IS THE SHIFT TO PARLIAMENTARY FORM OF GOVERNMENT THE ANSWER?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)

Thursday, October 11, 2007, Badbad Oriental, Loon, Bohol, Philippines --

During the rash for Cha-Cha, one person who came from central Bohol (i.e., Carmen town) told me that their constituents quickly signed the paper on People’s Initiative initiated by Governor Aumentado[1] because the barangay officials who went house to house told them, “Sign up. Hurry! For this will solve all our economic problems!”

Now, the content of that dubious paper included the proposed amendment of our government system from the present republic-presidential to republic-parliamentary.

The pending question is: Will the parliamentary from truly solve our economic problems, that is, rescue us from the present severe poverty? Is the parliamentary form of government the answer – the solution?

It is easy to answer that question if we look at the example and experience of those nations that are already in the parliamentary form.

In Asia, many nations are using the parliamentary form and have achieved faster development. Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore are parliamentary. But the other fast progressing countries of China is communist in government form, but capitalist in economy – mixed. Thailand that is doing better than the Philippines is Constitutional Monarchy – e.g., the government is run by a prime minister under the authority of the king.

Germany is Republic-Parliamentary with a President and a Prime Minister. The U.S.A. is progressive under the Republic-Presidential form of government. Japan is not a republic-parliamentary but a Constitutional Monarchy like that of Britain – there is the king or queen and his/her prime minister.

This shows us that the form of government is not the final determining factor of progress and development.

Now, with regards to the form of government, I do not trust parliamentary as something which will make a big difference in favor of the people. Why do I say that?

I say that because progressive nations are not exclusively nor necessarily parliamentary. The USA is not parliamentary but presidential. South Korea is presidential.

A STUDY OF AFRICA

A study of the 53 nations of Africa will shed us more light and prevent us from jumping into the wrong conclusion that the shift to parliamentary form is the answer.

Because in Africa, it is clears that parliamentarism is not working well. Out of the 53 countries of Africa, 30 are parliamentary, but are known to be among the poor countries in the world nonetheless! So that is not a point for the parliamentary form!

Of the 53, 6 are republic-presidential like the Philippines, and are also very poor! So that is not a point for the republic-presidential form either.

In Africa, the truth is clear for those who want to see: Only the white colonizers (French, Germans, Belgians, Italians, Portuguese, British, Spaniards, etc.) and their black connivance have become rich. The vast majority of the black masses are wallowing in severe poverty.

Why? For a few reasons:

1) During the 1800s-1900s scramble for African lands (they call it colonization and exploration; Jesus Christ calls it land grabbing), the white men from Europe took the rich and fertile lands and left the poor eroded lands to the black natives; it is still the same to this day even if political independence for most African nations were obtained in the mid-1900s onwards. So, the first cause is: the exploitative greed of the white Europeans whom the other nations rightly call imperialists.
2) The character of the natives: they – we also in the Philippines – are meek ( a good point) but ignorant (naïve) which is a bad point. Meekness or hospitability or submissiveness combined by ignorance has offered the best opportunity for the descendants of the bright but crafty Jacob-Israel to exploit and outwit us. Jacob deceived his twin brother Esau-Edom (father of the Turks) twice. Jacob saw the value of things and appreciate them. Esau-Edom and the Filipinos and the Africans could not see the value of things and took them for granted. God’s gifts should not be taken for granted. The valuation system of Jacob’s present descendants may not be perfect; they err for giving greater value to gold than to love their fellowman as themselves. They who are from Europe and America violated Christian teachings in favor of the loot they saw in Africa and Oceana (Pacific Isles). History records how brutal were the Germans, French, Italians, Spaniards, Belgians, Dutch, British, etc. treated the Africans during their scramble for the rich African lands and minerals. Their friendly scramble ended in World Wars I and II. They destroyed each other. What they did to the Africans, they did to themselves: destruction. Karma. That is the missing lesson and meaning of the World Wars I & II: the European land grabbers self-destroyed each other: Germans-Italians vs. French-Belgians-British, etc. It was simply a story of getting the dose of your own medicine. You reap what you sow.

CONCLUSION:

Contrary to what is being popularized including in computer-internet games, Greed is not good. Riches must be dispensed with love for God and neighbor; it should not be for the self alone.

That lesson is being learned by the white race of Europe and Americas to this days.

Lesson number 2: for the oppressed and exploited: Don’t lose your divine trait of meekness by resorting to violent revenge, but rather, add Godly wisdom to your meekness, so that you will not be exploitable anymore. And stop accepting their religion which preaches the Bible in the pulpit but reinforces laziness, ignorance of the truths and spreads vices among the people.

