By Rolo B. Cena
The Gulf Files
Dumaguete Star Informer
02 October 2011
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Surely, taking a business class-seat flight from Riyadh to Manila with a scant two-hour stopover at Hong Kong was just fair enough after three years of being barred from vacation due to massive workloads and pressing project timelines and deliverables. Other than feeling peculiarly different while seated in this classy cabin, the stress associated with traveling has been completely toned down to my advantage.
And I thought it was at all comforting. Welcomed by the melancholic storm rains, the Cathay Pacific Airbus touched down at the tarmac of NAIA 2 at about 5:00 p.m. From the window of the aircraft, I can visibly see the flooded lanes where this steel aviary was taxiing, evident of the storms. When my nephew picked me up at about 6:00 p.m., I knew the perks I enjoyed in the trip have been infringed.
Driving our way out from NAIA 2 to Magallanes Inter-Change was as tactically mazy as proving the most heinous of crimes of the century – the Maguindanao Massacre, or in convicting these annihilators. While all traffic lights are technically working, the humps and bumps along the troubled thoroughfares en route to EDSA are as obvious and dubious as the turns and twists the Ampatuans and their colleagues are crafting, ultimately, to the advantage of the One.
Finding the best way out to Fairview for my overnight accommodation was as horrendous as proving the 2004 electoral fraud lodged against the former petite lady of the Palace now Pampanga Representative. While most of the roads are technically passable, the rain waters deposited in the sewers of the Metropolitan Manila are as dreadful and atmospherically horrible as the twists and turns the first family and its camp are crafting for their advantage.
Plying the historic EDSA was rather suffocating than breathtaking: the billboards donning “skins” of showbiz personalities in the guise of endorsing commercial products sans the metaphoric invites of the flesh trade, massive skyscrapers in the guise of building “homes” sans the rhetoric lures of quick-and-easy life, the metropolitan rails plying the spreads of highways in the guise of economic solution to traffic sans the allegoric invites of corruption in government contracts, and all, and all.
If at all these are the proposed solutions to social stigma at hand, then I hold no qualm against them. While it is true that unprecedented rise of commercialism has gradually eradicated authentic Filipino industry, creativity and value, it has somehow, literally and figuratively, benefited its recipients, if it would be sacrilegious to call them prey. However, I do have one to the plaguing traffic problem in the metropolis because for the same score, the situation has never improved; worse, after a brief period, it has worsen.
Sans the hullabaloos from critics, the government has imposed the “60kph” speed limit in major thoroughfares. For one, discipline has to be imposed to erring motorists; two, lives of the motorists have to be protected.
The sterling question is: For how long can the government sustain to do this?
In Saudi Arabia, CCTV cameras are installed in four areas of the traffic posts. In the absence of traffic lights, AUVs are parked along conspicuous portion of the roads or highways with CCTV cameras installed in them. These CCTVs are controlled by central monitors in the respective police stations, which are then connected to the system network that integrates all agencies of the government. Once a violation is detected, the system automatically captures and records the offense, transmits warning notice to the all concerned including but not limited to the Immigration (for the expatriates), Interiors (for the Driving License and Car registration), the motorist (via SMS) and the bank for automatic deduction from the account of the erring motorist. In the event that the motorist does not have bank account, upon renewal of National ID or Iqama, the system shall automatically retrieve the offense and thus penalize the offenders.
In contrast, speed violation in the Country is detected by a traffic officer who operates manually the speed reader. He then informs another traffic officer who shall apprehend the offender. Once this happens, a traffic violation ticket is issued and the offender has to settle with the Land Transportation Office.
What is the difference between the two systems? Saudi Arabia’s is systematic, effective and less prone to corruption. In contrast, ours is manual, less effective and absolutely a fertile ground for corruption.
And why should Saudi Arabia be any different? Is it because they have money? Is it because they have imposed National ID system?
The answers to these preceding questions are denominated to a big “NO!” Saudi Arabia made it happened because for one, its government has the political will; two, Saudi Arabia maximizes its money; and three, Saudi Arabia has maximized its existing system.
If our government can only define prudent spending or re-tame this animal deduced to“pork in a barrel” in its truest form and meaning, only then novel projects like this can be implemented, or, succeed!
Take it from the petite lady!
