The Philippines: Love it, Hate it, What does it take?

[digitalsuperman]

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good point!...some of the people who complains a lot are the one's who doesn't pay taxes..
somehow makafeel ko sa iyang kalagot..labi natong part nga inig ka recieve sa paycheck..ahak, dako kaayo bawas..camote kaayo..hehe..

..simply took the words out of my mouth...

[mango]

Obviously the author wrote it out of frustration !

[slakker]

Reklamo ng Reklamo
by The Jerks

Reklamo ng reklamo
Sa hirap ng buhay dito
Kapwa pilipino
Ikinahihiya mo
Masakit sa pandinig ko
Ang sinasabi mo
SIguro'y gusto mong
Maging Amerikano

Magpunta ka sa tindahan sa tapat
Magpalit ka ng balat
Sikmurang walang tibay
Magpalit ka na ng kulay
Makulit, nagpupumilit
Bumili ka na ng tiket
Sa America magpiknik
'Wag ka nang babalik

Reklamo ng reklamo
Gustong maging Amerikano
Reklamo ng reklamo
Ang tatay mong kalbo

Kay dami ng problema
ang iyong makikita
Ngunit ito'y lalala pa kung aalis ka
Pagkatanggap ng pagkatalo
Kung ika'y tatakbo
At kung ikaw'y susuko
Puri mo'y ilako

[migzz]

Subject: Open Letter to Our Leaders: Why We Are Not Out In The Streets

Dear Tita Cory, Senators, Congressmen, Businessmen, Media people,
Leftists, and all Bleeding Hearts Out There:

I am angry. And I know that there are many out there who are angrier
than I am for the same reason. And that reason is simple. I am sick and tired
of all you guys claiming to speak for me and many Filipinos. I feel like
screaming every time you mouth words about fighting for my freedom and
my rights, when you obviously are just thinking about yours. You tell me
that the essence of democracy is providing every citizen the right to speak
his or her mind and make his or her own informed judgments, but you
yourselves do not respect my silence and the choices I and many others have made.
In other words, your concept of democracy is limited to having your rights
and your freedoms respected, at the expense of ours.

I am utterly flabbergasted that you still do not get it: we already
responded to your calls, and our response has been very clear - we chose
not to heed your calls to go to EDSA or to Fort Bonifacio not because we do
not love our country or our freedoms or our rights, but precisely because we
love our country even more. Because quite frankly, we are prepared to
lose our freedoms and our rights just to move this country forward. You may
counter with your ideological propaganda and give me all the dire
warnings about the evils of Martial Law, authoritarian rule, suppression of
freedom, etc., but quite frankly all we see is your pathetic efforts to defend
your right to continue fulminating, filibustering, and sabotaging this
country until you wrestle power for yourselves. You tell me that you are simply
protecting my freedoms and my rights, but who told you to do that? I
assure you that when I feel that my rights and my freedoms are at a peril, I
will stand up and fight for them myself. I have done that in the past, and I
will do it again when I SEE THE NEED FOR IT, not when you tell me to do it.

You tell us that GMA is not the right person to lead this country
because she has done immoral acts. As someone who sees immorality being
committed wantonly in many ways every day and by everyone (yes, including the ones
you do), I may have become jaded. I may have lowered my standards about what
a leader should be. Guess what, Tita Cory, you lowered it yourself. When I
accepted your incompetence and fought for you during the many attempts
against your government, I already lowered the standards to ridiculous
levels. Guess what, Senators and Congressmen, you lowered it yourselves
when you ran for office and won and now make fools of yourselves in the
august halls of congress.

But the simple truth that you try to obfuscate is this: you have not
been able to offer me any viable alternative! On the other hand, GMA has bent
over backwards many times to accommodate you while continuing to work
hard despite all the obstacles and the brickbats you have thrown her way.
From where I sit, she is the one who has been working really hard to move
this country forward while all of you have been so busy with one and only one
thing: to make sure she does not succeed. So forgive me if I do not want
to join you in your moral pissing contest. Forgive me if I have chosen to
see things from another perspective. You say she is the problem. I say, we
are - all of us is the problem; more to the point, I think you are a bigger
problem than she is. Taking her out may solve part of the problem, but
that leaves us with a bigger problem: you. That is right, YOU!

