Using Other People for Selfish Motives
Posted on Thursday, 4 December 2014
Using
People for Selfish Motives
By Apolinario Villalobos
Overcame by the materialistic desires, some
people exploit the trust of others for their motive which oftentimes is
acquisition of money and success at all cost. The weak sacrifice their dignity
when they bite the bait. Allowing them to become dummies in illegal
acquisitions of corrupt government officials, is the usual practice.
The weak allows their honor to be smeared
with corruption when they become willing parties to the indecent practices of crooked
officials. While others have later on regretted their biting the bait, others
try their best to make the necessary cover up or denial, to the end.
This kind of evil exploitation has been
exposed in the ongoing Senate hearing on the corrupt practices committed by VP
Jejomar Binay when he was yet, the mayor of Makati. Illegal acquisition of
properties such as condos and land were made using willing dummies, according
to the former vice-mayor Mercado whose name was used without his knowledge on
the documents of a land in Batangas.
If he becomes the President of the
Philippines, God forbids, the country may suffer from the same travails under
the former president Marcos, who declared Martial Law to purportedly check the
alarming rise in criminality, and who, by virtue of his signature, became “part
owner” or “owner” of numerous corporations throughout the country.
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