CORRUPTION MADE OUR COUNTRY SLID FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD TO RUIN

The opening words of the Preamble of the Philippine Constitution are, “We, the sovereign Filipino people…” What do these words signify? These words mean that the ultimate authority of the government emanates from the people in whom sovereignty resides. People exercise authority through the representatives elected by them. These representatives conduct the functions of the government in accordance with the wishes of the people.

The essence of government was to provide security and welfare for its citizenry-- to make life easy for the people and ensure that they were adequately protected and provided with good things of life. But it was indeed paradoxical that the vast majority of the populace was unable to afford even the basic necessities of life, which are food, water, and shelter.

The irony is that the corrupt public officials in the government are living in utmost luxuries—owning several expensive cars, hopping from one mansion to another, from condominium to condominium whichever pleases them at any moment, spending money left and right in classy hotels and restaurants toasting champagnes here and abroad. A grossly-out feeling when you think they are wasting people’s money.

Indeed, when it comes to power excesses in government, public officials are free to do as they please, and they usually emulate each other. They have everything in their fingertips while the people have nothing even in their thoughts.

IS THERE NO ONE ELSE…IS THERE NO ONE ELSE...

I’m thankful to all of you who responded to my post Yesterday August 17, and through your comments, you also poured out your sentiments and angered passions about our sick society that is doomed due to massive corruption. By doing so, all of us are pushing a unified message of hope for people around the country that the Filipinos like us are now paying attention at all about the corrupt system in the government that the people in the public eye were taking advantage draining our country into bankruptcy on an almost daily basis.

In every article I posted in my FB account, I just want every Filipino to be as well informed as I can about how the contours of corruption are lighting our world on fire. My every Post about corruption may be small and insignificant, but with your support, that small pebble can create a rock slide. Remember, If we pay attention to the issue of corruption and go out and let our voices heard to what we are doing in our generation we will be doing the next generation a lot of good.

My proposal on how to stop corruption, the “COMPREHENSIVE REWARD SYSTEM PROGRAM”, I sent it on August 8, 2019 to PRRD and the 13 Senators SP Sotto, Angara, Villar, Marcos, Cayetano, Gordon, Pacquiao, Zubiri, Lacson, Pimentel, Bato Dela Rosa, Tolentino, and Bong Go. Ten (10) days had already elapsed and still, nobody among them had reacted so far. As the movie of Brad Pitt in Troy—IS THERE NO ONE ELSE…IS THERE NO ONE ELSE...

My proposal could be the magic moment because in every instance the corruptors enter into any corrupt transaction or agreement, the same has the potential to be a real dragnet for them to be entrapped and that is very frightening. The import is that IF THEY CHOOSE TO COMMIT CORRUPTION, IT WAS LIKE HE GAVE THE OTHER A SWORD TO RAM HIM THROUGH AND CLAIM THE PACKAGE DEAL BENEFITS.

  

CORRUPTION IS LIKE A BULLET THROUGH THE HEART OF EVERY FILIPINO

The biggest mirror of our society at its best, is pathetic, at its worse, it’s brutal. These corruptors are brutal people in terms of how and what they like to corrupt. Man against man, me against you. One guy is gonna beat the other guy and these corrupt public officials like to see blood. They kind of relish for having more money while the people are starving to death. It’s barbaric but the corruptors love that and still, it’s the epitome of excitement.

We’re not gonna be playing deaf and blind to the issue of corruption done to the Filipinos that could last forever if ever. The public officials who corrupt obviously, don’t care that the Filipinos suffered upon a matter literally dealing with life and death while they all keep laughing all the way to the bank.

To the angry passions kindled by the evil effects of corruption, we attribute the migration of many Filipinos to various foreign countries as OFW’s including doctors, engineers, skilled workers, domestic helpers, nurses, etcetera, draining our country with human resources. Also, in a great degree, we refer the persistent flow of drugs, the proliferation of hired killers, and even the issue of the West Philippine Sea is attributed to corruption perpetrated by the previous administration of Benigno Pnoy Aquino.

The corruptors live the ultimate life of leisure while the marginalized poor are struggling with outrageous levels of hand to mouth existence and just go in the way of a dog-eat-dog world. The country is definitely under the yoke of this bunch of corrupt public officials as they just pretty much snatch our lives away and dreams of glory in our hearts. I don’t think any of us as human beings could stomach all of that and get over it.

NO GESTURE IS TOO SMALL TO MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE

Most of us talk ourselves against CORRUPTION to death. We say, we say, we say, but most times never do anything because we thought the prospect that anybody would listen to us would be a pipe dream to the point of laughability. %98 of the world is like that. So it’s pretty normal, right? Wrong. And here’s why. The other %2 are the doers of the world, creating, changing, inventing all things possible, influencing, creating leadership. This should be our vision. But to create a world of doers is something most people never were because it’s lightning in the bottle for them.

Are you ready for this? But with the wisdom of PRRD who stayed on the attack, absorbing punches and pressing forward, this country of ours is ready for some social change. Something more profound than anything has ever been. We’re all on the prowl in getting rid of CORRUPTION because we cannot maintain a safe haven in a country of greed and violence, crime and spiritual neglect, dominated by poverty, despair, and pent-up rage that is now hitting a flashpoint.

Unless our government, with our cooperation and determination, will be able to solve CORRUPTION, the Nation can never have peace, stability, and progress. Then and only then can we have a state of being mentally and spiritually at peace, where things flow, where dreams become reality, the place where fulfillment lies.

