The Philippines is no longer chopped liver
Analysis and Opinion
By Joe America
The Philippines is alive and well, front and center, gaining traction, and lookin’ good. The Philippines is no longer chopped liver. “Um, hey Gemini, explain that idiom.”
- The “chopped liver” idiom is used informally to describe someone or something that is not important, is being overlooked, or is being treated as insignificant. It is often expressed as the question, “What am I, chopped liver?” which is a way to question why one is being ignored or undervalued.The idiom’s meaning stems from the perception that the food dish chopped liver, a side or appetizer, is often overshadowed by more prominent dishes, symbolizing a lack of importance.
With much of the world in turmoil and generating hate, the Philippines is moving away from hate to sense, stability, and peace. The nation is well educated and this education is sifting up through social media and mainstream media to challenge the backwardness of the Duterte regime. This force has also focused a laser beam of attention on a level of corruption that is tangible as homes and businesses are wiped out with every passing rainstorm. Flood control projects were used to enrich government officials and contractors. The rout is on to identify them.
The only fly in the Philippine peace ointment is China, a nation that simply does not respect other peoples or laws.
The Philippines went through a very rough patch under President Duterte. State-sponsored murder, corruption, incompetence, and isolation.
President Marcos, no icon of virtue for sure, has righted the listing ship and has it moving forward again, reining in a police force that went rogue, upgrading defense, kicking out crime-infested pogos, sending Duterte to jail, working aggressively to build economic and military partnerships with other nations, and taming inflation while keeping GDP growth second best in Asia.
The nation is respectable again, a wholesome and legitimate key player in Asia. Enemy of none, law abiding (in ambition if not in perfect execution), as free as democracies can be, and an economic powerhouse rising. Well, not a powerhouse yet, calm down Joe. But moving forward nicely and reducing poverty.
“Hey Gemini, describe the progress of the Philippine economy!”
- Philippine economic progress is best described as a dynamic, services-led growth story characterized by strong domestic demand, robust remittances, and increasing urbanization, though it faces challenges like poverty, inequality, and environmental vulnerability. The country has demonstrated rapid growth, placing it among the fastest-growing in the East Asia and Pacific region and is on track for a transition to upper-middle-income status. Growth is fueled by strong consumer spending, the expanding services sector (especially business process outsourcing), increased public infrastructure investment, and a young, growing population.
But here’s the big deal, the secret story. It’s about that young, growing population.
Intellectually aware Filipinos are prominent on social media, and they are loud. They put Bam Aquino and Kiko Pangilinan in the Senate, a surprise to many, and a sign of the rise of sense and honesty as a political force in the Philippines. DDS no longer control the narrative. They are a strong voice, still, but it is increasingly recognized as a voice for corruption, China, a dynastic cult, and disaster.
Dynamic is a word that attaches nicely to the Philippines these days.
LOL, chopped liver does not.
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Cover photo from the blog Dateline Ibalon article “Under Water, Over Budget: The Flood Control Corruption Scandal“.
The Society of Honor by Joe America 
I used that here in TSOH maybe about the topic of brain drain, with me opining that those left behind are not chopped liver.
I may have used chopped liver self servingly as well at least once.
I once used it to tout Isko Moreno before he revealed himself as hostile to yellows. Ended up with egg on my face, heh heh.
Aargh. Typos due to auto correct. I already edited them to oblivion.
ps
You get that egg throwing from the I told you so group.
Better just do an aaargh and duck.
Good morning from Belgium.
I have been musing on this subject of the Philippines’ place in the region, and the world, for a while — my broad observation of both Aquino and Marcos Jr. is that their main impediment to progress are the rival dynasties jockeying for power along with their shifting alliances. Indeed local dynasties are quite powerful, placing their members into captaincies, mayorships, governorships, even nationally in Congress and the presidency. One man (or woman) in Malacañang cannot hope to fight back alone against the rabble of dynastic heads and their installed apparatchiks across their local power bases.
One big mistake of EDSA in my opinion is that the power of the many dissipated quickly rather than being sustained. Of course, there was no structure then to sustain anything at all, and there is hardly any structure today. A smart leader must start building that structure in order to generate political power from the many rather from the few. Methinks Filipino politicians often mistake and overestimate the power of backing from the well-off, when in (evil) examples such as Quiboloy’s KOJC were able to generate immense power from the mostly poor’s donations and support. To do so, the Philippines must become a propositional nation with an ear listening to the quiet whispering and chatter of the many over the shouting of the few.