In a word, IT IS NOT THE (GOVERNMENT) FORM BUT THE SUBSTANCE (CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE AND THEIR LEADERS) THAT MATTERS. It is not Cha-Cha (Charter Change), but Char-Cha (Character Change)!

To both oppressors and the oppressed, CHARACTER IS THE KEY TO IT ALL. To the rich oppressors, you need NEIGHBORLY LOVE TO SUPPLANT YOUR GREEDY SELFLOVE. To the naïve oppressed, YOU NEED WISDOM TO PREVENT YOUR MEEKNESS FROM BEING ABUSED. As Jesus said, “Be [also] wise as a serpent and [not just] blameless (meek) as a dove.”

Where can neighborly love be found? In the true Christ.

And where can wisdom be obtained? From the true Christ as well.

Now, the Italian-Spanish Christ (invented by Catholicism) and the American Christ (painted by Protestantism) are not similar to the true Christ. The image or description of Christ is corrupted – made incorrect, by their selfish motive to exploit Africa, the Pacific Isles, etc., and provide them the raw materials for their industrialization, the gold and silver for their jewelries and adornment and luxurious living.

Their Christ approved greed-driven capitalism and greed-motivated exploration – read: exploitation. That is their image of the (false) Christ whom they promoted starting in Rome (Catholicism) and then by American Protestantism-capitalism (Revelations 13:11-15). Catholicism is the Mother Whore and the Protestants are the daughter whores (Revelation 17:5).

Furthermore, their Christ approved to reinforce the laziness and ignorance of the Filipino and African people, through the inculcation of vices, such as gambling, and the teaching of superstition to inculcate fear, instead of love. All are contrary to the true teachings and will of the true Christ.

Their image or character of Christ is that one who approves greed of the colonizers and who reinforces the vice, ignorance and laziness of the oppressed people. That Christ is the fake one.

How to find the true Christ? Simple. Simply remove the American and Spanish feature and you will find the true Christ. What is the American feature? And what is the Spanish-Italian feature? The Italian-Spanish feature is the same to that of the American feature: the trait of greedy exploitation in the name of religion. Read Revelations 13:16-18). It is business and economic system fueled by perverted 666 = 600fold love for Self + 60fold love for neighbor + 6fold love for God, using neighbor (people) and God as instruments of personal ambitions and self-aggrandizement. It is opposed to godly 666 = 600fold love for God + 60fold love for neighbor + 6fold love for Self.

That false (read: corrupted) Christianity promotes the deceitful practices of the hawk in the following parable told by the Lord to His original disciples, viz:


THE PARABLE OF THE HAWK AND THE TURTLE

One day, there was a turtle struggling on a mudhole in the meadow. On the other hand, in the sky there was a hawk hovering. The hawk noticed the struggling turtle.

The Lord: “The hawk first eagerly helps the turtle out of its mud-hole in the meadow, only to be grabbed by the hawk in its neck during its search for herbs, carried aloft and smashed into a rock.

“Why did the hawk do that? So that she can enjoy the turtle’s flesh as a reward for its previous eagerness to help. My, children, do not do that!

“Do not follow the evil inhabitants in hell who serve out of selfishness, for everyone there expects to be served.

“They are like the story of the turtle and the hawk

“Service should be given in love and with true brotherly feeling, as is customary in the heavens.” [2]

Lesson: Do not help in order to exploit. Do not give in order to get.

Beware of the false Christian missionary or brother: He befriends you to exploit you. And he is the one (1) who identifies the dumbness of Filipinos and the Africans (e.g., Nigers, Negroes and Negritoes) to the monkey in the parable who was dumb for choosing to plant the upper part of the halved banana tree and (2) secondly, he is the one who identifies the Negroes and Negritoes to the naïve abusable turtle who took revenge against the monkey by placing thorns in the trunk of the banana tree. Dumbness and revenge are all bad attitudes taught to us by the colonizers through these stories.

In short, THEIR RELIGION IS ONE WHICH APPROVES – read: SUPPORTS - GREED AMONG THE EXPLOITERS AND PROMOTES THE LAZINESS-VICE-IGNORANCE AMONG THE EXPLOITED.

Therefore, let us work to avoid the greedy self-love tolerated by the religions (e.g., Catholicism and Protestantism) and all systems (e.g., democracy and capitalism) of the colonizers and at the same time, remove vice, superstition and laziness from the religions of the masses, then, you will have pure religion. Then, you will have true selfless godly neighborly love remain. Then, God’s Kingdom has come, His will has been done.

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[1] After the defeat of the unpopular People’s Initiative pushed by ULAP President Erico Aumentado, he confided to his former law classmate: “Jun, I was not actually personally for Cha-Cha. I was only indebted to Gloria.”
[2] Great Gospel of John IV/99