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
21st of September
By Rolo B. Cena
The Gulf Files
Dumaguete Star Informer
25 September 2011
Riyadh,Saudi Arabia – There are two major significance this odd number accords the world and the Filipino people: The “International Peace One Day” and the declaration of Martial Law thirty-nine (39) years ago. The former is an advocacy that calls for all citizens of the world to take on peace and cause to be its agent; the latter is a self-serving interest conceptualized to create a stress-contained serenity narrative of dictatorial dominion and brutal rule of the Palace.
The 21st of September reminds us of the belief that we are one community, one citizen and one spirit: a community with the belief that instilling peace within the inner recesses of the hearts and minds creates an asylum of healthy disposition; a citizen with familial objective of advocating and maintaining peace builds an edifice of genuine people’s supremacy and good governance; and a spirit with contagious resolve fashions a sanctuary of immortal tranquility and peaceful community of Filipino people.
The 21st day of September reminds us of the freedom promulgated in the portico of Aguinaldo’s shrine in Cavite; the freedom that gave us the privilege to enjoy democracy in its truest form and meaning, with the absolute application of the rule of the people and the rule of law.
It brings us back to the memoirs of EDSA, where one trumpet was sounded off by one humble Cardinal that gave birth to the People Power that toppled a regime that abused lives, controlled the economy, and fabricated history. The 21st of September equates with the 25th of February that catapulted the rise of true democracy and eventually indisputable peace.
In contrast however, the 21st of September reminds us of the “Marcos Law,” a partisan belief that the Palace is the Law, the Palace is the Rule, and that the Palace is the Force: the law that revealed someone is above the law; the rule that revealed supremacy over its subjects; and the force that controls the community of believed-to-be idiots.
It reminds us of the Martial Law, the Romualdez-Marcos conjugal dictatorship that re-defined freedom, re-orchestrated peace, and re-created atrocities: freedom re-defined in the guise of cronyism and false application of bureaucracy, peace re-orchestrated in the guise of the New Society, and atrocities re-created in the manifestations of New People’s Army, Moro-Islamic Liberation Front, et al. This later gave unprecedented birth of Abu Sayaff propelled by the subsequent demonic Laws of Man that controlled the palace.
The 21st of September reminds us of the 21st century Filipino idolatries: crime, grime and slime. These three, in all aspects, are powered by greed and voracity. It reminds us of the most heinous of all politically-propelled crimes in Maguindanao; it reminds us of the most popular grime concocted by the wittiest of minds: the Poe-arroyo Presidential race; and it reminds us of the most horrendous slime ever actuated: ZTE-NBN deal, the fertilizer scam, etc.
Surely, the two scenarios vividly define contrasting epitomes of peace in one plane of thought: two extremes that demand both harmony and greed: The former being the end product of genuine peace, the latter being the consequence of a fabricated and highly malicious one. But then again, both lie on the same plane of thought.
Under the precepts of true order, where all the elements in the universe are in harmonious adjunct with its other, harmony and greed do not and cannot meet even when peace becomes the focal or central point of order, or in it its truest form and meaning, is enforced. Harmony and greed do not blend; neither does peace with martial law.
But contrast oftentimes provide colors that sooth, pictures that link, and messages that command: soothing colors that clearly demystify the good, the better and the best; linking pictures that exemplify the bad, the worse, and the worst; and commanding messages that magnify the good, the bad and the ugly.
Demystifying the good, the better and the best gives us the full picture of the Aquino administration, a replica of his mother’s, the icon of democracy, where transparency and good governance are two of his most important spices in re-cooking Philippine government. Linking pictures that exemplify the bad, the worse and the worst personifies the administration of the petite lady, now Pampanga Representative, where her greed and voracity ranks second to the former dictator. Magnifying the good, the bad and the ugly reminds us that once the Country was chosen by the good, ruled by the bad, and led to perdition by the ugliest of political souls.
21st of September should remind us of one thing: never do that again! What ever calls for it, be still!
The Gulf Files
Dumaguete Star Informer
25 September 2011
Riyadh,Saudi Arabia – There are two major significance this odd number accords the world and the Filipino people: The “International Peace One Day” and the declaration of Martial Law thirty-nine (39) years ago. The former is an advocacy that calls for all citizens of the world to take on peace and cause to be its agent; the latter is a self-serving interest conceptualized to create a stress-contained serenity narrative of dictatorial dominion and brutal rule of the Palace.
The 21st of September reminds us of the belief that we are one community, one citizen and one spirit: a community with the belief that instilling peace within the inner recesses of the hearts and minds creates an asylum of healthy disposition; a citizen with familial objective of advocating and maintaining peace builds an edifice of genuine people’s supremacy and good governance; and a spirit with contagious resolve fashions a sanctuary of immortal tranquility and peaceful community of Filipino people.
