OUR COUNTRY’S CRITICAL CONDITION IS SIMPLY THE RESULT OF WHO WON THE ELECTION

August 15, 2005
Recent news says, “ARMY Captain Marlon Mendoza disclosed at the Senate jueteng hearing Wednesday that alleged gambling lord Rodolfo ‘Bong’ Pineda contributed P300 million to ‘support President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s victory in last year’s national elections.’”
Before the 2004 election, our NGO received the information that there was a collective effort of all drug lords, gambling lords, prostitution lords, and other operators of illegal businesses to win the election.

Their strategy: To put up the biggest money.

Purpose: To buy victory for their chosen candidates.

Strategy: To seduce first both (opposing) candidates. If both accept the offer/deal, the money was to be divided. If one refused, then, all the money would be poured into the candidacy of their candidate.

Because our people were and are still buyable by money, the candidates of these evil illegal businessmen won, simply because they had the highest amount paid to each voter.

Whose victory was the election? Victory of the illegal syndicates! Victory of the drug lords. Victory of the gambling lords. Victory of the prostitution rings. Victory of the contrabands.

Now, evil businesses/activities are operating free – under the protection of those who sit in the government!

In my hometown of Loon (Bohol), the previous chief of police accepted P500.00 per week from each Swertres usher, and P1,000.00 from each drug pusher.

A new very young chief has recently replaced him. Already captain in rank at age 24. Tagalog When the same ushers and pushers approached him, he protested, “Ah, sa amin P1,500.00 ang minimum!” [“I can’t accept that for in our place, P1,500.00 is the minimum!”]

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One Boholana has just been recently (just last week) rescued from the Middle East through the effort of the Provincial Government and the district congressman.

It was learned that when she was about to leave our country over three months ago bound for the Middle East, she saw money was given to the embassy employee by her employment agency. She began to suspect that embassy (government) employee acted as a pimp, and that she was being dealt as or like a prostitute.

That she was a sex object was somewhat confirmed as soon as she started her work as a Domestic Helper where her male employer made sexual advances on her. But the wife discovered it and became jealous, beat her without reasons, and finally locked her inside a room without food and water for days, not even given the permission to go to the CR!?

How she escaped the ordeal or how she was rescued by the government was not told in last week’s news report.

What is confusing is the fact that she availed the government’s ‘FLY NOW, PAY LATER’ employment program.

Is the government, after all, involved in the evil conspiracy of the so-called flesh trade – of selling our women to effect an emergency salvation of our economy which is in severe crisis due to the ineptness of these same leaders? Are these leaders afraid that their incompetence and their theft will be brought to light in the form of a bankrupt nation, bankrupt economy, high unemployment, severe poverty, hunger among our people? Are they afraid that the ghost of their evil works will come back to haunt them? Are they also afraid that this hunger will intensify and so they hasten to fling our women to the mouth of the foreign crocodile? Are they nervous now of an impending mass revolution by hungry people?

In a special 3-part serial report in the Philippine Daily Inquirer last March, 2003, entitled “GRO, not entertainer: Gov’t accused of sex trafficking”, we can quote the following statements,

“Wilma has no illusions about her ‘students’. ‘They get singers or dancers here, but the work awaiting them in Japan is that of a GRO. That’s how it is,’ said Wilma…Guest Relations Officer (GRO) [has been] the hotel industry-inspired code for sex workers…’ Is TESDA aware that her agency sends GROs, not entertainers, to Japan? ‘Of course,’ she said, ‘All this training of talents is a charade.’”

When confronted with the question, the country’s top female official tasked to protect our OFWs (Overseas Filipino Workers) simply said, “We only are concerned of letting our people go abroad. What will be their final work once they get there, is no longer within our control or concern.”

In many mayor’s/governor’s offices, there is posted, “TESDA-assisted FLY NOW PAY LATER employment program. For female applicants only.”

The truth is coming out and is becoming crystal clear: That the government is involved in the selling of our women in order to avert the crisis which is resulting from their thefts and incompetence!

