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August 11, 2000
Are we setting goals for yet another Guinness
World Record for Most Ransom Paid? Ask
Stormeng Domeng.
FINALLY, Philippines finds biggest money making project so far.
Rumor has it that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Tourism will
launch a hostage taking OPEN tournament featuring guest entries from the FBI most wanted list:
1. Usama Bin Laden, 2. Victor Manuela Gerena,3. Al "Na Capon"
in a winner take all contest for the most number of foreign hostages taken.
PLDT.COM MULLING OVER EH-PLDT.COM Withstanding
pressures from HK capitalists, the DOT.COM company examines its options.
If the other company can't even connect a phone "as promised" in
3 days, what in heavens name are they doing in e-commerce? This is a weird
country indeed.
Is the Philippines a weird, wacky place or
what? With
all the NPA trouble, MILF trouble, scary, scary crime and order problems,
guess what the Police solution is : disarm the citizens!!!
Anyone around in the early 70's can tell you that it was just like this
right after Martial law. With people asking Marcos to "yes
please, save us from the bad guys". You
wanna hear the weirder part? Well, not
only are the same Marcos implementers back, but they claim the have got
the people chanting the same thing. "Yes please, save us from
the bad guys". Wait till your kids get a sachet of drugs or a
gun planted in your cars or their person. Walang Sisihan!! (Don't
Blame Us). RAZA DE ESCLAVOS?
Montalban resettlement area.
The bad news: the people have no jobs or income.
The good news: Erap has provided a tennis court.
What are they up to now? First, they
banned civilians from carrying personal weapons. Then they 'raided' night
clubs in Dewey. Now they are setting up checkpoints at random, an act
which the Supreme Court has ruled as unconstitutional. Where
else is this going?
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FILIPINOS GUILTY BEFORE
TRIAL?
Huwag naman Pinoy parati ang masama at mali, kabayan. Mas marami pa rin
mabait na tao sa bayan natin kay sa masasamang damo. (Let's not
immediately blame our countrymen for all that goes wrong with this world.)
The stinking Foreign service and practically everyone in the Philippine
Government allowed Indonesia, the country where a Filipino Ambassador was
car bombed to investigate all Filipinos residing there without batting an
eyelash. It's a flashback to the Spanish times when anything that went
wrong had to be perpetrated by the Indios. Or to WW II, where
Makapili's would sell out anybody and their sister for the single purpose
of ingratiating themselves with the Japanese invaders. Of no help was
Indonesian President and Janis Joplin fan Weird Wahid, who himself is in hot water
with his own people for a failing government. Averting another disaster,
he was quick to point to the MILF as the culprit. But lo and behold,
a hardcore Indonesian Underground group has intimated that they may have
been behind the bombing. Three days later, the Australian Embassy had a
bomb threat as well. What is the moral of the story? Well, first of
all, of all our neighbors, Malaysia has the axe to grind, as their
citizens are hostage of Filipino bandits. Yet no one looked at them
( they have a real air force and are buying a submarine). Next is
Indonesia. With the Indonesian Army still stinging from the East Timor
defeat, it is not too far-fetched to theorize that the embassy bombing was
mere payback for our sending soldiers to help East Timor since Day One
with the UN task Force for Free Elections as well as our troops heading
the UN contingent. Appears Wiranto And his friends, Suharto
and Salim didn't like that.
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| Erap's silence on Ibrahim Verdict
deafening. Maybe Mahathir is a better friend. |
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Conrado de Quiros Rocks yet again!
The scale of the folly is beyond words.
Here is a President who doesn't mind pissing off neighbors who are employing hundreds of thousands of OFWs, quite apart from giving the country hundreds of millions of dollars in trade and tourism. Here is a President who doesn't mind killing the local tourist and hotel industry-tourist arrivals have plunged since the country scrapped its air agreement with Taiwan. And here is a President who doesn't mind choking the growth of the country's other airlines. And all for what?
For Lucio Tan.
Get the full story at : http://www.inquirer.net/issues/aug2000/aug07/opinion/qui.htm
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