Reference:Vince Casilihan
February 06, 2013
“That the haciendero President unequivocally brags of his government’s so-called elimination of corruption tells of his probable difficulty with his mental faculties, or that he is knowingly deceiving the people for his rotten psywar intentions.” With this, Karapatan sums up its criticism of PNoy’s pronouncements made at the recent Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) 5th Global Forum in Manila.
In the said forum, PNoy exalts with gusto his government’s supposed triumphs against corruption. But for Karapatan, PNoy’s rants defy heaping cases of corruption that persist under his administration. “For one,” Vince Casilihan of Karapatan says, “corruption is innate in a country ruled by big landlords and businessmen, along with their lackeys, who exploit power and public money to gratify their greed. What we have at the moment is a rival camp commanding the key to the country’s coffers.”
Casilihan makes clear that while the present administration takes advantage of the public’s anger on the previous Macapagal-Arroyo regime’s crimes and corruption, PNoy has exhausted mass media publicity and paid surveys in order to manipulate public opinion, cover up its own crimes and beautify its image. Casilihan adds, “What decency is there when PNoy seemingly censures GMA’s corruption when he himself bloats his personal pork barrel to a scandalous P317.58 billion? Or when his bootlickers in the National Anti-Poverty Commission and the DSWD plan to spend as administration campaign money the coco levy funds and the already fraud-riddled Conditional Cash Transfer funds? What else illustrates depravity if not the reprehensible million-peso Senate cash gifts in front of a starving populace? Or a government that systematically attacks the rights of its people?”
The list could go on, says Casilihan, saying that corruption permeates the police and the military, and likewise hounds the legislative, the judiciary, and the executive bodies altogether. “While PNoy frenzies in his ‘corruption-free’ delusions in front of international lawmakers, his administration reeks of rottenness,” remarks Casilihan.
On the other hand, such bravado is likewise structural of a government abiding by the US Counterinsurgency Guide of 2009. According to Casilihan, it is the administration’s motivation to willfully feed false information to the people in order to paint itself as a good government. Adds Casilihan, “It is the political component of the US Coin Guide. With the help of false information, the government seeks to have the people believe that it undertakes substantive political reform, anti-corruption and governance improvement. Afterwards, the government proceeds with its repression of dissidents.”
But the people have long been enraged with government’s corruption, and are no longer biting to lies, Karapatan says. In ending, Casilihan calls on the people, including well-meaning media organizations, to expose the duplicity of PNoy’s government. He ends, “We must fight this two-faced regime that wears the smile and the ferocity alternatingly. Only in a government truly representative of the people would corruption be ridded and the wealth of the country be truly benefitted by the people.” ###
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