WHO IS THE BEST PERSON TO LEAD THE PHILIPPINES?

[scarecrow]

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we tried everybody to be our leaders and expect from them the clean government we always dream of. we already tried actors, economist, a military man, a lawyer and a very intelligent person and most of all cheaters. what have we got nothing but selfish ruling in our country. but we still never tried to put in the position the stronger personality, a "no fear" person and an "action man" in the person of Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and CDO Mayor Vicente Emano.

Peace bro!

[rasheed_d_weed]

TOMAS FK MOSIMOS..in no particular order :mrgreen:

mora og dumot ma na inyo bai tolstoi...

I think GMA gihapon....pohon pwede pod c davide....

dili ni dumot bro..idealistic man gud kaayu ni cla mosimos ug FK..i just like to know if they can still practice what they preach once they will become the next president :mrgreen:

Well, is there something wrong of being idealistic. Isnt it the thing that most Filipinos needs right now. You GMA keep saying that the opposition ios laways focus on the negative. Now here we are trying to set things correct and then it even appears that we are on the wrong side?

I dont know what you people want? You want ot close our eyes, capitulate to the evils that this administration is doing to its citizens.

I admire your guts to stomach all the filth that this administration is dishing to its people everyday. As if you people accepted as right what is clearly wrong.

Well, as they say Cebuanos love GMA. Really? Is GMA concerned to the ordinary Cebuano? I dont think so my friend. If there are people who are benefitted by this corrupt, lying, stealing and cheating administration its not the ordinary Cebuanos but your self serving politicians. Talk about Tony Cuenco, Eddie Gullas, to name a few, the Mayors and other local officials and big contractors. These are the people who benefitted much from GMA.

Well, they are quite effective in brainwashing their people that GMA is for them. Its al;l about perception and propaganda being bombarded every day to the Cebuanos.

sakto bya ka bai pero out of the topic man ka.... ang topic kay kinsa ang best person to lead the philippines.... wala man ka sulti kinsa ang "best person" nimo...... you shuold have said something..... peace!!! ako c PGMA, FVR or Loren Legarda lang ciguro.

[slakker]

I hate the opposition and their divisive nature, but I do hope to see Escudero distance himself from the Estrada camp one day and vie for the presidency.

I would also vote for Escudero if ever he runs for president...

[tolstoi]

i would only vote for escudero if he decamped from the ESTRADA party

[magma]

i would only vote for escudero if he decamped from the ESTRADA party

Ganahan man ko ani niya sauna pero karon nawad-an na pod ko og salig ani niya.....bisan pa og mohawa ni siya sa opposition...nahugawan na iya reputasyon..nagpagamit man gud ni sya sa mga "TRAPO" mao siya na "TRAPO" na hinoon pod og apil...

[omar50071]

There's The Rub : Yet again, alternatives

First posted 01:12am (Mla time) April 27, 2006
By Conrado de Quiros
Inquirer



Editor's Note: Published on Page A12 of the April 27, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer


LEO Dacanay of Tacloban City wrote a thoughtful letter in our Letters section last Monday. "I was for GMA [Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo] before," he said, "but not anymore." Today, he could see that GMA's and her allies' "true intention is to perpetuate themselves in power and get rid of the Senate which has proven itself to be a stumbling block to the administration's self-serving designs."

But -- and here's the part that gets interesting -- "like the silent majority, I don't see anybody in the opposition as a better alternative. Nevertheless, I encourage every Filipino, whether in the public or private sector, not to be silent but to make known his or her stand. If you don't trust GMA, put a sticker 'I don't trust GMA' on your cars, houses, offices, tennis rackets, cups, T-shirts, cell phones or on anything visible. Then let's plan our next move."

