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Sabunin ang mga bibig

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Kay­ta­gal ding hindi ako naka­pag­su­lat dito sa Sum­i­lang. Ang ibang kak­i­lala ko na may tiya­gang basahin ito ay nagsasabi kung ako raw ba ay tumigil na sa pagig­ing 'aktibista' at wala daw akong sinusu­lat na bum­a­batikos sa sis­tema, gob­y­erno at sa iba pang bagay.

Natu­tuwa naman ako sa gani­tong bulong ng mga kak­i­lala ko, con­cerned din pala sila sa aking pagig­ing aktibista. Hindi ko na tuloy maintindi­han kung sila ba talaga ay pabor dito o hindi? Pero ibang kwento na iyon.

Pansinin na lang natin ang titulo ng artiku­long ito, (naks, parang manunulat na talaga diba?) una ko itong nar­inig at madalas makita sa mga lumang car­toons tulad ng Bugs Bunny at Tom 'n Jerry kung saan kapag ang isang bata o sino­man na nagsalita ng mga bagay na masama, kas­i­n­un­galin­gan lalo, ay kailan­gang maghugas ng bibig gamit ang sabon. Sa ibang salita, masama ang magsabi ng mga maru­rum­ing bagay.

Bagay na madalas gawin ng mga ali­pores ng GMA. Mababasa niyo ito sa bal­i­tang ito sa Inquirer.net: Arroyo: ‘Let’s focus on plus points’

Sinasabing hindi raw maysado pinat­u­lan ng pekeng pan­gulo ang mga tanong ng mga mamamhayag tungkol sa mga lumalalang kondisyon ng paglabagsa kara­p­atang pantao ng mga mamama­hayag, at pro­gre­si­bong mama­mayan ng bansa kung saan ang UN at ang Senado ng Amerika ay bumibisita na ng madalas at nagsasagawa ng mga pag-​aaral tungkol dito.

“Political issues are for my spokesman (Press Sec­re­tary Igna­cio Bunye) to answer,” she said when the Inquirer sought her com­ment yes­ter­day on the US Senate probe which con­cluded that her admin­is­tra­tion had not done enough to stop the killings.

Bakit kaya ipin­au­ubaya sa kanyang mga ali­pores ang pagsagot sa mga tanong na ganito? Baka ini­i­wasan niya uling mapikon at magwalkout.

"We take the inter­est shown by the United States in the Philip­pine human rights sit­u­a­tion as a con­struc­tive ges­ture coming from a time-​honored ally,” Bunye said.

“This gov­ern­ment has never fal­tered in its adher­ence to rule of law and respect of human rights and is closely in step with the world human rights community,” he said.

Ano daw?! Nahi­hibang na talaga mga alagad ng admin­is­trasyon. Marahil ay nal­imu­tan na nila ang isang kataga sa Ingles na "When want some­thing done, you have to do it yourself."

Isipin na lang, kung tala­gang maayos ang kala­gayan ng pan­gan­galaga sa mga kara­p­atang pantao ng mga mamama­hayag, pro­gre­si­bong grupo at mga ordi­nary­ong mama­mayan at walang naga­ganap na kaliwa't-kanang patayan ng mga taong nan­gun­guwest­yon sa gob­y­erno, bakit pa kaya mag-​aaksaya ng pana­hon at lakas ang United Nations at United States Senate na mag­padala ng mga eksperto dito at mag-​imbestiga? Nan­ganga­musta lang? hahaha

At kung maayos nga talaga, bakit pa kailan­gang ipaubaya ng pan­gulo sa iba ang pagsagot sa mga tanong na may kinala­man dito?

“Perhaps some US mil­i­tary assis­tance could be ded­i­cated toward human rights train­ing in the field and the needs of the new Armed Forces of the Philip­pines Human Rights Office,” he said in a statement.

Ermita said that at the hear­ing in Wash­ing­ton, a US State Depart­ment offi­cial had said: “We stand ready to be of addi­tional assis­tance to the Philip­pine authorities.”

Seryoso ba siya? Ang mil­i­tar ng Esta­dos Unidos bibi­gyan ng human rights train­ing ang AFP? haha­haha!!! Sige mag­a­nda yan, baka magka­roon pa ng field trip ang mga sun­da­long Pilipino sa Guan­tanamo Bay deten­tion camp sa Cuba at sa Abu Ghraib prison sa Iraq para makita nila ng mala­p­i­tan kung gaano kagal­ing sa pan­gan­galaga ng human rights ang US military.