They are using our women to save our country from economic bankruptcy! By victimizing them!!!

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When the 2004 election was ongoing, there were some women (wives and mothers) who huddled around a purok hut, in one poblacion. These women were overheard by the roaming/campaigning candidates as saying, “Well, the candidates who will not give money will be the most pitiful. We will give preference to those who will give the bigger amount.”

And then the moneyed party/candidates laughed inside and said to themselves, “Oh, yeah, you foolish women! Accept our money. For this is a DOWNPAYMENT for your daughters whom we will turn into prostitutes and your sons whom we will turn into drug pushers or drug addicts.”

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It is said that over 90% of the winning candidates were supported by dirty money of vice-sin businesses.

In other words, our country today is being manned, ruled and governed by men who are servants of these evil lords, who are the actual rulers of this nation!

If you have been wondering why this nation is tottering, then, there you have an explanation. We are governed by men who are incompetent to guide us towards progress and prosperity. They do not possess the qualifications, skills and the wisdom to steer our nation to true greatness and sustainable development! Worse, we are led by men who are leading us towards our own perdition!

Their skills are: skill to deceive, skill to flatter, skill to outmaneuver, skill to manipulate, skill to coerce, skill to lie, skill to cheat, skill to steal, skill to murder and the likes.

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The latest expose that Jueteng lord Bong Pineda spent some P300 million to let his candidates win is only a confirmation of what we already knew and tried to inform and forewarned the country!

Forewarned is forearmed. But how many listened to our warning? We are only reaping what we sowed!

But on the other hand, as regards the evil that they have been keeping in secret, Jesus said, No secret shall remain a secret. It shall be exposed!

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Now our mayor decided to get active in cock derby. He is sponsoring a town-wide cock derby wherein each of our 67 barangays would contribute one cock and a bet of at least P500.00!

When will we come to comprehend as Christian that gambling is a gross violation of the Law of God “You shall love God above all and your neighbor as yourself”? Gambling is never a godly love, nor a neighborly-brotherly love. You will just have to look at the heart and eyes of the wives and children of the gamblers. They are bleeding. They are suffering. They are crying.

I did! My father was a full-pledged cockfighting gambler. He had many cocks. He spent much money for those cocks. And much of his time. Because he lost money for our food, and schooling, and also time for us, we complained a lot. And because he was uncontrollable in his vice, we suffered so much.

Consider that for every person who wins P3,000.00 in card or cockfight or whatever form of gambling, realize that some 60 wives-mothers and so many children were crying for the loss of say, P50.00 each which they could have used for their food or education.

The labels “Illegal Gambling” and “Legal Gambling” have no value before God. To God, all forms of gambling are evil – sin. They hurt people. They harm. They destroy trust, relationships, marriages, families, future of our children…they destroy nations! They morally destroy our children!

With regards our mayor, I heard his side. And I pity him. I don’t condemn him. He is so busy nowadays going to cockfights within our district because he plans to run for the provincial board. He thinks because he knows that this is the only (or one way) he can win the election.

So, my question is: Whom do you blame for our misery: the candidate or the people?

Don’t tell me you blame God! Let us all blame own ourselves!

That is why I urge for a simultaneous reform – read: repentance. Repentance in the top (our officials) and repentance at the bottom (we, the people). God does not favor nor endorse faultfinding or blaming one another. “Judge not,” He said. What He advices us to do is self-reform. “Take the plank off from your eyes.” Pride is an example of a plank (big sin). After that, we can proceed helping others clean their eyes in a brotherly way, no longer in a hostile un-brotherly manner.

Question: Under such conducive environment, isn’t it repentance and reform easiest to do? And if repentance and reform is done, what else can we expect but salvation, liberation, progress and prosperity?

But under the present faultfinding, evasive environment, no genuine reform can be done.

Do we need the worst to come before we come to our senses? To our knees?

I fear that might be the only way… for us obstinate people. We can learn only by hard most painful experience.








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