I agree with the spirit of protest Dacanay sends, but I beg to disagree with his part about alternatives. See why we should find a "better alternative" for Arroyo first, from the opposition or elsewhere, before we remove her from office. Removing Arroyo from office by, for, and in itself is the alternative. It is not just the better alternative, it is the only alternative. The principle is called crime and punishment: Where someone has committed a crime, he (or she) must be punished. Unless we grasp that and apply that, we will never find a way to "move on" however we wrack our brains for it. The only way we'll move is round and round in circles.

Stopping evil by itself is an alternative. You see someone being held up at knife point in an alley, you yell your head off "Magnanakaw!" [“Thief!”] You do not walk up to the mugger and propose to him alternative ways of finding the money he needs for a sick wife or mother. Maybe you can do that later on as part of penal reform -- after you have jailed him. But not while you see him committing a crime. The only alternative to a crime being done is to stop a crime from being done. Or to catch and punish the criminal if he has done it already.

The idea of keeping Arroyo around because we lack a "better alternative" to her from the opposition is not only foolish, it is dangerously foolish. Can you imagine that principle holding sway for the rest of the country? Henceforth, we may not remove any mayor or governor who routinely steals the people's money or, worse, the vote, because there is no alternative to him, he has bought or murdered his rivals already. All the alternative that will be left to the people is to leave the country.

Arroyo stole the vote. That is patent in the "Hello, Garci" tape. Whether she could have won without calling up Garci is a moot point. The presidency is a sacred thing. You may not entrust it to someone who may or may not have stolen the vote, you may entrust it only to someone who clearly did not.

Quite apart from all that, what has Arroyo achieved that is so outstanding it is near-impossible for us to find a "better alternative" for her? She is not the solution, she is the problem; she is not the pilot, she is the baggage. Today, we have to waste so much time and energy not just to get started but just to get back to the starting line. Executive Order 464 is a case in point. While it is cause for celebration that the Supreme Court has junked that idiocy, it is cause for gnashing of teeth that we have to exert ourselves just to remove something that should never have been there in the first place. The same is true of Proclamation 1017 or its effects, which today include Malacañang's usurpation of authority to grant rally permits (the power belongs to the mayor), the murder of journalists and leftists, and attempts to intimidate the media. We have to exert ourselves just to get those oppressions out of the way. Move on? With the way we're constantly being pushed back, it's all we can do to get back to stasis.

The corollary to removing Arroyo is simple and logical. It is elections. The problem is that we have an illegitimate president, the solution is to have a legitimate president. The problem is that Arroyo stole the vote from the voters, the solution is to give the vote back to the voters. Where there is crime, there must be punishment. Where there is injustice, there must be restitution.

I cannot belabor it enough. The question of who should replace Arroyo is not something anybody can just decide. It is something, the voters, and only the voters, can decide. Easy enough to find a better alternative to Arroyo, even a janitor is a better alternative to Arroyo. But that is not for anyone of us to say, that is something for the voters in their collective wisdom to say. Of course, one can argue that the voters do not always show that collective wisdom, if indeed they do at all. They have been known to put a George W. Bush in power. But that's part of democracy. It's a horrible system, as Churchill said, but the rest just happen to be worse.

The only thing worse than elections is no elections -- or a patently fraudulent one. We've seen the virulent effects of the first with martial law and the second with Arroyo.

Putting stickers on cars and every conceivable fixture of daily life that say "I don't trust GMA" is fine. But the person to whom it is being addressed is past being embarrassed or forced out by moral suasion. The better alternative to that is civil disobedience. If a fake president can refuse to resign, the real citizens can refuse to obey. Why on earth should I pay taxes to someone who has no right to use them-indeed who resolutely misuses them to cling to power? Or if you are a cop or soldier, why on precinct or barracks should you obey the orders of a "commandeer-and-cheat"?

We've never lacked for real alternatives. If only we would have the eyes to see them.

[Sovabon]

GARCILLANO!!!

[jerx d great]

BUDOY!

[bcasabee]

Panday

[Sovabon]

garci then ang vice si mike arroyo. This will be the best tandem.