Getting Away With Plunder I shall, for this time, take a serious position and express my thoughts and opinion as such. I cannot fathom why, after the decision of the Supreme Court exposing the unconstitutionality of the Disbursement Acceleration Program or DAP, too many of our so-called intelligent sectors of society continue to espouse the idea that President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III is not to blame and that only his Budget Secretary Butch Abad should fall on his sword. In fact, if we listen to Vice President Jejomar Binay, Fr. Joaquin Bernas, the civil society people and the yellow universe, Aquino was misled by his lieutenants and that he was ignorant of the misdeeds of his men. In fact, right now, they make him appear to be a fool if we take everything said in his defense as true (like the good faith argument.) Let me put a few things in perspective before we believe this line of propaganda. 1. President Aquino is a graduate of the illustrious Ateneo de Manila University, a school where fools are barred from entering, or so their entrance requirements appear to say so. 2. Aquino belongs to a very rich family where, even if there is no dearth of stupidity in such ranks, he was tutored, trained and developed to be a national leader. 3. Aquino does not only have cabinet secretaries for advisers, he has a long line of family advisors, relatives and functionaries who are not only respected in their fields but some are actually experts. 4. Aquino was a three term member of congress and a single term senator before he was catapulted to the post of president of the republic. And while it does not signal intelligence and wisdom, it does afford knowledge and experience (the two sets do not necessarily go together you see.) 5. Aquino was the author of the Senate Bill 3121. The final nail in his political coffin, where he proposes the abolition of budget impoundment. This is the very act he and his supporters claim he was ignorant of and only Abad could have thought of. I have never believed in the secret argument that Aquino is a dumb, stupid man being manipulated by his people, just as I have never believed Joseph Erap Estrada is an idiot because he could not speak proper english. Only a really intelligent man can come up with these kinds of obfuscations to hide their true agenda (well either that or he is a truly stupid man which I refuse to believe.) So, I propose this argument instead. That Aquino was complicit with his cabinet secretaries and political allies in robbing billions from the Filipino people. That he may not be the brains of the whole debacle, but he is the signing finger which can be construed as the muscle of enforcement. That he may have been misled by his men is true, but only to the extent of the thievery but not the actions in itself. I also propose that in his arrogance and possible ignorance in some of his mens agenda, he really believed he can get away with it using his popularity and his familys romance with the Filipino people. And while I demand that he be made to pay for his mistakes, I guess to an extent, he may be right in assuming that as an Aquino, he may actually get away it, just as the Estradas, Marcoses, Arroyos and their kind always do.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 10:19:18 +0000
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