Happy travels, always. The current corruption scandal has turned government on its head. The “good guys” seem back in charge and are more aggressive than they’ve ever been. It’s awesome to watch.
sometimes, I am suspicious of joey, haha! he’s in EU, and look, there were apparently suicide drones in poland that the polish military shoot down for invading poland’s air space, then netanyahu bombed doha and got few hamas militants dead. riots in france too. greta tunberg’s gaza flotilla got bombed twice by drones. and since joey took leave of us, president marcos got a big break, and massive flood scam exposed. and we are doing humongous housekeeping, cleaning off corruption and going into the heart of it.
and lest but not last, duterte’s apparently cognitive deterioration at the hauge that may make him not fit to stand ICC trial. when just few months ago, when visited by daughter kitty, she reported to the media that duterte is in good health! maybe, kitty should be there at the trial, her father may perk up in good health at the sight of her!
Haha
Joey the super spy Joseph Bond.
shaken, not stirred.
Yes, it’s clear he’s a spy for someone. Maybe multidimensional. Duterte is done anyway you look at it. The ICC will figure it out.
The grand father of my mother is a Belgian.
Enjoy your stay thanks for dropping a comment.
as regards poor donations, united states is asking for quiboloy’s extradition, for alleged human trafficking. quiboloy has been sending filipino church members to to united states not for bible study but to go begging on street corners. they made thousands of dollars. it was even reported that when quiboloy’s private airplane was detained in hawaii, there were lots of cash found much much more than what is allowed. quiboloy got to keep the cash though, coz apparently donation given via begging is not crime. there were branches of quiboloy’s church in united states too.
@Joey, we discussed devolution once
With Dizo’s lament that DOTR is centralized and DPWH is not then aside from Congress this is also an LGU problem.
Got it — you want global analogs of how devolution (or decentralization) has worked in other countries, and how that compares with the Philippines’ current DPWH corruption/devolution debate. Let me outline a few key cases where decentralization turned out to be a bane or a boon:
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🌍 Global Analogs of Devolution & Corruption
1. Indonesia – Post-Suharto “Big Bang” Decentralization (1999–2001)
What Happened: After the fall of Suharto, Indonesia devolved massive powers and resources to districts.
Outcome:
✅ Helped democratize politics, gave local leaders more control.
❌ But corruption became more localized and fragmented. “Rent-seeking” shifted from Jakarta to district governments. Many districts became “mini-fiefdoms” of local dynasties.
Parallel to PH: Similar risk if Philippine LGUs with weak institutions receive big budgets without adequate checks.
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2. Nigeria – Oil Revenue & Federal Allocation to States
What Happened: Oil revenue distributed from the center to 36 states and 774 local governments.
Outcome:
❌ Rampant misuse of funds, ghost projects, and state-level corruption. Governors acted as “chief patrons.”
Development lagged despite huge resource transfers.
Parallel to PH: Like the Mandanas ruling giving LGUs a bigger share of taxes, Nigeria shows what happens if transfers happen without strict accountability.
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3. Kenya – 2010 Constitution & County Governments
What Happened: Devolution gave 47 counties more power and budget to counter Nairobi’s dominance.
Outcome:
✅ Some counties saw improved service delivery, health clinics, and infrastructure.
❌ But many counties became hotbeds of local corruption and “tenderpreneurs” (contractors with political ties).
Parallel to PH: Kenya illustrates both sides — opportunities for local innovation but also decentralized graft.
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4. India – Panchayati Raj & State-Level Power
What Happened: India devolved governance to states and village councils.
Outcome:
✅ States with strong bureaucracies (e.g., Kerala, Tamil Nadu) delivered better social services.
❌ In weaker states (e.g., Bihar, Uttar Pradesh), corruption, capture by local elites, and inefficiencies flourished.
Parallel to PH: Like Indian states, Philippine LGUs vary widely in governance capacity — leading to uneven development.
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5. Brazil – Municipal Control Over Social Programs
What Happened: Municipalities managed key services like health (SUS) and education.
Outcome:
✅ In some areas, participatory budgeting improved transparency and outcomes.
❌ In others, local political capture led to corruption and misuse of funds.
Parallel to PH: Shows that with citizen participation and oversight, devolution can fight corruption rather than worsen it.
