Or something to that effect…
…and never then for one second there had I agreed, till sadly, a senator in my country proved this true.
- He read a speech which was reeking with another person’s thought, a blogger’s, and unapologetically passed it as his own.
I suddenly thought of an erupting volcano, fiery, yet spewing tons of live fish;
like, shouldn’t they be somewhere else, where they rightfully belonged?
(…I take my simple thoughts, my Visayan dialect or my sward speak any day, than take other people’s impressive words and mislead the multitude.)
How brazen should someone be, to use other people’s words inorder to appear scholarly?
And well, without even commonsensically assuming, that in this day and age, cyber acts get discovered, easily.
Taking someone’s words, passing them as one’s own is not as similar as grabbing pictures or recipes on the net.
( But I sure do hope, they won’t take that road.)
- He insisted it was not and could not be plagiarism.
pla·gia·rism /ˈpleɪʤəˌrɪzəm/ noun
[noncount] :
the act of using another person’s words or ideas without giving credit to that person : the act of plagiarizing something.
SO WHAT WAS IT?
(Bulagaan Na!…
Joey: Alam mo ba pareng Vic, nag bago na ang ibig sabihin ng salitang,
” plagiarism .”
Vic: Kailan pa?
Joey: Ngayon-ngayon lang, sa senado, kababago lang ni Tito Sen.)
- He dismissed bloggers as ” mere bloggers ” who he had indirectly accorded the epithet as, ” not quotable. “
Thus, ” blogger-not quotable-extraordinaire.”
( “ Bakit ko naman iko-quote ang blogger? Blogger lang iyon.” )
(” Why will I quote a blogger? “. ‘Twas just a blogger. “)
4 . He remarkably went as far as citing that plagiarism is not a crime in my country.
( ” Wala pong krimen na plagiarism sa Pilipinas.” )
Darn, so is that why you committed it?
And yes, you can never ever protect your words from being copied really,
but you can surely stop your very own self, from copying other people’s thoughts and pass them as your own, can’t you?
ETHICS, where were you , when all these happened?
And even if intellectual property rights might not cover the blogs that people have written, SHAME should already be a deterrent.
- He had his legal aide state that we are in fact copies of our Creator, Himself, which make us inevitably plagiarists.
It’s in our DNA.
” Even our image was copied from God. We are all plagiarists. ”
- And for those keeping score at home, oops he did it again.
He translated a portion of a speech from English to Filipino.
(Senator Robert Kennedy sir, seriously, may you rest in peace.)
I am disheartened and disappointed because I admired how you rose from where you were and proved them that anyone can serve the government.. I am disillusioned because you tried to confuse us with your words.
Despite the high illiteracy rate in this country, please do not lose your faith in the Filipino intelligence.
Lastly and most importantly,
I VOTED FOR YOU SIR.
I BELIEVED IN YOU.
I watch Eat Bulaga everyday!
( Yes, most especially on New Year’ s Day. It is because it never failed to tug my heart when I see you give away one million pesos to those who deserved it the most.)
I LOVED YOUR SPEECH AT THE END OF THE TRIAL OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE.
( please, please say it was yours.)
Do not believe those people surrounding you, TOO MUCH.
You were ill advised.
Manny Pangilinan wise man that he is, apologized.
( thus period, end of story. )
One’s ” I’m sorry ” would have been enough .
And it would have been over and done with.
I do not know how I will get over this.
But one thing’s sure as day, I will continue to watch Eat Bulaga all the days of my life…
I am sincerely writing this,
” Juan for all, All for Juan. ”
