Her choice

Wednesday, 09 07, 2005


No matter how hard Gloria Arroyo and
her allies
stop and kill the impeachment process,
she still
won't be able to rule. That much is clear.
She can
no more stop the protest actions against
her than
she can order the waves to move back.

But she thinks she can, as there are
reportedly
ploys by her to use the iron fist in getting
the
people to toe the line once her allies in
Congress
kill the impeachment process at the
plenary.

The talk is that an emergency rule will be
put in
place, with the regime getting more
repressive.

Earlier, Executive Secretary Eduardo
Ermita
disclosed the constitutional means with
which to
crack down on Palace foes, such as
declaring
martial law or emergency rule, or some
such
measure.

Martial law is out, because under the
Constitution,
she can only do this for a limited period,
and she
will have to get Congress' nod, for either
martial law
or emergency rule. She can also declare
a state of
rebellion, and perhaps even get her
allies in the
Supreme Court to rule this as
constitutional. The
SC already gave its nod to this in 2001.

But even if she does, can she succeed in
stopping
the moves to oust her by street
parliamentarians?

What is clear is that she has almost nil
public
support and will lose even more of her
remaining
allies if she resorts to strongman rule. It
will have to
come to a point that Marcos had
reached, when
even the declaration of martial rule
failed to instill
fear in the people, and the fight went on.

Not even her bishops who continue to
support her
and her immoral regime will have to step
back and
make that decision to dump her, since
they too,
would really show that they are against
the people.
They will have lost all moral ground and
become
totally irrelevant. As of now, they are
already in the
path of irrelevance, without their church
hierarchy
being in control of their priests, who are
better at
seeing the amorality of the bishops'
stance through
their pastoral letter.

And the bishops certainly know that, even
for the
Catholic religion, instilling discipline in
their priests
and nuns as well as making them toe the
line on
faith, doctrine and their claimed moral
teachings is
a must to keep the religion going.

When the priests start questioning an
official stand
of their bishops, this is already a sign of
trouble
brewing in the local institutional church.

But how long does Gloria think she can
hold on to
military support when a people are
already against
the regime and for good reason?

There can be no denying that Gloria
used all
means to prevent the evidence from
being made
public and being proved, whether in
Senate
hearings or in the impeachment hearings
at the
committee on justice.

Poll commissioner Virgilio Garcillano, for
one,
certainly couldn't have left the country
without the
clear assistance of Malacaang officials.
That is for
sure, especially when the Singapore
authorities
have reportedly confirmed that
Garcillano did arrive
in that country through a Subic aircraft,
which
means that those officials called to testify
certainly
perjured themselves.

And there is now surfacing evidence
supporting the
wiretap tapes' conversations of the poll
rigging
as discussed in the tapes.

It will be remembered that in 1986, the
military was
certainly behind then President Marcos,
as were
the then members of parliament. And the
issue
then, whether one remembers it, was the
cheating
in the polls which parliament tried to
suppress.

There was a coup staged by the military
that failed
as a coup. But when the people rose
against
Marcos while the rebel soldiers were in a
defensive
position, having closeted themselves in
the twin
camps, even the military generals and
the rank-
and-file, had to take a position of being
with, or
against the people. In the end, they had
to go with
the people.

It is a worse situation that Gloria finds
herself in,
what with the economy going downhill
and the
political instability rising with more street
protests
that will surely impact negatively on the
fiscal and
economic crises she now faces.

It would have been different if the
economy were
prospering, because no leader can get a
people to
rail against her when economically things
still look
rosy. Neither the elite, nor the masses
would even
think of staging street protests against her.

But with the spiraling prices of goods and
services,
and with business dead and dying, with
no hope of
attracting foreign investors to come to our
shores,
along with a President who thinks only of
surviving
politically, plus the burden of having
additional
taxation in e-VAT along with the oil
crisis, Gloria
Arroyo had better put it in her head that
she stands
no chance of surviving politically and
economically.

It's curtains for her. She can go quickly
and
peacefully, or get ousted messily. It's
really her
choice.

tribune

Why fear a transitional government? Why are people afraid a transitional government for the Philippines once Arroyo resigned?  I may not know their reasons, but I would give you a glimpse or a better understanding of the proposed transitional government.

 

The transitional government is proposed not only by the opposition but by the most sectors as well. As proposed a council would head it. This council would be composed of representatives from different sectors. Although it is possible that the military could be part of the council, it is not a Military Junta as many of us fears. The military’s role involvement in the council would be limited to a certain amount that would prevent it from dominating the council. The council, which I have stated earlier, would be formed by different sectors. These sectors include the women, workers, peasants, farmers, and a lot more.

 

This transitional government would focus more on the major problems our nation is facing. These are a problem that needs an immediate action that the current and past administration failed to do. These include:

• High inflation rate,
• High unemployment rate,
• Foreign debts, education,
• Health care
• Peace talks with the CPP-NPA-NDF
• Peace talks with the MILF.
• Unequal distribution of development nationwide
• And the most important is changing our rotten system of traditional politicians or TRAPO.

