance in that
direction, one snort of alarm, he knows it’s time for these tribes to leave.
The abrupt decision of
the President to dismantle the Bureau of Customs (BOC) is laudable. After all,
a fish rots from the head down in the BOC, thus, the revolutionary overhaul is
the only way to change the course of operation of the BOC of extortion through
intimidation, demanding bribes, or requiring payment for protection from paying
the correct Customs duties and taxes. This is like slaying a monster bearing a
Remnants of Corruption; the remnant is dropped just like normal essences.
Indeed, when political will come into play, everything is golden.
Now, the Filipinos
suddenly found themselves with a ray of hope. Of course with the choice of the
new Commissioner, the 4-star General Rey Leonardo Borja Guerrero, the BOC is
fortified against all the mechanism of corruption. Guerrero’s hardest test
though still lies down the road, like a gantlet of death: smugglers with
millions are going to line up in two lines and force him to choose between
accepting the bribe or being killed. Only for a person that lives on honesty
and being used to live a simple life, his life revolves around Jesus Christ,
his only ally. Then, he has more lives than a cat but ahead lays a hazard he
can’t outrun.
Admittedly, the misery we
experience from the BOC has a silver lining at last. It’s like after the
deluge, comes the feast. Maybe the Filipinos can smell rain, or we really need
thunder with heaven.
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