I have tried my very best to steer away from talking politics for a time. But this is a very enlightening essay by former Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Dinky Soliman, on how dirty you can get in government and the tough choices that you have to make.
Extremely worth the read. Read up on Dinky's Why I quit gov’t and asked my boss to resign as well.
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
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well. like what mon tulfo said. a traitor is a traitor is a traitor.
One side's traitor may be another's hero.
It depends on who's really right. These days it's a he-said, she-said affair. But all we are asking for are straight answers.
well we may never really know who's right unless the suspect is proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt. so for now it doesn't really matter who's really right. it's actually how pathetic and typical of a scoundrel's excuse that dinky said she did it for the filipino people. it's just BS written all over it.
Doesn't GMA have that same excuse?
But you're right. For now, it doesn't matter who's really right. But then if the quest for truth keeps getting derailed by introducing other issues ("charter change") or calling out technicalities (carefully not naming Garcillano as "the COMELEC official" when common sense says otherwise), who actually is piling up the BS?
Straight answers. That's all the people ask.
it seems that you've already handed down a verdict and fell for the infamous trial by publicity. can you bet your life on it and say you're 100% sure because your common sense told you so?
early in this charade i too was in your position. but questions keep popping up like: what took the opposition so long to release this tape? was it because it took them a year to create it? what's with the sync with the jueteng issue? i thought the jueteng witnesses was from archbishop cruz then suddenly just a few days ago ping lacson was forced to admit that the major witnesses came from him? quite hideous and perplexing if you ask me.
i leave you with a link to mon tulfo's article. well what can i say but "the truth hurts".
a traitor is a traitor is a traitor
Thanks for the link. I don't know why they put his column near the back (Metro section), and not in the opinions page.
I've neither handed down a verdict nor fell for any trial of publicity.
What I really care about is this: the money I earn doesn't go as far as it used to. With all this political instability, I doubt it will get better soon. As a concerned citizen, I want answers too. As soon as possible please. And enough of the legal gobbledygook as ex-Senator Biazon once said.
Dinky did what she thought was right. Mon Tulfo thinks it's treachery, that's his (and other's) opinion. It's his right. But help bring out the truth instead by asking for answers. Because the longer we are in this cloud of uncertainty, the more disillusioned the people get.
But I should also have a disclaimer to this. I'm not "with" the opposition. In fact, I hate their guts just as much. Both sides engaging in dirty and traditional politics. The one real political leader I really believed in was buried just last Tuesday. So right now, I'm in a sort of political limbo.
And this is precisely why I hate to blog politics. I remember all this dirty stuff.
gma has repeatedly denied cheating, i guess that's a straight enough answer. if some people are expecting that she confess then that's almost impossible. i mean who in their right mind will admit their deed when the price is worse than death (assuming she's guilty).
if you call on or in favor of gma's resignation without allowing the rule of law to take place or not allow her to defend herself in the proper forums then you did fell for trial by publicity and handed down a verdict. why else would you wish her to step down if she has yet to be proven guilty.
as for dinky, i don't know about you but when a person rallies the troops by singing 'if we hold on together' for someone in times of crisis and then suddenly backstabs that someone a couple of days later is not betrayal then i don't know what is. i must be looking at the wrong dictionary or i was raised by traitors to say that what dinky did is not betrayal and in fact heroic.
and so i have to concur to what your blog title says "ang labo!"
"i mean who in their right mind will admit their deed when the price is worse than death"
So it is about political survival. That is such a selfish reason.
Why do they refuse to name "the COMELEC official"? Why doesn't GMA state that "I didn't say 'yung dagdag, yung dagdag'.", instead of having Mike Defensor run to her defense instead of minding the country's environment and natural resources?
"why else would you wish her to step down if she has yet to be proven guilty."
Again, I have not yet handed down a verdict. I wish her to step down because as she said on Dec 2002 (or '03) that she is the cause of the divisiveness of the people, and now in 2005, she still is. I wish her to step down because she cannot effectively govern with all these issues surrounding her, and also with the opposition constantly attacking her. She is trouble magnet, guilty or not guilty.
"i must be looking at the wrong dictionary or i was raised by traitors to say that what dinky did is not betrayal and in fact heroic."
I'd hate to imagine the kind of society we'd have, if then-Gen. Ramos and then-Defense Minister Enrile had not "betrayed" Ferdinand Marcos. Call it what you want, let history be the judge.
"and so i have to concur to what your blog title says "ang labo!""
Malabo talaga ang kinabukasan natin.
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