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.

 

I HAVE ONE AND ONLY ONE AMBITION FOR OUR COUNTRY.. TO BE A CORRUPTION FREE PHILIPPINES.

 

I challenge Pres. Marcos, if you think Corruption cannot be stopped, I can look at you in the eye and say, that with your brilliance like your Father, Pres. Marcos, Sr., and my experience in government for a continuous 32 years of service, and my exposure as, namely: AFP JAGO assigned in Military Commission 28 prosecuting Martial Law cases; CDO Criminal Prosecutor; and consistent No. 1 nationwide as Judge of the Agrarian Court, DARAB (DAR ADUDICATION BOARD); 71 years old and retired, I MUST SAY, WE BOTH CAN STOP CORRUPTION, AND IMMEDIATELY; and that’s a promise. I was also the one in that October 4, 1990 MINDANAO SIEGE of Col. Alexander Noble and his supporters who made them surrender when they seized two military garrisons in Cagayan de Oro and Butuan. Mr. President, We must meet personally for brain storming. Truly, when it comes to restoring the country’s economy back on track, DECISIVE ACTION TO STOP CORRUPTION ISN’T EVERYTHING, IT’S THE ONLY THING.

Pres. Marcos just never gone around in his thoughts that stopping corruption is the primary ingredient which ultimately holds the potential for the country to prosper, which he is supposed to set to accomplish. Thus, the decision whether he would take action against it or take the fall for it, was now in his hands. Almost 6 months as President, the depth of his performance has been extremely underwhelming that it’s absolute worst moving forward, herding the polity to the boiling point. Corruption must be his utmost priority to address because this gets at a lot of the underlying causes.

Due to Corruption, the country is constantly breaking up faster, farther, and deeper than ever before, like everything is out of control, and Pres. Marcos should know. Against this backdrop, it seems everybody in the government is in a frenzy using their position to become important and arrogant, and waiting for grease money to prime them up. With these corrupt officials, the nation has wallowed in a pit of despondency.

Pres. Marcos cannot get not only a more dramatic ending but a more traumatic kind of President if he will not start lifting his head in stopping Corruption, and for the country to come back to its feet with a boom and a bam, peaking at a brighter future and making the country better than it was before when he got it. You don t win them all, but being honest, being right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it, is the best technique he can use to get the country back on its feet.

Pres. Marcos’s misconception that just because most Filipinos have now become very poor because of Corruption, they are often very suggestible and could easily be swayed and get to fall in line. We all know his lackluster performance, and his repertoire is digging deeper that was largely viewed as a once in a blue moon aberration and they are in our collective memory ingrained in us.

 

PRES. MARCOS, JR. WILL NOT FINISH HIS TERM AS PRESIDENT

 

How wrong they’re all were most of the time? With the heat turning up against the government, Pres. Marcos through Sec. Abalos is trying to keep up appearances that they are in control? No, you’re not. Cherry-pick·ing out the PNP Generals and Colonels to file their courtesy resignation en masse just because the PNP is not prone to stage a coup d’état, is bias and unfair. This is yet another interaction where the legality and ethicality of the demand by Sec. Abalos doesn't necessarily align. And this interaction highlights the discrepancies that often exist between said official’s authority to uphold the law and his discretionary responsibility to do so ethically. Mr. Marcos had an entirely negative climate built up for a coup d’état that hunkers down for the fight of his life, and that’s really the bottom line. Pres. Marcos was almost at the end of his rope now. If there was nothing big in this one, he was done. It’s not the most popular thing in the world to say but that doesn’t mean it’s not factual. This is a situation headed for trouble. This dangerous mix of sophistication and savagery that would send the nation into a downward spiral, and the forecast was a stormy one.

Where now many are struggling because our country is dealing with human tragedy, economy is in tailspin, crisis of natural disasters, widespread corruption, and worst, with a President who keeps on traveling for leisure and spending spree with people’s money, and the people barely crawling themselves out of those circumstances. It’s the diversification and flair for the dramatic that just overwhelm that makes everyone able to exploit every opportunity that comes their way. Decades of institutional corruption morphed into a free market free for all. The bones for a bankrupt state like the Philippines that lead a story of lies were there to be picked over and the rapacious new gangster class rapidly arose, Criminal millionaires minted overnight.

All the foregoing vow to expose the sordid side of Mr. Marcos’s face. Destiny plays a fateful blow and even the gods seem to have abandoned us all. Truly, Pres. Marcos displayed a hostile and aggressive demeanor throughout the encounter; barked orders on whims and caprices instead of attempting to engage in productive communication. He is inherently or by its very nature bad, improper, immoral or contrary to good conscience. The brutal and malicious nature of this President that have risen to the surface just deflects the government power that he wields for ego and for control. He's completely ignorant to the fact that a normal person would watch him and be shocked and appalled to him.

THE PNP WILL ALWAYS FEEL MORTIFIED THAT THEY HAD BEEN SINGLED OUT

 

IN THE TV NEWS LAST NIGHT, the government through the DILG Sec. Benjamin Abalos, Jr. has called on the Generals and Colonels of the PNP to submit their courtesy resignations.  Sec. Abalos wanted some, if not all of them, to get the hell out of the way. Yes, as what I revealed in my fb posts comprising 22 of them  that started on October 18 up to December 18, 2022, I repeatedly declared, we got a lot of bigshot Corrupt Public Officials not only on the side of the aisle of the PNP, but also the officials and personnel in the entire government. They are the scalawags that everybody talks about whose reputation was taken as the basis for the image of the public officials in the government engaged in a variety of corruption activities.

Sec. Abalos said, they have already identified who are the Generals and Colonels that are involved in Corruption. If that’s the case, why he still requires these people to resign? Why does he not subject them to indefinite suspension immediate and criminally prosecute them in court?  Or shall we say, he does not have the “Balls” to nail them down for fear of retaliation. Yes, he must be afraid with his decision because it was a wrong move, it doesn't seem like there's a rhyme or reason. Why only the PNP Generals and Colonels that he is targeting at. Surely, this is flat out discrimination, and the PNP will always feel mortified that they had been singled out. This will surely piss off the PNP organization. How about the other branch of service in the military, and the entire departments of the government? Are they all immaculately clean?

The move of Sec. Abalos speaks of the level of Brilliance we're dealing with on this side of the aisle of our government leadership. They have never been the sharpest tools in the shed.