The 21st day of September reminds us of the freedom promulgated in the portico of Aguinaldo’s shrine in Cavite; the freedom that gave us the privilege to enjoy democracy in its truest form and meaning, with the absolute application of the rule of the people and the rule of law.
It brings us back to the memoirs of EDSA, where one trumpet was sounded off by one humble Cardinal that gave birth to the People Power that toppled a regime that abused lives, controlled the economy, and fabricated history. The 21st of September equates with the 25th of February that catapulted the rise of true democracy and eventually indisputable peace.
In contrast however, the 21st of September reminds us of the “Marcos Law,” a partisan belief that the Palace is the Law, the Palace is the Rule, and that the Palace is the Force: the law that revealed someone is above the law; the rule that revealed supremacy over its subjects; and the force that controls the community of believed-to-be idiots.
It reminds us of the Martial Law, the Romualdez-Marcos conjugal dictatorship that re-defined freedom, re-orchestrated peace, and re-created atrocities: freedom re-defined in the guise of cronyism and false application of bureaucracy, peace re-orchestrated in the guise of the New Society, and atrocities re-created in the manifestations of New People’s Army, Moro-Islamic Liberation Front, et al. This later gave unprecedented birth of Abu Sayaff propelled by the subsequent demonic Laws of Man that controlled the palace.
The 21st of September reminds us of the 21st century Filipino idolatries: crime, grime and slime. These three, in all aspects, are powered by greed and voracity. It reminds us of the most heinous of all politically-propelled crimes in Maguindanao; it reminds us of the most popular grime concocted by the wittiest of minds: the Poe-arroyo Presidential race; and it reminds us of the most horrendous slime ever actuated: ZTE-NBN deal, the fertilizer scam, etc.
Surely, the two scenarios vividly define contrasting epitomes of peace in one plane of thought: two extremes that demand both harmony and greed: The former being the end product of genuine peace, the latter being the consequence of a fabricated and highly malicious one. But then again, both lie on the same plane of thought.
Under the precepts of true order, where all the elements in the universe are in harmonious adjunct with its other, harmony and greed do not and cannot meet even when peace becomes the focal or central point of order, or in it its truest form and meaning, is enforced. Harmony and greed do not blend; neither does peace with martial law.
But contrast oftentimes provide colors that sooth, pictures that link, and messages that command: soothing colors that clearly demystify the good, the better and the best; linking pictures that exemplify the bad, the worse, and the worst; and commanding messages that magnify the good, the bad and the ugly.
Demystifying the good, the better and the best gives us the full picture of the Aquino administration, a replica of his mother’s, the icon of democracy, where transparency and good governance are two of his most important spices in re-cooking Philippine government. Linking pictures that exemplify the bad, the worse and the worst personifies the administration of the petite lady, now Pampanga Representative, where her greed and voracity ranks second to the former dictator. Magnifying the good, the bad and the ugly reminds us that once the Country was chosen by the good, ruled by the bad, and led to perdition by the ugliest of political souls.
21st of September should remind us of one thing: never do that again! What ever calls for it, be still!
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Schizophrenic
By Rolo B. Cena
The Gulf Files
Dumaguete Star Informer
18 September 2011
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – In his articulation for several days after NATO and National Transition Council (NTC) claimed victory over Tripoli, Moammar Gadhafi denied reports that he fled to Niger, a southern neighboring Islamic state. With the enunciation made by the Organization requesting neighboring countries to close their borders to the members of the fugitive’s regime, the former Libyan leader, now remaining at large, branded all the activities the allied forces have undertaken as “psychological warfare and lies” after his dominion was diffused.
What a paranoia of sort when the world-declared fugitive with whom the Marcoses, especially the former First Lady now Ilocos Representative Imelda Marcos have intimated and shared their own tricks and notes of greed-based supremacy, brandished his own portfolio of anarchy that almost venerated the near-satanic rites of Hitler.
Such was a blatant display of greed for power that is as enormous as the greed and voracity of the petite lady as evidenced by the worst of crimes as the Arroyo-backed killings or as gargantuan as the greed and voracity of the Ampatuans’.
