Although Mr.
Marcos didn’t seem to care about corruption, we the citizenry should not allow
his indifference to his oath of duty as the President of our country to
dissuade us from exercising our rights to bring this issue to the public forum.
How
many more damage to our country it would take for the people to realize that we
have to unite and force the government to do drastic measure to stop the rising
toll of corrupt public officials to continue their routine to ablaze the
country with their trail of evil cons or will the good guys throw gas on their
fire. God Bless the President, God Bless the Filipinos, God Bless the
Philippines.
In hindsight, when Pres. Marcos, Jr. was interviewed
one time by Mr. Erwin Tulfo what he will do about the corruption in the
government, he answered: “Yung corruption, talagang hindi matitigil yan. Dahil as
I keep reminding everyone, corruption is not a Filipino condition, it is a
human condition.” This knockout statement without reasonable belief based on
specific and articulable facts is a reckless disregard of his Oath of Office as
President of this country. Hence, it is difficult to rationalize for its
unproductive overreaction to do so, driven by his emotional responses rather
than a desire to protect and serve the citizenry. Mr. Marcos also failed to
consider the psychological implications of emotional distress, severe physical,
mental, and emotional harm it would have to the Filipino people. This
happenstance highlights a clear disconnect between the functionality and the
implication associated with his position as President, and his interest in
preserving the security, well-being, and logical practicality of his
constituency. This shows two rough possessions in a row by Pres. Marcos, Jr.
Mr. Marcos’s reason why he believes
Corruption cannot be stopped is clearly unreasonable because as President, his
job is meant to be executed in service of the greater good of society. But
sadly, the nature of his stance often created an environment conducive to abuse,
and semantically justified wrongdoings. I’m almost certain that Pres. Marcos had
been dealing with a mentally and likely physically taxing situation and he was
under a lot of emotional stress for a litany of reasons that he was ignorant of
the entire totality of the circumstances and the ramifications happening across
the Nation as the result of Corruption. Therefore,
nothing that Pres. Marcos did was conducive to establishing an environment of
trust and confidence with the citizenry and the entire world. By expanding on
this analysis, Pres. Marcos, by maintaining his unprofessional and
dispassionate attitude about his stance not to do anything about Corruption, this
solidifies the notion he has obviously violated his oath of Office as President
of the Philippines.
Indeed, Pres. Marcos, Jr in exercising poor
discretion by choosing to ignore corruption rather than solving it, has
violated several policy standards under the Constitution, and for demonstrating
poor character and an overall questionable ethical aptitude. There’s no doubt
that his decision to put the issue of corruption on the side line was a serious
ethical question where a President in performing his mandated task must see to
it that he is making the most reasonable and ethical decision possible within
the bounds of his authority as President. He is required to perform his oath of
office with honor under the Constitution. His oath of Office explicitly
promotes accountability in maintaining high ethical standards, and that Presidents
who neglect to consider the ethicality of their decisions are essentially
betraying their oath.
For Pres. Marcos, in failing to fulfill his
job description, he demonstrated a behavior that trivialized the social impact
and diminished his relationship with his constituents and the entire world. I
urged my fellow countrymen to bring his misconduct in allowing Corruption “to
proliferate forever” be questioned in the proper forum. Corruption has now
become a tradition and culture in our country, in the sense, that as public
officials, it is natural for them to claim the privilege to corrupt without
regard to the tears and sufferings to most of the citizens. The Filipinos are
now among the scrub at the lowest level to the standard of living in the world.
Our dreams in life were somewhere way off in the distance.
When you get into these bad signs, when more
than one thing goes wrong at the same time, it can be kind of like a perfect
storm that can be ominous. You cannot throw caution to the wind. Are we going
to wait to hit rock bottom so we can get back up?
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