Helping President Duterte by the Citizens is Crucial
Posted on Sunday, 17 July 2016
HELPING PRESIDENT DUTERTE
BY THE CITIZENS IS CRUCIAL
By Apolinario Villalobos
No amount of brutish approach can make a
leader successful as traitors can always lurk around him. Not even dictators in
the past had a peace of mind. Treachery is innate in man. In politics it is
viewed with subtlety and benignly called “turncoatism”.
President Rodrigo Duterte may be brave and
his brutish frankness may be emphasized with colorful cusses, but all these
shall go to naught if even just a single traitor among his trusted will deceive
him. It should also be noted that while
the chiefs of the various agencies have been traditionally booted out, there
are still the so-called “career service officers” who are left behind, with some
or many of them having been part of the machinery that churned out corruption
with various impression under the past administrations. Chiefs stay and go but
these CSOs whose butts got calloused in their chair for twenty or more years,
and who are fully aware of how manipulations are done, could be rubbing their
palms together while salivating for new prospects of suckers who will fall
victim to their butt-licking and kowtow strategies
The Filipinos should be made aware this
early, of the agenda or plans of the new appointees. They should be holding
press conferences by now so that those who are closely watching the new
administration could keep tab of their actions. If something has gone wrong,
the citizens could readily call their attention so that necessary adjustments
could be made to prevent stacking up of faults. This “attention calling” effort can be done via
the social media networks.
The whole nation is fully aware that many
appointees are neophytes and that they were appointed because of their
“specialties” and “exposures” in their past jobs…albeit, in private capacity
and environment. All of them are all brimming with courage, no question about
that as working with a gutsy president is no joke, because the ire that he may
earn from his detractors can also spread out to his various working groups.
This time around, Filipinos should set
aside their differences for the sake of changes that each has been longing for.
It is not always that the Philippines can have a hard-hitting president who
tells drug lords, “I will kill you”. It is only once in a lifetime that the
country can have a fatherly president utter, “If you hurt my people, I will
kill you”.
Filipinos should join hands and support
Duterte…
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