When Gadhafi called the acts of the allied forces as “psych war and lies,” it’s by default a reflection of his own means of deceiving the entire world that he is still in control, that he is still harboring victories; an absolute lie as profane as the mental lapses of the petite lady on the one-million-vote edge over actor Poe, the only and absolute foe she had during the 2004 presidential elections.
When Gadhafi slammed the rumors that he was heading south of Libya with a strong armada, it was by definition a “psych war and lie” to deceive the entire world that his power still exists in the metropolis of Tripoli, a lie similar to the existence of congressional power of the petite lady to desperately protect herself from prosecution and persecution for greed and voracity she and her court mercilessly deliberated during her two anarchical terms.
Similarly, when the former dictator Ferdinand Marcos was lifted from Malacanang and transported to what was mistaken as Hawai instead of Paoay, all his men – relatives and cronies- fabricated all sorts of made-to-order antics in order to derail the transformation process undertaken by the Aquino administration, an activity that was as sadistic as annihilating the Jews during the second global war by the Nazis.
If I may put my two cents in, most leaders are schizophrenic, a post partum behavioral disorder governed by hunger for superfluous; post partum in the sense that it unveils after leaders get the power: Hitler, Mussolini, Marcos, Fidel Castro, Hosni Mubarak, Ben Ali, Bashar al-Saad, Moammar Gadhafi, Gloria Arroyo, et al.
Hitler and Mussolini’s annihilation of the world in an attempt to control the magnitude of creation, Marcos’ unequalled concoction of power and greed, Castro’s defiance to submit, Hosni Mubarak’s interminable military control behind bars, Ben Ali sibling’s political kleptomaniac, Bashar al-Saad’s do-or-die attachment to power, Moamma Gadhafi’s psychological warfare and lies, Gloria Arroyo’s lapses turned denials, and more. Yes, and many more when drilled down to the last of selections.
These leaders have utterly epitomized the commonest of all political fuel: Greed! Conversely, these leaders have epitomized the commonest of all political behavioral disorder: schizophrenia!
Greed is an overwhelming desire to have more of something. Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder with symptoms of emotional instability, detachment from reality, and withdrawal into self. It is a state of mind characterized by contradictory or conflicting attitudes, behavior or qualities.
Arguably though, these breed of assailants are living between the border of normalcy and schizophrenia, a state of mind where most narcissistic creatures often dismiss as reality sans the sugar coats and glossy superficial pelts of mental distortion; apparently, they need psychiatric overhauls to anchor them to reality and consequently allow them to survive.
Again if I may opine, behaviors like these muggers epitomize don’t deserve to exist, lest re-condition the mindsets of the youths otherwise the value of true democracy will wane beyond reason: a democracy founded on the principle of the people, by the people and for the people.
What more can the constituents do whenever such behavior persists in a state like ours?
The Gulf Files
Dumaguete Star Informer
18 September 2011
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – In his articulation for several days after NATO and National Transition Council (NTC) claimed victory over Tripoli, Moammar Gadhafi denied reports that he fled to Niger, a southern neighboring Islamic state. With the enunciation made by the Organization requesting neighboring countries to close their borders to the members of the fugitive’s regime, the former Libyan leader, now remaining at large, branded all the activities the allied forces have undertaken as “psychological warfare and lies” after his dominion was diffused.
What a paranoia of sort when the world-declared fugitive with whom the Marcoses, especially the former First Lady now Ilocos Representative Imelda Marcos have intimated and shared their own tricks and notes of greed-based supremacy, brandished his own portfolio of anarchy that almost venerated the near-satanic rites of Hitler.
Such was a blatant display of greed for power that is as enormous as the greed and voracity of the petite lady as evidenced by the worst of crimes as the Arroyo-backed killings or as gargantuan as the greed and voracity of the Ampatuans’.
When Gadhafi called the acts of the allied forces as “psych war and lies,” it’s by default a reflection of his own means of deceiving the entire world that he is still in control, that he is still harboring victories; an absolute lie as profane as the mental lapses of the petite lady on the one-million-vote edge over actor Poe, the only and absolute foe she had during the 2004 presidential elections.
When Gadhafi slammed the rumors that he was heading south of Libya with a strong armada, it was by definition a “psych war and lie” to deceive the entire world that his power still exists in the metropolis of Tripoli, a lie similar to the existence of congressional power of the petite lady to desperately protect herself from prosecution and persecution for greed and voracity she and her court mercilessly deliberated during her two anarchical terms.