While I felt outraged that she called a Comelec official during the
elections and that she may have rigged the elections, I have since then
taken the higher moral ground and forgiven her. Yes my dear bishops, I
have done what you have told me to do since I was a child, which you say is
the Christian and moral thing to do: forgive. Especially since she has asked
for forgiveness and has tried to make amends for it. Erap certainly has not
apologized and continues to be defiant, continuing to insult us everyday
with his protestations - and he is part of your cause now! Cory has not
apologized for her incompetence but we have forgiven her just the same
because like GMA, she has worked hard after all.

I know you do not think that GMA's apology was not enough, or that she
was insincere, or that that apology should not be the end of it, but please
spare me the hypocrisy of telling me that you do so for the sake of
protecting the moral fibre of society. The real reason is because you
smell blood and want to go for the kill.

Well, I have news for you. I do not like her too. I did not even vote
for her. I voted for Raul Roco. But as much as I do not like her, I do not
like you even more. I may not trust her, but you know what, I do not trust
you even more.

You know why I do not trust you? Because all you do is whine and
sabotage this country. You belittle every little progress we make, conveniently
forgetting that it is not just GMA who has been working so hard to
achieve them. Every single day, we keep the faith burning in our hearts that
this country will finally pull itself out of the mess and we work so hard to
do that. Every little progress is the result of our collective effort, we
who toil hard everyday in our jobs. Yet, you persist in one and only thing:
making GMA look bad in the eyes of the world and making sure that this
country continues to suffer to prove your sorry point. In the process,
you continue to destroy what we painstakinly try to build. So please do not
be surprised that I do not share your cause. Do not be surprised that we
have become contemptuous of your antics. You have moved heaven and earth to
destroy her credibility, you have convened all kinds of fora and
hearings and all you have done is test our patience to the core. For all your
efforts, you have only succeeded in dragging us further down. I say
enough.

Don't get me wrong. I am not asking that we take immorality lying down,
or that we let the President get away with anything illegal. But you have
tried to prove your accusations all these time and you have not succeeded, so
it is time to let things be. Besides, you are doing something immoral as
well if not utterly unforgivable. The Magdalo soldiers are consorting with
the communists - the same people who have been trying to kill democracy for
years. Cory has been consorting with Erap and the Marcoses.

So please wake up and take a reality check. In the absence of true and
genuine moral leadership, many of us have decided to cast our lot with
the President, even if we do not like her. A flawed leader is better than
scheming power hungry fools who can not even stand up for their
convictions in the face of an impending arrest.

Your coup attempts and the denials that you have consequently made only
underscore what we think is true: you are spineless and unreliable
people who only want power but not the consequences and the sacrifices that go
with the quest. Your one and only defense is to cry suppression when your
ruse does not work. You are nothing but BULLIES who taunt and provoke, but
cry oppression when taken to task for your cruelty. You call for the rule of
law and respect for authority, but so brazenly display your defiance and
disrespect for the same things you claim to be fighting for.

I would have respected you if you took the consequences of your actions
like real heroes: calmly and responsibly instead of kicking and screaming and
making all kinds of lame excuses. You say you are willing to die for us,
that you do all these things for the country and the Filipino, but you
are not even willing to go to jail for us.

Come on, you really think we believe that you did not want to bring down
the government when THAT IS THE ONE AND ONLY ONE THING THAT YOU HAVE BEEN
DESPERATELY TRYING TO DO in the last many months?

We love this country and we want peace and progress. Many among us do
not give a f*&k who sits at Malacanang because we will work hard and do our
share to make things work. We the people will and can make it work, if
onlyÂ* you get out of the way and let us do it. If you only do your jobs, the
ones you are supposed to be doing, things would be a lot simpler and easier
for all of us.

The events during the weekend only proved one thing. You are more
dangerous and a serious threat to this country than GMA is. We have seen what you
are capable of doing - you are ready to burn this country and reduce
everything to ashes just to prove your point. If there is something that we need
protection from, IT IS PROTECTION FROM YOU.


&gt! ; S. C. Austero


from someone i dont know shares my sentiment...

[tolstoi]

same here!

[ryan22]

whew long & nice speech der bro..

and i 2nd the motion!

[budmendz]

Well said. Mosimos, FK... what can you say?

[tolstoi]

^^defiant as always

[limars]

Well said. At times, its been evident that the media (biased media actually) caused more chaos that it supposed to do. How I've longed this country could move on, as we all love it. No country as benchmark at all, let's do it our own Filipino way... So guys, please, think a million times before you too go to the streets... Let's not be fooled by the foolish folks we have around, pretending to be great... Its there ryt anyway!

[bcasabee]

hahahaha....ipadala daw na sa maalaala mo kaya...mura ug maypagka sentimental mana nga letter....na touch gud ko...