“So why are they here? Why is Toyota putting its trans­mis­sion plant here? Why is Hanjin here [whose ship­yard in Subic] is the fourth biggest in the world? It’s because of the con­fi­dence in our econ­omy, because of our fiscal reforms, and these reforms are cre­at­ing jobs,” she told the Inquirer.

Ah tra­baho daw, totoo kaya iyon? At kung totoo man, sino ang mag­ta­tra­baho kung ang mga tao ay nabubuhay ng may takot na baka sila na ang susunod na bubu­lagta sa kasalda mat­a­pos dumaan ang isang motor­siklo na may mga sakay na mga lalak­eng may baril, bonet at mil­i­tary fatigues?

Tsk tsk tsk. Kung mababasa ito ng aking guro sa Values Edu­ca­tion, mala­mang susub­uan niya ng isang bare­tang sabon ang mga opisyal ng gob­y­er­nong nagsabi ng mga bagay na ito.

Written by jhay

March 18th, 2007 at 1:28 pm

Posted in karapatang pantao,opinyon,Pulitika

Video: KABATAAN paryt-list teaser

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First of all, happy Valentine's Day to every­one who visits this blog. I wish you all the love in the world, it may not come today, tomor­row or even if you have it now, keep it, cher­ish it and make it grow. (naks naman! :wink: )

Okay, con­sider the fol­low­ing video or even this entire post as any of the fol­low­ing: an advertisement/promotion, cam­paign for KABATAAN Party-​list. How­ever, I make it clear that I have not received any amount of mon­e­tary com­pen­sa­tion for post­ing this video of theirs, I'm just shar­ing it, because I believe in KABATAAN.



Mag­tanong.
Magha­mon.
Mag­tangka.
Makisangkot.

Pana­hon na para magka­roon ng sar­il­ing
kinatawan at par­tido ang Kabataan sa
Kongreso!

Iboto, KABATAAN Partylist!!!

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February 14th, 2007 at 7:10 am

Posted in Pulitika

Paano naman ang mga artistang politiko’t kandidato?

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Mabuti naman at kahit papaano ay may nai­isip na mag­a­nda si COM­ELEC Chair Ben­jamin Abalos Sr. nung sinabi niyang maging main­gat ang media, lalo na ang mga talk shows tuwing mag-​iimibita sila ng mga puli­tiko sa kani­lang mga palabas.

Ito raw ay maaar­ing mag­bi­gay sa kanila ng "unfair advan­tage" ngay­ong elec­tion. Totoo naman dahil ang mga talk­shows, noon­time shows at prime­time shows ay pina­panood ng libu-​libong Pilipino araw-​araw.

Binang­git pa niya ang RA 9006 o Fair Elec­tions Act kung saan nakasaad; "In the broad­cast media, polit­i­cal adver­s­tise­ment may take the form of spots, guest­ings in TV shows and radio programs..."

Mali­naw ang batas. Pero paano ang mga artis­tang tatakbo ngay­ong eleksyon? Paano ang mga artis­tang naging poli­tiko na?

Baga­man sinabi ng COM­ELEC na hindi ang isang poten­syal na kan­didato o poli­tiko ay hindi pa sakop ng Fair Elec­tions Act hangga't hindi sila nag­susum­ite ng kani­lang kat­i­bayan ng pagkan­didato, may mga ilang artis­tang tatakbo o sinasabing tatakbo ang pat­u­loy pa rin sa kani­lang paglabas sa mga pal­abas sa TV. Kahit nga ang mga artis­tang halos nal­imu­tan na ng mga tao ay biglang bum­a­ba­lik at nagig­ing matunog ang pan­galan at mak­i­nang ang mukha dahil sa nalalapit na eleksyon.

Magk­aganoon man, dumat­ing ang pana­hon ng opisyal na pan­gangam­pa­nya sa Pebrero 13, 2007 at maging opisyal na kan­didato nga ang mga TV per­son­al­i­ties at artista ay huli na sapagkat mata­gal na silang nakal­abas sa mga TV shows at nangam­pa­nya nang di-​tuwiran sa mga botan­teng ini­idolo sila, sinasamba sila, sinusub­ay­bayan bawat galaw, pangya­yari sa buhay ultimo pag-​utot nila.

Sa gani­tong sit­wasyon, sa lipunan nating mas pinanini­walaan ang mga tsis­mis tungkol sa artista kaysa sa mga isyung pan­lipunan, mas dadami ang mga artis­tang makakaupo sa mga posisyon sa ating gob­y­erno. Pero ok lang, "enter­tain­ing" naman pa rin sila, at ito ang mabentang-​mabenta sa ordi­nary­ong botan­teng Pilipino.