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6. Spain – Autonomous Communities
What Happened: Spain devolved powers to regions like Catalonia, Basque Country.
Outcome:
✅ Allowed cultural and political expression, strong regional institutions.
❌ In some cases, corruption scandals shifted to regional governments (e.g., Andalusia “ERE scandal”).
Parallel to PH: Illustrates that devolution doesn’t end corruption — it just changes where it happens.
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⚖️ Lessons for the Philippines
Bane Risk: Like Indonesia, Nigeria, and Kenya, the Philippines risks multiplying corruption centers if LGUs lack capacity, transparency, and oversight.
Benefit Potential: Like Brazil and India (Kerala), devolution can improve accountability if combined with citizen participation, strong audit systems, and empowered civil society.
Mixed Reality: Like Spain, corruption may not disappear but simply relocate — unless reforms are built in.
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👉 So globally, devolution is not inherently good or bad. It depends on institutions, transparency mechanisms, and citizen engagement. For the Philippines, in light of the DPWH scandal, uncontrolled devolution looks dangerous — but guided devolution with reforms could be transformative.
Would you like me to build a comparative table (Philippines vs these countries) showing what worked and what went wrong? That might make it clearer.
Oops
This was supposed to be posted first.
That’s a very good and timely question. There is no simple yes/no answer, but I can lay out how devolution can be a bane in this context, what its potential benefits are, and whether the recent DPWH corruption/flood-control scandal suggests devolution made things worse (or could make reforms more effective).
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What is “devolution” in the Philippine context
“Devolution” refers to giving more powers, responsibilities, and resources to local government units (LGUs) — cities, municipalities, provinces — as opposed to having them centrally managed by national agencies. The recent push toward “full devolution” comes out of the Mandanas-Garcia ruling, which increases LGUs’ share in national tax revenue and thus gives them more autonomy.
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How Devolution Could Help
Before evaluating if it’s a bane, it’s fair to see how devolution might help address some of the problems the scandal reveals:
1. Closer Accountability and Local Oversight
LGUs are closer to the ground; in principle, local residents can monitor projects more directly; local media, civil society, may have stronger leverage to check anomalies.
2. More Responsive Public Services
Devolution can allow faster response to flood control needs or infrastructure problems in local areas, since LGUs would not always need to wait for national agency approval or funding.
3. Better Fit to Local Conditions
Local governments may better understand geography, risk of flooding, soil type, drainage, etc. They might plan projects more appropriately than a centralized body may.
4. Reduced Bureaucratic Layers
If national agencies have many layers of review and contracting, there may be more “touch points” for corruption. LGU-led projects may sometimes streamline approvals, procurement, etc. (though that also depends on the capacity and integrity of LGUs).
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How Devolution Could Be a Bane — Especially Under Current Conditions
The recent DPWH scandal (ghost projects, rigged bidding, advance kickbacks, etc.) reveals systemic corruption, weak oversight, problematic procurement practices. Under these conditions, devolution can go badly or even make things worse. Here are some risks:
1. Local capture & patronage politics intensify
If local governments are dominated by powerful political families or are weak in transparency/accountability, devolution can mean that corrupt practices shift from national to local levels rather than being eliminated.
2. Variation in capacity and resources
Not all LGUs have the same administrative, technical, financial capacity. Some can run projects properly; others lack engineers, planning staff, procurement lawyers, etc. This disparity could lead to mismanaged or substandard infrastructure, if transferred without support.
3. Local-level corruption without sufficient oversight
If national auditing, procurement rules, transparency mechanisms are weak or not adequately enforced, LGU-run projects may become additional venues for corruption rather than less.
4. Fragmentation / coordination problems
Flood control often needs coordination across boundaries (watersheds, rivers, catchment areas) that cross municipalities or provinces. If responsibilities are too segmented, you may get inconsistent or disjointed responses, loopholes, or blame games.
5. Duplication, inefficiencies
If every LGU has to build its own capacity (bid committees, technical staff, oversight), there might be duplication, higher cost per unit of capacity, etc. Poor economies of scale.
6. Reduced national leverage / standard setting
A national agency like DPWH has more capacity to set standards, inspect, enforce, etc. Devolving without clear, enforced national standards may lead to erosion of construction quality, procurement integrity, etc.
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What the Recent DPWH Scandal Suggests
What we know from the flood control / DPWH scandal:
Allegations of ghost projects, substandard or non-existent infrastructure.