 

This is just a glimpse or a glance based on what I know about this transitional government. You may add additional information that I missed or any of your opinions thru posting a comment. Thank you for taking time reading this. I hope I have given you a better understanding that this transitional government is not bad after all.

 

 

 

 

 

Are the Filipinos Pacific Islanders or Asians? On my opinion we Filipinos are both. However we are more of Asian than Pacific Islander. To make it clear let me divide this into 5 major areas of knowledge; Geographicaly, Ethnicaly, Linguisticaly, Culturaly, and Historical or Politically.

Geographically speaking the Pacific Islands is an expression commonly accepted as including all of those islands in the Pacific Ocean that are collectively reffered to as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, also sometimes known as Oceania. This usage rules out the Australian Isalnd continent, the Asia-related Indonesian, Philippine, and Japanese Archipelagoes.

The Republic of the Philippines is an archipelago of about 7,107 islands and islets lying on the southeast coast of Asia. You may consider the Philippines part of the Pacific since it can be found west of the Pacific Ocean. Only few of the Western Phgilippine Islands borders nbot even the Pacific Ocean itself but the Philippine Sea which is somehow a sub-region of the Pacific Ocean. Plants and Animal life in the Philippines are closely related to her Asian neighbors. Geographically speaking the Philippines is considered part of Asia.

Ethnically the people of the Philippines are calleg Filipinos. Their ancestors who were of Malay stock, came from the Southeastern Asian mainland as well as from what is now Indonesia. From the 10th century, contacts with china resulted in a group of mixed Filipino-Chinese descent. Who account for a minotiry of the population. Spanish-Filipino and Filipino-Americans maybe distinguished by their fairer complexion, taller structure, & aquiline nose structure. A relively small numbers of Emigrants from the Indian subcontinent added to the population's racial mixture. The aboriginal inhabitants of the islands were Negritos, or Pygmies, also called Aetas or Balugas. The Malays or natives of Southeast Asia developed seaward contacts with the outside world, occured in the early centuries, they spread, traded and settled as far as Magadascar in Africa and Polynesia. Ethnically the Filipinos are Asians.

Linguistically, estimates of the total number of native languages or dialects spoken in the Philippines differ; around 70 to 100 ore more. Traditionally, 8 major linguistic groups are identified; Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Ilongo, Bicolano, Waray-Waray, Pampango, and Pangasinense. The national and most widely spoken language of the Philippines is Filipino, based on Tagalog. Filipino and English are the two official languages & mediums of instruction. The languages of the Philippines belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian family also called Austronesian Languages, takes roots from Southeast Asia and stretches From the island of Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa, all the way to tiny, isolated Easter Island (Rapa Nui), and extending into Taiwan, Vietnam, Northern Australia, New Zealand and most of the Melanesian and Polynesian Islands, the languages in this single family show the common ancestry by the many cognates (words in common) present. Linguistically Filinos are Asians.

Culturally, The philippines had been strongly influenced by the west because of 333 years of Spanish and 48 years of U.S. rule. But string family ties and other Asian customs remained. SOme cultural influences such as Sanskrit-based writting system were carried to the Islands. But in comparison with other parts of the region, the influence of bith China and India were of little importance. The filipinos unlike most of his Malay brothers, never adopted Hinduism or Buddhism.The Philippines has been strengthening its Asian ties without abandoning its Western acquisitions. Culturally, Filipinos are Asians.

Historically or Politically, the Philippines is the only nation in Southeast Asia that became a subject to western colonialism before it had the opportunity to develop either a centralized government ruling over a large territory or an advanced elite culture. The Philippines was also the only Spanish colony in Asia. History has it that the Philippines was once one of the most progressive nation in Asia, only second to Japan. The Philippines is one of the nations who founded the Association of SouthEast Asian Nations or ASEAN. Politically and Historically speaking the Philippines is part of Asia.

I hope this would clear some confusions if the Filipinos are Asians or Pacific Islanders. I hope I made it clear that the Filipinos are more of an Asian than Pacific Islander, unless someone would come up with superior evidences that could prove me wrong.

(I wrote this for my classmates and friends who were saying that Filipinos are Pacific Islanders and not Asians)

 

Ano ba naman tong mga kaklase kong ito kung ano ano kinakanta nila

nung isang araw palabas n kmi ng class room kay Ms. Fowler (Business Keybording) tas kumakanta ung kaklase ko (teka nkalimtan ko na pangalan nya) "Elmo's World" with feelings pa pag kinakanta Oh d kaba nmn matatawa nun pinipigilan ko lng sarili ko 2mawa kc malay ba nila kung bakit ako natatawa.

Tapos kahapon same class kay Ms.Fowler may kumakanta n nmn "La,La, La,La in Elmo's Worlddddddddd...." wahahaha pinipigilan ko n nmng 2mawa paulit-ulit pa nilang kinakanta.

Natatawa ako besides the fact na ang tatanda na nila para kantahin un (to think of it lalaki pa cla) natatawa ako kc secret... mga member lng ng *** ang nkakaalam.

Hay bukas na ang first day of school...
wala lng Good Luck lng sakin...
yun lang po...