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January 26th, 2007 at 7:01 am

Posted in kultura,opinyon,Pulitika

KABATAAN-Ateneo Chapter disowns FG Arroyo

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What does "FG Arroyo" means? It means, well sup­pos­edly "First Gen­tle­man" but now the second word could mean any­thing but not includ­ing "Gen­tle­man" in light of what the fake President's hus­band has been doing for the past years. Throw­ing around law­suits to anyone who will go up against him or any other member of his family. Talk about flex­ing mus­cles and throw­ing one's weight around isn't it?

Well he had been doing just that but for­tu­nately, there are still those who are brave and right­eous enough to stand up and put up a fight. Just recently, he did some­thing no decent human being in the right state of mind would do; the story and its effects could be gleaned from this state­ment release from the Ateneo Chap­ter of KABATAAN party.

An Ate­nean must be a man for others

The First Gen­tle­man has some gall to invoke the name of the Ateneo at his appear­ance at the House Com­mit­tee Hear­ing last Jan­u­ary 23. Refus­ing to answer to Pateros Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Cayetano’s
alle­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion, Arroyo instead filed a com­plaint to the Com­mit­tee on Ethics to remove the con­gress­man from office last 2006.

“Ateneo de Manila seeks to pre­serve, extend, and com­mu­ni­cate truth and apply it to human
development…:” so says the Vision/Mission State­ment of the Ateneo de Manila University.

Clearly, Mike Arroyo does not man­i­fest the mis­sion and vision of the school thus, does not have the moral ascen­dancy to drag the name of the Ateneo in his per­sonal cru­sade to crush those who dare ques­tion his actions as a public figure and offi­cial. He does not man­i­fest the basic
prin­ci­ples of hon­esty, integrity and all the values an Ate­nean must possess.

Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Cayetano is not the first to feel the wrath of the First Gen­tle­man. In 2006, Arroyo filed sev­eral mul­ti­mil­lion libel cases against jour­nal­ists, edi­tors whose only objec­tive is to report mat­ters of public inter­est. In the end, the biggest vic­tims of Arroyo’s abuse of power are the Fil­ipino people who left with unan­swered ques­tions regard­ing cor­rup­tion issues pitted against him.

We are hon­ored to be from the Ateneo. We decry the use of the name of our alma mater by a person who refuses to be trans­par­ent in mat­ters of public inter­est. We always say that an Ate­nean must be a man for others. Mike Arroyo, clearly, is not.

Hyra Dela Cruz
Spokesper­son
Kabataan Partylist- Ateneo de Manila Uni­ver­sity Chapter

" Our sac­ri­fice is a con­cious one: it is in pay­ment for the free­dom we are building."

*This is not a paid post for KABATAAN party, this is to show my sup­port for the party in the means I can.

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January 25th, 2007 at 5:54 am

Posted in kwentong-buhay,Pulitika

Licensed Guns, Goons and Gold

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So GMA is on 3G, as Guns, Goons and Gold.

Let us recall last Decem­ber the Gold that show­ered upon the loyal Gov­er­nors of our provinces to the Admin­is­tra­tion and the sham pres­i­dent at its head. It was an early Christ­mas for them loyal Gov­er­nors who sup­ported the CHA-​cha train by pro­vid­ing the sup­posed warm bodies that would give legit­i­macy to the deceased people's initiative.

Her Goons have been at it ever since, from the Sec­re­tary of InJus­tice, to her vile min­ions in the Lower House. Plus the many foot sol­diers in the field no dif­fer­ent than the NPA death squads wreak­ing havoc and terror amongst the civil­ian pop­u­lace send­ing clear mes­sages through the barrel of their guns or the sharp edges of their knives that anyone who speaks to loudly against the tyrant in Malacañang will be dealt with, efficiently.

Finally her guns, storm­ing provin­cial capi­tols occu­pied by Gov­er­nors whom, unlike her were duly elected by their con­stituents, are not loyal or obe­di­ent to her will with such a force it could turn any provin­cial capi­tol in the coun­try into an instant war zone. Serv­ing arrest war­rants, sus­pen­sion orders and other legal means. Just like what MLQ3 wrote, "If you can't beat 'em, sus­pend 'em."

It seems clear that GMA is enjoy­ing her 3G, what's even more wor­ri­some is that some­one like her who was not elected to use such '3G ser­vices' is using it to its full effect.

Written by jhay

January 20th, 2007 at 7:54 am

Posted in opinyon,Pulitika

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