It is time we speak our minds.
Nobody will champion for us.
If not for few journalists like Maria Ressa, CEO of rappler.com or newspapers like, The Philippine Daily Inquirer,
we will never find out about the scandalously large amount of money taken from our country.
And to start with, I would like to share my sister Mirzi’s post.
And may we all share posts like this, so we become aware of the state of our country.
Thoughts of a Filipino Citizen
By: Mirzi Reina B. Rañoja
We Filipinos are so forgiving.
These politicians have been robbing us of our money in front of our faces, and yet we act as if nothing has happened.
Never mind that government cannot produce jobs because they are too busy transferring the collective money of the people into their dollar accounts,
maybe we just try our luck finding employment outside the country as domestic helpers where we are treated less than the domesticated animals.
Never mind that prices of goods are so high we can only afford to buy 1 kilo of rice for a family of 5 meant to last for 3 days – we have been used to eating once a day.
Never mind that some of us stop schooling, we will just wait for our turn when it comes – if ever that comes.
In the meantime, we cower with fear and ignorance throughout our lives.
Never mind that our healthcare system caters mainly for the insured and those who can deposit, we will just pray harder that our neighborhood manghihilot can cure baby’s convulsion and dehydration.
We have endured so many hardships in our lifetime because we are so forgiving.
Forgiving for the wrong reasons.
Can we stop and think that if we let all these people get away with our money now, we are actually robbing our children and the future generations of their basic rights?
Can we allow our children to suffer the same fate – heads bowed and stomachs empty, while these very politicians’ children stand proud and talk loud of their corruption, acting as if they were entitled to all these money that was meant for the good of all?
Bonifacio and Rizal fought 300 years of Spanish rule and gave up their lives just so we Filipinos can own back our country.
But now there is a new rule emerging, and that is the rule of the corrupt.
Do we want our children to suffer this kind of rule for the next 300 years?
By remaining indifferent and silent, we have just acknowledged that this rule has begun.
Well, I refuse to let my children suffer in the future, so I am doing something now.
I am using what I have learned in my 37 years of existence, to help the exhausted and weary Filipinos who have almost given up hope because of the extreme abuses they have endured.
If it means tearing up these cedulas like the Katipuneros did, why not?
The CTC is just an individual sale invoice for what these politicians and their cronies have been corrupting….
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nakakaiyak naman to.