this is a late reaction, because i kept forgetting to blog about it.
it’s so despicable. i condemn the killing of a teacher and a pollwatcher in taysan, batangas. (and as of yesterday, another badly burned pollwatcher succumbs.) i believe the perpetrators of the crime should be meted out no less than the death penalty.
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have you gotten any forwarded e-mail from this guy who is in denial about the corruption in this country according to this foreign survey? bad news, buddy. corruption IS a reality we have to daily live with in this country. and our country’s not only notoriously known for its corrupt people, it’s also peopled by murderers and vandals.
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it’s bad enough our corrupt politicians fatten themselves obscenely with their pork barrels that nothing is left of the national budget for the building and maintenance of classrooms. no wonder local and national government positions are hotly fought for. all the contenders’ eyes are on the prize; their greed is so much that a lot of them have to destroy and kill to gain power.
the burning down of the school, for me, is enough for anyone to be meted out the death penalty.
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it is so disturbing that there is a prevalence of moral decay in our society. and it is all rooted in greed.
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due to a chronically warped value system, our politicians are unapologetic of the dynasties they are creating. they even flaunt it in our faces. consider this long-time mayor of this major city, his wife and his spawn. he rose to prominence as an activist who was designated mayor of this city–the very first appointee of a government which overthrew a dictator. now, two decades later, he is still mayor of that city, and inevitably, with his reelection, his term will even outlive marcos’s 21 years by the time he is finished with it.
pero, ang hindi ko talaga ma-take itong mga anak nitong mama na ito. honestly, akala nila sila na lang talaga ang anak ng diyos?
it’s so orwellian. in the novel "1984" where the heroes were pigs and the antagonists were humans, the pigs who started out being noble and idealistic (but were slowly corrupted by their rise to power in the course of the story) were indistinguishable from people by the book’s end.
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