Julius Rocas

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.