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.

MY 22nd POST-- I’M HOPING PRES. MARCOS, JR WOULD HAVE A SENSE OF DÉJÀ VU WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS FATHER.

 

Pres. Marcos, and his first Lady, have the same chemistry, connectivity and creativity. Both are always enjoying their tour around the world to flaunt their new identity to as many ears and eyes as they could reach. And while the first couple are jet sitting, our country, on the other hand, remain in decay and ruins due to Corruption. In hindsight, Mr. Marcos keeps dodging the bullet from resolving the widespread Corruption. He declared with implacability, he has nothing to do with it and “he will leave it as is” because it was insoluble. Truly, such conclusive pronouncement was inappropriately posited. It does not require a stretch of the imagination to conclude that it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with the conditions the citizens are in, or even stirs people to anger, move them to tears and sorrow, and inflict great pain. Moreover, such declaration has progressively escalated the frantic nature of the citizens’ safety and jeopardy which is reaching severity. With the said revelation, Mr. Marcos is digging his hole.  

I don't see how any freedom-loving citizens of our country can look at Pres. Marcos and not instantly conclude that they don’t like what hurtful words Mr. Marcos had said. In fact, Pres. Marcos infringed his qualified immunity by violating clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known a right is clearly established; and that every reasonable official would have understood that what he is doing violates that right.  May I encourage Pres. Marcos to familiarize himself about the essence of his oath of office upon which he clearly broken; that he has the mandatory duty and obligation to protect and serve the country and its citizens, to provide security and welfare -- to make life easy, provided with good things of life. Pres. Marcos, being a quitter, he will not be able to bring the economy back on track with Corruption committed at will. Which is why, until now the people were still living in gloom and were gloomy due to unrestrained activity of Corruption committed by public officials because Mr. Marcos stoop to bow down to solving the same.

I can see the horror on the faces of the people. They looked distracted and they want to alert everyone what future the Filipinos is going to have. My mouth was kind of drawn and tight. By his words and action, I could tell that Pres. Marcos hasn’t considered the prevalence of Corruption in the government as something that should be taken seriously. With such unprofessional and heartless posture viz-a-vis Corruption, a fortiori, there's nothing stopping Mr. Marcos from doing more than that. His posture is indeed a slippery slope with no Safety Net.

I had little to do to process and gird everyone for what was ahead. In real time, the horror that played out in my mind and soul have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and unyielding anger across the board. But we had to resort to peaceful means through the power of the pen, and not through force, at least, as an opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign to free the Filipino people against possible hardship or adversity due to widespread Corruption.

In this country of ours where a government via a President can destroy your life figuratively or even literally speaking for any reason at all, but we, Filipinos, ALWAYS not take it sitting down.  You can reference my point to what happened to former Pres. Marcos, Sr, the father of Pres. Marcos, Jr, in 1986. The nation had witnessed an act of EDSA REVOLUTION that ousted Pres. Marcos, Sr. I’M HOPING THAT PRES. MARCOS, JR WOULD HAVE A SENSE OF DÉJÀ VU WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS FATHER.

MY 21ST POST-- THIS IS MY MESSAGE, THIS IS RIGHT FROM MY HEART, THIS IS MY DEEP-FELT POLITICAL BELIEF: SO LONG AS MR. MARCOS IS THE PRESIDENT, THE NATION WILL ALWAYS BE UNPRODUCTIVE DUE TO CORRUPTION.

 

 

In many ways, it is Corruption that is at the core of the Nation’s downfall or success, and at least, at the core of the views and the public opinion of foreign countries on the Filipinos. 99 percent of the Filipino citizens put the crime of Corruption in their top 5 priorities…and one in three say the issue of corrupt public officials is their number one concern. That’s because for us, the crime of corruption by public officials is a hurt we feel each day. Nearly 80 percent out of 110 million of our population are marginalized poor suffering from poverty. Look at the people sitting on either side of you. Imagine one was a marginalized poor, no food, no home, no job– forced to live on razor’s edge (kapit sa patalim). They are alive… but being alive is not the same as surviving.

We have to be concerned with Corruption, which is now widespread across the country because we’re living with its consequences. We don’t have the luxury of shifting our focus away. Otherwise, the more corrupt public officials gain leverage, they can exploit… and the greater the risk of instability we're going to encounter. That’s why we decry Pres. Marcos’s action in shifting away his focus from corruption. So, we, the Filipinos, must denounce the declaration of our Pres. Marcos for displaying blatant disregard to his Constitutional duties and obligations TO PROTECT AND SERVE THE COUNTRY AND ITS CITIZENS re: his revelation that he will just leave the issue of Corruption “just as it is,” which in tagalog, “Pabayaan nalang natin yan.” For this, his shameless persistence in a stern manner based on his ambiguous notion which he failed to elaborate further, is a gratuitous humiliation to himself and a testament to the true tone of his adamant stand to neglectfully solve corruption in government. This created a cloud of confusion and distrust upon him among the citizenry as to his capability, effectiveness, competence, and respectable presence as a President.

I respectfully challenge the logic and legitimacy of Mr. Marcos in declining to resolve the issue of Corruption. Moreso, the Filipinos strictly mean business and the President’s minute of fame were numbered and we have plenty of time to do it. It is worthy to stress, that any public official who displays such reckless neglect for Constitutional rights should have their authority questioned. Setting aside Pres. Marcos’s unprofessional remarks, much of his conduct could likely be considered unconstitutional. Indeed, Mr. Marcos demonstrated his ignorance of his rights and obligations as the President that would have a lasting effect that resonates throughout the entire country. In this case, Pres. Marcos’s conduct is unnecessary; likely illegal, and only served to create conflict. Pres. Marcos sealed his own fate via the Court of public opinion. Clearly, it is incomprehensible that Pres. Marcos, while acknowledging the proliferation of Corruption in the government but instead of obligating himself to resolve the same, he chose to ignore it.

Thus, the Filipinos are impatient when it comes to Corruption because time has not been a friend. Distraughtly though, the crime of Corruption in our government, which is our existential foe, seems like our leaders used to describe it as intractable, even insoluble. But for the many Filipinos, it is clear from the sequence of life that these Presidents that have gone and come, they are all indifferent to care about the issue of Corruption because they are also allegedly into Corruption.