Comments on: Free Speech, The Bishops, And The Justice Secretary

By: Bencard

Bencard — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:04:03 +0000

no abe, i was referring to the “change you can believe in” mantra. the drama has not even started but from the looks of things, it’s back to the past. let’s see how it plays out.

By: House impeachment vote, a go for GMA to lead a failing state | Filipino Voices

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:38:49 +0000

[...] way, trivializing the Filipino people’s earnest clamor for truth and justice and ignoring the continuing injury Gloria-Macapagal Arroyo has been inflicting with impunity on the failing state of the [...]

By: Abe N. Margallo

Abe N. Margallo — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:44:27 +0000

Why, you are not dreaming of a run-off election of some sort, are you, Bencard?

By: Bencard

Bencard — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:31:36 +0000

abe, forget arroyo, mccain or palin. it has nothing to do with any of them. i know you are the “expert” on that strategy i was talking about.

btw,the jury is still out, abe. heaven forbid, mccain and palin may have the last laugh.

By: arthur

arthur — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:25:14 +0000

Abe,

i definitely agree that this time we need to make sure the arroyos are punished for their misdeeds.

the culture of impunity that we now see and disdain can be traced to our default – as a people and as a nation – to sufficiently punish the marcoses for their abuses while in power. imeldefic is still strutting around, feigning innocence. the marcoses and their cronies literally has gotten away with murder.

this is the model that the arroyos now (and the estradas before that) are emulating.

By: Abe N. Margallo

Abe N. Margallo — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:43:35 +0000

Bencard, bringing up the communist bogey when running out of better ideas did not work for Mac Cain and Palin. It’s not gonna work for Arroyo either.

By: Bencard

Bencard — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:23:28 +0000

firstly, you should define the term “people”, abe. secondly, you should determine WHO would lead them to the promised land. a multitude of 90 million souls could not act on its own as one – they have different ideas as to how, when, why, and where to skin the cat. leaving them to their own devices would certainly lead to chaos and anarchy.

but isn’t it just the classic communist strategy (ruse) to take over after creating chaos and anarchy? to a communist and other totalitarian ideologies, a nation wracked with lawlessness, economic miseries, and failed institutions, is ripe for the picking.

By: Expert damage | Filipino Voices

Expert damage | Filipino Voices — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:11:45 +0000

[...] that, Abe, is the answer to my question I repeat here and here that you seem utterly incapable of answering in a straightforward manner (which I repeat as follows [...]

By: Abe N. Margallo

Abe N. Margallo — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:26:55 +0000

i don’t “root” for dictatorship and never will . . .

unless the “good” president becomes a dictator with a subservient legislature and judiciary, plus an obedient and meek media and a submissive, loyal and fanatic military as well as national police?

anyways, Bencard, national discipline is achievable in the Philippines if the people ultimately succeed in disciplining their leaders. We let the Marcoses off scot-free, the Estradas got a slap on their wrists and Erap is now thinking of a comeback. Isn’t it about time we think seriously of letting the gavel fall, and fall heavily on the Arroyos?

By: jcc

jcc — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:28:37 +0000

ideally, democracy is about living with the choices of the majority. but the flaw in philippine electoral process and the”street politics” can override the popular sentiments of the majority and because of these flaws, you end up living with the choices of the raucous minority.

some say that election is not really about the process of allowing the majority to make their choice known. it is only giving them the semblance of being allowed to make that choice.