COMMENTS from Longwaybye

"With regards  to your comments about Rizal and GMA. I said Rizal was a politician in the sense that he was engaging in the running of the country. If politics is as dirty, and primitive as it is here, certainly i could believe Rizal wasnt a politician-dirty. Being a politician isnt bad, it is just that the Philippines hasnt seen a professional politician par excellence.
I am not looking for a saint, just a professional politician who does everything, including wooing voters, in a fair, legal maner. And one when a scam has been unearthed, has the delicadeza to resign.
As for GMA, I dont like her. I really think the garci thing is true. My sister-in-law's family in a town in Pangasinan distributed, mind you, in 50 pesos bills, 20M just for a councilor's position. And the local COMELEC officer ...tut tut "a good friend"
I am not for anybody, and I even go far as say GMA is the best of the lot consisting of the winnables Noli, Ping, Erap,Bro. Mike.  Why couldnt Joker Arroyo, Raul Roco win? Hehe
It is just that there are higher things than economics, unity and progress. And they are truth justice and equality.
Why is it when a scandal breaks out in other countries, the leaders resign, and the people outraged? Outraged that they recall them or dump the party.
But here, kapit tuko. As one politician in the Pampanga area bragged, Madali makaloko ng tao dito, and a lie, if you repeat it many times enough, becomes the truth!

 I remember our community service to a barangay in a tagalog province south of Manila. Jueteng was still in full bloom. The barangay captain, and he is also the jueteng operator invited us to his house , to have a drink. I was with U.P. then, and the politicians were all too happy that we were there, because we were serious in our job, and we get the job done. Hehe where can you get dedicated workers but from the students?
I witnessed with my own eyes when the jueteng draw was made,and the numbers that came out were llamado, the Brgy. captain said, "ulitin ang bola" hahaha lokohan talaga!
And that same captain, who by the way isnt educationally lacking nor intellectually, having been a graduate of one of the top universities in Taft Avenue,hehe,later in the day motioned to us: "Ganito ang mag control na tauhan," he called one of his bodyguards who were drinking in a nearby table and asked him to bring their bowl of pulutan. Thereafter, he got his rubber slippers, sliced them into cubes with a knife, put them into the pulutan bowl, added toyo and suka and said to the bodyguards" O, inom pa kayo, kainin nyo ito!"
Comment from longwaybye - 22/04/06 8:03 PM

Let me share my own experiences, and thoughts about some of the points in this journal.

Going abroad: I went abroad for two main reasons. One for money, two for security, as in safety and justice. You wont get them here, unless youre rich and powerful. Today, with the oppurtunity of going abroad relatively easier via nursing, it is surprising who are taking this route. Doctors, lawyers, mayor's wives(I know of two towns in Pangasinan whose mayors'wives are reviewing for NCLEX) but not yet the mayors themselves or the politicians in general. Mas malaki parin ang kurakot kesa sa $5k monthly! Hehe

About Burnham, GMA etc.  I just want to say these,and these I know to be true, either because I have seen it myself or told to me by someone I know not to be a liar.

When Gringo was wanted during the Cory coups, he was seen casually in Mindanao in a bar, along with military officials.

An MILF camp is near an army barracks in a city in the south.

During the kidnapping, dollars were literally flooding the wet markets of key cities in Mindanao. May bayaran talaga. In one market, dollars were used for ordinary purchases; the dollar weakened in those markets relative to the national market.

**************