Mock bidding among companies owned by the same beneficial owner (fake competition).
Kickbacks demanded by multiple parties (contractors, officials, legislators).
The national government is stepping in via investigations, suspending bidding, etc.
From this, we see that many problems are systemic and up/down the chain: from DPWH executives, district engineers, contractors, possibly lawmakers, etc.
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Is Devolution a Bane in Light of the Scandal?
Putting together devolution theory + what the scandal shows, devolution could be a bane under current conditions — but it isn’t inherently so. It depends heavily on how devolution is implemented, what safeguards are put in, and whether there is political will to enforce rules. Here are some reasons why it looks risky right now:
Risk of local corruption magnifying national corruption. If national agencies are already deeply compromised, handing over more responsibility, budget, and discretion to LGUs could increase the number of potential corrupt actors.
Weak oversight / monitoring capacity at local levels. Many LGUs may not have the institutional capacity (procurement competence, audit, monitoring) to detect or prevent the kind of abuses seen in the DPWH scandal.
Coordination issues, especially for projects with regional/national implications. Flood control is often not contained within one municipality. If LGUs are in charge, but neighboring LGUs are unaligned, there may be flooding upstream, poor drainage, etc., undermining effectiveness.
Standards enforcement may suffer. If national standards are diluted or if LGUs are not strictly overseen by national bodies like the Commission on Audit (COA), quality may drop, as seen in ghost/substandard projects.
So, yes, with the status quo, devolution could exacerbate some of the problems in the DPWH scandal or allow them to shift in location rather than being eliminated.
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What Has to Be Done to Ensure Devolution Is a Benefit
Given the risks, here are things that should accompany devolution so that it becomes helpful rather than a bane:
1. Strong national standards and enforcement
Even if LGUs implement projects, there must be binding standards (technical, environmental, procurement) and robust oversight by national bodies (COA, Ombudsman, etc.).
2. Capacity-building for LGUs
Training, technical assistance, auditing know-how, procurement integrity support, staffing, etc.
3. Transparency and citizen participation
Open disclosures of project plans, budgets, procurement documents. Civil society involvement (local media, transparency watchdogs) and enabling grievance reporting.
4. Inter-LGU and LGU-national coordination
For infrastructure, watershed/flood mitigation, etc., coordination across administrative boundaries is critical.
5. Political reform to reduce patronage/dynastic control
Measures to limit undue political influence over budget insertions, procurement, bid rigging, etc.
6. Sanctions and accountability
Enforcement of penalties, blacklisting corrupt contractors, prosecuting wrongdoing, etc. Recent steps from the DPWH leadership show movement toward this.
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Conclusion
So: Is devolution a bane for the Philippines in light of the DPWH scandal? It can be, under current weaknesses—if it’s poorly overseen, if LGUs are themselves corrupt or lack capacity, and if transparency / auditing / enforcement remain weak. But it doesn’t have to be. If paired with reforms, safeguards, national oversight, devolution might help bring government closer to the people, enhance accountability, and improve responsiveness — helping prevent future scandals or mitigate their damage.
If you want, I can map out some concrete scenarios: how devolution might worsen things under current DPWH issues, versus how a “reformed devolution” model might look. Do you want me to sketch those out?
I heard the text questions to Sec Dizon during his interview with Karen Davila asking if he will use AI to reduce corruption and he said he is asking the help of DICT.
I asked chatgpt about ai and governance
Yes — but with caveats. Artificial intelligence (AI) can play a supportive role in improving governance in a country like the Philippines, where corruption has historically been a major challenge. However, AI is not a magic cure; it works best when paired with political will, transparency, and accountability mechanisms. Here are some key ways AI can help: 🔹 1. Transparency and Anti-Corruption
🔹 2. Public Service Delivery
🔹 3. Law Enforcement and Judiciary
🔹 4. Citizen Empowerment
🔹 5. Safeguards and Risks
But AI in governance also has risks if deployed in a corrupt environment:
✅ Bottom Line:
AI can strengthen governance in the Philippines by automating oversight, increasing transparency, and empowering citizens, but it is not a substitute for good governance. It requires independent institutions, strong data protection, and civil society oversight to ensure AI isn’t misused as another tool for corruption.
Would you like me to give you concrete examples of how other developing nations have already used AI to curb corruption, and then see how those can be adapted to the Philippine context?