Similarly, when the former dictator Ferdinand Marcos was lifted from Malacanang and transported to what was mistaken as Hawai instead of Paoay, all his men – relatives and cronies- fabricated all sorts of made-to-order antics in order to derail the transformation process undertaken by the Aquino administration, an activity that was as sadistic as annihilating the Jews during the second global war by the Nazis.
If I may put my two cents in, most leaders are schizophrenic, a post partum behavioral disorder governed by hunger for superfluous; post partum in the sense that it unveils after leaders get the power: Hitler, Mussolini, Marcos, Fidel Castro, Hosni Mubarak, Ben Ali, Bashar al-Saad, Moammar Gadhafi, Gloria Arroyo, et al.
Hitler and Mussolini’s annihilation of the world in an attempt to control the magnitude of creation, Marcos’ unequalled concoction of power and greed, Castro’s defiance to submit, Hosni Mubarak’s interminable military control behind bars, Ben Ali sibling’s political kleptomaniac, Bashar al-Saad’s do-or-die attachment to power, Moamma Gadhafi’s psychological warfare and lies, Gloria Arroyo’s lapses turned denials, and more. Yes, and many more when drilled down to the last of selections.
These leaders have utterly epitomized the commonest of all political fuel: Greed! Conversely, these leaders have epitomized the commonest of all political behavioral disorder: schizophrenia!
Greed is an overwhelming desire to have more of something. Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder with symptoms of emotional instability, detachment from reality, and withdrawal into self. It is a state of mind characterized by contradictory or conflicting attitudes, behavior or qualities.
Arguably though, these breed of assailants are living between the border of normalcy and schizophrenia, a state of mind where most narcissistic creatures often dismiss as reality sans the sugar coats and glossy superficial pelts of mental distortion; apparently, they need psychiatric overhauls to anchor them to reality and consequently allow them to survive.
Again if I may opine, behaviors like these muggers epitomize don’t deserve to exist, lest re-condition the mindsets of the youths otherwise the value of true democracy will wane beyond reason: a democracy founded on the principle of the people, by the people and for the people.
What more can the constituents do whenever such behavior persists in a state like ours?
The rhetoric of Sin
By Rolo B. Cena
The Gulf Files
Dumaguete Star Informer
04 September 2011
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – It was his trumpet sounded off that concocted the greatest assembly of mankind, which consequently aborted the most horrible dominion of all times; a speechifying that enunciated the freedom defined solely for this act and purpose.
He caused change as he himself is an agent of change; a promulgator of freedom who denounced the most promiscuous of sins. He called forth the abortion of a sin that ruled for more than two decades and disgraced the Filipino people; an oratory manifesting a different passion of greed – a cardinal sin. It was the newest of freedom defined in the oratory of a Cardinal.
If he were alive, he would have sounded once more his rhetoric on the electoral fraud of the former strongwoman of the Palace; articulated an argument on the ZTN deal; verbalized his own way of protest against the most horrifying carnage of the millennium that took place in the remotest of areas in Maguindanao. He would have struck the hullabaloos of the previous administration and that of the son of the icon of democracy, whose political occupation he triggered via the world-acclaimed bloodless revolution at EDSA.
If here were alive, he would have opined on the “pajero bishops” that stirred the Roman Catholics in awe; he would have narrated how the drug lords build the churches in the drug rings of countries of the world, or how the most organized crime syndicates in the world finance foundations and refugee centers.
If he were alive, he would have recited once more his oratory on the “Poleteismo” staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines that blasphemed the faith the more than eighty-million Christian Filipinos behold for centuries now; he would have desecrated Mideo Cruz, et al, the exhibit halls, the minds and spirits of the organizers. All by his powerful prayers that come from his unstained heart and mind, he would have outdone the blasphemy. He would have dared “Kulo” artists to stage the same for Prophet Mohammed to prove to the entire world that the Islamic community would stage the same protest, or to prove that arts is supposed to convey the most beautiful and lasting of all messages and not to instill in the minds and hearts of the followers the most satanic or oddest of all pieces of arts.
If he were alive, he would have opined on the Reproductive Health Bill that sends all groups to the porticos of the Congress and Senate and halls of the academic institutions. He would have stressed the importance of eradicating poverty from the list of social concerns to and before the so called cause-oriented groups protesting against the RH Bill; he would have emphasized that the country has been plagued by population problem, more so, population control problems. He would have emphasized as well that population problem should be addressed by both the people and the government along with the assistance of the Church; he would have emphasized that the only thing that divides the church and the state is the thin red line that is so sensitive and fragile.
