confused filipino people..?

If Filipinos are a confused people, it is because their leaders have confused
them. If Filipinos do not follow the law, it is because their leaders are the
first to violate them. If Filipinos have lost their moral footing, it is because
their leaders have chosen to compromise. Economic depression for the majority of
Filipinos is matched by moral bankruptcy.

read...
http://opinion.inquirer.net/viewpoints/columns/view/20090828-222347/They-Were-Be
acons-Not-Shadows


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I agree with you. But we can not always blame our leaders. Some of them
became who they are now because of some people who bribed them to do
favors for them or voted for them in exchange for money or favors. Am I
right? I am glad you mentioned this John because I have some questions
for you and for the other members.

I have an unfortunate experience at the airport that I can't forget. It
happened when I came back for a visit in 2006 during our centennial
celebration. I saw the guy ahead of me gave the lady some money whose job
was to check and stamp the passport. Why did he give her some money for
doing her government job? Are any of you one of those people who bribe
some government officials? So when it was my turn to have my passport
stamped she immediately asked for money saying "meron ba tayong pamasko
diyan, hindi ko na binuksan ang maleta mo?" Why would some ordinary
Filipinos ask for pamasko when it's not even Christmas? I was tempted to
reply "why don't you open and check my luggage then" to make a point. But
I had to consider the long line of other passengers who were anxious to
get out of the airport just like me. I also know that it was not her job
to open and check the luggage, an excuse she used to extort money. She
was also lying because it was not her job to check and open the luggage.
I just passed the staff who does the opening and checking but did not
check my luggage. Yes, I gave her some money against my belief because I
was afraid what she might do to me, detain me for some reason and cause
trouble for me, and she could be in cahoots with other government official
there who gets a "cut" from her. How will you stop this kind of behavior
in our government? What would you say to her in a nice way to stop it?
What would you have done if you were me? Give what she asked for? If so,
when is this going to stop?

Kung tayo ay magkakaisa, mga balik bayan kababayan at huwag magbigay ng
kahit anuman sa taong nagsisilbi sa ating gobiyerno sa airport or kahit
saan branches (unless she/he is your good friend or relative that you
intended to give to), hindi ito lalala sa ating lipunan. Kaya tayo rin
ang dapat sisihin kung ang ating opisyal ay mga "crook"

This woman who is working for our government was possibly a good and
honest employee in the beginning (just giving her the benefit of the
doubt). But because of some people like the guy in front of me in line at
the airport who wanted to bend the rules in his favor, started giving her
money made this woman corrupt and she started making extra money out of
her government job. Some Filipinos are not confused, some bend the rules
to benefit them which in turn creating a "monster" in the government.

Then again, there are some government official who are really corrupt to
begin with and people are afraid of them for fear that they will be killed
or something if they don't comply to the wishes of the corrupt official.
Again there are those good and honest government official who don't stay
long in their position, just give up because some Filipinos see that they
can not bribed, then when election time comes they don't get elected by
bad corrupt citizens. Honest official don't stay long in the government
because their peers intimidated them and they gave up to protect
himself/herself and their families from any dangers. So we can not put
all the blame on our leaders or the economy entirely. This is a vicious
cycle. When is this going to end?

If or when any of you get elected to our government, what will you do to
"clean up" the violators? You have to compromise at some point but how
will you compromise without losing your integrity and honesty?

Ate or Tita Meldy
Hawaii, USA


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aloha...

WOW!
great thesis indeed
i have nothing to argue
the message has all the facts of life
and sad situations and experiences... as encountered face to face.
but would you believed
it happened to me one way or another!!
at the very airport of our country called philippines too
and i can't believed it myself
cause i fight back even risking my own life...
i called the attentions of any officials even the guards
or managers around in all my stupidity even shouting at them
in order not to compromise...
BUT in my great awe of surprises
nothing seem to happened in my very face & eyes
full of frustrations and disbelief!!!
i don't need to tell the whole story
it's simply repley's "believe it or not"
but i feel i've done the very thing they might say stupidity
as everybody was staring at me or even laughing out loud inside their heads of
what i've done of risking and courageously going out and bend my own comfort
zone...
i was crying inside me when i went away home
passing by the places where millions being spent for trips of our leader/s only
to compromised and lie to death :(
but this is the very system that i will continue to quest & conquer
a depression or even despair matched by moral decay...