Thanks, Karl. It’s a tool, by my thinking. It’s not the engine. That seems to be what this report says. Giving ideas of how it can help is actually helping. So definitely useful.
You can go Mcgyver with it or a monkey wrench thrower Ethan Hunt either way they are both awesome in tool using.
Mcgyver, what a great show that was. That’s the way to go, for sure.
Oh yes, here we have Joseph Bond. Refer to KB’s comment
The topic was posted earlier. This is another article about Budgeting and blockchain.
https://opinion.inquirer.net/185918/budget-transparency-through-blockchain
My mind goes into a freeze about blockchain. Same as with Micha’s money manufacturing passion.
When it comes to mind freezes you are in the Arctic or Antarctic my mind is on Pluto
LOL, that’s cold!
Lol
if philippines budget has been indeed blockchained priorly, I am confused why we are in such big budget mess right now, with so much insertions taking place that no one knows apparently about, let alone traced. the budgets whereabouts must go tru official channels via both houses inquiry before we can get on to who is who and what is what!
methink, there is too much problems with blockchain, it can barely scale, can it? maybe same with mutability. once data is recorded, it cannot be altered, yeah right, so no data is entered; nothing recorded, nothing altered. and many more problems, except that problems and answers are off limits to many of us, they are the very sacred ground for techies to keep closest to their chest, their closely guarded secrets their alone. once we are let in, techies may lose monopoly and they may no longer be needed.
so now vince dizon will rely on dict. I hope the techies in dict are honest with vince dizon and not summat overly protective of their families and friends who are maybe currently implicated in the flood scam.
I’ve guessed that Dizon clearly read my recent article advocating AI in the agencies. Going to DICT for the talent was a stroke of genius. I wonder what they’ll cook up. Or tool up.
trust no one! if I were dizon, I’d take a week’s crash course on blockchain technology, so I know what techies are on about. not fooling him and telling him what they think he should know, and not what dizon really wants to know.
further, dizon should ask for the card, the master key, or the master code so he can access blockchain anytime, anywhere and read anything, and comprehend all.
I very much doubt if our president is accorded the master key, or the master code for him to readily access the chain. he is maybe being kept ignorant and out of the loop. same maybe in senate or the house, solons are excluded from the chain, and have to rely on the honesty and integrity of techies involved, who no one can barely vouch for.
Maybe 3 people in the Philippines understand it.
We have ways to be Luddites in bypassing systems I guess Congress erases all thesee automated effortsin budgeting.Just by having too many of them in a committee even the do called small bi-cam.
have you seen those wads of money on the table? bundles upon bundles of them. dapat e transfer, not cash transfer. cash is very easy to launder. e transfers are easy to trace, they leave trails, not so with cash.
I wonder how marked money works. I always aee that in movies and TV. You can’t do that all the time.
At least the talahib docs in Recto is now….
Relocated
recto has yet to suggest there be limit to cash withdrawals. scumbags just cannot withdrew millions of pesos in just one transaction.
for legit payment of govt infras, e transfer would do nicely. all bank securities should be in place to ensure e transfer is not diverted to hacker’s account, but goes straight to the account of a legit contractor.
anyhow, I think, banks were not alerted of suspicious activity for them to mark money. if they were, then banks maybe complicit.
You make a good point. Ordering up that much cash is a sure sign that money laundering is happening. That banks did not have an automatic protocol for alerting NBI is surprising.
So.many bright ideas are compiling.
In casinos fake drivers license were used in buying chips and faking winnings
so a light bulb solution was proposed ahem
to certify only legit winnings.
so basic all you have to do is just do it.
Will.lto fire employees who never run out of things to fix.
Sure money and drivers licence has security features but you need a special flash light or maybe just a flashlight for checking.
They ran out of flashlights.
I was talking about the Recto ave named afyer his grandfather was named after but Ralph Recto works too
https://philstarlife.com/celebrity/820610-filipino-celebrities-mourn-death-of-charlie-kirk
Oh God. Those people should be strongly reminded that in his hubris he is more Goebbels; he intends to eventually “purify” the United States.
just one bullet, and kirk himself was purified, silenced forever, never to talk again. may he rest in eternal peace. cannot really blame our master spy, joseph bond, for the purifying deed, he is in EU and cannot be in two places at once.
Right. Their sense of Christian values and human rights is really screwed up. Craziness.
