Okay, I am guilty of not exercising my right to vote last Election and I've got nobody to blame for it but my lazy self and for always using "but I pay my tax!" as an excuse for me not to fall in line and get my ass registered.
Oh well. Not that I am defending my lazy self, its just that when you read the daily broadsheets (which I religiously do), you get the same gory things of massive cheating and how they even did that without even trying to conceal it. The cheaters no longer bother to hide the cheating, they do it openly. As my Lolo would say, cheating here is "garapal".
I am totally perplexed at how on good earth's face did TU garnered a 12-0 "score" in ARMM – as reports would say that Chavit, a non Muslim candidate "got" the highest number of votes and Kiram, a Muslim at that is nowhere on top. You have got to be kidding me.
And there was the Rene Sarmiento case - he was tapped to head a Comelec task force to investigate electoral fraud in Maguindanao. I placed my hopes on him that he'll help this "almost hopeless" nation fight massive cheating during elections but I felt a sudden disappointment rush into my very veins when I read some reports about blank election returns were being taken from the custody of Lanao provincial treasurer by his own group and transferred these to a hotel in Iligan city where he was staying. And to make things worst, it was caught on tape.
I salute ABS-CBN's Ricky Carandang for having the guts to expose it.
Sarmientio said later on that it was for safekeeping. If there was nothing wrong with what they did, why on earth did they lie about it the first time?
Ha! I like what one columnist said, "All it takes for charges of cheating in this country to go away, even when backed up by the most ironclad proof -- can anything be more ironclad than the “Hello Garci” tape? -- is for the charged to deny it to death."
This is not the kind of environment I am envisioning my future kids (or the next generations at that) to be in. I don’t want them to suffer as much as my generation is now. But we're learning continually. The traditional will soon fade - their time will end. When this happens, I hope that they may be replaced by inspired ones and by those who are willing to commit themselves as public servants not just mere politicians.
"There is something that spreads faster than the germ of corruption. That is the fire of inspiration."
-Conrad de Quiros
Oh well. Not that I am defending my lazy self, its just that when you read the daily broadsheets (which I religiously do), you get the same gory things of massive cheating and how they even did that without even trying to conceal it. The cheaters no longer bother to hide the cheating, they do it openly. As my Lolo would say, cheating here is "garapal".
I am totally perplexed at how on good earth's face did TU garnered a 12-0 "score" in ARMM – as reports would say that Chavit, a non Muslim candidate "got" the highest number of votes and Kiram, a Muslim at that is nowhere on top. You have got to be kidding me.
And there was the Rene Sarmiento case - he was tapped to head a Comelec task force to investigate electoral fraud in Maguindanao. I placed my hopes on him that he'll help this "almost hopeless" nation fight massive cheating during elections but I felt a sudden disappointment rush into my very veins when I read some reports about blank election returns were being taken from the custody of Lanao provincial treasurer by his own group and transferred these to a hotel in Iligan city where he was staying. And to make things worst, it was caught on tape.
I salute ABS-CBN's Ricky Carandang for having the guts to expose it.
Sarmientio said later on that it was for safekeeping. If there was nothing wrong with what they did, why on earth did they lie about it the first time?
Ha! I like what one columnist said, "All it takes for charges of cheating in this country to go away, even when backed up by the most ironclad proof -- can anything be more ironclad than the “Hello Garci” tape? -- is for the charged to deny it to death."
This is not the kind of environment I am envisioning my future kids (or the next generations at that) to be in. I don’t want them to suffer as much as my generation is now. But we're learning continually. The traditional will soon fade - their time will end. When this happens, I hope that they may be replaced by inspired ones and by those who are willing to commit themselves as public servants not just mere politicians.
"There is something that spreads faster than the germ of corruption. That is the fire of inspiration."
-Conrad de Quiros