i know i'm getting judgmental
so be it
because i believe in truth and justice...
there must be!!
in this sphere of human desideratum

yet i wish i could be like noynoy or cory.. lol


yes
these situations or discourses are highly debatable
but there's undebatable when it comes to realized our situations of confusion
and abysmal bankruptcy...
i know it's so easy to write here or said than done
or when you encounter it face to face depending on the real situations
...sorry po, so tired of all these.
then (maybe)
i can just sacrifice. or be the laughing gas to everyone
and continue to risk to death..

because that's all i :(we): can do...

then religion will be truly nonsense as the atheist said. lol
(of course it's a joke)



thank you po Tita Meldy
tunay, mabuhay po kayo

jong ;)
culionaire

please pray for me po
maybe i am just mystify...
prayers more


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Aloha, John,

I'm glad I was not the only one who had a bad experience at the airport.
You were brave and "gutsy" to risk your own life in order not to
compromise. Thank you John for sharing your experience. Luckily my 2008
visit was okay because we (Sister Emelita, SPC and I) were met by a friend
who happens to be the chief supervisor of Custom at the airport. Our time
at the check out baggage was minimized. I forgot to ask her what to do or
how I can avoid such predicament if it happened again. I just remember
this friend is here visiting her family in conjunction to their mother's
80th birthday celebration. If I remember I will ask her about my
experience, what to do next time it happens.

Opps! got to go. Aloha a hui hou!

Meldy


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Tama ka dyan atie meldy. Naka imberyina talaga dyan sa airport! I also had the same experience but this time departure. Two of my co-teachers were held by the immigration purportedly kulang daw ng papers. But when my colleagues slipped $100 each! lusot na kaagad sila. Ano ba yan?!


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Thanks Jesus for sharing. Wow $100.00 each is a lot. In my case I was
lucky to have a small bill. $5.00 is what I was forced to give the woman.
Kung meron akong $1.00 I probably would have given that to her instead.
I wonder how often they do this tactic to extort money from other
Filipinos, parang everyday negosyo nila yata. There is always a question
of, "What can we do to stop this? It's also a matter of "How or who can
we report these corrupt government employees?"

ate/tita Meldy
Hawaii, USA


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The problem with the airport issues " we are tolerating and enabling this to happen". I go home every year sometimes twice a year but never na ma experience ko na mag lagay sa kanila. Kahit na ang dala ko ay mga cooler I will let them open it and let them enjoy the experience of looking at the contents of my baggages.

I will only give money to the porter who assist me with loading and unloading my heavy padala's but not the people who sit there and look like vultures waiting to bite you. Don't let them intimidate you! If they want to look at your belongings let them and wait for them patiently till they are satisfied but do not give them any money. Anyway, ang mahalaga safe kayong nakarating sa pinas and you are on vacation you have all the time in the world. Just relax and chill.

Rachelle Delacruz
Culion Palawan


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"trapo"


ne word probably best captures the substance of politics in traditional 'TRAPO'
societies like ours — patronage... (but) Modernity..the complex challenges of
our times, move us hopefully in the direction of greater democratization in our
national life. The struggle for good government has to be understood in these
terms, rather than in the simplistic terms of a moral crusade against evil
"trapos."

READ :p
http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20090905-223615/Hopes-f
or-modern-politics

actually this is one great example of patronage in the airport encounters of
(ripley's 'believe it or not') the web connections to porters, guards etc 'til
the manager to the institution called 'customs' BOC...

hoping we can transform all those rugs.... :(



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"Modern man listens more willingly
to witnesses than to teachers,
and if he does listen to teachers,
it is because they are witnesses"...

THANKS TO ALL, especially to fr. Javy
for being martyr - greek word for witness
in very many special ways...
the new fr. Ola of culion now
wow!

the big question again is
can we find it in our SB & LGU or adviser of mayors
who can only make 'patalbugan' cheque este blues
in terms of martyr and witnessing
but instead we find bouncing intelligence witnesses? lol!!!

again sorry for my judgmental postings
we'll see them anyway in surprises
together with hello imelda in gloria of fertilizer & swine nbn
while the lazarus' wounds being leak a la carte by the swine itself...

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go go go for true development
bantay at sagip kalikasan
ako ang simula...