If here were alive, he would have recited once more his rhetoric over the first one-hundred days of President Benigno Aquino III, as was in the first one-hundred days of his mother, Corazon Aquino, the icon of democracy with whom he worked with in toppling the strongman and his cronies. He would have advised the son in the name of the father and of the mother to work honestly and conscientiously sans vested interests and future political plans.
His rhetoric is far greater than the rest; far valuable that the Congress and Senate. His rhetoric is beyond imagination, beyond meaning yet vividly visible and completely comprehensible.
Whatever happened to the country today, to the Filipino people – we owe them to Cardinal Sin, the prime mover of the EDSA spirit. Whatever happened to the political arena of the country today is not his cause – it was the peoples’ choice.
EDSA would have been enshrined more than ever; respected more than ever; and revered more than ever. If Cardinal Sin were alive, the spirit he had given birth would have been taken care of, would have been nurtured, and would have been nourished.
Such was the rhetoric of Cardinal Sin, removing sins from mankind. Godspeed, Cardinal!
The Gulf Files
Dumaguete Star Informer
04 September 2011
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – It was his trumpet sounded off that concocted the greatest assembly of mankind, which consequently aborted the most horrible dominion of all times; a speechifying that enunciated the freedom defined solely for this act and purpose.
He caused change as he himself is an agent of change; a promulgator of freedom who denounced the most promiscuous of sins. He called forth the abortion of a sin that ruled for more than two decades and disgraced the Filipino people; an oratory manifesting a different passion of greed – a cardinal sin. It was the newest of freedom defined in the oratory of a Cardinal.
If he were alive, he would have sounded once more his rhetoric on the electoral fraud of the former strongwoman of the Palace; articulated an argument on the ZTN deal; verbalized his own way of protest against the most horrifying carnage of the millennium that took place in the remotest of areas in Maguindanao. He would have struck the hullabaloos of the previous administration and that of the son of the icon of democracy, whose political occupation he triggered via the world-acclaimed bloodless revolution at EDSA.
If here were alive, he would have opined on the “pajero bishops” that stirred the Roman Catholics in awe; he would have narrated how the drug lords build the churches in the drug rings of countries of the world, or how the most organized crime syndicates in the world finance foundations and refugee centers.
If he were alive, he would have recited once more his oratory on the “Poleteismo” staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines that blasphemed the faith the more than eighty-million Christian Filipinos behold for centuries now; he would have desecrated Mideo Cruz, et al, the exhibit halls, the minds and spirits of the organizers. All by his powerful prayers that come from his unstained heart and mind, he would have outdone the blasphemy. He would have dared “Kulo” artists to stage the same for Prophet Mohammed to prove to the entire world that the Islamic community would stage the same protest, or to prove that arts is supposed to convey the most beautiful and lasting of all messages and not to instill in the minds and hearts of the followers the most satanic or oddest of all pieces of arts.
If he were alive, he would have opined on the Reproductive Health Bill that sends all groups to the porticos of the Congress and Senate and halls of the academic institutions. He would have stressed the importance of eradicating poverty from the list of social concerns to and before the so called cause-oriented groups protesting against the RH Bill; he would have emphasized that the country has been plagued by population problem, more so, population control problems. He would have emphasized as well that population problem should be addressed by both the people and the government along with the assistance of the Church; he would have emphasized that the only thing that divides the church and the state is the thin red line that is so sensitive and fragile.
If here were alive, he would have recited once more his rhetoric over the first one-hundred days of President Benigno Aquino III, as was in the first one-hundred days of his mother, Corazon Aquino, the icon of democracy with whom he worked with in toppling the strongman and his cronies. He would have advised the son in the name of the father and of the mother to work honestly and conscientiously sans vested interests and future political plans.
His rhetoric is far greater than the rest; far valuable that the Congress and Senate. His rhetoric is beyond imagination, beyond meaning yet vividly visible and completely comprehensible.
Whatever happened to the country today, to the Filipino people – we owe them to Cardinal Sin, the prime mover of the EDSA spirit. Whatever happened to the political arena of the country today is not his cause – it was the peoples’ choice.
EDSA would have been enshrined more than ever; respected more than ever; and revered more than ever. If Cardinal Sin were alive, the spirit he had given birth would have been taken care of, would have been nurtured, and would have been nourished.
Such was the rhetoric of Cardinal Sin, removing sins from mankind. Godspeed, Cardinal!
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