TRUTH ABOUT NOYNOY’S REGIME IN our search for truth about the state of corruption in government today, we came upon a statement that declared President Noynoy Aquino’s administration isn’t different from that of his mother Cory’s regime, “…characterized by callous shamelessness and propped up by endless popularity surveys.” The statement didn’t come from Arlyn Surio Aquinos political enemies and critics, not from media pundits and analysts, not from academe’s gurus and concerned citizens, but from a manifesto of a restive group in the military ranks called Reformist Officers United (ROU) that decided to “save the country from further ruin…by the country’s present leaders who are weak, corrupt, venal, insensitive and self-serving.” They called their manifesto an “Article of Faith” that carried the signatures of officers from the Philippine Army, the Philippine Air Force, the Philippine Navy, the Philippine Marines, the Philippine National Police, the Philippine Coast Guard, the National Bureau of Investigation and the Presidential Security Guard. The ROU stated that its members, who will remain anonymous for the meantime, attended the “Million People” anti-pork march at the Luneta Park last August 26, and that they reached the “crucial decision after much contemplation of the political, social, economic and national security situation that has turned from bad to worse…” and they assured that “…together we will win this battle if possible with less bloodshed.” Here are pertinent excerpts from the manifesto of the reformist military officers: “PNoy’s government stages spurious shows of piety and compassion…goes through the motions of apologizing for numerous blunders in public… repeatedly frustrating the honest aspirations of our people by offering its deceitful brand of democracy… deceiving the armed forces into fighting its battles of self-aggrandizement while undermining the military at every turn… reducing the once-proud military and police organization into a private security force, dedicated to perpetuate its status quo… “From the first day, PNoy, using useless advocacy of ‘Matuwid na Daan’, has actually steered the country in one direction alone, that of private gains and mindless arrogance…for more than three long, unhappy years (Aquino) has drifted with neither will or ability to govern, muddling through all our national crises, setting a record of corruption and plunder, incompetence and clumsiness… offering solutions which are short-sighted, meaningless palliatives and rhetoric that leave more frustrated than ever. “Daily, the public has to contend with (Aquino’s) mismanagement, extravagance, arrogance and incompetence… they suffer the high prices and low wages, scarcity of jobs, absence of transportation, water shortage, high fuel prices, the breakdown in law and order, moral decay, and endless salvaging… our elections are farces, contests of force and money, spewed by computers and automated machines…and the country’s strength is vitiated by corruption, plunder and ignorance in high places.” These startling excerpts from the ROU manifesto sounded like a truer “State of the Nation” than President Aquino’s version delivered before a joint session of Congress at the Batasan last July, in which he claimed unverifiable accomplishments during his three years in office. Not only that, the manifesto of the reformist officers practically confirmed many of the findings of political observers, media pundits and commentators, and shared by concerned citizens, including those from business, academe and religious organizations, which were reported in this column last Tuesday about the issues revolving around Aquino ever since he ascended the presidency three years, one month and 26 days ago. Those issues involving Aquino include the unconscionable manner he treated Janet Lim Napoles, a principal figure in the scandalous misuse of the pork barrel funds, inside Malacañang Palace, belying his “I don’t know her” statement; his incredulous gulosity for public funds, such as questionable spending of P21.5 billion from his unaudited presidential pork barrel funds; his unaccounted disbursements of over P10 billion from the Malampaya Special Fund, and out of that amount he reportedly distributed P900 million to 12 bogus non-governmental or NGOs linked to Napoles; his unheard of salary of P74.4 billion in three years as president (or P24.8 billion a year), with another P74.4 billion for the next three years in office; and his control of at least 50 percent of the national budget or more than a trillion pesos of public funds which were never subjected to congressional scrutiny. And today, Aquino stands accused of being behind the hasty filing of plunder charges before the Office of the Ombudsman against three opposition senators, together with two former members of the House of Representatives and some government officials, to divert public attention from his own involvement in Napoles’ pork barrel scandal, and his innumerable misdeeds, mistakes, blunders in office. All this, in the perception of political observers, pundits and analysts in academe, could very well develop into an explosive political crisis, and, quite possibly, the fall from power of President Aquino before 2016! *** Quote of the Day: “In a free and democratic government, you cannot restrain the voice of the people. Every man will speak as he thinks!” – George Washington Thought of the Day: “Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be a bad government, which sooner or later becomes an autocratic government!” – William L.M. 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Posted on: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:54:45 +0000
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