Apologies, boss (and BongV for cross-commenting) for non-compliance to our two-article-per-week limit, but I just have to highlight this latest and most groundbreaking instance of Filipino stupidity for which we as a people have become renowned. This indeed is something for the books — a new milestone breached on our on-going effort to plumb the depths of tackiness and vacuousness.

One other thing that HASN’T CHANGED as we commemorate this momentous twenty-second anniversary of the publication of James Fallows’s seminal piece, Damaged Culture: A New Philippines? is on-going PROOF that Filipinos should never have asserted their independence of the United States in the first place.

Look no further than this “Letter to President Obama” sent supposedly by these bozos (source: where else but in JOLOG CENTRAL):

Teofisto Guingona Jr. former vice president;
Jovito R. Salonga, former Senate president;
Franklin Drilon, former Senate president;
Camilo D. Quiason, former SC Justice;
Former senators Wigberto Tañada, Sergio Osmeña III, Vicente T. Paterno, Agapito A. Aquino;
Josefina T. Lichauco, former cabinet secretary, Concerned Citizens Movement;
Francisco I. Chavez, former Solicitor General;
Corazon J. Soliman, former cabinet secretary;
Juan Santos, former cabinet secretary;
Jejomar C. Binay, mayor, Makati City;
Bro. Eddie C. Villanueva, national chairman, PJM;
Sr. Mary John Mananza, OSB, co-chairperson, AMRSP;
Harry L. Roque, Jr., UP Law, Concerned Citizens Movement;
Jun I. Lozada, state witness, ZTE/NBN

Following letter was sent to Obama through House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:

His Excellency President Barack Obama
Washington District of Columbia
United States of America

Dear Mr. President,

We shared the wonderful jubilation of the American people during your historic election triumph. When you assumed office early this year, we rejoiced at the audacious hope that you inspired, and on your promise of change for the common good.

We joined all freedom loving people of the world who exulted when you declared that “those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent…are on the wrong side of history.”

The Filipino people share the same morals, ideals and aspirations that define the envied way of life of the American people. Filipinos yearn for the same kind of leaders that the American people yearn for themselves; leaders who are imbued with the right values, lead principled lives, and govern withn the highest ethical standards. The ideals of justice, democracy and the upliftment of human rights animate the Filipino people’s dreams of a better world in much the same way that these ideals animate the dreams of the American people.

Upon your invitation, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will have the chance to meet with you on July 30, 2009. In your meeting with Ms Arroyo, it may serve you well to be mindful of Ms Arroyo’s legacy of corruption, extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearances, torture, bribery, election cheating, among others. We do not wish to belabor you with details of these high crimes which have surely been documented and reported by the U.S. State Department to your Office.

The Filipino people also yearn for change from the effrontery of hopelessness and the curse of decadence that Ms Arroyo represents. In your meeting with Ms Arroyo, we feel confident that you will make clear to her that a Government that does not comply with the Principles of Democracy and respect for Human Rights cannot have the approval and support of your administration. We implore you Mr. President to inspire hope and be an instrument of change for the common good of the long suffering Filipino people.

(Signed by the people listed above)

You have got to be kidding!

I find it pathetic that those signatories would take their grievances to the President of the United States. It demonstrates that the Philippines should never have asserted its independence from the United States in the first place!!

That such a message would be sent to a foreign head of state by people who themselves are IN POSITIONS of influence says A LOT about the utter impotence of Pinoys in this whole business of looking after themselves.

- Pathetic.

- Uncool.

- Full of shit.

That’s The Filipino for you — after 63 years of “Independence”, and most likely for the NEXT 63 years.

Dear President Obama,

Do us a favour and mount a Rice Paddy Storm on our pathetic volcanic island nation and rescue us from our own people. Back in 1935 (or whatever the hell that year was), some asshole decided on behalf of subsequent generations of Filipinos (to be fair, this bozo had no way of consulting with us), that we would rather our nation be run like hell by ourselves than like heaven by you guys.

Consider, Mr. President, that a bunch of ex-senators, a mayor, and some nun now come to you presumably under the notion that the words of the Leader of the Free World pack a bit more horsepower than that of the people who otherwise wield the vote in this old colonial outpost of ours. This demonstrates a rather atrophied will to step up to the ideals — indeed, the whole point — of a form of government and way of life that many American soldiers have fought and died for.

It would seem that the words of admonition that the “signatories” of the above open letter hope you would direct to our president, Mrs. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo would be more effective if addressed to them instead.

Hoping for your kind consideration, Mr. President.

Signed,
benign0
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