Cheating NOT Delicadeza.....
Gil Ramos of Movement for Free Philippines Open Letter to Ducky Paredes article; Delicadeza: Who Has It? Who Does Not? published 7/2/07 Malaya.
hi ducky,
i think your comments on Nene and delicadeza are out of bounds.
the issue is about cheating in these elections. by all accounts there are some elements who are hell bent on forcing a migz zubiri win even if he was not actually chosen by the poeple to sit as a senator.
you take it against nene and koko that they are father and son and that they will be sitting together in the senate. this father and son relationship was a well known fact even before the onset of these efforts to force a fake zubiri win on the nation. and the people have spoken and have chosen KOKO over MIGZX.
the issue of political dynasties which you seem to advert to is a sequitur here since there is no law which prohibits koko the son of senator nene and migx the son of governor zubiri to run for the office of senator. in masbate we even have a husband and wife team sitting as governor and congressman respectively and they are not in violation of any law. the only way to eliminate political dynasties as a significant phenomena in our politics is through building strong political institutions and parties which is the current state in mature democracies. like the law of supply and demand we cannot make it go away or repeal it by legislation as what the President Ramon Magsaysya supposedly wanted to do. we have to work at it and build strong political institutions which will be able to contain and check the emergence of related personalities into positions of power. this is the situation in the
as a former colleauge in the Movement for a Free Philippines which fought the Marcos dictatorship i was expecting you to see the side of the Pimentel's here - a family who played a significant part in that episode of our nations history and not the side of the elitist dynast like the Zubiris who were in bed with the Marcoses at that time. I do not know what personal grudge you carry against nene pimentel but i will take his version of delicadeza over yours anytime.
the issue is cheating not delicadeza. i hope you are able to get your priorities in terms of moral indignation right on these issues.
thanks.
gil r, ramos ph.d.
Exicutive Director
Movement for a Free
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I agree with Dr. Ramos.
DUCKY PAREDES' article about the seeming importance of DELICADEZA amidst the raging controversy between Koko Pimentel and Migs Zubiri over the canvassing of the so called Maguindanao Command Votes of TU is like Colbert King, of the Washington Post, taking umbrage over the traffic jam at the Brooklyn Bridge in the afternoon of September 11, 2001!
What is happening before our eyes is the seeming attempt of the Comelec to TRIVIALIZE, through its nonchalant attitude, the public perception of a massive electoral fraud committed in Maguindanao to hijack the will of the people of that region during the last election and to impose upon the national will Migs Zubiri as the 12th senator of the realm. Precisely, the Supreme Court of the Philippines no less, aware as it is of the paramount importance of the issues brought by Pimentel, has gone beyond itself to ask the Comelec to defer the canvassing of the Maguindanao votes and the eventual proclamation of Migs Zubiri pending resolution of Pimentel's petition.
The Maguindanao Electoral Result is not only about who will be the twelfth senator from the last election nor is it only about the right to suffrage of the people from Maguindanao or as one writer said, their enfranchisement or disenfranchisement, but more importantly it is ALSO about us FILIPINOS, a people who are supposed to be free to choose their own leader/s, under a system they have adopted as FREE MEN and through a process where they exercise their right to vote, a right where every electorate is as equal as anybody else in the society regardless of his/her age, creed, political affiliation, social or economic status or educational attainment.
And since only a FREE MAN could entrust to another the privilege to be his leader, his ruler and governor, the right to elect our leader is one of the most sublime characters of our democratic society. Through the exercise of that right, we affirm our right as FREE MEN and the existence of our democratic institutions. Any attempt to prevent the exercise of this right, or to unlawfully manipulate or misrepresent the results of this exercise is an assault to one of the core foundations of a FILIPINO as a FREE MAN and the priciples that breath life to its democratic institutions. Slaves, like beggars, have no right to choose. And in an oppressive society, there are no rights but only privileges.
Yes, the issue is CHEATING not delicadeza. The isssue is about the massive fraud in Maguindanao Electoral Result and the Rule of Law and not delicadeza and the Rule by Law. The issue is the majesty of justice in a democratic society and not delicadeza or the rule of the few and the strong under a regime of insatiable greed and corruption. Yes, the issue is about the rights of a free man in a democratic society and not delicadeza or the privileges of a slave in a tyranical society.
If we believe that our dignity as a FREE MAN is worth fighting for, let us stand and be counted with the Pimentels and all filipinos of good will in their fight against the electoral fraud in Maguindanao. We may not pass this way again.
Otherwise, let us just pray, but pray very hard for that matter, that may the Grand Architect of the Universe, in his infinite greatness, grant our children more wisdom and strength to live as TRUE FREE MEN when their watch has come and that those, brave men and women, who died defending the sacredness of our right to vote, may have eternal peace.
the pimentels are intelligent people just like the zubiris. if there was anything under the table that went on between the zubiris and abalos, why the public place?
the pimentels simple put malice to what happened in that public place to gain media mileage and to condition the minds of the people that there was something irregular happening between the zubiris and abalos.
if the pimentels are accusing the zubiris of cheating during the election, then stick to the issue, remember the supreme court was not convinced of koko pimentel.
Anonymous,
The issue is CHEATING not the side circus that the ATM journalist kind would want us to believe. In other parts of the civilized world this is unacceptable but in the pathetic land of cheats where everything is rationalized to suit the crooks purpose it is the name of the game.
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