Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, whose forebears shot and killed the plebian leader Andres Bonifacio, is a picture of irritation. In the next few days, she'll issue another statement, this time courtesy of her Press secretary Serge Remonde, saying that she'll try to put a lid on the stinking World Bank report on these road projects. Malacanang press operators are trying their darnest best to contain the stench, but no amount of perfumery exists to afford them this luxury.
For this one shows a stench that emanates from their corrupted souls. If they're saying that the World Bank report is "passe" and " it's all hogwash", they're wrong. They just admitted before the public that they knew about this and sat on it and ignored it and just allowed the merry thievery to happen. Yes, it was some six years ago, but if they really respect our laws, the basic law provides that they should have filed a case already against the First Gentleman, EC de Luna and their cohorts based on the criminal complaint submitted by the World Bank. These individuals are lucky because they did this dastardly crime here, where men are supreme over the law. Here, we are a society not of laws, but of men. We have a warped and stupid understanding of what is right and what is wrong. I remember my Singaporean friend who told me that here, we do our own thing, oblivious of what's happening outside our little fiefdoms and we live in isolation. What is right before the world is not necessarily right to some of us. Our laws are so fraught with uncertain definitions that these precepts can be construed either way, to the benefit of the accused and the corrupt, not of the People and the State.
That's why US President Barack Obama refuses to see Mrs. Arroyo. He just made a dig against her and her gang of misfits when he uttered those historic words, " For those who claim to power thru corruption and deceit, know this, that you are on the wrong side of History."
Obama is not that stupid and foolish to meet the very same poster girl of corruption and deceit in Philippine history. Obama does not want to be lied upon. Obama does not want to be corrupted by her philosophy of governance.
What Arroyo must do is not to mitigate the obvious shameful effects of the World Bank revelations. It is not training her guns at the United States to put a lid on the stinking issue. No.
What Arroyo must do, and must act in haste is leave the palace. The State Department, if you still don't know Mrs. Arroyo, has issued the marching orders already. Since you are on the wrong side of history, you just got "x-ed".
Surely, this will be the very first presidential acts that will merit Obama praise around the world.
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