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Showing posts with label Filipino honor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Filipino honor. Show all posts

Monday, March 30, 2009

2010 Presidential Campaign Issues

Readers who by now are a bit familiar with my site will notice the poll in my sidebar entitled "2010 Presidential Campaign Issues." For posterity, I now include a copy of said poll in this article.


A few clarificatory points are in order:
  1. My primary objective in doing this survey is to influence the tendency of the 2010 campaign towards issues and away from personalities.
  2. Another primary objective is to determine how well the choice labeled: "Reestablish respect for the Philippines by actively promoting Filipino cultural heritage" will perform compared with the other choices. Remember that this is a blog that was birthed by, and remains committed to, the need to promote Filipino cultural heritage.
  3. You may select up to nine (9) choices before casting your vote.  Of course, if you want to, you can select only 1 or several that you really like most. That way, your top choices will land on top.
  4. I wanted to provide more choices but ten (10) is the limit that the Vizu system allows.  This is a definite limitation in this poll which might just lead to a part 2 for this poll.
  5. This is my very first time to do a Vizu web poll. There are many things that I don't know about Vizu web polls.
  6. I have nothing at all to do with what appears at the bottom of the Vizu web poll. The words "Earn $5 Cash Now" appeared automatically when I created this Vizu web poll. I had nothing to do with putting them there.
I hope you'll find time to cast your vote on this poll. Please ask your family and friends to do likewise.  This is our chance to shape the 2010 campaign into a campaign for real CHANGE rather than just a senseless circus staged by the personalities who are running.  Many voters who are disgusted with personalities will at least look at issues and, given a decent forum, will sit down to discuss them especially if these are close to their hearts.  Polls like this one give us the opportunity to draw out these voters thereby enriching the electoral process.

When Filipino voters demand that candidates adopt the issues paradigm, that's the time when candidates will be compelled to run campaigns compatible with standards that the voters require.  Only the certified eggheads will fail to respond. 

Aside of course from the choices expressed through your votes, I'd be delighted to find your comments and suggestions on this post. 


Thursday, March 19, 2009

"Nicole," Victimized Again? Where to, Filipino Honor?!

19 March 2009

Everyone knows the story by now.  It's all over the papers, the radio and the primetime TV news.  "Nicole," the Filipina rape victim who won her case against US Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith is in the news again.  This time, through an affidavit submitted to the Court of Appeals by Smith's lawyer, "Nicole" is telling another story and saying that she was probably too drunk to know what really happened to her.

This story is wide, broad and deep and has far-reaching implications especially in the face of renewed calls for the scrapping of the RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) which allows the temporary stationing of US military forces in Philippine territory.  

But the call coming from "Nicole's" lawyer, Atty. Evalyn Ursua, that it's too early to judge "Nicole," should be heeded.  

In a press statement, Senator Francis Pangilinan said that "we cannot blame Nicole and her family," and asserted that this is "an indictment of our justice system that is perceived to favor the wealthy and the powerful and ... to be biased against the ordinary folks like Nicole." He added that "Nicole did not fail us; our justice system did."  But to which we should all add that before human systems fail, individual humans themselves fail first.

However, "Nicole" and her family do owe the Filipino nation a clear and honest explanation, at least, if only to provide all of us with a concrete starting point in resolving this big politico-historic, socio-cultural crisis. It is not only the Philippine justice system that is indicted here but our culture and value systems as a nation.  We have to confront this reality and deal with it right here, right now.  What really happened here?!   Filipino dignity demands nothing less.  The honor of all Filipinos -- not just every Filipina -- is at stake.  Not only here, but around the world.  



 
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