INNOCENT PEOPLE COOPERATE GUILTY PEOPLE SCREW AROUND

Corruption is now on a scale unprecedented in our history. It has unleashed a trail of the turbulent era of violence, betrayal, wide-scale tax evasion, money laundering schemes, plunder, etcetera that continues to this day. It affects not just a couple of people but the whole country. Irrefutably, therefore, Corruption has all the reasons around us for our country not to succeed. It has caused tremendous problems for all of us that merely wishing it to go away will not help very much. It will only widen and deepen the spread of corruption while warning against it.

I think anyone among us Filipinos must offer our two cents worth to PRRD and to our Legislators on how to solve Corruption in the government. They’re going to need to go through radical changes because the platform the government has been implementing to solve Corruption has always been keeping hitting our heads against the same wall.

For me, I have sent my written proposal on how to stop Corruption to the 13 Senators last Tuesday, August 6, 2019, through JRS Express and was received August 8, 2019, Thursday by a certain Lyn. The 13 Senators are SP Sotto, Angara, Villar, Marcos, Cayetano, Gordon, Pacquiao, Zubiri, Lacson, Pimentel, Bato Dela Rosa, Tolentino, and Bong Go.

I expect some of them if not all will be skeptical about my idea, so I told the 13 Senators at the last paragraph of my proposal that I am going to make myself available any time to defend my proposal.

 

THE 13 SENATORS WHERE I SENT MY PROPOSAL TO SOLVE CORRUPTION IMMEDIATELY

I believe the mission of the times is corruption. There’s a bigger point here, there’s no way on God’s greener earth that anybody could argue that corruption was the cause to everything that is worse to our country; poverty, drugs, criminality; rebellion; terrorism; etc. The economy is going into a spiral of dysfunctionality, a cycle of violence bursting with impunity owing to the failure of the government to stop corruption

This topic should be on everyone’s lips and certainly should get us into thinking how to solve it immediately. The issue of corruption in our country has a political dimension because it brought the country and its citizens to their deep, dark, and twisted fate. This is what we should analyze on how to solve this problem of corruption.

If the government is bent, focused, and determined to solve the issue of corruption, then, it must welcome and listen to every idea and proposal from anyone that in his mind could solve the problem of corruption immediately. As it is said, “If you just listen to people it’s amazing what they’ll let you say back, and if you don’t listen to them, it’s amazing you cannot tell them it’s dark outside.”

I just hope against hope that my idea that I proposed to the 13 Senators which I sent last Tuesday, August 6, 2019, and was received yesterday August 8, 2019, Thursday by a certain Lyn is given at least little attention.

As long as the government’s approach in addressing the problem of corruption remains soft as it has been for decades, and the law enforcement always gas out rather than going for it full range, it is almost impossible to see the decades-long agony and suffering of the nation and its citizens changing anytime soon.

LET’S HELP THE GOVERNMENT GET ITSELF OUT OF THE TORTURED CHAMBER.

All Filipinos deplore the fact that corruption had engulfed our country. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes.

It is unfortunate that corruption is taking place everywhere, but it is even more unfortunate if corruption is allowed to creep not only in all facets of government but worse even in the media, by distorting the core of reporting, or worse, intentionally suppressed, closely confined or held them back from the public by the mainstream media themselves particularly TV Channels. These are the indisputable signs that would clearly show the mainstream media have been and are accomplices, encouraging corruption by their actions rather than impeding it.

With corruption at play in the media, reporting runs short of journalism ethics and best practices. It can hastily be mentioned that once media practitioners succumb to corruption, their reporting will be biased and they will fail to expose corruption and other vices. The media should, therefore, rise to the occasion and take on the ‘beast’ of corruption head-on without fear or favor.

I am posting and posting everyday in my FB account, FB page, and Blog – realtruestories.blogspot.com because injustice has spread in the media. We must repeatedly ask ourselves: "Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream."

Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create tension so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need to create the kind of tension to the media that will help all Filipinos rise from the dark depths of this out-of-control prejudices and the lack of moral compass going on in the media, and the people see through it.

CORRUPTION IS THE BIG TIME BOMB TICKING IN OUR COUNTRY

There are a number of major threats that the Nation is facing but I do have to mention that these should not to be seen as portents of inevitable doom because PRRD is paying attention to all of them. In fact, there are signs that these threats can begin to be mitigated.

Nevertheless, for me, what is tearing the Nation and our collective strength’s apart right now is CORRUPTION and it is what is needed to be solved immediately more than anything else because that gets at a lot of the underlying causes. This is the big time bomb ticking in our country. And to think that PRRD is spending large portions of his day in a state of fragmented attention, the country is constantly breaking up faster, farther, and deeper than ever before.

Corruption is now extremely difficult to overcome as the corruptors corrupt on anything all the time routinely a lot. They just can’t keep their hands off the cookie jar. The irony of it is that they are politicians and appointed public officials who are supposed to be our leaders. But they sat down on our heads, hung their legs down and are chewing bubble gum. They are simply entertaining themselves as they corrupt no end.

PRRD is at his wit's end because of these corruptors in the government. They impose upon a perpetual night of dark enslavement, plays a fateful blow in the country and even the gods seem to have abandoned the citizenry by the viciousness that has been spewed by corruption.

The corruptors are wired never to be content. They are insatiable wanting machines, dissatisfied neurotic beings designed to desire for more because to have more has made them great and powerful. If the government will not be able to solve corruption immediately, the citizenry will wither away as they just walk around stressed and depressed like a carcass that is just following the masses.