The Kramers. Now I have another good reason to avoid anything from that overrated family insinuating into almost everything.
slightly OT: https://x.com/yv3sssssssm/status/1966124830836863204 I didn’t mean my appeal seriously to make Vice Ganda Constitutional Majesty (gender-neutral, no his or her majesty, just majesty) of the Philippines , but Director Lav Diaz seems to really want Vice to run for against Inday Sara in 2028:
“On an Ang Walang Kwentang Podcast episode, Lav Diaz said that his favorite Vice Ganda films are Praybeyt Benjamin and Petrang Kabayo.
For him, it’s already time for Vice Ganda to run for office to counter the looming run of SWOH for President.”
The Philippines can do better, I’m confident.
true that, lav diaz was just horsing around and not to be taken seriously! philippines can do better. but if vice really want to test political stamina, the intense scrutiny and the pintakasi that accompany politics, vice can always campaign, and campaign like hell, for the candidate running against absentee veep sara duterte. three months of intense campaign with no let up until polling day is not for the faint hearted. that should really test vice’s mettle and resolve. a taste of what is to come, and I didnt mean cake licking! the cake reviews floored vice, and vice took time off. have that been in politics, vice would just have to soldier on, water off the duck’s back. maybe laughing on the outside, crying on the inside, but much toughened by the experience.
jet sky was duterte’s, but he is not running for president in 2028, sara might and jet ski is not sara’s lululemon, but airplanes. sara flies away at the 1st sign of trouble, gone overseas, again! gumagala, and endearing herself to filipinos overseas voters.
I’m guessing the corruption scandal will bite Sara Duterte and reduce her popularity significantly. If not we’ll know schools taught math poorly because voters are not able to do two plus two.
It never was about math, it always was about emotions. You had Erap before convincing people including UP folks that he was a kind of Robin Hood, a natural ally against the “elites”, who for many in UP were those Jesuit-trained Ateneans. Duterte had people convinced again that he was their ally against the “elites”, this time with most of UP and Ateneo considered elitists, and wow even UP atheists, leftists and nationalists (conditionally hehe) accepting Ateneans as “real people”.
Well now, you have Inday Sara trying to gain the sympathies of the OFW crowd who are often as out of touch with Philippine politics as I was back in 2015, and trying to play the Visayan card and the victim card. I do suspect (and hope) a lot of Filipinos have outgrown seeing hoodlums as Robin Hoods by now.
Emotionality attached to what they think are facts, Sara’s persecution, which is nonsense. So it’s emotions provoked by intellectual nonsense. I hope the corruption investigation moves sharply and with authority and does not get bogged down in weak data or bureaucratic folderol. It might open eyes.
There is a long tradition of admiring rebels in the Philippines, and it was justified for instance in 1896 and 1942. It no longer was justified when the Huks killed Quezon’s widow, daughter and son-in-law after WW2. I think MLQ3’s deep aversion to the Far Left comes from that.
Bong Revilla still got into power dancing budots as if he was showing the floppy bird to the “elitists” who wanted money back, but that nonsense no longer flew this year. Filipinos who talk and act exactly like the man on the street have been included into power for almost 30 years now, the old excuse that the people in suits are screwing common folk doesn’t fly anymore. And when it comes to floods, common folk understand, GDP might be too abstract for them, rule of law as well, “can’t eat that” they might think, but floods are as real as it gets, the rest is really up to Philippine democracy to figure out.
Ah, thanks. I don’t get the left myself. Ocampo seems to be the relic that holds them to nonsense. Which reminds me, Walden Bello has just publish a book. I think it deals with his personal history.
If the goings on mean means to make impunity very hard for the PH kapal muks then this is very good and hope it is not temporarily permanent
permanently temporary, rather
Impunity continues because of the imagined made real somehow untouchable people.
Someone declares that he or she is untouchable and people fall for it all the time. First pattern is ignoring their antics until that shrugging off becomes complicity then shite hits the fan.
it always end bad for the untouchables, long arm of the law, and long memory of justice. and their shite always hit the fan. impunity dont last long, it corrodes those who it touches. ahem, jinggoy seems to have habit of being sangkot once, sangkot twice! must be terribly terribly rewarding to be senator. and to think, sangkot senators got to sit on judgement, much to the bewilderment of witnesses!
it may end bad for the untouchables, already rallies are brewing against them.
Then the only thing to overcome is our permanently temporary outrage.