Nobel Prize for Pnoy?...joke?
Posted on Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Nobel
Prize for Pnoy?
…joke?
By Apolinario Villalobos
Awwww…come on!!!! Whoever made the
recommendation is making a joke. With all the glitches that the government is
accumulating, practically every day, who would ever think that the person who heads
it espouses peace?
So this government thought that the
“Mindanao peace process” is a great accomplishment. Unfortunately, many
observers think otherwise. Even the lawmakers, themselves, think so. One
lawmaker even threatened that it will never earn their favor. The objective is
noble, but in the haste of those involved, there were many oversights
committed, one of which is the case of the Sulu sultanate’s claim over Sabah,
and consultation was not thoroughly done, as manifested by the petty attack of
Zamboanga by Misuari faction of MNLF. The presence of Malaysia in the panel is
self-serving, because of the Sabah case. Are there no other countries willing
to help mediate, other than Malaysia?
Reportedly, it was Deles, a peace process
adviser who made the recommendation for the president as a candidate for such a
noble prize. It is not a surprise then, but woefully, it has earned more
embarrassment, than admiration and support from the Filipinos. With so many
protests against the government, only those who work under him can be proud of
him. Some groups claim to be proud as Filipinos, but are ashamed of the
government. Are the messages not loud enough for him to hear?
The president earned the animosity of the
farmers who were used by the notorious bandits in the government in order to
filch money from the national coffer. He earned the hatred of the disaster
victims for the slow-footedness of the government for their rehabilitation. He
earned the antagonism of the Filipinos in the far-flung villages for the government’s
disregard of their plight. He earned the hostility of the youth for the
government’s indifference to their real needs that center on affordable
education.
The country is not economically and
socially peaceful. The noise of hungry mobs fill the air due to the government’s
inutility in the face of the rising prices of prime commodities and fuel. The
country is slowly eaten up by the surge of invasive foreign entrepreneurs who
practically run the economy of the country. The country is slowly sinking down
the quagmire of corruption with seemingly no succor in sight. In other words,
the government is not at peace with its own people and the country as a whole.
The government should stop its hypocritical
nonsensical pronouncement of peace. It falls short in its effort to promote
it….or, does it know what it is supposed to do?
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